Roy Harper - Once (2007) by Roy Harper (보컬) on maniadb.com

Earth for all creatures
A thought for all (wo)men
Right for the speechless
Wrong until then?

Eyes for the laughter
Thirst for the tongue
Hands for together
Ears for the song

The song of love
We sing in silence
Every moment long

Once
Here to be done as we do
With only one chance
Here for the wonder of under the stars
For the one and only
Once

Joy for the children
Hope for the chance
Men for the women
Now for the dance

The dance of love
We dance just once
In unique circumstance

Once
Here to be done as we do
With only one chance
Here for the wonder of under the stars
For the one and only once

I'm a rabbit on fire
On fire with mascared eyes
I'm a white rat acquired
By the lab
I'm due to be shot
Shot with experiment
Waiting in line
For the next stab
I've got nowhere to run to
I've got nowhere to go
And no way of telling you
That none of you know
I burn in hellfire
Kept alive in my deathbed
I'm a monkey with wire
In my head
I can't touch my face
Rub my eyes or hear anything
Suspended twixt
Living and dead
They say I don't know
But I live under pressure
Showing great symptons
Of breakdown and fracture
I've got nowhere to run to
I've got nowhere to go
And no way of telling you
That none of you know
If I (RH) had my way
I'd be in there today
Turn the voltage on you
Burn you down
With the whole of your school
With your lessons on how
To dismiss others' feelings
While feeling that you're
Always ever so kind
Never cruel
But that's you
Only you
Of all us creatures on earth
That could only be you
If only you cared
Not to kill not to torture
Not to need to cause pain
Fear and suffering
To be cool
You'd have all the friends
And the ends and the means
To live with the give
And the fox in the glove (the atmosphere)
On this jewel (the planet)
But that's you
Only you
Of all us creatures on earth
That could only be you
You're the mournful red eye
Of the dog in the cage
The howl of despair
From the pound
Forsaken forgotten
The live definition
The sad lonely meaning
Of hound
And you've got nowhere to run to
Nowhere to go
And no way of telling me
That this isn't so
For some of us know,
And will always care to do so

I'm sick to the teeth of the news on the screen
Of hisbullah scum and jihad the obscene
Whose men plant the bombs and then leave feeling free
To watch women and children be killed on T.V.

Which satan delivers a child a death curse
In the name of a worn out collection of verse
I've not read the book so I cannot recite
But I'd bet Salman Rushdie is just about right
Underneath the black cloud of islam

What kind of publicity needs so much blood
That's not for some sad diablical god
Selling himself as a two-bit Macbeth
As the experts in sentencing cousins to death

And what kind of god can this be anyway
That you have to prostrate to him five times a day
With hate in your heart and a gun in your hand
Is force the only thing to understand
Underneath the black cloud of islam?

And the butchers who've got all this blood on their hands
Are the ones who need god to be stood where he stands
Blessing this kidnapping, murder and war
With books written hundreds of ages before

And women in veils walking paces behind
Doesn't sit easy in my mind
It speaks of oppression and no other choice
That rigid compliance with the loudest voice
Underneath the black cloud of islam

You can put a lead bullet clean through this guitar
'cos I'm not overjoyed with the story so far
Sharing a world with the nutters of god
Is as good as being six feet under the sod

Words that are written are all here to stay
And these are the latest there are anyway
And I am the prophet so don't believe me
I'm the same as the old ones expect that I'm free
To give you a piece of my mind which is this
You're the worst of jehovas blind witlessnesses
With your feet in the door of the deepest abyss
Which is underneath
Which is underneath
Which is underneath the black cloud of islam

If it was right to be believing,
And write his name in blood
And then I met him when I died,
Well I'd have it out with god
But if it means
Degrading scenes
And sanctioning crusade
I'd know we couldn't stand man to man
Without feeling afraid
If it was wrong for not believing,
In fairytale facade
And then I met him when I died,
Well I'd apologise to dog
But if it meant
I went down on my knees
Well where's the spirit gone
Where's the love you're all talking of
When you can't stand man to man?
Man to man
When you can't stand man to man.
I find it hard to believe,
In these 'gospels' that I've heard
The forked tongue of the bible belt,
The ayatollah's word
I don't believe most anything
Spoken by anyone
As hell's fanatic paranoids
Fire heaven's loaded gun
If it was right to be believing,
Then it must be in this
That difference is beautiful,
And living it is bliss,
There are no teams
There is no side
That life on earth is done
By living the love you're only talking of
By standing man to man
Man to man

Dung Xiaoping
What's in your head
Tearing your people's ideas
Into a shread
Helmut
What's in your head
Cracks in the pavement
Watch where you tread
(Margaret
What's in your head
Trying to shaft us with poll tax
We shaft you instead)
Mikhail
When we are old
We'll remember the time
You came in from the cold
Human
What'll it be
A flash in the pan
Or eternity
In the winds of change

(after Laurence Binyon)

They shall not grow old, as we are left grow old
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning
We will remember them

They built a wall boys, it stayed up for thirty years
We've torn it down now, clattering round their ears
You know how it is, with spirit(s),
They just couldn't hold us
Brothers and sisters

The world you died for, was all but a pack of lies
It had to fall down, and keep on falling
You gave us the world they promised you,
And in the morning
We are the flowering
We are the flowering youth
Berliners

Through the window
Just a wall
Shapes are forming
Blackbirds call
Early morning spirits
Moving hands
Tick-tocking ages
In the half-light of the still
Before the lark
Where I can feel my shadow
Touch your silence
In the dark
Sleeping at the wheel
Reaching for oceans before us
For us to feel
Together, tonight
Playing eagle
Firing eyes
Ever willing
Sweet surprise
Welling in the belly
Of their chase
Tracing out the angel
In the half-light on your face
Before the lark
Where I can feel my shadow
Touch your silence,
In the dark
Sleeping at the wheel
Reaching for oceans before us
For us to feel
Together, tonight
Then suddenly
I hear you say
"Time to get up
It's gone midday,
Cup of tea love"
And I realise
I must have dropped off
Drifted into dream before the lark
Yielded to the ether of our secret world
In the dark

I walk in your footsteps love
When you're not even there
You fly me in my fleeting steps
Towards the dreams we share
I'll be with you till the time itself
Is overstretched and breaks
For I will be in love with you
For longer than it takes
I love myself as I love you
As time will surely tell
I love you better for the way
You love yourself as well
I'll be with you till time itself
Is overstretched and breaks
For I will be in love with you
For longer than it takes
You don't know the times I've cried
The purest simple joy
I met a girl who took me in
I could never destroy
She feels my pleasures and my pains
She gives more than she's got
I'll never be worthy of that
No matter what
Through all my barbed wire
Through my fury's blackest hour
She bursts the bubbling rages
That built the ivory tower
Through all my barriers
My anger and despair
I've got a friend to turn to and
She's always there

Plastic money flexidream
And comfort for the preacher
Keep the debtor out of prison
Borrowing the future
How much future can he borrow
How much past can he forget
When now's become part of tomorrow
Just a flashy fast advertisement
That talks about beginning
At the end.
You imagine
You can change the world
And you're right
It's happening right here and now
Tonight tonight.
Relief for hungry children
Is nothing but a symptom
Of accelerated ignorance
Unaware of how a world
Forcloses on invading circumstance
And brings a new beginning
All at once
You imagine
You can change the world
And you're right
It's happening right here and now
Tonight tonight.
Where ice and desert travels
And the scale of justice levels
And the house that silly jack built
While forgetting ages cycling
Is crushed inside a moment he forgot
There'll be a new beginning
Thanks a lot
You imagine
You can change the world
And you're right
It's happening right here and now
Tonight tonight.