{"id":2506,"date":"2013-05-30T22:15:33","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T20:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/?page_id=2506"},"modified":"2022-05-15T07:37:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T05:37:20","slug":"gold-can-turn-to-sand","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/2006-2010\/kristina-at-carnegie-hall\/gold-can-turn-to-sand\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Can Turn To Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kevin Odekirk, Helen Sj\u00f6holm, Claire Tendl
\n<\/strong>
\nRobert <\/strong>
\nI went in search of buried treasure
\nA little man with lofty dreams
\nIt was a bitter thing to learn
\nthat I was such a fool
\nTo each of us a fate is given
\nAnd I was born a restless soul
\nBut now I’m reconciled to fate and
\nDeath can’t hurt me any longer<\/p>\n

Kristina <\/strong>
\nNow you really frighten me
\nThey don’t make sense, the words you say
\nMarta, sing for Uncle Robert
\nSing what you learned in class today<\/p>\n

Marta <\/strong>
\nOff to school with shining faces
\nThere we learn our proper places
\nTeacher teaches, pupil listens
\nLearning how to read and write, we’re
\nRicher far than you can measure
\nRicher far than any treasure
\nAll’s not gold that glistens
\n
\nRobert <\/strong>
\nWhy should I fight the Lord Almighty?
\nI’d be the loser in the end
\nNo, I accept my lot
\nAnd death is almost like a friend<\/p>\n

If death is near
\nThen let it take me
\nIf death be here
\nSo let it be
\nI am a hostage in this life
\nThis land I dreamed would set me free<\/p>\n

Please, you must understand
\nI’m telling the truth
\nMy time runs out so fast<\/p>\n

I just want you to know
\nI am resigned
\nAt peace at last<\/p>\n

Kristina <\/strong>
\nRobert, I have to ask you! Why have you come back
\nalone?<\/p>\n

Robert <\/strong>
\nWhen I left I was leaving with a brother
\nHim and me, all we had was one another
\nWe were young, it was springtime
\nAnd our dreams of gold were grand
\nOh, Kristina, gold can turn to sand<\/p>\n

Down that long, blazing trail
\nI walked beside him
\nHe grew weak, and he leaned on me to guide him
\nThough I doubted our future in that godforsaken land
\nOh, Kristina, gold can turn to sand<\/p>\n

Still he shared in my dream
\nNo matter how mad
\nHe believed in me
\nI was all that he had
\nAnd I was glad of his company
\nIn the desert, beyond the burning prairie
\nWe got lost, we were foolish and unwary
\nJust how thirsty and desperate
\nyou would never understand
\nOh, Kristina, gold can turn to sand<\/p>\n

Still I willed him along
\nI taught him the Song of the Ocean Wave
\nHe, who shared in my quest,
\nNow laid to rest
\nin a lonely grave<\/p>\n

From a well that was poisoned he drank water
\nAnd he died where he fell – a beast to slaughter
\nAs his eyes slowly faded
\nhis old watch fell from his hand
\nOh, Kristina, gold can turn to sand
\nOh, Kristina, gold can turn to sand
\n<\/strong>
\n\u00a9 2010 Mono Music AB<\/em><\/p>\n

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