Shawn Phillips



Favourite Things / I'm a Loner


1- I'm a Loner
2- I'm Tired
3- Little Tin Soldier
4- Pride of Man
5- Was A Very Good Year
6- My Favorite Things
 7- Hey Nelly Nelly
8- The Hills of Shiloh
9- The Bells
10- Solitude
11- Nobody Listens
12- You've Heard My Voice

First Impressions/Shawn


1- London town
2- Seek and ye shall find
3- Theme from the march on Washington
4- Old blue
5- Maria
6- The bells of Rhymney
 7- Coal tattoo
8- Black girl
9- Miniver cheevy
10- Cloudy summer afternoon
11- Another country
12- Storm

Contribution


1- Man Hole Covered Wagon
2- L Ballad
3- Not Quite Nonsense
4- No Question
 5- Withered Roses
6- For RFK, JFK and MLK
7- Lovely Lady
8- Screamer For Phlyses

Second Contribution


1- She Was Waitin' For Her Mother At The Station In Torino And You Know I Love You Baby But It's Getting Too Heavy To Laugh
2- Keep On
3- Sleepwalker
4- Song For Mr. C
5- The Ballad Of Casey Deiss
 6- Song For Sagittarians
7- Lookin' Up Lookin' Down
8- Remedial Interruption ( Instrumental )
9- Whaz'zat
10- Schmaltz Waltz ( Instrumental )
11- F Sharp Splendor ( Instrumental )
12- Steel Eyes

Collaboration


1- Us We Are
2- Burning Fingers
3- Moonshine
4- For Her
5- What's Happenin' Jim!
6- Armed
 7- Spaceman
8- Times Of A Madman, Trials Of A Thief
9- 8500 Years
10- The Only Logical Conclusion ( Instrumental )
11- Coming Down Soft & Easy
12- Springwind

Faces


1- Landscape
2- 'L' Ballade
3- Hey Miss Lonely
4- Chorale ( Instrumental )
 5- Parisien Plight II
6- We
7- Anello (Where Are You)
8- I Took A Walk

Bright White


1- Bright White
2- Salty Tears
3- All The Kings And Castles
4- Victoria Emmanuele
5- Planned "O"
 6- Lasting Peace Of Mind
7- Technotronic Lad
8- Dream Queen
9- It's A Beautiful Morning
10- Lady Of The Blue Rose

Furthermore


1- January First
2- Starbright
3- Breakthrough
4- Ninety-Two Years
5- See You
6- Planscape ( Instrumental )
 7- Troof
8- Cape Barras ( Instrumental )
9- Song For Northern Ireland
10- Mr. President
11- Talking In The Garden
12- Furthermore ( Instrumental )

Do You Wonder


1- Do You Wonder
2- Xasper
3- City To City
4- Blunt And Frank
5- Believe In Life
 6- As All Is Played A: maestoso B: intermezzo C: tristesse
7- Golden Flower
8- Looking At The Angel
9- Summer Vignette

Rumplestiltskin's Resolve


1- Early Morning Hours
2- Spitefull
3- Today
4- Wailing Wall
 5- Hie Away
6- Serendipity Peace
7- Rumplestiltskin's Resolve

Spaced


1- Rant
2- Italian Phases ( Instrumental )
3- The Light From Between Your Eyes
4- Stranded
5- From All Of Us
 6- Parisian Plight I
7- Prelude To A Leaving ( Instrumental )
8- All Our Love
9- I Don't Want To Leave You, I Just Came To Say Good-Bye ( Instrumental )

Transcendence


1- Take It Easy
2- I'm An American Child (On A Nuclear Pile)
3- Implications
4- Lady In Violet
5- Good Evening Madam
 6- Lament Pour L'Enfant Mort
7- Julia's Letters
8- Motes Of Dust
9- Ease Your Mind

The Best of Shawn Phillips


1- She Was Waitin' For Her Mother At The Station In Torino And You Know I Love You Baby But It's Getting Too Heavy To Laugh
2- Keep On
3- Sleep Walker
4- Song for Mr. C
5- I Took A Walk
 6- Spaceman
7- Bright White
8- Do You Wonder
9- We
10- Early Morning Hours
11- Song for Sagittarians
12- Lookin'up Lookin'down

Beyond Here Be Dragons


1- Of Love
2- It Takes No Time
3- Share The Wealth
4- Wind of the Angels
5- Discoveries
 6- Spaghetti Inquisition
7- Sands of Time
8- Moments
9- Circles

The Best of Shawn Phillips


1- We
2- The Ballad of Cassey Deiss
3- Victoria Emmanuele
4- Bright White
5- L Ballad
6- Early Morning Hours
7- I Took A Walk
8- Early In The Night( previously unreleased )
 9- She Was Waitin' For Her ...
10- Hey Miss Lonely
11- Do You Wonder
12- Moonshine
13- Breakthrough
14- Troof
15- Song For Northern Ireland
16- Mr. President

The Truth If It Kills


1- Tough love
2- Power of a Woman
3- Sleep Pretty Baby
4- Most of us don't Understand at All
5- Money Dance
 6- One Way Ticket
7- Lost and Lonely
8- Big Rig
9- May Peace Prevail on Earth

Another Contribution


1- City To City
2- Dream Queen
3- Landscape
4- All the Kings and Castles
5- Talking In the Garden
6- Springwind
7- Burning Fingers
8- Believe In Life
9- Wailing Wall
 10- What's Happenng Jim
11- See You
12- Serendipity Peace
13- As All Is Played
14- Italian Phases ( Instrumental )
15- Maestoso
16- Intermezzo
17- Tristesse

Others


- A Christmas Song
 - Appendix A

I'm a Loner


Well I've played basketball through the hoop of a barrel
And struggled to learn how to swim
And once was a baby
Sometimes I think maybe I only pretend I was young

Little Tin Soldier


Once in a town in the black forest
A little white toy shop stood
And a little tin soldier with only one leg
Lived in a castle of wood
And across the room on another shelf
Stood a little glass shelf
And a tiny ballerina lived in there
All in a dress of lace
And from where the little tin soldier stood
They could see each other so clear
And the little tin soldier watched over her
With a love that was so dear
Then one day sadness came
The tiny ballerina was sold
The little tin soldier was thrown away
And into the gutter he rolled
The water carried him to the sea
And many far-off lands
He made many children happy
As he passed through their tiny hands
But then one day they met again
In a house in the land of Eire
When the clock on the wall struck the midnight hour
They jumped into a fire
And in this fire oh they will stay
Forever and a day
For the fire, Lord, is the fire of love
Just like the peaceful dove

Solitude


Many are the days that pass you by
The dark horse is there 'tis he you must ride
But black is the color of your solitude
You speak to be seen
You shout to be heard
But an echo of light is all that returns
The echo comes in and you rise to its joy
But then it fades out and returns to the void
Then someone will come and share in your life
Who'll hear with your ears and see with your sight
Your life is restored your thoughts are renewed
But black is still the color of all solitude

Nobody Listens


Well the senate's in order, they're callin' the roll
They want everybody there in body and soul
There'll be some agreements, a few contradictions
But it really don't matter 'cause nobody listens

Well things happen all over like in Harlem and Jersey
Well the grown men screamin' like kids in a nursery
The words are all different, it's pure repetition
But it really don't matter 'cause nobody listens

Well this world that we live in is pretty bad off
Your mouth opens to speak, you come out with a cough
We got us some laws and lots of restrictions
But even with night sticks nobody listens

Now I have this friend, he speaks all the truth
But he's almost in jail 'cause his name's Lenny Bruce
He gets up on stage and he speaks of conditions
And what do you know now everybody listens

Well I've finished my song and I'll be on my way
Just a doin' my work and collectin' my pay
Traffic will move and the TVs will glisten
People just watch, they don't ever listen



London Town


Cities I been to I will not forget
And I've traveled all over my old continent
London town, London town, I'm Boeing bound
On top of the world and halfway around
In London town, in London town
Get off the plane and you walk to the shack
And you tell all those people you'll surely go back
But just let me stay for a while at the most
Just let me sleep in your cities and town
I'll laugh with your ups and I'll cry with your downs
Well try to remember the times that we spent
Just walkin' around without a center in London town
Just let me sleep in your cities and towns
I'll laugh with your ups and I'll cry with your downs
London town London town comin' on down
London town London town that's where I'm bound
Your people will tell me that they're doin' fine
They're warm and friendly and that's a good sign
In London town, in London town
London town, London town, I'm Boeing bound
On top of the world and halfway around
in London town, in London town

Theme For The March On Washington


From the lowest prairie to the highest sea
We were put on this earth created equal and free

Chorus:
We were put on this earth to help all mankind
But there seem to be people that don't pay any mind
Why can't they let us be

We've seen all these people, we've heard all their lies
But when we stand up, we'll see the fear in their eyes
For this world's not worth the ground that we stand on
Unless we can look our brother in the face
And say to him that we are the same and evermore shall be

We'll search for the heavens, we'll hunt all their lies
But the one that gets there first
He will claim it as its prize
For this world's not worth the ground that we stand on
Unless we can look our brother in the face
And say to him that we are the same and evermore shall be

Storm


Every time I pass your place
I get an image of your face
And then I wonder what you're thinkin' of
As I look through the mist to your window above
And the clouds roll by
But the silver has tarnished for me in the sky
Minutes pass by and the mist starts drifting
And the rain starts falling
And the air gets cold
And I try to move away
But my feet won't let me
They stay right there
But I don't feel cold
I feel old
The wind is blowing and rain is pouring
And the sky is a mass of roiling figures
And their eyes flash fire
And it streaks across the heavens
And it sounds like a man being
Torn to shreds by desire



Man Hole Covered Wagon


In a street of many colors
Dripping rain and running water
Galli said to Mr. Troster
Have you found your seven suns
Yes I have for that conclusion
He was suffering from delusion
From an honorable institution
And he came very close to losing
And I know the one that's choosing
Any name you've been perusing
And he walked down in the gardens
Said to prosper

(Chorus)
And you take his hand when he starts crying
'Cause he's lost his band from too much flying
In his manhole covered wagon in the morning

So now Fanny is resting easy
On a crocheted quilt in town
Making love to Johnny Colter
In his home outside the sound
And they're thinking of creation
With their gathering elation
So to populate the nation
With a thought to emancipation
With a silent exclamation
With its current constipation
And its dead-set against malasian
kind of thinking

(Chorus)

Then he spoke to all his children
Said we're building up the brawl
Just you keep your fists from flying
In its holographic cause
And bring your love and guitars
While we sit and count the stars
And talk about faith among us
Without visiting any bars
Mr. Troster replies to Galli
Among the bright and heavy cars
And the truth about life among us
That it's trying very hard

(Chorus)

L Ballad


In the consecrated chambers of a mountain's winter day
I left her at the turning to go on her seeking way
To pass o'er meadows green and bare or brown as her auburn hair
O'er all the waters on the face of the earth to find that I really care

And the myriad reflections of myself
In the buttons on her oversize navy coat
But only reflections and never an image
In her mind's unfathomable moat
But some castles where she wanders are yet crumbling into dust
In this house of visions on top of the hill the glass has turned to rust

So never again will I look in her eyes
Nor shall she hear my voice
But I hope she will find a better man
To love him and rejoice
And he will turn the secret key
May I know it's not up to him
But somehow in his words and love
Answer her every whim

So seek ye lass for what you wish
But in your troubled heart
And let not your mind race ahead of your breast
For the quicker shall you part
And wait for the click that you speak dear of
And the light will splinter through open clouds
And you'll look straight in a face like the sun

Not Quite Nonsense


Hey Mr. Crumpet can we find another trumpet
Man to help us lead another round
Because it's early in the morning
And everybody's yawning
And we plan to do it one more time

So now cancel reservation
And conditioned elation
For this orchestra is just now getting formed
And with this banjo sitting here
And will the lady in the rear
Please be kind enough to take her lovely hat off

Mr. Grainger the arranger will be here in seconds flat
'Cause he's left his motor running on the sidewalk
But he's far away to sea
Writing notes on what should be
But he's coming back in time to lead the band
Don't you hear him a coming round

So when everyone is there
Mrs. Klotch and Mr. Pear
Little Lennie and his brethern in the front row
Then we'll all begin to sing
While the bandsmen do their thing
And we'll call a stop to all that's not harmonic

No Question


In the days of tomorrow
In the time of the passing years
I will look through my window
And my window will see my tears
And the green rocky hillsides
Are the shade of a lonely man
And the blue ever changing
Sea of gold lending a helping hand
In a minute there can be an hour
In a second there can be a day
And a thousand years may pass us by
And we will be that near, be that near
And the black gray night will fall around
This glasshouse that I'm in
And the day will break onto my bed
I will see again, see again

In a minute there can be an hour
In a second there can be a day
And a thousand years may pass us by
And we will be that near, be that near
And the black gray night will fall around
This glasshouse that I'm in
And the day will break onto my bed
I will see again
See again, see again
See again, see again
See again

Withered Roses


Withered roses were around me
Now the winter's come and gone
And I can feel the clarity drifting
The haziness of Spring song
Mine eyes seek out
And yet with futile try
Can find no line of distinction out there
Between the sea and sky

Scattered scarlet specks announce their arrival
On a distant mountain side
In carnadine fields of crystalline fragrance
And in the solitude there abide
Build a flaming fire 'till coals are asleeping
Trouble not your facets when you will begin to weeping
Remember now the earth from a fish to a fawn
And rest not in the shimmering shimmering dawn

For RFK, JFK and MLK


On a bright murky Tuesday dawning
Over all those mountain crowns
Come a young cat swinging softly
Laying truth down on all the town
And the people come a digging his gentle lick
While the fuzz stood around and frowned
And the church was aghast at this blasphemy
Said we've got to put this cat down
But you may not know he's been there till a long time after he's gone

And the church said you know we stand for truth
But we've got to be organized
We've got money in the pocket
Anybody don't like it
Can be excommunikized
And you can't buy back a single soul
That's been lost in all those wars of sides
And he didn't believe money or political power
Could be seen in God's great eyes
But you may not know he's been there till a long time after he's gone

And his face was a mirror of lovely light
While he went around hearing sounds
People talking this, people talking that
Saying we're based upon these grounds
But you could tell he was thinking of other folks
People living in far off mounds
People who'd never seen a movie or nothing
While the fuzz stood around and frowned
But you may not know it's been there till a long time after it's gone

So he was here a few weeks and spread his good word
Said looking inside was right
'Cause the inside is where you'll find your freedom
Your happiness and your sight
When the power party went and found a pawn with a rifle
Said put him into your sights
And the man went out and he found his mark
And he turned off his lovely light

So when you're walking in the evening
Or you're awaking to a lovely dawn
Or you're running round telling people what to do
Or you're going to build a mighty bridge
Or write out a lovely song
Remember that the word goes on and on
And forever is mighty long
Remember that the word goes on and on
And forever is mighty long
But you may not know it's been there 'till a long time after it's gone

Lovely Lady


Lovely lady
Never shady
Running up the mountain side
Purple brocade
Woolen top coat
She cast away her useless pride
On her own
Her soul has grown
To bring about her peace of mind
In her hand
A lovely land
To help her look and search and find
Swirling forms of tantric art
Are filling out her schedule planned
And she's without a man

Woman blonde
Climbing on
To reach a level in her heart
It's the same
Without a name
You're doing fine with a running start
In the door
You'll work some more
You're finding where it's at for sure
Every other day
It will pay
You'll love to live and be the way
You feel the start of day

You'll be sad
It won't be bad
But you can get away from that
Crystal facet
Not an asset
You have your friend the jet black cat
He will follow
Crying hollow
Scratch his head and stroke his ear
He will bring you in your love now
Ever close and ever near
And you will feel no fear

I am glad
It's not a fad
But there are some who won't go on
Full expression
No suppression
But she is strong
The woman blond
Lovely lady
Never shady
Running o'er volcanic land
Make your curry
Never worry
It is settled in your plan
And you will find your man

Screamer For Phlyses


She was cleaning the house
When a temple souse
Came knocking at her purple door
Saying wait right here
Cause the cycle's near
And we can communicate some more
And the very last session
Gives a good impression
Of the things that are to come
Like a laser beam rays
And Confucius says
On earth thy will be done
And like an ion sun
You're on the run
And capable of causing fun, summer sun

Now old King Kong
Is a merry old song
And it goes on for twenty-three hour
And like a diamond is ice
With pale fire thrice
And you've gained your gentle powers

And a kiss to the mind
Like lacquer thinned
To emulate a fine violin
Brings a silent range to your subtle change
Or more commonly yclept being
And your double track sphere
Is uncommonly clear
And it outshines all the seas and all the seething

And spun gold hair
Is your common flair
For covering what makes your art
And a small detail
Is a billowing sail
And you've just begun to start
And an elephant book
Is but one outlook
Yet it lacks not a thing in size
And the etiquette of grass
Will have to last
And we'll save it for the very last prize
And the utilization
Makes a unified nation
We may see it with our very own eyes

And the vestiges of an air hammer
Received with the coming night
And the moon wanes
Over the looming crags
With its silver bluish light

She came with the grace of an angel here
And her melting doelike eyes
In her velvet dress
Like the soul she is
As open as the starry skies

And we made love in the morning
With the red sky dawning
And our souls merging into one
And the olive trees
Had a gentle breeze
When she took her silent leave
We made love in the morning
With the red sky dawning
And our souls merging into one
And the olive trees
Had a lovely breeze
When she took her silent leave
And then was gone



She Was Waitin' For Her Mother At The Station In Torino And You Know I Love You Baby But It's Getting Too Heavy To Laugh


The glow
Around your face
When you see
The lightning race
I know
I'm very near
And I can hear
The thunder

A woman
Of perplexity
A woman
For eternity
A woman
Of the land
A woman
For a man
I'm down
On my knees
And I'm saying
Please believe me

It's hard
To fall out
Of love
Completely
It's harder
To find a way
To come back
Discreetly
To speak
Of things anew
To weep
In quiet blue

Brocade upon your bed
Memories should fade
At least of you
A scepter
Of ice and fire
A specter
Of my desire
A girl-child
Of such loveliness
The woman
Of my emptiness

A woman
Of famed
Renown
A woman
Who kicks the clown
A woman
Of the land
A woman
For a man

Keep On


Mama
When you coming home
Mama
When you coming home
Mama
You don't have to roam
Mama
You know you're coming home

If you look over there babe
You know you might find
Somethin' over there
Gonna blow your mind

Mama
When you coming home
You don't have to roam
Mama
It's another day
Mama
You know that you can stay
You can stay

Yes I can keep on telling you
To keep on keeping on
I keep on telling you
To work it on out

Mama
It's another day
You know that you can stay
You know that you can stay

Sleepwalker


Sleepwalker
Walking around
Sleepwalker
Wearing a frown
Sleepwalker
Going downtown
Sleepwalker
Going all the way down
Cheap hotel
Cheap hotel
Cheap hotel
Cheap hotel

Song For Mr.C


Saturday morning
I come in late
Just to find if you were there
Just to look at your long brown hair
And dream a dream out in the hall
Was that my name that's just been called?
I don't know, it could be
Have you got something to tell on me?
If you got something to tell on me babe
It better be good
Even though you hate me so much
I'm still comin' back
Like you knew I would
You can't believe
What I been through these last few months
It's very difficult to tell the difference
Between the trumps and the down home dumps
Only one thing I can say to you
Even if you don't believe it's true
It's true

(Chorus)
It's our turn now
To find out where we're going
It's your turn now
To find out where you've been
It's our turn now
To keep the new direction
It's your turn now
To cast off all your sin

Fellatia Fellatia how do you plead?
You don't have to plead
For anything that you really need
Plead have mercy
When the wind starts blowin' hard
And this cardboard world we're livin' in
It ain't forgotten
Out in the yard
Out in the yard
Where the air is cold
And there ain't no leaves to fall
He's lookin' hard at the ground for somethin'
Somethin' that won't show up
I keep lookin' back over my shoulder
Couple of good friends goin' by
Pour some wine over their fire
Don't let the tears stay in your eyes
He's not gone so very far
I know he's very near
'Cause every time I call his name
I know that he can hear

(Chorus)

Hey Mr. Roberts don't you tell me no lies
I don't mind you being vain
Pick up the phone in your whitewashed house
Simpering that same refrain
Three to five more years
Is all you got
For you to do your nasty thing
Making rain, suffering pain
Telling everybody that it's in his name
His name, whose name
What are you telling me?
I don't believe your tales
Too many people living in this world
Don't like being snails
If you gonna do it
Better get it together
Better go and make the change
Do it right now
Do it while it's warm
Do it while it's there within your range
It won't be so very hard
You better have no fear
'Cause by the time you get it done
It'll be so clear

(Chorus)

The Ballad Of Casey Deiss


'Twas a man of youthful features
'Twas a boy of sorrowful eyes
Watching out but looking inward
Tall and stately and full of life

In his life he spoke but rarely
In his mind he cried for light
Painting perceptions, trying to capture
That which he saw in his questioning strife

Once in Lisbon, twice in London
Travelling around for all of his time
Looking for and finding a goddess
He took Diana to be his wife

Of the children they'd begotten
Two had died without knowing life
And the third I know not whereof
But if she lives, she will yet be kind

Casey had a mark of simple value
He had a star between his eyes
In his hands he held an axe blade
The Greek symbol of thunder and fire

On a night when the heavens were crying
He went out and took his blade
Chopping wood to warm his hearthside
The lightning came and my brother died

Bring him no wine from faraway vineyards
Tell him no tales of the canyon's might
But wish him peace and eternal wisdom
For he has died and he died by light

Song For Sagittarians


Archer with your bowstring tight
Won't you let fly with your shaft of light
Are you hunting your quarry now?
Are you leaving me babe, leaving anyhow?
But I will remember you when the rain pours down
And I see you standing there in your bright blue gown
Fyodor's there, still he doesn't care
You're gone, been gone so long
Tell me you don't want to travel
To go back amidst the noise and babble
But you hear me when I tell you that
You know it won't be so long babe
You know you're coming back
And I'll wait right here 'till the sky is clear
And I'll keep looking into that endless sphere and then you're gonna know
There really wasn't nothing to fear

So don't cry baby in the dark of night
When you know I ain't there to hold you tight
And I can't answer any of your questing glances
Like when we woke up in the morning
And we saw the dawn was storming
And the clouds were there love
Outside the window so fair
And the sun came rising
It was surprising
Cast out all your dark surmising
And then the car came
You spoke my name
And left me standing there alone
But I'm not alone on this earth so fair
There's something else beside me here
Something keeps me ever looking forward
And it's brighter than the sunlight
And it's purer than the moonlight
And it's drawing me toward it
Like a moth out of the night
And I know I'll arrive
Where there is no time
Non-dimensional plane of joy sublime
Keep on being free
Lord it's gotta be
Infinity

Lookin' Up Lookin' Down


I keep lookin' down out of my windows at the people below
So slow
I keep lookin' down out of my windows at the people below
So slow
Sure would like to know what you been thinkin'
But I don't want to know when you been sinkin'
Go slow

You see yourself in a coffee cup
But you cannot stimulate the future up
Go slow

Every time I'm doin' a number
I'm thinkin' that I see your eyes
I keep crossing over borderlines
Seein' little babies die
And even though I'm economizing
I can't keep your high livin' style, child
It takes so long to believe it, Charlie
But what have you done to your smile?

I keep lookin' down out of my windows at the people below
Go slow
The alternative to truth is hypocrisy
If you want to choose the latter you won't never be free
Go slow
Ain't no such thing as revolution
It's got another name
It's called evolution
Go slow
Part of being free is a state of mind
You just got to learn to leave it all behind
Go slow

Whaz'zat


Lightning slaying shadows
In the tremors of the night
While he creeps among the alleys
Bringing fear before the fright

She sleeps in tattered trousers
In the ballroom's decadence
Moaning gently of her dreaming
By escorted precedence
Antiquated babblings
From a constant stream of thought
Sensitively wringing out
The rags that he has caught

Patting yet her bulging belly
She so slowly cries a smile
In anticipated suffering
Of her slowly growing child
He is speeding in a vacuum
Going nowhere but, of course
He might believe in discipline
Of a bloody kind of sort

Naturally a state of race,
A never-changing spate of hate
While everything in some weird way
Does manage to relate
To her it doesn't matter more
Its chasms have been leapt
And she leans upon the skepticism of her chosen fate

Stand tall, you spittle-smattered son of man
Stand up, you hear them say
To slap you down and kick your teeth
And smile across the bay

Irrelevant eloquent pleading
Wasn't what she did this year
She passed it by and told a lie
And shed a crystal tear
For him to see, from valley's edge
From 0plateaus in the sand
And yet he has beshit himself
For being just a man

A bragging crowing sort of twit
A cast-off shade of pink
Who's brought himself and all the rest
Unto the very brink
Yet that magic urge
Continues on and plays continuum
A song of pleasure and of pain
Until that will be done

Steel Eyes


I talk to the lady with the steel gray eyes
While the sun is going down
And we talk of the things that we wish to know
But she's really not around
And the sunset on the mountain is the same color
As her cascade chestnut hair
For forgetting your past
So now why the distant stare?
Could it be there is someone who remains in her heart
And she cares

And the ice of her kisses lingers on and on
And the image of her body live
Yet you walked on black sand by the sea's turmoil
In the dark of a velvet night
Then you sat down and gave your hands to be kissed and loved
Could not you hear a gentle sigh?
And by the stars part control of your wandering life
Do you believe in not telling lies?
But it was good that you were warm on your way back home
Short love, goodbye



Us We Are


People say we are sane
lock your doors and play the games
out in a constant search of fame
if we tell them of our dreams
some but bright and subtle schemes
others true and honest means
oh you people out there
with your marshmallow wills
your tragic days
and your tranquillizer pills can't you see?
people got to be believed
words have got to be perceived
won't you listen to us please?
maybe to you it's another day
do you want to see the sun
coming up in gray?
tell me what the difference is
between your life and pay
does the fire of your optimism
flare up in the dark?
can you come to me with open arms
and strike the finite spark of love?
could be a case of velleity
on your part my part
or anyone who thinks they see
through a decade an epoch
or maybe even centuries
what do you think could be
your reality?
does your breath go away
for anything you plainly see?
talking to God or going on the nod
or freaking out fancy free
take your time in the morning sun
it lasts for half a day
speak your mind to your only son
if that's what you have to say to him
I know I'm living in utopia
with a strangely cloying
absence of euphoria
and the rapidly increasing senses of dementia
the anticipation in my life
now lends an ear
and I know I gotta choose
gonna win or gonna lose
maybe that's the fear
I only hope that the choice of death
will be mine to make and clear

Burning Fingers


I look up at the sky
a figure bows its head
and then I wonder why
they tell me I'll be dead
the ashes in the tray
my bones of mortal webs
the blood of liquid clay
the brain that swiftly ebbs
I speed on towards the light
hurling blockades into sand
we know that that is right
we need to hold the hand
that makes us all the same
we see and hear and taste
we speak and play the game
are you worried about the haste?
can you identify with I?
do many pieces still remain?
or do you ever cry
and forget you have a name?
have you ever felt the wind
in the leaves among your heart?
or do you still intend
to let your love depart?
the force of love is strong
like the light from distant space
the might of love is long
despite refutal in the face
the sun is setting down
where are the eyes to see it rise?
no one keeps a crown
except of thorns or gaudy paste
the time is drawing nigh
we can go and self destruct
or simply fade away
with the rosy glow at dusk
or open up our minds
and realize the depth
or never see the pines
and accept the tragic death
our fate is in our hands
can the demons gain the sway
or sow the lovely lands
and ye gods will know the way

Moonshine


Yellow flowers
bought today
I bought 'em from the man who lives in the other way
wilting flowers
couldn't stay
not enough water gotta fill 'em to the brink today

And the moonshine
moonshine
moonlight halo gonna tell about a coming rain

I don't believe it can be verified
I don't believe it can be put right
it's too confused in all of its facets
it's too complex in all of its ways
they just continuing to tell me their troubles
they just continuing to tell me their lies
they don't believe in helping their brother
they're standing still and hearing his cries
if you believe that you got the power
if you believe it deep in your heart
you're on the run in front of a gunner
you're on the run and no one said start

And the moonshine
moonshine
moonlight halo gonna tell about a coming rain

Red moon rising, dogs are howling
throwing stones at Willy on the other side
octogenarians intermarrying
what you gonna do when the light goes off?
madly scrambling in the brambling
up the mountain like a frightened trout
killing relieves the hunting imperative
maiming relieves the sadist's delight
they don't believe in what they are doing
I do believe that they are uptight
safe and secure in maudlin commodities
smug and pedantic into their lives
stupidity can never make answer
pathos is there in all of its might

And the moonshine
moonshine
moonlight halo gonna tell about a coming rain

Talk about after, there's gonna be laughter
Talk about after, there's gonna be laughter
and the sunshine
sunshine
sunshine come there's gonna be another brand new day

For Her


I write this song in memory
of a woman that I knew
she loved me much and I loved her
but then she never knew
and I was forced to go away
there was nothing I could say
I had to leave that very day
for almost two years or more

and now she's gone and I am left
with memories of her breast
and days of life and nights of love
and all the wondrous rest
I shan't forget
and the effect
it isn't even finished yet
it started 'fore we'd barely met
ten long years ago
yesterday

What's Happenin' Jim!


I hear voices calling me
won't you take me to
the day I know
where the sun keeps shining through the snow
and you're looking at me with the eyes of someone loved or loving
in the world of steel and the world of clowns
you don't know where you stand right now
and the change is driving you right out of your mind or inside
and are you going to be afraid today
there are so many ways that you make your fear
the things you see and the things you hear around you
but what you gonna do when the sun goes down
and there ain't nobody else there in the town
and you have to go walking around all by yourself in misery?
but don't you see the green on the mountainside
or don't you feel the love that you fight inside?
like the rock that breaks and falls into the sea it's falling
and ol' Jim Creegan he's singing this song
and he's playing that guitar all day long
bringing it back to where it's a comin' from he's calling

Armed


Armed with the thought of being God
I respectfully decline
there wasn't really very much money
and the work was awful hard
but we'll get by
by the skin of our teeth
if we look at my denial
well now here we go
we're still on bloody trial
filled with the scent of lilac gold
and wandering bazaars
brought with love and simple chores
from hoping lands afar
sent with characteristic joy
a value that is lost, embossed
while we sit here
they are still
alive and teeming, millions
struggling for the right to life
in desert homes of drifting sand
or darkly gleaming light
out in space
no mouths to feed
just searching questing minds
they find
while they're finding
they are coldly kind

Spaceman


Sorrow can keep you crying
tomorrow I may be dying
can I borrow some of your trying willful way
babe, you won't believe me when I tell you
I want to hear what you have to say
it's just as important to me
as the rising of the sun each day
another stage
play I'm in a cage
say, won't you tell me why you're in a rage
lovely blond lady in a loose dress
gave me joy when she said to me
I don't have to leave right now
'cause I'm telling you I am
free, telling me she is free
from her mother
see
she's another
be
like no other
put your bag and baggage in your head now
walk about salt and land
when you find what you're looking for
come back to this lonely man
joy is at the end of hoping
happiness is there some days
Jesus told me I'm a spaceman
and I believe in every word he says

Times Of A Madman, Trials Of A Thief


Times of a madman and trials of a thief
Appalling decisions of squalling belief
Basking in bedrooms that hookers bequeath and they search for pleasure
Constant confusion calamities' plight
Doubtless it doubles the devil's delight
Easy as dying away from the light and they're dead in leisure
Footing the future as part of the bill
God is within you and works through your will
Hating to stay there and watch while you kill all your sons and daughters
Imminent idols absurdly enchant
Justification to rave and to rant
Knighting is over we've learned how to plant and we'll change things gently
Love is the lotus of white baby blue
Man and his woman collapse when it's true
Never some try it 'cause they're scared of you but the fire is raging
Open your mind and your heart to be still
Peace is the endlessly crest of the hill
Quietly shattering and soft as a quill then it stays forever
Reality's frozen in art and your heart
Simply believe it and then you can start
Truth is the answer and not just a part yet the word's been spoken
Unity struggles on this speck of dust
Valiantly scraping the fast forming rust
World is as beauty it's under the crust in its formless phases
Xenophobes revel in ignorant fear
You are belittled when this is too near
Zoning's absurd and it shouldn't be here for we all are living

8500 Years


For 8500 years it's churning
the wheels of gore have not stopped turning
are we gonna have another century of war?

The force on both sides doesn't balance
the fear of each keeps away alliance
to terrible sounds of suffering at the door

Flagrant conflicts of conceptions
the art is gone of kind exception
have we gone insane
do we really want to cry for more?

If a man wants to live in country splendor
in God's creation green and tender
who are you to tell him you think that that's a bore?

Any man can do whatever he wishes
life is sacrosanct is the only ism
we're telling you to stop before you get to war

Coming Down Soft & Easy


Tell a tale of married men
of simple shells and curried zen
falling through the world of when
today
serpent coils and hydrofoils
you don't believe what he does with oils
speaking words that he said once
yesterday
Peaches are predominant
peace has got no counterpoint
Peter said he had to go nowhere
away
But could it be a grand joke
a puff of smoke
yes it's but a great day
to know the way
can't you see the huge clouds go flying by
don't you know
deep down we all are butterflies
just you take another look round
what you been seeing
what's been running through your mind
is all we have at all
have you been to the tinkers' ball
waiting for the light to come again
yes, we was sitting on a rooftop
looking at the planets
have you looked out there?
today is like tomorrow then
a little scared of the affairs of men
everybody also knows that they've been afraid
'Cause they are frightened by a love life with everybody
terrified by the thought of
unity is probable
vanity is escapable
violence the workings of a tortured mind
waterbeds are really fun
sleeping in the baking sun
Debbie's disappointed
but I think she knows it's right
jellyfish are dangerous
politics are perilous
and I'm really glad that I'm not Richard's friend
And I say sexual repression makes a lot of trouble
all it does is lead to
craziness
is in the head
the heart is short of being dead
have you got a reason for survival in the fall
Oh look at blood-soaked Charlie on a silk-stained bedsheet
can you tell me if you really want to
die in all your false belief?
I tell you now that there is no relief
ooooooooh
you really gotta grow again
Psychosomatic delusions of euphoria
better dig it now
before becoming in memoriam

Springwind


Now the wind of change is blowing through the towers and the hard rain's pouring down
and the face of man has turned into a glower,
and he's forced to scheme to keep his limited powers
and the not-so-strong are merely made to cower
but there's a springwind blowing through the bamboo leaves
yet the spirit of man growing ever higher every time he plants a field
to grow and sow, again he's repeating, recreating what he feels
the lives of a farmer, the lives of a doctor should be running parallel
shrewd politicians meet wealthy morticians and do they really burn in hell?
come a Springwind blowing through the bamboo leaves

Take a world and then you fill it full of peoples,
and the force of life is bound to go shatteringly forward
make a law for man, it doesn't work for mayhem
but the task at hand is so unbearably rewarding
and as we see the change is not so crawling
'cause there's a Springwind blowing through the bamboo leaves



Landscape


Level upon level of wash and stone
cab drivers yelling that each one, each one's alone
a forced-up smile when casting your eyes
insanity reigns on streets of no size
high crumbling walls of stones that have seen
the rigors of war and have never been clean
a modern pay turnpike in midst of it all
while an old woman works in a garden with trowel
trees are blooming, I've come just in time
purple pink Spring flowers in rebirth pantomime
a miniature red castle in black craggy pass
jig-saw puzzle houses the resultants of mass
the top of a mountain cut off by the mist
and a white serene temple in space does exist
lemon trees, oranges, and cactus alike
the growth of a vineyard with grapes not yet ripe
a truck is forced off as big as a house
while dawdling along like a little green mouse
a long sweeping view expounds my being
and clear restless water with an absence of reef
evolutions and cycles we come face to face
while foliage drifts in green filmy lace
now rough and then coarse soon velvet to touch
octagonal mosaic on a church that is such
and columns of clouds go boiling across
the mountains that stop them and suffer no loss
head reeling cliffs that fall down to sea
while people are sleeping they hang peacefully
but the trucks rolling blindly are waking them up
to talk quietly murmuring over the morning's first cup
arches and steps are seen everywhere
manmade and Godmade and one made of air
the essence of time is virtually gone
day goes and night comes, I breathe of my lawn
Buona sera buona sera is a faithful reply
from any stranger you pass who catches your eye
and pinpoints of brilliance some moving some still
are caught in the glass on my window sill
the pinpoints I mentioned I don't speak of stars
but then to think again it's funny they are
stars made by man who himself is a star
if only he'd realize the powers that are
and all he's got to do is lay down and play dead
and now looky here Vesuvius looms overhead

Hey Miss Lonely


Hey Miss Lonely won't you come here soon
have you been standing on a star-flaked snowdune
lookin' at the moon feelin' pretty funny
sayin' what is that?
Hey Miss Lonely, don't you know, where are you at?
Hey Miss Lonely, have you been to school?
have you been learnin' everything that you can
about the golden rule
teacher tellin' you who you ought to be
Hey Miss Lonely, don't you know, you ought to be free?

Hey Miss Lonely don't you feel sad?
things are going by in a blinding flash
it's just a passing fad
money's quite a problem got to work to see the world
Take a letter here, bring a message there
you start to wonder if anyone cares at all, cares at all
fade awake thought words, foldaway bed
redwinged blackbird, fly away Fred
soaring free and easy high on a stormy sea, my baby
don't you know that you can come to me
come my baby, don't you know that you can come to me
come my baby, don't you know that you can come to

Hey Miss Flipped-out, don't you ever want to scream and shout?
telling this sphere about all the wrong there is, my dear
got to remember that you're part of the day
Hey Miss Lonely, you can stay, don't go away
Hey Miss Lonely, don't you feel the pain
I keep spending my cash, and I'm talking this trash
and I think I'm going to miss the train
even though you're going to Morocco in the Spring
Hey Miss Lonely, don't forget your king
will you remember to ring?
because he's feelin' very lonely
and he's empty again
put you in a big brass bed, mama
and it's tomorrow then
got a lot of faith in his love for you be sure
Hey Miss Lonely, won't you please cure
nobody's pure,
have fun on your tour

Parisien Plight II


Oh, the city of a lover was a crystal jewel as it lay 'neath the wing
and I was on my way to a love so true
that I wanted to shout and sing
my mind raced ahead of that double-armed jet
as it roared through the open sky
and all that I could think of was holding you
then and hearing your gentle sighs
your breath and your kiss could take away
all of this mental strife
I'd been away for two long weeks,
Lord, it seemed, seemed like all of my life
Oh my lady fair, we made love right there
and now you do not care
and I don't want to have to bear
the thought, the thought, the thought,
the thought of you not, no, being there
and I do not want to be
don't ever want to be left alone
you know, you know it's making me feel so sad, make me feel bad
The lights in the city were burning bright
and I was comin' in at 18,000 feet
and I knew that you were going to be there
and I just couldn't keep in my,
I couldn't keep in my seat
I knew that you wanted to see me
like I wanted to see you too
when I got there the place was bare
and I could not believe it was true
I came back that very same day
and I stayed long into the night
how I wished that you could be there
I wished with all of my might
Oh my lady fair, we made love right there
and now you do not care
and I don't want to have to bear the thought
the thought, the thought, the thought
of you not, no, being there, and I do not want to be
don't ever want to be left alone
you know, you know it's making me feel so sad
make me feel bad

We


She is free, but she does not know the price she has to pay
And he could be a lover in the life she leads throughout the day
And they both could live together, they could live in peace
They both could be in love together and make the world at ease
Floating through a sea of troubles that the world around them makes
And it really doesn't matter when you know love's pattern
Because you know that that's all it takes

And she could be a mother and a daughter at the same time for a man
And he could be a father and a son for her future family plan
And they could raise a lot of healthy children
Bring 'em up in harmony
and teach them all the good things in this life
but most important teach them how to be
to be open and attentive and loving
when the world around them shakes
and it really doesn't matter when you know love's pattern
Because you know that that's all it takes

She is thee, she's every woman that's living in the world today
And he is me, and I'm looking for the woman that tells me she is free
And we all can live together, we all can live in peace
We all can be in love together and make the world at ease
Working through a sea of troubles that the world around us makes
And it really doesn't matter when you know love's pattern
Because you know that that's all it takes

Anello (Where Are You)


When I seen him he had long hair
And the next time it wasn't there
And he said, my friend, I want to play drums with you
So he came to my home town
And he kind've stuck around
'Till we found some drums that were suitable for our use
And we used them
Anello where are you? Are you living in India
Are you learning about the Eastern way of life?
Anello, where are you? Are you still in Bologna?
Are you learning to play the tabla any more?

But we covered the philosophies
While we were sitting in the grass
And we discovered that it all boils down to save your self
Anello where are you? Are you living in India
Are you learning about the Eastern way of life?
Anello, where are you? Are you still in Bologna?
Are you learning to play the tabla any more?

But I really haven't seen him in three or four years
And I don't think that he or I are shedding tears any more
Anello where are you? Are you living in India
Are you learning about the Eastern way of life?
Anello, where are you? Are you still in Bologna?
Are you learning to play the tabla any more?

I Took A Walk


I took a walk through the fields of America
I'll tell you what I saw in the middle of the garbage and erotica
I saw a man in pain crying to be free
Children in the rain, yelling out their glee
Singers on the plain, fused in harmony
Oh America, they want to love you, please be true to thee
Oh America, they want to love you, please be true to thee

People I have seen in the streets and communities
Running in mortal fear of the violence and its companies
I saw a man in hand flying to the moon
Well, a rich man of the land dying all too soon
I say people in the bands you really ought to learn this tune
Oh America, they want to love you, please be true to thee
Oh America, they want to love you, please be true to thee

I took a walk through the fields of America
I'll tell you what I saw, I saw a murder in a place called Attica
I saw a man called power who said you've got to fit my vision
I saw a man called Law said if you don't I'm going to put you in a prison
I saw a man called Peace who was shaking with the laughter of derision
Oh America, they want to love you, please be true to thee
Oh America, they want to love you, please be true to thee

I took a walk through the fields of America I'll tell you what I saw
I saw the blizzards and the tropics
I saw mountain streams running free and clear, Lord
Creatures of my dreams so beautiful I shed my tears
You great and wondrous land
I wonder why you cannot hear me now
Oh America, they want to love you, please be true to thee
Oh America, they want to love you, please be true to thee

America, America, America, America, America



Bright White


Now I told you a long time ago
that I'd hold you
never let you go behind me
anywhere I might flow
And I know you believe in me
And I hope you are seeing my dream
A whole lot of people in this world
Just running around

And it's a long way in the face of fear
and there's a lot of men left without any tears
anymore
and money is the name in the game of fame
but the music don't come out quite the same
anymore

It's all about a bright white light
shining through your mind and guiding your way
Mama put your arms around me
fill me with your joy and rock me all night

I told you a long time ago
that I'd hold you
never let you go behind me
anywhere I might flow
And I'll hold you in winter and spring
and behold you in everything I sing
Being in your arms is just like coming home

And it's a long way in the face of fear
and there's a lot of men left without any tears
anymore
and money is the name in the game of fame
but the music don't come out quite the same
anymore

It's all about a bright white light
shining through your mind and guiding your way
Mama put your arms around me
fill me with your joy and rock me all night

Salty Tears


Salty tears from a lady with electric knees
seven years I've been smoking that anti-freeze
Silly fears and I never even held the keys
won't you please take another look
are you going to the marketplace
read another book
learn the rules of the human race
try to learn to cook
'cause there isn't time to see the face
wrapped in silk and lace

paper men pentagon hives
paper men polluting our lives
paper men telling their lies

start another war
and you'll find it very hard to copy
spring it on the poor
and you're acting like another Pope
well they won't take any more
but they'll give another length of rope
it's our only hope
flying like a bird
in the open sky of fantasy
listen to the word
before you reach a state of entropy
well it really is absurd
for a man to think he isn't free
the key is me

laced lady take another mountain
laced lady climb another mountain
laced lady what do you see
laced lady now you are free

All The Kings And Castles


If all the kings and castles in the world are becoming one
We will ride in the light of God's desires
And live in their house of none
Conceived with the eyes of total love
Live in the hearts of everyone in love
And those that are there can find us
And those that are not won't bind us
For we cannot believe in the madness of your kindness
And do you believe in changes
And the way that the Lord arranges?
Are we going to fight Him every step of the way?
And small steps make a distance
And I know your love reminiscence
But the fact of the matter remains that we have to change
And changes are the best way we can learn to be
I see it in the fields and the forests
And the colors in the rippling sea
And in the ponds of stagnant water
From the lack of running free

And peace is just a state of being
It can come from letting love inside
Filling you with warmth and calmness
All that we can do is try
And share it in the human circle
And learn that there is no miracle in love.

Victoria Emmanuele


Victoria Emmanuele, she looks so clean and lithe
Victoria Emmanuele, finds it hard to pay the price
Victoria, your mouth is open
You look like you're catchin' flies
You're sick and tired of all the games
the polyglot and the lies
won't you
(chorus)

Victoria Emmanuele, stickin' to her guns at last
Victoria Emmanuele, sheddin' off an ugly past
She's subsidized by lots of love
Morality has just begun
Filled to the brim with light divine
She never feels the need to run
Victoria Emmanuele, beginning to believe in life
Victoria Emmanuele, discovered how to know the height
Victoria Emmanuele, reality's not hard to find
And all your days and all your ways
It's the only thing we must define
Victoria Emmanuele, she's keepin' on in every way
She gets a little tired from time to time
But everybody does today
Too many people got specialized
Ain't nobody got the time to sit with their friends
And spend some love and put the washin' on the line

Chorus:
Sing this song while you're walkin through your life
Walk this way and you know it's gotta treat you right
Victoria Emmanuele, she's all right by me

Planned "O"


Thought that I could come to Columbus
'Twas a ship with voided sails
There seemed a cavalier independence
In the way that they told their tales
About the riots kin to muted thunder
And the bloodfall of useless hail
Yet they revelled in an Indian summer
While the sky was a silver pale
And no one seemed to have an answer
To the things that that entailed
And she kept on lookin' at me
Through a veil, through a veil

Simplified lovers in a whirlwind
Scattered in the sparkling breeze
Stronger in the mounting chaos
Praying on a calloused knee
Acting out their short devotions
To the nonexistent one above
Playing on the soul's emotions
In the act of making love
And it seems that they have found an answer
In the memories they recall
And it looks like we are going to the ball

And in their time they spoke of things appalling
Of monarchs past and men to come and pray
And though the prisoners were acquitted
And the jury was committed to be slaughtered
No presence graced their passing on that day

Planned obsolescence on a planet
Begging for the basic needs
All we got to do is sit and plan it
Leaving out the guilt of greed
Soaring through the years of fullness
Stillness in the corpse's repose
Space is at the edge of taking
Peace is still the only road
Ain't nobody really going nowhere
'Till we learn to bear the load
And I think I feel a surging in my soul

Vague moon hiding in the winter
Tired sleepy people on the prowl
Mountain standing so majestic
Listening to the motor's howl
Everywhere children with potential
Learn to play the same old games
Etna gave a needed warning
Hurricanes do the same
Power to the people to protect them
In the fast and driving rain
And I think that we're about to use our brain

Lasting Peace Of Mind


I know where you'll find
lasting peace of mind
life is full of trial
don't you let yourself be defiled
you know in your heart
you have got a secret part
school can't teach you all
if so how should I be called
And some will know my name
for to them it has no shame
I begin the game
and 'tis I will end your name
and time is made in your mind
made in your mind
and you might go for the ride
go for the ride
and you will love to be alive
gotta be alive

If you want to see
fill yourself with thee
can you sense your strength in the sea
and rich and poor are void
no one's soul can be destroyed
close your eyes and cry
and you'll feel your laughter drawing nigh
take another look
you'll see it coming over
take another look
don't you feel it flying by now
take another look
it's a force of new creation
take another look
it's a loss of all sensation
take another look
'cause it's rolling out of nothing
take another look
'cause there's definitely something there

Technotronic Lad


Well my eyes flew open this morning
I was thinking about a troubled dream
the technotronic lad was feeling very bad
he was working on a naughty scheme
if we can get some of that good brown rice
from out of that oozin mud
throw it on a platter say lookee here
I took it with my own red blood

Chorus:
No, you can't make me believe that's right
you're wrong in what you say
you computed your head
while laying in a bed on a bright and sunny day
full of vermouth while searching for the truth
in a slight haphazard way
then you told me that the band would play
on a dull and gloomy day
and I know it's not true

Well he got out his toy computer
little slide rule in green
started calculation with a bit of fabrication
on a world with his promised dream
territorial right was what he had to fight
and he said he knew that 'it ain't mine'
but see here now child
we been good everything'll just be fine

he was expending all of his power
they took away one of his toys
and old mother Hubbard was running around
saying what have you done to my boys
with your nice clean clothes
you're playing in the mud
you don't listen to my advice
now sit here and get in this house
and watch the cat go looking for mice
well I hope to God that that woman's right
she's right in what she say

Dream Queen


How I hate to leave you
How I hate to see you go
I feel so down without you
Dying surely couldn't get that low
But the minute that we're together
I can't think of anything other than you
Looking in your eyes, totally surprised
Far out on the limb, not another whim for you.

Do you miss me sometimes?
Do you miss me in the night?
Do you read the moonbeam making tasseled silver light?
And quicksilver's densely viscous
Compared to the time it takes to get to you.
Figure I can fly
Never been so high
Catch you from above
You know that I'm in love with you

Dream queen, how you seem to shine
Poised and lovely woman mine
Sitting on your doorstep
Waiting for your footsteps to come round
People passing by me
I could be entirely drowned
And you know I heard you call
And suddenly I joined the ball for you
Not a petty thrill, forget your little pill
Come and be my mate, then we'll celebrate
One in two

Sitting on your doorstep
Waiting for your footsteps to come round
People passing by me I could be entirely drowned
And I know I heard you call
And suddenly I joined the ball for you
Figure I could fly, never been so high
Catch me from above, you know that I'm in love with you.

It's A Beautiful Morning


Oh well I woke me up this morning in a happy way
and I turned right over and I thought I'd say
but you beat me to it you read my thoughts
and you didn't say a word but that was enough
it's a beautiful morning
what a glorious day it is
a beautiful morning and I hope it stays that way
so we can go on out and play

And we're in England oh the land of I'm all right Jack
where Connie's in control, so is Interpol
and 50,000 workers got the sack
and I don't care about any or all of that
I'm living my life and I'm loving the fact
that I'm livin and it's a gas
and then I'll think about the beauty
that is in the air
'cause that's about all that's left for which I care
it's a beautiful morning
what a glorious day it is
a beautiful morning and I hope it stays that way
so we can go on out and play

Lady Of The Blue Rose


Lady, like a blue rose, soft and clear, you glow
Woman, are you coming home?
You know that I could love you so
I'd never make you go
Lady, of the blue rose
In your time be mine
I saw you from years ago
I've told the truth
And now you know
You told me it was so

Lady, for a blue rose, will you share my life?
Stars are born and then they die
And I know that we could learn to fly
For love can never die



January First


I'll sing you a song of the deepest blue, if you tell me all the colors that you see in the human hue
I'll sing you a song of the brightest hope, if you show me a man who's reassured that he can cope
I'll sing you a song of beige and livid green, if you show me an earth that is slowly getting clean
And I'll raise your spirit higher, make you tremble with delight, if you lay down all your weapons, if you make the truth your fight
Lay down all your weapons, if you make the truth your fight
If you make the truth your soulmate, keep it with you all the time, then by the grace of God inside, you'll live in heaven's clime
If you talk to me of atom bombs, if you explain what they are for, I'll sing you all the songs I know about a world I see at war
a war that's greatly based on fear that's the only way they'll work, authority and governments they hide behind their smirk
for they think that you don't know it yet they think you're not aware, that the potential of the human soul lies just in human care
So won't you sing this silly song with me, come and give me a gift, we all are one in life and love, we all provide the lift.

Starbright


Starlight burn bright
countless eons of time
have you burned that way for a billion years
glittering ever brightly
and I see earthrise, our eyes
how much longer to go
little sphere of dirt that we live upon
trembling in its last throes
and I say no man, all can
carry part of the load
do you have to get paid for survival
in your old age
think right what you gonna do
look at your child will he follow you
take another look 'cause your baby's liable to die
politicians have their say, you once mattered
but you're in the way, why do we let these
people run our lives,
for the country isn't run by the statesmen now
but by the gentry who see
and I see starbright, cold light
shining through the night.

Breakthrough


All your tears come rolling down your cheeks
I been watching you build this for several weeks
do you want to stay with me now, do you want to be so free, so free
eight long years, you've gotta forget the days of pain
all your life you cannot fight every drop of rain
if you need me call me over, if you want me hold me closer, so near
don't wake up and start your day so down. I'll be there to make
like I'm your clown
with your laughter you fill my heart now, with your sorrow you're tearing me apart, my heart
turn me round, I've got to find out where
woman gotta live, gotta be a mother
woman gotta give, gotta be a lover
woman ought to live her life the way she feel
woman ought to have the choice to make the deal
hush your crying, brush my lips on yours
miss your sighing, swept out on the moors
in your pain it's not so plain if I'm the one
that is to blame, my name
when he's grown and gone his way in time
send him strong and full of love and lime
he's the one now make him happy, we're not done yet
I'll be his pappy he's free
woman breakthrough
woman we're two.

Ninety-Two Years


Ninety two years of progress is beginning to decry the toil
city in chaos, country apathetic and there's something wrong with the soil
secondhand truth, people so aloof
don't you see your senator crying
helpless, selfless, living off the lifeless
ain't no wonder that there's so much prying

Sillified scenes of mongoloid plans
anything to make a buck
riptide, sulphide, throw it in the river
and your water's going to turn to muck
maximinity, inferiority, they always gonna go together
Hamlet is the loser and Apollo is the winner
'cause they tell me that's the new frontier now

God is on the road, along with Mr. Toad
they're looking for another planet
Christ is on a cross, he suffered heavy loss
and we're worshipping a piece of granite
Buddha's sittin' still, high upon a hill
he couldn't care one way or the other
Allah's in the bath, he doesn't want to laugh
'cause he's sick of tellin' us we're brothers

Chorus:
We go to grow
I say grow
grow.

See You


See you
free you
then I think you'll find you have
the time to be you
and your days will stay so high
filled with love of life and God inside
and the little things that bug you
don't you let them get you down
I'll be there to hug you
when I think you're on the brink of down
love you
want you
a million different reasons why I need you
I will keep you safe and sound
fields of jasmine round
to tie your hair
to see you there
in the haze that comes with summer
in the blue mist of your slumber
I will come to you in wonder
and I think I'll sometimes ponder
are you me?
dawn rise, sun sighs
I can see you into your eyes
green and gold morn, reflected o'er born
we speak in few words, we still the very birds
in love's belauded world, against the madding world.

Troof


And the truth shall make you free
and the light is all around us
even though some people really couldn't give it a damn
but those people gonna find out that the world
is here to feel
and oh my God I do feel real
take my heart and lead me through
will you be with me tomorrow?
spinning my soul with all your love and care
and if you do decide to leave me
you must know the way I feel
and oh my God I do feel real, feel so real
since the time I saw your face
I have wondered how to touch you
bright light shining through the depths
of my very core
and if you do decide to leave me
I will lose my even keel
but I'll still know I did feel real, felt so real
and the truth shall make us free
and I speak of a love unending
even though some people really won't give it a chance
but we are here to make it stronger
for as many as want to feel
and oh my God, we could be real, could be real.

Song For Northern Ireland


A

Come to thee, the peace, on a green and lovely island
If you please, if you please
Where the gorse is brightly growing
In the mirror of the morning
And the sweeping hills surround you
And the time it cannot bind you
With the cattle grazing slowly
While the sun is setting lowly to the ground
Such a golden sun above thee
When the rain is not upon thee
And the emerald glint abounds thee
And the colors dost astound thee
Can you see them through the bloodbath?
Can you see them through the tears your people shed?
And the wrath of God now smolders
And the weight's upon your shoulders
And the weight is never ending 'till you're stopping all the killing
Don't you see?

B

Come to thee, the peace, on a green and lovely island
If you please, if you please
Where the gorse is brightly growing
In the mirror of the morning
And the sweeping hills surround you
And the time it cannot bind you
And the cross of Jesus smolders
And the word is hardly spoken anymore
And the word is love unending
To the people who are spending
Their lives in constant hatred
Of a thing they are not saying
And the priests have kept them frowning
In their lives with all their clowning
And the love of God's not in them any more
But the love of God is Boundless
And He dwells in all around us

Mr. President


Great God! What do you see
It's falling to the ground
the very fabric of our lives
is turning upside down
we learn to kill before we read
to turn the bastard round
we got the means to foil the world
does that mean we got to do it now?
hey Mr. President I really do hope
that you don't watch your T.V.
and keep your fingers away from those buttons
for me and my family and my friends afar
and the ones we haven't met
we are aware of your sophisticated toys
and the violence they beget
we don't approve of the way things are
much less the present set
things gotta change in the next ten years
'cause we don't intend to buy the farm yet
Mr. Prime Minister won't you administer
decrees to decrease the war
it really ain't funny when you're
makin' that money from
gore and blood and spillin' his guts
and he really doesn't understand why
we been fillin' his head with
vicarious dreams, 'bout the paradise
in the sky, and if you don't kill him
we'll kill you is our insidious reply
'cause it's gone full circle
and returned again
and nobody really knows why.
Hey Mr. Premier won't you take another year
to let your people be
Elevating, tolerating
All that they could be creating.

Talking In The Garden


A

Talking in the garden
yelling at the yardman
can you look me in the eye with a clear live gaze
through a knowing haze
all of us are slowly
trucking through a world of pain
but being through the bane and the flat out rain
there's love around the man
kindled by the work that he deems to do his way
savior of a planet in its dying throes
he knows what must be done
call upon the sun
your actions intermittent, and you're slightly
non-committal of your plans
passing through the pasture
have you ever asked her
if she'd like to spend the day
fill your heart and soul
make you feel real whole
can you make a promise to the wind
that sets you free?
that you'll help us in our age
while we turn the page of life
using our compassion in a way
that we know is right
color isn't valid when there is no
black and white, there's only light
don't you be so mean
all is ever changing
and my God it's so
amazing what we've seen
no is not the answer
that could give you cancer
yes is what you have to say
to a world at large what a garbage barge
when will we begin to try
and make some peace
and money's such a bitch it can make you
rich and poor to want some more
ironic little rival to the fact
of mere survival, what's in store?
harmony resulting from the force of many minds
of different kinds
waking isn't trite
spin us ever upward, can we do without
our supper for the
light in every being
seeing is believing
loving when we're able
cards upon the table
turn a world of sadness
full of sudden gladness
then we'll have some time to
boogie!

B

Talking in the garden
Yelling at the yardman
My but how the lives do fly
and he spills his soul for a half-mast pole
and never got what he required
caustic intervention, that or straight detention
insulated blatant lies
he's another John Doe for an unseen foe
expendability that we despise
shame and degradation shat upon a nation
the splitting of a race
afraid of losing face
vision versus vision
crotches and collision
savior of a planet
sorry, money cannot hack it



Do You Wonder


Do you ever see what you want to be
do you wonder
do you ever feel that you're not being real
hear the thunder

And woman you're so enticing
you're the cake and not the icing
can't you see?
and you'll wake up one of these mornings
to the sound of your own drummer
wait and see

And you'll wake up feeling open,
filled with the force of hoping
makin' your big decision
in the face of all derision
and you'll find it so insightful
you'll be feeling so delightful
can't you see?
and you'll wake up one of these mornings
to the sound of your own drummer
wait and see

In the space that you're displacing
ain't no sense in your evading
how to be
and the direction that you're facing
ain't no use in all your racing
just you be.

And woman you're so enticing
you're the cake and not the icing
can't you see?
and you'll wake up one of these mornings
to the sound of your own drummer
wait and see

Xasper


He got trouble, he got strife
he got difficulty in his life
he got trouble walkin' on his toes
and I think there's something wrong with his nose

And he don't know where he's goin'
And he don't care where he's been
but now he knows he's alive givin' out with his jive
and he's makin' me pale with his sad little tale about love.

He got women, he got wine
he got everything to make him feel fine
he got everything this world can give
but he still don't know how to wake up and live

And he don't know where he's goin'
And he don't care where he's been
but now he knows he's alive givin' out with his jive
and he's makin' me pale with his sad little tale about love.

'Cause he be too black and too proud
or too white and too loud
he be too low or too high
the difference is he's frightened and he don't know how to try.

And he don't know where he's goin'
And he don't care where he's been
but now he knows he's alive givin' out with his jive
and he's makin' me pale with his sad little tale about love.

City To City


City to city, we're on the road
and we don't know where we're bound.
we just bringing you music lovers.
the sound there is around
and when we come into your town
you can bet we will astound
we will play you all we've found
we will fill your life with sound

we will sing you a song
we will do you no wrong
we will brighten up your day
we will make you a king with an eloquent ring
we will serenade your queen.

white line flashin' and the wheels are roarin'
and the country's rollin' by
from the snow capped Rockies to the Midwest plains
we will stop and tell you 'hi'
and if you want to hear our story
we will never bring you down
and we will play you all we've found
we will fill your life with sound

we will sing you a song
we will do you no wrong
we will brighten up your day
we will make you a king with an eloquent ring
we will serenade your queen.

from New York City to the angel town
we will always come again
we will bring you a storm or a summer's day
but right inside your head
so when we come into your town
you must bring your folks around
we will play you all we've found
we will fill your life with sound

we will sing you a song
we will do you no wrong
we will brighten up your day
we will make you a king with an eloquent ring
we will serenade your queen.

Blunt And Frank


Mr. Blunt and Mr. Frank
were standin' in the halls of their 7 figure bank
wonderin' what in the world
they were gonna do for you

I can take the brunt
if you can take the flank
explained Mr. Blunt to timid Mr. Frank
wonderin' what in the world
they were gonna do for you.

We been stealin' this money most every day
and ain't nobody caught us in any way
but something's tellin' me
now our goose is cooked.
we been raisin' our prices
on the kiddies ices
and the bedroom suites on the corner store
don't you think that they could go up some more?

then with everybody jivin'
about how to be survivin'
we could bring 'em back down again
and it's gone full circle
while the world bank wins again

Revolution no solution
to the government's illusion
that the people are amusin'
with the prices that we're usin'
and I think that they're abusing
everything that we try to do.
defamation to the nation
that is drowning in inflation
immigration, isolation is a useless tabulation
to the calculation that the world
is gonna want to come to you
so people in distress gonna worry nonetheless
'bout the monetary mess from an educated guess, never really blessed
I think we must confess it now.

So people jump and shout,
everything is out
and I've said what I have to say
everybody sit back
while I get ready to play
where you gonna go
when the people gonna know
that they're ripping us off again
right back down
to the same old hole we been in.
bet your bottom dollar
that you're really gonna holler
when your friends turn you down again.
not a thin dime
to keep in you in your time of men.

Believe In Life


I believe in something
I do believe I believe in life
I do believe that the sun is shining, on the other side of the night
and I know that we are growing
we should spread through the land,
we got time, and it ain't no crime
to want to hold your brother's hand
and it all depends on if you're feelin' fine!

I got time to love you,
I got time to make you mine
we got time to make the circle in the best part of our lives.

But the worst part of the waiting is the time that you're away.
and I ain't denyin' that I feel like cryin'
when the plane takes off again
and it all depends on if you're feelin' fine.

We are made of sunbeams
we are made of molten glass
we can light the fire of living
we can learn with an ugly past
we can roar into the future
like a bull with battered brains
and it's a mighty thin line
'tween livin' and dyin
and all these stupid games
and it all depends on if you use your mind

All the world is spinning 'round
slow and sure and voidly bound
to keep the weed of life alive
to take back those who won't survive
whether in the air or the wind tossed sea
life is gonna be there that you see.
we're the only ones that sit and count the hours
and all the stars and all the flowers
and the myriad means to accrue our powers to shape the hand of fate
his name is destiny.

and if we can refrain from the game of pain
there's nobody left now to place the blame
I see no reason why we can't go on in life
I say life

As All Is Played


(3 movements: maestoso, intermezzo, tristesse)


As all is played
we can't evade
we all are made
in nature's glade

and Lord I pray
to live this day
to walk away
to feel and say
the words I know

to see the snow
to see the rain
to hold the pain
of life
sweet life
again

and some will say
they're on their way
to see the light
beyond the night
and on and on

beyond the sun
into the soul
of all the whole
of life
of God's delight in love

Golden Flower


The golden flower of a love that is blooming
makes me believe that something, somewhere is looming.
the sounds of morning intermingling our living.
in evening laughter is the stillness of giving.

The silver showers of life in its crystal form
don't have to be forlorn.
go on and know you're born now,
make peace inside and you will watch as the days they go by.

She took my hand and led me down to the water,
I kissed her lips and never since have I faltered,
they come between us shadows of human failing
then pass like clouds before the wind's bitter wailing.

The understanding in explicit simplicity
comes to you blindingly, never you mindingly how
it makes its changes and yet nothing is changed
you're enthralled.

The mind and heart they should be one thing together.
we're born and die but they will go on forever.
our fear of being hurt and hurting is finally
the only constant in our scope of reality.

In tears of sadness we call on our fellow clan.
explain if you think you can, I am but just a man now,
we're being guided we can look to ourselves for the way
we're being guided we can look to ourselves for the way

Looking At The Angel


Sitting still and looking at the angel
giving life and granting all the love
and I know that all of us are able
we can live in love above it all

there's a time of the year when you start to feel your fear
and you really wonder where you're going
and you know you hear the call
when the leaves begin to fall
and the melancholy's fast approaching.
but with the mountains so clear
you know another year has gone and nearly passed you by.
then all you need is joy
like that of a little boy
to live in rapturous wonder.

Must we kiss the height of our delusion,
idolize the spectra of illusion
and all your prayers and tribulations
rack and tortured exaltations
and our cornered expectations
and our ferocious intimations
we are more

how I wish that you were not deluded
I sympathize, I know it's very hard
we have to live in midst of the confusion
but even so we all can touch a star

But the greatest thing of all
is the coming of the call,
'cause it keeps you on your toes
it's catching.

and you know you got a friend,
when you deign to let her in.
'tis the angel of the briefest passing,
and when the sunset's aflame
you know it's all a game.
but no one really plays the same,
and all we got is rules
to keep us from the fools
that live in heartless cruelty.

Summer Vignette


He will squire his gentle lady
through the chores of being hazy
while he waits to be believed that he is home
and the double toil of living makes it so much more fulfilling
when she comes into his arms
she keeps him warm
then she bestows her favors gently
then she scratches him perversely
and he loves it when her lips descend and sigh
then he thinks of getting bolder,
but he knows he's getting older
and he knows that they will live until its
time keeps rolling
all is growing.

and the time is passing by them
and she knows she can't deny him,
all the love she has to give
and so much more
and like the seasons and the weather
he will love her more than ever
she's the woman that he wants to call his own.

on a summer day bye and bye
with a lone cloud in the sky
and the light that's in your eye
I see you
on a summer day bye and bye
on a summer day bye and bye



Early Morning Hours


In the early morning hours,
when the dew is on the flowers
I can see
the day is near

And I can hear the church bells ringing
I can hear the birds are singing
Yes I hear
and it is real

And the splendor of the mountains
through the glittering, splashing fountains
are the things that stop my breath
and make me weep

And the times that I spent roaming
were a bright and shining omen
o'er the sea
oh freedom be

And here I am still smiling
in the intricate asylum of society
well I got to be

And the effluvium of excess
it is hidden at the behest of mentality
of a low degree

And though it seems unstoppable
it is not yet improbable
that the man can have his cake and eat it too
And the times that he spent roaming
were a bright and shining omen
o'er the sea
oh freedom be

And I have fended off the dangers
from the friends and from the strangers
and the force is still inside me
and you know it only serves to guide me
let me be
only a day goes by you're free
listen to me my friend you'll see
listen to me
listen to me my friend you'll see
listen to me

And when the light it comes to guide me
I will not bow down and hide me no siree, respectfully
and it is better to be humble
then pontificate and bumble
through the spree
of the people tree

And like the Martlett of the legend
I am on my way to heaven
if I do not touch the ground
I'll make it home
and the times that we'll be roaming
are a bright and shining omen
o'er the sea, Oh Lord Lord freedom be

And I have fended off the dangers
from the friends and from the strangers
and the force is still inside me
and you know it only serves to guide me
let me be
listen to me my friend you're free
listen to me my friend you'll see
listen to me

Spitefull


In spite of all the mess around
in spite of all the moments down
I feel your love coming through me
Makin' me see
that we can be
we can be free
you're makin' me see
take it from me

Oh we are so powerless
oh nevertheless
we all are one
brothers in life
scared of the night
looking for light
I know it's right
maybe tonight

Chorus:
Do you want to fight the truth within you
that dwells in your cells
do you stay aloof from me
my baby does my heart dispel
yeah, love is the word
that could change the world
but it may be too late now

Everybody's goin' on their apathetic way
and they don't know how
yeah, love is the force
that opens the flower
to the light of day
love is the horse
that carries your body
on its moment's way
oh love is the word
and it's all that I know
'cause it feels so right
love is the word
that gives you the courage
to go through that night
go through the night
for the world of happiness
everybody thinks the best
will come to you
without paying dues
they haven't a clue
'bout playing the blues
nothin' to lose
by paying your dues

(repeat chorus)

Today


Today, we gonna find ourselves another place to stay
Today, the sun will rise and I know it's gonna light out way
To live every minute of every golden sky
To live touching the moon and its heavenly silvery eye
And woman I see by the fire in your eyes that you seethe
It's imminent now that we learn what we need

To be on intimate terms with an infinite fire of belief
To be only yourself in the face of tremendous deceit
To be safe in the knowledge that love is the only thing free
And if you can feel it you suddenly want to sing

And woman I see by the fire in your eyes that you seethe
It's imminent now that we learn what we need

To sing praises to God and creations continuous ring
To sing all about life and its wondrous and tragical wings
Bearing an endless and trifle simplicity
It's growing in us in a spark of lucidity
The wind in the trees as it breathes of its power and ease
The movement of water that sculptures the granite's relief
And woman I see that for all that we have we can live
Imminent now that we learn how to give

To be safe in the knowledge that love is the only thing free
Safe in the knowledge that love is the only thing free
Safe in the knowledge that love is the only thing free

Wailing Wall


A wailing wall
a call to all
to cease the fight
the fierce respite
the land is there
its arid air
across the sea
so near to me
and so you know
no life can grow
in face of war
and what's in store

and all the roads
their dusty loads
with weary bone
toward holy stone
so many there
in lack of fare
the youngest fall
in eyeless pall
the rage of man
his shadowed hand
may strike the blow
to lay him low

Hie Away


Tongues are rattling and multiprattling, the thousand elite
that call the noisome, remorseless horsemen, we pray they into sleep
for when they're riding there is no hiding your face

instant ambrose for distant decades, the same must speed relief
for tolls too briefly the sounds of mercy
I shall not hie to grief
in fear we ponder the use of thunder for peace

moving rages divide the phases converging toward belief
that's being proven in all its union, there is no more retreat
and blind delusions maintain illusions too deep

now flows the hour of cringe and cower, the strong become the weak
negate your power and all to flower,
in pain we all are meek
in light beholden the ages golden we seek

Serendipity Peace


Oh if life could be like a merry-go-round
I'd ride it all over again
and all I'd find was the peace of mind
I'd known when I was younger in sin

Won't you take me ahead to the future of man
to see what becomes of us all
and I don't think I'll cry if'n we're not alive
it will be through no fault of God's

and the saving grace of a Marlin's break
is an insight that's so good to know
and the sun makes diamonds all over the water
and off in the distance is snow

on the bitter cold crags of a mountain's face
I waited for something to feel
and the breathing of love
came and fostered my brow
and left serendipity peace

and the time for playing is virtually over
it cannot continue for long
so people of terra, the loved and unsung ones
beware the direction is wrong

but the fear is not such a comical trial
it ebbs and it flows with our souls
and it comes and it's greater or less in volume
it depends on what you love the most

Rumplestiltskin's Resolve


How can I be sure you love me
how can I be sure you care
wishes are the dreams unrequited
they come and go like eddies of air

the afternoon sun is brightly shining
coming through the window pane
washing away this feeling of emptiness
putting me back on the plane

don't you believe in those feelings of ecstasy
you don't have to suffer the pain
deep in our heart we can shatter apart
and joy will come like soft summer rain

coming from mind we can travel the galaxy
we have even gone to the moon
take me along to the end of the universe
I just want to share in the truth



Rant


Got up in the morning in the drizzlin' rain
walked into a cafe down in old south main
lady was alone in a corner booth
lady was a loner and a lookin' for truth
lady, what's the matter are you lonely?
really doesn't matter if you're homely
someone gonna love you if you want it
someone gonna hold you if you flaunt it
lady what can I say to you?
lady I wanna make love with you
lady I will be near you now

what you gonna do with an irate lady?
what you gonna do when she gets uptight?
where you gonna go to find a remedy?
how are you gonna lure her back tonight?
bat eyes, cats' tails make a potion
luminous green complexion lotion
tell her put it on when she's got a notion
she will follow you over land and ocean

lady what can I say to you?
everything is turning out right
lady what can I say to you?
everything is turning out right
lady what can I say to you?
won't you please come back tonight?
lady what can I say to you?
won't you please come light my light again?

mama there's tomorrow yeah
tomorrow gonna bring no sorrow
fill your heart with laughter
'cause it really didn't even matter
concentration daytime yeah, space out every night
fill your life with love every minute and the world gonna treat you right

I say lady what can I say to you?
lady I wanna make love with you
Lady I will be with you now

The Light From Between Your Eyes


In the dark of all that's happened
by the light from between your eyes
The world has now become illumined
the wailing's not a great surprise
the passing of a state of being
the shadow of a knowing smile
a flicker of the fate await us all the while
to the spaces of a testy nation
incessant in its search for force
I cancel all my obligations
refusing to remount the horse
Benthamism could be valid
for those who cannot feel the source
there's got to be a simpler way to set our course
sifting through the minds that guide us
there's very little to be found
but avarice and insurrection
making yet another round
cynicism isn't something you really want to toss about
a life is truly worth a lot more than we're taught NOW
but finally we will see a clearing
of hyaline dimension set
solution in the myth of oneness
dreamers all around us yet
signal to the empty essence
urging not to take too long
time is of the utmost importance but we're so strong

Stranded


Scorpio has their day
when the moon is a quarter you can clearly see the milky way
she took me in her arms to say
that life is just as hard for the people who are getting their way
waiting for the judgment day
we will be ready
we will go without a moment's delay
going away
don't want to stay stranded, stranded, stranded, stranded
breaking through a wall of pain
from the birth to the memory
life is not to be profaned
sometimes it can be so gray
but when the wind starts to howl it will usually blow it all away
coming from another plane
from the night to the light that lets you see the morning rain
feeling no pain
walking in sugar cane
I'm not stranded
living a dream
stranded
you know what I mean
stranded
take it apart
stranded
I'm winning your heart
standing on acastle wall
looking at the hour being eaten by the powerful throng
have you ever lived in war
if you kae your life for granted it will leave you stranded
but peace is on its fragile way
from the night to the light that lets us go our trembling way
feeling no pain
walking in sugar cane
feeling no pain
and we are not stranded
living a dream
stranded
you know what I mean
I said stranded

From All Of Us


Woke me up this mornin' and the light was pourin' down
a million tiny suns on the sea below the town
mountain growin' high in the sky before my eyes
people movin' 'round and I can hear the babies' cries

got a lotta living all of us, 'cause that's all there is to do
goa a lotta love in all of us, I think you know it's true
got a lotta lovin', I wanna make love with you

as I look towards the distant line that I can see
a storm is passing by the clouds are riding high and free
I hear the far off thunder and I see the slanting rain
the lightning forming visions on the vast and moving main

but it's going away from where we are
but it'll come another day
goin' away from where we are
but when it comes we'll know the way
goin' away from where we are today, NOW

this very moment we got the time and we got the space
everybody knows that this is the place
this is the place that we got to face
I think you do intend to leave your trace
and if you do intend to help yourself
I'll do everything I can to help
call me I'm going by
from all of us to all of you, we give you merry cheer
we try to bring you hope in every year
and everything is going back to where it all began
all returning to the mind of man
people bein' people as we are
we could love without the fear
people bein' people as we are
we keep it up from year to year
people bein' people gonna from there to here

Parisian Plight I


Time was so important when I came
and I knew who was to blame
and then there came a day when
when you told me that you wanted me to come along and live with you
and then you were mine and you said
you wanted me to live with you
and I believed you like a fool
I thought that what you said was true
and oh for all I knew it was true, it was true, it was you
and then you were mine and it was sublime
the things we said were meant to be said in bed
and I know that I loved you true

Time was so important when I came
and I knew who was to blame
but then there came a day when you told me not to come back
I didn't want to but I did just the same
and then you were mine and you said
you wanted me to live with you
and I believed you like a fool
I thought that what you said was true
and oh for all I knew it was true, it was true, it was you
and then you were mine and it was sublime
the things we said were meant to be said in bed
and I know that I loved you true

All Our Love


And why should we
want to go back where we were
how many years could that have been?
and why should we
want to live a life that's past
and nevermore will ever be
aren't you happy now with all the things you have around your life?

Your newborn child
your grandchildren
your loving loyal wife
is it your tax and debts and moneyed threats
and violence in your life
the threat of being thrown in jail
and hated out of spite
but why couldn't we
create the age we want to have
without the memory?



Take It Easy


He came here out of nowhere
The man without a name
He brought no sense of vision
From a vast and empty plain
And all the darkness in her life
Simply cease to be
He took the place of a sentiment
He came up with the key
Now you stand there in the doorway
Silently you cry for help
You, you in your long and yellow nightgown
And your cast and rattled self
I see a woman of life's charades
Looking at me
I see the questions in your eyes
How do you want to be
You want to be like anyone else that's trying so
hard in search
For themselves to be free
Take it easy
And we can make it, we can do anything in this
world if we only try
Get the prize
For free
Take it easy
And we can make it

Now the clouds are around the mountains
In a mantle like a velvet shroud
The mimosa is about to flower
And he is not so very proud
But life is good and life is cruel
It's always been the same
And if we can we will make it through
And look out at the rain
Even to the call of the mind's demise
The problem remains as to who gets the prize for free
Take it easy

I'm An American Child (On A Nuclear Pile)


I was born in Fort Worth, Texas with a silver spoon
The war was rollin,' and the deaths were tollin' and Crosby crooned
The year was '43, I started learnin' how to be and I was on my way
Partisans in Italy were fighting Mussolini's team and making hay
Then another two years of people shedding tears and it had all begun
This bludgeon of insanity, power into vanity, to make the sun
I started comprehending the beginning of the ending of the human race
Now all I want to do is stop the follow-through I want to save my face

Chorus:
'Cause I'm an American child on a nuclear pile
I been pampered, I been hampered, now I'm slandered, yeah!

Children of the twenty-first haven't got sense enough to raise their minds
too busy gettin' cracy, or learnin' to be lazy, or tryin' to find
A way of bein funny so to make a lot of money off another man's spine
Capitalist prigs and communist pigs, well you are all so fine
Always hypocritical, I think you're hypothetical, I will not climb
Cannot get in here, can't get out of there and there is no more time
And like the man said it's a pity he is dead, that all the world's a stage
So if you want to keep it for the next performance, you had better rage.

Chorus

Now I got a feelin' that what we're really needin' is a lot of love
And the little man to say he can, regardless of the master plan or velvet glove
Stand up his integrity, and fight the things that he can see are oh so wrong
There is a good solution, and it's not a revolution, and it won't take long
Let loose that want to fight go slobber through the night with their neutron bombs
There is more creation in the face of devastation, there are just more slums
And if you want utopia, you cannot have myopia, it must be clear
And a little isolation, so to prop a falling nation, from its only fear

Implications


She brought me love like no one else has ever
Brought me through these many years,
She made me sound and took me 'round in ever upward swirling chandeliers

At the pain of an ending is like a cauldron seething in fire,
For no one else could ever take me higher
The roses sent were never meant as offerings of peace for all the tears,
Nor solace for the years alone

I cannot bring myself to voice my fears
Oh, but life you are sacred, you are the only the we bear,
You are adamant implication that we care
The winds of life have brought me strife, I must face up to what
I think is real, and if she wants to go to him I will not hold her back from what she feels
Ah the love gives me courage, it stops the pain and heals me inside,
My very soul is a thing I cannot hide
The windows in her eyes are dark
The stars are never there as they appeared and gone is all the joy for me
She's found another man and I am here

Ah the pain of an ending is like a cauldron seething fire,
For no one else could ever take me higher
In the sky to the blue of God's eye where the winds begin to blow
And the earth is brown and green and gold
With the universe above and I must not lose my love,
No I must not lose my love again

Lady In Violet


She's a lady in violet
She is inviolate
All alone
And no one can touch her 'cause I am not much of a rolling stone
When she walks down the street all the people she meets are just totally
Blown away by the fact that she puts on no act, she is on her own
When she stands by the sea I can hardly believe
There's a distant shore
'Cause she captures my own vision in a one way collision
Like a nova's born
The dignified lady that makes me so crazy at home

She is in white today, she takes away the grey from the clouds
And she weaves and she sways as she goes on her way and she parts the crowds
But a woman that's beautiful cannot be dutiful in her love
There's too many factions and lighting reactions the curing of
And I made the mistake of just letting her take my heart all the way
And now I must suffer the way she is tougher with me today

The dignified lady that makes me so crazy
That magical lady that makes me so hazy at home

But time passes easily, but stops when she looks at me moving slow
Like a bird on the wind and a flimsical whim she's too much to know
But she is destructive and almost reluctant to save her soul
And she goes toward her end in a state of chagrin though it's not her goal

Though she knows that I love her she cannot recover from all I've done
And he's in the middle and I am a riddle to ponder on

The dignified lady that makes me so crazy at home

But when she comes back to me after she's had her spree I will know
She'll come to my arms and I'll succumb to her charms like the falling snow
And I'll drink her nectar and never neglect her as long as I live
And all I can do is just hope that she's through and she wants to give
Now I wait for the day she will come up to me and say I love you
Then I'll break down and cry, then I will laugh at the sky
And I will know it's true

The dignified lady that makes me so crazy
That magical lady that makes me so hazy
The beautiful lady that makes me so crazy at home

Good Evening Madam


Good evening madam you take me by surprise
'Cause it's been a long time since I've looked into your eyes
Good evening madam and where would you like to go
To the bottom of the ocean or up into the mountain snow
I'll take you places that you have never been
Places in the world that few men have ever seen
'Cause now that you're with me I do believe we can begin again
Keepin' on living and knowing that there is no end

Good evening are you living in a state of grace?

And now that I leave you, you know where I will be
And I can only hope that one day we'll be free
May God be with you in everything you may intend
Keepin' on living and knowing that thee is no end

Lament Pour L'Enfant Mort


All I wanted was to hear him say
Will you tell me why there's light in the day?
Will you bring me to the why of things?
Will you tell me why the bumblebee stings?
To watch him grow into a man if he can
He never saw the people laughing gay
He never felt the way that man betrays
He never saw the countless stars above
He never felt what it is to love
He never smiled inside of him
He never climbed up to the highest limb
He never felt the strength of God inside
He never came into our lives
The child has died
And it would have been a little girl

I would have given her the whole wide world
She would have taken all her mother's grace
And all the beauty that is in her face
And all the fire that's in her eyes
The child has died

And we who live 'tween sea and sky
We laugh at life and then it makes us cry
We hold ourselves in high esteem
We're not as fine as we may seem
We'll never match the flower's bloom
We'll never stop the waning moon
But if we don't believe in love
Then we can say good-bye
For we will die
But life goes on all its days
And we may separate and go our ways
We have to learn to smile again
'Cause if you don't it is the very end
We have the love inside
It's hard to hide
The months have passed and it's still hard to be
We have to get back to that harmony
Accept the things we cannot change
And realize that life is strange
And love again with all our heart
Or be alone and walk into the dark
We musn't let our minds take us away, we have to learn what is the way

Julia's Letters


Julia writes me letters
Julia writes of life
Julia's joy cuts through her words like a surgeon's gleaming knife
Julia's got two babies
And another one is on the way
She is another one that works so hard just to keep on from day to day
Julia's got a new old house
It's bigger than the one before
James is working in a flour shop
He's learning how to make the dough
Julia tends the babies
Sometimes she is alone
She's just waiting for the day to end when her man'll be coming home
Julia is the power
Julia is the world
Julia keeps the harmony
And the next ought to be a girl
A little girl for the balance

A woman for a lonely man
Perfection in the form of a consciousness and a presence for an empty land
And Julia tries
And Julia cries
Julia writes me of her hopes inside
And Julia seems
To hold her dreams
Till they are real
Enough to feel
And when they come
They're like the sun
The warmth and light
And all is right

Chorus:
Oh Julia, James....Jesus, and Joaquin

Motes Of Dust


Motes of dust fly through the air they're dancing in his vacant stare
The hollows in his cheeks are haunted shadows
And down below the sea is strong, the wind it whips itself a froth
A storm is coming on, let's hope it passes
But storms will come with squalling rain and lightning hurled in screaming pain
The night becomes like mind left standing helpless
But thunder dies away in time to leave the silence so sublime
And once again the need for light is urgent

Though even in the center stage
A paler light doth he make rage
Than those who live their lives in poorest splendor
And diamonds yet festoon the trees
If you but have the eyes to see
To share it with the ones that you are loving
To cast your force into the land in hopes that you can make a plan
To live, let others live and not regret it
And love is peace and God is war
You've seen it all go down before
And more's the shame to stand by while it's happening
For we are like the storms at sea
A moment's life like lightning be
Ourselves our only slaves
And only masters

Ease Your Mind


Ease your mind
And leave your troubled heart behind you
Take your time
And I love you
Ease your mind
And leave your cares and the world behind you
Life can be unkind
And I love you
We're living now
Our life begins
You know you're always living in my mind
And I love you
Ease your mind
And I love you
Ease your mind
And I love you



Of Love


Of love, all that's required is your moment of time
To feel yourself fly
Of love, filling your days with its magical ways
The ultimate phase
Of love, speaking in words that will never be heard
They're only inferred
Of love

Of love, taking your heart to the farthest of stars
Forget about Mars
Of love, you are as free as the wind on the sea
And that's how to be
In love, with the sun in the sky, as it pierces your eye
You let yourself fly
In love

Taking you out of the arms of despair, as light as the air
Of love
Taking your mind to the heights of sublime, there is no more time
Of love, you are as free as the wind on the sea
And that's how to be
In love, in love, in love!

It Takes No Time


It takes no time to know when one is lonely
It takes no time to know when you're not home,
It takes no time to know that you're not answering your phone to me
It takes no time to know that you're not home
It takes no fool to know when love is over
It takes no fool to know that you don't care
It takes no fool to know that it's beyond repair now
And baby I ain't no fool, you know I really cared

Takin' my time gettin' over your lovin'
And I'