Top Songs By Alejandro Escovedo
Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Alejandro Escovedo
Performer
Brian Standefer
Cello
David Perales
Violin
Glenn Fukunaga
Bass
Hector Munoz
Drums
Joe Eddy Hines
Guitar
Jon Langford
Guitar
Kelly Hogan
Vocals
Melissa Swingle
Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Alejandro Escovedo
Composer
Lyrics
Outside the gate there lived a man
A man with a forgotten name
Who tried to feel most everything
But where he ended up was wrapped in shame
It's how you shape the day to day
Not what you hide behind
"We are born with the sin," he said
"And with the sin we must surely die"
And we don't see him anymore
He's lost his way now, that's for sure
She doesn't recognize him
But she knew him very well
The tattered suit, the leather boots
The ringing of the bells
She said, "It's what you give
And what you take and what you leave behind
That marks the measure of your life"
She said she knew him very well
And we don't see him anymore
He's lost his way now, that's for sure
There was a man who lived outside the gate
And guilty was his name
He tried to love most everything
But where he ended up was wrapped in shame
It's who he loved and what he took
And who he left behind
That marked the measure of his life
You know that guilty was his name
And we don't see him anymore
He's lost his way now, that's for sure
We don't see him anymore
He's lost his way now, that's for sure
Written by: Alejandro Escovedo