The Caves Of Altamira lyrics

I recall when I was small

how I spent my days alone.

The busy world was not for me

so I went and found my own.

I would climb the garden wall

with a candle in my hand.

I'd hide inside a hall of rock and sand.

On the stone, an ancient hand,

in a faded yellow-green,

made alive a worldly wonder

often told but never seen.

Now and ever bound to labor

on the sea and in the sky,

every man and beast appeared

a friend as real as I.

Before the fall

when they wrote it on the wall,

when there wasn't even any Hollywood

they heard the call

and they wrote it on the wall

for you and me, we understood.

Can it be this sad design,

could be the very same?

A wooly man without a face

and a beast without a name.

Nothin' here but history,

can you see what has been done?

Memory rush over me,

now I step into the sun.

Before the fall

when they wrote it on the wall,

when there wasn't even any Hollywood

they heard the call

and they wrote it on the wall

for you and me, we understood.

• Artist:Steely Dan
• Album:The Royal Scam