Jaromír Nohavica - The Comet

I spotted a comet streaming across the sky

I wanted to sing to it but it left my sight

Disappeared in a parkland as a forest hind

In my eyes a few small gold coins were left behind

I hid the coins under an oak tree in the earth

When it flies once again we will then not be here

We will then not be here oh so futile and proud

I spotted a comet and wanted to sing out



Ref: Of water, of the grass, of the woods

of a death which we would allay if we could

of our love, of lost trust, of the Earth

and of all the people

who ever lived on the planet here



The wagons are clinking in the stellar stations

Mister Kepler described heavenly relations

In the stellar glasses I found out from my search

the secret which we now carry on our shoulders

a great and long standing secret of creation

that only a person gives birth to a person

that a root is connected to the tree branches

the essence of our hopes

wanders through the cosmos



Ref: Of water, of the grass, of the woods

of a death which we would allay if we could

of our love, of lost trust, of the Earth

and of all the people

who ever lived on the planet here



I spotted a comet as it were in relief

From the hand of an artist who is now deceased

I climbed up to the sky I wanted to touch it

My vanity had stripped me completely naked

As a white marble stat ue carved out by David

I stood there and I searched

and I searched overhead

We will then not be here oh so futile and proud

We will then not be here the others will sing out



Ref: Of water, of the grass, of the woods

of a death which we would allay if we could

of our love, of lost trust, of the Earth

and it will be a song about us and a comet