As in the tribal ritual passed down from ancient days
Take all your newborn children out beyond the city blaze
And raise your children overhead to sable skies above
Present them to the universe, and say to them with love:
Chorus: Behold, my child, the only thing that's greater than you are
The sable field of distant space, afire with every star
Behold it in humility, but never lose your way
You'll walk upon that sable field of distant stars one day
There is no greater goal for them than swimming seas of space
I hope that, for the future's sake, they grow in truth and grace
Remembering the lessons learned on this poor misused earth
White-water star currents ride me wild from sun to sorrow
White-water star journey dance me to a new tomorrow
Sun-tide sweet-water touch me to my core
Sun-tide sweet-water mother ocean call me home once more
Sun-drift satin-current culls the fey and claims the fallen
Sun-drift satin-whisper soft as dandelion pollen
Wild-tide light-water ripples in the dark
Wild-tide light-water mother ocean brand me with your mark
Bridge: Star-song soft current calling in my blood
Sweet song salt current rising like a flood
Sun-song tide-water pluck me from the sky
Sun-song tide-water never ask me why
White-water sun-sailor what a life I chose to follow
White-water sun-haunter all the rest is pale and hollow
Sun-tide light-water lover home and friend
Sun-tide light-water mother ocean take me once again
Bridge
You are my dreamer
You are my candle in the dark
You are the holder of such a warm and precious
Spark of love within you
You make my seagull heart just fly
You are my dreamer
My bright tomorrow
And I will love you ?til I die
You may be quiet
But I can hear your warm heart sing
You are a jewel
And worth the ransom of a king
And all his kingdom
If you were gone what would I do?
Without my dreamer
I would have nothing-
No one to give my dreaming to
If you can hear me
Then you will know this song?s for you
?cause when you?re near me
I can be sure that you are true and understanding
A gentle harbor in the storm
So undemanding and full of sunshine
You keep my heart so safe and warm
You are my dream in human form
Alternate:
I know your love will see me through
My gentle dreamer
You are my song now
by Talis Kimberley
Reference: If you don't figure this one out, you're hopeless! :-)
C FMaj7 G E7
When I was born and taken home all snuggled close and warm
Am Dm Dsus4 G
I didn't know at all that there were defects in my form
C Dm E7 Am
The years and all they brought to me have left their marks behind
Dm C G C
But if someone can love me still I'm sure that I won't mind
Dm C E7 Am
I can only wish someone will know just how I feel
F C G C
And love me when I'm shabby, quite enough to make me real
I've often heard the stories of the ones that love made real
And often I have thought that I would someday learn to feel
I sit here only watching at the borders of my life
And the fear of never being loved has pierced me like a knife
I can only wish someone will know just how I feel
And love me when I'm shabby, quite enough to make me real
Now someone special in my life has made my wish occur
In spite of my misshapen form and shabby worn-out fur
I know that I am loved each time I see that someone's eyes
They tell me I am real in ways that nothing can disguise
And I have got my wish for someone who knows just how I feel
He's loved me, though I'm shabby, quite enough to make me real
Now all you ladies worried 'cause your shape is not quite true
And all you men with loved-off fur and scalp that's showing through
And all you minds with failing seams and fear where all can see
Take heart from this true lesson from a worn-out shabby me
And I can only hope that someone will know just how you feel
Chorus: I dwell in the Songhouse
And song is my breath
I will sing my life long
And in shrouds made of song
I will sleep at my death
I was born to be Songbird
And my song will be love
And the music will rise
Through the depths of the skies
To the planets above
I was bought in the market
For silver and song
And I grew in the Songhouse
To be noble and strong
And the song grew within me
And my voice soon took wing
Now the love cradles 'round me
With each note I sing
Chorus
As the Emperor's Songbird
I was trained from the start
From the very first teacher
Who opened my heart
To the people who heard me
In the palace each day
I have given my music
And my spirit away
Chorus
I am old now and silent
And my songs are all sung
And the tales of my lifetime
Will not pass my tongue
But the glory still haunts me
And my lessons survive
And the work of the Songbirds
Will continue to thrive
by Zander Nyrond
Once the world was a wind-up toy, we watched it spin and dance
We watch it now from the other side of our last remaining chance
And the world falls down like some tired bull in a crimson Spanish ring
We've learned to love it far too late to save it from anything
Once we dreamed of a soft romance where lovers were sweet and kind
But gentle men and ladies fair we never seem to find
And so we've settled in lands of lust where decadent passions play
And we burn with fever through the night and burn with shame all day
And when the children ask us why as we know the children must
Why all our world and all our dreams came down to pain and dust
Will we blame it on the ones before who never answered our whys
Or admit we questioned far to late to save this dream that dies
Words and music: Kathy Mar
Copyright 1982 Kathy Mar
by Zander Nyrond
Starsinger sat on a streetcorner singing
Thinking no further than bills paid and dinner
Met with a starry-eyed tall-tale spinner
Who gave her a message that sent her heart winging
Chorus: Starsinger they wait for your songs
Out on that wide milky highway you see
Starsinger they'll all sing along
Come out to the starlanes with me
Teller of tales and his gypsy computer
Plotted a path from the hub to the core stars
Then down each spoke till there weren't any more stars
Left with a streetcorner she thought would suit her
Chorus
Teller was lost in a deep crystal canyon
Starsinger grieved but her journey was calling
Wrote up a song to remember his falling
And went on with her gypsy computer companion
Chorus
Often his melody wanders through her head
Often his memory walks in her dreaming
Catches the spark in his eyes softly gleaming
Catches the lilt in his voice as he first said
I am the one who is different.
My body's distorted and ugly to see
My voice is a croak, not the trill it should be
They bend over backwards in kindness to me
Because I am the one who is different.
I am the one who is broken.
My reach is too small and my hands are too thick
My skin is like sandpaper, not silky slick
My wings never grew and I'm heavy as brick
Because I am the one who is broken.
There's a cringe in their eyes when they look at me
I can tell they're avoiding my touch
But the saddest of all is to look at their beauty
And know that their care is an unpleasant duty
I wish I was like them so much.
But I am the one who is twisted.
They promise someday I will go to a place
Where everyone else has my body and face
On a world at the edges of black empty space.
I'll live with the rest who are twisted.
CHORUS
But I am the one who is twisted.
They promise someday I will go to a place
Where everyone else has my body and face
On a world at the edges of black empty space.
I'll live with the rest who are twisted.
Old companion I know you are dying
I feel the dark moment rise up through your core
All your leaves die and your branches are bare
And I fear if I sleep I'll awaken no more
Chorus: Oh, you have been a great-hearted friend
How we have peacefully travelled the years
Now a soft counterpoint fills all my dreams
The fall of your leaves and the fall of my tears
Old companion I wakened this morning
And felt a sad emptiness where you had been
I was alone; lost in my grief for you
Missing your touch so much loser than kin
Old companion I found in your shadow
One of the striplings that came from your seed
Will he flourish feeding on all you were
Will his young heart be the home that I need
New companion pardon my tears awhile
I will grow happier over the years
As we grow close time will be good to us
Granting us centuries yet without fears
Chorus: Oh and he was a great-hearted friend
Peacefully sharing my life 'til today
Now he is only alive in my memory
All else he was will soon crumble away
Television lovers never cry
When the scene is over they just wipe the pain away
When they make you weary you can turn the volume down
When it's all too scary you can watch another station
Television lovers never lie
All their lines are true as far as anyone expects
Everyone can see they are not touched by what is real
When they wash away the blood there is no wound behind it
Television lovers never die
Bridge: From the inside I'm electric living loving all the while
Crying when the torment touches laughing, giving you my smile
Then you change all my controls or turn me off and go to sleep
Nothing I can scream will reach you, all my channels run too deep
Still you miss the cuts and slashes, some of them were made by you
Do you think I fake the ashes in my eyes?
Are they lies? Some disguise?
Would you be my television lover
Would you learn to silence what you feel at my command
I would like to be the televiewer for a while
You can be the one to wait and I will change the stations
Television lovers are such fun
Each of us can be one if we really want to try
We can be anonymous performers on a screen
If we all can learn to wash our feelings off like greasepaint
I am the flaw in the tea-bowl
I will not dance death
I will not lie down here in peace
And release my last breath
All of our hopes have been cast on the reefs and are gone
Still my salt blood reaches out for the sky
Still my warm song touches notes clear and high
Outward I go and I know I will fly a new dawn
Chorus: Starship and Haiku
Dying hate and living love
Reach beyond our sin
Starship and Haiku
One last flawed reminder of
All we might have been
I am a discord in deathsong I cannot be still
I am an infinite paean a permanent trill
I am a leap to the stars I am song to the sky
Always I shun the bleak burial grounds
Always I listen for life's vibrant sounds
Always my hollow-reed heartbeat resounds with it's cry
Chorus
I am Starhearken and lost
Learning only now the quiet cost
Drowned in star-song wild and deep
Whispers from the corners of my sleep
Foundling heart with haunted eyes
Grasping at the fires where star-song lies
Bridge: Space-singer I am not
Those bringers who have brought
This curse to me
To look on wings that fly
To know the thing that I
Can never be
I am Starhearken and found
Chained forever to the silent ground
Kindred to the crippled dancer
Hearing star-song yet unmade to answer
Crawling here in quiet shame
While the choir of stars sing out my name
Repeat Bridge
by Talis Kimberley
And the very saddest part is that I chose it on my own
I let him run my thoughts around to streets I'd never known
He drove me to distraction but I gave him all the keys
He drove me from my sanity and quickly to my knees
And the very saddest moment was the moment of goodbye
I knew I had just let him go without a decent try
He wore me while I shimmered and discarded me at last
He wore me out with overuse and then our times were past
And of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest ones are these, "It might have been"
And the very saddest memory is all I didn't say
And all the things I could have done that somehow got away
I cannot blame him half as much as I must blame my fear
It's all that makes me want to die and all that keeps me here
And the very saddest story is to say it might have been
And if we never try at all we never have to win
The losing is much easier, it's only fear and pain
If I win once it only means I have to win again
And of all sad words of tongue or pen,
Chorus: Insidiously they stand
In rows of color and light
Incredibly they demand
And get our precious quarters
And all the while, addicting us,
We hardly even fight
As they march us to our bankruptcy
Like lambs unto the slaughter
It all began with Pong and we should have stopped it then
These crazy games were never meant for mortal women and men
The harder that we try and the longer that we play
The lowe goes the wherewithal to live from day to day
In every city and town and each suburban mall
The video game arcade puts out it's sweet seductive call
And all the kids around and droves of adult bands
Come marching to their pipers call with money in their hands
It's aliens I'm sure or else a Commie plot
To clean us out and wear us down and turn our brains to rot
I fight it more than most 'cause I know I never win
Somebody's Moggy by the side of the road
Somebody's kitty who forgot his highway code
Someone's favourite feline who ran clean out of luck
When he ran into the road and tried to argue with a truck
Yesterday he purred and played in his pussy paradise
Decapitating tweety birds and masticating mice
Now he's just six pounds of raw mincemeat
That don't smell very nice - >-p
He's nobody's Moggy now!
Now, you who love your pussy, be sure to keep him in
Don't let him argue with a truck, the truck is bound to win
And upon a busy road, don't let him play or frolic
If you do, I'm warning you, it could be cat-astrophic
If he plays out on the roadway I'm afraid that will be that
There will be one last despairing "meow" and a sort of squelchy 'splat'
And your pussy will be slightly dead and very, very flat
He's nobody's Moggy - just red and squashed and soggy -
I was living in a dream
That I mostly still believe in
And the love I chose to give
And the love I got were even
Then my balance was upset
By an unexpected harm
I was taken by surprise
When I lost my lucky charm
It was early in the spring
When my life was changed to winter
And my sanity and hope
Had begun to crack and splinter
Now I'm living on reserves
Of the dreams I kept inside me
And when all of them are gone
It will leave a hole to hide me
I have reached to friends for help
But my need has kept them distant
And the bitter tide grows high
But my foolish dream's persistent
And it's easier for me to run
Than to watch them pull away
I would give my world of friends
To have my lucky charm today
My little lucky charm
Is a little hill of ashes
And all that's left behind
Is a chain of painful flashes
And the friends who turn their backs
Are a lesson I'll never learn
And my little lucky charm
by Zander Nyrond
by Zander Nyrond
by Zander Nyrond
On a gentle summer afternoon
We were walking through the aspen by a quiet stream
All at once I saw a rainbow curling over you
And I felt as if I'd wandered into some old dream
You were dressed in golden armor
I was dressed in lace
Sunlight flashing on your shoulders
Sunbeams kissed my face
All at once I knew that you and I
Had been wandering the centuries as in a dance
And the sound of laughter floating through the aspen trees
Called me back to now and from that magic trance.
Now I wonder in my melancholy
Which of us will be the first to leave this time around
For it seems as if we're always parted
Just as soon as we're found
Oh, but not this time around
Tides of mountains crash on the shores of grain
And in this city of ash I tremble in my private pain
Will the winds of time blow my heart to me
Or will I wander forever between grass shores and mountain sea
Bridge: Foam of avalanche races down the slope
And in this chromium haze in a maze of question I blindly grope
Years of wanting you left me pale and worn
Is it the loving in you or the pain in me that makes me mourn
Tide of mountain fails shore of grain retreats
Cities crumble and in your distant eyes my heart still beats
Will the voice of time call it back to me
Or will I wait here forever between grass shores and mountain seas
with Zander Nyrond
by Stephen Savitsky/trad
Lady Ellen wandered in the quiet wood
Pondering the suitors for her hand
Wishing for a life alone and yet, with love,
Bending to her father's one command
All at once a rustle and a sweet perfume
Filled the little meadow where she stood
All at once a silver silken unicorn
Took a dainty step out of the wood
Lady Ellen gasped and took a trembling step
Reaching out in timid quaking grace
Quivering, the unicorn stepped forward too
Quiet terror showing on it's face
And in one light touch their spirits joined and sang
Sharing their unspoken thoughts and fears
Lady Ellen gazed into the midnight eyes
Losing, in that look, one thousand years
Lady Ellen wanders in the city streets
Staring at the traffic and the light
Looking for a unicorn that disappeared
Chorus: Joy is in the ears that hear
Let it's song succeed
Laughter is the bane of fear
And all the hope we need
1. Let all who are most serious
And fearful on this day
Take lessons from our Giant friends
Or children at their play
For ever in the midst of woe
It helps if we recall
That laughter is a medicine
More potent than them all
Chorus
2. When all our banners dragged the dust
And all our hands were chained
In haunted caverns of the earth
Our laughter yet remained
And ever as we lost our dreams
The joy would bid them nigh
Until at last we left the dark
And laughed beneath the sky
Chorus
3. Though ever in this darkling world
Our enemies grow strong
It helps us to remember
That their reign cannot be long
And though it seems forever
As we hold them still at bay
It helps to know that laughter
I'm not afraid to share you with the world
I know I am a rhythm to your rhyme
I'm not jealous of the love you have for anybody else
I'm only jealous of your time
I'm not so insecure I cannot share
That special you I know is so sublime
I'm not jealous that you give yourself to those you grow to love
I'm only jealous of your time
Bridge: We'll have to live forever and that might not be enough
To give us time to just explore the world of our new love
But when the world can claim you for so much time every day
I'm jealous of your sleep and all you love so deep
Your work and all that keeps you away
I don't think you should turn from those you love
As surely as I shouldn't turn from mine
And we never will be jealous of the lives we choose to live
We may be jealous of our time
Coda:But that is no surprise I always miss your eyes
I know you miss me too but we can see this through
I'm only jealous of...I cannot get enough...
Chorus: Ivory Rose, I see your eyes in the petals of my bed
They teach me more than all the highs that dance around my head
Ivory Rose, oh Ivory Rose, you fit me like a glove
Ivory Rose, you fill my garnet heart with love
You listened to my silver songs through all the diamond snows
And as the emerald leaves returned, I felt the golden glows
Of early love begin to fill my heart with treasures no one knows
You gave the spring to me with an ancient ivory rose
Chorus
The love I found in your sapphire eyes is nestled into my soul
In the kisses of your ruby mouth my hollow heart grew whole
And came to know the touch that sows desire, a flower of fire that grows
And burns my pride to cinders, how I love you, Ivory Rose
Chorus
I see you everywhere
I feel your touch upon my hand
You are my breath you are my singing
I see you everywhere
It wasn't quite what I had planned
But still I find you set my spirit ringing
It only took a moment
It only took a song
You only took my lifetime
And taught me how to sing along
I see you everywhere
I still can feel your one brief glance
Somehow the memory renews me
I see you everywhere
That bright and happy happenstance
Began the feelings that suffuse me
I may be acting foolish
I may be out of line
You may be unaware that you have
Made me feel so very fine
I see you everywhere
I know it's not the same for you
But just the thought of you elates me
I see you everywhere
I try to write my own songs too
But still your skill intimidates me
I know I have to try it
I know I just might fall
You know that I will be there
I drink your eyes;
They drown me as I drink.
My catch-breath heart
Begins to twirl and sink.
The blood-fire dance begins,
In tempest-touch we mesh.
Your flaming fingertips
Caress my fire-flesh.
I drink your eyes;
In drunken love I sway.
Our bodies share
The clamor of the clay;
And, like a butterfly,
I'm pinned beneath your gaze.
I reach to touch your mouth,
And all my senses blaze.
Bridge: Flash-paper song,
Born of the skin,
Sings to the soul
Sighing within.
Flash-paper peak,
Lost in a cry,
Burning to live;
Learning to die.
I drink your eyes
In after-golden-glow.
The blood-fire cools.
The dance begins to slow.
It does not end at all:
Your eyes fill for my thirst.
Each tempest-touch and kiss
Is like the very first.
Instrumental (4 lines)
I cup your face.
My mouth to lash-brim flies.
The timeless dance begin.
I am the locust and I tell the quiet lies
To ageless gentle children with sparkle in their eyes
And all the while She watches and waits her monstrous chance
To terminate the dreaming in all our song and dance
Chorus: The quiet lies of dreaming
Remain in spite of time
And all her evil scheming
Cannot cull the magic rhyme
I am the locust and I sing the locust song
Sing along
People laughing, breathing, turn to robots as I watch
And isolation claims them as they shrink from human touch
And She has many victories but still my lies live on
And they will grow and flourish when her dark machine has gone
Each generation brings the ones with sparkle eyes
The children She has not suborned with all her glib replies
And some day when the ones who dream rise up to take their stand
The children of the locust will bring magic to the land
I'm falling in love with all of you a little more every day
I'm learning to see a special me in every sweet thing you say
I have come to believe our lives are twined much tighter than we had planned
And love overflows the cup of my heart whenever you touch my hand
And every time I'm tempted to pack up my songs and roam
I look into your eyes and see my home
I've waited for people just like you, I've waited for just this place
But each time before as I opened my door the world slammed it in my face
But all of you made me welcome at the hearth of your gentle hearts
And all of my endings now have become a universe of fresh starts
And every time I'm tempted to pack up my songs and roam
I look into your eyes and see my home
Reference: 'Beowulf'
Dumb as dirt and twice as mean, such a son makes Mother crazy
Foul as sewers I have seen, ugly, loutish, large and lazy
That's the child I've had to raise, what's a mom to do?
Drag him in an ocean cave and stay to watch him, too
Chorus: Son of mine you've been a disappointment since your birth
Now I've had to bury you in this cold Northern earth
I know you would be sorry if you weren't so very dead
But you never listened to a word I said
Everybody has to rest, even I got sleepy
Sonny left our little nest on errands cruel and creepy
Came back with a haunch of man gnawed down to the bone
Left each night from that day on as I slept like a stone
Chorus
Vikings gathered in their hall, heroes all in war delighting
When my Grendel came to call, he was met with mighty fighting
One among them took his arm, ripped it off for good
Chased him to our ocean home and killed him where he stood
Instrumental
When I found my wine was spiked, it was far too late to aid him
Though there wasn't much I liked I was often glad I made him
So I must avenge him now, what's a mom to do?
If he was yours anyhow, I'll bet that you would too
(based on the movie Edward Scissorhands)
Cthing D7sus4 Dm
Chorus: Edward, I am dancing in your snow
G Am
Even though you cannot see me tonight
Dm Bb
As the light and fragile crystals
D7sus4 G
Touch the lines upon my face
D7sus4 G
And melt among the tears
D7sus4 G
I'm dancing here for you
D7sus4 G
In spite of all my fears
Dm G Gstuff G
The love has seen me through
Cthing other-chord
I am dancing here for you
Am
You were a hollow look
Dm
With horror in your hands
Bb
You were a magic mind
Dm
With art at your command
Am
You were an innocent
Dm
With all the lessons still to learn
Bb
You went away from me
D7sus4 G Gthing
I know you never can return
You wore your cookie heart
Upon your sleeve for me
I started trembling when
You finally let me see
You were a shining knight
With gentle soul and flashing steel
Until that winter night
When only rage was left to feel
And in my mind tonight
I see you climb the stair
I see your scissor-hands
Caress the ice with care
And as the crystal fragments
Melt upon the midnight skies
I'm dancing once again
With teardrops in my eyes
Words and music: Kathy Mar
Copyright 1994 Kathy Mar
Give my children wings, but not the ghosts of wings
I have found in the words of the dreamers
Let them fly away to a world so far away
From the fools and the cruel and the schemers
Give them stars to juggle and comets for their toys
A new life to build from their sorrows and joys
Give my children wings, but not the ghosts of wings
I have found in the words of the dreamers
Give my children suns, but not the songs of suns
That have nourished me all through my growing
Songs can give them hope, but they need more than hope
All their dreams are but seeds meant for sowing
Give them the planets, a universe to share
With all who are waiting to meet them out there
Give my children suns, but not the songs of suns
That have nourished me all through my growing
Give my children life, a vast eternal life
And a universe teeming with wonder
Continents and skies, a million different skies
Full of rainbows and snowflakes and thunders
Give them bright tomorrows and not our dark todays
Realms of love and beauty to cherish all their days
Give my children life, a vast eternal life
Chorus: If you remember put some flowers on his grave
He was my little friend for all the comfort that he gave
He never called me Dummy he was always on my side
I was so very sorry when he died
1. His operation made him smart
He ran the maze so good
But always had some time to be my friend
We used to race and he would win
It always made me mad at him
But he would still be nice even then
2. And when my operation made
me smarter he was there
To show me what would happen next to me
It wasn't always in a book
I had to hurt and sometimes look
At sad things that I didn't want to see
3. And now the smartness goes away
And Algernon is dead
And all my friends are nice to me again
But when I am like Algernon
Asleep inside the dirt and gone
Who comes to me wearing my own face
As dull as ache with eyes of empty space
What is its name, why this restless haunt
What do you want?
Doppelganger (whispered and echoed)
What have I done that you come to me?
Your vacant stare takes the soul of me
Your frigid grip, rigid claws that clutch
I fear your touch
Doppelganger (whispered and echoed)
Mirror me, fear or fantasy
Are you my death in disguise?
Mirror me, you are heresy
Of my flesh, if we mesh
Which one dies?
Who comes to me wearing my own face
As dull as ache with eyes of empty space
What is its name, why this restless haunt?
What do you want?
Doppelganger (whispered and echoed)
Mirror me, fear or fantasy
Are you my death in disguise?
Mirror me, you are heresy
Of my flesh, if we mesh
Which one dies?
Where now is fear? Fever drove it out
My time is near, this is not in doubt.
The ghost is gone; I will follow after
I hear your laughter,
Doppelganger (whispered and echoed)
Doppelganger (whispered and echoed)
Doppelganger (whispered and echoed)
Words and music: Kathy Mar
Copyright 1985 Kathy Mar
I stood in the spaceport, my hands full of papers
And the wind tying macrame knots in my hair
Awaiting my moment to climb the chrome staircase
And enter a ship that would take me out there
And I dreamed of the children who dreamed this adventure
Who planned it for others who someday would follow
With no hope that someday would come in their lifetimes
Believing the promise and taking the dare
I stood at the viewport and gazed at tomorrow
The sun I would find at the end of my flight
Was blazing in joy from the depths of black velvet
And calling me on through the long empty night
And I prayed for the children with strange skies above them
And new worlds to wander and strong new tomorrows
The galaxy's promise was shining around me
In ebony splendor and rainbows of light
I sit on my porch-swing and dream for your children
And all I have told you is just one dream more
But dreams have a way of becoming tomorrows
Too vivid and real for us to ignore
We must all keep believing we'll span the dark spaceways
And gather the stars in a crown for our children
If all our tomorrows are not worth the dreaming
All my deepest feelings are naked to your eyes.
You do not answer.
All my song and bluster can never quite disguise
The timid dancer.
Chorus: Dancing on a clock, clinging to a rock
Of sweet emotion
I am just a lock
You are just the key made to open me.
Once I had a lover much older than today,
Young as tomorrow:
Opened every portal and then went on his way.
My song is sorrow.
Chorus
Bridge: And now I see a world to explore
Beyond your eyes. I am afraid.
Somehow I feel like giving you more,
And yet, my tries are left unmade.
My enthusiasm has frightened some before;
I now expect it.
If you can take my giving, I ask for nothing more.
Please, don't reject it.
Chorus
Bridge
Verse 1
Chorus
I am just a lock
Reference: 'Crystal Singer', Anne McCaffrey
Crystal Singer, do you hear the crystal cry
Does it cut your soul; each small goodbye?
Waiting for that final farewell chord
Piercing to the heart like crystal sword
Crystal Singer, bride of spore betrothed in song
Will the silent spore that makes you strong
Also make you slave to Ballybran
Aching still to leave it when you can
Bridge: When the crystal song is floating free
Stealing all your time and memory
Is the endless joy you have today
Worth the price tomorrow has to pay?
Crystal Singer, carving on a crystal hill
Torn between the wind and crystal will
Living out your doom without regret
Ageless actress on a crystal set
Instrumental
Bridge
Crystal Singer, do you hear the crystal cry
Does it cut your soul; each small goodbye?
Waiting for that final farewell chord
by Zander Nyrond
Chorus: I'll look upon the face of God
And through a billion eyes
And take the planet of my birth
Beyond the endless skies
And sing the universal song
Above the reach of right and wrong
And find the devil is my friend
When I have come to childhood's end
They touched our world and changed our bloody history
They gave us peace and always dwelt in mystery
They eased the hunger of the endless realms of men
And taught us how to love each other once again
They promised they would walk among us on the day
When all their ministrations had prepared the way
And when the work was done and fifty years had passed
They left their ships to show themselves to us at last
Chorus
The horns and wings and tails no longer brought us fear
Our minds were now unclouded and our eyes were clear
No longer would we judge things for the way they seem
And on that day the children would begin to dream
The dreamers were the promise of a new mankind
They soon would touch the universal overmind
And as they pondered what that touch would someday bring
In all our thoughts their hopes would brightly dance and sing
Chorus
The devils were the guardians of our infant earth
They supervised the circumstances of our birth
In loneliness they cross the seas of stars alone
The Techies have invaded they're everywhere you look
And every conversation is a dull computer book
They rant about assembly and rave of memories
I'd love to find some way to tell them I don't speak Technese
Chorus: Calm down, it's only ones and zeros
Calm down, it's only bits and bytes
Calm down and speak to me in English
Please realize that I'm not one of your computerites
They stand around for hours as I'm sure you've seen and heard
But only other Techies understand a single word
With firmware, hardware, software, beware never turn your back
The guy you thought was liveware is another Techie hack
The Techie faction's growing, the day may be at hand
When everyone must learn Technese by government command
I'd rather be a renegade and speak in rhyme and verse
Technese is bad for everyday their poetry is worse
I think I'll learn to program and when I know it well
I'll rearrange each mainframe clear from here to Hacker's Hell
It may take me a lifetime but when I'm finally through
The damned computers all will talk like normal people do
Chorus: Calm down, it's only ones and zeros
Calm down, it's only bits and bytes
Calm down and speak to me in English
Unless you want to sleep alone through all your future nights
I've had enough and one more word will cause some awful fights
Call him Lord
Call him Lord
Hide his title and his glory
Teach him Earth's forgotten story
Call him Lord
Watch his ways and dog his heels
Learn how this young lordling really feels
To hold our worlds together
A grasp as light as feather
A courage greater than the rest
So we test
Call him Lord
Call him Lord
Find him wanting take his life
Duty's burden given with the knife
Call him Lord
Family honor makes him ride
By the broken princeling's side
And when you have to tell them
You had no choice but to condemn
A coward cannot rule the sky
He must die
Call him Lord
Call him Lord
Take away the lord that died
Send another son here to be tried
Call him Lord
Honor will be served at last
Boy genius with the big sad eyes
All of the mamas want to take you home
Get what you can, do what you must, be what you have to be
And take that weary highway out alone.
Boy genius, don't you realize
All of the charming yesterdays are gone
And all of the dreams you ever shared came down at last to one,
And that one just told you she was moving on.
Well you shook up your tomorrows and threw 'em on the table
But sevens and elevens never showed
You'll keep right on gambling just as long as you are able
To make the toss, and take the loss,
Just waiting for tomorrow to explode.
Boy genius, when the seagull flies
He never flies too very far from land
So go where you wish, take any risk, try all there is to try
Fly back to my waiting outstretched hand
Well you shook up your tomorrows and threw 'em on the table
But sevens and elevens never showed.
And you'll keep right on gambling just as long as you are able
To make the toss, and take the loss,
Just waiting for tomorrow to explode.
Boy genius, when a seagull flies
He never flies too very far from land
So go where you wish, take any risk, try all there is to try
Fly back to my waiting, outstretched hand.
I'll be holding out my hand
by Catherine Faber
I am in a vast black sea, the spaces reach in front of me
As far as I could ever see, as far again behind.
And each new world I land upon, with seas and hills and storm and
Dawn,
Can never fill me when I'm gone or overwhelm my mind.
But I am haunted by a bamboo wind
The clatter of the bones of our misbegotten earth
The wail of a memory of how our fears
Destroyed the precious cradle of our birth.
Bamboo glades within my head are spectres of the lands we fled
With all our second chances dead we could not hope to stay
Bamboo dances in my night, hides the stars that watch my flight
It moans and rattles of the blight that made us run away.
But I am haunted by a bamboo wind
The clatter of the bones of our misbegotten earth
The wail of a memory of how our fears
Destroyed the precious cradle of our birth.
Bamboo forest, dead or lost, overlaps these points of frost
Knowing what these stars have cost I feel a bleak despair
Ancestors revile our name, curse the wombs from which we came
Dispossessed and drowned in shame, with no home anywhere.
(twice)
And I am haunted by a bamboo wind
The clatter and the moaning of a world we see no more
The rustle of the ghost of leaves in dappled sun
These are the steps that Ruth built
Loving kindness in each nail
Planks that never trip the feet
Lead you from the shady street
Or the winter's gale
Behind the bright red door
Across a smooth wood floor
Strewn with seas of scattered shoes
The music sweet and clear
Delighful to your ear
Siren's song you can't refuse
This is the band that Dave built
Song that spills into the town
Joy and hope in every note
Melodies that seem to float
Up the stairs and down
And a whirlwind of Elizabeth
To blow an order on the chaos
Warm as any southern zephyr
Welcome as the sun in spring
The magic of a giving heart
That beats a rhythm for the household
Rippling like golden water
Through the music that they sing
This is the house that love built
Love and music hope and soul
Come and share it and renew
Carry it away with you
She searched for a Basilisk all through the seasons
She hunted him down but for all the wrong reasons
She'd thought up a plan that she felt was quite clever
A way her great beauty could live on forever
Chorus: The Basilisk watches and waits the right hour
To claim you forever with his awesome power
She sought from the mountains clear down to the seaside
The closer she came the more cleverly she'd hide
But when she despaired and was weeping quite blindly
She met a young princeling who treated her kindly
She soon fell in love and gave up her brash scheming
They spent all their days lost in planning and dreaming
She hid in the wood as a game so he'd find her
She turned and saw Basilisk standing behind her
And when the young lordling came seeking his lady
(All) Through the dark branches so peaceful and shady
He stopped in a clearing forlorn and alone
To stare in surprise at a lady of stone
Salt freezes in my hair
Sand gliding on the breeze
Life answering my dare
Mother Ocean oh Mother Ocean
Sweet Mother Ocean I am on my knees
Sea water in my blood
Tide swelling in my soul
Tears drowning in the flood
Mother Ocean oh Mother Ocean
Sweet Mother Ocean come and make me whole
Bridge:
Oh how she rocks me, rocks me
Deeper than the Marianas
Deeper than my core
Mother give me more (2x? or more)
Wild phantoms on the foam
Free feeling on my face
Sweet Mother calls me home
Mother Ocean oh Mother Ocean
Grissom, White and Chaffee were the first to pay the price
But others now have felt the fatal falling of the dice
And seven more have lost their lives that we might win the skies
But nothing makes it easier when someone out there dies
Chorus: It's minus ten and counting but many more may die
As careful as we ever are it costs us lives to try
But all who take the risk of space say, "If we die then take our place
And please when we are gone, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on."
And if we add the cosmonauts the count is now fourteen
Who paid their lives for men to go where man has never been
And each one knew the dangers and yet bravely still they tried
And begged us all to keep on flying even if they died
Chorus
We're minus ten who sought the stars but out across the lands
You'll see a million volunteers are raising up their hands
And all of them are well-prepared to pay that final cost
They know that space and all the stars are worth the lives we've lost
1. Forgive me if I'm forward if I reach for you too quickly
Believe me I don't do this all the time
I know it's unexpected, but I really could not help it
You just feel like a good, good friend of mine
2. I felt it when I met you that sudden recognition
A memory of candlelight and wine
It never truly happened, at least, not in this lifetime
But you feel like a good, good friend of mine
Chorus: You feel like such a good, good friend of mine
You just feel like a good, good friend of mine
It may seem kind of funny but I really had to tell you
That you feel like such a good, good friend of mine
3. And if this lasts forever or only one brief moment
I hope you understand it's not a line
When I say I wish you'd stay here
And I'd love to get to know you
'Cause you feel like such a good good friend of mine
Verse 1
Verse 2
Chorus
Instrumental verse
Chorus
Verse 3
I bring my broken birds to him
He gazes lovingly at all he sees
He takes them gently in his healing hands
And breathes new hope into them and hearts-ease
He gives them wings to reach the skies
His Wise Woman watches, touches
Speaks a spell or two
Human eyes look out of all my wounded birds
I bring my broken birds to him
His Lady lovingly gives of her grace
He takes their pain and fear and wounds away
She gives them time and touch, a sheltered place
And when they leave they know a change
So strange and yet healing mending
Making them so strong
Song exchanged for tears in all my wounded birds
I scream until I have no voice
My drab and faded feathers fall
I dream sometimes I have a choice
But find each waking
No doors in my wall
Wingless I fly
Silent I call
I bring my broken birds to him
He gazes sadly at my shattered soul
He takes me gently in his warm embrace
And waits for me to ask "Oh make me whole"
And let me soar the painted skies
His Wise Woman sees me frees me
Knows the reasons why
Am C
Beside the world we live in
G C Em
Apart from day and night
Is a world ablaze with wonder
Em Am
Of magic and delight
Like a magic crystal mirror
My computer lets me know
Of the other world within it
Where my body cannot go
Chorus: You can only see the shadows
Am G Am
Of electrons on a screen
Dm Am
From the world inside the crystal
Em Am
That no human eyes have seen
The computer is a gateway
To a world where magic rules
Where the only law is logic
Webs of words the only tools
Where we play with words and symbols
And creation is the game
For our symbols have the power
To become the things they name
Chorus
Now you who do not know this world
Its dangers or it's joys
You take the things we build there
And you use them as your toys
You trust them with your fortunes
Or let them guard your lives
From the chaos of creation
Just their final form survives
Chorus
Call us hackers, call us wizards
With derision or respect
Still our souls are marked by something
That your labels can't affect
Though our words are touched by strangeness
There is little we can say
You would only hear the echo
Of a music far away
Oh, my friend, I must admit I understand too well
How you can write such tender songs and wear that diamond shell
I see it happen far too much in this bleak world of ice
That those of us once burned by touch do not attempt it twice
Standing straight and forward on the fortress of the stage
You etch emotion on my heart, and turn another page
And though the songs are warm enough they never melt the snow
That gathers in your eyes each time that you step down to go
I know it doesn't matter, but I like you best without
The shards of ice that pull and prod and tear your feelings out
The glitter of your witty words that only slips away
Each time a spotlight melts your heart, and you begin to play
One day will it happen when I least expect it to
That ices will creep up on me and turn my feelings blue
And crystallize the patterns of my dealings with my friends
Is that the way this journey I am taking always ends
Chorus: I am the rose
The rose
I am the rose
The rose with no flowers
I am the rose
The rose all thorns
The mind he made
The hand he touched
The winter rose
I who was blind and did not know
Who searched for sickness in the sane
Who tried to placate not to heal
Was taken sharply by his pain
He who gave me vivid roses
Grown inside his gentle mind
In his torment he discloses
Worlds I never wished to find
Chorus
I gave him lies for all his truth
And sent him to his spirit's death
And gave him hope when all was lost
And stole the flower that took my breath
He who gave a gift of flowers
Rests in quiet darkness now
Silent are his special powers
Blank his once-expressive brow
Chorus
I was a coward in his cause
His was the courage and the care
He who was hopeless learned to trust
I who could help him did not dare
All I did was let him founder
All-unknowing on the reef
Gave him a lie to make it easy
And stole his selfness like a thief
Chorus
I am an ashen desert land
I am a barren thorny stem
And as a coward cast my lot
With all the cowards known as "them"
All the cowards call me hero
All the heroes have been stilled
Still their vengeance sings the silence
Points to hungers left unfilled
Chorus: The wild geese are flying out on a bright wind
And never again will their songs fill our skies
They've taken their magic and grace from our seeing
And followed the dark in their eyes
1.The wild gypsy geese in a thousand sad cities
Heard tales of a chance to fly from their tears
Out on a sun-breeze in a dark Ban-sidhe wailing
A journey of more than one hundred light years
2.The wild gypsy geese like some star-haunted pilgrims
By ones and by twos all flew to the field
They knew they would fight to the last if they had to
That every dark hunger might somehow be healed
3.And though they were strangers they shared a wild dreaming
And meeting that first time they knew at a glance
Without any planning, by some magic signal
They captured the ship that would see the stars dance
4.And out on the sun-wind they flew in their rapture
With never a thought to the world left behind
The poets, the singers, the dreamers, the mystics
The few who could see among so many blind
5.And every gosling they birthed on the star-ship
Was heir to the wild streak that drove them all on
And still the dark dream and a wild Ban-sidhe wailing
Would haunt all their sleep in that night without dawn
6.And somewhere between the gold star that they came from
And one more unseen at the end of their flight
They lost their last yearning for somewhere to settle
And chased the wild wailing across a dark night
7.The wild geese are flying on sun-colored feathers
In black velvet seas beyond galaxy's shore
The wild geese with all of our dreams in their pockets
Chorus: Oh, take me in a dream or real
To that old time the earth once knew
When all the lands alive with legend
Shared a future bright and new
When all the animals were tame
When every creature talked
When giants walked
1. Before peculiar was a sin
The world was playground for us all
And giants were our gentle friends
Before we took that tragic fall
And light was dripping honey
On the mountains and the shore
But no one speaks of giants anymore
2. Before peculiar was a sin
When honor-bound was something real
Before all creatures learned to fear
Before we learned to lie and steal
The giants danced in circles
'Round the fires we built to share
And now we cannot find them anywhere
3. And then peculiar turned to sin
And different meant a friendship's death
And all the rare and special beasts
Stopped in their tracks and held their breath
And when the giants saw this
There was nothing left to say
And that was when the giants went away
4. Yes, when peculiar turned to sin
They gathered in their giant hands
The different and defenseless fey
The strangest creatures in the lands
And carried them away
Before another day could dawn
And still nobody knows where they have gone
5. So now peculiar is a sin
And honor is a useless token
Different means a life alone
And love is better left unspoken
Everyone who lives outside
The circle that we`ve chalked
Would love to go to where the giants walked
6. And if peculiar is a sin
Then mark me with a sinners brand
And if the gods are kind to me
I'll climb into some gentle hand
And leave behind a world so blind
It cannot see my face
The intimate unspoken ways
We touch each others lives
Is a pledge of the tomorrows we will share
And our battle with these darkening days
Will pass as each one strives
To remember our committment is to care
Chorus: You are water to my thirst
You have been my first, last,and only loves
Though you are many, we are one
A family begun in a simple time
A gentle rhyme like this could never show
You may never know
How I love you so
Though none alive can bind us
There still remains a bond
Renewed each passing moment by our choice
These links of love will find us
Growing every day more fond
Of the harmonies our sharing souls will voice
And if our way is growing
It is not perfect yet
We may need all our lives to learn it's song
There's more to music's flowing
Than solo or duet
You and I see derelicts and winos passing by
But he sees vapor angels, and it makes him want to cry
And he's learned to find forgetfulness inside an empty glass
And his worst fears come to pass.
Waiting for the mushroom clouds to take us all away
We will fly as vapor angels on that bright atomic day
So he wallows in his hopelessness and listens for the sound
Of bombers leaving the ground.
Come on vapor angel, take my hand and fly
From the bottom of your midnight to the rainbows in my sky
All you vapor angels in hopeless harmony
Learn to sing a solo line and let your songs run free.
Once when I was feeling lost I saw up in the sky
A band of vapor angels with a tear in every eye
They hovered in their sorrow, then they left without a trace
And each one wore your face.
Every time I sing the blues, often when I'm high
I pray to vapor angels and I wait for their reply.
And I hate the roads that took you off to somewhere warm and blue
And I know I'll miss you, too.
Come on vapor angel, take my hand and fly
From the bottom of your midnight to the rainbows in my sky
All you vapor angels in hopeless harmony
This is my traveling song
The end of this journey is almost in sight
An island-of-exile coffeehouse is my weary stop tonight
My friends are dying or getting married
It's hard to tell which one is which
And I'll be back home in my own sweet country soon
If I don't drive into a ditch
This is my travelling song
The border guards ask for my produce to take
I tell them I've nothing to declare and my foot lifts off the brake
My heart is crying "Too long you've tarried"
It's hard to slow down for the curve
And I'll be back home etc.
If I don't forget how to swerve
Bridge: I can know in my heart it's a sad cliche
As the wanderlust calls me far away
And I love the good old USA
But it is not my home
To my aching heart a mem'ry reaches
Of her golden hills and endless beaches
And the lesson that it softly teaches
"California is your home.
You've had time enough to roam,
And it's time to come back home."
This is my traveling song
I open the door and I call that I'm back
And I ask someone just what day this is for I find that I've lost track
My family's flying in hugs I'm buried
It's hard to tell which way to turn
And I'll stay right here in my own sweet country now
'Cause at last I've started to learn
Bridge
Coda: This is my travelling song
But it's time to go back home
This is my travelling song
I've had time enough to roam
This is my travelling song
Chorus: The wild geese are flying out on a bright wind
And never again will their songs fill our skies
They've taken their magic and grace from our seeing
And followed the dark in their eyes
1. The wild gypsy geese in a thousand sad cities
Heard tales of a chance to fly from their tears
Out on a sun-breeze in a dark Ban-sidhe wailing
A journey of more than one hundred light years
2. The wild gypsy geese like some star-haunted pilgrims
By ones and by twos all flew to the field
They knew they would fight to the last if they had to
That every dark hunger might somehow be healed
3. And though they were strangers they shared a wild dreaming
And meeting that first time they knew at a glance
Without any planning, by some magic signal
They captured the ship that would see the stars dance
4. And out on the sun-wind they flew in their rapture
With never a thought to the world left behind
The poets, the singers, the dreamers, the mystics
The few who could see among so many blind
5. And every gosling they birthed on the star-ship
Was heir to the wild streak that drove them all on
And still the dark dream and a wild Ban-sidhe wailing
Would haunt all their sleep in that night without dawn
6. And somewhere between the gold star that they came from
And one more unseen at the end of their flight
They lost their last yearning for somewhere to settle
And chased the wild wailing across a dark night
7. The wild geese are flying on sun-colored feathers
In black velvet seas beyond galaxy's shore
The wild geese with all of our dreams in their pockets
Well it's years since [Tallow?] died and I continued on alone
With the sassiest computer that this galaxy has known
It critiques my words and music, and rewrites my favorite jokes
But it moves so slow we've only made it up and down two spokes
And the rim worlds're lovely though they are so poor it hardly
Pays
And their cities are so far and few we wander lost for days.
And I should have set up closer to the spaceport
But the spacers think that makes me open game
They all think they are god's gift to every woman
And they're surprised to find I just don't feel the same.
Well I think that where I'm sitting is the corner of the street
I have been here for an hour watching all the passing feet
I've been singing all my best new songs and all the standards too
>From SF to folk to rock to something borrowed something blue
And my hat is full but I'm not sure if it is food or cash
For all I know it just might be the place they put their trash.
And I should have set up closer to the spaceport
But the spacers are so drunk they're all but numb.
They ask for "Banned from Argo," "Melancholy Baby,"
And the one that goes, "da dum da dum da dum."
Well I'm thinking about giving up this roving life of mine
And going back to where the tips and crowds are always fine
And I'll sing out on the corners on the planet of my birth
'Cause I've heard my stuff is still for sale most everywhere on
Earth
And I'll be a local songbird, not a wild goose out in space
Cause I've found my favorite audience is still the human race.
And I'll set up on the corners at the spaceport
And relieve the spacers of their surplus pay
And whenever some slick fool tempts me to wander
A cover for your back, a hand across your heart
A warm and gentle breath across your spine
A tingle in the touch, the fires begin to start
And love becomes intoxicating wine
The night is full of spark
The velvet of the dark
Is warm and soft like fingertips that never leave a mark
And even if we only sleep the fires are banked inside
We waken in each others' arms and ride and ride and ride
Chorus: When the world is racing to attack
Let me be the wall against your back
Honey, you just come up to my room
And let me cup you like a spoon
You touch me and I burn, I kiss you and you steam
And when we make connections we explode
And each time we're apart is one more fever dream
Just waiting for the next sweet overload
The night is full of spark
The velvet of the dark
Is warm and soft like fingertips that never leave a mark
You reach for me again and though I'm weary to the core
A voice so deep inside is crying "More, more, more!"
I sent you a sonnet
I stole from a woman
Who shared all my fears
You'll never imagine the courage it cost me
To wait out the years
Knowing that time was against ever meeting you
Loving you still for your songs
Trusting the truth of the lyrics
I've learned from you
Wishing on stars and singing on street corners
Hoping that you'd come along
And if you should hear this don't
Feel obligations to answer these lines
I'm happy just knowing I've
Told you I love you within these poor rhymes
Portuguese sonnets and second hand songwriters
Sending you fan-letter love cannot express
All the beauty I see in you
Found in your words,
Locked in your songs
I grew up in a ghetto
That was only one house wide
With smiling suburbs all around
And poverty inside
The oldest of an army
That the church was proud to claim
And on the brink of womanhood
I almost lost my name
And I was
Chorus: Quivering in my fever-life
Wishing that I was dead
Suddenly realizing they were
Talking over my head
Learning to speak their double-talk
Facing each day with dread
Waiting waiting waiting waiting
Waiting for that first smear of red
For God was my delirium and sisterhood my goal
But my church began to wonder
If the commies had a soul
And the day I saw a bishop
With an M-1 in his hand
Was the last day of my life
Beneath hypocrisy?s command
But I was..
(chorus)
My wishes all said "Woman"
But my body answered "Child"
My life was just a little odd
My outlook warped and wild
I told my inhibitions
They would fall away someday
The ghosts of them still haunt me
And I cannot run away
But I was--
(chorus)
I've had my turn as maiden, a longer one than most
And I have been a mother
For two girls, one boy, one ghost
I'm looking toward my future
And my chance to be the crone
But although my life is crowded
I am doing this alone
And now I'm
Last chorus:
Quviering in my fever-life
Wishing that time was dead
Suddenly realizing that I'm
Talking over your head
Throwing away the double-talk
Hanging on by a thread
Waiting waiting waiting waiting
Sister-wife, you turn away
And close your eyes to all my speaking
Though you've come to love our way
You think there's something else you're seeking
Though you've grown to need this bond
You think it's something you must sever
You must learn to look beyond
The love you give goes on forever
Sister-wife you know we love you
Cherish you in all our ways
Faithful as the stars above you
There beside you all your days
Come along and fear no evil
For our love is sure and true
Here with us you'll find no devil
Only others just like you
Sister-wife our way of living
May seem strange and so unreal
But set aside your own misgiving
And look at how you really feel
And you may find your love is here
Where all of us are waiting still
So set aside your needless fear
I should have been poor white trash,
But I had too much education.
I would have been a long-hair,
But it just refused to grow.
I could have been president,
But I had all the wrong relationships:
Loose lips, juicy gossips, people I don't know.
I should have been mother-of-the-year,
But I forgot which end to paddle.
I would have been a waitress,
But I didn't hold my tongue.
I could have been a desert guide,
But I got bitten by a rattlesnake.
Tough break, hope and heartache wasted on the young.
Bridge:Oh, rock me easy.
Roll me like a wave.
Rock my soul in the bosom of the sea;
There's nothing left to save.
Meet you on the other side of the grave.
I should have been Diamond Lil,
But I'm a second-hand attraction.
I would have learned my lessons,
But I never had the class.
I could have been poor white trash,
But I'm a renegade reactionary:
Once there was a Ship of Stone
That orbited a mighty Star
And from it flew the First Ship's crew
Whose children we all are
And no matter how long we've drawn our track
Still over our shoulder looking back
Through the hydrogen's hiss and the methane's moan
Past the polymer clouds of the Dead Stars' shrouds
All our roads run back to the Ship of Stone
There the First Crew all were made
And wakened from unknowing sleep
By the boundless sight of Heaven's height
And the fires of the Deep
And no matter how strange the forms we wear
How warped and wild, how rich and rare
How changed we've made the seed we've sown
We are blood of those who, singing, rose
From the body of the Ship of Stone
And there our own ships' frames were formed
To grow blue-glowing wings
And spread them wide to the farthest tide
Where the last lone beacon sings
And no matter how tight the net they knot
Of our web where the Wheel of Light is caught
How strange and lost, how grand they've grown
They, too, desire all Heaven's fire
Our comrades since the Ship of Stone
Once there was a Ship of Stone
Clear domed, broad hulled and clean
Where the air shown blue, through whose holds birds flew
And whose decks were growing green
And no matter odd these things may seem
As madly mazed as shards of dream
They are not a dream that you dream alone
All ships, all men, are of one kin
Reference: 'Dune', Frank Herbert
Chorus: Shai Hulud, send me a great worm, send me the courage to ride it well
Shai Hulud, send me way to change the nightmare that Spice foretells
Shai Hulud, give me a new way, and vengeance for all who died
Shai Hulud, give me worm to ride
My homeworld was a water dream that I had left behind
Arrakis and the Spice had filled the corners of my mind
My mother was beside me, Father's ring was in my hand
I started up the drumming and we crossed the desert sand
I learned the ways of Fremen, and I taught them mine as well
We trained an army twice as fierce as any spawned in Hell
I had to prove my manhood if I wished to hold command
So I started up the drumming and I waited, hook in hand
Chorus
I've drunk the Maker's waters, and I've searched each future path
And nothing in those visions can prevent the days of wrath
So I gather up the army for a final bloody stand
And we start the thumper drumming, and we ride across the sand
The tales and songs will live beyond the ending of my days
But all that I have felt and loved will pass too soon away
I'll walk into my future knowing every step by heart
And none will ever guess how much I dread to play my part
The unicorn to the dragon said,
"Our time is nearly done,
And we shall follow the breath of the dead
To a world with a crimson sun."
"The maids shall mourn your passing then."
The dragon spoke in turn.
"And new little boys and full-grown men
Shall long to see me burn."
Chorus: Where did the legends come from
Before they reached our star
And will we be legends when we have gone
Where all of our legends are
The sun came up on an empty hill,
And every myth was gone;
But all the legends are haunting us still
Each night from dusk to dawn.
For on the night when the visions fled
Beyond the skies of coal,
The first man lifted his wondering head,
And thought the stars his goal.
Chorus
And when we've traveled an endless run
Of planets near and far
We may chance to discover the crimson sun
Where all of our legends are
You stared into the ocean as I stared at you one day
And I felt much more than saw the yearning rising with the tide
You turned it in your mind again before you turned to play
And a voice was in the ocean calling "ride, ride, ride
Ride the silver-blue current out to hear a green spirit
Sing the deepest chord the world has known
Rocking in the sea-cradle, you'll surrender all searches
Centuries of questions have all flown, like seeds upon the wind
Moments into time, verses into rhyme
You spoke to me of seeking and I sang your voice inside
To a music in the water so much older than your dream
Like some classical duet I played your search against the tide
But your music was like a silence with the stream calling
Ride the silver-blue current out to hear a green spirit
Sing the deepest chord the world has known
Rocking in the sea-cradle, you'll surrender all searches
Centuries of questions have all flown, like seeds upon the wind
Moments into time, verses into rhyme
In our race to find the reason and our fever to be free
There is often much more pain than we intend. We are
Pieces of a puzzle we may never get to see
When the answer finds itself the game will end, and we'll
Ride the silver-blue current out to hear a green spirit
Sing the deepest chord the world can know
Rocking in the sea-cradle, you'll surrender all searches
Centuries of questions will all flow, like seeds upon the wind
Moments into time, verses into rhyme
Castles into sand, oceans into land
We gather in a quiet room
To sing our hopeful tunes
And all of us have something to be sharing
We speak the stars or summon tears
Or make each other smile
And every song shows signs of someone's caring
We wander through each others worlds
And trades desires and dreams
And show each other stars to wish upon
And then by ones and twos
We slip away off to our beds
Yet something magic happens near the dawn
Chrous: Just the few who have lasted
Till the day begins again
Turn to family and friends
With a soft "remember when..."
And I talk about the flower years
That made me what I am
And all of you
Share your remembrance too
Verse: A D G A A D E A
G Bm E7 A G B M E7 A
Chrous: D G A D D G A D
One woman shares her grieving
For the loved ones she has lost
And shyly speaks of her new special someone
A gentle man can talk about
A father who has died
And how someday he hopes he can become one
And all the quiet listeners
Who have no songs to share
Will offer you the moments of their lives
Like jewels that are priceless
They will give you all their fears
And gems of all the courage that survives
It's so hard when sleep is calling
To remain for one more song
And the memories that always follow after
And I've often slipped away myself
Before those early hours
And missed out on the sharing and the laughter
But one thought can console me
As I wander to my bed
So long before the singing circle ends
I know I'll try again and maybe
Last until the dawn
C F G Em Am
If I had a razor sharp enough
F G Em
I'd cut myself clear
C Dm G Am
Of all the pieces of pain in my past
Dm G
And I'd be free at last
F G Em Am
If I had a razor sharp enough
F G Am
And I could see the edges clearly too
Dm G Am
I'd cut away the part that binds me to you
Dm G
But I am blinded by my tears
Dm G Am
And all my blades are dulled by passing years
F G Em
And all my wishes cannot make it over now
Dm G C
I hope I have enough to make it through somehow
If I had a candle bright enough
To shine in my soul
And light the dark of the loneliness found
I'd find my way around
If I had a candle bright enough
And I could see the love I've lost inside
I'd have the courage to reach out instead of hide
But I am blinded by my tears
My candle's burned at both ends through the years
And all my wishes cannot make it over now
I hope I have enough to make it through somehow
Now I have a song that's strong enough
To see me through all
The lonely darkness and pain life will bring
And still have strength to sing
And I have a song that's bright enough
To light the path from yesterday to dawn
And give me courage to smile and still go on
Now I see clearly through my tears
My wits have grown much sharper with the years
And though my wishes cannot make it over now
Quetzalcoatl had a skin all green and mottled
And it stayed that way through all the skins he shed.
And though he had a silver tongue
Nobody could stop laughing
Long enough to even hear the things he said.
So he decided that a feather coat would do the trick
And whether that was wise or not he set rght out to get it.
He connived a spider into spinning him a silken chicken skin
And doing it for nothing - so he let it.
And he was slick
Yes he was slick
He could hide in your clothing
And even you would miss the place he hid.
And he could talk
He talked so slick
Well, they say that he could talk
The feathers off a chicken...
And he did!
Quetzalcoatl took a very fancy bottle
Of the finest liquer to the chicken farm.
And he kept that rooster drinkin'
'til the feathers started thinkin'
It was warm enough to do his body harm.
And then he offered sweetly
To replace their feathers neatly
With the lightest coat of spider silk around.
He got those plumes together
And he made himself a feather skin
And slithered off in bliss along the ground.
And he was slick
Yes he was slick
He could hide in your clothing
And even you would miss the place he hid.
And he could talk
He talked so slick
Well, they say that he could talk
The feathers off a chicken...
And he did!
Why, he was so slick,
They used him for an Air Hockey table!
He's been banned with twelve miles
Of the Califonia coast!
Why do you think they call it
Chorus: I cry for the lost broken children
I weep for the last dying spark
And if only you could weep for the children
You would not call me demon in the dark
The cavern of the ages has been broken, has been battered
And the unborn children cry in all my dreams
I cannot see tomorrow in the shattered shards of yesterday
My tears flood out in bleak despairing streams
You broke into the caverns as a pirate after plunder
And the unborn children died as I stood by
What kind of heartless monsters would kill children without even tears
And yet you call me demon as you die
I've tried with all my failing strength to stop you or to tell you
But I cannot reach your thoughts with word or cry
And as you train your weapons on my open back to fire again
I sit in a darkness more deep than my cave
And curse the bold hero who gave me my grave
For no one will fear when they see this blind fool
To leave me alive was a torment most cruel
Chorus: I once was a Giant, but now I'm a craven
My dirge is the song of white sheep and black raven
I curse the brave man who would not stand and fight
But who gave me to death when he put out my sight
He sharpened my stick while I slept unafraid
Then burned it red-hot in the fire I had made
He stabbed it down into my eyelid so deep
He robbed me of sight as he robbed me of sleep
My sheep when to pasture and never returned
The coals are so cold where my bonfire once burned
I hear the birds call as the night gathers near
And folds me in silence as deep as my fear
I sit in the cold and the night of the blind
And curse that foul captain and all man-unkind
I pray he will wander as I never can
And wish for the sight of his own kin and clan
The sheep on the hillsides call lost in the night
They cannot be gathered by one without sight
The ravens are waiting on branches nearby
I saw a falling star come down
It flashed across Orion
And in less time than it took to fade
I found that I was cryin?
I was travelling to a last goodbye
Unsure of what to feel
But that teardrop of light
In the winter sky (hold)
Made the whole thing much more real
Chorus:
(and) oh where are you now
When I need you again?
And oh, where did you go?
Time has freed you from the pain
In all the other lives we?ve shared
Our time was even shorter
Of love and life we built a bridge
And music was the mortar
We were travelling in a world of song
Recording what we learned
But the two of us climbed to the mountain?s peak
And yet only one returned
So now I say a last farewell
And head out toward Orion
There are places in the heart of me
That feel like they are dyin?
We are travelling on the wheel of life
Unsure of who we are
But I?ll know you next time
By your eyes that shine
If the love that I could give
Is too much for you to live with
Love is something positive with time and space for all
I could be content with less I don't need you to possess
Just one passing sweet caress before the shadows fall
I would be a one-night stand
If that's all that you could hand me
You may never understand me yet I love you still
I don't think you'll always stay
That's not like you anyway
It's enough we have today these empty hearts to fill
So if we can be content
With the time that fate has sent us
Then what is there to prevent us loving wise and well
We are blessed with little time
To play our little pantomime
To fill our lives with dance and rhyme
And cast a loving spell
Your roads have all been easy
And your days have all been warm
And you've been blessed with common sense
And beauty in your form
You thought that this was just another
Simple stream to cross
But you've got one foot over the waterfall
And the rock is slick with moss
Chorus: One foot over the waterfall
And the shore is not in sight
One foot over the waterfall
On a dark and windy night
One foot over the waterfall
Will you ever get across?
One foot over the waterfall
And the rocks are slick with moss
In all your years of training
And all the school you've had
They never told you how to deal
With something quite this bad
Your bones are full of jelly
And your heart is full of drumming
You've got one foot over the waterfall
And you never saw it coming
The situation's hopeless
There's no one on your side
And more than almost anything
You'd love to run and hide
It won't get any easier
There's next to zero chance
And you've got one foot over the waterfall
So you might as well start to dance
It isn't always easy
To move along with grace
Sometimes in spite of all you do
You end upon your face
But if you try with all your might
To dance this dizzy track
Someone out beyond the waterfall
Will throw a lifeline back
I had one foot over the waterfall
When I found this solid ground
And without the lifeline tossed to me
I likely would have drowned
This message is a lifeline
This song my be a chance
When you've got one foot over the waterfall
Chorus: We are not the heroes, all the words we say can never change it
We are not the heroes, rewrite history or rearrange it
We are not 'the white hats', they are not 'the black'
And none of us on either side can save our children
On the day that we attack
I watch my babies sleeping, and they are barely two
They look out on a universe that's magical and new
I sit here and imagine, in this smug, heroic nation
What my children will look like next year
As they die of radiation
We all move our missiles closer to our enemies, until
We are forced to use computers to decide just when to kill
But computers have no judgement, or no love or hope or fear
So mistakes are that much easier
And nightmares cluster near
Chorus
I do not sing of spirits, so you're probably not scared
You couldn't do a thing about it, even if you cared
You are helpless pawns of masters, or you're blind and deaf and dumb
And you're also not responsible ("all so" ? - C. ;-) )
For what surely has to come
Some are dying of diseases, so we're proud that we're not ill
If we cannot push the button, it's not our fault bombs can kill
Though we never reach to help, we didn't make the stumbler fall
When our children feel the atom's kiss
We'll share no blame at all
When the conversation turns, always has the right remark
Eyes that pierce into your soul and teeth that glisten in the dark
Every touch a warm caress, every movement filled with grace
And letter-perfect love cliches, welcome almost every place
Chorus: Every mother's perfect catch, every maiden's shining knight
Dropped out of some fairy tale, for their salvation
A dream creation, call him Mr. Right
Just like colored Christmas lights, keeps his ladies on a string
Every time they start to fade, he turns them on like anything
Swears his vast undying love until she makes that sweet surrender
And by the time they've sobered up she's just another lost-weekender
Chorus
With a sizzle in his touch, and passion flowers in his eyes
They won't get to see too much of what is under his disguise
So take the words of warning here, the reason for this little song
If you give in to Mr. Right, you'll find that you're his Mrs. wrong
So they've stopped making speeches and they've started making war
There are plastic pocket calculators tallying the score
And a multitude of gentle hearts are wildly skipping beats
And is this why we all went marching in the streets
The uniforms go marching by in jets of screaming pain
As they rise into the rockets holding poisons dressed as rain
And a million brazen buglers can no longer sound retreat
And is this why we all went marching in the streets
Now they've found a way to kill the men and let the buildings stand
And they've blindly put the switches into aging madmens' hands
Ones who dream of war and glory and a thousand mighty feats
And is this why we all went marching in the streets
Now the children are demanding if we've sold our souls or worse
As we tear their world to splinters for the profits of our purse
As they turn their backs on us the question once again repeats
Is this why we all went marching in the streets
So you think no more of marching all the protesters are gone
And you've paid the price once asked of you and now the debt is done
Well believe it if you will but if you don't get off your seats
They'll soon have us all out marching in the streets
We are raising up our voices for the cause of peace again
They're preparing us for war now but they will not tell us when
We must stop them here and now before the final armies meet
Or there'll be no one left for marching in the streets
I am a Dorsai and I've learned a grisly skill
They've taught me how to win a war 10,000 ways to kill
And all the vicious weapons to be used each time I fight
Now I've become a weapon of such fearsome might
Chorus: I am no soldier, I'm a man of war
I am no soldier, I'm a man of war
My code is my life and my duty is my soul
The filling of our contract is my only kind of goal
I go where they tell me and I fight the ones they say
And none of us would think to ever run away
Chorus
We fight and we march to the mercenaries' drum
And many wars are ended by the rumor that we've come
We take to the field and the enemy all flies
I've seen them run in terror from the look in my eyes
Chorus
We land on some planet and we fight until we fall
Or till the war is ended and we hear them sound recall
They say we are bloodless, that we're nothing but machines
But still they beg to hire us when they have the means
Chorus
The years count up in kills and the battles still go on
And none of us believe that we will see a peaceful dawn
And it's aeons of victory to minutes of defeat
But I'm waiting for the day that you will make us obsolete
I am of starfleet and my heart is sick with dread
They issued me my tunic and the color is blood red
Everytime I close my eyes I see an open tomb
They told me to report to the transporter room
I am in trouble.. I'm security
I am in trouble.. I'm security
We beam down to the planet with our weapons set on stun
I know my tour is over quite before it has begun
The doctor, the first officer, the Captain that makes three
The engineer and Sulu, and the other one is me
Chorus
I hope I can survive all this but I don't have much hope
The aliens are charging and the Captain's such a dope
He thinks if we charge back it will surprise them and we'll win
I'm crouched here waiting for his signal to begin
Chorus
I've got a bright idea now if only it will work
If I can be the one behind our crazy Captain Kirk
I'm ready and determined and my phaser's set to kill
I'll get him in the back as we charge down the hill
I went looking for a winter
Meant to match my splintered heart
But all the world was hot as passion
Fashionably fevered art
I came drunk and wildly reeling
Blaming no one feeling pain
But all the world had caught me staring
Wearing my own private rain
Chorus:
Windows of the past
Shadows of tommorow
Sorrows never last
Shallow ears may borrow
All the pain you share
Call the rain your fare
For the taxi to a paradise
You might believe in once or twice
In hopes of meeting someone nice
Who's never really there
I tried looking for a lover
Hiding my scar-covered soul
But all the world was watching cruelly
Duly noting each dead coal
I stood waiting to be wanted
Should I show undaunted pride?
But all the world had found me empty
Tempting me to turn and hide
Chorus: Look away, look away, I can't bear
To be watching the love they are sharing
There are too many years I must stay
Every touch, every kiss is a knife in my heart
Oh child, look away
1. One never knows from beginnings at all
Just what will be the ends
Lost in the lives of my puppets
Never quite touched by friends
What I have made of my chances
Seemed logical in that hour
Choices will haunt forever
No one has all the power
2. Given a strange opportunity
I chose the road to hell
One who's been taken by fever
Acts without thinking too well
All of the strings I was pulling
And all of the cages closed
Left me alone in this wasteland
Hidden and so exposed
3. I will have all of eternity
To regret what I have done
Hours alone in this darkness
And days full of torture and sun
All of my memories dancing
All the repentance that sings
I am the puppetmaster
Always without the strings
Chords:
Chorus: Dm C Dm Bb F C
Am Dm C Am C Am
Dm Bb Dm
Verses: Dm C Am Dm
Dm Bb Dm
C G D Bb A7
Dm C Am Dm
C Dm
C Bb Dm
This little trunk holds Jonathan's love letters
Bound so neatly in ribbons of silk
Jonathan had such beautiful penmanship
Written on parchment as white as milk
Jonathan's words arranged chronologically
Month by month and then day by day
Jonathan surely wrote me quite frequently
Jonathan had such a lot to say
Chorus: My sweet Jonathan wrote me constantly
All he hoped to be, all he dreamed
How the world was too bright and beautiful
How the people weren't all they seemed
Jonathan wrote when he was out traveling
How he hated each social affair
Jonathan swore he soon would come back to me
We'd get married and settle somewhere
Jonathan wrote with caring and tenderness
How he loved me so simple and pure
Jonathan said those colorful party girls
All were too forward to be endured
Chorus
Jonathan wrote me on a clear summer's day
Told me with sorrow we'd never wed
Some little tramp accused him of raping her
Jonathan never was in her bed
She was expecting one or two little ones
Honor would force him to make her wife
Jonathan swore he'd always remember me
All through his terrible married life
Chorus
Jonathan wrote once more in his perfect hand
Told me that when all the fuss should die
And his rich bride went off for the holidays
He would come just for one last goodbye
Jonathan came at midnight on Christmas eve
One more sweet letter was in his hand
Saying that all his wealth was such misery
Swearing his life was at my command
Chorus
This little trunk holds Jonathan's love letters
Reading them still can be lots of fun
This little trunk holds Jonathan's every word
I'm the beat of your heart
In the guise that you wear
I'm the spark in your eye
For the love that you dare
I live deep in your breast
Feel me move, feel me rise
In your heart, in your soul
In your eyes
I am Lord, I am Light
Shining bright on the Earth
I am Love, and your soul
I will guide to rebirth
I am strength to be free
From all fear, if you're wise
In your heart, in your soul
In your eyes
I am Death, I touch all
I will come as I must
Bringing comfort and rest,
For your souls are my trust
And reunion my gift
Beyond death is the prize
For your heart, for your soul
For your eyes
I will pulse in your blood
I will ring from your core
When the Lady, my love,
Gives you flesh once more
You will meet and remember
The loves of your lives
For your heart and your soul
Are my eyes
I am Lord, I am Love
I'm the beat of your heart
I am Lord, I am Life
I'm the seed of your start
I am Lord, hear me laugh,
Feel me move, feel me rise
In your heart, in your soul
In your eyes
In your heart, in your soul
Up on Howling Mountain
Underneath the sky
They are forging magic metal
As the torn clouds scream and fly
Chorus: For Fenris must be chained
Or Chaos will be king
Up on Howling Mountain
Within a bubbling vat
They put the first ingredient
The footfall of a cat
Up on Howling Mountain
To seal a wolven weird
They next put in the cauldron
A gentle woman's beard
Up on Howling Mountain
With many a magic word
They throw into the mixture
The spittle of a bird
Up on Howling Mountain
With chant and lyre and flute
The sorcerors are shouting as
They drop in mountain's root
Up on Howling Mountain
As stars above them stare
They circle 'round the fiery pot
And add the nerve of bear
Up on Howling Mountain
With many a prayer and wish
They toss the last ingredient
The silent breath of fish
Up on Howling Mountain
A god is less one hand
But Fenris rages in his chains
And peace is on the land
Chorus: For Fenris must be chained
Or Chaos will be king
And Chaos is no king
There's a Hilton in the sky
For all the good fen when they die
The elevators never stick
The banquets don't serve plastic chicken
Only grade A prime
And you're guaranteed a real good time
That just goes on and on
If you're good enough to go to Heaven-Con
It's membership by invitation only
And all the hotel rooms and meals are comps
The wet-bar in the consuite is a freebie
And all femme-fen are ready for a romp
The bathtubs are all filled with girls and Jell-O
And every author waits your beck and call
They ask for your advice on their new novels
And ask for autographs out in the hall
There's a Hilton in the sky
For all the good fen when they die
The panels never start till three
No one disturbs you when you're sleeping
All the filk songs rhyme
And you're guaranteed a real good time
That just goes on and on
If you're good enough to go to Heaven-Con
There's mirrors on the ceiling in each bedroom
And 3-D videos on every wall
And levitators waiting at your elbow
For the times when you're too drunk to even crawl
The dealer's room extends eternal credit
They just forget to send the bills along
And when you make your way into the filkroom
You find you've been immortalized in song
There's a Hilton in the sky
For all the good fen when they die
The bidding parties never end
And all the other fen are friendly
Boredom is a crime
And you're guaranteed a real good time
That just goes on and on
Chorus: Where are the Brownies when you need them
How come the kitchen's still a sight
Where are the Brownies when you need them
I hope they change their minds and come tonight
Woke up this morning and the porch was full of sour milk
The bowl I left the Brownies had been spilled from end to end
And nothing had been done around my house while I was sleeping
I thought the little buggers were my friends
I got a neighbor and I swear her name is Mrs. Clean
Her place is just immaculate a picture of delight
I asked her for the secret and she told me it was Brownies
They did it for the milk she left at night
All right, you Brownies, now I'm gonna give you one last chance
If I still find this wild disaster when I leave my bed
I'm gonna let my fingers wander through those Yellow Pages
I'm sorry to disturb you but you look a kindly sort
I'm looking for a friend of mine he's white and not what you'd call short
Six feet if he's an inch, pink-eyed and dressed with perfect care
From ears to tail a gentleman and singularly rare
Chorus: Have you seen my good friend Harvey
We stopped in down the street
We'd only had a beer or two
When he said he had some friends to meet
And Harvey is so friendly
He makes me very proud
To say I am his special friend
To everyone out loud
He came this way I'm certain 'cause he leaves a special glow
On all the faces in the places he might get to know
It seemed so very peaceful when I looked into this bar
I thought old Harvey must be here, "My goodness there you are"
Chorus: Have you met my good friend Harvey
He's really quite sublime
Come out and do the town with us
I can guarantee a real fine time
For Harvey is so friendly
The good time never ends
And all the folks we haven't met
Are just our will-be friends
Whenever I'm with Harvey I have all the time I please
The pleasant hours last twice as long and pass with grace and ease
But all the dull and boring times that plague our lives each day
Dance on before you blink an eye when Harvey comes to stay
Chorus: Say Hello to my friend Harvey
And come along today
He'll slip a month into an hour
And we'll tour from here to Mandalay
And when our lunch is over
And we've wandered home again
We'll all go out to some new bar
I've been to the rim and the galaxy's core
And planets unnumbered I've seen in my questing
At times I was sure I would never be resting
And all of that time I was asking "What for?"
I left as a youth and I wandered the stars
Feeling a pull that I chose to ignore
Knowing full well there was something much more
Than all of the wonders I saw in the sky
I called as I left here before
Chorus: Goodbye to Sol and Terra
Farewell to moonlight and sand
Deep greens and blues
Are the colors you use
To haunt me wherever I land
In ways that I don't understand
And always the image of one golden day
And one shade of blue in the sky and the ocean
Would stir in my mind like a sorcerer's potion
And then I'd raise planet and wander away
Worlds without number I'd visit and leave
Then one of them finally urged me to stay
I heard my own soul in the trees and the clay
I'd come the full circle and found my way home
And I knew I would nevermore say
Mother falls on the mountain stair
Wild marauders footsteps fill the air
Fox appears drawn by moans and sighs
Reaching in despair the mother cries
Chorus: Fox-woman, sister, we are one
Give me vengeance though my life is done
Fox-Woman, sister, name your fee
Grant that I may strike my enemy
Rebels stare silent at the fox
As the wild beast chained in them unlocks
Killers flee fighting hard and wild
As fox-woman guards the one with child
Temple priest takes the mother in
Tells her that the vengeance will begin
Though she knows she must pay with death
Mother whispers with each passing breath
Chorus
Soft she comes to the temple door
Russet pelt a shadow near the floor
Deep the drums in her gentle heart
Keep the rhythm as the birth pains start
Russet gown, hem of snowy white
Now a woman steps into the light
Makes her way to the bed of pain
Reaches down with touch as soft as rain
As her touch melts into the flesh
Pain departs as fox and mother mesh
Screaming ends with one quiet breath
As the mother gives herself to death
And the priest raises up the knife
Carves a door to bring the child to life
Infant born still without a sound
Fox and human spirits have been bound
Chorus
Killers come seeking for the child
Turned away by visions strong and wild
As they flee down the mountain stair
Nick was a golden child
Loved by a Muse
With many more talents
Than one man could use
But perched on his shoulder
With talons in bone
Was a raven of sorrow
As heavy as stone
Try as he might
The cold weight of that bird
Held him in bondage
And coloured each word
And though his gaze traveled
As high as the stars
The bleak touch of talons
Became prison bars
The call of the music
Was strong in his soul
He shot toward the heavens
His eyes on his goal
But heroes get weary,
And heartache is strong
And few men can conquer
The raven's dark song
He fell in a slumber
And into the earth
The root of a fruit tree
Of infinite worth
And thirty years after
It blossomed and bore
A fruit that is nectar
From skin to the core
The raven of sorrow
Is feeding tonight
On a branch of that fruit tree
And dreaming of flight
But bound to the branches
In sorrow it sings
And the soul of that fruit tree
Has stolen it's wings
Chorus: Look to the stars
Fly to the light
Leave the dark raven
Alone in the night
Soar with your Muses
On shining black wings
Away from the places
Some of us make the music 'cause we hate to waste the lessons E D
Some of us make the musing 'cause it eases all our pains A G
Some of us make the music 'cause we want to make the money C D
But some of us feel the sweet sweet drug of music A C G
Just like heroin in our veins D E
Some of us make the music 'cause like faith it can move mountains E D
Some of us make the music 'cause normality restrains A G
Some of us make the music 'cause it gushes out like fountains C D
But some of us feel the cold black breath of dying A C G
In the moment that silence reigns D E
Chorus:
Oh take me to the mountain D E
Oh take me to the sea D A
Oh make me feel the beating D C
Of the heart beneath my fingers G D
And the rushing of the wind D A G
That's calling me D B7 E
Some of us make the music 'cause applause is what we're after E D
Some of us make the music just to break oppression's chains A G
Some of us make the music 'cause we're running from the laughter C D
But some of us feel the sudden rush of music A C G
As it bubbles up in our brains D E
Some of us make the music 'cause we cannot make tommorow E D
Some of us make the music 'cause we cannot reach the stars A G
Some of us make the music for the joy and for the sorrow C D
But all of us hooked on music learn a little A C G
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