When You Knock Twice
1968
When you knock twice
then three times and again two
Alexander, my friend,
I’ll come to open the door for you
I’ll have hot food for you
I’ll have clean clothes for you
a corner to hide you.
When you knock twice
then three times and again two
Alexander, my friend,
I’ll see your face;
in your eyes you hide two fires
in your breast a thousand hearts
measure your pain.
When you knock twice
then three times, and again two
Alexander, my friend,
I think of your escape
I see you in your narrow cell
leading off the dance
over your death.
When You Knock Twice
When you knock twice
then three times and again two
Alexander, my friend,
I’ll come to open the door for you
I’ll have hot food for you
I’ll have clean clothes for you
a corner to hide you.
When you knock twice
then three times and again two
Alexander, my friend,
I’ll see your face;
in your eyes you hide two fires
in your breast a thousand hearts
measure your pain.
When you knock twice
then three times, and again two
Alexander, my friend,
I think of your escape
I see you in your narrow cell
leading off the dance
over your death.
