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4 + 20 Lyrics

Artist: Stephen Stills
Album: Live

4+20

Four and twenty years ago, I come into this life,
the song of a woman and a man who lived in strife.
He was tired of being poor and he wasn't into selling door to door
and he worked like the devil to be more.

A different kind of poverty now upsets me so.
Night after sleepless night, I walk the floor and I want to know- why am I so alone?
Where is my woman can I bring her home? Have I driven her away? Is she gone?

Morning comes to sunrise and I'm driven to my bed.
I see that it is empty and there's devils in my head.
I embrace the many colored beast. I grow weary of the torment, can there be no peace?
And I find myself just wishing that my life would simply cease.

Comments/Interpretations

by Tim on 6/11/2008 9:25pm
I think that the second line is "the son of a woman and a man."

Not the "song" of a woman and a man.

by Paul Bradford on 6/19/2008 6:45pm
yes. it is "the son of a woman.."

by civil war writer on 10/1/2008 9:28am
Yes, it is 'son' of a woman - however, if you are a woman singing this song, it makes for a pleasant adaptation!