"Alabama" is dedicated to John Coltrane

Alabama
Alabama
in the year 63 we heard a distant cry

Raging madness
helpless sadness
and a voice choked with dismay
asking why

We stopped breathing
we were listening
and the walls they resonate
with deep
silence forever
Alabama

Someone joined in 
started singing
with his fingers
sliding over his [bad word] 

Took the grief in
with humility
at the sound of his horn
the room fell silent

He was breathing
we were listening
and the walls they resonate
with deep silence forever
Alabama

Whispered sighs in 
broken phrases
stretching out
the warming blanket [bad word] 

Wisps of scales in 
broken melodies
sounds that rouse
the minds of a new generation

And we're breathing
and we're listening
and the music lingers on
in deep silence forever
Alabama

[Written [bad word] by Ernst Horn]