Throw down a line, help a poor boy   Who’s drowning in the stormy sea   Throw down a line, help a poor boy   Who’s hanging in a nowhere tree   Have you got a place for me      Men are tied in chains of silence   I look on violence, up, down, left and right   Is there no hope of light   The peaceful hand that once caressed me      Hurts like the rest, because it’s turned to stone   Talons of steel have grown      Throw down a line, help a poor boy   Who’s drowning in the stormy sea   Throw down a line, help a poor boy   Who’s hanging in a nowhere tree   Have you got a place for me      Yeah, oh help me, yeah      Throw down a line, help a poor boy   Who’s drowning in the stormy sea   Throw down a line, help a poor boy   Who’s hanging in a nowhere tree   Have you got a place for me      See the moon, it’s getting nearer   But no more clearer than the earth below   What do we really know   I feel the stab of pain returning   Despair is burning in my heart again   Why don’t they see the end, ooooh      Throw down a line, help a poor boy   Who’s drowning in the stormy sea   Yeah, throw down a line, help a poor boy   Who’s hanging in a nowhere tree   Have you got a place for me      Throw down a line, help a poor boy   Who’s drowning in the stormy sea   Yeah, throw down a line, help a poor boy   Who’s hanging in a nowhere tree   Have you got a place for me