We were talking about the space between us all
And the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion
Never glimpse the truth, then it's far too late, when they pass away
We were talking about the love we all could share
When we find it, to try our best to hold it there with our love
With our love, we could save the world, if they only knew
Try to realise it's all within yourself
No one else can make you change
And to see you're really only very small
And life flows on within you and without you
We were talking about the love that's gone so cold
And the people who gain the world and lose their soul
They don't know, they can't see, are you one of them?
When you've seen beyond yourself then you may find
Peace of mind is waiting there
And the time will come when you see we're all one
One two three four
I was a wing in Heaven blue
Soared over the ocean, soared over Spain
And I was free needed nobody
It was beautiful, it was beautiful
I was a pawn didn't have a move
Didn't have nowhere that I could go
But I was free I needed nobody
It was beautiful, it was beautiful
And if there's one thing
Could do for you
You'd be a wing in Heaven blue
I was a vision in another eye
And they saw nothing, no future at all
Yet I was free I needed nobody
It was beautiful, it was beautiful
And if there's one thing
Could do for you
You'd be a wing in Heaven blue
And if there's one thing
Could do for you
You'd be a wing in Heaven blue
And if there's one thing
Could do for you
In a room in Lebanon
They silently slept
They were dreamin' crazy dreams
In foreign alphabet
Lucky young boys
Cross on the main
The driver was approachin'
The American zone
The wavin' of hands
The tiniest train
They never dreamed
They'd never wake again
Voice of the Swarm
We follow we fall
Kneel for priests
Some wail at walls
Flag on a match head
God or the law
And they'll all go together
Where duty calls
United children
Child of Iran
Parallel prayers
Baseball Koran
I'll protect Mama
I'll lie awake
I'll die for Allah
In a holy war
I'll be a ranger
I'll guard the streams
I'll be a soldier
A sleepin' marine
Voice of the Swarm
We follow we fall
Kneel for priests
Some wail at walls
Flag on a match head
God or the law
And they'll all go together
Where duty calls
In the heart of the ancient
Ali smiles
In the soul of the desert
The sun blooms
Awake
Into the glare of all out little wars
Who pray to return to salute
The coming and dying of the moon
Oh sleeping sun
Assassin in prayer
Laid a compass deep
Exploding dawn
And himself as well
Their eyes for his eyes
Their breath for his breath
All to his end
And a room in Lebanon
Dust of scenes
Erase and blend
May the blanket of kings
Cover them and him
Voice of the Swarm
We follow we fall
Kneel for priests
Some wail at walls
Flag on a match head
God or the law
And they'll all go together
Where duty calls
Forgive them Father
They know not what they do
From the vast portals
Of their consciousness
They're calling to you
Room in Lebanon
Hi, hi, I was running after you for a long time
I, I was watching you for, actually, I've watched you for a long time
I like to watch you when you're walking back and forth on the beach
And the way you, the way your cloth looks, I like
I like to see the edges, the bottom of it get all wet
When you're walking near the water there
It's real nice to talk to you, I didn't
I, I, I, I, I, how are you? how are you?
I saw, I saw you from your balcony window and
And you were standing there, waving at everybody
It was really great because there was about a billion people there
But when I was waving to you, the way your face was, it was so
The way your face was, it made me feel exactly like we're
It's not that you were just waving to me
But that we were we were waving to each other
Really it was really wonderful, I really felt happy, It really made me happy
And I, I just wanted to thank you, because, you, you really, really
You made me, you made me feel good and oh I, it's nothing
I, I, well I'm just clumsy, yeah, no, it's just a band-aid, no, it's okay
Oh no, I'm always doing something's always happening to me
Yeah, well, I'll be seein' ya, goodbye, bye
Wave thou art pretty
Wave thou art high
Wave thou are music
Wave thou are white
Oh, Albino
Oh, Albino
Wave thou art high
Wave thou art pretty
Wave to the city
Wave
I was down in Georgia nothing was as real
As the street beneath my feet descending into air
The cauldron was a bubbling, the flesh was lean
And the women moved forward like piranhas in a stream
They spread themselves before me an offering so sweet
And they beckoned and they beckoned come on darling eat
Eat the summer cannibals, eat eat eat
You eat the summer cannibals, eat eat eat
They circled around me natives in a ring
And I saw their souls a-withering like snakes in chains
And they wrapped themselves around me, what a treat
And they rattled their tales hissin' come on let's eat
Eat the summer cannibals, eat eat eat
You eat the summer cannibals, eat eat eat
I felt a rising in my throat the girls a-saying grace
And the air, the viscous air pressed against my face
And it all got too damn much for me just got too damn rough
And I pushed away my plate and said boys I've had enough
And I laid upon the table another piece of meat
And I opened up my veins to them and said come on eat
Eat the summer cannibals, eat eat eat
You eat the summer cannibals, eat eat eat
You eat the summer cannibals, eat eat eat
You eat the summer cannibals, eat eat eat
'Cause I was down in Georgia nothing was as real
As the street beneath my feet descending into hell
So eat eat eat
You eat eat eat
You eat eat eat
Well, the clock says it's time to close now
I guess I'd better go now
I'd really like to stay here all night
The cars crawl past all stuffed with eyes
Street lights share their hollow glow
Your brain seems bruised with numb surprise
Still one place to go
Still one place to go
Let me sleep all night in your soul kitchen
Warm my mind near your gentle stove
Turn me out and I'll wander baby
Stumblin' in the neon groves
Well, your fingers weave quick minarets
Speak in secret alphabets
I light another cigarette
Learn to forget, learn to forget
Learn to forget, learn to forget
Let me sleep all night in your soul kitchen
Warm my mind near your gentle stove
Turn me out and I'll wander baby
Stumblin' in the neon groves
Well the clock says it's time to close now
I know I have to go now
I really want to stay here
I feel upset
Let's do some celebrating
Come on honey
Don't hesitate now
Needed you, you withdrew
I was so forsaken
Ah, but now the tables have turned, my move
I believe I'll be taking my revenge
Sweet revenge
I thought you were some perfect read-out
Some digital delay had obscured
And it secured phased my view
Of the wicked hand you played
Ah, the sands and hands of time have run out
Run out, ah you better face it
Ah, this thing's run amok, this luck
I do know how to replace it with revenge
Oh, sweet revenge
I gave you a wristwatch, baby
You wouldn't even give me the time of day
You want to know what makes me tick
Now it's me that's got precious little to say
For the ghosts of our love have dried, have died
There's no use faking it
Ah, the spirits gonna close in on you tonight
High time, I was taking my revenge
Sweet revenge
Revenge
Revenge
All the gold and silver
Couldn't measure up my love for you, it's so immaterial
I won't wait around if I was you you
[Incomprehensible] nobody gets anything
Nobody gets nothing
No [Incomprehensible], don't leave me no space in your little boat
You ain't gonna need no, you ain't gonna need no little boat
You are living on my time, my dear
Revenge
Sweet revenge
Sixteen and time to pay off
I get this job in a piss factory inspecting pipe
Forty hours, thirty-six dollars a week
But it's a paycheck, Jack
So hot in here, hot like Sahara
You could faint from the heat
But these bitches are just too lame to understand
Too goddamned grateful to get this job
To know they're getting screwed up the ass
All these women, they got no teeth or gum or cranium
And the way they suck hot sausage
But me, well, I wasn't sayin' too much neither
I was moral school girl, hard-working asshole
I figured I was speedo motorcycle
I had to earn my dough, had to earn my dough
But no, you gotta, you gotta relate, babe
You gotta find the rhythm within
Floor boss slides up to me and he says
"Hey sister, you're just movin' too fast
You're screwin' up the quota
You're doin' your piece work too fast"
"Now you get off your mustang, Sally
You ain't goin' nowhere, you ain't goin' nowhere"
I layed back, I get my nerve up, I take a swig of Romilar
And walk up to hot shit Dot Hook and I say
"Hey, hey sister, it don't matter whether I do labor fast or slow
There's always more labor after
She's real Catholic, see, she fingers her cross and she says
There is one reason, there is one reason"
"You do it my way or I push your face in
We knee you in the John
If you don't get off your get off your mustang, Sally
If you don't shake it up, baby, shake it up, baby"
Twist and shout, oh what I could will a radio here
James Brown singing 'I Lost Someone'
Or the Jesters and the Paragons and Georgie Woods
The guy with the goods and Guided Missiles
But no, I got nothin', no diversion, no window
Nothing here but a porthole in the plaster, in the plaster
Where I look down, look at Sweet Theresa's convent
All those nurses, all those nuns scattin' 'round
With their bloom hoods like cats in mourning
Oh to me, they, you know
To me they look pretty damn free down there
Down there, not having to press those smooth
Not having to smooth those hands against hot steel
Not having to worry about the in-speed
The dogma of in-speed of labor
Oh then they put damn free down there
The way they smell, the way they smell
And here I gotta be up here smellin' Dot Hook's midwife sweat
I would rather smell the way boys smell
Oh, those schoolboys, way their legs flap
Under the desk in the study hall
That odor rising roses and ammonia
And way their dicks droop like lilacs
Or the way they smell that forbidden acrid smell
But no, I gotta, I gotta put clammy lady in my nostril
Her against the wheel, me against the wheel
Oh, the in-speed-o, slow motion inspection is drivin' me insane
In steel next to Dot Hook, oh, we may look the same
Shoulder to shoulder sweatin' 110 degrees
But I will never faint, I will never faint
They laugh and they expect me to faint but I will never faint
I refuse to lose, I refuse to fall down
Because you see it's the monotony that's got to me
Every afternoon like the last one
Every afternoon like a rerun next to Dot Hook
And yeah, we look the same
Both pumpin' steel, both sweatin'
But you know she got nothin' to hide
And I got something to hide here called desire
I got something to hide here called desire
And I will get out of here
You know the fiery potion is just about to come
In my nose is the taste of sugar
And I got nothin' to hide here, save desire
And I'm gonna go, I'm gonna get out of here
I'm gonna get out of here, I'm gonna get on that train
And I'm gonna go on that train and go to New York City
I'm gonna be somebody
I'm getting, gonna get on that train
Go to New York City
I'm gonna be so big, I'm gonna be a big star and I will never return
Never return, no, never return, to burn at this piss factory
Yesterday I saw you standing there
With your hand against the pane
Looking out the window at the rain
And I wanted to tell you that your tears were not in vain
But I guess we both knew we'd never be the same
Never be the same
Why must we hide all these feelings inside?
Lions and lambs shall abide
Maybe one day we'll be strong enough to build it back again
Build the peaceable kingdom back again
Build it back again
Why must we hide all these feelings inside?
Lions and lambs shall abide
Maybe one day we'll be strong enough to build it back again
Build the peaceable kingdom back again
Maybe one day we'll be strong enough to build it back again
Build the peaceable kingdom, build it back again
Listen my children and you shall hear
The sound of your own steps
The sound of your hereafter
Memory awaits and turns to greet you
Draping its banner across your wrists
Wake up arms
Delicate feet
For as one to march the streets
Each alone, each part of another
Your steps shall ring
Shall raise the cloud
And they that will hear will hear
Will hear voice of the one
And the one and the one
As it has never been uttered before
For something greater yet to come
Then the hour of the prophets
And their great cities
For the people of Ninevah
Fell to their knees
Heeding the cry of Jonah
United
Covering themselves in sackcloth and ashes
And called to their god
And all their hearts were as one heart.
And all their voices were as one voice.
God heard them and his mind was moved.
Yet something greater will come to pass.
And who will call?
And what will they call?
Will they call to God?
The air?
The fowl?
It will not matter, if the call is true.
They shall call and this is known.
One voice and each another
Shall enter the dead, the living flower,
Enter forms that we know not.
To be felt by sea,
By air,
By earth
And shall be an elemental pledge.
This is our birthright.
This is our charge.
And we have given over to others.
And they have
done
well
And the forests mourn.
The leaves fall.
Swaddling babes watch and wonder
As the fathers of our spirit nations
Dance in the street in celebration
As the mountains turn pale from
Their nuclear hand
And they have
done
well
Now my children
You must overturn the tables
Deliver the future from material rule
For only one rule should be considered
The eleventh commandment
To love one another
And this is our covenant across your wrist
This offering is yours
To adorn, adore
To bury
To burn
Upon a mound
To hail
To set away
It is merely a cloth,
Merely our colors,
Invested with the blood of the people
All their hopes and dreams.
Our flag
It has its excellence
Yet it is nothing
It shall not be a tyranny above us
Nor should god
Nor love
Nor nature
Yet we hold as our pleasure this tender honor
That we acknowledge the individual
And the common ground formed
And if our cloth be raised and lowered
Half mast
What does it tell us?
That an individual has passed
Is saluted
And mourned by his countrymen.
This ritual extends to us all.
For we are all the individual.
No unknown.
No insignificant one
Nor insignificant labor
Nor insignificant act of charity
Each has a story to be told and retold
Which shall be a glowing thread
In the fabric of Man
And the children shall march
And bring the colors forward
Investing within them
The redeeming blood
You say, hey
The state of the union
Is fine, fine, fine, fine, fine
I got the feelin' that you're
Lyin', lyin', lyin', lyin', lyin'
And you say the state of the union
Well it's fine fine fine, so it's fine fine fine
I think you're lyin', lyin', lyin'
I think you're lyin', lyin', lyin'
I think we need, I think we need
A new party
They say to me, they say what's the word
I say it's thunderbird
Why don't you fly, fly, fly, fly away hey
They say, they say uh, they say uh nothin'
They say hey tell me what's the world
I say it's thunderbird
You say it's thunderbird
Why don't you fly, fly, fly, fly away hey
And while you're at it, why don't you fertilize my lawn
Why don't you fertilize my lawn
With what's runnin' from your mouth
Runnin' from your mouth and uh
Hey listen here
We got, we got, we got uh to get off our ass or get burned
The world's troubles are a global concern
Does your child have fresh water to drink?
Wherever you are, wherever you are you're invited
To think about this
When in the course of human events
It becomes necessary, necessary
To take things in your own hands
To take things, to take the water from the well
And declare, tainted by greed
In house so we clean it up
Clean our house, our inner house
Our outer house, in hey, hey
By the way the event of the human event
Is the party of the century and you're all invited
It's where you are, wherever you are
'Cause this party is for everyone
And the price of admission
Last night in Konya a voice carried me
To the pulpit of the arrow – did you hear it too?
The oracle was written on a silver leaf
Last night I read the words – did you read them too?
Aah –
Precious heart, precious seed, precious life conceived
In the ring of fire, in the sleep of peace
Nothing stops desire for the human beat
Last night was a rapture in the mosaic sky
Dropping shards of love, dropping shards of love
Aah-
Precious heart, precious seed, precious life conceived
In the ring of fire, in the sleep of peace
Nothing stops desire for the human beat
I hunger for the cooling flame, I hunger for the infinite game
Last night in Konya a voice carried me
To the pulpit of the arrow – did you hear it too?
The oracle was written on a silver leaf
Last night I read the words – did you read them too?
Devour me, yeah devour me
Oh Precious heart, oh precious seed, oh precious life conceived
In a ring of fire, in a sleep of peace
Little emerald bird
Wants to fly away
If I cup my hand
Could I make him stay?
Little emerald soul
Little emerald eye
Little emerald soul
Must you say goodbye?
All the things that we pursue
All that we dream
Are composed as nature knew
In a feather green
Little emerald bird
As you light afar
It is true I heard
God is where you are
Little emerald soul
Little emerald eye
Little emerald bird
The wall is high, the black barn
The babe in my arms, in her swaddling clothes
And I know soon that the sky will split
And the planets will shift
Balls of jade will drop and existence will stop
Little sister, the sky is falling
I don't mind, I don't mind
Little sister, the fates are calling on you
Ah, here I stand again in this old 'lectric whirlwind
The sea rushes up my knees like flame
And I feel like just some misplaced, Joan of Arc
And the cause is you lookin' up at me
Oh baby, I remember when you were born
It was dawn and the storm settled in my belly
And I rolled in the grass and I spit out the gas
And I lit a match and the void went flash
And the sky split and the planets hit
Balls of jade dropped and existence stopped
Stopped, stop, stop
Little sister, the sky is falling
I don't mind, I don't mind
Little sister, the fates are calling on you
I was goin' crazy, so crazy, I knew
I could break through with you
So, with one hand I rocked you
And with one heart I reached for you
I knew you're a youth, was for the takin', fire on a mental plane
So, I ran through the fields as the bats with their baby vein faces
Burst from the barn and flames in a violet, violent sky
And I fell on my knees and pressed you against me
You're soul was like a network of spittle
Like glass balls movin' in like cold streams of logic
And I prayed as that lightning attacked
That something will make it go crack
Something will make it go crack
Something will make it go crack
Something will make it go crack
The palm trees fall into the sea
It doesn't matter much to me
As long as you're safe, Kimberly
And I can gaze deep into your starry eyes, baby
Looking deep in your eyes, baby
Looking deep in your eyes, baby
Looking deep in your eyes, baby
Into your starry eyes, oh
Oh, oh, in your starry eyes, baby
Looking deep in your eyes, baby
Looking deep in your eyes, oh oh
Oh, oh, looking deep in your eyes, baby
In your starry eyes, baby
Sun is rising on the water
Light is dancing again
Let's go under where the sun beams
Let's go under my friend
Are we sleeping, are we dreaming
Are we dancing again
Is it heaven, crack it open
And we'll slide down its stream
We can hold on, I'm sure
To the sea's foaming mane
It will serve us, we'll surface
And we'll plunge back again
Sun is rising on the water
Light is dancing like a flame
There's no burning where the sun beams
Oh, it's such a lovely game
Does the sea dream, I'm sure
We are here, we attend
We are bells on the shore
As the tolling suspends
Who will decide the shape of things
The shift of being, who will perceive when life is new
Shall we divide and become another
Who is due for gift upon gift
Who will decide
Shall we swim over and over
The curve of a wing
It's destination ever changing
Sun is rising on the water
Light is dancing like a flame
Let's go waltzing on the water
Let's go under again
Let's go under
Going under
Oh, mountain of our eyes, what do you see?
The girl with the omen dice, bowing to thee
Mortal soldiers clear the path, shake the omen tree
Oh, mountain of our eyes, oh plea
Oh, hear our plea
See the five fingers laid, like a hand in blue
In sideways of the pure
Together glimpse of you, together glimpse of you
The great lake, the white shoot
Your white mind, mind
Whoa, mountain of mine
Whoa, Fuji-san, for a planning
Into the blue, into the great mist
Into the bright, into your light
Oh, mountain of our eyes, we're calling you
Will you hear our cries, what will the poor boy do?
What will the poor girl do?
We're coming to you
Whoa, Fuji-san
Whoa, mountain of our eyes, what do you see?
The girl with the omen dice, shaking the tree
It's been a hard time
And when it rains it rains on me
The sky just opens
And when it rains it pours
I walk alone assaulted it seems
By tears from heaven
And darling I can't help
Thinking those tears are yours
Our wild love came from above
And wilder still is the wind that howls
Like a voice that knows it's gone
'Cause darling you died and well I cried
But I'll get by
Salute our love
And send you a smile
And move on
So darling farewell all will be well
And then all will be fine
The children will rise
Strong and happy be sure
'Cause your love flows
And the corn still grows
And God only knows we're only given
As much as the heart can endure
But I don't know why
But when it rains it rains on me
The sky just opens
And when it rains it pours
But I look up and a rainbow appears
Like a smile from heaven
And darling I can't help thinking
By patti smith
Come back little sheba
I hear them calling
Open your ears
Awake from thy sleep
High above
The stars are falling
Open your arms
And you shall receive
The lights of the city
So bold and flashing
All of it's riches
Imparted to thee
Robes of saffron
Robes of standing
A road of crimson
Spread at your feet
Your robes of standing
Your robes of saffron
Your road of crimson
All pleasing to me
But close your lights
Close your gates
I must arise
My flock awaits
Farewell little sheba
I hear them a'calling
Here is your staff
Tend to thy sheep
Good wishes be with you
If that be your calling
Farewell little sheba
Listen to my story
Got two tales to tell
One of fallen glory
One of vanity
The world's roof was raging
But we were looking fine
'Cause we built that thing and it grew wings
In 1959
Wisdom was a teapot
Pouring from above
Desolation angels
Served it up with love
Igniting like every form of light
Then moved by bold design
Slid in that thing and it grew wings
In 1959
It was blood shining in the sun
First, freedom
Speeding the American claim
Freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom
China was the tempest
Madness overflowed
Lama was a young man
And watched his world in flames
Taking glory down by the edge of clouds
It was a crying shame
Another lost horizon
Tibet the fallen star
Wisdom and compassion crushed
In the land of Shangri-La
But in the land of the Impala
Honey, well, we were lookin' fine
'Cause we built that thing and it grew wings
In 1959
'Cause we built that thing and it grew wings
In 1959
It was the best of times, it's the worst of times
In 1959, 1959, 1959, 1959, 1959, 1959
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
Oh I see you stare spi-pi-pi-pi-pi-pi (spiraling) up there and ho,
Oh, into the center of my brain, and baby come, baby go
And free the hurricane, oh, I go into the center of the airplane
Baby gotta move to the center of my pain
And my heart starts pumping, my fists start pumping
Upset, total abandon, you know I love you so
Total abandon, ooh, walla walla walla,
Oh I see you stare spi-pi-pi-pi-pi-pi (spiraling) up there and ho,
Oh, into the center of my brain and baby come, baby go
And free the hurricane, oh I go into the center of the airplane,
Baby gotta box in the center of the ring
And my heart starts pumping, my fists start pumping
Upset, total abandon, you know I love you so.
Total abandon, ooh wah
Oh I go into the center of the airplane,
Baby gotta go to the center of my brain
And my heart starts pumping, my fists start pumping,
Got no recollection of my past reflection,
So I'm free to move in the resurrection.
My heart starts pumping, my fists start pumping,
My heart pumping, my heart pumping, my heart pumping
Coming in the airport, coming in the sea,
Coming in the garden, got a conscious stream,
Coming in a washroom, coming on a plane,
Coming in a force field, coming in my brain
And my heart, my heart,
Total abandon, total abandon, total abandon,
Total abandon, total abandon, total abandon,
Total abandon
Oh I go into the center of the airplane,
Baby gotta move to the center of my brain,
My heart Oh
In the medieval night
'Twas love's design
And the sky was open
like a Valentine
All the lacy lights
Where wishes fall
And like Shakespeare's child
I wished on them all
Ahh to be your destiny
was all that I pursued
I could see the sights
from the lofty heights
But my heart obscured the view
I was looking for you
Looking for you
What could I do
I was looking for you
Along the black river
The ambassador jewels
And you were reflected
in all that I saw
In the towers of gold
In the wheel and wing
Gripping my senses
like an ancient claim
Many is the time I knelt in the light
appealing to all that I know
Guide my eyes and steps
that I may find love true
Refrain
Come on darlin'
All that hearts desire
was written before us
In the medieval fire
It was love's design
In the glittering stars
Like Shakespeare's child
To be where you are
From the Portobello Road
To the Port of Marseilles
Where the dervish turns
Where the wild goats play
Looking for you
I was
Easter Sunday, we were walking
Easter Sunday, we were talking
Isabel, my little one, take my hand
Time has come
Isabella, all is glowing
Isabella, all is knowing
And my heart, Isabella
And my head, Isabella
Frederick and Vitalie
Savior dwells inside of thee
Oh, the path leads to the sun
Brother, sister, time has come
Isabella, all is glowing
Isabella, all is knowing
Isabella, we are dying
Isabella, we are rising
I am the spring, the holy ground
The endless seed of mystery
The thorn, the veil, the face of grace
Brazen image, the thief of sleep
The ambassador of dreams, Prince of peace
I am the sword, the wound, the stain
Scorned, transfigured child of Cain
I rend, I end, I return
Again, I am the salt, the bitter laugh
I am the gas in a womb of light, the evening star
The ball of sight that leads that sheds the tears of Christ
Dying and drying as I rise tonight
(Isabella, we are rising)
Isabella, we are rising
Isabella, we are rising
Isabella, we are rising
Isabella, we are rising
Isabella, we are rising
Isabella, we are rising
Isabella, we are rising
Isabella, we are rising
Isabella, we are rising
If you can just get your mind together
then come across to me
We'll hold hands an' then we'll watch the sun rise
from the bottom of the sea
But first
Are You Experienced?
Ah! Have you ever been experienced?
Well, I have
I know, I know
you'll probably scream n' cry
That your little world won't let go
But who in your measly little world are trying to prove that
You're made out of gold and -a can't be sold
So-er, Are You Experienced?
Ah! Have you ever been experienced?
Well, I have
Ah, let me prove it to you
I think they're calling our names
Maybe now you can't hear them, but you will
if you just take hold of my hand
Ah! But Are You Experienced?
Suffer not your neighbor's affliction
Suffer not your neighbor's paralysis
But extend your hand, extend your hand
Lest you vanish in the city and be but a trace
Just a vanished ghost and your legacy
All the things you knew, science, mathematics, thought
Severely weakened like irrigation systems
In the tired veins forming from the Tigris and Euphrates
In the realm of peace, all the world revolved
All the world revolved around a perfect circle
City of Baghdad, city of scholars
Empirical humble center of the world
City in ashes, city of Baghdad
City of Baghdad, abrasive aloof
Oh, in Mesopotamia aloofness ran deep
Deep in the veins of the great rivers
That form the base of Eden
And the tree the tree of knowledge
Held up its arms to the sky
All the branches of knowledge
All the branches of knowledge, cradling, cradling
Civilization in the realm of peace
All the world revolved around a perfect circle
Oh, Baghdad, center of the world
City of ashes with its great mosques
Erupting from the mouth of God, rising from the ashes
Like a speckled bird, splayed against the mosaic sky
Oh, clouds around, we created the zero
But we mean nothing to you, you would believe
That we are just some mystical tale
We are just a swollen belly that gave birth to Sindbad
Scheherazade, we gave birth
Oh, oh, to the zero, the perfect number
We invented the zero and we mean nothing to you
Our children run through the streets
And you sent your flames, your shooting stars
Shock and awe, shock and awe
Like some, some imagined warrior production
Twenty-first century, no chivalry involved
No Bushido
Oh, the code of the West long gone
Never been, where does it lie?
You came, you came through the West
Annihilated a people and you come to us
But we are older than you, you come, you wanna
You wanna come and rob the cradle
Of civilization and you read, yet you read
You read genesis, you read of the tree
You read of the tree beget by God
That raised its branches into the sky
Every branch of knowledge
Of the cradle of civilization
Of the banks of the Tigris and the Euphrates
Oh, in Mesopotamia aloofness ran deep
The face of Eve turning, what sky did she see
What garden beneath her feet, the one you drill
You drill pulling the blood of the earth
Little droplets of oil for bracelets, little jewels
Sapphires, you make bracelets
Round your own world, we are weeping tears
Rubies, we offer them to you
We are just your Arabian nightmare
We invented the zero but we mean nothing to you
Your Arabian nightmare
City of stars, city of scholarship
Science city of ideas, city of light, city
City of ashes that the great Caliph
Walked through his naked feet formed a circle
And they built a city, a perfect city of Baghdad
In the realm of peace and all the world revolved
And they invented and they mean nothing to you
Nothing to you, nothing
Go to sleep, go to sleep my child
Go to sleep and I'll sing you a lullaby
A lullaby for our city, a lullaby of Baghdad
Go to sleep, sleep my child
Sleep, sleep, run, run
You sent your lights, your bombs
You sent them down on our city, shock and awe
Like some crazy TV show
They're robbing the cradle of civilization
They're robbing the cradle of civilization
They're robbing the cradle of civilization
Suffer not the paralysis of your neighbor
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small,
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all.
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall.
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall,
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call.
Call Alice
When she was just small.
When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low.
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know.
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead,
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said:
There was a wicked messenger
From Eli he did come,
With a mind that multiplied
The smallest matter.
When questioned who had sent for him,
He answered with his thumb,
For his tongue it could not speak, but only flatter.
He stayed behind the assembly hall,
It was there he made his bed,
Oftentimes he could be seen returning.
Until one day he just appeared
With a note in his hand which read,
"The soles of my feet, I swear they're burning."
Oh, the leaves began to fallin'
And the seas began to part,
And the people that confronted him were many.
And he was told but these few words,
Which opened up his heart,
"If ye cannot bring good news, then don't bring any."
If you believe
All your hope is gone
Down the drain
Of your humankind
The time has arrived
You'll be waitin' here as I was
In a snow white shroud
Waitin' underground
There by the ridge
Be a gathering beneath the pilgrim moon
Where we shall await
The beat of your feet
Hammering the earth
Where the great ones tremble
In their snow white shrouds
Waitin' underground
If you seek the kingdom come, come along
Waitin' by the ridge
There'll be a gatherin'
Beneath the pilgrim moon
Where the railroad thunders
Oh, where we shall await
The beat of your feet
Hammering the earth
And as the earth resounds
Where the great ones tremble
And your humankind becomes as one
And then we will arise
In our snow white shrouds
Ohh, when we'll be as one
Ohh, but until that day
Ohh, we will just await
In our snow white shrouds
Waitin' underground
In our snow white shrouds
Waitin' underground
Waitin' underground
Waitin' underground
Little blue dreamer go to sleep
Let's close our eyes and call the deep
Slumbering land that just begins
When day is done and little dreamers spin
First take my hand then let it go
Little blue boy, you're on your own
Little blue wings as those feet fly
Little blue shoes that walk across the sky
May your path be your own
But I'm with you
And each day you'll grow
He'll be there too
And someday, you go
We'll follow you
As you go, as you go
Little blue star that offers light
Little blue bird that offers flight
Little blue path where those feet fall
Little blue dreamer won't you dream it all
May your path be your own
But I'm with you
And each day you'll grow
He'll be there too
And someday, you go
We'll follow you
As you go, as you go
And in your travels you will see
Warrior wings remember Daddy
And if a mama bird you see
Folding her wings will you remember me
As you go, as you go
Common fortune seeks us all
And slips our binding rings
We'll turn our heads and make us reel
We'll bare our arms as wings
Before our feet a feather drifts
Beyond us it will fall
'Cause time will bid and make us rise
Make ravens of us all
My love, he breathed the air of kings
Yet fell beneath his luck
And in his heart a yearning yet
Before his time, time shook
All the gifts that God had given
Owned by fate denied
Gone to where all treasures laid
And where the raven flies
Oh, there are places I agree
Where I'm yet to roam
The Egyptian field, the Arctic Sea
Where shadows haunt and moan
But none but sky I have to go
Should I return to thee
Gone to where the feather flies to eternity
But for a time I got more time till I a raven be
'Cause time will bid and make us rise
Make ravens of us all
And time will bid and make us fly
Make ravens of us all
And time will bid and make us fly
In the garden of consciousness
Lies in fertile mind, the dormant seed
Blooming into charity
Conscience breathes a sigh of relief
Confessions of sleep
Unfolding peace
Moved by love to serve
We celebrate all merit in life
Confessions of sleep
The awakening seed
As we extend
According to need
And you will hear the call
All action great and small
Received joyfully
All action great and small
Received joyfully
Heaven abounds
Let love resound
Charity, charity
And you will hear the call
All action great and small
Received joyfully
If he be mute
Give him a bell
If he be blind, an eye
If he be down, a hand
Lift up your voice
Lift up your voice
Give of your mind, one mind
Give of your heart, one heart
Well, I've got to run to keep from hiding,
And I'm bound to keep on riding.
And I've got one more silver dollar,
But I'm not gonna let them catch me, no,
Not gonna let 'em catch the midnight rider.
And I don't own the clothes I'm wearing,
And the road goes on forever,
And I've got one more silver dollar,
But I'm not gonna let them catch me, no
Not gonna let 'em catch the midnight rider.
And I've gone by the point of caring,
Some old bed I'll soon be sharing,
And I've got one more silver dollar,
Repeat three times and fade
But I'm not gonna let 'em catch me, no
The boy was in the hallway drinking a glass of tea
From the other end of the hallway a rhythm was generating
Another boy was sliding up the hallway
He merged perfectly with the hallway,
He merged perfectly, the mirror in the hallway
The boy looked at johnny, johnny wanted to run,
But the movie kept moving as planned
The boy took johnny, he pushed him against the locker,
He drove it in, he drove it home, he drove it deep in johnny
The boy disappeared, johnny fell on his knees,
Started crashing his head against the locker,
Started crashing his head against the locker,
Started laughing hysterically
When suddenly johnny gets the feeling he's being surrounded by
Horses, horses, horses, horses
Coming in in all directions
White shining silver studs with their nose in flames,
He saw horses, horses, horses, horses, horses, horses, horses, horses.
Do you know how to pony like bony maroney
Do you know how to twist, well it goes like this, it goes like this
Baby mash potato, do the alligator, do the alligator
And you twist the twister like your baby sister
I want your baby sister, give me your baby sister, dig your baby sister
Rise up on her knees, do the sweet pea, do the sweet pee pee,
Roll down on her back, got to lose control, got to lose control,
Got to lose control and then you take control,
Then you're rolled down on your back and you like it like that,
Like it like that, like it like that, like it like that,
Then you do the watusi, yeah do the watusi
Life is filled with holes, johnny's laying there, his sperm coffin
Angel looks down at him and says, oh, pretty boy,
Can't you show me nothing but surrender ?
Johnny gets up, takes off his leather jacket,
Taped to his chest there's the answer,
You got pen knives and jack knives and
Switchblades preferred, switchblades preferred
Then he cries, then he screams, saying
Life is full of pain, I'm cruisin' through my brain
And I fill my nose with snow and go rimbaud,
Go rimbaud, go rimbaud,
And go johnny go, and do the watusi, oh do the watusi
There's a little place, a place called space
It's a pretty little place, it's across the tracks,
Across the tracks and the name of the place is you like it like that,
You like it like that, you like it like that, you like it like that,
And the name of the band is the
Twistelettes, twistelettes, twistelettes, twistelettes,
Twistelettes, twistelettes, twistelettes, twistelettes
Baby calm down, better calm down,
In the night, in the eye of the forest
There's a mare black and shining with yellow hair,
I put my fingers through her silken hair and found a stair,
I didn't waste time, I just walked right up and saw that
Up there -- there is a sea
Up there -- there is a sea
Up there -- there is a sea
The sea's the possibility
There is no land but the land
(up there is just a sea of possibilities)
There is no sea but the sea
(up there is a wall of possibilities)
There is no keeper but the key
(up there there are several walls of possibilities)
Except for one who seizes possibilities, one who seizes possibilities.
(up there)
I seize the first possibility, is the sea around me
I was standing there with my legs spread like a sailor
(in a sea of possibilities) I felt his hand on my knee
(on the screen)
And I looked at johnny and handed him a branch of cold flame
(in the heart of man)
The waves were coming in like arabian stallions
Gradually lapping into sea horses
He picked up the blade and he pressed it against his smooth throat
(the spoon)
And let it deep in
(the veins)
Dip in to the sea, to the sea of possibilities
It started hardening
Dip in to the sea, to the sea of possibilities
It started hardening in my hand
And I felt the arrows of desire
I put my hand inside his cranium, oh we had such a brainiac-amour
But no more, no more, I gotta move from my mind to the area
(go rimbaud go rimbaud go rimbaud)
And go johnny go and do the watusi,
Yeah do the watusi, do the watusi ...
Shined open coiled snakes white and shiny twirling and encircling
Our lives are now entwined, we will fall yes we're together twining
Your nerves, your mane of the black shining horse
And my fingers all entwined through the air,
I could feel it, it was the hair going through my fingers,
(I feel it I feel it I feel it I feel it)
The hairs were like wires going through my body
I I that's how i
That's how i
I died
(at that tower of babel they knew what they were after)
(they knew what they were after)
[everything on the current] moved up
I tried to stop it, but it was too warm, too unbelievably smooth,
Like playing in the sea, in the sea of possibility, the possibility
Was a blade, a shiny blade, I hold the key to the sea of possibilities
There's no land but the land
Looked at my hands, and there's a red stream
That went streaming through the sands like fingers,
Like arteries, like fingers
(how much fits between the eyes of a horse? )
He lay, pressing it against his throat (your eyes)
He opened his throat (your eyes)
His vocal chords started shooting like (of a horse) mad pituitary glands
The scream he made (and my heart) was so high (my heart) pitched that nobody heard,
No one heard that cry,
No one heard (johnny) the butterfly flapping in his throat,
(his fingers)
Nobody heard, he was on that bed, it was like a sea of jelly,
And so he seized the first
(his vocal chords shot up)
(possibility)
(like mad pituitary glands)
It was a black tube, he felt himself disintegrate
(there is nothing happening at all)
And go inside the black tube, so when he looked out into the steep
Saw this sweet young thing (fender one)
Humping on the parking meter, leaning on the parking meter
In the sheets
There was a man
Dancing around
To the simple
Rock & roll
I was alone and content in my world
Dancing on air
You sent to me a message that said
I like your style
Will you come to the temple tonight
And dance for me there
I pledge to you all that you wish
The moon and the stars
Lo and beholden
Why don't you give it up
Lo and beholden Come on you know it's true
Lo and beholden
Oh I'm beholden to you
In the palace there was wild reverie
And the look in your eyes
As I dropped veil after veil
Was drunken desire
The dove calls and God notes it all
The naked truth
Here is my veil the seventh and last
It will cost you
Lo and beholden
Why don't you give it up
Lo and beholden
Come on you know it's true
Lo and beholden
Oh I'm beholden to you
The royal word has passed
The prophet's head is all I ask
For beauty and the naked truth
It will cost you
Lo and beholden
Why don't you give it up
Lo and beholden
Come on you know it's true
Lo and beholden
Oh I'm beholden to you
Ours is just another skin
Simply slips away
You can rise above it
It will shed easily
It all will come out fine
I've learned it line by line
One common wire
One silver thread
All that you desire
Rolls on ahead
Like a ship in a bottle
Held up to the sun
Sails ain't going nowhere
You can count everyone
Until it crashes unto the earth
Simply slips away
You can hide in the open
Or just disappear
It all will come out fine
I've learned it line by line
One common wire
One silver thread
All that you desire
Rolls on ahead
Ours is just a craving
And a twist of the wrist
Will undo the stopper
With abrupt tenderness
Die little sparrow
And awake singing
It all will come out fine
I've learned it line by line
One common wire
One silver thread
All that you desire
Hey there
Come and take a walk with me
Stroll into infinity
We'll stroll along until the dawn is gone
And ma-ma-midnight
Take it to the twilight
Just a little slice of light
Let's turn it off and on, off and on
Strolling, ain't it wonderful?
Into a light that lingers
On and on, on and on, hey
Oh, life
Just too great to sacrifice
Come on and have another slice
We'll take it all alone, all alone
Strolling, ain't it wonderful?
Into a light where life goes
On and on, on and on, hey
Life goes, ain't it wonderful?
Stars fall for we two
Bathed in a light of our
Oh, life
And take it to the twilight
Just do not slice of light
Let's turn it off and on, off and on
And no, no
Oh, life
Just too great to sacrifice
Come and have another slice
Oh, life goes on and on, on and on
(Turn around, turn around)
Long life, may you live a long life
(Turn around, turn around)
Long life, may you live a long life
(Turn around, turn around)
Long life, long life
Oh, a storm is threat'ning
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Ooh, see the fire is sweepin'
Our very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost your way
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
The floods is threat'ning
My very life today
Gimme, gimme shelter
Or I'm gonna fade away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
I tell you love, sister, it's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
We explore the men's room.
We don't give a shit.
Ladies' lost electricity;
take vows inside of it.
Desire to dance;
Too startled to try.
Wrap my legs 'round you,
starting to fly.
Let's explore
up there, up there, up there,
on the twenty-fifth floor.
Circle all around me,
coming for the kill, kill, kill
oh kill me baby
like a kamikaze
heading for a spill.
oh but it's all spilt milk to me.
Desire to dance;
Too startled to try.
Wrap my legs 'round you,
starting to fly.
Let's soar
up there, up there, up there,
on the twenty-fifth floor.
We do not eat
flower of creation.
We do not eat,
eat anything at all.
Love is, love was, love is a manifestation.
I'm waiting for a contact to call.
Love's war. Love's cruel.
Love's pretty, love's pretty cruel tonight.
I'm waiting here to refuel.
I'm gonna make contact tonight.
Love in my heart.
The night to exploit.
Twenty-five stories over Detroit,
and there's more
up there, up there, up there.
stoned in space. zeus. christ. it has always been rock and so it is and so it shall be. within the context of neo rock we must open up our eyes and seize and rend the veil of smoke which man calls order. pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.
the transformation of waste
the transformation of waste
the transformation of waste
the transformation of waste is perhaps the oldest pre-occupation of man. man being the chosen alloy, he must be reconnected¡ªvia shit, at all cost. inherent with(in) us is the dream of the task of the alchemist to create from the clay of man. and to re-create from excretion of man pure and then soft and then solid gold.
all must not be art. some art we must disintegrate.
positive (anarchy must exist.)
in background:
(i feel it swirling around me
i feel it feeling no pain
i'm waiting above for you baby
i know that I'll see you up there
i'm floating in a door backward
on boundaries over this world
i'm waiting above in the sky, dear
upon a [ ] ...)
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High on Rebellion
what i feel when i'm playing guitar is completely cold and crazy, like i don't owe nobody nothing and it's just a test just to see how far i can relax into the cold wave of a note. when everything hits just right (just and right) the note of nobility can go on forever. i never tire of the solitary E and i trust my guitar and i don't care about anything. sometimes i feel like i've broken through and i'm free and i could dig into eternity into eternity riding the wave and realm of the E. sometimes it's useless. here i am struggling and filled with dread¡ªafraid that i'll never squeeze enough graphite from my damaged cranium to inspire or asphyxiate any eyes grazing like hungry cows across the stage or page. inside of me i'm crazy i'm just crazy. inside i must continue. i see her, my stiff muse, jutting around round round round like a broken speeding statue. the colonial year is dead and the greeks too are finished. the face of alexander remains not only solely due to sculpture but through the power and foresig
ht and magnetism of alexander himself. the artist must maintain his swagger. he must he must he must be intoxicated by ritual as well as result. look at me i am laughing. i am laughing. i am lapping cocaine from the hard brown palm of the bouncer. and i trust my guitar. therefore we black out together. therefore i would run through scum. and scum is just ahead, ah we see it, but we just laugh. we're ascending through the hollow mountain. we are peeking. we are laughing. we are kneeling. we are laughing. we are radiating at last. this rebellion is just a gas our gas a gas that we pass.
I just don't know what to do tonight
My head is aching as I drink and breathe
Memory falls like cream in my bones, moving on my own
There must be something I can dream tonight
The air is filled with the moves of you
All the fire is frozen yet still I have the will
Trumpets, violins, I hear them in the distance
And my skin emits a ray, but I think it's sad, it's much too bad
Na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na
I'm with you always, you're ever on my mind
In a light to last, a whole life through
Each way I turn, the sense of you
Surrounds in every step I take in all I do
Your thoughts your schemes
Captivate my dreams
Everlasting, ever new
Sea returns to sea
And sky to sky
In a life of dream am I
When I'm with you
Deep in my heart, how the presence of you shines
In a light to last a whole life through
I recall the wonder of it all
Each dream of life, I'll share with you
Sea returns to sea
And sky to sky
In a life of dream am I
When I'm with you
I'm with you always, you're ever on my mind
In a light to last a whole life through
The hand above turns those leaves of love
All and all a timeless view
Each dream of life
Flung from paradise
Everlasting, ever new
Dream of life
Dream of life
Sixteen years
Sixteen banners united over the field
Where the good shepherd grieves
Desperate men, desperate women divided
Spreading their wings 'neath falling leaves.
Fortune calls
I stepped forth from the shadows to the marketplace
Merchants and thieves, hungry for power, my last deal gone down
She's smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born
On midsummer's eve near the tower.
The cold-blooded moon
The captain waits above the celebration
Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid
Whose ebony face is beyond communication
The captain is down but still believing that his love will be repaid.
They shaved her head
She was torn between Jupiter and Apollo
A messenger arrived with a black nightingale
I seen her on the stairs and I couldn't help but follow
Follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil.
I stumbled to my feet
I rode past destruction in the ditches
With the stitches still mending beneath a heart-shaped tattoo
Renegade priests and treacherous young witches
Were handing out the flowers that I'd given to you.
The palace of mirrors
Where dog soldiers are reflected
The endless road and the wailing of chimes
The empty rooms where her memory is protected
Where the angel's voices whisper to the souls of previous times.
She wakes him up
Forty-eight hours later the sun is breaking
Near broken chains, mountain laurel and rolling rocks
She's begging to know what measures he now will be taking
He's pulling her down and she's clutching on to his long golden locks.
Gentlemen, he said I don't need your organization, I've shined your shoes
I've moved your mountains and marked your cards
But Eden is burning either brace yourself for elimination
Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards.
Peace will come
With tranquillity and splendor on the wheels of fire
But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall
And cruel death surrenders with its pale ghost retreating
Toward another
He has gone
To breathe an air
Beyond his own
Toward a wisdom
Beyond the shelf
Toward a dream
That dreams itself
About a boy
Beyond it all
About a boy
Beyond it all
From the forest
From the foam
From the field
That he had
Known
Toward a river
Twice as blessed
Toward the inn
Of happiness
About a boy
Beyond it all
About a boy
Beyond it all
From a chaos
Raging sweet
From the deep
And dismal street
Toward another
Kind of peace
Toward the great
Emptiness
About a boy
Beyond it all
About a boy
Beyond it all
I stood among them
I stood alone
Boy boy
Just a boy
Just a little boy
Just a little boy
By patti smith
Last night I awoke up from a dream came face to face with my face facing the
Tombstone teeth of a man called chiklets he came down through the ages with
The desperate beauty of a middleweight boxer came beating the force field
With elegant grace trying to get a perfect grip there was no absolute grip
He was in a sail boat a glass bottom boat the bottom of a boat he was coming
Down through the ages sea molten sea spilling down the tube the spiny eye of
The village the spinal eye of the victim the spiny eye like a question mark
Hovering over him what do you want what do you want from him down on a dream
Too much unexplained what do you think do you think there was an actual
Connection I can't imagine a connection going down there I can't imagine any
Connection at all a boxing ring with gold ropes soft desperate karat top
so you want to be a rock & roll star
well listen now to what I say
get yourself an electric guitar
and take some time and learn how to play
and when hair's combed right
and your pants are tight
it's gonna be all right
with time you go downtown
to the agent man he won't let you down
sell your soul to the company
they're all waiting there
to sell plastic wares
and in a week or two if you make the charts
the girls will tear you apart
what you pay for these riches and fame
well it's all a vicious game
you're a little insane
what you get is the public acclaim
don't forget who you are
you're a rock & roll star
na na na na na . . .
hey you. come here. get up.
ah, this is the era where everybody creates.
recognize my face?
they call me broken glass.
that's because of the sound [ ]
[ ]
what you pay for all these riches and fame
well it's all a vicious game
you're a little insane.
well you're a little insane
oh a little insane
'cause the thing that you gain
is the public acclaim
don't forget who you are
don't forget who you are
don't forget who you are
you're a rock & roll star
A fire of unknown origin took my baby away.
Fire of unknown origin took my baby away.
Swept her up and off my wavelength.
Swallowed her up like the ocean in a fire thick and gray.
Death comes sweeping thru the hallway like a ladies' dress.
Death comes riding down the hallway in it's sunday best.
Death comes driving; death comes creeping; death comes I can't do nothing.
Death goes, there must be something that remains.
When I am troubled in the night
He comes to comfort me
He wills me through the darkness
And the empty child is free
To take His hand, His sacred heart
The heart that breaks the dawn, Amen
And when I think, I've had my fill
Oh I'll send you a telegram
Oh I have some information for you
Oh I'll send you a telegram
Send it deep in the heart of you
Deep in the heart of your brain is a lever
Oh deep in the heart of your brain is a switch
Oh deep in the heart of your flesh you are clever
Oh honey you met your match in a bitch
Deep in the heart of
Deep in the heart of
[ ]
There will be no famine in my existence
I merge with the people of the hills
Oh people of Ethiopia
Your opiate is the air that you breathe
All those mint bushes around you
Are the perfect thing for your system
Aww clean clean it out
You must rid yourself from these, these animal fixations
You must release yourself
From the thickening blackmail of elephantiasis
You must divide the wheat from the rats
You must turn around [and look oh God]
When I see Brancusi
His eyes searching out the infinite abstract spaces
In the [radio] rude hands of sculptor
Now gripped around the neck of a [duosonic]
[ ]
[I swear on your eyes no pretty words will sway me]
[ ]
Oh look at me aah
[ ] cannot move ahh so much aahh everything I am
[ ] possible
Aah [ ]
Feel so fucked up
[ ]
much too
I know I know [ ]
[ ]
[ ]
[ ]
tell him to get out of here
go down to the sea
[ ] if he would just tell me
he appreciates Brancusi's [ ] space
the sculptor's mallet has been taken in place
[ ]
every time I see [ ]
Nodding though, the lamp's lit low, nod for passers underground
To and fro, she's darning and the land is weeping red and pale
Weeping yarn from Algiers, weeping yarn from Algiers
Weaving though, the eyes are pale, what will rend, will also mend
The sifting cloth is binding and the dream she weaves will never end
For we're marching toward Algiers, for we're marching toward Algiers
Lullaby though, baby's gone, lullaby a broken song
Oh, the cradle was our call, when it rocked we carried on
And we marched on toward Algiers, for we're marching for Algiers
We're still marching for Algiers, marching, marching for Algiers
Not to hail a barren sky, sifting cloth is weeping red
The mourning veil is waving high a field of stars and tears we've shed
In the sky a broken flag, children wave and raise their arms
In a mansion high the young man stood
Ready to join his companions good
Outside the scent of Magnolia blossoms
Down streets of gold the children were racin'
Just another wandering soul
Adrift among the stars
Just another human heart
Led, led away
He put his shoes on and he laid down
(Led, led away)
Outside the clouds were swiftly gathering
(Don't be led away)
He drained his cup and his stirred the mixture
(Led, led away)
And he closed his eyes as his conscience whispered
(Don't be led away)
Just another wandering soul
Adrift among the stars
Just another human heart
Led, led away
Misgivings unspoken he joined his companions
(Led, led away)
His face covered over in a mansion high
(Don't be led away)
Outside the children gazed in wonder
(Led, led away)
At the quickening sky then slowly disbanded
(Don't be led away)
Thirty-nine wandering souls
Adrift among the stars
Thirty-nine human hearts
Led, led away
His burning skin cooled by angels
Swallowing sorrows excretion
It's all excretion
(Don't be led away)
(Led, led away)
Felled by his hand for the mind of another man
(Don't be led away)
Who makes the decisions
Lends no provisions for mere eternal rides
(Led, led away)
(Don't be led away)
Learning of course every alien force
(Don't be led away)
Even Christ yearns to be to possess the skin
(Led, led away)
And bones of man the blood of man
(Don't be led away)
Who tends the flock who breaks the bread
(Don't be led away)
(Led, led away)
Who makes his own choices, won't listen to voices
(Don't be led away)
Accept no false teachers, false preachers, good deeders
(Don't be led away)
(Led, led away)
With their hands out stretched to be filled with your money
(Don't be led away)
Your flesh, your breath, your imagination
(Don't be led away)
(Led, led away)
Sympathy, empathy
(Don't be led away)
Acknowledge all man as fellow creation
(Don't be led away)
(Led, led away)
But don't follow him
(Don't be led away)
Don't be led away
Don't be led away
(Led, led away)
Don't be led away
(Led, led away)
Don't be led away
Don't be led away
Every night before I go to sleep
Find a ticket, win a lottery
Scoop the pearls up from the sea
Cash them in and buy you all the things you need
Every night before I rest my head
See those dollar bills go swirling 'round my bed
I know they're stolen, but I don't feel bad
I take that money, buy you things you never had
Oh, baby, it would mean so much to me
Oh, baby, to buy you all the things you need for free
I'll buy you a jet plane, baby get you on a higher plane to a jet stream
And take you through the stratosphere
And check out the planets there and then take you down deep
Where it's hot, hot in Arabia, babia, then cool, cold fields of snow
And we'll roll, dream, roll, dream, roll, roll, dream, dream
When we dream it, when we dream it, when we dream it
We'll dream it, dream it for free, free money
Free money, free money, free money, free money, free money
Free money
Every night before I go to sleep
Find a ticket, win a lottery
Every night before I rest my head
See those dollar bills go swirling 'round my bed
Oh, baby, it would mean so much to me
Baby, I know our troubles will be gone
Oh, I know our troubles will be gone, goin', gone
If we dream, dream, dream for free
And when we dream it, when we dream it, when we dream it
Let's dream it, we'll dream it for free, free money
Free money, free money, free money
Free money, free money, money
Free money, free money, free money
Free money, free money, free money
Free money, free money, free money
Free money, free money, free money
Free money, free money, free money
Mother, as I write, the sun dissolves
Blood life streaming, 'cross my hand
And these words, these words
Hope dashed immortal hope
Hope streaking the canvas sky
Blue poles infinitely winding
As I write, as I write
Blue poles infinitely winding
As I write, as I write
We joined the long caravan
Hungry, dreaming, going west
Just for work, just to get a job
And we never got lucky
We just forged on, and the dust
The endless dust, like a plague
It covered everything
Hal fell, with the fever
And mother I did, what I could
Blue poles infinitely winding
As I write, as I write
Blue poles infinitely winding
As I write, as I write
We prayed, we prayed for rain
I never wanted, to see the sun again
All my dresses, you made by hand
We left behind, on the road,
Hal died, in my arms
We buried him, by the river
Blue poles infinitely winding
As I write, as I write
Blue poles infinitely winding
I been walking
Wherefore am I walking
I been walking
If you see me walking
A-walking a-walking
If you see me walking
Don't avert your eyes
Don't turn away
Don't turn away
I'm coming to you
Oh-oh oh oh
Oh-oh oh to you
Living in steps
Till I can rest
Living in steps
Till I'm blessed by you
I and I alone
Can but do for you
To twist in my hand
The thorn of thy youth
To draw thy seed
To turn in birth
Thy sighs
(Living in steps)
Thy moans
Till we can rest
Living in steps
Till I'm by you
All I ever wanted
I and I alone
I will wash your feet
And dry them with my hair
I will give to you
Every other tear
Thy breath thy spear
Thy season of mirth
Seven steps
Until I can rest
Seven steps
Til I am blessed by you
All I ever wanted
I wanted I wanted
All I ever wanted
I wanted for you
Oh-wo-wo
Oh-wo-wo
All I ever wanted
I wanted for you
Five steps
Till I can rest
Five steps
Till I'm blessed by you
Four steps
Till I can rest
Four steps
Till I'm blessed by you
All I ever wanted
I wanted I wanted
All I ever wanted
I wanted for you
I and I alone
Ghost of thy ghost
Walk I will walk
A burning stem
To illume thy night
(Three steps )
Blood of my blood
Bone of my bone
(Three steps )
Can but do for you
I and I alone
Two steps
Till I can rest
Two steps
Till I'm blessed by you
Oh oh oh
Can but do for you
I and I alone
I see it all before me:
the days of love and torment;
the nights of rock-and-roll.
I see it all before me.
Sometimes my spirit's empty;
don't have the will to go on.
I wish someone would send me
energy.
Give me something.
Give me something to give.
Oh, God, give me something:
a reason to live.
My body is aching.
Don't want sympathy.
Come on. Come and love me.
Come on. Set me free.
Set me free.
The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.
He leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul.
He leadeth me through the path of righteousness for His name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me.
Hey, Lord, I'm waitin' for you.
Oh, God, I'm waitin' for you;
waitin' to open Your ninety-eight wounds
and be Thee, be Thee.
Lead me, oh, lead me.
Leave me something.
Leave me something to live.
Oh, God, give me something:
a reason to live.
I don't want no handout;
no, not sympathy.
Come on. Come and love me.
Come on. Set me free.
Set me free.
Come on. Set me free
Set me free . . .
Oh, I'm so young, so goddamn young.
Oh, I'm so young, so goddamn young.
Oh, I'm so young, so goddamn.
Set me free.
In the presence of my enemies,
Thou anointest my head with oil.
My cup runneth over.
Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me
all the days of my life.
And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
Ah, damn, goddamn, goddamn, goddamn.
Here I am.
We shall live again
We shall live
What is it children that falls from the sky?
Tayi, taya, tayi, aye aye
Mannah from Heaven, from the Most High
Food from the Father, tayi, taye aye
We shall live again
We shall live again
We shall live again
Shake out the ghost dance
(We shall live)
Peace to your brother, give and take peace
Tayi, taya, it leaves two feet
One foot extended, snake to the ground
Wave up the earth, one turn around
We shall live again
We shall live again
We shall live again
Shake out the ghost dance
(We shall live again)
Stretch out your arms, now tip and swing
Rude up thy bird, tayi, tayi
Threw out the shoe over the soil
Dust off the words that shaped from the tale
We shall live again
We shall live again
We shall live again
Shake out the ghost dance
(We shall live again)
Here we are, Father, Lord, Holy Ghost
Bread of Your bread, host of Your host
We are the tears that fall from Your eyes
Word of Your word, cry of Your cry
We shall live again
We shall live again
We shall live again
What is it, Father, in Your eye?
What is this [Incomprehensible] , eyes of God?
[Incomprehensible] feels, just what I need
You used to fly me the way to speed
What is it, Father, holy that night?
What is it, Father, that moves to the right?
What is it, Father, that is waiting in Heaven?
What is it, Father, that shapes from Your hand?
What is it, Father, that makes me spin around?
What is it, Father, that brings, bring me down?
What is it, Father? You can't tell what I like
What is it, Father? I just ride [Incomprehensible]
What is it, Father? I can tell you one night
What is it, Father? I can tell what I like
What is it, Father, are You into shape?
What is it, Father, are You calling today?
What is it, Father [Incomprehensible]
What is it, Father [Incomprehensible]
What is it, Father [Incomprehensible]
What is it, Father [Incomprehensible]
I was dreamin' in my dreamin'
Of an aspect bright and fair
And my sleepin' it was broken
But my dream it lingered near
In the form of shinin' valleys
Where the pure air recognized
Oh, and my senses newly opened
And I awakened to the cry
And the people have the power
To redeem the work of fools
From the meek the graces shower
It's decreed the people rule
People have the power
People have the power
People have the power
People have the power
Vengeful aspects became suspect
And bending low as if to hear
Well, and the armies ceased advancin'
Because the people had their ear
And the shepherds [Incomprehensible] the soldiers
And they laid among the stars
Exchanging visions, layin' arms
To waste in the dust
In the form of shinin' valleys
Where the pure air recognized
And my senses newly opened
And I awakened to the cry
People have the power
People have the power
People have the power
People have the power
Where there were deserts, I saw fountains
Like cream the waters rise
And we strolled there together
With none to laugh or criticize
There is no leopard and the lamb
And lay together truly bound
Well I was hopin' in my hopin'
To recall what I had found
Well I was dreamin' in my dreamin'
God knows a pure view
As I lay down into my sleepin'
And I commit my dream with you
People have the power
People have the power
People have the power
People have the power
The power to dream, to rule
To wrestle the earth from fools
But it's decreed the people rule
But it's decreed the people rule
Listen, I believe everythin' we dream
Can come to pass through our union
We can turn the world around
We can turn the earth's revolution
We have the power
People have the power
People have the power
People have the power
The power to dream, to rule
To wrestle the earth from fools
But it's decreed the people rule
But it's decreed the people rule
We have the power
We have the power
People have the power
Wild leaves are falling
Falling to the ground
Every leaf a moment
A light upon the crown
That we'll all be wearing
In a time unbound
And wild leaves are falling
Falling to the ground
Every word that's spoken
Every word decreed
Every spell that's broken
Every golden deed
All the parts we're playing
Binding as the reed
And wild leaves are falling
Wild wild leaves
As the campfire's burning
As the fire ignites
All the moments turning
In the stormy bright
Well enough the churning
When enough believe
The coming and the going
Wild wild leaves
Wild wild leaves
Hello friend, I've come a callin'
Passively stationed, active patrol
Slidin' in at high noon like some reluctant sheriff
Not wanna get involved in it all
Who stands guard for each other?
Why must we guard anything at all?
Anything at all
From the earth's four corners the people are calling
Forming equations but the questions are hard
All men are brothers, killing each other
And Mother Earth is wringing in wonder
Who stands guard for each other?
Oh, why must we guard anything at all?
Anything at all
Whirl away now
Whirl away now
Whirl away now
Whirl away
There's a cross on the road, there's a great mill turnin'
Some seeking answers, some born to dancers
You can hold on the blade and turn around forever
Be flung into space into another kind of grace
Who stands guard for each other?
Oh, why must we guard anything at all?
Anything at all
Whirl away now
Whirl away now
Whirl away now
Whirl away
Whirl away now
Whirl away now
Whirl away now
Whirl away
Give [Incomprehensible]
Some giveth their hand
Some giveth their land
Some giveth their life
You lay in the fields of grain, the staff of life all around you
But yet you, you will cut someone down
For their possessions, some material thing
And our children they're being blown away like wishes in the wind
For the sake of their coat
Or the colors of their coat
Or the color of their skin
Or the name on their shoes
And the mother cries
"Why they taken my son?"
And the father wonders
"Are they taking my boy?"
He extended his hand
He gave them his land
He gave them his bread
He gave them his heart
Said, "Hello friend"
Hello friend
Hello friend
Dig if you will the picture
Of you and I engaged in a kiss
The sweat of your body covers me
Come on darling
Can you picture this?
Dream if you can a courtyard
An ocean of violets in bloom
Animals strike curious poses
They feel the heat
The heat between me and you
How can you just leave me standing?
Alone in a world that's so cold ?
Maybe I'm just too demanding
Maybe I'm just like my father too bold
Maybe you're just like my mother
She's never satisfied
Why do we scream at each other
This is what it sounds like
When doves cry
Touch if you will my stomach
Feel how it trembles inside
You've got the butterflies all tied up
Don't make me chase you
Even doves have pride
How can you just leave me standing?
Alone in a world so cold?
Maybe I'm just too demanding
Maybe I'm just like my father too bold
Maybe I'm just like my mother
She's never satisfied
Why do we scream at each other
This is what it sounds like
When doves cry
Dream if you can a courtyard
An ocean of violets in bloom
Animals strike curious poses
They feel the heat
The heat between me and you
How can you just leave me standing?
Alone in a world that's so cold? (a world that's so cold)
Maybe I'm just too demanding (maybe, maybe I'm like my father)
Maybe I'm just like my father too bold (ya know he's 2 bold)
Maybe I'm just like my mother (maybe you're just like my mother)
She's never satisfied (she's never, never satisfied)
Why do we scream at each other (why do we scream at each other)
This is what it sounds like
When doves cry
When doves cry (doves cry, doves cry, doves cry
Don't cry
Darling don't cry
Don't cry
Don't cry
Every Sunday I will go down to the bar
And leave him the guitar
You say you want me
I want another
Say you dream of me
Dream of your brother
Oh, the stars shine so suspiciously
For we three
You said when you were with me
That nothing made you high
We drank all night together
And you began to cry so recklessly
Baby, please don't take my hope away from me
You say you want me
I want another, baby
You say you wish for me
Wish for your brother
Oh, the dice roll so deceptively
For we three
It was just another Saturday
And everything was in the key of a
And I lit a cigarette for your brother
And he turned and heard me say so desperately
Baby, please don't take my hope away from me
You say you want me
I want another
You say you pray for me
Pray for your brother
Oh, the way that I see him
Is the way I see myself
So please stand back now
And let time tell you
Oh, can't you see
That time is the key
That will unlock the destiny
Of we three?
Every night on separate stars
Before we go to sleep we pray so breathlessly
I walk it up
I walk it down
I know not what I do
Your love is a sword
Made of folded gold
In the shape of my heart
I walk it up
Walkin' blind
Walkin' blind
All I heard was him
All I saw were eyes
By the world begun
I walk it down
Walkin' blind
Walkin' blind
Angel falling, angel blessed
Sister how fair is your love
I know not what I do
Walkin' blind
Walkin' blind
From the face of love to love
Hail brother
The distant thunder
Is nothing but hearts
Beating as one
Dance of a million
On God's pavilion
Come come
Beat on your drum, drum
Awake people arise
Awake upright come
Fortune is falling like
Tears from the skies
Open your eyes
Hail sister
Won't you come over
To shape reshape
Things to come
Bow your head
Raise your lantern
Come come
Beat on your drum, drum
Awake people arise
Awake upright come
Fortune is falling like
Tears from the skies
Open your eyes
United action is what we need
Time to say that everything is going to be
Wasted icons, wasted lives
Like war the obsolete
Awake people arise
Awake upright come
Fortune is falling like
Awake upright come
Awake upright come
Awake upright come
Awake
These are the times
(Awake)
The times of our own
These are the shapes
(Awake)
The world we formed
Swift is the arrow
Dark is the thorn
The slate is clean
The future awaits
So awake
Awake
Up there there's a ball of fire
Some call it the spirit, some call it the sun
Its energies are not for hire
It serves man, it serves everyone
Down there where Jonah wails
In the healin' water, in the ready depths
Twistin' like silver swans
No line of death, no boundaries
Up there the eye is hollow
The eye is winkin', the winds ablaze
Angels howlin', the Sphinx awakens
But what can she say, you'd be amazed
Down there your, days are numbers
You're no numbers, nothin' to fear
There will be trumpets, there will be silence
In the end it'll here just here
Ahh, the borders of heaven are zipped up tight tonight
The abstract streets, the lights like some switched on Mondrian
Cats like us are obsolete, hey man, don't breathe on my feet
Thieves, poets we're inside out and everybody's a soldier
Angels howl at those abstract lights
And the borders of heaven are zipped up tight tonight
Up there there's a ball of fire
Some call it the spirit, some call it the sun
Its energies are not for hire
It serves man, it serves everyone
The air we breathe, the flame of wisdom
The earth we grind, the beckonin' sea
No mystery, not sentimental
Ahh, the equation, it's all elemental
The world is restless, Heaven in flux ,angels appear
From the bright storm out of the shadows
Up there, down there but what can we say
Man's been forewarned
All communion is not holy, even those that fall
Well, they can prophet understandin'
It's all for man, it's for everyone
It's up there, down there, everywhere, everywhere
Time for communion, time for communion
Oh, and it's up there, out there, in there
Life is designed with unfinished lines
That another sings
Each story unfolds like it was gold
Upon a ragged wing
Bold and the fair suffer their share
He whispered to his kin
All of my debts left with regrets
I'm sorry for everything
Trespass stretch like broken fences
Winding as they may
Trespasses stretch like broken fences
Hope to mend them one day
And she pinned back her hair
Shouldered with care the burdens that were his
Mending the coat that hung on the post
In heart remembering
Trespass stretch like broken fences
Winding as they may
Trespasses stretch like broken fences
Hope to mend them one day
And her time was to come, called to her son
This your song to sing
All of our debts wove with regrets
Upon a golden string
And he found the old coat hung on a post
Like a ragged wing
And took as his own the sewn and unsown
I'm trampin', trampin' Try'n-a make heaven my home
I'm trampin trampin Try'n-a make heaven my home...
I've never been to heaven But I've been told
Try'n-a make heaven my home That the streets up there
Are paved with gold Try'n-a make heaven my home
I'm trampin trampin Try'n-a make heaven my home
Raise the sky
We got to fly over the land, over the sea
Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise
God, do not seize me please till victory
Take arms, take aim, be without shame
No one to bow to, to vow to, to blame
Legions of light, virtuous flight ignite, excite
And you will see us coming
V formation, through the sky
Film survives, eyes cry
On the hill, hear us call through a realm of sound
Oh, oh-oh, down and down
Down and round, oh, down and round
Round and round, oh, round and round
Rend the veil and we shall sail
The nail, the grail, that's all behind thee
In deed, in creed, the curve of our speed
And we believe that we will
Raise the sky
We got to fly over the land, over the sea
Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise
God, do not seize me please till victory
Victory, till victory
Victory, till victory
Victory, till victory
Victory, till victory
Victory, till victory
This is the Girl
For whom all tears fall
This is the Girl
Who was having a ball
Just a dark smear masking the eyes
Spirited away hurrying inside
This is the Girl
That crossed the bind
This is the song about smouthering vine
Twisted as laurels to crown her head
Raised as a reef upon her bed
This is the Girl
This the blind that turned in wine
This is the wine of the house it is said
This is the Girl who Yearned to be heard
So Much for cradling a smouldering bird
This is the Girl x2
This is the Girl
For whom all tears fall
This is the Girl
Who was having a ball
This is the Girl
For whom all tears have shead
This is the Wine of the House it is said
This the blind that turned in wine
This is the wine of the house it is said
This is the Girl who Yearned to be heard
So Much for cradling a smouldering bird
There was a wicked messenger, from Eli he did come
With a mind that multiplied the smallest matter
When questioned who had sent for him, he answered with his thumb
For his tongue it could not speak, but only flatter
He stayed behind the assembly hall, it was there he made his bed
Oftentimes he could be seen returning
Until one day he just appeared with a note in his hand, which read
"The soles of my feet, I swear they're burning"
Oh, the leaves began to fallin' and the seas began to part
And the people that confronted him were many
And he was told but these few words, which opened up his heart
It was a slow day
And the sun was beating
On the soldiers by the side of the road
There was a bright light
A shattering of shop windows
The bomb in the baby carriage
Was wired to the radio
These are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long distance call
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
The way we look to us all
The way we look to a distant constellation
That's dying in a corner of the sky
These are the days of miracle and wonder
And don't cry baby, don't cry
Don't cry
It was a dry wind
And it swept across the desert
And it curled into the circle of birth
And the dead sand
Falling on the children
The mothers and the fathers
And the automatic earth
These are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long distance call
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
The way we look to us all
The way we look to a distant constellation
That's dying in a corner of the sky
These are the days of miracle and wonder
And don't cry baby, don't cry
Don't cry
It's a turn-around jump shot
It's everybody jump start
It's every generation throws a hero up the pop charts
Medicine is magical and magical is art
The Boy in the Bubble
And the baby with the baboon heart
And I believe
These are the days of lasers in the jungle
Lasers in the jungle somewhere
Staccato signals of constant information
A loose affiliation of millionaires
And billionaires and baby
These are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long distance call
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
The way we look to us all
The way we look to a distant constellation
That's dying in a corner of the sky
These are the days of miracle and wonder
And don't cry baby, don't cry
I took a walk out to the sun
But I just, just couldn't take it
I followed a dream, it was circular
But I just, just could not fake it
Step to the left, the left, the left
Step to the right, the right, the right
Pick up the sign, the sign, the sign
For a stride of the mind, the mind, the mind
Simon of the desert blew into town
The scalding tail of a bright cold wind
Slipped through the sand, footprints emerged
Where no one was walking, Simon had been
Dropped from heaven to a readymade world
Says I'm no Sufi but I'll give it a whirl
We booked passage on the book of the dead
Time to travel, Simon said
Step to the left, the left, the left
Step to the right, the right, the right
Pick up the sign, the sign, the sign
For a stride of the mind, the mind, the mind
Come on move, where dreams increase
Where every man is a masterpiece
If you want to be counted as another kind
And you're true, pursue
Stride of the mind, the mind, the mind
Stride of the mind, the mind, the mind
Stride of the mind, the mind, the mind
Stride of the mind, the mind, the mind
He bowed three times, removed his fez
Pointed to heaven and Simon says
The mind, the mind, the mind
Pick up the sign, the mind, the mind
It's a vertical climb, the climb, the climb
Stride of the mind, the mind, the mind
Pick up the sign, the sign, the sign
It's a vertical climb, the climb, the climb
I looked upon the book of life
Tracing the lines of face after face
Looking down at their naked feet
Bound in chains bound in chains
Chains of leather chains of gold
We knew it was wrong but we looked away
And paraded them down the colonial streets
And that's how they became enslaved
They came across on the great ships
Mothers separated from their babes
Husbands stood on the auction block
Bound in chains bound in chains
Chains of leather chains of gold
Men knew it was wrong but they looked away
And led them to toil in fields of white
As they turned their necks to a bitter landscape
Oh the people I hear them calling
Am I not a man and a brother
Am I not a woman and a sister
History sends us such strange messengers
They come down through time
To embrace to enrage
And in their arms even stranger fruit
And they swing from the trees
With their vision in flames
Ropes of leather ropes of gold
Men knew it was wrong but they looked away
Messengers swinging from twisted rope
As they turned their necks to a bitter landscape
Oh the people I hear them calling
Am I not a man and a brother
Am I not a woman and a sister
Holy holy holy holy holy
Holy holy holy holy holy
Holy holy holy holy holy
The world is holy, the soul is holy
The skin is holy, the nose is holy
The tongue and cock and hand and asshole
Holy
Everything is holy, everybody's holy, everywhere is holy
Everyday is in eternity, every man is an angel
The bum's as holy as the seraphim
The madman is holy as you my soul are holy
The typewriter is holy, the poem is holy
The voice is holy, the hearers are holy, the ecstasy is holy
Holy Peter, holy Allen, holy Solomon, holy Lucien
Holy Kerouac, holy Huncke, holy Burroughs, holy Cassady
Holy the unknown buggered and suffering beggars
Holy the hideous human angels
Holy my mother in the insane asylum
Holy the cocks of the grandfathers of Kansas
Holy the groaning saxophone, holy the bop apocalypse
(Holy the bop)
Apocalypse
(Apocalypse)
Apocalypse
Holy the jazz bands, marijuana
Hipsters, peace and junk and dreams
Holy the solitudes of skyscrapers and pavements
Holy the cafeterias filled with the millions
Holy the mysterious rivers of tears under the streets
Holy the lone juggernaut, holy the vast lamb of the middle class
Holy the crazy shepherds of rebellion
Who digs Los Angeles is Los Angeles
Holy New York, holy San Francisco
Holy Peoria and Seattle, holy Paris
Holy Tangiers, holy Moscow, holy Istanbul
Holy time in eternity, body, holy eternity in time
Holy the clocks in space, holy the fourth dimension
Holy the fifth International, holy the Angel in Moloch
Holy the sea, holy the desert, holy the railroad
Holy the locomotive, holy the visions, holy the hallucination
Holy the miracles, holy the eyeball, holy the abyss
Holy forgiveness, mercy, charity, faith
Holy ours, bodies suffering magnanimity
I've got seven ways of going, seven wheres to be
Seven sweet disguises, seven ways of serving Thee
Lord, I do extol Thee, for Thou has lifted me
Woke me up and shook me out of mine iniquity
Oh, I was undulating in the lewd impostered night
Steeped in a dream to rend the seams to redeem the rock of right
Swept through the seas of Galilee and the Seven Hills of Rome
Seven sins were wrung from the sight of me
Lord, I turned my neck toward home
I opened up my arms to You and we spun from life to life
'Til you loosened me and let me go toward the everlasting light
In this big step I am taking seven seizures for the true
I got seven ways of going, seven ways of serving You
As I move seven levels as I move upon the slate
As I declare to You the number of my moves
As I speculate the eighth, seeking love without exception
A light upon the swarm, seeking love without exception
Blood on the T.V., ten o'clock news
Souls are invaded, heart in a groove
Beatin' and beatin', so outta time
What's the mad matter with the church chimes?
Here comes a stranger up on Ninth Avenue
Leanin' green tower, indiscreet view
Over the cloud, over the bridge
Sensitive muscle, sensitive ridge of my
Space monkey, sign of the time, time
Space monkey, so outta line, line
Space monkey, sort of divine
And he's mine, mine, all mine
Pierre Clementi, snot full o' cocaine
The sexual streets, why it's all so insane?
Humans are running lavender room
Hoverin' liquid, move over moon for my
Space monkey, sign of the time, time
Space monkey, so outta line, line
Space monkey, sort of divine
And he's mine, mine, oh he's mine
A stranger comes up to him
Hands him an old, rusty Polaroid
It starts crumbling in his hands
He says, "Oh man, I don't get the picture
This is no picture, this is just, this just a, this just a"
"This is my jack-knife, this is my jack-knife
This is my jack-knife, this is my jack"
Rude excavation, landin' site, boy hesitatin', jack-knife
He rips his leg open, so out of time
Blood and light runnin', it's all like a dream
Light of my life, he's dressed in flame
It's all so predestined, it's all such a game for my
Space monkey, sign of the time, time
Space monkey, so outta line, line
Space monkey, sort of divine
And it's all just space, just space
There he is, up in a tree
Oh, I hear him callin' down to me
That banana-shaped object ain't no banana
It's a bright, yellow U.F.O.
And he's coming to get me, here I go
Up, up, up, up, up, up, up ,up, up
Oh, goodbye mama
I'll never do dishes again
Here I go from my body
Now, I don't want to lose you
but I don't want to use you
just to have somebody by my side.
And I don't want to hate you,
I don't want to take you
but I don't want to be the one to cry.
And that don't really matter to anyone anymore.
But like a fool I keep losing my place
and I keep seeing you walk through that door.
(Chorus)
But there's a danger in loving somebody too much,
and it's sad when you know it's your heart you can't trust.
There's a reason why people don't stay where they are.
Baby, sometimes, love just aint enough.
Now, I could never change you
I don't want to blame you.
Baby, you don't have to take the fall.
Yes, I may have hurt you, but I did not desert you.
Maybe I just want to have it all.
It makes a sound like thunder
it makes me feel like rain.
And like a fool who will never see the truth,
I keep thinking something's gonna change.
(Chorus)
And there's no way home
when it's late at night and you're all alone.
Are there things that you wanted to say?
And do you feel me beside you in your bed,
there beside you, where I used to lay?
And there's a danger in loving somebody too much,
and it's sad when you know it's your heart they can't touch.
There's a reason why people don't stay who they are.
Baby, sometimes, love just ain't enough.
Baby, sometimes, love... it just ain't enough.
By patti smith
I don't know why I feel this way today
The sky is blue the table is laid
The trees are heavy with yellow fruit
And in their shade children happily play
The pears have fallen to the ground
My child places one in my hand
The sun is warm upon my face
And I dream of a burning land
Mother of famine take this pear
Upon an arrow through the rings of time
This small fruit this golden prayer
May it pass from this hand to thine
If I were rain I'd rain on somalia
If I were grain for somalia I'd grow
If I were bread I would rise for somalia
If I were a river for somalia I'd flow
All the mothers will dream of thee
All the mothers bless thy empty hand
All the mothers will grieve for thee
All the sorrow a mother can stand
If we were rain we would rain on somalia
If we were grain for somalia we'd grow
If we were bread we would rise for somalia
So, you want to be a rock 'n roll star
Well, listen now to what I say
Get yourself an electric guitar
And take some time and learn how to play
And when your hair's combed right
And your pants are tight, it's gonna be all right
With time you go downtown
To the agent man, he won't let you down
Sell your soul to the company
They're all waiting there to sell plastic wares
And in a week or two, if you make the charts
The girls will tear you apart
What you pay for these riches and fame?
Well, it's all a vicious game, you're a little insane
What you get is the public acclaim
Don't forget who you are, you're a rock 'n roll star
Na, na na, na na na, na na
Na na, na na, na na na
Hey you, come here, get up
Ah, this is the era where everybody creates
Recognize my face? They call me broken glass
That's because of the sounds [Incomprehensible]
What you pay for all these riches and fame?
Well, it's all a vicious game, you're a little insane
Well, you're a little insane, oh a little insane
'Cause the thing that you gain is the public acclaim
Don't forget who you are, don't forget who you are
Load up on guns and bring your friends
It's fun to lose and to pretend
She's over bored and self assured
Oh no, I know a dirty word
Hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello!
With the lights out, it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us
A mulatto
An albino
A mosquito
My libido
Yay!
I'm worse at what I do best
And for this gift I feel blessed
Our little group has always been
And always will until the end
Hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello!
With the lights out, it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us
A mulatto
An albino
A mosquito
My Libido
Yay!
And I forget just why I taste
Oh yeah, I guess it makes me smile
I found it hard, it was hard to find
Oh well, whatever, nevermind
Hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello!
With the lights out, it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us
A mulatto
An albino
A mosquito
My libido
Baby was a black sheep, baby was a whore
Baby got big and baby get bigger
Baby get something, baby get more
Baby, baby, baby was a rock n' roll nigger
Oh, look around you, all around you
Riding on a copper wave
Do you like the world around you?
Are you ready to behave?
Outside of society, they're waitin' for me
Outside of society, that's where I want to be
Lenny
Baby was a black sheep, baby was a whore
You know she got big, well, she's gonna get bigger
Baby got a hand, got a finger on the trigger
Baby, baby, baby is a rock n' roll nigger
Outside of society, that's where I want to be
Outside of society, they're waitin' for me
Those who have suffered, understand suffering
And thereby extend their hand, the storm that brings harm
Also makes fertile, blessed is the grass
And herb and the true thorn and light
I was lost in a valley of pleasure
I was lost in the infinite sea
I was lost, and measure for measure
Love spewed from the heart of me
I was lost and the cost
And the cost didn't matter to me
I was lost and the cost
Was to be outside society
Jimi Hendrix was a nigger
Jesus Christ and grandma, too
Jackson Pollock was a nigger
Nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger
Nigger, nigger, nigger
Outside of society, they're waitin' for me
Outside of society, if you're looking
That's where you'll find me
Outside of society, they're waitin' for me
Outside of society
Outside of society
Outside of society
Outside of society
Late afternoon, dreaming hotel
We just had the quarrel that sent you away
I was looking for you, are you gone, gone?
Called you on the phone, another dimension
Well, you never returned, oh you know what I mean
I went looking for you, are you gone, gone?
Down by the ocean, it was so dismal
Women all standing with shock on their faces
Sad description, oh I was looking for you
Everyone was singing, girl is washed up
On Redondo beach and everyone is so sad
I was looking for you, are you gone, gone?
Pretty little girl, everyone cried
She was the victim of sweet suicide
I went looking for you, are you gone, gone?
Down by the ocean it was so dismal
Women all standing with shock on their faces
Sad description, oh I was just looking for you
Desk clerk told me girl was washed up
Was small, an angel with apple blonde hair, now
I went looking for you, are you gone, gone?
Picked up my key, didn't reply
Went to my room, started to cry
You were small, an angel, are you gone, gone?
Down by the ocean it was so dismal
I was just standing with shock on my face
The Hearse pulled away and the girl that had died, it was you
You'll never return into my arms 'cause you were gone, gone
Never return into my arms 'cause you were gone, gone
Gone, gone
Gone, gone
Oh, I see you stare, spi-pi-pi-pi-pi-pi up there and ho
Oh, into the center of my brain, and baby come, baby go
And free the hurricane, oh, I go into the center of the airplane
Baby, gotta move to the center of my pain
And my heart starts pumping, my fists start pumping
Upset, total abandon, you know I love you so
Total abandon, ooh, walla, walla walla
Oh, I see you stare spi-pi-pi-pi-pi-pi up there and ho
Oh, into the center of my brain and baby come, baby go
And free the hurricane, oh, I go into the center of the airplane
Baby, gotta box in the center of the ring
And my heart starts pumping and my fists start pumping
Upset, total abandon, you know I love you so
Total abandon, ooh, wah
Oh, I go into the center of the airplane
Baby gotta go to the center of my brain
And my heart starts pumping, my fists start pumping
Got no recollection of my past reflection
So I'm free to move in the resurrection
And my heart starts pumping and my fists start pumping
My heart pumping
My heart pumping
My heart pumping
Coming in the airport, coming in the sea
Coming in the garden, got a conscious stream
Coming in a washroom, coming in a plane
Coming in a force field, coming in my brain
And my heart, my heart
Total abandon, total abandon, total abandon
Total abandon, total abandon, total abandon
Total abandon
Oh, I go into the center of the airplane
Oh and I move to the center of my brain
I see it all before me
The days of love and torment
The nights of rock and roll
I see it all before me
Sometimes my spirit's empty
Don't have the will to go on
I wish someone would send me
Energy
Give me something
Give me something to give
Oh God, give me something
A reason to live
My body is aching
Don't want sympathy
Come on, come and love me
Come on, set me free
Set me free
The Lord is my shepherd
I shall not want
He maketh me to lie down
In green pastures
He leadeth me beside the still waters
He restoreth my soul
He leadeth me through the path
Of righteousness for His name's sake
Yeah, though I walk through the valley
Of the shadow of death
I will fear no evil for Thou art with me
Hey Lord, I'm waitin' for you
Oh God, I'm waitin' for you
Waitin' to open Your ninety-eight wounds
And be Thee, be Thee
Lead me, oh, lead me
Leave me something
Leave me something to live
Oh, God, give me something
A reason to live
I don't want no handout
No, not sympathy
Come on, come and love me
Come on, set me free
Set me free
Come on, set me free
Set me free
Come on, set me free
Set me free
Come on, set me free
Set me free
Oh, I'm so young, so goddamn young
(Set me free)
Oh, I'm so young, so goddamn young
(Set me free)
Oh, I'm so young, so goddamn
Set me free
In the presence of my enemies
Thou anointest my head with oil
My cup runneth over
Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me
All the days of my life
And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever
Damn, goddamn, goddamn, goddamn
The summer is gone I can´t believe
It went so fast
Why do only the cold and lonely times
Seem to last
Now its late at night I watch you
Sleepin, I wanna wake you up
And tell you I´m sorry, though I know
I can´t make it up
I made my mistakes now baby
But I did the best I could
It takes what it takes and sometimes
It takes longer than it should
To just live the kind of life that
We both have been dreaming of
There are no mistakes in love
I walk through a fire in my dreams
Just to pull you through
But when I´m awake somehow it seems
I´m just so hard on you
Baby a change has got to come
And I can´t see
After another winter´s gone
Well who´s gonna rescue me
There are no mistakesnow baby
We did the best we could
It takes what it takes and sometimes
It takes much more than it should
To just make the choices that we both
Have been dreaming of
There are no mistakes in love
The nights are much colder now
I feel the need to have you near
Maybe we could start all over
I feel a change in the air
There are no mistakes now baby
We do the best we can
It just takes what it takes
And sometimes it´s so hard to understand
And just take the chances that we all
Have been dreaming of
There are no mistakes in love
There are no mistakes in love
He's delighted to love me, but you know,
I just don't know what to say to him. I just don't know.
Heard it on the radio, it's no good
Heard it on the radio, it's news to me
When she gets something, it's understood
Baby's got somethin' she's not used to
Down, down, poppy, yeah
Down, down, poppy, yeah
Goin' on the corner, I'm gonna score
Baby wants somethin', she's in the mood to
Baby wants somethin', I want more
When I don't get it, I get blue, blue
Down, down, and it's really comin', really comin',
Down, down, poppy, yeah
Goin' on the corner, I'm gonna score
Baby's got somethin', gonna get through, through
When I want somethin' I want more,
Heard it on the radio, there's nothin' I can do do
I'm in the mood to and I'm a woman and an individual
And I want rockin' real slow I wanna hear it on the radio
I wanna hear it, I wanna score (poppies) I wanna hear
It on the radio baby got it but baby want more
On the radio, heard it on the radio
Baby got it but baby want more
[babble]
Heard it on the radio won't be no need for layin' in the road
Tonight I'm goin' out, oh yeah baby got it but baby want more
She won't need it any more [babble]
Although she was tense and lean in the sun splintered like a country
Gently pulled his finger
Everything is soakin' and spread with butter
Their flowers on an average [on the seed? ]
And then they laid her on the table
She connected with the inhaler
And the needle shiftin' like crazy,
She was, she was completely still.
It was like a painting of a vase,
She just lay there and the gas traveled fast
Through the dorsal spine and down and around
(I want more)
The anal cavity, her cranium
(I wanna score)
Just, it was really great, man,
The gas had inflicted her entire spine
With the elements of a voluptuous disease
With a green vapor, made her feet light
Baby want more
Baby was it in the closet.
Baby get it there, baby tag it,
Baby got it and baby begged for it, baby
I don't think (after station) there's any station
(I remember when)
Quite as interesting to me
(baby worship something)
As the 12th station
(laughin' at the flowers)
I tuned in (to the tower) too many centuries
Were calling to me
And I spin, come down thru time
Oh, watch them say you're too high
And I swim through
Hear it on the radio, goddamn in my radio,
Hear it on the radio, hear it on the radio
[babble]
One long ecstatic pure sensation
Restriction started excreting, started excreting, ah exhilarating
Bottomless pit
Hey sheba, hey salome, hey venus eclipsin' my way ah.
Her vessel, every woman is a vessel, is evasive, is aquatic.
Pissing in a river, watching it rise
Tattoo fingers shy away from me
Voices, voices mesmerize
Voices, voices beckoning sea
Come, come, come, come back, come back
Come back, come back, come back
Spoke of a wheel, tip of a spoon
Mouth of a cave, I'm a slave, I'm free
When are you coming? Hope you come soon
Fingers, fingers encircling thee
Come, come, come, come, come, come
Come, come, come, come, come, come for me, oh
My bowels are empty, excreting your soul
What more can I give you? Baby, I don't know
What more can I give you to make this thing grow?
Don't turn your back now, I'm talking to you
Should I pursue a path so twisted?
Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
Should I go the length of a river?
The royal, the throne, the cry me a river
Everything I've done, I've done for you
Oh, I give my life for you
Every move I made I move to you
And I came like a magnet for you now
What about it? You're gonna leave me
What about it? You don't need me
What about it? I can't live without you
What about it? I never doubted you
What about it? What about it?
What about it? What about it?
Should I pursue a path so twisted?
Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
Should I go the length of a river?
The royal, the throne, the cry me a river
What about it? What about it?
What about it?
What is the system that gets around?
Recruits hearts with its timeless rhythm
The young glow but old men know
It's all a part of some crazy schism
Comin' on like the dawn, unrelentin' light
Streets thick with its radiatin'
It's all a glow but we all know
True love is so complicated
Feelin' funny, don't know why
I'm on a plane circlin' high
Equation, persuasion
It's just persuasion
Who needs the body that has nobody?
Go through life with nobody at all
It come and go where the wind blow
When persuasion comes to call
Feelin' funny, don't know why
I'm on a plane flying too high
Invasion, persuasion
It's just persuasion
It's just persuasion
It's just persuasion
Got me reelin' don't know why
I'm on a plane circling high
Equation, persuasion
Got the feeling I'm runnin' in place
Caught in the orbit of the human race
Invasion, persuasion
It's just persuasion
It's just persuasion
It's just persuasion
Who needs the body that has nobody?
Who needs the rise without the fall?
Who needs illusion without beauty?
Who needs the system that's no system at all?
Hey scout, there's no equation
You can't prepare for the heart's invasion
You can't prepare for the heart's invasion
Love is its own persuasion
Love is its own persuasion
Speak to me, speak to me heart
I feel a needing to bridge the clouds, softly go
A way I wish to know, to know
A way I wish to know, to know
Oh, you'll ride, surely dance
In a ring backwards and forwards
Those who seek feel the glow
A glow we all will know will know
A glow we all will know will know
On that day filled with grace
On the way to heart's communion
Steps we take, steps we trace
All the way the heart's reunion
Paths that cross
Will cross again
Paths that cross
Will cross again
Speak to me, speak to me shadow
I spin from the wheel, nothing at all
Save the need, the need to weave
A silk of souls, that whisper, whisper
A silk of souls, that whispers to me
Speak to me heart
All things renew
Hearts will mend
'Round the bend
Paths that cross
Cross again
Paths that cross
Will cross again
Paths that cross
Cross again
Paths that cross
Will cross again
Rise up, hold the reins
Hold me, I don't know when
Hold tight, bye bye
Paths that cross
Will cross again
Paths that cross
Will cross again
Paths that cross
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been wasting most their lives
Glorifying days long gone behind
They've been wasting most their days
In remembrance of ignorance oldest praise
Tell me who of them will come to be
How many of them are you and me
Dissipation
Race Relations
Consolation
Segregation
Dispensation
Isolation
Exploitation
Mutilation
Mutations
Miscreation
Confirmation.......to the evils of the world
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
They've been looking in their minds
For the day that sorrow's gone from time
They keep telling of the day
When the Savior of love will come to stay
Tell me who of them will come to be
How many of them are you and me
Proclamation of Race Relations
Consolation
Integration
Verification of Revelations
Acclamation
World Salvation
Vibrations
Simulation
Confirmation.......to the peace of the world
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
We've been spending too much of our lives
Living in a pastime paradise
Let's start living our lives
Living for the future paradise
Praise to our lives
Living for the future paradise
Shame to anyones lives
Nuit, un neuf de diamant
Une femme s'effondre et pleure
Aux pieds de la soeur de Grâce
Un dimanche, le seigneur s'endort
Nuit, un neuf de diamant
Les fêtards se reveillent
Désireux de frémir, pendant qu'elle s'ennuit
Un éclat de lumière, dans une petite poupée
Brave, toujours
Perfection sous laquelle tu croîs
Les ténèbres sont tes frères
La malice est ta lune
Tu t'adonnes aux invocations
Avec tes mouvements gypsys
Tendre comme un enfant
A la fois Beau et timide
Chaque carte que tu lèves
Révèle une face différente
Endurci et perdu,
Profane sacré, spectre béni,
Je veille à tous les jouer
Il parle avec et en confiance
Une autre sorte d'étrangité,
Que celle de se complaire
Dans la solitude
Il ignore tout l'empire
Qui se trouve en lui-même
"Sauver ses entrailles "
Il se retire dans son epsrit
On s'en meurt peu à peu
Les sacripants fredonnent
Neuf marins aux yeux bleus
Lui tirent leurs berets
Si bien qu'il lit en eux,
Plus vagabond que roi,
Des diamants à ses manches,
We waltzed beneath motionless skies
All heaven's glory turned in your eyes
We expressed such sweet vows
Oh, till death do us part
Oh, till death do us part
Oh oh
We waltzed beneath God's point of view
Knowing no ending to our rendezvous
We expressed such sweet vows
Oh, till death do us part
Oh, till death do us part
Oh oh
Oh, till death do us part
Oh, till death do us part
Oh oh
We waltzed beneath motionless skies
All heaven's glory turned in your eyes
You pledged me your heart
Till death do us part
You pledged me your heart
Till death do us part
In my Blakean year I was so disposed
Toward a mission yet unclear, advancing pole by pole
Fortune breathin' into my ear mouthed a simple ode
One road is paved in gold, one road is just a road
In my Blakean year such a woeful schism
Pain of our existence was not as I envisioned
Boots that trudged from track to track worn down to the sole
One road is paved in gold, one road is just a road
Boots that tramped from track to track, worn down to the sole
One road was paved in gold, one road was just a road
In my Blakean year, temptation yet a hiss
Just a shallow spear, robed in cowardice
Brace yourself for bitter flack for a life sublime
A labyrinth of riches never shall unwind
The threads that bind the pilgrims sack
Are stitched into the Blakean back
So throw off your stupid cloak embrace all that you fear
For joy shall conquer all despair in my Blakean year
So throw off your stupid cloak embrace all that you fear
For joy shall conquer all despair in my Blakean year
Mercy has a human heart
Pity a human face
Love a human form of defy
Peace a human dress
To mercy, pity, peace and love
For praying their distress
But mercy shall embrace
Mercy shall embrace
Mercy, it is the mercy
It is the mercy
Mercy shall embrace
Mercy shall embrace
Mercy shall embrace
Mother Rose every little morn' tend to me
There she stood, waiting by the door selflessly
Took my hand took it with a smile tenderly
Mother rose every little morn' tend to me
Now's the time to turn the view
Now that I have you
And I'll rise every little morn' tend to thee
When you rise open up your eyes you will see
There I'll be waiting by the door come to me
Take my hand look into your heart there I'll be
Now's the time to turn the view
Now that I have you
Now's the time to turn the view
Now that I have you
Roses growing up by my door, climbing up the vine
All the thorns and pain obscured, roses shall divine
Where we feel no pain and the love inside
Where roses climb, roses shall divine
Roses shall divine, I feel the pain when the roses die
Roses shall divine holy mother
Mother of gold, mother with stories
Told and retold, she felt our tears
Heard our sighs and turned to gold
Before our eyes
She rose into the light
She rose into the light
She rose into the light
the fans were whirlin'
like the blades of a 'copter
liftin' into the skies above some foreign land
soaked with the bodies of so many friends.
Johnny waved
he was on his way home
he waved goodbye to his comrades in arms,
and all the twisted things he'd seen.
he waved goodbye
and the blades hit
something
maybe just Fate, but the blades hit
the 'copter went up in flames
and Johnny never went marchin' home
Johnny never went marchin' home
they took his name
and they carved it on a slab of marble
with several thousand other names
all the fallen idols
the apples of their mother's eye
just another name
meanwhile
back on that burning shore
Johnny's comrades stood speechless
they looked with uh-uh-uh-uh disbelieving eyes
as those bits of metal and the embers
the embers of his eyes
fanned out into the air
black dust
flames
oh Johnny! some day they'll make a movie about you
and in the making of that movie
some mad apocalypse
it will become even stranger than the simple act
just a boy going up up up
just a boy going up
in flames in the smoke
just another life
just another breath
and who'll remember
oh eternity now
as eternal as a sheet of marble
eternal as a slab on a green hill
and your name
and all your fallen brothers
and all the ones not cut
all the ones remembered only in the hearts
a mother a father a brother a sister a lover a son a daughter
shall not shall not fade shall not fade
your ancestors salute you
and the gods of your ancestors salute you
having having been formed by the minds of your ancestors
the gods of your ancestors salute you
having been formed by your ancestors
the gods of your ancestors salute you
they draw you in they draw you through
they draw they draw you through that golden door
mornin' boy [come on in boy]
we remember you
we conceived of you
we conceived of your breath
we conceived of the whole human race
and we conceived it to be a beautiful thing
like a tulip bending in the wind
sometimes it comes back to us
in the form of a handful of dust
comes back in the form of a smitten child
our raped daughters, ah the broken bones
souls cleaved from hearts
they come back to us
and our hands are filled with their rotting tissues
but we turn not our backs
we press our lips
into their cancer into the dust into the remains of each one
and that love is there and will greet you, will greet you
mornin' boy [come on in boy]
it's eternal love
well here, go ahead, run through that flame
awww man, running through your mind
you took a cat, you took a life, you took it by the tail
and you swirled it around your head
and you thrashed it, you smashed the life out of it
and you knew that it would be your own
but you wanted to feel, you wanted to feel it die
because you know you would feel your own
you would feel your own
but you're remembered!
you're remembered!
you're remembered DEAD!
you're remembered DEAD!
you're remembered DEAD!
we remember
we remember
we remember
everything
At the edge of the world
Where you were no one
Yet you were the girl the only one
At the edge of the world in the desert heat
One shivering star, sweet, indiscreet
I knew you when we were young
I knew you when we were young
Now you're gone
In a little narcissus pool, drowned by a spell
We saw ourselves, raw, excitable
I knew you when we were young
I knew you when we were young
Now you're gone
We didn't know
the precariousness
of our young powers
All the emptiness
Wild wild hair, such sad eyes
White shirt black tie you were mine
You grabbed the ring of the carousel
Time going from heaven to hell
In the medieval night it was loves design
And the sky was open like a Valentine
All the lacy lights where wishes fall
And like Shakespeare's child, I wished on them all
To be your destiny was all that I pursued
I could see the sights from the lofty heights
But my heart obscured of you
I was looking for you, looking for you
(Looking for you, looking for you)
What could I do, I was looking for you
Along the black river, the ambassador jewels
And you were reflected in all that I saw
In the towers of gold, in the wheel and the wing
Gripping my senses like an ancient claim
Many is the time, I knelt in the light
Appealing to all that I know
Guide my eyes and steps that I may find love true
I was looking for you, looking for you
(Looking for you, looking for you)
What could I do, well, I was looking for you
Come on darlin'
All that hearts desire was written before us
In the medieval fire it was loves design
In the glittering stars
Like Shakespeare's child to be where you are
Looking for you
(Looking for you)
Looking for you
(Looking for you)
Looking for you
(Looking for you)
From the Portobello Road
(Looking for you)
To the Port of Marseilles
(Looking for you)
Where the dervish turns
(Looking for you)
Where the wild goats play
(Looking for you)
I was
(Looking for you)
I was
(Looking for you)
Looking for you
(Looking for you)
Looking for you
(Looking for you)
Looking for you
(Looking for you)
Looking for you
(Looking for you)
I woke up this morning feeling lonely
There's so much my heart just does not understand
there were times nothing really mattered
now i find i care to much
there's life in everything i touch
look at what love has done to me
i'm not who i used to be
everyhing is changing, and i will never be the same
look at what love has done to us
when will we ever learn to trust
were runnnig out of time, so little time baby
look at what love has done to me
now it's late at night i"m here without you
trying to make my way to where you are
can't you see i'll still be here waiting
can't you see our two hearts were always
meant to be as one
look at what love done to us
when will we ever learn to trust
were running out of time, there's so little time
look at what love has done to me
calling out your name [repeat}
look at what love has done to us
running out of time
Baby look at what love has done to me
I was alone and content in my world
Dancing on air
You sent to me a message that said
I like your style
Will you come to the temple tonight
And dance for me there?
I pledge to you all that you wish
The moon and the stars
Lo and beholden, why don't you give it up?
Lo and beholden, oh now you know it's true
Lo and beholden, oh I'm beholden to you
In the palace there was wild reverie
And the look in your eyes
As I dropped veil after veil
Was drunken desire
The dove calls and God he notes it all
The naked truth
Here is my seventh veil and last
It will cost you
Lo and beholden, why don't you give it up?
Lo and beholden, oh now you know it's true
Lo and beholden, oh I'm beholden to you
Dove calls and God he notes it all
You know it's true
Here is my seventh veil and last
It will cost you
The royal word it has been passed
The Prophet's head is all I ask
For beauty and the naked truth
It will cost you oh you
Lo and beholden, why don't you give it up?
Lo and beholden, oh now you know it's true
Lo and beholden, oh I'm beholden for you
Oh you
Lo and beholden, why don't you give it up?
Oh I'm beholden to you
If it wasn't for your golden hair
Would not be belonely
If it wasn't for your golden hair
Would not be alone
If it wasn't for your piercing stare
Would not be belonely
If it wasn't for your piercing stare
Would not be alone
I would not waltz in a widow's time
Dressed in black by Gods design
What was yours would not be mine
If it wasn't for your golden hair
Would not be alone
You courted me with princely airs
Said you'd love me only
Kiss the ribbons in my hair
Said, "Darling, fly away"
Flower of the Calvary
You swept me off my saddle
Lifted me into your life
A soldier's wife was I
You proudly marched to the horn
I waited for your swift return
I stood my ground so forlorn
'Ere to be alone
I longed for you, I longed to die
I've been so belonely
The pillow's bare by my side
And yet I shall abide
For heaven has a set for me
Companion for eternity
So kiss the ribbons in my hair
Say darling come and fly
If it wasn't for your golden hair
I would not be belonely
If it wasn't for your golden hair
Oh glad day to celebrate 'neath the cloudless sky
Air so sweet water pure fields ripe with rye
Come one, come all gather round discard your Sunday shoes
Come on now oh my land be a jubilee
Come on girl come on boy be a jubilee
Oh my land oh my good people don't be shy
Weave the birth of harmony with childrens happy cries
Hand in hand we're dancing around in a freedom ring
Come on now oh my land be a jubilee
Come on girl Come on boy be a jubilee
We will never fade away doves shall multiply
Yet I see hawks circling the sky
Scattering our glad day with debt and despair
What good hour restore our troubled air
Come on people gather round you know what to do
Come on people oh my land what be troubling
Oh my land what be troubling what be troubling what be troubling you
We are love and the future we stand in the midst of fury and weariness
Who dreams of joy and radiance? Who dreams of war and sacrifice?
Our sacred realms are being squeezed curtailing civil liberties
Recruit the dreams that sing to thee let freedom ring
Freedom ring, freedom ring, jubilee, oh my land
Oh glad day, oh my land, hear our cry, freedom ring
No equation
To explain the division of the senses
No sound to reflect
The radiance of time
In the beginningest dream
Halls of disorder
Where we are swept to encircle dawn
Strapped in a low car
Racing thru silence
Trumpeting bliss
You could kiss the world
Goodbye
Standing outside the courthouse
In the rain
Seemed like a lost soul
From the chapel of dreams
With a handful of images
Faces of children
Phases of the moon
One little thing you get wrong
Changes the dimensions
Streets, swept memory
Diffused and lost
Like a prayer in the sun
Sometimes you can't tell
Whether you're waking up
Or going to sleep
Spiralling
Unnumbered streets
All the games cannot be yours
All the sights, the treasures of the eye
Does the divided soul remain the same?
No equation to explain
Destiny's hand
Moved, by love
Drawn by the whispering shadows
Into the mathematics
what i feel when i'm playing guitar is completely cold and crazy, like i
don't owe nobody nothing and it's just a test just to see how far i can
relax into the cold wave of a note. when everything hits just right (just
and right) the note of nobility can go on forever. i never tire of the
solitary E and i trust my guitar and i don't care about anything.
sometimes i feel like i've broken through and i'm free and i could dig
into eternity into eternity riding the wave and realm of the E. sometimes
it's useless. here i am struggling and filled with dread-afraid that i'll
never squeeze enough graphite from my damaged cranium to inspire or
asphyxiate any eyes grazing like hungry cows across the stage or page.
inside of me i'm crazy i'm just crazy. inside i must continue. i see her,
my stiff muse, jutting around round round round like a broken speeding
statue. the colonial year is dead and the greeks too are finished. the
face of alexander remains not only solely due to sculpture but through the
power and foresight and magnetism of alexander himself. the artist must
maintain his swagger. he must he must he must be intoxicated by ritual as
well as result. look at me i am laughing. i am laughing. i am lapping
cocaine from the hard brown palm of the bouncer. and i trust my guitar.
therefore we black out together. therefore i would run through scum. and
scum is just ahead, ah we see it, but we just laugh. we're ascending
through the hollow mountain. we are peeking. we are laughing. we are
kneeling. we are laughing. we are radiating at last. this rebellion is
Honey, the way you play guitar makes me feel so
Makes me feel so masochistic
The way you go down low deep into the neck
And I would do anything, and I would do anything and Patty Hearst
You're standing there in front of the Symbionese
Liberation army flag with your legs spread
I was wondering will you get it every night
From a black revolutionary man and his women or whether you really did
And now that you're on the run what goes on in your mind
Your sisters they sit by the window
You know your mama doesn't sit and cry and your daddy
Well you know what your daddy said
Patty, you know what your daddy said
Patty, he said, he said, he said
Well, sixty days ago she was such a lovely child
Now here she is with a gun in her hand
Hey Joe, hey Joe, where're you going with that gun in your hand?
Hey Joe, I said where're you goin' with that gun in your hand?
I'm gonna go shoot my ol' lady
You know I found her messin' around town with another man
And you know that ain't cool, watch me
Hey Joe, I heard you shot your woman down
You shot her down to the ground, you shot her
Yes I did, yes I did, yes I did, I shot her, I shot her
I caught her messin' round with some other man
So I got on my truck, I gave her the gun and I shot her
I shot her, shoot her one more time for me
Hey Joe, where you gonna, where you gonna run to?
Where you gonna run to, Joe, where you gonna run to ?
Go get a cover, I'm gonna go down south
I'm gonna go down south to Mexico
I'm going down, down, down to Mexico where a man can be free
No one's gonna put a noose around my neck
No one is gonna give me life, no
I'm goin' down to Mexico, I'm going down
You're not going to hear 'em stand there
And look at the stars as big as holes in the arms
And the stars like a back truck electric flag
And I'm standing there under that flag with your carbine
Between my legs, you know, I felt so free of death beyond me
I felt so free, the F.B.I. is looking for me baby
But they'll never find me, no, they can hold me down like a
And I'm still on the run and they can speculate what I'm free
But daddy, daddy, you'll never know just what I was feelin'
But I'm sorry, I am no little pretty little rich girl
I am nobody's million dollar baby, I am nobody's patsy anymore
I'm nobody's million dollar baby, I'm nobody's patsy anymore
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