Sergio Leone

<br>He came `round here with his camera and some of his American friends<br>Where the money is immortal and the killing never ends<br>He set out from Cinecitt?through the ruined streets of Rome<br>To shoot in Almeria and bring the bodies home<br><br>He said <br>I`ll be rich or I`ll be dead<br>I`ve got it all here in my head<br><br>He could see the killers` faces and he heard the song they sang<br>Where he waited in the darkness with the Viale Glorioso gang<br>He could see the blood approaching and he knew what he would be<br>Since the days when he was first assisting The Force of Destiny<br><br>He worked for Walsh and Wyler with the chariot and sword<br>When he rode out in the desert he was quoting Hawks and Ford<br>He came to see the masters and he left with what he saw<br>What he stole from Kurosawa he bequeathed to Peckinpah<br><br>From the Via Tuscolana to the view from Miller Drive<br>He shot the eyes of bad men and kept their deaths alive<br>With the darkness and the anguish of a Goya or Van Cleef<br>He rescued truth from beauty and meaning from belief<br><br>Lyrics by Jackson Browne Music by Jackson Browne, Kevin McCormick, Mark Goldenberg, Mauricio Lewak, Jeff Young<br>(Swallow Turn Music, ASCAP; Eye Cue Music, ASCAP; Bossypants Music/Songs of Windswept Pacific, BMI; Bateria Music, ASCAP; Glad Brad Music, Inc., ASCAP)