SPIRIT ON THE WATER

There's a spirit floating on the water
There's a shadow lying down by the shore
Wasn't he there a year before?
A sacrifice for the coat he's wearing
A 'paradise' for the lady
Who dares colour him red upon the snow?

We carry the burden upon our shoulder
We carry their lives in the palm of our hand
Don't you care about the state you're in
Or don't you understand?

I've been humming this tune all day, it actually an anti fur trade song from the seventies but I shan't bore you with by who as most people would be non the wiser but should you wish to make a guess here's an extract from their history, first right answer doesn't get a prize but I will subscribe to your journal.

"*** were invited by the then East German (DDR) authorities to play a concert in East Berlin as part of Berlin?s 750th birthday celebrations. The original venue was to have been the Island Of Youth, a small island in the middle of a river which flows through the city, but, faced with over 50,000 ticket applications in the first two weeks, the authorities decided to relocate the concert to Treptower Park.
The ticket price was a nominal 4,05 East Marks (equivalent to about 50p), but on the day the ticket collecting arrangements were so haphazard that thousands of people got in for free, making it almost impossible to give an accurate figure for the attendance - estimates varied from 130,000 to 170,000."

Why spirit on the water?, just felt a presence up at the Tarn this Evening.