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If you're gonna be a mountain
Let me see you thrust your snows In innocence through clouds of doubt That try to keep your reason out In these times of glaciated slaughter If you're gonna be a legend Let it be a tale whose telling Is a state of mind that's dwelling Far beyond the words dark capture To fill the heart alone with rapture In these days of circles If your gonna be an island I will be a sailing ship Who like a speck at total distance Looms beyond your headland breakers Till the oceans mighty plunder Bids me seek the gentler shelter Of your inland waters Have you never seen beyond the moon? Don't you know that we will be there soon? Have you no eyes to see That you are only me and we are only Travellers upon a sea of time Trying very hard to make it rhyme |
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Magical Mary
She looks like a fairy And waves her wand around Points at an earthman and says Hallelujah Just look at what I've found At what I've found Magical Mary She shivers her timbers And lays you on the ground Strikes up a rhythm in fifty two tempo And says hey man your found Hey man you're found I gotta come with you I gotta come with you Got got to, got got to I gotta come Madrigal Mistress has seventy sisters And every one's the same They come with assistance To break your resistance And man your brained You're like to wind up maimed I gotta come with you I gotta come with you Got got to, got got to I gotta come Don't ask me no questions Don't ask me no questions I got to, got got to I gotta come Always the same, I don't know how you do it Just a game, no matter how you view it Always the same You're gonna be alone, you're gonna need someone You're gonna find it hard to get yourself a man Whose gonna take your hand, or even understand Just what you're into. Mr Brown, he thought he'd found salvation Using words to try to calm the nation What a shame He didn't have a notion how to use the lotion Gotta spread it thin to give each one a portion Gotta make it clear they're gonna get a portion So's they're happy Always the same, you never seem to falter Make a slip, you'll have me at the altar Never mind, it doesn't matter much Because you've got the touch You've really got it made You're gonna make the grade And you can try your hand Another time around That's if you want to |
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Look at the ocean go rolling by slowly
We're on the waves and it's ever so lonely How very strange that I think that there's something wrong Captain's Log, the first of June Have run into a bad monsoon I'm 54, I've sailed before This is not the sea, it's war Grab the rigging, man the sail Secure the hatches start to bail I do not think we will survive I do not think we will survive Cloud in the distance appeared like a mushroom Then came the heat and the rage of the ocean We're going down and I don't think I'd rather stay Captain's Log, the first of June Have run into a bad monsoon I'm 54, I've sailed before This is not the sea, it's war And to those who caused the pain I only hope you will remain I'm going down with what was good I wouldn't stay if I could |
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Though I may whisper words
You don't understand, understand Though I'm in need of help You can't lend a hand, lend a hand To be at home in the world To be at home in the world Though I may come and go It is not from you that I flow Wild though the world may be It's inside of me, inside of me To be at home in the world To be at home in the world This is all that a man can need Cannot you see This is all that a man can need Cannot you see Though I may act unkind I don't mean to be, honestly It's just that it's hard to see The reality, reality To be at home in the world To be at home in the world This is all that a man can need Cannot you see This is all that a man can need Cannot you see Don't ask me to move away I will never go Don't ask me to hide away I will never leave |
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Holy John
Give me food Tonight I'm so hungry Tonight my eyes are searching for a way Holy John Give me shelter Tonight I'm so weary Tonight my eyes are open wide Well the first man was a juggler And his skill was very great But he said that he was leaving He said he couldn't wait And the second came with jewels That flickered on his hand And he spoke about tomorrow As if it were another land But a lady caught between them said she should be free And they just looked bewildered And said "Yes, so should we" "How on Earth" yelled the author "Does the tale make its sense" "It's alive with the truth But we must have the proof How can we open the door" Well the next man had religion It made him very proud He said he'd found his inner bliss He said it very loud But a group of men surpassed him with science, skills, and speed They hurled down his conceptions And dug up all his weeds The lady she was worried She asked if this was wise "Of course it is It's logic, brains and enterprise" "How on Earth" yelled the author "Does the tale make its sense" "It's alive with the truth But we must have the proof How can we open the door" Well the last man had no number And didn't say a word He didn't even answer them When they said he was absurd They made him sign a treaty to give up all he owned And searched his pockets anxiously to see if he had gold The lady was enchanted And said they ought to see So they charged her with subversion And made her watch T.V. I'm a man with no future With no past and no time And I live for the while Lord I live for the while I won't be back no more We are fighting a losing battle No one is winning No one's beginning We are looking for something that's missing Dark all around us Darkness surrounding We are on the doorway of knowledge Have we the wisdom Have we the wisdom |
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If you don't like lying in the sun
you might as well not be here What's the point of always working Shut your eyes and let the colours come And block out all the black and white And dirty grey and damp and dust And dry rot in the roof On the beach we lit a fire A Frenchman gave us wine and whiskey Out to sea the British navy Keeps an eye on foreign shipping To keep us safe from war The hope of which is all That keeps our soldiers sleeping through the night If you don't like lying in the sun You might as well not be here Let the sea come up and cover you You will feel a new dimension Like sleeping on a featherbed and dreaming of a world in which you do not have to work You suffer, you cry You labour, you die Things will change, Time Will Tell Things will change, Time Will Tell In the courtyard children play In their lives, the sun is shining through They'll all be socialists, atheists They'll all be, scientists, humanists Egalitarian, vegetarian, internationalists They'll all be mystics, they'll all be gods They'll all be famous, they'll all be sods Things will change, Time Will Tell Things will change, Time Will Tell For what you want to be, you must try to be You will all be free |
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Here on our road are gathered we
To see our lives unfolding Though others stay We pass away Just as the tide goes rolling This is a time of change A parting of the ways Though others stay We pass away Just as the tide goes rolling And I'll remember you Beyond these hopes and these fears That account for the years Like the wind in the reeds I will miss you And I will think of you When the past comes along To remind me what's gone Like the wind in the reeds I will miss you Can we go back and start again? Can we go back and start again Can we begin where we came in Came in Some travellers passed as we stopped for a moment in peace With blood on their fingers They spoke of a cloud in the East And we were a happy crew, me and you We were a happy crew, me and you Speaking with words we were sure that the truth had been banned We'd buried the martyrs and walked off to work on the land And we were a happy crew, me and you We were a happy crew, you and me Some riders appeared from the sun As it fell with a blaze They passed like the wind And were lost in the dust to the East And we were a happy crew, me and you We were a happy crew, you and me |
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I tried so hard
To keep our love alive To keep you by my side But the winter and my pride Dissolved into the Spring Oh love is a very funny thing I'm sure you know And though you lose someone you keep your soul The fresh unfaded green Makes my heart to dream And the April rain Washes me clean again Of the sorrows that held me down Oh love is a very funny thing It lingers on And a part of me is always she love is a very funny thing It lingers on And a part of me is always she |
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The Duke of Beaufort
Is not at home today He's very tired He thought he'd go away You wait for him, Your eyes are on the door You know no other way The Duke of Beaufort Is very kind to cats Keeps them in his cellar To help him catch his rats He's very noble And his lineage is pure But you, you're a whore The Duke of Splendour Just wasn't much amused And nor were you You knew you'd been abused If you'd had help You might have buggered up his fuse But alone, you're too confused "He picked me up, I was on the street He made it clear he would use me My parents died, I was three years old I had to make a living" Close your eyes, close your eyes "In a lot of ways, I'm close to him Though he may seem to ignore it I'm sure he cares, At least, I think he does It's just he's very busy" Close your eyes, close your eyes Here's today says the ‘Telegraph' It's the world, it's the world! Gone away on a phonograph Riding high, riding high There's a way says the Cenotaph You will find, you will find Gone in search of an Epitaph Running wild, running wild You saw them coming forward Asking you to be kind You couldn't face their council They were men full of greed In your position nothing's sacred You have only the wine You stand alone But not alone in your loneliness And yet there must be more I can't believe that all has been in vain And if there is it's Be sure of friendship As the hours grow long Rest assured that this phase is passing Give yourself a chance |
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He's got a gun he really thinks he's something
He don't have to run he got a sub machine gun He told his Mum he's gonna join the army Look at your son he's gonna be a man Ma He got a uniform Over the seas he's gonna fight for freedom Waving a flag he's gonna be a hero Never afraid, he's gonna conquer evil Do as he's told and make a perfect soldier He got a uniform Watch yourself soldier boy you missed the point son Discipline soldier boy, you disappoint me You just do not, you just do not see You're needing a skirt to hide your lack of brain boy Don't it just hurt to have to think yourself boy A clear right and wrong, there'll be no complications No need to think or write those disertations He got a uniform Watch yourself soldier boy you missed the point son Discipline soldier boy, you disappoint me You just do not, you just do not see Caught in a crumbling castle, who are we Torn by salvations dragon, hope lives on And so down into a time where Liberty and Freedom have no significance in the current economic crisis |
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Looking I opened wide
Daring my eyes to find Standing on the edge can we go forward Living in fear of it And yet too near to return Slipping, I fell inside Crumbling walls collide Breaking preconceived ideas like matchsticks No rock to stand on it No sure reality world It's so wide It's so wide It's so wide Come a little closer to me If you think you dare Nothing else can matter to me All the rest is air Magic has drawn me in Giving my eyes to you Herein lies a message Keep it secret I have no chains for you There are no ties in the world It's so wide It's so wide It's so wide |
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Run, run, run, runaway
Today's a holiday Today we needn't worry About the clothes we wear No more ‘geog' on the old school bog no cracks about our hair Janitor Giles, you cannot see me Janitor Giles, it's great to be free Hide, hide, hide, hide away Today it's truant we play Dodgy school inspectors Will not suspect we're here No more French on the old school bench No clouts behind our ears Janitor Giles, you cannot see me Janitor Giles, it's great to be free But life is what you make it And you missed school today Good old Smithy and his pals What keeps them away We're going round We dare not make a sound To the house of my best friend To a shed that he has found And oh you'll have to gasp As he takes out and shows to you the photograph Takes out and shows to you the photograph What the picture shows Is awfully clear to me My friends older than I Fest their eyes so greedily But I shall run away and go upstairs and play with my model railway What goes on at night When there is no-one else around Is the strangest part of growing up that I've yet found Though what the doe and rabbit did today at school was real It failed to answer questions about the way I feel Maybe I'm a queer? It could be by tomorrow The answers will be found In these pages of a magazine The Vicars left around And late into the night We will wonder if the dialog was right We will wonder if the dialog was right Wonder if my parents worry about this kind of thing Or am I artificial, has my dad lost his sting? A lovely girl lives up the road She's much older than I I'd really like to know her Give the whole theory a try To see if it is real To see just how it feels Hush now the boy is sleeping And we don't want him to wake him until the morning He's got a hard day to take At the school that he hates And so let's leave him dreaming Until the morning sun shines through his window Let's leave him dreaming Until the morning Let's leave him dreaming |
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Stuck in an old
Home for lonely folks Gazing from his window at the snow Where did you go so wrong? You struggled all your life To keep your children warm and safe Make the world a better World a better place Stuck in an old Home for lonely folks Gazing from his window at the snow Through two long wars And many years of strife What is the value of a life? Men well oiled and functioning Is science in control? You're better off now where you are I hope you rest I hope you rest in peace |
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I'm 21, but gosh I do feel old!
Too much concerned With things which shouldn't worry me Or hurry me, or make me rush I'm really flash, but gosh I do feel bad! Completely smashed Careering down life's avenues I'm out of place and out of touch Rolling over on Wings of Thunder We're riding out to the Sun Haring over on Wings Of Thunder We're bound to make it the Sun, Sun, Sun, Sun We're gonna make it the Sun Now I'm in love, and she has got me hooked But things are good With poor old me delirious She takes it all so serious Rolling over on Wings of Thunder We're riding out to the Sun Haring over on Wings Of Thunder We're bound to make it the Sun, Sun, Sun, Sun We're gonna make it the Sun My head has spread, it won't stay in one place Confused and laced I'm liking going haywire And I find I have a taste for the pace Rolling over on Wings of Thunder We're riding out to the Sun Haring over on Wings Of Thunder We're bound to make it the Sun, Sun, Sun, Sun We're gonna make it the Sun |
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World's Eyes ? see for miles
Light We are gonna help you We are gonna help you Each man is human, we all need each other And walls burn eyes Light We are gonna help you I'm not a person, my cells are exploding I'm you, yearn, insane? Go from this room Leave right away There's nothing here There's nothing here to make you stay It's not so sad You'll find another You'll find someone who needs a home That you can share You're very young There's time to put away your cares But don't forget We were together And through forever I will know that you were there You need to laugh So go to where the light is clear As for understanding If there's such a thing existing There's a sparkle in your eyes I find it hard to put in words And you take me to the depth of sorrow Pleading for no more tomorrow Hanging on the edge of moments I can't bear to end I'd have loved you if you'd seen beyond the time You gotta know we're waiting here You gotta know we're waiting here You gotta know All things will flow As sure as water As sure as silence I will meet you once again Nothing will change There are no changes There's only pages Where the book remains the same Give fortune time And we will meet between these lines As for understanding If there's such a thing existing There's a sparkle in your eyes I find it hard to put in words And you take me to the depth of sorrow Pleading for no more tomorrow Hanging on the edge of moments I can't bear to end I'd have loved you if you'd been beyond the line You gotta know we're waiting here You gotta know we're waiting here You gotta know, You gotta know You gotta know |
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The facts of life are very simple
A job some money, settle down There's lots of things that may distract you Ignore them, lest they do you harm They say a dreamer always stumbles They say a dreamer has to fall Onto the rocks of what is solid Into the arms of what is all Don't let it get you My eyes were cracked my body broken My thoughts all bent my seam was torn Stood lost in space with no direction When suddenly I heard a call Don't let it get you What is this point of no returning Where I am standing with my friends There is no basis left for learning There is no start or end Don't let it get you |
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Just seen the soldiers on patrol in Derry
What they thinking? Bet they wish they could stay at home Go out drinking in the evening Just seen the newsprint tonight Violence increasing, an explosion Suddenly a public house went off bang Foul play suspected, someone's cheating Surely you see at the top of the stairs A young mother cries Convinced that her husband lies bleeding, defying While 13 more died See how her eyes glow She's going insane And you tell me enquiries will show Whose to blame But next Sunday at 2, will happen again, again. So you think you can get away Go down to Brighton for a season Discuss the issues from day to day Looking for reasons on paper Surely you see at the side of the road What looks like a bomb Shoppers with children lie bleeding and dying But what have they done See how our eyes glow We're going insane And you tell me enquiries will show Whose to blame But Maudling, you fool, it will happen again, again |
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I’m counting the number of cars
Rolling into my life Broken by alibis Running from all those lies Watching a number of dreams Flowing away from me Bum lifts from heavy loads Burn wheels on southern roads Feel the distance that I put between Me and my childhood Hang on to what remains Leave trails of broken chains High tail for Spanish Mains Feeling I’m lost in my way Too proud to lift my eyes and say Life’s not the same as I Thought that it might have been Heard a lot of places such as these I remember stories, pirates, the seas, the breeze Bum lifts from heavy loads Burn wheels on southern roads |
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Turn again Lane, go back you, know she l-l-loved you
Go back, that girl's in love with you Turn again Lane, go back you, know that you're gonna need her Go back go let her sun shine through You know that girls in love with you You know that girls in love with girls in love with, girls in love with you Turn again lane go back you, know that you're gonna need her Go back go let her sun shine through You know that girl's in love with you You know that girls in love with girls in love with, girls in love with you Want you to say that you'll give her all your love And so much more, and so much more Love in a way that a young man only can With so much more and so much more and so much more Turn again lane you twit you, don't know what you missed you Sure ought to get yourself a brain Turn again lane, Turn again Lane, Turn Again lane Knowing the way that she moves her sweater Down in the deep sea south She's the kind of girl that's got a lot to recommend her She aint no common mouth I want you to say that you'll give her all your love And so much more and so much more Love in a way that a young man only can With so much more and so much more and so much more Out here there's a lot that's unexplored My advice to you is go back home "And if you are new here I must ask you sir Do you happen to carry a gun I discovered when young to trust no-one And to learn from mistakes I had made These are days of deceit and suspicion sir You must not take offence if I say That you look like a queer or a harbourer Of ladies of latter decay This part of the world is a dark one son We live by the laws we have made Though it's true we may harm in mistake sometimes We thank God for the lives we have saved We thank God for the lives we have saved So if you are new here I must ask you sir Will you kindly go back where you came I discovered when young to trust no-one And to learn from mistakes I had made And to learn from mistakes I had made" |
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Don't be scared of shadows
Nasty man who lurk Lots of rotten bullies Pushing you around They will never steal What it means to feel The wonders of being without Where I stand it seems that existence Is resistance to despair Now I know my life's not been easy But at least it has been there Sometimes there'll be good times Some folk can be kind But the wind that blows inside us Will be blind For this time I have waited for ages All my pages have been dry I've been lost in the swirling of potions All my motions have been high(?) Over every molehill Under every mile For the essence of motion is devotion To the wheel So you see I'm not going to mind it Or define it in degrees Every inch of being is like old time Is the right time to be free |
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The lights were high and burning
The room was filled up with men Some playing cards for higher stakes Some looking into telescopes pointed within them Be with me, it's you and me I feel you're on my side Be my space, a trace of lace A face that's near to mine They're going back, they've had it They're slipping up on their ends These foolish men with eyes of ice A culmination of things that were never inevitable Be my wing, my everything My platform to the sky Be my gem, a star for them Upon the other side I'm caught on a cloud Feeling mortified I'm floating away A stranger with no eyes A loser with no ties A laughter rings With plenty to do I never would complain Feet losing the ground I'm always out of time I always miss the line That doesn't count But oh no, no, no no Why must I always be far away, Gone astray, caught like a bubble in the wind? They took him away They said that he was mad He told them the truth They said he had to pay They said he couldn't stay They always choose But oh no, no, no no Why must I always be far away, Gone astray, acting like traitors trapped in time? |
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Love's so easy, Love's so fine
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