Tell a tale of married men
Of simple shells and curried zen
Falling through the world of when
Today
Serpent coils and hydrofoils
You don't believe what he does with oils
Speaking words that he said once
Yesterday
Peaches are predominant
Peace has got no counterpoint
Peter said he had to go nowhere
Away
But could it be a grand joke
A puff of smoke
Yes it's but a great day
To know the way
Don't you see the huge clouds go flying by
Don't you know
Deep down we all are butterflies
Just you take another look round
What you been seeing
What's been running through your mind
Is all we have at all
Have you been to the tinkers' ball
Waiting for the light to come again
Yes, we was sitting on a rooftop
Looking at the planets
Have you looked out there?
Today is like tomorrow then
A little scared of the affairs of men
Everybody also knows that they're been afraid
'Cause they are frightened by a love life with
everybody
Terrified by the thought of
Unity is probable
Vanity is escapable
Violence, the workings of a tortured mind
Waterbeds are really fun
Sleeping in the baking sun
Debbie's disappointed
But I think she knows it's right
Jellyfish are dangerous
Politics are perilous
And I'm really glad that I'm not Richard's friend
'Cause I say sexual repression can make a lot of
trouble
It can only lead to
Craziness
Is in the head
The heart is short of being dead
Have you got a reason for survival in the fall
Oh look at blood-soaked Charlie on a silk-stained
bedsheet
Can you tell me do you really want to
Die in all your false belief?
I tell you now that there is no relief
Oh, you really gotta grow again
Psychosomatic delusions of euphoria
Better dig it now
Before the coming in memoriam
Could it be a grand joke
A puff of smoke
Yes it's but a great day
To know the way
Don't you see the huge clouds go flying by
Don't you know
City to city, we're on the road
And we don't know where we're bound
We just bringing you music lovers
The sound there is around
And when we come into your town
You can bet we will astound
We will play you all we've found
We will fill your life with sound
We will sing you a song
We will do you no wrong
We will brighten up your day
We will make you a king with an eloquent ring
We will serenade your queen
White line flashin' and the wheels are roarin'
And the country's rollin' by
From the snow capped Rockies to the Midwest plains
We will stop and tell you 'hi'
And if you want to hear our story
We will never bring you down
And we will play you all we've found
We will fill your life with sound
We will sing you a song
We will do you no wrong
We will brighten up your day
We will make you a king with an eloquent ring
We will serenade your queen
From New York City to the angel town
We will always come again
We will bring you a storm or a summer's day
But right inside your head
So when we come into your town
You must bring your folks around
We will play you all we've found
We will fill your life with sound
We will sing you a song
We will do you no wrong
We will brighten up your day
We will make you a king with an eloquent ring
We will serenade your queen
I look up in the sky
A figure bows its head
And then I wonder why
They tell me I'll be dead
The ashes in the tray
My bones of mortal webs
The blood of liquid clay
The brain that swiftly ebbs
We speed on towards the light
Hurling blockades into sand
We know that that is right
We need to hold a hand
That makes us all the same
We see and hear and taste
We speak and play the game
Are you worried about the haste?
Can you identify with I?
Do many pieces still remain?
Or do you ebb and cry
And forget you have a name?
Have you ever felt the wind
In the leaves among your heart?
Or do you still intend
To let your love depart?
The force of love is strong
Like the light from distant space
The might of love is long
Despite refusal to end the race
The sun is setting down
Where are the eyes to see it rise?
No one keeps a crown
Except of thorns or gaudy paste
The time is drawing nigh
We can go and self destruct
Or simply fade away
With the rosy glow of dusk
Or open up our minds
And realize the depth
Or never see the pines
And accept the tragic death
Our fate is in our hands
Can the demons gain the sway
Or sow the lovely lands
Now I told you a long time ago, that I'd hold you
Never let you go behind
Anywhere I might flow
And I know you believe in me
And I hope you are seeing my dream
A whole lot of people in this world
Is a running around
And it's a long way in the face of fear
And there's a lot of men left without any tears
Anymore
And money is the name in the game of fame
But the music don't come out quite the same
Anymore
It's all about a bright white light
Shining through your mind and guiding your way
Mama, put your arms around me
Fill me with your joy and rock me tonight
I said, bright white light
Shining through your mind and guiding your way
I told you a long time ago, that I'd hold you
Never let you go behind
Anywhere I might flow
And I'll hold you in winter and spring
And behold you in everything I sing
Being in your arms is just like coming home
And it's a long way in the face of fear
And there's a lot of men left without any tears
Anymore
And money is the name in the game of fame
But the music don't come out quite the same
Anymore
It's all about a bright white light
Shining through your mind and guiding your way
Bright white light
Shining through your mind and guiding your way
Mama, put your arms around me
Fill me with your joy and rock me tonight
I said, bright white light
Shining through your mind and guiding your way
Bright white light
Shining through your mind and guiding your way
Bright white light
Shining through your mind and guiding your way
Bright white light
All your tears come rolling down your cheeks
I been watching you build this for several weeks
Do you want to stay with me now, do you want to be so
free, so free
Eight long years, you've gotta forget the days of pain
All your life you cannot fight every drop of rain
If you need me call me over, if you want me hold me
closer, so near
Don't wake up and start your day so down
I'll be there to make like I'm your clown
With your laughter you fill my heart now, with your
sorrow you're tearing me apart, my heart
Turn me round, I've got to find a way
Woman gotta live, gotta be a mother
Woman gotta give, gotta be a lover
Woman ought to live her life the way she feel
Woman ought to have the choice to make the deal
Hush your crying, brush my lips on yours
Miss your sighing, swept out on the moors
In your pain it's not so plain if I'm the one
That is to blame, my name
When he's grown and gone his way in time
Send him strong and full of love and lime
He's the one now make him happy, we're not done yet
I'll be his pappy, he's free
T'was a man of youthful features
T'was a boy of sorrowful eyes
Watching out by looking inward
Tall and stately and full of life
In his life, he spoke but rarely
In his mind he cried for light
Painting perceptions trying to capture
That which he saw in his questioning strife
Once in Lisbon, twice in London
Travelling around for all of his time
Looking for and finding a goddess
He took Diana to be his wife
Of the children, they'd begotten
Two had died without knowing life
And the third I know not whereof
But if she lives, she will yet be kind
Casey had a mark of simple value
He had a star between his eyes
In his hands he held an axe blade
The Greek symbol of thunder and fire
On a night when the heavens were crying
He went out and took his blade
Chopping wood to warm his heartside
The lightning came and my brother died
Bring him no wine from faraway vineyards
Tell him no tales of the canyon's might
But wish him peace and eternal wisdom
Armed with the thought of being God
I respectfully decline
There wasn't really very much money
And the work was awful hard
But we'll get by
By the skin of our teeth
If we look at my denial
Well now here we go
We're still on bloody trial
Filled with the scent of lilac gold
And wandering bazaars
Brought with love and simple chores
From hoping lands afar
Sent with characteristic joy
A value that is lost, embossed
While we sit here
They are still
Alive and teeming, millions
Struggling for the right to life
In desert homes of drifting sand
Or darkly gleaming light
Out in space
No mouths to feed
Just searching questing minds
They find
While they're finding
As all is played
We can't evade
We all are made
In nature's glade
And Lord I pray
To live this day
To walk away
To feel and say
The words I know
To see the snow
To see the rain
To hold the pain
Of life
Sweet life
Again
And some will say
They're on their way
To see the light
Beyond the night
And on and on
Beyond the sun
Into the soul
Of all the whole
Of life
When I seen him he had long hair
And the next time it wasn't there
And he said, my friend, I want to play drums with you
So he came to my home town
And he kinda stuck around
'Till we found some drums that were suitable for our
And we used them
Anello where are you? Are you living in India
Are you learning about the Eastern ways of life?
Anello, where are you? Are you still in Bologna?
Are you learning to play the tabla any more?
But we covered the philosophies
While we were sitting in the grass
And we discovered that it all boils down to save your
Self
Anello where are you? Are you living in India
Are you learning about the Eastern ways of life?
Anello, where are you? Are you still in Bologna?
Are you learning to play the tabla any more?
But I really haven't seen him in three or four years
And I don't think that he or I are shedding tears
Any more
Anello where are you? Are you living in India
Are you learning about the Eastern ways of life?
Anello, where are you? Are you still in Bologna?
Are you learning to play the tabla any more?
Anello where are you? Are you living in India
Are you learning about the Eastern ways of life?
Anello, where are you? Are you still in Bologna?
He came in the way that good things come
With the lights shining in his eyes
And most people thought he was another little babe
That wrinkled up his face and cried
And then one wise man, two wise men, three wise men
Come afrom afar, and the many colored men knew
This was a special child
And that's why they followed that star
He came east and west then he found himself
In forty day and forty night
He gave a lot of love to everyone he met
And he told them that the way was right
And then the people drew near, said they want
To hear what's all this talking about
And everybody loved that man so much that
They wanted to laugh and shout
But a bunch of people said he had the wrong idea
So they told him to forget that thought
So a secretive society came about
And they were looking for the love they sought
And then the people in power said
We gave you an order: go back and be a carpenter
But the shining in his face
Told him was right
And so they put him on a cross right there
[intermezzo]
Now he's been gone for a mighty long time
We've forgotten what the man had said
Look at your life in the right direction
And be sure to look inside your head
And when you get around your Christmas tree
Be sure to give all you can
Because the more you're gonna give
The more you're gonna get, be you woman or a gentleman
Now Christmas and Easter ain't the only time
That we should be that way
Love all the people and help your neighbor now each and
every day
And when you do that, you'll see where it's at
You'll feel what I'm talking around
And then the whole wide world is gonna live in peace
For 8500 years it's churning
The wheels of gore have not stopped turning
Are we gonna have another century of war?
The force on both sides doesn't balance
The fear of each it keeps away alliance
To terrible sounds of suffering at the door
Flagrant conflicts of conceptions
The art is gone of kind exception
Have we gone insane
Do we really want to cry for more?
If a man wants to live in country splendor
In God's creation green and tender
Who are you to tell him you think that that's a bore?
Any man can do whatever he wishes
Life is sacrosanct is the only ism
We're telling you to stop before you get to war
Any man can do whatever he wishes
Life is sacrosanct is the only ism
We're telling you to stop before you get to war
Any man can do whatever he wishes
Life is sacrosanct is the only ism
Well I knew this was a one way ticket
But you know I had to come
The light that was shining from inside your soul
Told me this was home
You know I have to roam the world
And leave you all alone
I know it ain't the same as bein' there
This talkin' on the phone
But love wins out through sun and storm
And I love you till it's wrong
And all I really need from you tonight
Is to know that you'll be strong
And California's not that hot
Though it don't have that much rain
And all the greedy people and their money,
Well, they'll drive you 'bout insane
And the men keep fallin' all over you
They'll promise you the moon
But they'll break your heart from the very start
And say they'll be back soon
But we'll do our best like all the rest
Even when the times get hard
But if we keep on lovin' each other this way
We'll hold the winning card
Now the roses bloom outside our house
And the sun shines in our eyes
And there ain't much more that a man could want
Than a good woman by his side
You know you're a woman that inspires men's dreams
To makes us carry on
So keep on shinin' that light of yours
And listen to this song
And always try to be yourself
Don't worry what the others say
And I will always be right there
To help you in every way
So we knew this was a one way ticket
But you know we had to go
We found each other in a troubled world
And we've done the best we know
And I love you just the way you are
For me you got to do the same
We both are looking for some peace and freedom
In this Goddamn silly game
And I believe we'll make it through
If we keep our feelings clear
And let the wind blow through our hearts
And chase out all the fears.
Well the Senate's in order, they're callin' the roll
They want everybody there in body and soul
There'll be some agreements, a few contradictions
But it really don't matter 'cause nobody listens
Well things happen all over like in Harlem and Jersey
Well the grown men screamin' like kids in a nursery
The words are all different, it's pure repetition
But it really don't matter 'cause nobody listens
Well this world that we live in is pretty bad off
Your mouth opens to speak, you come out with a cough
We got us some laws and lots of restrictions
But even with night sticks nobody listens
Yeah, now I have a friend, he speaks all the truth
But he's almost in jail 'cause his name's Lenny Bruce
He gets up on stage and he speaks of conditions
And what do you know now everyone listens
Well I've finished my song and I'll be on my way
Just a doin' my work and collectin' my pay
Traffic will move and the TV's will glisten
Ninety two years of progress is beginning to decry the
toil
City in chaos, country apathetic and there's something
wrong with the soil
Secondhand truth, people so aloof
Don't you see your senator crying
Helpless, selfless, living off the lifeless
Ain't no wonder that there's so much prying
Sillified scenes of mongoloid plans
Anything to make a buck
Riptide, sulphide, throw it in the river
And your water's going to turn to muck
Maximinity, inferiority, they always gonna go together
Hamlet is the loser and Apollo is the winner
'Cause they tell me that's the new frontier now
God is on the road, along with Mr. Toad
They're looking for another planet
Christ is on a cross, he suffered heavy loss
And we're worshipping a piece of granite
Buddha's sittin' still, high upon a hill
He couldn't care one way or the other
Allah's in the bath, he doesn't want to laugh
'Cause he's sick of tellin' us we're brothers
Chorus:
We go to grow
I say grow
Grow
Great God! What do you see
It's falling to the ground
The very fabric of our lives
Is turning upside down
We learn to kill before we read
To turn the bastard round
We got the means to foil the world
Does that mean we got to do it now?
Hey Mr. President I really do hope
That you don't watch your T.V.
And keep your fingers
Away from those buttons
For me and my family and my friends afar
And the ones we haven't met
We are aware of your sophisticated toys
And the violence they beget
We don't approve of the way things are
Much less the present set
Things gotta change in the next ten years
'Cause we don't intend to buy the farm yet
Mr. Prime Minister won't you administer
Decrees to decrease the war
It really ain't funny when you're
Makin' that money from
Gore and blood and spillin' his guts
And he really doesn't understand why
We been fillin' his head with
Vicarious dreams, 'bout the paradise
In the sky, and if you don't kill him
We'll kill you is our insidious reply
'Cause it's gone full circle
And returned again
And nobody really knows why
Hey Mr. Premier won't you take another year
To let your people be
Elevating, tolerating
Motes of dust fly through the air they're dancing in his
vacant stare
The hollows in his cheeks are haunted shadows
And down below the sea is strong, the wind it whips
itself a froth
A storm is coming on, let's hope it passes
But storms will come with squalling rain and lightning
hurled in screaming pain
The night becomes like mind left standing helpless
But thunder dies away in time to leave the silence so
sublime
And once again the need for light is urgent
Though even in the center stage
A paler light doth he make rage
Than those who live their lives in poorest splendor
And diamonds yet festoon the trees
If you but have the eyes to see
To share it with the ones that you are loving
To cast your force into the land in hopes that you can
make a plan
To live, let others live and not regret it
And love is peace and God is war
You've seen it all go down before
And more's the shame to stand by while it's happening
For we are like the storms at sea
A moment's life like lightning be
Ourselves our only slaves
Yellow flowers bought today
I bought 'em from the man who lives in the other way
Wilting flowers couldn't stay
Not enough water gotta fill 'em to the brink today
Another moonshine, oh, moonshine
Moonlight halo gonna tell about a coming rain
Another moonshine, oh, moonshine
Moonlight halo gonna tell about a coming
I don't believe it can be verified
I don't believe it can be put right
It's too confused in all of its facets
It's too complex in all of its ways
They just continuing to tell me their trouble
They just continuing to tell me their lies
They don't believe in helping their brother
They're standing still and hearing his cries
If you believe that you got the power
If you believe it deep in your heart
You're on the run in front of a gunner
You're on the run and no one said start
I said moonshine, "Oh, moonshine
Moonlight halo gonna tell about a coming rain"
Another moonshine, oh, moonshine
Moonlight halo gonna tell about a coming
Red moon rising, dogs are howling
Throwing stones at Willy on the other side
Octogenarians intermarrying
What you gonna do when the light goes out?
Madly scrambling in the brambling
Up the mountain like a frightened trout
Killing relieves the hunting imperative
Maiming relieves the sadist's delight
They don't believe in what they are doing
I do believe that they are uptight
Safe and secure in maudlin commodities
Smug and pedantic into their lives
Stupidity can never make answers
Pathos is there in all of its might
I said moonshine, "Oh, moonshine
Moonlight halo gonna tell about a coming rain"
Another moonshine, oh, moonshine
Moonlight halo gonna tell about a coming rain
Talk about after, there's gonna be laughter
Talk about after, yeah, there's gonna be laughter
Talk about after, heh, there's gonna be laughter someday
Talk about after, there's gonna be laughter someday
Another sunshine, oh, sunshine
Sunshine comin' gonna be another brand new day, yeah
Sunshine comin' gonna be another brand new day, ah
Sunshine comin' gonna be another brand new day
Kicking and clawing in this world of money
You're already in the middle of world war three
Backstabbing charlatans standing on a hallowed ground
Trying to tell you that you are free
When the banker tells you that it's gonna be alright
You know that he is talking 'bout his own security
With six billion people all trying to be the number one
I think that you can see where that will easily lead
But if you gonna fly with the wings of an eagle
Then you have to be an eagle at heart
Soaring through the circus of your own emotions
And striking out into the dark
'Cause it's a money dance, funny dance,
Spinnin' on a wheel of chance,
Money dance, funny dance,
Spinnin' on a wheel of chance,
Money dance, funny dance,
Spinnin' on a wheel of chance,
Money dance, funny dance,
Spinnin' on a wheel of chance,
Money isn't everything
It'll never buy you peace of mind
It'll never buy you courage or pride
It'll never buy you the things that you want the most
The things you love that you feel inside
And you can be sure you will find out who your friends
When you are broke they will not run and hide
They will always be there when you need them
When the world gets tough and the times get tried
But if you gonna fly with the wings of an eagle
Then you have to be an eagle at heart
Soaring through the circus of your own emotions
And striking out into the dark
'Cause it's a money dance, funny dance,
Spinnin' on a wheel of chance,
Money dance, funny dance,
Spinnin' on a wheel of chance,
Money dance, funny dance,
Spinnin' on a wheel of chance,
Money dance, funny dance,
Spinnin' on a wheel of chance,
Yet the sun keeps shinin' in the brilliant skies
Even though they may be tinged with grey
There ain't no reason to keep on freakin' out
There ain't no reason throwin' life away
So many people in a world of trouble
How can this be in a world so bright?
With life all around you teeming in the distance
As far away as the farthest night
'Cause it's a money dance, funny dance,
Spinnin' on a wheel of chance,
Money dance, funny dance,
Spinnin' on a wheel of chance,
Oh, money dance, funny dance,
Spinnin' on a wheel of chance,
Money dance, funny dance,
Spinnin' on a wheel of chance.
Money dance, funny dance,
Spinnin' on a wheel of chance.
Money dance, funny dance,
Spinnin' on a wheel of chance.
Oh, money dance, funny dance,
Spinnin' on a wheel of chance,
Money dance, funny dance,
Spinnin' on a wheel of chance.
Money dance, funny dance,
Spinnin' on a wheel of chance.
Money dance, funny dance,
Spinnin' on a wheel of chance.
Oh, money dance, funny dance,
Spinnin' on a wheel of chance,
Money dance, funny dance,
Spinnin' on a wheel of chance.
Money dance, money dance,
Money dance, money dance,
Money dance, money dance,
Money dance, money dance,
Man Hole Covered Wagon
In a street of many colors
Dripping rain and running water
Galli said to Mr. Troster
Have you found your seven sons
Yes I have for that conclusion
He was suffering from delusion
From an honorable institution
And he came very close to losing
And I know the one that's choosing
Any name you've been perusing
And he walked down in the gardens
Said to prosper
(Chorus)
And you take his hand when he starts crying
'Cause he's lost his band from too much flying
In his manhole covered wagon in the morning yeah
So now Fanny is resting easy
On a crocheted quilt in town
Making love to Johnny Colter
In his home outside the sound
And they're thinking of creation
With their gathering elation
So to populate the nation
With a thought to emancipation
And a silent exclamation
With its current constipation
And its dead-set against malasian
Kind of thinking
(Chorus)
Then he spoke to all his children
Said we're building up the brawl
Just you keep your fists from flying
In its holographic cause
And bring your love and guitars
While we sit and count the stars
And talk about faith among us
Without visiting any bars
Mr. Troster replies to Galli
Among the bright and heavy cars
And the truth about life among us
That it's trying very hard
Have you ever dreamed of a place far away from it all?
Where the air you breathe is soft and clean,
and children play in fields of green,
and the sound of guns
doesn't pound in your ears.
Have you ever dreamed of a place far away from it
all?
Where the winter winds will never blow,
and living things have room to grow,
and the sound of guns
doesn't pound in your ears, anymore.
Many miles from yesterday,
before you reach tomorrow,
where the time is always just today,
there's a Lost Horizon,
waiting to be found.
There's a Lost Horizon
where the sound of guns
Sitting still and looking at the angel
Giving life and granting all the love
And I know that all of us are able
We can live in love above it all
There's a time of the year when you start to feel your
fear
And you really wonder where you're going
And you know you hear the call
When the leaves begin to fall
And the melancholy's fast approaching
But with the mountains so clear
You know another year has gone and nearly passed you by
Then all you need is joy
Like that of a little boy
To live in rapturous wonder
Must we kiss the height of our delusion,
Idolize the spectra of illusion
And all your prayers and tribulations
Rack and tortured exaltations
And our cornered expectations
And our ferocious intimations
We are more
How I wish that you were not deluded
I sympathize, I know it's very hard
We have to live in midst of the confusion
But even so we all can touch a star
But the greatest thing of all
Is the coming of the call,
'Cause it keeps you on your toes
It's catching
And you know you got a friend,
When you deign to let her in
'Tis the angel of the briefest passing,
And when the sunset's aflame
You know it's all a game
But no one really plays the same,
And all we got is rules
To keep us from the fools
That live in heartless cruelty
I keep lookin' down out of my windows at the people below
So slow
I keep lookin' down out of my windows at the people below
Lordy, go slow
Sure would like to know what you been thinkin'
But I don't want to know when you been sinkin'
Go slow
Yeah, sure would like to know what you been thinkin'
But I don't want to know when you been sinkin'
Go slow
You see yourself in a coffee cup
But you cannot stimulate the future up
Go slow
You see yourself in a coffee cup
But you cannot stimulate the future up
Go slow
Every time I'm doin' a number
I'm thinkin' that I see your eyes
I keep crossing over borderlines
Seein' little babies die
And even though I'm economizing
I can't keep your high livin' style child
It takes so long to believe it Charlie
But what have you done to your smile
I keep lookin' down out of my windows at the people below
So slow
I keep lookin' down out of my windows at the people below
Lordy, so slow
The alternative to truth is hypocrisy
If you want to choose the latter you won't never be free
Go slow
The alternative to truth is hypocrisy
If you want to choose the latter you won't never be free
Go slow
Ain't no such thing as revolution
It's got another name
It's called evolution
Go slow
Ain't no such thing as revolution
It's got another name
It's called evolution
Go slow
Part of being free is a state of mind
You just got to learn to leave it all behind
Go slow
Part of being free is a state of mind
You just got to learn to leave it all behind
Cities I been to I will not forget
And I've traveled all over my old continent
London town, London town, I'm Boeing bound
On top of the world and halfway around
In London town, in London town
Get off the plane and you walk to the shack
And you tell all those people you'll surely go back
But just let me stay for a while at the most
Just let me sleep in your cities and town
I'll laugh with your ups and I'll cry with your downs
Well try to remember the times that we spent
Just walkin' around without a center in London town
Just let me sleep in your cities and towns
I'll laugh with your ups and I'll cry with your downs
London town London town comin' on down
London town London town that's where I'm bound
Your people will tell me that they're doin' fine
They're warm and friendly and that's a good sign
In London town, in London town
London town, London town, I'm Boeing bound
On top of the world and halfway around
Once in a town in the black forest
A little white toy shop stood
And a little tin soldier with only one leg
Lived in a castle of wood
And across the room on another shelf
Stood a little glass case
And a tiny ballerina lived in there
All in a dress of lace
And from where the little tin soldier stood
They could see each other so clear
And the little tin soldier watched over her
With a love that was so dear
Then one day sadness came
The tiny ballerina was sold
The little tin soldier was thrown away
And into the gutter he rolled
The water carried him to the sea
And many far-off lands
He made many children happy
As he passed through their tiny hands
But then one day they met again
In a house in the land of Eire
And when the clock on the wall struck the midnight hour
They jumped into a fire
And in this fire oh they will stay
Forever and a day
For the fire, Lord, is the fire of love
I know where you'll find
Lasting peace of mind
Life is full of trial
Don't you let yourself be defiled
You know in your heart
You have got a secret part
School can't teach you all
If so how should I be called
And some will know my name
For to them it has no shame
I begin the game
And 'tis I will end your name
And time is made in your mind
Made in your mind
And you might go for the ride
Go for the ride
And you will love to be alive
Gotta be alive
If you want to see
Fill yourself with thee
Can you sense your strength in the sea
And rich and poor are void
No one's soul can be destroyed
Close your eyes and cry
And you'll feel your laughter drawing nigh
Take another look
You'll see it coming over
Take another look
Don't you feel it flying by now
Take another look
It's a force of new creation
Take another look
It's a loss of all sensation
Take another look
'Cause it's rolling out of nothing
Take another look
Level upon level of wash and stone
Cab drivers yelling that each one, each one's alone
A forced-up smile when casting your eyes
Insanity reigns on streets of no size
High crumbling walls of stones that have seen
The rigors of war and have never been cleaned
A modern pay turnpike in midst of it all
While an old woman works in a garden with trowel
Trees are just blooming, I've come just in time
Purple spring flowers in rebirth pantomime
A miniature red castle in black craggy pass
Jig-saw puzzle houses the resultants of mass
The top of a mountain cut off by the mist
And a white serene temple in space does exist
The lemon trees, oranges, and cactus alike
The growth of a vineyard with grapes not yet ripe
A truck is forced off as big as a house
While dawdling along like a little green mouse
A long sweeping view expounds my belief
And clear restless water with an absence of reef
Evolutions and cycles we come face to face
While foliage drifts in green filmy lace
Now rough and then coarse soon velvet to touch
Octagonal mosaic on a church that is such
And columns of clouds go boiling across
The mountains that stop them and suffer no loss
Head reeling cliffs that fall down to sea
While people are sleeping they hang peacefully
But the trucks rolling blindly are waking them up
To talk quietly murmuring over the morning's first cup
Arches and steps are seen everywhere
Manmade and Godmade and one made of air
The essence of time is virtually gone
Day goes and night comes, I breathe up my lawn
Buona sera, buona sera is a faithful reply
From any stranger you pass who catches your eye
And pinpoints of brilliance, some moving, some still
Are caught in the glass of my window sill
The pinpoints I mentioned I don't speak of stars
But then, think again, it's funny they are
Stars made by man who himself is a star
If only he'd realize the powers that are
And all he's got to do is lay down and play dead
And now looky here Vesuvius looms overhead
Lady, like a blue rose, soft and clear, you glow
Woman, are you coming home?
You know that I could love you so
I'd never make you go
Lady, of the blue rose
In your time be mine
I saw you from years ago
I've told the truth
And now you know
You told me it was so
Lady, for a blue rose, will you share my life?
Stars are born and then they die
And I know that we could learn to fly
For love can never die
The blue rose in the garden
That someday may exist
The blue rose of the legend
That task of nature's twist
The blue rose of a heaven
That's deep within our souls
The blue rose of our union
The one that I behold, I behold, I behold
Lady, see the blue rose
Make it shine for you
Close your eyes and you will see
And it will show you how to be
And to care for me
Lady, you're my blue rose
You're the only one
Share this gift that we two have
For all that need and cannot have
In the consecrated chambers
Of a mountain's winter day
I left her at the turning
To go on her seeking way
To pass o'er meadows green and bare
Or brown as her auburn hair
O'er all the waters on the face of the earth
To find that I really care
And the myriad reflections of myself
In her buttons on her oversize navy coat
But only reflections and never an image
In her mind's unfathomable moat
But some castles where she wanders
Are yet crumbling into dust
In this house of visions, on top of the hill
The glass has turned to rust
So never again will I look in her eyes
Nor shall she hear my voice
But I hope she will find a better man
To love him and rejoice
And he will turn the secret key
Nay, I know it's not up to him
But somehow in his words and love
Answer her every whim
So seek ye lass for what you wish
But in your troubled heart
And let not your mind race ahead of your breast
For the quicker shall you part
And wait for the click that you speak dear of
And never will you run
Light will splinter through open clouds
Mama
When you coming home
Mama
When you coming home
Mama
You don't have to roam
Mama
You know you're coming home
If you look over there babe
You know you might find
Somethin' over there
Gonna blow your mind
Mama
When you coming home
Mama
You don't have to roam
Mama
It's another day
Mama
You know that you can stay
You can stay
Yes I keep on telling you
To keep on keeping on
I keep on telling you
To work it on out
Keep on telling you
To keep on keeping on
I keep on telling you
To work it on out
Mama
It's another day
Mama
You know that you can stay
You know that you can stay
If you look over there babe
You know you might find
Somethin' over there
Gonna blow your mind
If you look over there babe
You know you might find
Somethin' over there
I'll sing you a song of the deepest blue, if you tell me
all the colors that you see in the human hue
I'll sing you a song of the brightest hope, if you show
me a man who's reassured that he can cope
I'll sing you a song of beige and livid green, if you
show me an earth that is slowly getting clean
And I'll raise your spirit higher, make you tremble with
delight, if you lay down all your weapons, if you make
the truth your fight
Lay down all your weapons, if you make the truth your
fight
If you make the truth your soulmate, keep it with you all
the time, then by the grace of God inside, you'll live in
heaven's clime
If you talk to me of atom bombs, if you explain what they
are for, I'll sing you all the songs I know about a world
I see at war
A war that's greatly based on fear that's the only way
they'll work, authority and governments they hide behind
their smirk
For they think that you don't know it yet they think
you're not aware, that the potential of the human soul
lies just in human care
So won't you sing this silly song with me, come and give
me a gift, we all are one in life and love, we all
Hey miss lonely, won't you come here soon
Have you been standing on a star-flaked snowdune
Lookin' at the moon
Feelin' pretty funny sayin' what is that?
Hey miss lonely, don't you know, where are you at?
Well now, hey miss lonely, have you been to school?
Have you been learnin' everything that you can
About the golden rule
Teacher tellin' you who you ought to be
Hey miss lonely, don't you know, you ought to be free?
Hey miss lonely, don't you feel so sad?
Things are going by in a blinding flash
It's just a passing fad
Money's quite a problem got to work to see the world
Take a letter here, bring a message there
You start to wonder if anyone cares at all, cares at
Fade awake thought words, foldaway bed
Redwinged blackbird, fly away Fred
Soaring free and easy high on a stormy sea, my baby
Don't you know that you can come to me
Come my baby, don't you know that you can come to me
Come my baby, don't you know that you can come to
Hey miss flipped-out, don't you ever want to scream and
shout?
Telling this sphere about all the wrong there is, my
dear
Got to remember that you're part of the day
Hey miss lonely, you can stay, don't go away
Well now, hey miss lonely, don't you feel the pain
I keep spending my cash, and I'm talking this trash
And I think I'm going to miss the train
Even though you're going to Morocco in the Spring
Hey miss lonely, don't forget your king
Will you remember to ring?
Because he's feelin' very lonely
And he's empty again, yeah
He's put you in a big brass bed now, mama
And it's tomorrow then
Got a lot of faith in his love for you be sure
Hey miss lonely, won't you be his cure
Nobody's pure,
The golden flower of a love that is blooming
Makes me believe that something, somewhere is looming
The sounds of morning intermingling our living
In evening laughter is the stillness of giving
The silver showers of life in its crystal form
Don't have to be forlorn
Go on and know you're born now,
Make peace inside and you will watch as the days they
go by
She took my hand and led me down to the water,
I kissed her lips and never since have I faltered,
They come between us shadows of human failing
Then pass like clouds before the wind's bitter wailing
The understanding in explicit simplicity
Comes to you blindingly, never you mindingly how
It makes its changes and yet nothing is changed
You're enthralled
The mind and heart they should be one thing together
We're born and die but they will go on forever
Our fear of being hurt and hurting is finally
The only constant in our scope of reality
In tears of sadness we call on our fellow clan
Explain if you think you can, I am but just a man now,
We're being guided we can look to ourselves for the way
We're being guided we can look to ourselves for the way
Well, if we look around at the world
Then we look inside ourselves
I think you know that you will find
Why we don't hang it on a shelf
'Cause life goes on in all its ways
And I know it's gonna be alright
We gonna go to sleep tonight and we'll make it
Through the night, 'cause we are real.
Well are those free samples he said to me
As he looked inside my bowl.
No, that's the money I have made from the stories I have
told
And some people recognize the truth today
And some just pass you by.
You know the ones that are still asleep by the glazed
Look in their eyes, 'cause we are real.
And the lights are shinin' on the street out there
With the people passin' by
You see their faces and some are smilin'
And some wanta make you cry
But life goes on in all it's ways, and I know it's gonna
be alright
We gonna go to sleep tonight and we'll make it
I write this song in memory
Of a woman that I knew
She loved me much and I loved her
But then she never knew
And I was forced to go away
There was nothing I could say
I had to leave that very day
For almost two years or more
And now she's gone and I am left
With memories of her breast
And days of life and nights of love
And all the wondrous rest
I shan't forget
And the effect
It isn't even finished yet
It started 'fore we'd barely met
Ten long years ago
At night she comes into my arms and sheds the world of
all it's harm, I know
now she was always meant to stay.
But callous is the world at large, I need to yet
encourage
her, I sense her insecurities at play.
and mischievous as she may be, I love it when her mind
free, she puts us in our place and there we stay.
In all our glory and our shame she doesn't feel the
need
for fame, she just wants to express it in her way.
And listening to her fondest dreams, I know that life's
what it seems, the shadows of my darkness made to flee.
And by and by the time will pass, we look through this
lucid glass, we hold before our eyes that we may see,
and love denies the still despair, that beckons
throughout
all affairs, it only strengthens us when we're in need.
Of tenderness and music fair, reminding us that we must
care, and life moves on with no control of speed.
And listening to her fondest dreams, I know that life's
what it seems, the shadows of my darkness made to flee.
And joy is what she subtly brings, we know that life is
full
of things, she points them out and makes me see so
clear.
The garden of our love is frail, we must work hard that
not fail, a great deal of the strength is in our fears.
But they're like clouds that fade away, then shape
themselves another day, and sometimes rain disguised as
tears, that fall into our heart's desire, to live and
love we must aspire, for life
How I hate to leave you
How I hate to see you go
I feel so down without you
Dying surely couldn't get this low
But the minute that we're together
I can't think of anything other than you
Looking in your eyes, totally surprised
Far out on the limb, not another whim for you.
Do you miss me sometimes?
Do you miss me in the night?
Do you read the moonbeams making tasseled silver light?
And quicksilver's densely viscous
Compared to the time it takes to get to you.
Figure I can fly
Never been so high
Catch you from above
You know that I'm in love with you
Dream queen, how you seem to shine
Poised and lovely woman mine
Sitting on your doorstep
Waiting for your footsteps to come around
People passing by me
I could be entirely drowned
And you know I heard you call
And suddenly I joined the ball for you
Not a petty thrill, forget your little pill
Come and be my mate, then we'll celebrate
One in two
Sitting on your doorstep
Waiting for your footsteps to come round
People passing by me I could be entirely drowned
And you know I heard you call
And suddenly I joined the ball for you
Figure I could fly, never been so high
I've been away so long
Fought a war that's come and gone
Doesn't anybody know my name
My sister's up and went
My momma's took to bed
Now my old dog Rex gone away
Please tell me if you can
What time do the trains roll in
2:10, 6:18, 10:44
The hedge's turnin' brown
The house is fallin' down
Doesn't anybody know my name
The girl I left behind
Has gone to Caroline
I don't have to read a sign to know things ain't the
same
Please tell me if you can
What time do the trains roll in
2:10, 6:18, 10:44
You can't go far away
On just a soldier's pay
Doesn't anybody know my name
Used to be when I could see
Everybody wanted me
Now nobody comes to see a blind man take a train
Please tell me if you can
What time do the trains roll in
2:10, 6:18, 10:44
Please tell me if you can
What time do the trains roll in
You've heard my voice
You've heard my voice
And you know my name
If you've ever kissed in a summers rain
If you've slept where the winds and the snows have lain
If you've ever heard a lonely train
Then you've heard my voice
And you know my name
If you've bowed your head when you're filled with pride
If you've learned of death when a bird has died
If you've tasted tears when a child has cried
Then you've heard my voice
And you know my name
Well now you've heard my voice in the winds of spring
Seen my face where the roses cling
I am the touch that the warm rains bring
I make my home in the heart of everything
In the drivin' rain of a summer squall
When the summer's gone and the petals fall
When the day is done and the night birds call
Then you've heard my voice
And you know my name
Well now you've heard my voice in the winds of spring
Seen my face where the roses cling
I am the touch that the warm rains bring
I make my home in the heart of everything
In the drivin' rain of a summer squall
When the summer's gone and the petals fall
When the day is done and the night birds call
Then you've heard my voice
And you know my name
You know my name
You know my name
Withered roses were around me
Now the winter's come and gone
And I can feel the clarity drifting
The haziness of Spring song
Mine eyes seek out
And yet with futile try
Can find no line of distinction out there
Between the sea and sky
Scattered scarlet specks announce their arrival
On a distant mountain side
In carnadine fields of crystalline fragrance
And in the solitude there abide
Build a flaming fire 'till coals are asleeping
Trouble not your facets when you will begin to weeping
Remember now the earth from a fish to a fawn
Lightning slaying shadows
In the tremors of the night
While he creeps among the alleys
Bringing fear before the fright
She sleeps in tattered trousers
In the ballroom's decadence
Moaning gently of her dreaming
By escorted precedence
Antiquated babblings
From a constant stream of thought
Sensitively wringing out
The rags that he has caught
Patting yet her bulging belly
She so slowly cries a smile
In anticipated suffering
Of her slowly growing child
He is speeding in a vacuum
Going nowhere, but, of course
He might believe in discipline
Of a bloody kind of sort
Naturally a state of race
A never changing spate of hate
While everything in some weird way
Does manage to relate
To her it doesn't matter more
Its chasms have been leapt
And she leans upon the skepticism
Of her chosen fate
Stand tall, you spittle-smattered son of man
Stand up, you hear them say
To slap you down and kick your teeth
And smile across the bay
Irrelevant eloquent pleading
Wasn't what she did this year
She passed it by and told a lie
And shed a crystal tear
For him to see, from valley's edge
From plateaus in the sand
And yet he has beshit himself
For being just a man
A bragging crowing sort of twit
A cast-off shade of pink
Who's brought himself and all the rest
Unto the very brink
Yet that magic urge
Continues on and plays continuum
A song of pleasure and of pain
She is free, but she does not know the price she has to
And he could be a lover in the life she leads
throughout the day
And they both could live together
They could live in peace
They both could be in love together
And make the world at ease
Floating through a sea of troubles
That the world around them makes
And it really doesn't matter when you know love's
pattern
Because you know that that is all it takes
And she could be a mother and a daughter at the same
time for a man
And he could be a father and a son for her future
family plan
And they could raise a lot of healthy children
Bring 'em up in harmony
And teach them all the good things in this life
But most important teach them how to be
To be open and attentive and loving
When the world around them shakes
And it really doesn't matter when you know love's
pattern
Because you know that that is all it takes
She is thee, she's every woman that's living in the
world today
And he is me, and I'm looking for the woman that tells
me she is free
And we all can live together
We all can live in peace
We all can be in love together
And make the world at ease
Working through a sea of troubles
That the world around us makes
And it really doesn't matter when you know love's
pattern
Victoria Emmanuele, she looks so clean and lithe
Victoria Emmanuele, finds it hard to pay the price
Victoria, your mouth is open
You look like you're catchin' flies
You're sick and tired of all the games
The polyglot and the lies
Won't you,
Sing this song while you're walkin through your life
Walk this way and you know it's gotta treat you right
Victoria Emmanuele, is all right by me
Victoria Emmanuele, she's stickin' to her guns at last
Victoria Emmanuele, she's sheddin' off an ugly past
She's subsidized by lots of love
Morality has just begun
Filled to the brim with light divine
She never feels the need to run
And she,
Sings this song while you're walkin through your life
Walk this way and you know it's gotta treat you right
Victoria Emmanuele, is all right by me
Victoria Emmanuele, beginning to believe in life
Victoria Emmanuele, discovered how to know the height
Victoria Emmanuele, reality's not hard to find
And all your days and all your ways
It's the only thing we must define
And you,
Sing this song while you're walkin through your life
Walk this way and you know it's gotta treat you right
Victoria Emmanuele, is all right by me
Victoria Emmanuele, she's keepin' on in every way
She gets a little tired from time to time
But everybody does today
Too many people got specialized
Ain't nobody got the time to sit with their friends
People say we are sane
Lock your doors and play the games
Out in a constant search of fame
If we tell them of our dreams
Some but bright and subtle schemes
Others true and honest means
Oh you people out there
With your marshmallow wills
Your tragic days
And your tranquillizer pills can't you see?
People got to be believed
Words have got to be perceived
Won't you listen to us please?
Maybe to you it's another day
Do you want to see the sun
Coming up in gray?
Tell me what the difference is
Between your life and pay
Does the fire of your optimism
Flare up in the dark?
Can you come to me with open arms
And strike the finite spark of love?
Could be a case of velleity
On your part my part
Or anyone who thinks they see
Through a decade an epoch
Or maybe even centuries
What do you think could be your reality?
Does your breath go away
For anything you plainly see?
Talking to God or going on the nod
Or freaking out a fancy free
Take your time in the morning sun
It lasts for half a day
Speak your mind to your only son
If that's what you have to say to him
I know I'm living in utopia
With a strangely cloying
Absence of euphoria
And the rapidly increasing senses of dementia
The anticipation in my life
Now lends an ear
And I know I gotta choose
Gonna win or gonna lose
Ah maybe that's the fear
I only hope that the choice of death
Will be mine to make and clear
Take your time in the morning sun
It lasts for half a day
Speak your mind to your only son
Now the Beautiful People think they set the
Standards and the Beautiful People seem to get the
kudos
But the not so beautiful carry the load
So the Beautiful People always seem to try
To find a way to hide their falling tears
So the Beautiful People always seem to try
To find a way to hide their falling tears
And the not so beautiful work the menials
And the not so beautiful make things run
And the not so beautiful have their moments
And I know they always have more fun
So the Beautiful People always seem to try
To find a way to hide their falling tears
But why do we have to make a distinction
Why do we have to make a choice?
It only sends us back into remorse
And the Beautiful People have to work at arrogance
And the Beautiful People have their attitudes
But an attitude's a front for insecurity
And all of us are dancing to our changing moods
So the Beautiful People always seem to try
To find a way to hide their falling tears
So the Beautiful People always seem to try
To find a way to hide their falling tears
But why do we have to make a distinction
Why do we have to make a choice?
And the truth shall make you free
and the light is all around us
even though some people really couldn't give it a damn
but those people gonna find out that the world
is here to feel
and oh my God I do feel real
take my heart and lead me through
will you be with me tomorrow?
spinning my soul with all your love and care
and if you do decide to leave me
you must know the way I feel
and oh my God I do feel real, feel so real
since the time I saw your face
I have wondered how to touch you
bright light shining through the depths
of my very core
and if you do decide to leave me
I will lose my even keel
but I'll still know I did feel real, felt so real
and the truth shall make us free
and I speak of a love unending
even though some people really won't give it a chance
but we are here to make it stronger
for as many as want to feel
Times of a madman and trials of a thief
Appalling decisions of squalling belief
Basking in bedrooms that hookers bequeath and they
search for pleasure
Constant confusion calamities’ plight
Doubtless it doubles the devil’s delight
Easy as dying away from the light and they’re dead in
leisure
Footing the future as part of the bill
God is within you and works through your will
Hating to stay there and watch while you kill all your
sons and daughters
Imminent idols absurdly enchant
Justification to rave and to rant
Knighting is over we’ve learned how to plant and we’ll
change things gently
Love is the lotus of white baby blue
Man and his woman collapse when it’s true
Never some try it ’cause they’re scared of you but the
fire is raging
Open your mind and your heart to be still
Peace is the endlessly crest of the hill
Quietly shattering and soft as a quill then it stays
forever
Reality’s frozen in art and your heart
Simply believe it and then you can start
Truth is the answer and not just a part yet the word’s
been spoken
Unity struggles on this speck of dust
Valiantly scraping the fast forming rust
World is as beauty it’s under the crust in its formless
phases
Xenophobes revel in ignorant fear
You are belittled when this is too near
Zoning’s absurd and it shouldn’t be here for we all are
living
From the lowest prairie to the highest sea
We were put on this earth created equal and free
Chorus:
We were put on this earth to help all mankind
But there seem to be people that don't pay any mind
Why can't they let us be
We've seen all these people, we've heard all their lies
But when we stand up, we'll see the fear in their eyes
For this world's not worth the ground that we stand on
Unless we can look our brother in the face
And say to him that we are the same and evermore shall be
We'll search for the heavens, we'll hunt all their lies
But the one that gets there first
He will claim it as its prize
For this world's not worth the ground that we stand on
Unless we can look our brother in the face
Have you seen Amanda Blaine
In the hills of Shiloh
Wandering in the morning rain
In the hills of Shiloh
Have you seen her at her door
Listenin' for the cannons roar
And the man who went to war
From the hills of Shiloh
Have you heard her mournful cries
In the hills of Shiloh
Have you seen her haunted eyes
In the hills of Shiloh
Have you seen her run down
Searchin' through the sleeping town
In her yellow wedding gown
In the hills of Shiloh
Have you seen her standin' there
In the hills of Shiloh
When the blow wind through her hair
In the hills of Shiloh
Listenin' for the sound of guns
Listenin' for the rollin' drums
And the man who never comes
To the hills of Shiloh
Have you heard Amanda sing
In the hills of Shiloh
Whispering to her wedding ring
In the hills of Shiloh
Hear her humming soft and low
Poor Amanda does not know
'Twas ended forty years ago
Well my eyes flew open this morning
I was thinking about a troubled dream
The technotronic lad was feeling very bad
He was working on a naughty scheme
If we can get some of that good brown rice
From out of that oozin mud
Throw it on a platter say lookee here
I took it with my own red blood
Chorus:
No, you can't make me believe that's right
You're wrong in what you say
You computed your head
While laying in a bed on a bright and sunny day
Full of vermouth while searching for the truth
In a slight haphazard way
Then you told me that the band would play
On a dull and gloomy day
And I know it's not true
Well he got out his toy computer
Little slide rule in green
Started calculation with a bit of fabrication
On a world with his promised dream
Territorial right was what he had to fight
And he said he knew that 'it ain't mine'
But see here now child
We been good everything'll just be fine
He was expending all of his power
They took away one of his toys
And old mother Hubbard was running around
Saying what have you done to my boys
With your nice clean clothes
You're playing in the mud
You don't listen to my advice
Now sit here and get in this house
And watch the cat go looking for mice
Well I hope to God that that woman's right
Talking in the garden
Yelling at the yardman
Can you look me in the eye with a clear live gaze
Through a knowing haze
All of us are slowly
Trucking through a world of pain
But being through the bane and the flat out rain
There's love around the man
Kindled by the work that he deems to do his way
Savior of a planet in its dying throes
He knows what must be done
Call upon the sun
Your actions intermittent, and you're slightly
Non-committal of your plans
Passing through the pasture
Have you ever asked her
If she'd like to spend the day
Fill your heart and soul
Make you feel real whole
Can you make a promise to the wind
That sets you free?
That you'll help us in our age
While we turn the page of life
Using our compassion in a way
That we know is right
Color isn't valid when there is no
Black and white, there's only light
Don't you be so mean
All is ever changing
And my God it's so
Amazing what we've seen
No is not the answer
That could give you cancer
Yes is what you have to say
To a world at large what a garbage barge
When will we begin to try
And make some peace
And money's such a bitch it can make you
Rich and poor to want some more
Ironic little rival to the fact
Of mere survival, what's in store?
Harmony resulting from the force of many minds
Of different kinds
Waking isn't trite
Spin us ever upward, can we do without
Our supper for the
Light in every being
Seeing is believing
Loving when we're able
Cards upon the table
Turn a world of sadness
Full of sudden gladness
Then we'll have some time to
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