Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band formed in San Francisco in 1965. A pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement, Jefferson Airplane was the first band from the San Francisco scene to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success.
The band performed at the three most famous American rock festivals of the 1960s—Monterey (1967), Woodstock (1969) and Altamont (1969)—as well as headlining the first Isle of Wight Festival. Their recordings were internationally successful, and they scored two US Top 10 hit singles and a string of Top 20 albums. Their 1967 record Surrealistic Pillow is regarded as one of the key recordings of the so-called Summer of Love and brought the group international recognition. Two chart hits from the album, "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit", are listed in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
Successor bands to Jefferson Airplane include Jefferson Starship and Starship; spinoffs include Hot Tuna and KBC Band. Jefferson Airplane was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.
The White Rabbit is a fictional character in Lewis Carroll's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. He appears at the very beginning of the book, in chapter one, wearing a waistcoat, and muttering "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!" Alice follows him down the rabbit hole into Wonderland. Alice encounters him again when he mistakes her for his housemaid Mary Ann and she becomes trapped in his house after growing too large. The Rabbit shows up again in the last few chapters, as a herald-like servant of the King and Queen of Hearts.
In his article "Alice on the Stage," Carroll wrote "And the White Rabbit, what of him? Was he framed on the "Alice" lines, or meant as a contrast? As a contrast, distinctly. For her 'youth,' 'audacity,' 'vigour,' and 'swift directness of purpose,' read 'elderly,' 'timid,' 'feeble,' and 'nervously shilly-shallying,' and you will get something of what I meant him to be. I think the White Rabbit should wear spectacles. I'm sure his voice should quaver, and his knees quiver, and his whole air suggest a total inability to say 'Boo' to a goose!"
Chemical change like a laser beam
you've shattered the warning amber light
Make me warm
let me see you moving everything over
smiling in my room
you know you'll be inside of my mind soon.
There are so many of you.
White shirt and tie, white shirt and tie,
white shirt and tie, wedding ring, wedding ring.
Mulligan stew for Bloom,
the only Jew in the room
Saxon's sick on the holy dregs
and their constant getting throw up on his leg.
Molly's gone to blazes,
Boylan's crotch amazes
any woman whose husband sleeps with his head
all buried down at the foot of his bed.
I've got his arm
I've got his arm
I've had it for weeks
I've got his arm
Steven won't give his arm
to no gold star mother's farm;
War's good business so give your son
and I'd rather have my country die for me.
Sell your mother for a Hershey bar
grow up looking like a car
there are;
All you want to do is live,
all you want to do is give but
Can you make it to the island
rock and roll island in the middle of the time seas... back thru time in
firesign magnetics flow all around me... sonar laser quasar pulsar
bombarded with argon... open your hands and build a park clear your
mind and touch the dark we go down down down / / / / back home
walkin in the park flashin in the dark no care for the narcs you know
we're home free... and if you make it to the island rock and roll island
all you got to know is that you are the rules... do it in the sunshine it
really is magic you'll never get this high if you try California rock and
roll thunder gonna bring you up from down under we go down down
down gonna/get back home
never get so high when you try I never been this high when I try I never
been so high but I try I never get this high when I try y'know when I try
can you feel us coming... and going and coming can you feel us singing
electric in your body...
can you make it to the island north winds rollin' behind you can you make
it to the island
look around you tell me what you see see the people look at you look at
me we are alive and we see that what we are and what we will be will not
explode until the twenty ninth century
we have only begun to grow you know only begun to grow just begun to
grow and go you grow we are seedlings of the sun we go down down
down down down back home...
Share a Little Joke
A friend of mine asked me
Where has he been
Where is he now?
I said he's been set free
Shares a little joke with the world somehow
Sounded like he'd make a halo
When I heard his laughter floating
It's all for fun you know
He said he just let go
Shares a little joke with the world
How can I make you as happy as I am
I feel like you're running
I know we could fly
Your eyes are never tired
Your mind is on fire
Your heart has never been satisfied
World around you
Never catches up with you
Some people are in love
Some people know everything can be done
I think you're joking
I believe in half of you
I want to journey
I want to laugh with you
But after you
Share a little joke with the world
World around you
This time, this time is my time
My life, lies in the base line
You tried to take what was all mine
My pride, I bowed down and I swear
My turn to make all the bells shine
I know that you know that I tried
I don't count the tears I've cried
This car has driven its last mile
As you stand, on the edge, far and low
Somethin' to believe in
As you stand, in the rain, and then fall
For somethin' to believe in
[CHORUS]
Waitin' around all over town x2
For you, to get it right
Waitin' around all over town x2
For you, somethin' to believe in
In another world, another life
I still belong to you
In another time, you'll still be mine
I belong to you
I'm ready, and you're ready so who cares
But get the stranger's judgment and mean glares
I always did, what I thought had seemed fair
I walked away saved by the last hair
Not easily, my God I was so scared
Just so you know I can't help that I care
I pray you're well, I just know that I can't
I can't be afraid
As you stand, on the edge, far and low
Somethin' to believe in
As you stand, in the rain, and then fall
For somethin' to believe in
[CHORUS]
Waitin' around all over town x2
For you, to get it right
Waitin' around all over town x2
For you, somethin' to believe in
In another world, another life
I still belong to you
In another time, you'll still be mine
I belong to you
Even though it's at the end
A brand new morning can begin
And the sun will shine again, again
Again...Again...Again...again, again, again
[CHORUS]
Waitin' around all over town x2
For you, to get it right
Waitin' around all over town x2
For you, somethin' to believe in
In another world, another life
I still belong to you
In another time, you'll still be mine
I belong to you
Waitin' around all over town x2
For you, to get it right
Waitin' around all over town x2
For you, somethin' to believe in
In another world, another life
I still belong to you
In another time, you'll still be mine
People of the world together
Join to serve the common cause
So it feeds us all forever
See to it that it's now yours
Forward without forgetting
Where our strength can be seen now to be
When starving or when eating
It's forward not forgetting our solidarity
Black or white or brown or yellow
Leave your old disputes behind
Once you start talking to your fellow men
You'll soon be of one mind
If we want to make this certain
We'll need you and your support
It's yourselves you'll be deserting
If you rat on your own sort
Forward without forgetting
Where our strength can be seen now to be
When starving or when eating
It's forward not forgetting our solidarity
All the gang of those who rule us
Hope our quarrels never stop
Helping them to split and fool us
Just so they can remain on top
Forward without forgetting
Till the concrete question is hurled
When Starving or when eating
Whose tomorrow is tomorrow?
And whose world is the world
When the truth is found to be lies
An' all the joy within you dies
Don't you want somebody to love?
Don't you need somebody to love?
Wouldn't you love somebody to love?
You better find someone to love, love
When the dawn is rose they are dead
Yes, and you're mine, you're mine, you're so full of red
Don't you want somebody to love?
Don't you need somebody to love?
Wouldn't you love somebody to love?
You better find someone to love
Your eyes, I say your eyes may look like his
Yeah, but in your head, baby
I'm afraid you don't know where it is
Don't you want somebody to love?
Don't you need somebody to love?
Wouldn't you love somebody to love?
You better find someone to love
Tears are runnin', runnin' along down your breast
And your friends, baby, they treat you like a guest
Don't you want somebody to love?
Don't you need somebody to love?
Wouldn't you love somebody to love?
[instrumental]
Star Track.
(Paul Kantner)
If your head spins round try to see the ground if you can
My busy eyes missed her path through the air as she ran
My sensory mind is too old to cry
Not ready to live and too strange to die
So stop your doubt push the world on by
With your hand
It takes time to love and open minds to love
And who's got time on their hands
Well life can be hard when you're holes in a card
In some electronic hand
You'll wander around from place to place
Disappear without a trace
And someone else will take your place
In line
You can fool your friends about the way it ends
But you can't fool yourself
Take your head in hand and make your own demands
Or you'll crystallize on the shelf
The freeway's concrete way won't show
You where to run or how to go
And running fast you'll go down slow in the end
The Summer Of Love was something special
We were so young and so free
The Summer Of Love that I was a part of
We had so many dreams
And even a few of them came true it seems
I still believe in all the music, whoa and it's still playing
I still believe in all the words, yeah, I'm still saying
I still believe in all the people, ooh, they were really great
And I get to thinking back to where we all once were
The Summer Of Love had special people
Everybody was together so it seemed
The Summer Of Love had lots of changes going down
Looking back's like yesterday
And you can say it all was just a dream
I still remember all the good times
Boy, let me tell ya, we sure had a lotta them
I still remember the world was changing all around us
Oh, I feel like we could do it all again
The Summer Of Love was just the beginning
That's when the light started breaking through
The Summer Of Love is just a memory now
But even though those times are gone
The spirit still goes on in me and you
I still believe in all the music, whoa and it's still playing
I still believe in all the words, yeah, I'm still saying
I still believe in all the people, ooh, they were really great
And I get to thinking back to where we all once were
The Summer Of Love was something special
We were so young and so free
The Summer Of Love that I was a part of
We had so many dreams
And even a few of them came true it seems
Mmm, that Summer of Love
Yeah, that Summer of Love
Sixty-seven was heaven
If you were a bird and you lived very high,
You'd lean on the wind when the breeze came by,
You'd say to the wind as it took you away,
That's where I wanted to go today"
And I do know that I need to have you around
Love like a mountain springtime,
flashing through the rivers of my mind;
it's what I feel for you.
You and me go walking south
And we see all the world around us,
The colors blind my eyes and my mind to all but you,
And I do know that I need to have you around,
And I do, I do know that I need to have you around.
I have a house where I can go
When there's too many people around me;
I can sit and watch all the people
Down below goin' by me;
Halfway down the stair is a stair
Where I sit and think about you and me;
But I wonder will the sun still see all the people goin' by.
Will the moon still hang in the sky when I die,
When I die, when I'm high, when I die?
If you were a cloud and you sailed up there,
You'd sail on water as blue as air,
You'd see me here in the fields and say,
"Doesn't the sky look green today?"
instrumental
It's a wild tyme!
I see people all around me changing faces!
It's a wild tyme!
I'm doin' things that haven't got a name yet!
I need love, your love
It don't matter if it's rain or shine.
It's a wild tyme (x6)
I must see love all the time (x2)
I'm here for you any old time
Ah, stay here, play here
Make a place for yourself here.
I want to be with you, no matter what I do,
what doesn't change is the way
I feel for you today.
Times just seem so good.
I do know that I should be here with you this way,
and it's new, and it's new, and it's oh, so new!
I see changes, changes all around me are changes!
Marty Balin & Paul Kantner)
In my heart I have a feeling,
and I don't know what I'm gonna do;
What should I do?
Oh, what a beautiful world, the world;
What should I do?
Maybe you've found it too;
and tomorrow.
Today is made up of yesterday,
Don't you know what I have found?
and all her sorrow.
Young girl Sunday blues,
One side of me is filled with brightness,
no matter what I might say;
The days are made with waterfall colors,
couldn't I make you stay?
If rain falls down the side of my face,
must be a rainy day;
But I get lost in yesterday,
and tomorrow, tomorrow;
Young girl Sunday blues,
and all her sorrow.
and I'm high;
I walk beside you laughing,
When I tell you I dream,
Don't try to touch me with words;
it might seem like silence,
but so much can be heard;
I think of things,
that loving you brings,
maybe my thing is her;
Today is made up of yesterday,
and tomorrow;
Young girl Sunday blues,
and all her sorrow;
Let yourself wander free and easy
Ah, come into my mind,
Ah, come into my life,
Sunday blues girl,
young and new girl,
You're the only true girl,
here can please me,
I said "Please me, yeah!
Please me!
Please me!
Please me!
(UPS) EARTH JULY 1975
Black sails knifing through the pitchblende night
Away from the radioactive landmass madness
From the silver-suited people searching out
Uncontaminated food and shelter on the shores
No glowing metal on our ship of wood only
Free happy crazy people naked in the universe
WE SPEAK EARTH TALK
GO RIDE THE MUSIC
If you smile at me you know I will understand
Cause that is something everybody everywhere does
In the same language
I can see by your coat my friend that you're from the other side
There's just one thing I got to know
Can you tell me please who won
You must try some of my purple berries
I been eating them for six or seven weeks now
Haven't got sick once
Probably keep us both alive
Wooden ships on the water very free and easy
Easy you know the way it's supposed to be
Silver people on the shoreline leave us be
Very free and easy
Sail away where the mornin sun goes high
Sail away where the wind blows sweet and young birds fly
Take a sister by her hand
Lead her far from this barren land
Horror grips us as we watch you die
All we can do is echo your anguished cry and
Stare as all you human feelings die
We are leaving
You don't need us
Go and take a sister by her hand
Lead her far from this foreign land
Somewhere where we might laugh again
We are leaving
You don't need us
Sailing ships on the water very free and easy
Easy you know the way it's supposed to be
Silver people on the shoreline leave us be
Very free
And gone
NO C'MON
GO RIDE THE MUSIC
Won't you try
won't you try
won't you try
find a way to need someone
find a way to see
find a way to need someone and the sunshine will set you free
won't you try
with love before were gone
wont you try
wont you try
wont you try
saturday afternoon
saturday afternoon
when your head is feeling fine
you can ride inside our car
I will give you caps of blue and silver sunlight for your hair
all that soon will be is what you need to see, my love
won't you try
won't you try
I do care that you do see
Is it time to leave, my lady
yes it is I know
round about and everywhere sunshine instead of snow
times can't change that what I say is true
oooooh oooh
ill come through for you
and ill come through for you, my love
wont you try
wont you try
wont you try
wont you try
saturday afternoon
yellow clouds rising in the noon
acid incense and ballons
saturday afternoon
people dancing everywhere ,loudly shouting i dont care
its a time for growing and a time for knowing
saturday afternoon
saturday afternoon (wont you try)
saturday afternoon (wont you try)
saturday afternoon ( wont you try )
wont you try (saturday afternoon)
wont you try ( saturday afternoon)
wont you try
wont you try
transcribed by Johnny Blasi
Can you make it to the island
rock and roll island in the middle of the time seas... back thru time in
firesign magnetics flow all around me... sonar laser quasar pulsar
bombarded with argon... open your hands and build a park clear your
mind and touch the dark we go down down down / / / / back home
walkin in the park flashin in the dark no care for the narcs you know
we're home free... and if you make it to the island rock and roll island
all you got to know is that you are the rules... do it in the sunshine it
really is magic you'll never get this high if you try California rock and
roll thunder gonna bring you up from down under we go down down
down gonna/get back home
never get so high when you try I never been this high when I try I never
been so high but I try I never get this high when I try y'know when I try
can you feel us coming... and going and coming can you feel us singing
electric in your body...
can you make it to the island north winds rollin' behind you can you make
it to the island
look around you tell me what you see see the people look at you look at
me we are alive and we see that what we are and what we will be will not
explode until the twenty ninth century
we have only begun to grow you know only begun to grow just begun to
grow and go you grow we are seedlings of the sun we go down down
It's no secret, how strong my love is for you
It's no secret, when I tell you what I'm gonna do
Cause I love you, yeah I love you
It's no secret, everybody knows how I feel
It's no secret, when I say my love is real
Cause I love you, yeah I love you
I love you, yes I love you
It's no secret, when you got me jumping up and down
It's no secret, everybody knows how I feel
It's no secret, cause my heart is chained and bound
INSTRUMENTAL BREAK.
As I get older the years they get heavy for you - oh
yeah
Is it any wonder why I feel like my whole life is through -
When I stop feeling how strong my love is for you - oh
Know I'll be empty wanting your love like I do
It's no secret, when you got me jumping up and down
It's no secret, cause my heart is chained and bound
I love you, yes I love you
It's no secret, everybody knows how I feel
If you were a bird and you lived very high,
You'd lean on the wind when the breeze came by,
You'd say to the wind as it took you away,
That's where I wanted to go today"
And I do know that I need to have you around
Love like a mountain springtime,
flashing through the rivers of my mind;
it's what I feel for you.
You and me go walking south
And we see all the world around us,
The colors blind my eyes and my mind to all but you,
And I do know that I need to have you around,
And I do, I do know that I need to have you around.
I have a house where I can go
When there's too many people around me;
I can sit and watch all the people
Down below goin' by me;
Halfway down the stair is a stair
Where I sit and think about you and me;
But I wonder will the sun still see all the people goin' by.
Will the moon still hang in the sky when I die,
When I die, when I'm high, when I die?
If you were a cloud and you sailed up there,
You'd sail on water as blue as air,
You'd see me here in the fields and say,
Do you know how sad it is to be a man alone
I feel so solitary being in my home without you
I don't know what to do and
I don't know where you are
Just to be a simple man who sadly goes his way
I can see my lifeis meant to fall apart some day
I got no words that I'll say
got no girl so
hey hey woman make me happy like i've never known before
I got no world and
I feel something new,
say you have ever known no heart fore me anymore
something new, what's that sound around my heart
I'm sure your love you've given must be real I know and
I'm sure of how I can be the man I feel,
He's just an American boy
And he loves his machine
No back-talk from a machine
When was the last time a television set
Gave you shit about who you met last night?
No back-talk machine
If your motor doesn't turn over smooth for you
You don't feed it right
Give it a little grease
Give it a little gas
Drive straight on through the night
Man-made mechanical mover
Love your machine
You say nothing's right but natural things
Ah, you fool
Poison oak is a natural plant
Why don't you put some in your food?
Natural food
I don't care if there's chemicals in it
As long as my lettuce is crisp
Preservatives might just be preserving you
I think that's something you missed
Ya you missed it
Man-made mechanical mover
I love his machine
He's just an American boy
And I love his machine
Smooth moving steel
Keep your engine warm and wet
Be friendly to your steel
Feed it right, your mechanical pet
Then get behind the wheel
Put a little starch in the old Corvette
Then give it a feel
Smooth moving steel, give it a feel
Man-made mechanical mover
It'll move faster than you can
Vegetable lover
Golden velvet robes on Pope Paul, he's talking--he's stalking devils of flesh. Rides through the streets instead of walking. I think his holy story is a mess. All I did last Easter all I did was paint some eggs. It was a resurrection holy day-- no more nails in the holy legs. Only one true holy book in your hand. Singing in latin nobody understands. Licking wafers paper thin. Ah, stupid christian isn't it grand? Is that your reason for this day? Do you have a little something holy you'd like to say? Something about a magic, sacred, holy day. You look holy and humble on your knees, but it looks funny when you run that way. Pope Paul taking all your money for turning your feet into clay (pigeon).
He will bring happiness in a pipe
he'll ride away on his silver bike
and apart from that
he'll be so kind in consenting to blow your mind
fly Translove Airways gets you there on time
Fly Jefferson Airplane gets you there on time
he will bring orchids for my lady the parfume will be an excellent kind
and apart from that he'll be so kind in consenting to blow your mind
Fly Translove Airways gets you there on time
Woman says she loves me, she gives me free advice
Woman says she loves me, she gives me free advice
I wonder who it is she loves if she wants me to be so nice
Her friends, they are perfect but I?m always a fool
Her friends, they are perfect but I?m always a fool
She brings them all around to watch me blow my cool
The more she says she loves me, the more she puts me down
The more she says she loves me, the more she puts me down
Oh, what can I tell you now, Caroline?
Should I hurt your feelings or keep on lyin'?
One thing leads to another and another
And another and another, besides you always know
Whenever I wanna make love
And you always know all the changes
I'm going through, just as if you can read my mind
Caroline, you know everything I do
There just ain't no words to describe
How I feel inside for you
Yet somewhere out there
Waitin' on a wonder, you'll lend wings to my words
Somewhere when the band is gone
And the music of my song is just right for lovers
You're what I want more than anything else
I love you, yes I do but I know
When I'm all by myself, nothin' is real
But my feelings and desires for you
And everything looks like some sort of scenery
Stored in an empty theater, with stars on the ground
Fences in the sky and tears in the curtain of time
Oh, what can I tell you, my Caroline?
Except yet somewhere out there
Waitin' on a wonder, you'll lend wings to my words
Somewhere when the band is gone
And the music of my song is just right for lovers
Caroline, your lovin' keeps me rollin'
Rollin' all the time, rollin' all the time
Baby, somewhere out there, you really roll me
Roll me away, baby, somewhere out there
You roll me, roll me away
And when the melody makes me surrender
Dark eyed girl, I always remember that you love me
Somewhere out there, you really love me in time
To the music, how you love me wildly in my heart
Girl, you love me, you roll me away
You always fill my heart with wonder
You always fill my soul with love
You always fill my lips with kisses
You always fill my eyes with tears
It's like a wind from the other side of the world
Like a far off pack of hounds, sounds like
A whole universe throbbin' with life, I get so hypnotized
In the lights, just like the gaze of a mantis
Why even Atlantis sank beneath the waves in a day
And a night, oh, in a day and a night I could write
You a symphony, it would be just like a bird
And carry my love over the mountains
'Cause somewhere out there
Waitin' on a wonder, you'll lend wings to my words
Somewhere when the band is gone
And the music of my song is just right for lovers
You always fill my heart with wonder
You always fill my soul with love
You always fill my lips with kisses
You always fill my eyes with tears
Won't you see my chauffeur
Won't you sse my chauffeur
I want him to drive me
I want him to drive me downtown
For he drives so easy, that I can't turn him down
But I don't want him
But I don't want him
To be ridin' these girls
To be ridin' these girls all around
I'm gonna steal me a pistol, shoot my chauffeur down
Going to let my chauffeur
Going to let my chauffeur
Drive me around the
Drive me around the world
Lady, you keep asking why he likes you how come
Wonder why he wants more if he just had some
Boys, she's got more to play with in the way of toys
Ladies eyes go off and on with a finger full of glue
Paper dresses catch on fire & you lose her in the haze
Lips are drawn upon her face in come-to-me tattoo
Creamy suntan color that fades when she bathes
He's going off the drug thing cause his veins are getting big
Don't ever change lady, he likes you that way because
He just had his hair done and he wants to use your wig
He wants to sell his paintings but the market is slow
Don't ever change people even if you can
They're only paying him two grams now for a one-man abstract show
Made for each other made in Japan
You are your own best toy to play with remote control hands
Woman with a greasy heart automatic man
Don't ever change people even if you can
Don't change before the empire falls
If you want to get to heaven
Over on the other shore
Stay out of the way of the blood-stained bandit
Oh good shepherd
Feed my sheep
One for paul
One for silas
One for to make my heart rejoice
Can't you hear my lambs acallin
Oh good shepherd
Feed my sheep
If you want to get to heaven
Over on the other shore
Stay out of the way of the long-tongue liar
Oh good shepherd
Feed my sheep
If you want to get to heaven
Over on the other shore
Stay out of the way of the gun shot devil
Oh good shepherd
You & me we keep walkin' around & we see
All the bulsht around us
You try & keep your mind on what's going down
Can't help but see the rhinocerous around us
& you wonder what you can do
& you do what you can
To get bald & hi
& you know I'm still goin' need you around
You say it's healing but nobody's feeling it
Somebody's dealing - somebody's stealing it
You say you don't see & you don't
You say you won't know & you won't let it come
Everything someday will be gone except silence
Earth will be quiet again
Seas from clouds will wash off the ashed of violence
Left as the memory of men
There will be no survivor my friend
Suddenly everyone will look surprised
Stars spinning wheels in the skies
Sun is scrambled in their eyes
While the moon circles like a vulture
Someone stood at a window & cried
'One tear I thought that should stop a war
But someone is killing me'
& that's the last hour to think anymore
Jelly & juice & bubbles - bubbles on the floor
Castles on the cliffs vanish
Cliffs like heaps of rubbish
Seen from the stars hour by hour
As splintered scraps & black powder
From here to heaven is a scar
Dead center - deep as death
All the idiots have left
Epitaph
The cows are almost cooing
Turtle doves are mooing
Which is why a poo is pooing
In the sun
Sun.
Either go away or go all the way in
Look at what you hold
Come back down on a spear of silence
when it flies
you go on through
you come on through
thr rediculous no
oh no
one more pair of
Loving eyes look down on you
Sheets and a pillow
How old will you have to be before you
Stop believing
That those eyes will look down on you
That way forever
There you sit mouth wide open
Animals nipping at your sides
On wire wheels the four stroke man
Opens wide
the marching sound
the constant ride
on the gasket is mine
all mine
one more pair of
Wire wheels bear down on you
Gear stripping the willow
How many machine men will you see before you
Stop believing that speed
Will slide down on you
Snow cuts loose from the frozen
Until it joins with the African sea
In moving it changes its cold and its name
The reason I come and go is the same
Animal game for me
You call it rain
But the human name
Doesn't mean shit to a tree
If you don't mind heat in your river and
Fork tongue talking from me
Swim like an eel fantastic snake
Take my love when it's free
Electric feel with me
You call it loud
But the human crowd
Doesn't mean shit to a tree
Change the strings and notes slide
Change the bridge and string shift down
Shift the notes and bride sings
Fire eating people
Rising toys of the sun
Energy dies without body warm
Icicles ruin your gun
Water my roots the natural thing
Natural spring to the sea
Sulphur springs make my body float
Like a ship made of logs from a tree
Redwoods talk to me
Say it plainly
The human name
Doesn't mean shit to a tree
Snow called water going violent
Damn the end of the stream
Too much cold in one place breaks
That's why you might know what I mean
Consider how small you are
Compared to your scream
The human dream
Doesn't mean shit to a tree
Jorma Kaukonen
(Instrumental)
Oh, I know they say someday time will show me
How to be so cool someday but what about right now
Please someone tell me what do I do while I'm waiting
Waiting to be so cool someday
I know I'm not alone you know just how I feel
We both know the rules but who really knows
How to play this game?
No one will always win, good losers hide the pain
They say everything is fine
No one will hear them complain
But behind those smiles, so much purple rain
It's a wonder anybody ever comes out sane
But they do and freedom it's all up to you
When you're by yourself you get that silent noise
Inside your mind all the party boys trying to fill up
All the empty holes don't let one be her soul
Freedom now you're on your own
Freedom or does it really mean you're just all alone
Freedom either way it's gonna take you home
It just takes you by the hand and says
Now it's time to grow
So my friend you're gonna be alright
Seems like it's all uphill
But then that's the only way to get high
Someday your soul is gonna fly
But don't look back 'cause that's a waste of time
And right now is the time for you to look inside
And you'll see love, love has never gone away
Freedom I've been standing still so long
Freedom I almost forgot you had a song
Freedom shine your light and let us begin
Baby mine
Feel so good
All the time
If you would
The girl knows how to love
Both night and day
She know how to feel so fine
All over in every way
Ain't no lie
If you go
I won't die
Sure won't grow
Sit 'round running numbers
Sit 'round with my friends
Wasting time now, watching the sky
Wating for the story to end
Until she set me free
With her motion
Roll me 'round
Like the ocean
I can't wait to get some more
Of what the girl's got to give
Living without her's like loving a wall
Sticken in mine haken
sticken in mine haut
fugen mine gas mit mine auss pucken
straightem zee nicht mit
einem duetschen venn zee
mewden sint.
mine auto fairt ser
schnell aber ess rast
gegen mawen
Ya das ben mine
ya das bin du
du das ben ich
fair zuc ess
Look into her eyes
Do you see what I mean
Just look at her hair
And when she speaks, oh, oh what a pleasant surprise
How do you feel
Just look at her smile
Do you see what I mean
She is looking our way
Oh how I wish we could stay, just stay for a while
How do you feel
When I meet a girl like that
I don't know what to say
But to greet a girl like that
Brightens up my day
My day, oh
How do you feel
Just look at her walk
Do you see what I mean
She is coming our way
Oh, how my heart beats, I don't even think I can talk
How do you feel
When I meet a girl like that
I don't know what to say
But to greet a girl like that
Brightens up my day
My day, oh
How do you feel
How do you feel
Do you know how you feel
Just look at her smile
(Tell me how do you feel)
Look into her eyes
(Tell me how do you feel)
She is coming our way
(Tell me how do you feel)
Look into her eye
(Tell me how do you feel)
She is coming our way
Well, I heard the news just the other day
Now I feel there's something I must say
Well, the darkness comes too often
This time, next year, I'll build my coffin
Made out of lead so X-Rays cannot see
We gotta be free
Political men they burn their lives out talkin'
We people of the Earth just keep on walkin'
Well, we don't know what to say
Only live our lives as slaves
All we can do is race on to the grave
Well, we gotta get away
Well, they're much too old
To care about the future
They're sewing up the past
With shining sutures
It's immortality they crave
Their days are done so now they're brave
Their lives will live in books for fools and slaves
This is my life
I'm satisfied
So watch it
Don't try to keep me tied
So why not
Let me be satisfied
This is my life
This is my Way
This is my time
This is my dream
You know i like it
This is my Way
It suits me fine
So watch it doing
Or i leave you behind
So why not
Fit your life in with mine
This is my way
This is my time
This is my dream
This is my life
You know i like it
I like it
Now tell me what you see
Is it the same thing you want me to be
I've seen it all happen so long before
Please believe when i say it's a bore
I need more
I need more
I need more more
This is my time
I'm doing my best
So watch it
Ain't gonna be like the rest, no
So why not
Get away from the mass
This is my time
This is my Dream
This is my way
This is my life
You know i like it
I like it
Law man--I'm afraid you just walked in here at the wrong time
my old man's gun has never been fired
but there's a first time & this could be
this could be the first time
Law man
you know you look to be a lot younger than me and
I'd hate to shoot a baby
you've got a long way to go before you're old & slow
and it could be
it could be a good time if you change your mind
well I'm tired and sweet from making love
and it's just too late
you'll have to wait
bring your business around here in the morning
well I've heard your line
& you've heard mine
& I'm just too tired to take a side
bring your business around here in the morning
Don't you want to be easy look there
let some of the things you see go on by or
you can burn them into your brain go on home
Don't you see the children, they're just like you
they want everything to be fine but they let it slide
and the laughing lets you know that smiling breaks the rules
Law breaker you know it could be me
& if you had your way we'd all be down
under the face of a clock that's just too old to be wound
& you can see now the old hands won't move around
one way or the other,
fool card brother this could be,
this could be, the first time.
(Grace Slick, Jack Casady)
Long John Silver ring in his ear
He's the hero, make that clear
Does the same thing his father did
Sailing around the Caribbean
Robing king with his talking parrot
This time I think he's on the high side
Scabs are forming, scraped his knee
Guards are warning a bad man is free
He's like electric clock that needs no winding
Keeps the time without your hands
Western feet need no binding take
A barefoot run through old Japan
He's seen a thousand countries
They're all the same
Some men crazy, some men sane
But all men are ruled by a flag or a game
He knows Nobody's got you
If you don't sign your name
Long John Silver serves no king
No land holds him, that's why he feels like singing
Every country now and then
Roars like Irish, drunk and singing
Every monk will now and then
It's no secret, how strong my love is for you
It's no secret, when I tell you what I'm gonna do
Cause I love you, yeah I love you
It's no secret, everybody knows how I feel
It's no secret, when I say my love is real
Cause I love you, yeah I love you
It's no secret, when you got me jumping up and down
It's no secret, cause my heart is chained and bound
I love you, yes I love you
It's no secret, everybody knows how I feel
INSTRUMENTAL BREAK.
As I get older the years they get heavy for you - oh
Is it any wonder why I feel like my whole life is through -
yeah
When I stop feeling how strong my love is for you - oh
Know I'll be empty wanting your love like I do
It's no secret, when you got me jumping up and down
It's no secret, cause my heart is chained and bound
I love you, yes I love you
It's no secret, everybody knows how I feel
It's no secret, everybody knows how I feel, yeah (FADE)
Lather was thirty years old today.
They took away all of his toys.
His mother sent newspaper clippings to him,
About his old friends who'd stopped being boys.
There was Harwitz E. Green, just turned thirty-three,
His leather chair waits at the bank.
And Sergeant Dow Jones, twenty-seven years old,
Commanding his very own tank.
But Lather still finds it a nice thing to do,
To lie about nude in the sand,
Drawing pictures of mountains that look like bumps
And thrashing the air with his hands.
But wait, ol' Lather's productive, you know,
He produces the finest of sound,
Putting drumsticks on either side of his nose,
Snorting the best licks in town,
But that's all over...
Lather was thirty years old today
And lather came foam from his tongue.
He looked at me, eyes wide, and plainly saying,
"Is it true that I'm no longer young?"
And the children call him famous,
What the old men call insane.
And sometimes, he's so nameless,
That he hardly knows what game to play,
Which words to say.
And I should have told him, 'No, you're not old.'
Long time since I climbed down this mountain before Things I've seen here make me want to go running home
Lean close put your lips next to my face Look further on past the surface
Orange, blue, red & green Are the colors of what I feel And my mind y'know it starts to reel in time
To know your flesh layin' by my skin And I wonder whenever I'm in Warm, soft, nice & now Are the word things of what I know And my body y'know it's so in time
I see you at the same place that I play Ah darlin' tell me what can I say Dance, sing, sleep& dream Is the music of what I feel Among the many things whenever you're near in time
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell them a hookah-smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
Call Alice when she was just small
When the men on the chess board
Get up and tell you where to go
And you just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving slow
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the white knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's lost her head
Remember what the dormouse said
Feed your head
What a difference a day makes
Twenty-four little hours
Brought the sun and the flowers
Where there used to be rain.
My yesterday was blue, dear
Today I'm a part of you, dear
My lonely nights are through, dear
Since you said you were mine, oh mine.
What a difference a day makes
There's a rainbow before me
Skies above can't be stormy
Since that moment of bliss, that thrilling kiss.
It's heaven when you find romance on your menu
What a difference a day made
And the difference is you.
My yesterday was blue, dear
Today I'm a part of you, dear
My lonely nights are through, dear
Since you said you were mine.
What a difference a day makes
There's a rainbow before me
Skies above can't be stormy
Since that moment of bliss, that thrilling kiss.
It's heaven when you find romance on your menu
What a difference a day made
And the difference is you
If you feel like china breaking,
If you feel like laughing;
Break china laughing.
Break china laughing, laughing, laughing.
If you feel like leaves are falling
If you feel like smiling;
Fall leaves are smiling.
Fall leaves are smiling, smiling, smiling, yeah.
If you feel like love making,
If you feel like flying;
Make love flying, baby.
Make love flying, flying, flying, yeah.
Got down...
Not the first time, you know...
Got down, got up to go.
Got up to go.
If you feel like china breaking,
If you feel like laughing;
Break china laughing.
Break china laughing, laughing,
laughing, laughing, laughing,
laughing, laughing, laughing,
In the morning, Wailin morning, Hang my head and I cry. Well in the morning, Oh in the morning, mm-mm. Well when you're gone, ain't going to worry mine no more.
Well tell the morning, tell me true Well tell my way of acting, blow in somebody new. Good morning Tell the morning, tell me true. Well when you're gone, ain't going to worry mine no more.
It's a wild time
I see people all around me changing faces
It's a wild time
I'm doing things that haven't got a name yet;
I see love all the time
I need love, your love
I'm here for you an old time stay here, play here
It don't matter if it's rain or shine
I want to be with you, no matter what I do
What doesn't change is the way
I feel for you today
And it's new, so new
Make a place for yourself here
I see changes, changes all around me are changesTimes just seem so good
Go to her She waits She lies Beating for you
Go to her She waits She lies Screaming for you
I never thought I'd see the day When the shadow would move up and say
Go to her She lay Waiting for you
Go to her She waits She lies Longing for you
Go to her She waits She lies Only for you
There's something in my bed So help me lord I'm afraid
Go to her She lay Waiting for you
I can still remember the day When he first won my heart On a hillside where we lay He said we would never part
So help how was I to know My leaving would hurt her so
Go to her She lay Waiting for you
Go to her She lay Waiting for you
Help how was I to know My leaving would hurt her so
Go to her She lay Waiting for you
Go to her She lay Waiting for you
Help how was I to know My leaving would hurt her so
Go to her She lay Waiting for you
Go to her She lay Waiting for you
Go to her She waits She lies Beating for you
Go to her She waits She lies Screaming for you
Go to her She waits She lies All for you
Go to her She lay Dying for you
Come back baby, baby please don't go
One more time just before you hit the road
Come back baby, let's talk it over one more time
One more time, one more time
Let's talk it over one more time
There are always just a few pebbles in the middle of a stream when it's trying to be a flowing mother
Oh she blows she blows Nobody knows Oh there she goes Nobody knows
Then along comes a little tiny animal nipping a few drops out of her side just a few drops from her side
She can run she could stay but the days not right and so she's gonna move Let me tell you gonna move Let me tell you how I'm gonna move along Out away
But ahhhh There's a man come along with a jacket on long gun in his hand I said there was a man coming on with a red jacket on and a big long gun in his hand
Got a sledge hammer All he needs is one head Just one sledge hammer baby and all all them animals is dead Yeah dead
But why not keep the little animals alive? Why not? I say why not?
And don't you worry 'bout being sentimental honey they're just an animal you want to keep alive Keep alive
And give it to you what I have Give it to me Give to you yeah And give it to me Oh
You know how good it feels when somebody gives it to you Yeah, it feels good when somebody gives it to you. Gives it to you right here.
Tell me how it feels. When somebody gives it to you good.
I just look at you And I'm hypnotized Like I'm drowning now Drowning in your eyes You are beautiful Past imagining And I want you more More than anything
And I cannot speak And I've lost my sight All my senses gone Lost in you tonight And I want ... your love Be my lady ... be my lady
Do I ask too much Do I want too much Want to know you now Want to feel your touch You just look at me Feel the fire start Want to make you burn Want to touch your heart
Chorus
Got a racing heart And my mind's a roar Never felt like this Never loved before And it's dangerous I would willingly Burn to ashes now If you'll stay with me
Chorus
Well the word was out on the street today
All the friends that I'd met would have to say
While your records line the shelves
You're fighting amongst yourselves
That's a hell of a lot of dues for you to pay
Well the word my friend you know is on the street
It's on the lips of everyone I meet
While you're climbin up the chart
Your band just fell apart
I guess your life just ain't really that complete
You know your car with which I was impressed
Well I hear that it's gonna be repossessed
Well I thought you had it made
But you ain't even paid
For the things that you've bought
Since the acid test
I hear you manager skipped town with all your pay
And your lead singer's bulge turns the censors grey
Wall that's really a doggone shame
But who's there left to blame
And all you ever really wanted was just to play
They say your drummer he's crazy as a loon
Last night they found him baying at the moon
As as for your lead guitar
He just cracked up his car
But he should be out of traction very soon
Well my friend it's time for me to go
I just can't be late for my evening show
You see I've written this tune
And I hope that very soon
I'll be heard on Top 40 radio
A SMALL PACKAGE OF VALUE WILL COME TO YOU SHORTLY
(Dryden, Blackman and Thompson)
Well if we really wanna make it
Really wanna make it, I wanna make it man
Straight ahead all the way you guys
I don't care how dirty you guys get
It doesn't make any difference
Oh fudge, ah well, fudge
Ah Barnum gee whiz rag mop
You know gosh all whillickers
Under the wedding ring I feel a what's that
Finger finger hoo hah hoo hah are you married
Fu fu fudge, hyuh hyuh hyuh rag mop
Hoo wha hoo you do it, I do it, who do it, where do it
Do it do it do it do it do it do it do it
Folks we've been in the business for 20 years
And I've never had a heart attack
You're my friends I want you to know that
Stick it stick it time time time
Take your money sign to clarify that
Ahhh! Ahh! Er ahhh!
Would you believe New York is an island rragh!
(instrumental break)
The Honorable Hawaii sinking
Shi fah fah shuh-hoo-oo-whiss!
Yes what is it
I've been at school you see try try try
Hawaii Hawaii Hawaii
Bok! Bok! Bok! Bok!
The difference to get in though
Not that it makes any difference fah shoo
Uh New York's uh sinking
How old are you little girl
Fudge fudge ay yi the thing is
Nay nay uh! Ca-no-no yes but
Uh-uh-uh Ca-nay-nay ba-no-no
Fah-oo ah Going! Going!
Goh! Goh! Goh! Goh!
No man is an island! Do it do it do it do it
No man is an island!
Do away with people blowin' my mind
Do away with people wastin' my precious time
Take me to a simple place
Where I can easily see my face
Maybe baby, I'll see that you were kind
Know I love you baby, yes I do
Know I love you baby, yes I do
Do away with people laughin' at my hair
Do away with people frownin' on my precious cares
Take me to a circus tent
Where I can easily pay my rent
And all the other freaks will share my cares
Know I love you baby, yes I do
Know I love you baby, yes I do
Do away with things that come on obscene
Like hot rods, pre-cleaned real fine nicotine
Sometimes the price is 65 dollars
Prices like that make a grown man holler
'Specially when it's sold by a kid who's only 15
Know I love you baby, yes I do
Know I love you baby, yes I do
You and me, we keep walking around and we see
All the bullshit around us.
You try and keep your mind on whats going down,
Cant help but see the rhinoceros around us.
Then you wonder what you can be,
And you do what you can to get far and high.
And you know Im still gonna need you around.
And you know Im still gonna need you around.
You say its healing, but nobodys feeling it.
Somebodys dealing, somebodys stealing,
And you say you dont see and you dont.
You say you wont know and you wont, when it comes.
Everything someday will be gone except silence.
The earth will be quiet again.
Seas from clouds will wash off the ashes of violence
Left as the memory of men.
There will be no survivors, my friend.
Suddenly everyone will look surprised,
Stars spinning wheels in the skies,
Sun is scrambled in their eyes
And circleslike a vulture.
Someone stood at the window and cried one tear.
I thought that would stop the war, but someone is killing me.
Thats the last time I do think anymore.
Jelly and juice and bubblesbubbles on the floor.
Castles on cliffsvanished
Just like heaps ofrubbish
Seen from the stars hour upon hour
As splinters, dust, and black flowers.
From here to heaven is a scar,
Dead center, deep as death.
All the idiots have left.
The idiots have left.
Cows are almost cooing,
Turtle doves are mooing;
Which is why a Pooh is poohing
In the sun
I want to ride the tiger
I want to ride the tiger
It will be black and white in the dead of night
Eyes flashing in the clear moonlight
I want to ride the tiger.
Its like a tear in the hands of a western man
Tell you about salt, carbon and water
But a tear to a chinese man
Hell tell you about sadness and sorrow or the love of a man and
A woman.
I want to ride the tiger
I want to sail through the risin sun for you and you
We got something to learn from the other side
Something to give, we got nothing to hide
I want to ride the tiger.
Black wants out of the streets
Yellow wants the country
Red wants the country back
And white wants out of this world
Sing - sing to the sky
I want to ride the tiger
I want to ride the tiger.
Look to the summer of seventy-five
All the world is gonna come alive
Do you want to ride the tiger?
Its like a tear in the hands of a western man
Tell you about salt, carbon and water
But a tear to an oriental man
Hell tell you about sadness and sorrow or the love of a man and
You once asked me what I wanted out of life Well, I guess its just the life time of laughter and smiles to be the Cinderella Man for a while but there's so man miles that I've got to go
You once asked me what I wanted out of life Well, I guess its just the quiet ride of a life when you love me just right with brightness so dazzling my head must turn
you know my head must turn
You once asked me what I wanted out of life Well, I guess its just that chance to sit and watch it all go by never have an answer and I'll never know why but at the end of it all will I be satisfied I dont know
Won't you try won't you try won't you try find a way to need someone find a way to see find a way to need someone and the sunshine will set you free won't you try won't you try won't you try with love before we're gone
Lookin' in your eyes I see a paradise This world that I found is too good to be true Standing here beside you, want so much to give you This love in my heart and I feel it for you Let 'em say we're crazy, I'll give a path Put your hands in my hand baby don't ever look back Let the world around us, just fall apart Baby we can make it if we're heart to heart And we can build this thing together Standing strong forever Nothing's gonna stop us now
And if this world runs out of lovers We'll still have each other Nothing's gonna stop us Nothing's gonna stop us I'm so glad I found you I'm not gonna lose you Whatever it takes I will stay here with you Take it to the good times See it through the bad times Whatever it takes is what I'm gonna do
Let 'em say we're crazy What do they know? Put your hands in my hand baby, don't ever let go Let the world around us Just fall apart Baby we can make it if we're heart to heart And we can build this thing together Standing strong forever Nothing's gonna stop us now
And if this world runs out of lovers We'll still have each other Nothing's gonna stop us Nothing's gonna stop us Now, all that I need is you
All that I ever need in the whole of the world to do Is hold you forever, ever and ever,
And we can build this thing together Standing strong forever Nothing's gonna stop us now
And if this world runs out of lovers We'll still have each other Nothing's gonna stop us Nothing's gonna stop us
we can build this thing together Standing strong forever Nothing's gonna stop us now
saturday afternoon saturday afternoon when your head is feeling fine you can ride inside our car I will give you caps of blue and silver sunlight for your hair all that soon will be is what you need to see, my love won't you try won't you try I do care that you do see Is it time to leave, my lady yes it is I know round about and everywhere sunshine instead of snow times can't change that what I say is true
Law man--I'm afraid you just walked in here at the wrong time my old man's gun has never been fired but there's a first time & this could be this could be the first time
Law man you know you look to be a lot younger than me and I'd hate to shoot a baby you've got a long way to go before you're old & slow and it could be it could be a good time if you change your mind well I'm tired and sweet from making love and it's just too late you'll have to wait bring your business around here in the morning
well I've heard your line & you've heard mine & I'm just too tired to take a side bring your business around here in the morning Don't you want to be easy look there let some of the things you see go on by or you can burn them into your brain go on home Don't you see the children, they're just like you they want everything to be fine but they let it slide and the laughing lets you know that smiling breaks the rules
Its been a long, long road Since I packed up and left on my own And I carry a heavy load Just try n get back to her heart
I sure aint got no home I seem to find love where I ramble And when its time to go I hear that voice again... sayn
Chorus Find your way back... Find your way back to her heart Find your way back... Find your way back to her heart
Leave a message with the rain You can find me where the wind blows The snow across the pain And the frost upon the heart
(you got no place to be Still you wonder where youre goin) And why I had to leave I hear a voice... it says to me
Repeat chorus
I know its too late now But, I wish I could go back in time And start all over somehow And get it right from the start
theres something happening here
what it is aint exactly clear
theres a man with a gun over there
tellin me i got to be where
i think its time we
stop
childeren whats that sound
everybody look whats goin down
theres battle lines bein brawn
nobodys right if everybodys wrong
young people speaking their minds
im gettin so much resistence
far behind
its we stop
hey whats that sound
everybody look whats goin down.
what a field day for the heat
a thousand people in the street
singin songs and carrying signs
mostly sayb 'hooray for our side'
its time we stop
hey whats that sound
everybody look whats goin down
paranoia strikes deep
into your life it will creep
it starts when you always afraid
step out of line
the men come and take you away
we better stop
hey whats that sound
everybody look whats goin down
stop
hey whats that sound
everybody look whats goin down
Give me a ticket for an aeroplane
Ain't got time to take a fast train
Lonely days are gone, I'ma goin' home
My baby just wrote me a letter
I don't care how much money I gotta spend
Got to get back to my baby again
Lonely days are gone, I'ma goin' home
My baby just wrote me a letter
Well she wrote me a letter
Told me she couldn't live without me no more
Listen mister can't you see
I gotta get back to my baby once more, anyway
Give me a ticket for an aeroplane
Ain't got time to take a fast train
Lonely days are gone, I'ma goin' home
My baby just wrote me a letter
Well she wrote me a letter
Told me she couldn't live without me no more
Listen mister can't you see
I gotta get back to my baby once more, anyway
Give me a ticket for an aeroplane
Ain't got time to take a fast train
Lonely days are gone, I'ma goin' home
My baby just wrote me a letter
Crazy Miranda
lives on propaganda she believes anything she reads
it could be one side or the other
Free Press or Time Life covers
she follows newsprint anywhere it leads
but still she can't seem to read and nobody
knows nobody knows what she needs it could be love
All the pretty ladies textbooks
tell her how to have the "next look"
The Bible tells her stay as plain as you are
she wants all the pretty boys beside her
to write some pretty words to guide her
to tell her they love her body as well as her mind
she wants some kind of sign--a sign of love
oh never mind--she's not your kind.
You are the Crown of Creation
You are the Crown of Creation
and you've got no place to go.
Soon you'll attain the stability you strive for
in the only way that it's granted
in a place among the fossils of our time.
In loyalty to their kind
they cannot tolerate our minds.
In loyalty to our kind
we cannot tolerate their obstruction.
Life is Change
How it differs from the rocks
I've seen their ways too often for my liking
New worlds to gain
My life is to survive
and be alive
(Paul Kantner)
It's time you walked away
set me free
I must move away
leave you be...
time's been good to us, my friend
wait and see how it will end
we come and go as we please...
we come and go as we please...
that's how it must be
Here in crystal chandelier, I'm home
too many days, I've left unstoned
if you don't mind happiness
purple-pleasure fields in the Sun
ah, don't you know I'm runnin' home...
don't you know I'm runnin' home...
to a place to you unknown?
I take great peace in your sitting there
searching for myself, I find a place there
I see the people of the world
where they are and what they could be...
I can but dance behind your smile...
I can but dance behind your smile...
you were the world to me for a while
Almost been a year since we've been together
Suddenly the past has fallen in behind us
Seems so long ago since you drifted away
Now all I know is I want you to stay
Don't slip away, oh no, don't slip away
Now that you're here we should just let it happen
You know I'm sorry, but what can I say?
Some things are best if they're only forgotten
But time for changing should begin with today.
The best years are after tomorrow
You can't hide what we shared with each other
Now that you're here we should just let it happen
I know you still care and feel the same way
Don't slip away, oh no, don't slip away
I'm sure there's more love in your heart than you're showing
Now it depends on what you have to say.
INSTRUMENTAL BREAK.
Don't slip away, oh no, don't slip away
instrumental
I ought to get going
I shouldn't stay here and love you
More than I do
Cause you're so much younger than I am
Come up the years, come up the years
And love me, love me love me
A younger girl keeps hanging around
One of the loveliest I've ever found
Blowin' my mind, stealin' my heart
I ought to get going
Somebody help me 'fore I fall apart.
I shouldn't stay here and love you
More than I do
Cause you're so much younger than I am
Come up the years, come up the years
And love me, love me love me
And I've been happy to go right along
The things she's doing keep turning me on
I know it's time that I said goodbye
I know I can't leave no matter how hard I try.
I ought to get going
More than I do
I shouldn't stay here and love you
Come up the years, come up the years
Cause you're so much younger than I am
(Marty Balin)
The summer had inhaled
And held its breath too long
The winter looked the same
As if it never had gone
And through an open window
Where no curtain hung
I saw you, I saw you
Comin' back to me
One begins to read between
The pages of a look
The shape of sleepy music
And suddenly you're hooked
Through the rain upon the trees
The kisses on the run
I saw you, I saw you
Comin' back to me
You came to stay and live my way
Scatter my love like leaves in the wind
You always say you won't go away
But I know what it always has been
It always has been
A transparent dream
Beneath an occasional sigh
Most of the time
I just let it go by
Now I wish it hadn't begun
I saw you, yes, I saw you
Comin' back to me
Strolling the hills
Overlooking the shore
I realize I've been here before
The shadow in the mist
Could have been anyone
I saw you, I saw you
Comin' back to me
Small things like reasons
Are put in a jar
Whatever happened to wishes
Wished on a star?
Was it just something
That I made up for fun?
I saw you, I saw you
In your arms, in your eyes
I can see the Paris lights
And the warm Italian nights
Seems like summertime just flies
Through so many skies we've flown
So many lands we've come to know
And we watch our love just grow
Till the winter brings us home
No time gives us reasons
For why it just goes by
And no man can stop the seasons
But so many men will try
We will travel these ancient lands
And our minds will learn to fly
We will hear all the music of man
Learn to love before we die
In these lands ruled by kings
The enchanted princess sings
And all the fairy tales she knew
The [unverified] lies we thought were true
But the castles on the Rhein
Never seem to mind the time
That will take them slowly back
Into history's memorized lines
Wooden shoes and tulips in Holland
English guards with medieval swords
Conquistadors and Spanish galleons
Vikings sailing the mountain fjords
We will travel these ancient lands
And our minds will learn to fly
We will hear all the music of man
Learn to love before we die
In your arms, in your eyes
I can see the Paris lights
And the warm Italian nights
How he knows where he's going -
Never lost -
No one, well there's no one faster
Direction born in his brain
He's got no reason to hide
He's got no laws to cross
He's got
Well he's got no master
Freedom born in his name
Aerie (3x)
Well you can't fly human master
No you can't fly - fly by yourself
You can't fly dying master
Without a rifle on your shelf
When the time does come near again
When the day does seem clear again
Make it in the night time
The dreams ands in the light time
All of you come away
Just a bow shot away
Let me tell you 'bout a story now
A tale of glory and power
And I don't even know your name
But I thought I'd tell you all about it just the same
We are all creatures of fame, lightness and liberty
In the times of the olden times
Of ancient ladies and maritime splendor
Priests of Karnak and Thebes
Could walk through the ocean and the seas
When the pyramid she would sigh
The waters streamed from the sky
The ocean you know is your firend
Your brother and sister just as sure as sin
Put your hands in the water
Rest your feet on the sea
You don't have to let your body die
You can come back again if you try, if you try
This song was made then by you and me
A billion years before these oceans rolled
Oh I can see you burning brightly
You shine like silver like sun gold
And a hundred years from today
All you people will be gone away
Down into the heart of the sea
Bak to the time of wonderwhy you and me
And I don't even know your name
But I thought I'd tell you all about it just the same
If you laugh real hard you win the game - hands down
Before old Alexander 'twas just the same as now
Can you smell the blood of fame, lightness and liberty?
We can be one world, we will be one world
In the jungles of the mountain
Young Nora loves the mountain
And the mountain feeds the people
And the wheel keeps on turnin' revolution
And the wheel keeps on rollin' firmly toward tomorrow
And the mountain speaks clearly to the people in the streets
And they sit and watch the motion watch it rollin' by
Some climb aboard and roll into the future evolution
And the wheel keeps on turnin'
It turns and rolls forever
The wheel is life and children and it
Goes on forever and it's roll, roll, roll
We will be one country, we will be one world
We can be one world
I dreamt I was in love again with the lady of the mountain
The lighthouse keeper's daughter the seer of visions
And I smiled at the pain of our innocent past
Of love on the wheel in the circle at the heart of devotion
And the wind from the mountain blew across our love affair
And awakened the heart to the roll of the wheel
And the night grew still and no wind was blowin'
I know this was the hour liberation
And the wheel keeps on turnin'
It won't go away, it will not be denied
And it goes on forever and it's
Roll, roll, roll, the circle is unbroken
We will be one world, we can be one world
We will see one world
Dreams don't die, they don't wave goodbye
Unless you let them go and watch them die in fury
Freedom is like wheat it must be planted softly
And watered everyday and it must be protected
I'll it multiplies and fills the mouth of the wind
And the hunger of all becomes invincible
Ringing from the mountain fire from the mountain
In the heart of the volcano, the future is born
We will be one world and it goes on forever
Rolling toward tomorrow in the streets of forever
And it's roll, roll, roll, the future is unspoken
And the wheel keeps on rolling to one world
We will be one world
Jesus had a son by Mary Magdalene and he rode the land like the man who
went before
young Jesus raised him loud, mother Mary raised him proud and he tracked
the men who laid his father down
one day the Pilate died with the fire in his side Herod did die too not the=
way
he wanted to y'see the child knew the secrets of Egypt & Isis
Magdalene remembered when the people smiled and had been looser looser
than they'd been since the day young Jesus died public execution enhanced
by levitation fancy mutilation for 2.000 years of time
Jesus could walk on the water the man could dance on the sea of Galilee
but don't try breathing the water miracles go only so far you see
so you think young Jesus Christ never a lady and you think young Mary
never saw him smile wide & free you won't read it in the bible & if you
look you're liable ta come across the truth about the man from Galilee she=
the man upon the water they had a son they had a daughter she hid them
from the slaughter in the deep Black Sea
God loved the son of Jesus Ol' God got off on the spaklin' daughter too, yes=
he did Jesus could walk on the water the man could dance on the Sea of
Galilee
watch him dance watch him dance watch him dance dance dance
sittin' around thinkin'
thinkin' and a thinkin'
and it ain't doin' me no good
well I thunk and I thunk
couldn't think of anything better
I tried and I tried
tryin' ain't doin' me no good
I write choo everyday, what could be
my very last letter
come what may I say
thinkin' ain't doin' me no good
thinkin' ain't doin' me no good people
thinkin' ain't doin' me no good, no good
I want to know, if everything that's sung
will remain
within the structure of a person
whose mind I wish to claim
please don't say that wantin' you
won't do me no good
please oh please don't say
wantin' you won't
wantin' you won't do me no good
wantin' you won't do me no good woman
wantin' you won't do me no good, no good
well I thunk thunk thunk thunk
a lot about it
realized my thunk is nuthin'
but a lot of funk
bunk down on in my place
only a dream (hum)
only a dream (hum)
only a dream (hum)
thinkin' ain't doin' me no good no
thinkin' ain't doin' me no good no people
Sometimes I feel like i am leaving life behind
My hands are moving faster than the movement of my mind
Thoughts and generations of my dreams are yet unborn
I hope that I will find them 'fore my moving gets too worn
If only I could live to see the dawning of the dawn
So we go on moving trying to make this image real
Straining every nerve not knowing what we really feel
Straining every nerve ending and everybody sees
That what they read in the Rolling Stone has really come to be
And trying to avoid a taste of that reality
On an early New York mornin' a mirror in the hall
Showed to me a face I didn't know at all
Lines were drawn around a pair of eyes that opened wide
When I looked into the mouth there was nothing left inside
So I walked into the little room and whistled like a sigh
As dawn light closed around me my head was still in gear
Thinking thoughts of playing more and singing loud and clear
Trying to reach a friend somewhere and make that person smile
Maybe pull myself away from that old lonesome mile
That often comes to haunt me in the morning
All my friends keep telling me that it would be a shame
To break up such a grand success and tear apart a name
But all I know is what I feel whenever I'm not playin'
Emptiness ain't where it's at and neither's feeling pain
Well now what is going to happen now is anybody's guess
If I can't spend my time with love I guess I need a rest
Time is getting late now and the sun is getting low
My body's getting tired of carryin' another's load
And sunshine's waiting for me a little further down the road
I opened the door and I found I was looking at danger
It's been too many years but we're hiding our faces like strangers
She says that she's got to go but there ain't no way
I'm letting her walk while there's something to say
It's been too many years
To watch our hearts die this way
She's feeling a time for a seasonal change and she's yearning
To shake the trees of our love in the streets
Where the leaves are for burning
All things on this earth were made for the dying
A look in my soul says, it just ain't no use trying
It's been too many years
To watch our hearts die this way
In an unwritten time I thought that life was for sharing
And living together was simply a matter of caring
But things did not work out like I planned
And alienation has left me here damned
It's been too many years
Today, I feel like pleasing you more than before
Today, I know what I wanna do, but I don't know what for
To be living for you is all I want to do
To be loving you it'll all be there when my dreams come true
Today you'll make me say that I somehow have changed
Today you'll look into my eyes, I'm just not the same
To be any more than all I am would be a lie
I'm so full of love I could burst apart and start to cry
Today, everything you want I swear it all will come true
Today, I realize how much I'm in love with you
With you standing here, I could tell the world what it means to love
To go on from here, I can't use words they don't say enough
Please, please listen to me
It's taken so long to come true
Gonna move out on the highway, make this moment last
Till it closes with the future, even out the past
Rollin' on and doin' fine, now what do you think I see?
That boney hand comes a beckonin', buddy come and go with me
That engine just ain't strong enough
To get you 'round the turn
Lie on your back in the middle of a field
And watch your body burn
Hey, don't try to tell me just who I am
When you don't know yourself
Spend half your time running out on the street
With your mind home on the shelf
Lookin' at me with your eyes full of fire
Like you'd rather be seein' me dead
Lying on the floor with a hole in my face
And a ten gauge shotgun at my head
You can leave me here, but I won't tell
Things I know about you and know so well
The way you smile at me, try to set me free
And keep me wondering what the future will be
Rollin' on won't be long
I won't leave here till I sing this song
And don't try to tell me just who I am
When you don't know yourself
Spend half your time running out on the street
With your mind home on the shelf
Lookin' at me with your eyes full of fire
Like you'd rather be seein' me dead
Lying on the floor with a hole in my face
You want to know
How it will be
Me and him
Or you and me
You both stand there your long hair flowin'
Eyes alive your mind still growin'
Sayin' to me, "What can we do now that we both love you?"
I love you too
I don't really see why can't we go on as three
You are afraid
Embarrassed too
No one has ever said such a
Thing to you
Your mother's ghost stands at your shoulder
Face like ice a little bit colder
Sayin' to you, "You can not do that, it breaks all the rules
You learned in school"
I don't really see
Why can't we go on as three
We love each other
It's plain to see
There's just one answer
That comes to me
Sister lovers water brothers
And in time maybe others
So you see what we can do is to try something new
If you're crazy too
I don't really see
THE LAST WALL OF THE CASTLE
(Jorma Kaukonen)
Gone swirling tears came she went today;
Down Fallen years go by,
No place in learning how to cry; I went astray;
Understanding is a virtue, hard to come by
You can teach me how to love
If you'll only try; So please!
Don't give up so soon.
Sorry that I hurt her I went astray;
Hurt her mind and broke her heart
But there's no stopping once you start; she went away;
Understanding is a virtue, hard to come by
You can teach me how to love
If you'll only try; So please!
Don't give up so soon.
I never knew you the way you are;
The Blinded bird is not sincere,
His flying's done from only fear, he's lost his star;
Understanding is a virtue, hard to come by
You can teach me how to love
If you'll only try; So please!
Don't give up so soon.
(Solo)
Fade on instrumental after 3rd Verse
Bought myself a farm way out in the country
Took to growin lettuce milkin cows and honey
Bought myself a farm (way out in the country)
Bought myself a farm way out in the country
Spent time in the hayloft with the mice and the bunnies
Spent time in the country
Yes it's good livin on the farm
Ah so good livin on the farm
Yes it's good livin on the farm
Here comes my next door neighbour comin down the road
He always looks so regal ridin on his toad named lightnin
The toad's name is lightnin he's ten hands at the shoulder
And if you give him sugar you know he'll whinny like a boulder
Yes he will
Well I gotta get back to work now and clear away some logs
Ah the sun is shinin westwards yeah I think I'll saddle up my frog and
If you want to get to heaven
Over on the other shore
Stay out of the way of the blood-stained bandit
Oh good shepherd
Feed my sheep
One for paul
One for silas
One for to make my heart rejoice
Can't you hear my lambs acallin
Oh good shepherd
Feed my sheep
If you want to get to heaven
Over on the other shore
Stay out of the way of the long-tongue liar
Oh good shepherd
Feed my sheep
If you want to get to heaven
Over on the other shore
Stay out of the way of the gun shot devil
Oh good shepherd
I was born in a bunk
Mother died and my daddy got drunk
Left me here to die or grow
In the middle of Tobacco Road
Grew up in a dusty shack
And all I had was a-hangin' on my back
Only you know how I loathe
This place called Tobacco Road
But it's home
The only life I've ever known
Only you know how I loathe
Tobacco Road
I'm gonna leave and get a job
With the help and the grace from above
Save some money, get rich I know
Bring it back to Tobacco Road
Bring dynamite and a crane
Blow you up, start all over again
Build a town be proud to show
Give the name Tobacco Road
'Cause it's home
The only life I've ever known
Oh, I despise and disapprove you
Would you like to know a secret? Just between you and me
I don't know where I'm going next, I don't know who I'm gonna be
Yeah, and that's the other side of this life, I've been leading, yeah
Yeah, and that's the other side of this life
Well, my whole world's in an uproar, my whole world's upside down
I don't know where I'm going but I'm always bumming 'round
Yeah, and that's another side of this life I've been leading, yeah
Yeah, and that's another side of this life
Well, I don't know what I'm doing, half the time, I don't know where I'm going
I think I'm gonna get me a sailing boat and sail the Gulf of Mexico
Yeah, and that's another side of this life I've been leading, yeah
Yeah, that's the other side of this life
I think I'm [Incomprehensible] down to Tennessee
The ten cent life I've been leading here gonna be the death of me
Yeah, and that's the other side of this life I've been leading, yeah
Yeah, that's the other side of this life
Would you like to know a secret? Just between you and me
I don't know where I'm going next, I don't know who I'm gonna be
Yeah, and that's the other side of this life I've been leading, yeah
One time ,run around,
Don't look and for me to go your way
You left me here with out anything to love
I'll tell you
I'veâ€Ã‚¦.. hadâ€Ã‚¦. enough of your hands running round my brain,
Andâ€Ã‚¦ I'veâ€Ã‚¦.. had have enough of the way that you cause me pain
So slow down, run around your other side,
Walk with me instead tonight
We could be near like we use to be before
Ahh girl, â€Ã‚¦I.. need more of the times that you turned me round
And â€Ã‚¦.There's â€Ã‚¦no time to turn away love I've found
So couldn't we forget about today , start again from where we were
We use to dance out to space without a care
And our laughter come ringing and singing we rolled round the music,
Blinded by colors come crashing from flowers that sway as you stay here by me .
Slow down, run around
Your love is soft
Walk with me instead tonight
We could be near like we use to be before
Ahh girl, ..Iâ€Ã‚¦ need more of the times that you turned me round
And ..there'sâ€Ã‚¦. no time to turn away love I've found
Run around
Lifetime run around
Don't look back and for me to go your way
You left me here with out anything to love
I'll tell you â€Ã‚¦
I've ..had enough of your hands running round my brain,
And I've had have enough of the way that you cause me pain
Love is but a song we sing
Hear away, we die
You can make the mountains ring
Hear the angels cry
Though the dove is on the wing
You need not know why
Hey, people now
Smile on your brother
Let me see you get together
Love one another right now
Some will come and some will go
We shall surely pass
When the wind that left us here
Returns for us at last
We are but a moment's sunlight
Fading on the grass
Hey, people now
Smile on your brother
Let me see you get together
Love one another right now
Hey, people now
Smile on your brother
Let me see you get together
Love one another right now
If you hear the song I'm singing
You will understand
You hold the key to love and fear
All in your trembling hand
One key unlocks them both, you know
It's at your command
Hey, people now
Smile on your brother
Let me see you get together
Oh Let me me in I wanna be there
You shut your door
Now it ain't there
Without a word to me
Without a look at me
You turned me down without a care
Oh let me in
Hear what I'm, talking about
I gotta get in
But you keep putting me out
Without a call to me
Without a love for me
You don't even know if there is
One gram of doubt
Oh let me in baby
You're driving me crazy
Your playing games in my mind
Oh let me in honey
Don't tell me it's so funny
I didn't know that you could
Be that unkind
(Break)
Oh let me in
You know I, want only you
I don't want to be told
by you what to do
Without a care for me
Without a love for me
Who's gonna talk for me
Who's gonna speak for me
You walked away for something
That you knew
There's a high flyin' bird, way up in the sky now,
You know I wonder if she looks down, as she flies on by?
She's flying on the air so easily in the sky.
Lord, look at me here,
I'm rooted like a tree here, yes i am now.
I got those sit-down,
can't cry Oh Lord, im gonna die blues.
You know the sun come around and lights up the day now,
And when he gets tired, you know it roles on on his way
To the east and to the west,
You know he meets God every day.
Lord, look at me here,
I'm rooted like a tree here, yes i am now.
I got those sit-down,
can't cry Oh Lord, im gonna die blues.
Now I had a woman
Lord, she lived down by the mine,
She ain't never seen the sun,
Oh Lord, never stopped crying.
Then one day my man ,
Lord, she up and died now.
Oh Lord, she up and died now.
She wanted to die,
And the only way to fly is die, die, die.
There's a high flyin' bird, flying way up in the sky,
And I wonder if she looks down as she goes on by?
Well, she's flying so freely in the sky.
Lord, look at me here,
I'm rooted like a tree here,
Got those sit-down, can't cry,
Look what's happening out in the streets
got a revolution got to revolution
Hey I'm dancing down the streets
got a revolution got to revolution
Ain't it amazing all the people I meet
got a revolution got to revolution
One generation got old
One generation got soul
This generation got no destination to hold
pick up the cry
Hey now it's time for you and me
got a revolution got to revolution
Come on now we're marching to the sea
got a revolution got to revolution
Who will take it from you
We will and who are we
In nineteen hundred and seventy-five all the
people rose from the countryside to move against
you government man d'you understand locked
together hand in hand all thru this unsteady land--
gonna roll roll roll the rock around roll roll roll the rock
around lift the rock out of the ground
at the Battle of Forever Plains all my people hand
in hand in hand in the rain the laser way won the day
without one single living soul going down the government
troops were circled in the sun gun found themselves on the
run... from our nation the rock is raised no need to hide from
the other side now... transformation
call high to the constellation headquarters call high to the
most high directors send out the transporting systems and
send out the sun finders
thirteen battalion of mind raiders three hundred master
computer killers from great platforms in the mountains
Get down now and roll around me
Get down now and be my queen
Get down now and roll around me
Chinese dance around the queen.
Twilight double leader
Comin' home to feed her
Charioteer - already been here
Determination structure.
Have you heard about your brothers and your sisters
Livin' in the mountains...free from the city life.
You can feel it in the streetime
Hunin' for the lifeline
Twilight all around you - around & around you
You can make it in the nitetime.
And if you're lost midway - third of the week
She gonna find the right way to get to you.
Twilight double leader
Comin' home to please her
Walkin' on the water..disappearing daughter
Citadel redeemer.
Ain't got time to hang around - movin' slow...
I just got to go
I just got to go
You want two heads on you body
And you've got two mirrors in your hand.
Priests are made of brick with gold crosses on a stick
and your nose is too small for this land.
inside your room your jail
inside your mouth the elephants trunk and booze,
Inside your head is your town
the only key to your bail
Coda:
Want two heads on your body
and you've got two mirrors in your hand
Two heads can be put together.
And you can fill both your feet with sand.
Noone will know you've gutted your mind
Your lions are fighting with chairs,
but what will you do with your bloody hands?
Your women are tired of dying alive
your arms are incredibly fat;
if you've had any women at that.
Wearing your comb like an ax in your head
List'ning for signs of life;
Children are sucking on stone and lead
And chasing their hoops with a knife;
Keep them polished and shining;
New breasts and jewels for the girl,
In golden Hannibal Carthage days marchin' onto Rome
knockin' on the door and findin' nobody home there
Rome she cut our army down and left them in the snow so now
I go to where I come from now I go home to the Sun
When the earth moves again
when the earth moves again my friend
let the lady ride on thru
when the earth moves again
Egyptian kings they sing of Gods and pyramids of stone
and they left the deserts clean and they left the deserts
golden and shinin' as a beacon for those that need a road
into the day and thru the night we go and find our way home
when the earth moves again
my love to all the people I leave behind
search out the new ground around you
when the earth moves again
your head can pull your lady around
and you can leave whenever you can and the ground
take what you and on the land sea foam glass is sand
if you've only lived on earth you've never seen the sun
or the promise of a thousand other suns that glow beyond here
and if you care to see the future look into the eyes
of your young dancing children don't be afraid of our ways
when the earth moves again
when the earth moves again
watch the lady ride and sigh
when the earth moves again
Moses Moses the red sea closes over you when you
least expect it to
when the earth moves again
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice, when she's ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
To call Alice, when she was just small
When the men on the chessboard get up
And tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice, I think she'll know
When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead
And the white knight is talking backwards
And the red queen's off with her head
Remember what the dormouse said
?Feed your head, feed your head?
Paul Kantner)
I didn't know you were the one for me, I couldn't see
For someone to come along to help you out,
But you were waiting,
to sing your song,
And I was changing;
All I see is you; all I feel is you,
for me!
And always feel you by my side;
I would really like to watch you ride
And I would really like to watch you ride;
All on me!
You have a way of walking 'round,
I see you, I feel you;
I go stumbling to the sky, and I seem to fly so high
and you are shining;
All I see is you;
your feet they never touch the ground,
All I feel is you for me!
Times don't change;
Times don't ever change for me;
the only thing in my world
And I know that you could be,
The only thing that my mind would find;
For love, for love and peace of mind,
for me, for me: Oh
and we can say, "I love you, love you;"
Your shadow in the morning sun becomes my fun,
My morning shines on silver beaches,
your light flashes to the reaches
Of my mind, my mind, of
My mind, and my mind it comes alive with you;
It's all that I can do,
to sit here and let you blow my mind;
Ah, my mind,
You're so fine, in my mind you're so fine,
in my mind you're so fine,
You're so fine, in my mind,
you're so fine in mind.
We can be together
Ah you and me
We should be together
We are all outlaws in the eyes of america
In order to survive we steal cheat lie forge fred hide and deal
We are obscene lawless hideous dangerous dirty violent and young
But we should be together
Come on all you people standing around
Our life's too fine to let it die and
We can be together
All your private property is
Target for your enemy
And your enemy is
We are forces of chaos and anarchy
Everything they say we are we are
And we are very
Proud of ourselves
Up against the wall
Up against the wall fred (motherf**ker)
Tear down the walls
Tear down the walls
Come on now together
Get it on together
Everybody together
We should be together
We should be together my friends
We can be together
We will be
We must begin here and now
A new continent of earth and fire
Come on now gettin higher and higher
Tear down the walls
Tear down the walls
Tear down the walls
Take the night when you've got a feeling
When you're trying to forget the day you've been through
Is it right to keep your affection
While a desperate attempt is make to get through
Could it be a miracle
Could it be what the dream is really made of
Who can say when and where it will
But our hearts will decide when you find true love
There is love that lurks in the shadows
There is love that pulls up beside you and opens the door
There's the one that sneaks up behind you
And it stays until the moment that you're needing more
Could it be a miracle
Could it be what the dream is really made of
Who can say when and where it will
When I see you next time round in sorrow
Will you know what I been going through
My yesterdays have melted with my tomorrow
And the present leaves me with no point of view
When I see you next time round look into my eyes
Where we'd be never could decide
Borrowed moments they cannot fill the moments of our lives
And wishful thinking leaves me no place to hide
No place to hide
No place to hide
I see the shadows softly coming
Taking me into a place
Where they turn my life down
Leaving mourning with myself
do away with people blowing my mind do away with people wasting my precious time take me to a simple place where I can easily see my face baby, baby I can see that you're fine know I love you baby, yes I do know I love you baby, yes I do do away with people laughing at my hair do away with people climbing on my precious prayers take me to a circus tent where I can easily pay my rent and all the other freaks can share my cares know I love you baby, yes I do know I love you baby, yes I do do away with things that come on obscene like hot rods real clean real fine nicotine sometimes the price is 65 dollars prices like that make a grown man holler 'specially when it's sold by a kid that's only 15 know I love you baby, yes I do know I love you baby, yes I do 3/5's of a mile in 10 seconds...
Law man--I'm afraid you just walked in here at the wrong time my old man's gun has never been fired but there's a first time & this could be this could be the first time
Law man you know you look to be a lot younger than me and I'd hate to shoot a baby you've got a long way to go before you're old & slow and it could be it could be a good time if you change your mind well I'm tired and sweet from making love and it's just too late you'll have to wait bring your business around here in the morning
well I've heard your line & you've heard mine & I'm just too tired to take a side bring your business around here in the morning Don't you want to be easy look there let some of the things you see go on by or you can burn them into your brain go on home Don't you see the children, they're just like you they want everything to be fine but they let it slide and the laughing lets you know that smiling breaks the rules
Law breaker you know it could be me & if you had your way we'd all be down under the face of a clock that's just too old to be wound & you can see now the old hands won't move around one way or the other, fool card brother this could be, this could be, the first time.
It's no secret, how strong my love is for you
It's no secret, when I tell you what I'm gonna do
Cause I love you, yeah I love you
It's no secret, everybody knows how I feel
It's no secret, when I say my love is real
Cause I love you, yeah I love you
I love you, yes I love you
It's no secret, when you got me jumping up and down
It's no secret, everybody knows how I feel
It's no secret, cause my heart is chained and bound
INSTRUMENTAL BREAK.
As I get older the years they get heavy for you - oh
yeah
Is it any wonder why I feel like my whole life is through -
When I stop feeling how strong my love is for you - oh
Know I'll be empty wanting your love like I do
It's no secret, when you got me jumping up and down
It's no secret, cause my heart is chained and bound
I love you, yes I love you
It's no secret, everybody knows how I feel
It's no secret, everybody knows how I feel, yeah (FADE
You want two heads on you body
And you've got two mirrors in your hand.
Priests are made of brick with gold crosses on a stick
and your nose is too small for this land.
inside your room your jail
inside your mouth the elephants trunk and booze,
Inside your head is your town
the only key to your bail
Coda:
Want two heads on your body
and you've got two mirrors in your hand
Two heads can be put together.
And you can fill both your feet with sand.
Noone will know you've gutted your mind
Your lions are fighting with chairs,
but what will you do with your bloody hands?
Your women are tired of dying alive
your arms are incredibly fat;
if you've had any women at that.
Wearing your comb like an ax in your head
List'ning for signs of life;
Children are sucking on stone and lead
And chasing their hoops with a knife;
Keep them polished and shining;
New breasts and jewels for the girl,
For no child of mine. (Go to CodaPut a lock on her belly at night, sweet life,
He will bring happiness in a pipe
he'll ride away on his silver bike
and apart from that
he'll be so kind in consenting to blow your mind
fly Translove Airways gets you there on time
Fly Jefferson Airplane gets you there on time
he will bring orchids for my lady the parfume will be an excellent kind
and apart from that he'll be so kind in consenting to blow your mind
Fly Translove Airways gets you there on time
Fly Jefferson Airplane gets you there on time
Today, I feel like pleasing you more than before
Today, I know what I wanna do, but I don't know what for
To be living for you is all I want to do
To be loving you it'll all be there when my dreams come true
Today you'll make me say that I somehow have changed
Today you'll look into my eyes, I'm just not the same
To be any more than all I am would be a lie
I'm so full of love I could burst apart and start to cry
Today, everything you want I swear it all will come true
Today, I realize how much I'm in love with you
With you standing here, I could tell the world what it means to love
To go on from here, I can't use words they don't say enough
Please, please listen to me
It's taken so long to come true
And it's all for you, all for you
Gone swirling tears came she went today;
Down Fallen years go by,
No place in learning how to cry; I went astray;
Understanding is a virtue, hard to come by
You can teach me how to love
If you'll only try; So please!
Don't give up so soon.
Sorry that I hurt her I went astray;
Hurt her mind and broke her heart
But there's no stopping once you start; she went away;
Understanding is a virtue, hard to come by
You can teach me how to love
If you'll only try; So please!
Don't give up so soon.
I never knew you the way you are;
The Blinded bird is not sincere,
His flying's done from only fear, he's lost his star;
Understanding is a virtue, hard to come by
You can teach me how to love
If you'll only try; So please!
Don't give up so soon.
(Solo)
Fade on instrumental after 3rd Verse
Got my questionnaire baby You know I'm headed off for war I got my questionnaire baby You know I'm headed off for war Well, now I'm gonna do some fightin' Well, no one knows what for Well, Uncle Sam ain't no woman You know he sure can take your man Said Uncle Sam ain't no woman You know he sure can take your man Well, there's 40,000 guys in the service list Doin' somethin' somewhere they just don't understand Well, I'm gonna do some fightin' Of that I can be sure Said I'm gonna do some fightin' Of that I can be sure Well, now I want to kill somebody Won't have to break no kind of law I got my questionnaire baby You know I'm headed off for war I got my questionnaire baby You know I'm headed off for war Well, I want to kill somebody Won't have to break no kind of law
You're only pretty as you feel
Only pretty as you feel inside
You're only pretty as you feel
Just as pretty as you feel inside
When you wake up in the morning
Comb your hair
Rub some sleep from your eye
Look inside your mirror
Don't give vanity a second chance
No, no, no
Beauty's only skin deep
It goes just so far 'cause
You're only pretty as you feel
Just as pretty as you feel inside
You're only pretty as you feel inside
Now you're feelin' good
Now you're feelin' pretty
Now you're feelin' good
Now you're ready to face the world girl
Go out there 'n' knock 'em silly girl
Go out there 'n' show 'em how to thrill
'Cause you're only pretty as you feel
Only pretty as you feel
You're only pretty as you feel
Just as pretty as you feel inside
I've got you under my skin
I've got you deep in the heart of me
So deep in my heart that you're really a part of me
I've got you under my skin.
I've tried so not to give in
I've said to myself this affair never will go so well
But why should I try to resist when, baby, I will know so well
That I've got you under my skin ?
I'd sacrifice anything come what may
For the sake of having you near
In spite of a warning voice that comes in the night
And repeats, repeats in my ear.
Don't you know, you fool, you never can win ?
Use your mentality, wake up to reality
But each time I do, just the thought of you makes me stop before I begin
'Cause I've got you under my skin.
I'd sacrifice anything come what may
For the sake of having you near
In spite of that warning voice that comes in the night
And repeats, repeats in my ear.
Don't you know, you fool, you never can win ?
Use your mentality, wake up, wake up to reality
But each time I do, just the thought of you makes me stop before I begin
'Cause I've got you under my skin.
Yeah, I've got that feeling my skin.
I love planes, jet aircraft
I love planes, jet aircraft
He was just a little boy and he sat there in his school
And the little girl in the very next chair she thought he was so cool
And she watched him draw and draw
Planes and wings and flying things
Even during tests he'd keep on drawing
And his mother didn't want him
And his father was always working so he just set his head
To the center of the sky and dreamed of
Flying at first like a leaf floating in the air
Now like an eagle soaring there
Flying great roaring engines now will lift my wings
Rockets now and spacecraft to the center of the sky
I'm getting ready for a great leap forward, ready for a leap in the pool
Ready to touch the stars again, ready to go back to school
Puttin' the pieces together, put on your wings and come with me and
Fly fly fly to the center of the sky, let's go flying
I love planes, experimental aircraft
I love planes, jet, jet, jet aircraft
Breaking through the sound barrier
Into, into the light
And the little boy is still like a little boy
And he met another
Little girl and they made another little boy
And the new little guy still loves planes and flying things
And both his mother and father love him and
Hold him and hug him whenever he needs it and
Soon will send him lovingly to the center of the sky
And teach him
Flying and dreaming
And visions true flying
I love planes jet aircraft
He lives all alone but the bamboo forest knows him
Now his land is taken by man he's got nowhere left to go
When he used to roam through all of China's mountains
It was his home the only place he knows
He was born on the mountain's Eastern side
Where the sun brings the morning to the sky
In the snow the human hunters hide
A shot is heard but no one hears him cry
Oh, panda bear, my gentle friend
I don't want to say goodbye
Oh, panda bear, when will the killing end?
When will we see the light?
He can feel the night, the last sunset is in his eyes
They will carry him away, take his beauty for their prize
Ah, but hunger would have come when the bamboo forest died
Oh, panda bear, you can't seem to win
No matter how hard you try
Oh, panda bear, my gentle friend
I don't want to say goodbye
Now his body lies on the mountain's Western side
He was sold to a man whose money has no pride
Shining fur traded for gold but the price is too high
His kind is almost gone he wants to survive
He was born on the mountain's Eastern side
Where the sun brings the morning to the sky
If we will try to share that morning light
We will find that we all have the right to life
Oh, panda bear, my gentle friend
I don't want to say goodbye
Oh, panda bear, when will the killing end?
Desire, the feeling so clear
It sings in everything you hear
Desire, the feeling you never lose
It's always something new
And it's waiting for you to follow through
We all have a song, life is the dance
And right or wrong we will all take the chance
Now is the time, the time is right
We've got no reason to wait let's do it tonight
This is the night, tonight is the time
Bring the dream to life and let it shine
Desire follows and leads the way
Like night follows day
Desire, it's right before your eyes
No questions no surprise
It's been waiting so long for you to decide
We all have a song, life is the dance
And right or wrong we will all take the chance
Now is the time, time is right
We've got no reason to wait let's do it tonight
This is the night, tonight is the time
Bring the dream to life and let it shine
All the fantasies we keep inside
We'd love to live it but we don't know how
Too late for yesterday, too early for tomorrow
That means it's gotta be now
We all have a song, life is the dance
And right or wrong we will all take the chance
Now is the time, time is right
We've got no reason to wait let's do it tonight
This is the night, tonight is the time
Bring the dream to life and let it shine
This is the song, now is the time
Alone the love is gone, together it's yours and mine
This is the night, this is the song
Ah you're my best friend, and I love you so well
Till the end of time you won't see me
Ah you're my best friend, and I see you, it seems
Now I can see I've fallen into your love stream
I'll follow your dream
Do you know what I mean, yeah
I'll follow you wherever time will take me to
Forever I'll be one with you, one with you, one with you
Ah you're my best friend, am I all that you're seeing
I'll set you free, and then just like me you'll be being
In love with me
Do you know what I mean, yeah
Do you know what I mean,
I'm gonna set you free
You'll be in love with me,
You're my best friend, now
Ah you're my best friend, and I love you so well
Till the end of time you won't see me
Ah you're my best friend, and I see you, it seems
Now I can see I've fallen into your love stream
I'll follow your dream
Do you know what I mean,
Do you know what I mean,
You'll be in love with me,
I'm gonna set you free
Ah, you're my best friend, now
Ah you're my best friend.
I don't want to stop your milk train running,
I just want to ride it - some of the time.
I don't think you'd mind if I mention it -
Don't leave the cow juice behind, it'll cost you nothing
Now I've got the time to talk to you.
If you've got the time to laugh
I don't have to pay for your open mouth and
You don't have to buy it - I'll give you a free milk tongue bath.
It'll cost you nothing.
Some men just talk me dry
Some men are just liquid in the mind.
Some men are absolutely rigid
Some men are easy feeling but they're hard to find.
You've got most of my body - damn near all of my mind unwinding
Milk train comes by here everyday.
(instrumental)
Paul Kantner)
Patiently;
Martha she listens for the ticking of my footsteps,
She sifts the hairy air that's worn and woodswept,
Pleasantly;
She does as she pleases,
She listens for me;
Martha she calls to me from a feather in the meadow,
You can dance and sing and walk with me;
"Fly to me:"
And dreams will fade and shadows grow in weed;
She does as she pleases,
Her heels rise for me;
as she murmurs to her feet,
My love, she talks to winking windows,
Thoughtfully;
Caught for me;
She separates in laughter to my side,
She does as she pleases,
Her heels rise for me;
and it's waiting there for me;
Martha , she keeps her heart in a broken lock,
What a great thing to be free;
She weeds apart through a token lock;
She weeps time, starts unspoken;
But when the gate swings,
There she'll be,
there she'll be
In green sun;
Under warm sunning showers.
On blue earth;
(by P. Kantner, M. Balin)
And then my whole world turned kind of crazy
My whole world came apart
Found my way to Madeleine Street
Found my lover and I found my heart
Found my lover and I found my heart
Down in Nicaragua in a little music bar
Where all the people were dancin' All the people're so right
All the people makin' love long into the wartime night
Goin' down to Madeleine Street
I want to be there I want to be there
Sweet sweet Madeleine Street
I love to be there
For all of us who like to stay out late at the cafe
And all of us who do not want to go to bed
And everybody here who needs a light for the night
As an insulation against the darkness
Let's go down to Madeleine Street
Talk about Tennessee Williams and be so cool
Or fall in love on Madeleine Street
Love is not for fools
I took an Airplane named Desire
I sat next to Marlon Brando too
There's a method to this madness
I got off 'n he got off too
A little young a little crazy
A little love to light your way lady
A little darkside forbidden pleasure
A little love is what Madeleine treasures
What excites you anymore? Madeleine Street!
What do you tremble for? Madeleine Street!
Come on down there's a party goin' on
Madeleine goes on and on and on and on
Let's go down to Madeleine Street
I want to be there I want to be there
Sweet sweet Madeleine Street