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Doctors have come
from distant cities just to see me stand over my bed disbelieving what they're seeing they say I must be one of the wonders of god's own creation and as far as the can see they can offer no explanation newspapers ask intimate questions what confessions they reach into my head to steal the glory of my story they say I must be one of the wonders of god's own creation and as far as the can see they can offer no explanation I believe fate smiled and destiny laughed as she came to my cradle "know this child will be able" laughed as my body she lifted "know this child will be gifted with love, with patience and with faith she'll make her way" people see me I'm a challenge to your balance I'm over your heads how I confound you and astound you to know I must be one of the wonders of god's own creation and as far as you can see you can offer me no explanation I believe fate smiled and destiny laughed as she came to my cradle "know this child will be able" laughed as she came to my mother "know this child will not suffer" laughed as my body she lifted "know this child will be gifted with love, with patience and with faith she'll make her way" |
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| 2. |
| 5:01 |
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Go west
paradise is there you'll have all that you can eat of milk and honey over there you'll be the brightest star the world has ever seen sun-baked slender heroine of film and magazine go west paradise is there you'll have all that you can eat of milk and honey over there you'll be the brightest light the world has ever seen the dizzy height of a jet-set life you could never dream your pale blue eyes strawberry hair lips so sweet skin so fair your future bright beyond compare it's rags to riches over there San Andreas Fault moved it's fingers through the ground earth divided plates collided such an awful sound San Andreas Fault moved its fingers through the ground terra cotta shattered and walls came tumbling down o promised land o wicked ground build a dream tear it down o promised land what a wicked ground build a dream watch it fall down |
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| 3. |
| 5:33 |
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You were the love
for certain of my life you were simply my beloved wife I don't know for certain how I'll live my life now alone without my beloved wife my beloved wife I can't believe I've lost the very best of me you were the love for certain of my life you were simply my beloved wife I don't know for certain how I'll live my life now alone without my beloved wife my beloved wife I can't believe I've lost the very best of me you were the love for certain of my life for 50 years simply my beloved wife with another love I'll never lye again it's you I can't deny it's you I can't defy a depth so deep into my grief without my beloved soul I renounce my life as my right now alone without my beloved wife my beloved wife my beloved wife my love is gone she suffered long in hours of pain my love is gone now my suffering begins my love is gone would it be wrong if I should surrender all the joy in my life go with her tonight? my love is gone she suffered long in hours of pain my love is gone would it be wrong if I should just turn my face away from the light go with her tonight? |
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| 4. |
| 4:33 |
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Space Oddity
Ground Control to Major Tom Ground Control to Major Tom Take your protein pills and put your helmet on Ground Control to Major Tom Commencing countdown, engines on Check ignition and may God's love be with you (spoken) Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One, Liftoff This is Ground Control to Major Tom You've really made the grade And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare "This is Major Tom to Ground Control I'm stepping through the door And I'm floating in a most peculiar way And the stars look very different today For here Am I sitting in a tin can Far above the world Planet Earth is blue And there's nothing I can do Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles I'm feeling very still And I think my spaceship knows which way to go Tell my wife I love her very much she knows" Ground Control to Major Tom Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you.... "Here am I floating round my tin can Far above the Moon Planet Earth is blue And there's nothing I can do." |
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| 5. |
| 7:03 |
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I've walked these streets
a virtual stage it seemed to me make up on their faces actors took their places next to me I've walked these streets in a carnival of sights to see all the cheap thrill seekers the vendors & the dealers they crowded around me have I been blind have I been lost inside myself and my own mind hypnotized mesmerized by what my eyes have seen? I've walked these streets In a spectacle of wealth & poverty in the diamond markets the scarlet welcome carpet that they just rolled out for me I've walked these streets in the mad house asylum they can be where a wild eyed misfit prophet on a traffic island stopped and he raved of saving me have I been blind have I been lost inside myself and my own mind hypnotized mesmerized by what my eyes have seen? have I been wrong have I been wise to shut my eyes and play along hypnotized paralyzed by what my eyes have found? by what my eyes have seen what they have seen? have I been blind have I been lost have I been wrong have I been wise have I been strong have I been hypnotized mesmerized by what my eyes have found in that great street carnival in that carnival? |
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| 6. |
| 5:12 |
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Dust Bowl
I should know to leave them home. They follow me through the store with these toys I can't afford. "Kids, take them back, you know better than that." Dolls that talk, astronauts, T.V. games, airplanes, they don't understand and how can I explain? I try and try but I can't save. Pennies, nickels, dollars slip away. I've tried and tried but I can't save. My youngest girl has bad fever, sure. All night with alcohol trying to cool and to rub her down. Ruby, I'm tired, try and get some sleep. I'm adding doctor's fees to remedies to the cost of three day's work lost. I try and try but I can't save. Pennies, nickels, dollars slip away. I've tried and tried but I can't save. The hole in my pocketbook is growing. There's a new wind blowing they say, it's gonna be a cold, cold one. So brace yourselves my darlings, it won't bring anything much our way but more dust bowl days. I played a card in this weeks game. Took the first and the last letters in three of their names. This lottery's been building up for weeks. I could be lucky me with the five million prize, tears of disbelief spilling out of my eyes. I try and try but I can't save. Pennies, nickels, dollars slip away. I've tried and tried but I can't save. The hole in my pocketbook is growing. There's a new wind blowing they say, it's gonna be a cold, cold one. So brace yourselves my darlings, it won't bring anything much our way but more dust bowl days. |
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| 3:46 |
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Well, I dreamed I saw the knights
In armor coming, Saying something about a queen. There were peasants singing and Drummers drumming And the archer split the tree. There was a fanfare blowing To the sun That was floating on the breeze. Look at Mother Nature on the run In the nineteen seventies. Look at Mother Nature on the run In the nineteen seventies. I was lying in a burned out basement With the full moon in my eyes. I was hoping for replacement When the sun burst thru the sky. There was a band playing in my head And I felt like getting high. I was thinking about what a Friend had said I was hoping it was a lie. Thinking about what a Friend had said I was hoping it was a lie. Well, I dreamed I saw the silver Space ships flying In the yellow haze of the sun, There were children crying And colors flying All around the chosen ones. All in a dream, all in a dream The loading had begun. They were flying Mother Nature's Silver seed to a new home in the sun. Flying Mother Nature's Silver seed to a new home |
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| 8. |
| 5:28 |
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Gun Shy
I always knew that you would take yourself so far from home as soon as, and as far as you could go. By the 1/4 inch cut of your hair by the Army issue green, for the past eight weeks I can tell where you've been. For I knew, I could see, it was all cut and dried to me there was soldier's blue blood streaming inside your veins. There is a world outside of this room and when you meet it promise me that you won't meet it with your gun. So now you are one, one of the brave few, and it's awful sad we need boys like you. I hope the day never comes for "Here's your live round son. Stock and barrel, safety, trigger, here's your gun." Well I knew, I could see, it was all cut and dried to me there was soldiers blue blood streaming inside your veins. There is a world outside of this room and when you meet it promise me that you won't meet it with your gun taking aim. For I don't mean to argue, that they've made a decent boy of you and I don't mean to spoil your home coming, but baby brother you should expect me to. "Stock and barrel, safety, trigger, here's your gun." So now does your heart pitter pat with a patriotic song when you see the stripes of Old Glory waving? For I knew, I could see, it was all cut and dried to me there was soldier's blue blood streaming inside your veins. There is a world outside of this room and when you meet it promise me that you won't meet it with your gun taking aim. I don't mean to argue, they've made a decent boy of you and I don't mean to spoil your homecoming my baby brother Jude and I don't mean to hurt you by saying this again, they're so good at making soldiers but they're not as good at making men. |
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| 9. |
| 7:10 |
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If you could fill a veil with shells from Killiney's shore
And sweet talk in a tongue that is no more If wishful thought could bridge The Gulf of Araby Between what is What is What is And what can never be If you could hold the frozen flow of New Hope Creek And hide out from the one they said you might meet If you could unlearn all the words That you never wanted heard If you could stall the southern wind That's whistling in your ears You could take what is What is What is What is To what can never be One man of seventy whispers free at last Two neighbors who are proud of their massacres Three tyrants torn away in a winter's month Four prisoners framed by a dirty judge Five burned with tyres Six men still inside And seven more days to shake at the great divide The Gulf, the Gulf of Araby The Gulf, the Gulf of Araby Well, we would plough and part the earth to bring you home And harvest every miracle ever known If they laid out all the things That these ten years want to bring We would gladly give them up To bring you back to us O, there is nothing we would not give To kiss you and believe you can take what is What is What is To what can never be One man of seventy whispers not free yet Two neighbors who make up knee-deep in their dead Three tyrants torn away in the summer's heat Four prisoners lost in the fallacy Five, on my life And six, I'm dead inside And seven more days to shake at the great divide The Gulf, the Gulf of Araby The Gulf, the Gulf of Araby |
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| 5:24 |
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Ophelia was a bride of God
A novice Carmelite In sister cells The cloister bells tolled on her wedding night Ophelia was the rebel girl A blue stockting suffragette Who remedied society between her cigarettes And Ophelia was the sweetheart To a nation overnight Curvaceous thighs Vivacious eyes Love was at first sight... Love was at first sight... Love... Ophelia was a demigoddess in pre-war Babylon So statuesque a silhouette in black satin evening gowns Ophelia was the mistress to A Vegas gambling man Signora Ophelia Maraschina Mafia courtesan Ophelia was the circus queen The female cannonball Projected through five flaming hoops To wild and shocked applause To wild and shocked applause Ophelia was a tempest cyclone A goddamn hurricane Your common sense, your best defense They wasted , and in vain For Ophelia 'd know your every woe And every pain you'd ever had She'd sympathize and dry your eyes Help you to forget... And help you to forget And help you to forget Ophelia's mind went wandering You'd wonder where she goes Through secret doors down corridors She wanders there alone All alone (voice in german) "Es kostet mich keine kleine Krise die Verunreinigung und das Suechtige aus meinem Leben auszuschliessen" ("But it is for me no little effort to exclude the polluting and the addictive from my life." ) (voice in spanish) "compondo musica , en un estado de ecstases" ("composing music , in a state of ecstasy") (voice in spanish) "fuerza de vida , de vida" ( "strength of life , of life") (voice in german) "Mein Vater ist ein Architekt" ("My father is an architect." ) |
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| 5:22 |
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How did I love you?
there was no measuring far above this dirty world far above everything in your tower over it you were clean so warm and insightful were you in my eyes I was sure the rightful guardian of my life damn you betrayer how you lied but for seven years you were loved I laid golden orchid crowns around your feet for seven years I bowed down to touch the ground so wholly your devotee you were all I could see I've got my sight now I see everything you hid so don't you try to right now all the wrong you did I might forget you but never forgive but for seven years you were loved I laid golden orchid crowns around your feet for seven years I bowed down to touch the ground so wholly your devotee for seven years you were so revered I made offerings of anything and everything I had you were all I could see |
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