(Tempo: Slow, acoustic folk)(Instrumentation: A softly picked acoustic guitar and a gentle violin)(Verse 1)A quiet house on a Detroit streetThe winter snow beneath your feetYou swept the floors and you built the wallAnd never knew you stood so tallBut far away across the seaYour voice was sparking poetry(Chorus)Oh, Rodriguez, keep the light on brightThe Sugar Man is walking home tonightThe world forgot what you always knewThe truth belongs to the likes of youOh, Rodriguez, look what love can do(Verse 2)They told a story that the singer diedBut it was just a phantom lieHe was working hard in the morning rainTo heal the city and ease the painNow the letters come from a distant landTo place the gold in a worker's hand(Chorus)Oh, Rodriguez, keep the light on brightThe Sugar Man is walking home tonightThe world forgot what you always knewThe truth belongs to the likes of youOh, Rodriguez, look what love can do(Bridge)From the factories to the foreign stageA hidden story turns the pageYou stood beside him through the quiet yearsThrough all the doubt and all the tearsNow hear the stadium call his nameThe humble heart outlasts the fame(Guitar Solo - Melancholic and beautiful)(Chorus)Oh, Rodriguez, keep the light on brightThe Sugar Man is walking home tonightThe world forgot what you always knewThe truth belongs to the likes of youOh, Sister Rodriguez, look what love can do(Outro)The music playsThe records spinThe wanderer is home again Rodriguez...Look what love can do.(Fade out on a single guitar strum)
