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from Patti Smith - Horses (1975)
Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine
meltin' in a pot of thieves wild card up my sleeve thick heart of stone my sins my own they belong to me, me people say beware! but I don't care the words are just rules and regulations to me, me I-I walk in a room, you know I look so proud I'm movin' in this here atmosphere, well, anything's allowed and I go to this here party and I just get bored until I look out the window, see a sweet young thing humpin' on the parking meter, leanin' on the parking meter oh, she looks so good, oh, she looks so fine and I got this crazy feeling and then I'm gonna ah-ah make her mine ooh I'll put my spell on her here she comes walkin' down the street here she comes comin' through my door here she comes crawlin' up my stair here she comes waltzin' through the hall in a pretty red dress and oh, she looks so good, oh, she looks so fine and I got this crazy feeling that I'm gonna ah-ah make her mine and then I hear this knockin' on my door hear this knockin' on my door and I look up into the big tower clock and say, oh my God here's midnight! and my baby is walkin' through the door leanin' on my couch she whispers to me and I take the big plunge and oh, she was so good and oh, she was so fine and I'm gonna tell the world that I just ah-ah made her mine and I said darling, tell me your name, she told me her name she whispered to me, she told me her name and her name is, and her name is, and her name is, and her name is G-L-O-R-I-A G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria I was at the stadium There were twenty thousand girls called their names out to me Marie and Ruth but to tell you the truth I didn't hear them I didn't see I let my eyes rise to the big tower clock and I heard those bells chimin' in my heart going ding dong ding dong ding dong ding dong. ding dong ding dong ding dong ding dong counting the time, then you came to my room and you whispered to me and we took the big plunge and oh. you were so good, oh, you were so fine and I gotta tell the world that I make her mine make her mine G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria and the tower bells chime, ding dong they chime they're singing, Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine. Gloria G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria |
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from Patti Smith - Horses (1975)
Late afternoon, dreaming hotel
We just had the quarrel that sent you away. I was looking for you, are you gone gone Called you on the phone, another dimension. Well, you never returned, oh you know what I mean. I went looking for you, are you gone, gone ? Down by the ocean it was so dismal, Women all standing with a shock on their faces. Sad description, oh I was looking for you. Everyone was singing, girl is washed up On Redondo Beach and everyone is so sad. I was looking for you, are you gone gone ? Pretty little girl, everyone cried. She was the victim of sweet suicide. I went looking for you, are you gone gone ? Down by the ocean it was so dismal, Women all standing with shock on their faces. Sad description, oh I was looking for you. Desk clerk told me girl was washed up, Was small, an angel with apple blonde hair, now. I went looking for you, are you gone gone ? Picked up my key, didn't reply. Went to my room, started to cry. You were small, an angel, are U gone gone Down by the ocean it was so dismal. I was just standing with shock on my face. The hearse pulled away, and the girl that had died, it was you. You'll never return into my arms 'cause you were gone gone. Never return into my arms 'cause you were gone gone. Gone gone, gone gone, good-bye. |
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from Patti Smith - Horses (1975)
His father died and left him a little farm in New England. All the long black funeral cars left the scene And the boy was just standing there alone Looking at the shiny red tractor Him and his daddy used to sit inside And circle the blue fields and grease the night. It was if someone had spread butter on all the fine points of the stars 'Cause when he looked up they started to slip. Then he put his head in the crux of his arm And he started to drift, drift to the belly of a ship, Let the ship slide open, and he went inside of it And saw his daddy 'hind the control board streamin' beads of light, He saw his daddy 'hind the control board, And he was very different tonight 'Cause he was not human, he was not human. And then the little boy's face lit up with such naked joy That the sun burned around his lids and his eyes were like two suns, White lids, white opals, seeing everything just a little bit too clearly And he looked around and there was no black ship in sight, No black funeral cars, nothing except for him the raven And fell on his knees and looked up and cried out, "No, daddy, don't leave me here alone, Take me up, daddy, to the belly of your ship, Let the ship slide open and I'll go inside of it Where you're not human, you are not human." But nobody heard the boy's cry of alarm. Nobody there 'cept for the birds around the New England farm And they gathered in all directions, like roses they scattered And they were like compass grass coming together into the head of a shaman bouquet Slit in his nose and all the others went shooting And he saw the lights of traffic beckoning like the hands of Blake Grabbing at his cheeks, taking out his neck, All his limbs, everything was twisted and he said, "I won't give up, won't give up, don't let me give up, I won't give up, come here, let me go up fast, Take me up quick, take me up, up to the belly of a ship And the ship slides open and I go inside of it where I am not human." I am helium raven and this movie is mine, So he cried out as he stretched the sky, Pushing it all out like latex cartoon, am I all alone in this generation ? We'll just be dreaming of animation night and day And won't let up, won't let up and I see them coming in, Oh, I couldn't hear them before, but I hear 'em now, It's a radar scope in all silver and all platinum lights Moving in like black ships, they were moving in, streams of them, And he put up his hands and he said, "It's me, it's me, I'll give you my eyes, take me up, oh now please take me up, I'm helium raven waitin' for you, please take me up, Don't let me here," the son, the sign, the cross, Like the shape of a tortured woman, the true shape of a tortured woman, The mother standing in the doorway letting her sons No longer presidents but prophets They're all dreaming they're gonna bear the prophet, He's gonna run through the fields dreaming in animation It's all gonna split his skull It's gonna come out like a black bouquet shining Like a fist that's gonna shoot them up Like light, like Mohammed Boxer Take them up up up up up up Oh, let's go up, up, take me up, I'll go up, I'm going up, I'm going up Take me up, I'm going up, I'll go up there Go up go up go up go up up up up up up up Up, up to the belly of a ship. Let the ship slide open and we'll go inside of it Where we are not human, we're not human. Well, there was sand, there were tiles, The sun had melted the sand and it coagulated Like a river of glass When it hardened he looked at the surface He saw his face And where there were eyes were just two white opals, two white opals, Where there were eyes there were just two white opals And he looked up and the rays shot And he saw raven comin' in And he crawled on his back and he went up Up up up up up up Sha da do wop, da shaman do way, sha da do wop, da shaman do way, Sha da do wop, da shaman do way, sha da do wop, da shaman do way, Sha da do wop, da shaman do way, We like birdland |
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from Patti Smith - Horses (1975)
Every night before I go to sleep
Find a ticket, win a lottery, Scoop the pearls up from the sea Cash them in and buy you all the things you need. Every night before I rest my head See those dollar bills go swirling 'round my bed. I know they're stolen, but I don't feel bad. I take that money, buy you things you never had. Oh, baby, it would mean so much to me, Oh, baby, to buy you all the things you need for free. I'll buy you a jet plane, baby, Get you on a higher plane to a jet stream And take you through the stratosphere And check out the planets there and then take you down Deep where it's hot, hot in Arabia, babia, then cool, cold fields of snow And we'll roll, dream, roll, dream, roll, roll, dream, dream. When we dream it, when we dream it, when we dream it, We'll dream it, dream it for free, free money, Free money, free money, free money, free money, free money, free money. Every night before I go to sleep Find a ticket, win a lottery. Every night before I rest my head See those dollar bills go swirling 'round my bed. Oh, baby, it would mean so much to me, Baby, I know our troubles will be gone. Oh, I know our troubles will be gone, goin' gone If we dream, dream, dream for free. And when we dream it, when we dream it, when we dream it, Let's dream it, we'll dream it for free, free money, Free money, free money, free money, |
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from Patti Smith - Horses (1975)
The wall is high, the black barn, The babe in my arms in her swaddling clothes And I know soon that the sky will split And the planets will shift, Balls of jade will drop and existence will stop. Little sister, the sky is falling, I don't mind, I don't mind. Little sister, the fates are calling on you. Ah, here I stand again in this old 'lectric whirlwind, The sea rushes up my knees like flame And I feel like just some misplaced Joan Of Arc And the cause is you lookin' up at me. Oh baby, I remember when you were born, It was dawn and the storm settled in my belly And I rolled in the grass and I spit out the gas And I lit a match and the void went flash And the sky split and the planets hit, Balls of jade dropped and existence stopped, stopped, stop, stop. Little sister, the sky is falling, I don't mind, I don't mind. Little sister, the fates are calling on you. I was goin' crazy, so crazy I knew I could break through with you, So with one hand I rocked you and with one heart I reached for you. Ah, I knew your youth was for the takin', fire on a mental plane, So I ran through the fields as the bats with their baby vein faces Burst from the barn and flames in a violent violet sky, And I fell on my knees and pressed you against me. Your soul was like a network of spittle, Like glass balls movin' in like cold streams of logic, And I prayed as the lightning attacked That something will make it go crack, something will make it go crack, Something will make it go crack, something will make it go crack. The palm trees fall into the sea, It doesn't matter much to me As long as you're safe, Kimberly. And I can gaze deep Into your starry eyes, baby, looking deep in your eyes, baby, Looking deep in your eyes, baby, looking deep in your eyes, baby, Into your starry eyes, oh. Oh, in your starry eyes, baby, Looking deep in your eyes, baby, looking deep in your eyes, baby, oh. Oh, looking deep in your eyes, baby, Into your starry eyes, baby, looking deep in your eyes, baby |
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from Patti Smith - Horses (1975)
Car stopped in a clearing, Ribbon of life, it was nearing. I saw the boy break out of his skin. My heart turned over and I crawled in. He cried, "Break it up, oh I don't understand, Break it up, I can't comprehend. Break it up, oh, I want to feel you. Break it up, don't talk to me that way, I'm not listening." Snow started falling, I could hear the angel calling. We rolled on the ground, he stretched out his wings. The boy flew away and he started to sing. He sang, "Break it up, oh, I don't understand. Break it up, I can't comprehend. Break it up, oh, I want to feel you. Break it up, don't look at me." The sky was raging, the boy disappeared, I fell on my knee Atmosphere broke up, the boy reappeared. I cried, "Take me please!" Ice, it was shining. I could feel my heart, it was melting. I tore off my clothes, I danced on my shoes. I ripped my skin open and then I broke through. I cried, "Break it up, oh, now I understand. Break it up, and I want to go. Break it up, oh please take me with you. Break it up, I can feel it breaking, I can feel it breaking, I can feel it breaking, I can feel, I can feel, I can feel, I can feel." So break it up, oh now I'm coming with you. Break it up, now I'm gonna go. Break it up, oh, feel me, I'm coming. Break it up, break it up, break it up, Break it up, break it up, break it up, Oh, break it up, break it up, break it up Break it up, break it up, break it on up Break it up, break it on up, up, up Break it, break it, break it, break it Break it on up, break it up, Break it up, break it up, break it up |
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from Patti Smith - Horses (1975)
I just don't know what to do tonight, My head is aching as I drink and breathe Memory falls like cream in my bones, moving on my own. There must be something I can dream tonight, The air is filled with the moves of you, All the fire is frozen yet still I have the will, ooh, ah. Trumpets, violins, I hear them in the distance And my skin emits a ray, but I think it's sad, it's much too bad That our friends can't be with us today |
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from Patti Smith - Easter (1978)
Raise the sky.
We got to fly over the land, over the sea. Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise. God, do not seize me please, till victory. Take arms. Take aim. Be without shame No one to bow to, to vow to, to blame. Legions of light, virtuous flight. Ignite, excite. And you will see us coming, V formation, through the sky. Film survives. Eyes cry. On the hill, hear us call through a realm of sound. Oh, oh-oh. Down and down. Down and round, oh, down and round. Round and round, oh, round and round. Rend the veil and we shall sail. The nail, the grail: That's all behind thee. In deed, in creed, the curve of our speed. And we believe that we will raise the sky. We got to fly over the land, over the sea. Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise. God, do not seize me please, till victory. Victory. Till victory. |
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from Patti Smith - Easter (1978)
Blood on the T.V., ten o'clock news
Souls are invaded, heart in a groove Beatin' and beatin', so outta time What's the mad matter with the church chimes? Here comes a stranger up on Ninth Avenue Leanin' green tower, indiscreet view Over the cloud, over the bridge Sensitive muscle, sensitive ridge of my Space monkey, sign of the time, time Space monkey, so outta line, line Space monkey, sort of divine And he's mine, mine, all mine Pierre Clementi, snot full o' cocaine The sexual streets, why it's all so insane? Humans are running lavender room Hoverin' liquid, move over moon for my Space monkey, sign of the time, time Space monkey, so outta line, line Space monkey, sort of divine And he's mine, mine, oh he's mine A stranger comes up to him Hands him an old, rusty Polaroid It starts crumbling in his hands He says, "Oh man, I don't get the picture This is no picture, this is just, this just a, this just a" "This is my jack-knife, this is my jack-knife This is my jack-knife, this is my jack" Rude excavation, landin' site, boy hesitatin', jack-knife He rips his leg open, so out of time Blood and light runnin', it's all like a dream Light of my life, he's dressed in flame It's all so predestined, it's all such a game for my Space monkey, sign of the time, time Space monkey, so outta line, line Space monkey, sort of divine And it's all just space, just space There he is, up in a tree Oh, I hear him callin' down to me That banana-shaped object ain't no banana It's a bright, yellow U.F.O. And he's coming to get me, here I go Up, up, up, up, up, up, up ,up, up Oh, goodbye mama I'll never do dishes again Here I go from my body Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha help |
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from Patti Smith - Easter (1978)
take me now baby here as I am
pull me close, try and understand desire is hunger is the fire I breathe love is a banquet on which we feed come on now try and understand the way I feel when I'm in your hands take my hand come undercover they can't hurt you now, can't hurt you now, can't hurt you now because the night belongs to lovers because the night belongs to lust because the night belongs to lovers because the night belongs to us have I doubt when I'm alone love is a ring, the telephone love is an angel disguised as lust here in our bed until the morning comes come on now try and understand the way I feel under your command take my hand as the sun descends they can't touch you now, can't touch you now, can't touch you now because the night belongs to lovers ... with love we sleep with doubt the vicious circle turn and burns without you I cannot live forgive, the yearning burning I believe it's time, too real to feel so touch me now, touch me now, touch me now because the night belongs to lovers ... because tonight there are two lovers if we believe in the night we trust because tonight there are two lovers ... |
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from Patti Smith - Easter (1978)
We shall live again, we shall live.
What is it children that falls from the sky ? Tayi, taya, tayi, aye aye. Mannah from Heaven from the most high, Food from the father, tayi, taye aye. We shall live again, we shall live again, We shall live again, shake out the ghost dance. Peace to your brother, give and take peace, Tayi, taya, it leaves two feet One foot extended, snake to the ground, Wave up the Earth, one turn around. We shall live again, we shall live again, We shall live again, shake out the ghost dance. Stretch out your arms now tip and swing, Rude up thy bird, tayi, tayi. Threw out your shoe over the soil, Dust off the words that shaped from the tale. We shall live again, we shall live again, We shall live again, shake out the ghost dance. Here we are, Father, Lord, Holy Ghost, Bread of your bread, ghost of your host, We are the tears that fall from your eyes, Word of your word, cry of your cry. We shall live again, we shall live again, We shall live again. What is it, Father, in your eye, What is this wisdom, eyes of God, That makes me feel just what I need. You used to fly me the way to speed. What is it, Father, holy that night ? What is it, Father, that moves to the right ? What is it, Father, that is waiting in Heaven ? What is it, Father, that shapes from your hand ? What is it, Father, that makes me spin around ? What is it, Father, that brings me down What is it, Father, you can't tell what I like. What is it, Father, I just ride into space What is it, Father, I can tell you one night What is it, Father, I can tell what I like What is it, Father, are you into shape What is it, Father, are you calling today What is it, Father ... |
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from Patti Smith - Easter (1978)
I haven't fucked much with the past,
but I've fucked plenty with the future. Over the skin of silk are scars from the splinters of stations and walls I've caressed. A stage is like each bolt of wood, like a log of Helen, is my pleasure. I would measure the success of a night by the way by the way by the amount of piss and seed I could exude over the columns that nestled the P.A. Some nights I'd surprise everybody by skipping off with a skirt of green net sewed over with flat metallic circles which dazzled and flashed. The lights were violet and white. I had an ornamental veil, but I couldn't bear to use it. When my hair was cropped, I craved covering, but now my hair itself is a veil, and the scalp inside is a scalp of a crazy and sleepy Comanche lies beneath this netting of the skin. I wake up. I am lying peacefully I am lying peacefully and my knees are open to the sun. I desire him, and he is absolutely ready to seize me. In heart I am a Moslem; in heart I am an American; in heart I am Moslem, in heart I'm an American artist, and I have no guilt. I seek pleasure. I seek the nerves under your skin. The narrow archway; the layers; the scroll of ancient lettuce. We worship the flaw, the belly, the belly, the mole on the belly of an exquisite whore. He spared the child and spoiled the rod. I have not sold myself to God. |
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from Patti Smith - Easter (1978)
I see it all before me:
The days of love and torment; The nights of rock-and-roll. I see it all before me. Sometimes my spirit's empty; Don't have the will to go on. I wish someone would send me Energy. Give me something. Give me something to give. Oh, God, give me something: A reason to live. My body is aching. Don't want sympathy. Come on. Come and love me. Come on. Set me free. Set me free. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul. He leadeth me through the path of righteousness for His name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me. Hey, Lord, I'm waitin' for you. Oh, God, I'm waitin' for you; Waitin' to open Your ninety-eight wounds And be Thee, be Thee. Lead me, oh, lead me. Leave me something. Leave me something to live. Oh, God, give me something: A reason to live. I don't want no handout; No, not sympathy. Come on. Come and love me. Come on. Set me free. Set me free. Come on. Set me free Set me free . . . Oh, I'm so young, so goddamn young. Oh, I'm so young, so goddamn young. Oh, I'm so young, so goddamn. Set me free. In the presence of my enemies, Thou anointest my head with oil. My cup runneth over. Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me All the days of my life. And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Ah, damn, goddamn, goddamn, goddamn. Here I am. |
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from Patti Smith - Easter (1978)
You say you want me.
I want another. Say you dream of me. Dream of your brother. Oh, the stars shine so suspiciously for we three. You said when you were with me that nothing made you high. We drank all night together and you began to cry so recklessly. Baby, please, don't take my hope away from me. You say you want me. I want another, baby. You say you wish for me. Wish for your brother. Oh, the dice roll so deceptively for we three. It was just another Saturday and ev'rything was in the key of A. And I lit a cigarette for your brother. And he turned and heard me say so desp'rately, "Baby, please, don't take my hope away from me." You say you want me. I want another. You say you pray for me. Pray for your brother. Oh, the way that I see him is the way I see myself. So please stand back now and let time tell you. Oh, can't you see that time is the key that will unlock the destiny of we three? Every night on sep'rate stars, before we go to sleep, we pray so breathlessly. Baby, please, don't take my hope away from me. |
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from Patti Smith - Easter (1978)
We explore the men's room.
We don't give a shit. Ladies' lost electricity; Take vows inside of it. Desire to dance; Too startled to try. Wrap my legs 'round you, Starting to fly. Let's explore Up there, up there, up there, On the twenty-fifth floor. Circle all around me, Coming for the kill, kill, kill Oh kill me baby Like a kamikaze Heading for a spill. Oh but it's all spilt milk to me. Desire to dance; Too startled to try. Wrap my legs 'round you, Starting to fly. Let's soar Up there, up there, up there, On the twenty-fifth floor. We do not eat Flower of creation. We do not eat, Eat anything at all. Love is, love was, love is a manifestation. I'm waiting for a contact to call. Love's war. Love's cruel. Love's pretty, love's pretty cruel tonight. I'm waiting here to refuel. I'm gonna make contact tonight. Love in my heart. The night to exploit. Twenty-five stories over Detroit, And there's more Up there, up there, up there. Stoned in space. zeus. christ. it has always been rock and so it is and so it shall be. within the context of neo rock we must open up our eyes and seize and rend the veil of smoke which man calls order. pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste. The transformation of waste The transformation of waste The transformation of waste The transformation of waste is perhaps the oldest pre-occupation of man. man being the chosen alloy, he must be reconnected—via shit, at all cost. inherent with(in) us is the dream of the task of the alchemist to create from the clay of man. and to re-create from excretion of man pure and then soft and then solid gold. All must not be art. some art we must disintegrate. Positive (anarchy must exist.) In background: (i feel it swirling around me I feel it feeling no pain I'm waiting above for you baby I know that I'll see you up there I'm floating in a door backward On boundaries over this world I'm waiting above in the sky, dear Upon a [ ] ...) |
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from Patti Smith - Easter (1978)
what i feel when i'm playing guitar
is completely cold and crazy, like i don't owe nobody nothing and it's just a test just to see how far i can relax into the cold wave of a note. when everything hits just right (just and right) the note of nobility can go on forever. i never tire of the solitary E and i trust my guitar and i don't care about anything. sometimes i feel like i've broken through and i'm free and i could dig into eternity into eternity riding the wave and realm of the E. sometimes it's useless. here i am struggling and filled with dread afraid that i'll never squeeze enough graphite from my damaged cranium to inspire or asphyxiate any eyes grazing like hungry cows across the stage or page. inside of me i'm crazy i'm just crazy. inside i must continue. i see her, my stiff muse, jutting around round round round like a broken speeding statue. the colonial year is dead and the greeks too are finished. the face of alexander remains not only solely due to sculpture but through the power and foresight and magnetism of alexander himself. the artist must maintain his swagger. he must he must he must be intoxicated by ritual as well as result. look at me i am laughing. i am laughing. i am lapping cocaine from the hard brown palm of the bouncer. and i trust my guitar. therefore we black out together. therefore i would run through scum. and scum is just ahead, ah we see it, but we just laugh. we're ascending through the hollow mountain. we are peeking. we are laughing. we are kneeling. we are laughing. we are radiating at last. this rebellion is just a gas our gas a gas that we pass. |
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from Patti Smith - Easter (1978)
Easter Sunday, we were walking.
Easter Sunday, we were talking. Isabel, my little one, take my hand. Time has come. Isabella, all is glowing. Isabella, all is knowing. And my heart, Isabella. And my head, Isabella. Frederick and Vitalie, savior dwells inside of thee. Oh, the path leads to the sun. Brother, sister, time has come. Isabella, all is glowing. Isabella, all is knowing. Isabella, we are dying. Isabella, we are rising. I am the spring, the holy ground, the endless seed of mystery, the thorn, the veil, the face of grace, the brazen image, the thief of sleep, the ambassador of dreams, the prince of peace. I am the sword, the wound, the stain. Scorned transfigured child of Cain. I rend, I end, I return. Again I am the salt, the bitter laugh. I am the gas in a womb of light, the evening star, the ball of sight that leads that sheds the tears of Christ dying and drying as I rise tonight. Isabella, we are rising. Isabella, we are rising . . . |
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from Patti Smith - Twelve (2007)
[Originally by Tears for Fears]
Welcome to your life There's no turning back Even while sleep We will find you Acting on your best behaviour Turn your back on mother nature Everybody wants to rule the world It's my own design It's my own remorse Help me to decide Help make the most Of freedom and of pleasure Nothing ever lasts forever Everybody wants to rule the world There's a room where the light won't find you Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down When they do I'll be right behind you So glad we've almost made it So sad they had fade it Everybody wants to rule the world I can't stand this indecision Married with a lack of vision Everybody wants to rule the world Say that you'll never never never need it One headline why believe it ? Everybody wants to rule the world All for freedom and for pleasure Nothing ever lasts forever Everybody wants to rule the world |
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from Patti Smith - Twelve (2007)
There is a town in north ontario,
With dream comfort memory to spare, And in my mind I still need a place to go, All my changes were there. Blue, blue windows behind the stars, Yellow moon on the rise, Big birds flying across the sky, Throwing shadows on our eyes. Leave us Helpless, helpless, helpless Baby can you hear me now? The chains are locked and tied across the door, Baby, sing with me somehow. Blue, blue windows behind the stars, Yellow moon on the rise, Big birds flying across the sky, Throwing shadows on our eyes. Leave us Helpless, helpless, helpless. |
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from Patti Smith - Twelve (2007)
Oh, a storm is threat'ning
My very life today If I don't get some shelter Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away War, children It's just a shot away It's just a shot away War, children It's just a shot away It's just a shot away Ooh, see the fire is sweepin' Our very street today Burns like a red coal carpet Mad bull lost his way War, children It's just a shot away It's just a shot away War, children It's just a shot away It's just a shot away Rape, murder! It's just a shot away It's just a shot away Rape, murder! It's just a shot away It's just a shot away Rape, murder! It's just a shot away It's just a shot away, shot away The floods is threat'ning My very life today Gimme, gimme shelter Or I'm gonna fade away War, children It's just a shot away It's just a shot away It's just a shot away It's just a shot away It's just a shot away It's just a shot away I tell you love, sister It's just a kiss away It's just a kiss away It's just a kiss away It's just a kiss away It's just a kiss away Kiss away, kiss away Love It's just a kiss away Just a kiss away Love Oh, love, love, love Love Love |
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from Patti Smith - Twelve (2007)
We were talking about the space between us all
And the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion Never glimpse the truth, then it's far too late, when they pass away We were talking about the love we all could share When we find it, to try our best to hold it there with our love With our love, we could save the world, if they only knew Try to realise it's all within yourself No one else can make you change And to see you're really only very small And life flows on within you and without you We were talking about the love that's gone so cold And the people who gain the world and lose their soul They don't know, they can't see, are you one of them? When you've seen beyond yourself then you may find Peace of mind is waiting there And the time will come when you see we're all one And life flows on within you and without you |
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from Patti Smith - Twelve (2007)
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 Call Alice When she was just small When 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 Feed your head" You're getting smaller |
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from Patti Smith - Twelve (2007)
Sixteen years
Sixteen banners united over the field Where the good shepherd grieves Desperate men, desperate women divided Spreading their wings 'neath falling leaves. Fortune calls I stepped forth from the shadows to the marketplace Merchants and thieves, hungry for power, my last deal gone down She's smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born On midsummer's eve near the tower. The cold-blooded moon The captain waits above the celebration Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid Whose ebony face is beyond communication The captain is down but still believing that his love will be repaid. They shaved her head She was torn between Jupiter and Apollo A messenger arrived with a black nightingale I seen her on the stairs and I couldn't help but follow Follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil. I stumbled to my feet I rode past destruction in the ditches With the stitches still mending beneath a heart-shaped tattoo Renegade priests and treacherous young witches Were handing out the flowers that I'd given to you. The palace of mirrors Where dog soldiers are reflected The endless road and the wailing of chimes The empty rooms where her memory is protected Where the angel's voices whisper to the souls of previous times. She wakes him up Forty-eight hours later the sun is breaking Near broken chains, mountain laurel and rolling rocks She's begging to know what measures he now will be taking He's pulling her down and she's clutching on to his long golden locks. Gentlemen, he said I don't need your organization, I've shined your shoes I've moved your mountains and marked your cards But Eden is burning either brace yourself for elimination Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards. Peace will come With tranquillity and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall And cruel death surrenders with its pale ghost retreating Between the King and the Queen of Swords. |
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from Patti Smith - Twelve (2007)
It was a slow day
And the sun was beating On the soldiers by the side of the road There was a bright light A shattering of shop windows The bomb in the baby carriage was wired to the radio These are the days of miracle and wonder This is the long distance call The way the camera follows us in slo-mo The way we look to us all, oh yeah The way we look to a distant constellation Dying in a corner of the sky These are the days of miracle and wonder And don't cry baby, don't cry, don't cry It was a dry wind And it swept across the desert And it curled into the circle of birth In the dead sand Falling on the children The mothers and the fathers and the automatic earth These are the days of miracle and wonder This is the long distance call The way the camera follows us in slo-mo The way we look to us all, oh yeah The way we look to a distant constellation That's dying in a corner of the sky These are the days of miracle and wonder And don't cry baby, don't cry, don't cry It's a turn-around jump shot It's everybody jump start It's every generation throws a hero up the pop charts Medicine is magical and magical is art The boy in the bubble And the baby with the baboon heart And I believe These are the days of lasers in the jungle Lasers in the jungle somewhere Staccato signals of constant information A loose affiliation of millionaires And billionaires These are the days of miracle and wonder This is the long distance call The way the camera follows us in slo-mo The way we look to us all, oh yeah The way we look to a distant constellation That's dying in a corner of the sky These are the days of miracle and wonder And don't cry baby, don't cry, don't cry Oh, don't cry Don't cry, don't cry Don't cry, oh |
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from Patti Smith - Twelve (2007)
[Originally by The Doors]
Well, the clock says it's time to close now I guess I'd better go now I'd really like to stay here all night The cars crawl past all stuffed with eyes Street lights share their hollow glow Your brain seems bruised with numb surprise Still one place to go Still one place to go Let me sleep all night in your soul kitchen Warm my mind near your gentle stove Turn me out and I'll wander baby Stumblin' in the neon groves Well, your fingers weave quick minarets Speak in secret alphabets I light another cigarette Learn to forget, learn to forget Learn to forget, learn to forget Let me sleep all night in your soul kitchen Warm my mind near your gentle stove Turn me out and I'll wander baby Stumblin' in the neon groves Well the clock says it's time to close now I know I have to go now I really want to stay here All night, all night, all night |
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from Patti Smith - Twelve (2007)
Load up on guns
Bring your friends It's fun to lose and to pretend She's overboard myself assured I know, I know a dirty word Hello, hello, hello, hello, Hello, hello, hello! With the lights out it's less dangerous Here we are now Entertain us I feel stupid and contagious Here we are now entertain us A mulatto An albino A mosquito My libido Yeah I'm worse at what I do best And for this gift I feel blessed Our little group has always been And always will until the end Hello, hello, hello, hello, Hello, hello, hello! With the lights out it's less dangerous Here we are now Entertain us I feel stupid and contagious Here we are now entertain us A mulatto An albino A mosquito My libido Yeah And I forget Just what it takes And yet I guess it makes me smile I found it hard Its hard to find Oh well, whatever, nevermind Hello, hello, hello, hello, Hello, hello, hello! The empty hand of innocence transfusing street of the sorrows and children of the wood Hounded, shredding all veils and winding all sheets of the dead world droning Overturning tables laden with silver sacrificial birds Beating goat-skin drums Advancing with hands out-stretched and we keep filling them with mercury nitrate, asbestos Baby bombs blasting blue Scavengers picking through the ashes Children of the mills! Children of the junkyards! Sleepy, illiterate, fuzzy little rats haunted, paint-sniffin', stoned out of their shaved heads Forgotten, foraging, mystical children Foul-mouthed, glassy eyed, hallucinating Hello, hello, hello, hello, Hello, hello, hello! Hello, hello, hello, hello, Hello! With the lights out it's less dangerous Here we are now Entertain us I feel stupid and contagious Here we are now entertain us A mulatto An albino A mosquito My libido Ah, la la da Ah, la la da Ah, la la la Ah, ma la ta An albina A mosquito My libido, Oh, My libido Oh Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah |
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from Patti Smith - Twelve (2007)
Well, I've got to run to keep from hiding
And I'm bound to keep on riding And I've got one more silver dollar But I'm not gonna let 'em catch me, no Not gonna let 'em catch the midnight rider And I don't own the clothes I'm wearing And the road goes on forever And I've got one more silver dollar But I'm not gonna let 'em catch me, no Not gonna let 'em catch the midnight rider And I've gone by the point of caring Some old bed I'll soon be sharing And I've got one more silver dollar But I'm not gonna let 'em catch me, no Not gonna let them catch the midnight rider No I'm not gonna let 'em catch me, no Not gonna let them catch the midnight rider But I'm not gonna let 'em catch me, no Not gonna let them catch the midnight rider Not gonna let 'em catch the midnight rider Not gonna let 'em catch the midnight rider |
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from Patti Smith - Twelve (2007)
Been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise Been spending most their lives Living in a pastime paradise Been wasting most their lives Glorifying days long gone behind Been wasting most their days In remembrance of ignorance oldest praise Who of them will come to be How many of them are you and me? Dissipation, race relations Consolation, segregation Dispensation, isolation, exploitation, mutilation Mutations, miscreation, confirmation to the evils of the world Been spending most their lives Living in a future paradise Been spending most their lives Living in a future paradise Been looking in their minds For the day that sorrow's gone from time Keep telling of the day When the savior of love will come to stay Who of them will come to be How many of them are you and me? Proclamation of race relations Immigration, integration Verification of relations, acclamation, world salvation Vibrations, stimulation, confirmation to the peace of the world Been spending most their lives Living in a pastime paradise Been spending most their lives Living in a pastime paradise Been spending most their lives Living in a future paradise Ohh, future paradise Been spending too much of our lives Living in a pastime paradise Ohh, pastime paradise Ohh, let's start living for the future Ohh, future paradise Let's start living our lives Living for the future Ohh, future paradise Praise to our lives Living for the future Ohh, future paradise Shame to anyone's lives Living in the pastime paradise Ohh, pastime paradise Let's start living our lives Living for the future Ohh, future paradise Let's start living our lives Living for the future Ohh, future paradise |
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from Patti Smith - Peace And Noise (2007)
If you believe
All your hope is gone Down the drain Of your humankind The time has arrived You'll be waitin' here as I was In a snow white shroud Waitin' underground There by the ridge Be a gathering beneath the pilgrim moon Where we shall await The beat of your feet Hammering the earth Where the great ones tremble In their snow white shrouds Waitin' underground If you seek the kingdom come, come along Waitin' by the ridge There'll be a gatherin' Beneath the pilgrim moon Where the railroad thunders Oh, where we shall await The beat of your feet Hammering the earth And as the earth resounds Where the great ones tremble And your humankind becomes as one And then we will arise In our snow white shrouds Ohh, when we'll be as one Ohh, but until that day Ohh, we will just await In our snow white shrouds Waitin' underground In our snow white shrouds Waitin' underground Waitin' underground Waitin' underground ... |
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from Patti Smith - Peace And Noise (2007)
Hello friend, I've come a callin'
Passively stationed, active patrol Slidin' in at high noon like some reluctant sheriff Not wanna get involved in it all Who stands guard for each other? Why must we guard anything at all? Anything at all From the earth's four corners the people are calling Forming equations but the questions are hard All men are brothers, killing each other And Mother Earth is wringing in wonder Who stands guard for each other? Oh, why must we guard anything at all? Anything at all Whirl away now Whirl away now Whirl away now Whirl away There's a cross on the road, there's a great mill turnin' Some seeking answers, some born to dancers You can hold on the blade and turn around forever Be flung into space into another kind of grace Who stands guard for each other? Oh, why must we guard anything at all? Anything at all Whirl away now Whirl away now Whirl away now Whirl away Whirl away now Whirl away now Whirl away now Whirl away Give [Incomprehensible] Some giveth their hand Some giveth their land Some giveth their life You lay in the fields of grain, the staff of life all around you But yet you, you will cut someone down For their possessions, some material thing And our children they're being blown away like wishes in the wind For the sake of their coat Or the colors of their coat Or the color of their skin Or the name on their shoes And the mother cries "Why they taken my son?" And the father wonders "Are they taking my boy?" He extended his hand He gave them his land He gave them his bread He gave them his heart Said, "Hello friend" Hello friend Hello friend Hello friend |
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from Patti Smith - Peace And Noise (2007)
Listen to my story. Got two tales to tell.
One of fallen glory. One of vanity. The world's roof was raging, but we were looking fine; 'Cause we built that thing and it grew wings, in Nineteen-Fifty-Nine. Wisdom was a teapot; Pouring from above. Desolation angels Served it up with Love. Ignitin'[g strife] like every form of light, then moved by bold design, slid in that thing and it grew wings, in Nineteen-Fifty-Nine. **************** It was Blood, shining in the Sun; First: Freedom! Speeding the american claim: Freedom; Freedom; Freedom; Freedom! ****************** China was the tempest; [And] Madness overflowed. [The] Lama was a young man, and [he] watched his world in flames. Taking Glory down by the edge of clouds; It was a cryin'[g] shame. Another lost horizon. Tibet the fallen star. Wisdom and compassion Crushed, in the land of Shangri-La. But in the land of the Impala, honey, well, we were lookin' Fine, 'cause we built that thing and it grew wings; In Nineteen-Fifty-Nine. 'Cause we built that thing and it grew wings; In Nineteen-Fifty-Nine. It was the best of times, it's [was] the worst of times; In 1959; 1959; 1959; 1959; 1959; 1959; 1959. It was the best of times; It was the worst of times. [In] Nineteen-Fifty-Nine. |
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from Patti Smith - Peace And Noise (2007)
Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy!
Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy! The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and hand and asshole holy! Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel! The bum's as holy as the seraphim! the madman is holy as you my soul are holy! The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstasy is holy! Holy Peter holy Allen holy Solomon holy Lucien holy Kerouac holy Huncke holy Burroughs holy Cassady holy the unknown buggered and suffering beggars holy the hideous human angels! Holy my mother in the insane asylum! Holy the cocks of the grandfathers of Kansas! Holy the groaning saxophone! Holy the bop apocalypse! Holy the jazzbands marijuana hipsters peace & junk & drums! Holy the solitudes of skyscrapers and pavements! Holy the cafeterias filled with the millions! Holy the mysterious rivers of tears under the streets! Holy the lone juggernaut! Holy the vast lamb of the middle class! Holy the crazy shepherds of rebellion Who digs Los Angeles IS Los Angeles! Holy New York Holy San Francisco Holy Peoria & Seattle Holy Paris Holy Tangiers Holy Moscow Holy Istanbul! Holy time in eternity holy eternity in time holy the clocks in space holy the fourth dimension holy the fifth International holy the Angel in Moloch! Holy the sea holy the desert holy the railroad holy the locomotive holy the visions holy the hallucinations holy the miracles holy the eyeball holy the abyss! Holy forgiveness! mercy! charity! faith! Holy! Ours! bodies! suffering! magnanimity! Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul! (Berkeley, 1955) |
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from Patti Smith - Peace And Noise (2007)
Lower the thing the skin of a cat
Skin it to the left just laying there No other thing is luck like that And you set it said it said nothing Went to the party very discouraged I watched the litter pile like a wall I looked at the river just couldn't forgive it It was ladened with all kinds of shit Still I admit that I didn't say nothing I turned my back walked away Got to face the fact that I didn't say nothing Everyone was dancing I stood over in the corner I was listening they were saying this and saying that And putting this one down but nothing was delivered Nothing good was coming I just stood there I couldn't believe it but I didn't say nothing I walked the floor then I looked away Got to face the fact that I didn't say nothing How long how long will we make do Maybe it's time to break on through Gonna lift my skirts gonna straighten up Gonna get well I'm gonna do something Gonna face the fact gonna give it back And I'm gonna do something won't hold my tongue Won't hold the thought won't hold the card Well I'm gonna do something Oh my brain I got to complain You can refrain but I'm gonna do something How long how long will we make do Maybe it's time to break on through Out in the desert I saw that old cat skinned I saw it floating in the river I saw and no one seemed to mind They sat there they sat there watching the sun I saw it float away and I watched the buildings crumble Like dust in the hand and we watched the sun Spread its wings and fly away And in the mountains a cry echoes Don't say nothing Don't say nothing no Don't say nothing no |
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from Patti Smith - Peace And Noise (2007)
This dead city
Longs to be This dead city Longs to be free Seven screamin' horses Melt down in the sun Buildin' scenes on empty dreams And smokin' them one by one Hee haa The dead city Longs to be, yea, yea This dead city, yea Longs to be livin', ohh Is it any wonder There's squalor in the sun? With their broken schemes and their lotteries They never get nowhere Haa haa Is it any wonder They're spittin' at the sun? God's parasites in abandoned sites And they never have much fun Yeah Haa You don't need me? You don't need me? Yea I You don't need me? Well Mika I'll take you [incomprehensible] You know, you just try If I was a blind man Would you see for me? Or would you confuse the nature of my blues And refuse a hand to me Or is it any wonder Cryin' in the sun? Is it any wonder I'm cryin' in the sun? Well I built my dreams on your empty scenes Now I'm burnin' them one by one Haa hmm Oh this a damn city Oh this a dead city Immortal city Motor city Success city Longs to be Longs to be Longs to be Free Free Free |
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from Patti Smith - Peace And Noise (2007)
Mother, as I write, the sun dissolves
Blood life streaming, 'cross my hand And these words, these words Hope dashed immortal hope Hope streaking the canvas sky Blue poles infinitely winding As I write, as I write Blue poles infinitely winding As I write, as I write We joined the long caravan Hungry, dreaming, going west Just for work, just to get a job And we never got lucky We just forged on, and the dust The endless dust, like a plague It covered everything Hal fell, with the fever And mother I did, what I could Blue poles infinitely winding As I write, as I write Blue poles infinitely winding As I write, as I write We prayed, we prayed for rain I never wanted, to see the sun again All my dresses, you made by hand We left behind, on the road, Hal died, in my arms We buried him, by the river Blue poles infinitely winding As I write, as I write Blue poles infinitely winding As I write, as I write, I write |
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from Patti Smith - Peace And Noise (2007)
In the straw colored light
In light rapidly changing On a life rapidly fading Have you seen death singin'? Have you seen death singin'? With a throat smooth as a lamb Yet dry as a branch not snapping He throws back his head And he does not sing a thing mournful Have you seen death singin'? Have you seen death singin'? Have you seen death singin'? In the straw colored light He sings a black embrace And white opals swimming In a child's leather purse Have you seen death swimming? Have you seen death swimming? With a throat smooth as a lamb Yet dry as a branch not snapping He throws back his head And he does not sing a thing mournful Have you seen death singin'? Have you seen death singin'? Have you seen death singin'? In the straw colored light Have you seen death singin'? Have you seen death singin'? Have you seen death singin'? In the straw colored light He sings of youth enraged And the burning of Atlanta And these viral times And may ribbons streaming And the straw colored curls are turning A mother's vain delight And woe to the sun And woe to the dawn And woe to the young Another hearse is drawn Have you seen death singin'? Have you seen death singin'? Have you seen death singin'? In the straw colored light |
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from Patti Smith - Peace And Noise (2007)
The fans were whirlin'
Like the blades of a 'copter Liftin' into the skies above some foreign land Soaked with the bodies of so many friends. Johnny waved He was on his way home He waved goodbye to his comrades in arms, And all the twisted things he'd seen. He waved goodbye And the blades hit Something Maybe just fate, but the blades hit The 'copter went up in flames And johnny never went marchin' home Johnny never went marchin' home They took his name And they carved it on a slab of marble With several thousand other names All the fallen idols The apples of their mother's eye Just another name Meanwhile Back on that burning shore Johnny's comrades stood speechless They looked with uh-uh-uh-uh disbelieving eyes As those bits of metal and the embers The embers of his eyes Fanned out into the air Black dust Flames Oh johnny! some day they'll make a movie about you And in the making of that movie Some mad apocalypse It will become even stranger than the simple act Just a boy going up up up Just a boy going up In flames in the smoke Just another life Just another breath And who'll remember Oh eternity now As eternal as a sheet of marble Eternal as a slab on a green hill And your name And all your fallen brothers And all the ones not cut All the ones remembered only in the hearts A mother a father a brother a sister a lover a son a daughter Shall not shall not fade shall not fade Your ancestors salute you And the gods of your ancestors salute you Having having been formed by the minds of your ancestors The gods of your ancestors salute you Having been formed by your ancestors The gods of your ancestors salute you They draw you in they draw you through They draw they draw you through that golden door Mornin' boy [come on in boy] We remember you We conceived of you We conceived of your breath We conceived of the whole human race And we conceived it to be a beautiful thing Like a tulip bending in the wind Sometimes it comes back to us In the form of a handful of dust Comes back in the form of a smitten child Our raped daughters, ah the broken bones Souls cleaved from hearts They come back to us And our hands are filled with their rotting tissues But we turn not our backs We press our lips Into their cancer into the dust into the remains of each one And that love is there and will greet you, will greet you Mornin' boy [come on in boy] It's eternal love Well here, go ahead, run through that flame Awww man, running through your mind You took a cat, you took a life, you took it by the tail And you swirled it around your head And you thrashed it, you smashed the life out of it And you knew that it would be your own But you wanted to feel, you wanted to feel it die Because you know you would feel your own You would feel your own But you're remembered! You're remembered! You're remembered dead! You're remembered dead! You're remembered dead! We remember We remember We remember Everything Everything |
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from Patti Smith - Peace And Noise (2007)
In a mansion high the young man stood
Ready to join his companions good Outside the scent of Magnolia blossoms Down streets of gold the children were racin' Just another wandering soul Adrift among the stars Just another human heart Led, led away He put his shoes on and he laid down (Led, led away) Outside the clouds were swiftly gathering (Don't be led away) He drained his cup and his stirred the mixture (Led, led away) And he closed his eyes as his conscience whispered (Don't be led away) Just another wandering soul Adrift among the stars Just another human heart Led, led away Misgivings unspoken he joined his companions (Led, led away) His face covered over in a mansion high (Don't be led away) Outside the children gazed in wonder (Led, led away) At the quickening sky then slowly disbanded (Don't be led away) Thirty-nine wandering souls Adrift among the stars Thirty-nine human hearts Led, led away His burning skin cooled by angels Swallowing sorrows excretion It's all excretion (Don't be led away) (Led, led away) Felled by his hand for the mind of another man (Don't be led away) Who makes the decisions Lends no provisions for mere eternal rides (Led, led away) (Don't be led away) Learning of course every alien force (Don't be led away) Even Christ yearns to be to possess the skin (Led, led away) And bones of man the blood of man (Don't be led away) Who tends the flock who breaks the bread (Don't be led away) (Led, led away) Who makes his own choices, won't listen to voices (Don't be led away) Accept no false teachers, false preachers, good deeders (Don't be led away) (Led, led away) With their hands out stretched to be filled with your money (Don't be led away) Your flesh, your breath, your imagination (Don't be led away) (Led, led away) Sympathy, empathy (Don't be led away) Acknowledge all man as fellow creation (Don't be led away) (Led, led away) But don't follow him (Don't be led away) Don't be led away Don't be led away (Led, led away) Don't be led away (Led, led away) Don't be led away Don't be led away Don't be led away |
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from Patti Smith - Dream Of Life (1996)
I was dreaming in my dreaming of an aspect bright and fair and my sleeping it was broken but my dream it lingered near in the form of shining valleys where the pure air recognized and my senses newly opened I awakened to the cry that the people have the power to redeem the work of fools upon the meek the graces shower it's decreed the people rule The people have the power The people have the power The people have the power The people have the power Vengeful aspects became suspect and bending low as if to hear and the armies ceased advancing because the people had their ear and the shepherds and the soldiers lay beneath the stars exchanging visions and laying arms to waste in the dust in the form of shining valleys where the pure air recognized and my senses newly opened I awakened to the cry Refrain Where there were deserts I saw fountains like cream the waters rise and we strolled there together with none to laugh or criticize and the leopard and the lamb lay together truly bound I was hoping in my hoping to recall what I had found I was dreaming in my dreaming god knows a purer view as I surrender to my sleeping I commit my dream to you Refrain The power to dream to rule to wrestle the world from fools it's decreed the people rule it's decreed the people rule LISTEN I believe everything we dream can come to pass through our union we can turn the world around we can turn the earth's revolution we have the power People have the power ... |
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from Patti Smith - Dream Of Life (1996)
Up there there's a ball of fire
Some call it the spirit, some call it the sun Its energies are not for hire It serves man, it serves everyone Down there where Jonah wails In the healin' water, in the ready depths Twistin' like silver swans No line of death, no boundaries Up there the eye is hollow The eye is winkin', the winds ablaze Angels howlin', the Sphinx awakens But what can she say, you'd be amazed Down there your, days are numbers You're no numbers, nothin' to fear There will be trumpets, there will be silence In the end it'll here just here Ahh, the borders of heaven are zipped up tight tonight The abstract streets, the lights like some switched on Mondrian Cats like us are obsolete, hey man, don't breathe on my feet Thieves, poets we're inside out and everybody's a soldier Angels howl at those abstract lights And the borders of heaven are zipped up tight tonight Up there there's a ball of fire Some call it the spirit, some call it the sun Its energies are not for hire It serves man, it serves everyone The air we breathe, the flame of wisdom The earth we grind, the beckonin' sea No mystery, not sentimental Ahh, the equation, it's all elemental The world is restless, Heaven in flux ,angels appear From the bright storm out of the shadows Up there, down there but what can we say Man's been forewarned All communion is not holy, even those that fall Well, they can prophet understandin' It's all for man, it's for everyone It's up there, down there, everywhere, everywhere Time for communion, time for communion Oh, and it's up there, out there, in there Everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, everywhere |
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from Patti Smith - Dream Of Life (1996)
Speak to me, speak to me heart
I feel a needing to bridge the clouds, softly go A way I wish to know, to know A way I wish to know, to know Oh, you'll ride, surely dance In a ring backwards and forwards Those who seek feel the glow A glow we all will know will know A glow we all will know will know On that day filled with grace On the way to heart's communion Steps we take, steps we trace All the way the heart's reunion Paths that cross Will cross again Paths that cross Will cross again Speak to me, speak to me shadow I spin from the wheel, nothing at all Save the need, the need to weave A silk of souls, that whisper, whisper A silk of souls, that whispers to me Speak to me heart All things renew Hearts will mend 'Round the bend Paths that cross Cross again Paths that cross Will cross again Paths that cross Cross again Paths that cross Will cross again Rise up, hold the reins Hold me, I don't know when Hold tight, bye bye Paths that cross Will cross again Paths that cross Will cross again Paths that cross Will cross again |
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from Patti Smith - Dream Of Life (1996)
Na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na I'm with you always, you're ever on my mind In a light to last, a whole life through Each way I turn, the sense of you Surrounds in every step I take in all I do Your thoughts your schemes Captivate my dreams Everlasting, ever new Sea returns to sea And sky to sky In a life of dream am I When I'm with you Deep in my heart, how the presence of you shines In a light to last a whole life through I recall the wonder of it all Each dream of life, I'll share with you Sea returns to sea And sky to sky In a life of dream am I When I'm with you I'm with you always, you're ever on my mind In a light to last a whole life through The hand above turns those leaves of love All and all a timeless view Each dream of life Flung from paradise Everlasting, ever new Dream of life Dream of life Na, na, na, na, na |
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from Patti Smith - Dream Of Life (1996)
In a room in Lebanon
They silently slept They were dreamin' crazy dreams In foreign alphabet Lucky young boys Cross on the main The driver was approachin' The American zone The wavin' of hands The tiniest train They never dreamed They'd never wake again Voice of the Swarm We follow we fall Kneel for priests Some wail at walls Flag on a match head God or the law And they'll all go together Where duty calls United children Child of Iran Parallel prayers Baseball Koran I'll protect Mama I'll lie awake I'll die for Allah In a holy war I'll be a ranger I'll guard the streams I'll be a soldier A sleepin' marine Voice of the Swarm We follow we fall Kneel for priests Some wail at walls Flag on a match head God or the law And they'll all go together Where duty calls In the heart of the ancient Ali smiles In the soul of the desert The sun blooms Awake Into the glare of all out little wars Who pray to return to salute The coming and dying of the moon Oh sleeping sun Assassin in prayer Laid a compass deep Exploding dawn And himself as well Their eyes for his eyes Their breath for his breath All to his end And a room in Lebanon Dust of scenes Erase and blend May the blanket of kings Cover them and him Voice of the Swarm We follow we fall Kneel for priests Some wail at walls Flag on a match head God or the law And they'll all go together Where duty calls Forgive them Father They know not what they do From the vast portals Of their consciousness They're calling to you Room in Lebanon There's room in Lebanon |
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from Patti Smith - Dream Of Life (1996)
Sun is rising on the water
Light is dancing again Let's go under where the sun beams Let's go under my friend Are we sleeping, are we dreaming Are we dancing again Is it heaven, crack it open And we'll slide down its stream We can hold on, I'm sure To the sea's foaming mane It will serve us, we'll surface And we'll plunge back again Sun is rising on the water Light is dancing like a flame There's no burning where the sun beams Oh, it's such a lovely game Does the sea dream, I'm sure We are here, we attend We are bells on the shore As the tolling suspends Who will decide the shape of things The shift of being, who will perceive when life is new Shall we divide and become another Who is due for gift upon gift Who will decide Shall we swim over and over The curve of a wing It's destination ever changing Sun is rising on the water Light is dancing like a flame Let's go waltzing on the water Let's go under again Let's go under Going under Going under |
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from Patti Smith - Dream Of Life (1996)
In the medieval night
'twas love's design And the sky was open Like a valentine All the lacy lights Where wishes fall And like shakespeare's child I wished on them all Ahh to be your destiny Was all that I pursued I could see the sights From the lofty heights But my heart obscured the view I was looking for you Looking for you What could I do I was looking for you Along the black river The ambassador jewels And you were reflected In all that I saw In the towers of gold In the wheel and wing Gripping my senses Like an ancient claim Many is the time I knelt in the light Appealing to all that I know Guide my eyes and steps That I may find love true Refrain Come on darlin' All that hearts desire Was written before us In the medieval fire It was love's design In the glittering stars Like shakespeare's child To be where you are From the portobello road To the port of marseilles Where the dervish turns Where the wild goats play Looking for you I was |
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from Patti Smith - Dream Of Life (1996)
Little blue dreamer go to sleep
Let's close our eyes and call the deep Slumbering land that just begins When day is done and little dreamers spin First take my hand then let it go Little blue boy, you're on your own Little blue wings as those feet fly Little blue shoes that walk across the sky May your path be your own But I'm with you And each day you'll grow He'll be there too And someday, you go We'll follow you As you go, as you go Little blue star that offers light Little blue bird that offers flight Little blue path where those feet fall Little blue dreamer won't you dream it all May your path be your own But I'm with you And each day you'll grow He'll be there too And someday, you go We'll follow you As you go, as you go And in your travels you will see Warrior wings remember Daddy And if a mama bird you see Folding her wings will you remember me As you go, as you go As you go, as you go |
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from Patti Smith - Dream Of Life (1996)
Darlin' come under cover
Another night to discover Let's slip where senses gather Let's drift between the sea and sky As the night goes by Sands shift Orchids so strange In the moonlight Brushing our faces Places where love blooms And dies While the night goes by Oh, and the spirits call Sun upon your shadows fall Tracing every breath we draw Come into my dreams Come into my dreams Darlin' let's go where the night goes Let's drift where senses gather Let's make this night last forever Into my dreams Into my dreams Darlin' let's go Where the night goes Time slips Oh darlin' how it flies When the night goes by All through the night Sirens call Come to me I'll come to you As the night softly Goes by bye Midnight Moon on our shoulder Daybreak Another one older Darlin' heavenly blue Glories fade into view Let's go Under the stars That are beating Under the moonlight Stars shoot Dusk just a whisper Make this night Last forever Oh how I wonder Where the night goes Oh let's wonder Where the night goes As the night goes By bye By bye |
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from Patti Smith - Dream Of Life (1996)
Wild leaves are falling
Falling to the ground Every leaf a moment A light upon the crown That we'll all be wearing In a time unbound And wild leaves are falling Falling to the ground Every word that's spoken Every word decreed Every spell that's broken Every golden deed All the parts we're playing Binding as the reed And wild leaves are falling Wild wild leaves As the campfire's burning As the fire ignites All the moments turning In the stormy bright Well enough the churning When enough believe The coming and the going Wild wild leaves Wild wild leaves Wild wild leaves |
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from Patti Smith - Gung Ho (2000)
In the garden of consciousness In fertile mind there lies the dormant seed When blooming as charity Conscience breathes a sigh of relief The confessions of sleep The awakening seed Moved by love to serve We celebrate all Merit in life Ah, the confessions of sleep Unfolding peace As we extend According to need And you will hear the call All action great and small Received joyfully Heaven abounds Let love resound If he be mute Give him a bell If he be blind, an eye It he be down, a hand Lift up your voice Lift up your voice Lift up your voice Give of your mind one mind Give of your heart one heart Give of your voice One voice |
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from Patti Smith - Gung Ho (2000)
I was alone and content in my world Dancing on air You sent to me a message that said I like your style Will you come to the temple tonight And dance for me there I pledge to you all that you wish The moon and the stars Lo and beholden Why don't you give it up Lo and beholden Come on you know it's true Lo and beholden Oh I'm beholden to you In the palace there was wild reverie And the look in your eyes As I dropped veil after veil Was drunken desire The dove calls and God notes it all The naked truth Here is my veil the seventh and last It will cost you Lo and beholden Why don't you give it up Lo and beholden Come on you know it's true Lo and beholden Oh I'm beholden to you The royal word has passed The prophet's head is all I ask For beauty and the naked truth It will cost you Lo and beholden Why don't you give it up Lo and beholden Come on you know it's true Lo and beholden Oh I'm beholden to you |
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from Patti Smith - Gung Ho (2000)
Oh the story's told been told retold From the sacred scriptures to the tabloids All the fuss and fight none above a whisper The soul of gold the belly of a boy Well they drew him from the forest Like they draw blood Tied him to a tree like St. Sebastian And he turned his head and let the arrows fly Through the trees, the trees The ornamental leaves Boy cried wolf Wolf don't come Wolf within Boy cried wolf In the ancient mold they're dancing down Calling to the moon but it don't answer And they fell on their knees and passed the bowl around And the blood the blood the sacramental blood Boy cried wolf Wolf don't come Wolf within Boy cried wolf I am the body I am the stream I am the wake of everything They bring me flowers that are myself Garlands of blood that are myself Slain the lamb that is himself Torn reborn the cries of our dismay Are nothing to the wind but whose to mind Kings are lifted up and kings are thrown Lost received retrieved The human tide Innocence had its day Innocence had its day Innocence innocence |
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from Patti Smith - Gung Ho (2000)
What is the system that gets around Recruits hearts with its timeless rhythm The young glow but old men know It's all a part of some crazy schism Coming on like the dawn unrelenting light Streets thick with its radiating It's all aglow but we all know True love is so complicated Feeling funny don't know why On a plane circling high Equation persuasion It's just persuasion What is the body that has nobody Go through life with nobody at all It come and go where the wind blow When persuasion come to call Got me reeling don't know why I'm on a plane circling high Equation persuasion Got the feeling I'm running in place Caught in the orbit of the human race Equation persuasion It's just persuasion It's jut persuasion It's just persuasion What is the body that has nobody What is the rise without the fall What is illusion without beauty What is the system that's no system at all Hey scout there's no equation You can't prepare for the heart's invasion You can't prepare for the heart's invasion Love is its own |
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from Patti Smith - Gung Ho (2000)
Hey there Come and take a walk with me Stroll into infinity We'll stroll along Until the dawn is gone Midnight take it to the twilight Just a little slice of light Let's turn it off and on off and on Strolling ain't it wonderful Into a light that lingers On and on, on and on Strolling ain't it wonderful Stars fall for we two Bathed in a light of our own Oh life Much too great to sacrifice Come and have another slice Ah life goes on and on Oh life May you live a long life May you live a long life May you live a long life |
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from Patti Smith - Gung Ho (2000)
One fine day these words I pray Will breathe a truth Within yourself upon a shelf A life anew So many roads It's hard to know what to do All your dreams All it seems Is as you choose For destiny my china bird Is calling for you The world turns The flame burns Bright and true Near and far Where you are Guiding you china bird The open skies Are yearning for you If they say it's not that way Hold your view With my love fly above A light anew Oh spread your wings The open sky Is calling to you china bird My heart is yearning for you If you fly away I'll be waiting come what may All my love a fragile ray For you for you |
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from Patti Smith - Gung Ho (2000)
It's been a while since I've seen your face It's been a while since I've walked this place I see the monkeys riding on their bikes Racing through the impossible night You say you're feeling like a new tree Man they'll cut you from limb to limb Pick your pocket with such delight Shake it to the right Shake it in the light Oh can't you see the glitter The glitter in their eyes Oh can't you see the glitter The glitter in their eyes Genius stalking in new shoes Have you got WTO blues Dust of diamonds Making you sneeze Kids on rollers ready for Running through the junkyards Breezing through the halls Racing through the malls Walking through the walls They'll strip your mind Just for fun Quoth the raven Yum yum yum Children children everywhere Selling souls for souvenirs They've been sold out like as not Just for chunks of Ankgor Vat They'll trade you up Trade you down Your body a commodity Our sacred stage Has been defaced Replaced to grace The marketplace Dow is jonesing at the bit 42nd Disney Street Ragged hearts unraveling Look out kids The gleam the gleam All that glitters Is not all that glitters Is not all that glitters |
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from Patti Smith - Gung Ho (2000)
I looked upon the book of life Tracing the lines of face after face Looking down at their naked feet Bound in chains bound in chains Chains of leather chains of gold We knew it was wrong but we looked away And paraded them down the colonial streets And that's how they became enslaved They came across on the great ships Mothers separated from their babes Husbands stood on the auction block Bound in chains bound in chains Chains of leather chains of gold Men knew it was wrong but they looked away And led them to toil in fields of white As they turned their necks to a bitter landscape Oh the people I hear them calling Am I not a man and a brother Am I not a woman and a sister History sends us such strange messengers They come down through time To embrace to enrage And in their arms even stranger fruit And they swing from the trees With their vision in flames Ropes of leather ropes of gold Men knew it was wrong but they looked away Messengers swinging from twisted rope As they turned their necks to a bitter landscape Oh the people I hear them calling Am I not a man and a brother Am I not a woman and a siste r We will be heard we will be heard |
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from Patti Smith - Gung Ho (2000)
Ours is just another skin That simply slips away You can rise above it It will shed easily It all will come out fine I've learned it line by line One common wire One silver thread All that you desire Rolls on ahead Like a ship in a bottle Held up to the sun Sails ain't going nowhere You can count every one Until it crashes unto the earth And simply slips away You can hide in the open Or just disappear Ours is just a craving And a twist of the wrist Will undo the stopper With abrupt tenderness Die little sparrow And awake Singing It all will come out fine I've learned it line by line One common wire One silver thread All that you desire Rolls on ahead |
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from Patti Smith - Gung Ho (2000)
Hail brother The distant thunder Is nothing but hearts Beating as one Dance of a million On God's pavilion Come come Beat on your drum Awake people arise Awake upright come Fortune is falling like Tears from the skies Open your eyes Hail sister Come on over To shape reshape Things to come Bow your head Raise your lantern Come come Beat on your drum Awake people arise Awake upright come Fortune is falling like Tears from the skies Open your eyes United action is what we need Time to say that everything is going to be Wasted icons wasted lives Like war obsolete Awake people arise Awake upright come Fortune is falling like Tears from the skies Open your eyes These are the times The times of our own These are the shapes The world we formed Swift is the arrow Dark is the thorn The slate is clean The future awaits Awake |
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from Patti Smith - Gung Ho (2000)
You say hey The state of the union Is fine fine fine I got the feeling that you're lying Lying lying lying I think we need Think we're gonna need A new party They say to me They say what's the word I say it's thunderbird I say it's thunderbird Why don't you Fly fly fly Fly away hey And while you're at it Why don't you Fertilize my lawn Why don't you Fertilize my lawn With what's running from your mouth Running from your mouth Hey listen here We got to get off Our ass or get burned The world's troubles Are a global concern Does your child have Fresh water to drink Wherever you are Wherever you are you're invited To think about this When in the course Of human events It becomes necessary To take things into your own hands To take the water from the well And declare it tainted by greed We got to surely clean it up Clean our house Our inner house Our outer house Left right And hey by the way The human event Is the party of the century And you're all invited It's where you are Wherever you are 'Cause this party Is for everyone And the price of admission Is love one another Love brother |
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from Patti Smith - Gung Ho (2000)
If it wasn't for your golden hair I would not be belonely If it wasn't for your golden hair I would not be alone If it wasn't for your piercing stare I would not be belonely If it wasn't for your piercing stare I would not be alone I would not waltz in a widow's line What was yours would not be mine If it wasn't for your golden hair I would not be alone You courted me with princely airs Said you'd love me only Kiss the ribbons in my hair Said darling come and fly Flower of the Calvary You swept me off my saddle Lifted me into your life A soldier's wife was I You marched proudly for the horn I prayed for your swift return I waited for you so forlorn 'Ere to be alone I longed for you, I longed to die I was so belonely The pillow's bare by my side And yet I shall abide For heaven has aset for me Companion for eternity So kiss the ribbons in my hair Say darling come and fly If it wasn't for your golden hair I would not be alonely If it wasn't for your golden hair |
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from Patti Smith - Gung Ho (2000)
On a field of red one gold star Raised above his head Raised above his head He was not like any other He was just like any other And the song they bled Was a hymn to him Awake my little one The seed of revolution Sewn in the sleeve Of cloth humbly worn Where others are adorned Above the northern plain The great birds fly With great wings Over the paddy fields And the people kneel And the men they toil Yet not for their own And the children are hungry And the wheel groans There before a grass hut A young boy stood His mother lay dead His sisters cried for bread And within his young heart The seed of revolution sewn In cloth humbly worn While others are adorned And he grew into a man Not like any other Just like any other One small man A beard the color of rice A face the color of tea Who shared the misery Of other men in chains With shackles on his feet Escaped the guillotine Who fought against Colonialism imperialism Who remained awake While others slept Who penned like Jefferson Let independence ring And the cart of justice turns Slow and bitterly And the people were crying Plant that seed that seed And they crawled on their bellies Beneath the giant beast And filled the carts with bodies Where once had been their crops And the great birds swarm Spread their wings overhead And his mother dead And the typhoons and the rain The jungles in flames And the orange sun None could be more beautiful Than Vietnam Nothing was more beautiful Than Vietnam And his he |
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from Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture Dead Man Walking (데드맨 워킹) [ost] (1999) | |||||
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from Patti Smith - Gone Again (1996)
Hey now man's own kin
We commend into the wind Grateful arms grateful limbs Grateful soul he's gone again I have a winter's tale How vagrant hearts relent prevail Sow their seed into the wind Seize the sky and they're gone again fame is fleeting God is nigh We raise our arms to him on night We shoot our flint into the sun We bless our spoils and we're gone we're gone Hey now man's own kin We commend into the wind Grateful arms grateful limbs Grateful heart he's gone again Here a man man's own kin He turned his back and his own people shot him And he fell on his knees Before the burning plane And he beheld fields of gold his land his sun And he arose his blood aflame The clouds pressed with hand prints stained one last breath The sky is high The hungry earth The empty vein The ashes rain Death's own bed Man's own kin Into the wind One last breath Hole in life Love knot tied Braid undone Child born The hollow horn Warrior cried A warrior died One last breath Lick of flame Spirit moaned Spirit shed The heavens fed Man's own kin Grips the sky And he's gone again Hey now man's own kin We lay down into the wind Grateful arms grateful limbs Grateful heart he's gone again Hey now man's own kin He ascends into the wind Grateful heart grateful limbs Grateful man he's gone again |
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from Patti Smith - Gone Again (1996)
Oh
To be Not anyone Gone This maze of being Skin Oh To cry Not any cry So mournful that The dove just laughs The steadfast gasps Oh To owe Not anyone Nothing To be Not here But here Forsaking Equatorial bliss Who walked through The callow mist Dressed in scraps Who walked The curve of the world Whose bone scraped Whose flesh unfurled Who grieves not Anyone gone To greet lame The inspired sky Amazed to stumble Where gods get lost Beneath The southern cross |
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from Patti Smith - Gone Again (1996)
Toward another
He has gone To breathe an air Beyond his own Toward a wisdom Beyond the shelf Toward a dream That dreams itself About a boy Beyond it all About a boy Beyond it all From the forest From the foam From the field That he had Known Toward a river Twice as blessed Toward the inn Of happiness About a boy Beyond it all About a boy Beyond it all From a chaos Raging sweet From the deep And dismal street Toward another Kind of peace Toward the great Emptiness About a boy Beyond it all About a boy Beyond it all [ ] I stood among them I stood alone Boy boy Just a boy Just a little boy [ ] Just a little boy Who will never grow |
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from Patti Smith - Gone Again (1996)
We waltzed beneath motionless skies
All heaven's glory turned in your eyes We expressed such sweet vows Oh, till death do us part Oh, till death do us part Oh oh We waltzed beneath God's point of view Knowing no ending to our rendezvous We expressed such sweet vows Oh, till death do us part Oh, till death do us part Oh oh Oh, till death do us part Oh, till death do us part Oh oh We waltzed beneath motionless skies All heaven's glory turned in your eyes You pledged me your heart Till death do us part You pledged me your heart Till death do us part Till death do us part |
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from Patti Smith - Gone Again (1996)
I was down in Georgia nothing was as real
As the street beneath my feet descending into air The cauldron was a bubbling, the flesh was lean And the women moved forward like piranhas in a stream They spread themselves before me an offering so sweet And they beckoned and they beckoned come on darling eat Eat the summer cannibals, eat eat eat You eat the summer cannibals, eat eat eat They circled around me natives in a ring And I saw their souls a-withering like snakes in chains And they wrapped themselves around me, what a treat And they rattled their tales hissin' come on let's eat Eat the summer cannibals, eat eat eat You eat the summer cannibals, eat eat eat I felt a rising in my throat the girls a-saying grace And the air, the viscous air pressed against my face And it all got too damn much for me just got too damn rough And I pushed away my plate and said boys I've had enough And I laid upon the table another piece of meat And I opened up my veins to them and said come on eat Eat the summer cannibals, eat eat eat You eat the summer cannibals, eat eat eat You eat the summer cannibals, eat eat eat You eat the summer cannibals, eat eat eat 'Cause I was down in Georgia nothing was as real As the street beneath my feet descending into hell So eat eat eat You eat eat eat You eat eat eat Eat eat eat |
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from Patti Smith - Gone Again (1996)
Dead to the world my body was sleepin'
On my mind was nothin' at all Come a mist, an air so appealing I'm here a whisperin', you summoned, I called I formed me a presence whose aspect was changin' Oh, he would shift, he would not shift at all We sat for a while, he was very engagin' And when he was gone, I was gone on a smile With a strange way of walkin' And a strange way of breathin' More lives than a cat that let me astray All in all, he captured my heart Dead to the world and I just slipped away I heard me a music that drew me to dancin' Lo, I turned under his spell I opened my coat but he never came closer I bolted the door and whispered, oh well With a strange way of walkin' And a strange way of breathin' More lives than a cat that let me astray All in all, he captured my heart Dead to the world and just slipped away I laid in the rushes, the air was upon me Wonderin', well, I just couldn't discern Will he come back, come back to me? Oh, I whispered will you ever return? I was feelin' sensations in no dictionary He was less than a breath of shimmer and smoke The life in his fingers unwound my existence Dead to the world alive I awoke With a strange way of walkin' And a strange way of breathin' Less than a breath of shimmer and smoke The life in his fingers unwound my existence Dead to the world alive I awoke Alive I awoke (Alive) Alive I awoke (Alive I awoke) Alive (I awoke) I awoke (I awoke) I awoke (Alive) Alive, alive, oh (Alive) (Alive) Alive, alive, oh Alive, alive, oh |
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from Patti Smith - Gone Again (1996)
One two three four
I was a wing in Heaven blue Soared over the ocean, soared over Spain And I was free needed nobody It was beautiful, it was beautiful I was a pawn didn't have a move Didn't have nowhere that I could go But I was free I needed nobody It was beautiful, it was beautiful And if there's one thing Could do for you You'd be a wing in Heaven blue I was a vision in another eye And they saw nothing, no future at all Yet I was free I needed nobody It was beautiful, it was beautiful And if there's one thing Could do for you You'd be a wing in Heaven blue And if there's one thing Could do for you You'd be a wing in Heaven blue And if there's one thing Could do for you You'd be a wing in Heaven blue |
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from Patti Smith - Gone Again (1996)
Common fortune seeks us all
And slips our binding rings We'll turn our heads and make us reel We'll bare our arms as wings Before our feet a feather drifts Beyond us it will fall 'Cause time will bid and make us rise Make ravens of us all My love, he breathed the air of kings Yet fell beneath his luck And in his heart a yearning yet Before his time, time shook All the gifts that God had given Owned by fate denied Gone to where all treasures laid And where the raven flies Oh, there are places I agree Where I'm yet to roam The Egyptian field, the Arctic Sea Where shadows haunt and moan But none but sky I have to go Should I return to thee Gone to where the feather flies to eternity But for a time I got more time till I a raven be 'Cause time will bid and make us rise Make ravens of us all And time will bid and make us fly Make ravens of us all And time will bid and make us fly Make ravens of us all |
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from Patti Smith - Gone Again (1996)
There was a wicked messenger
From Eli he did come, With a mind that multiplied The smallest matter. When asked who had sent for him, He answered with his thumb, For his tongue it could not speak, but only flatter. He stayed behind the assembly hall, It was there he made his bed, And oftentimes he could be seen returning. Until one day he just appeared With a note in his hand that read, "The soles of my feet, I swear they're burning." Oh, the leaves began to fallin' And the seas began to part, And the people that confronted him were many. And he was told but these few words, Which opened up his heart, "If you cannot bring good news, then don't bring any." |
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from Patti Smith - Gone Again (1996)
I been walking
Wherefore am I walking I been walking If you see me walking A-walking a-walking If you see me walking Don't avert your eyes Don't turn away Don't turn away I'm coming to you Oh-oh oh oh Oh-oh oh to you Living in steps Till I can rest Living in steps Till I'm blessed by you I and I alone Can but do for you To twist in my hand The thorn of thy youth To draw thy seed To turn in birth Thy sighs (Living in steps) Thy moans Till we can rest Living in steps Till I'm by you All I ever wanted I and I alone I will wash your feet And dry them with my hair I will give to you Every other tear Thy breath thy spear Thy season of mirth Seven steps Until I can rest Seven steps Til I am blessed by you All I ever wanted I wanted I wanted All I ever wanted I wanted for you Oh-wo-wo Oh-wo-wo All I ever wanted I wanted for you Five steps Till I can rest Five steps Till I'm blessed by you Four steps Till I can rest Four steps Till I'm blessed by you All I ever wanted I wanted I wanted All I ever wanted I wanted for you I and I alone Ghost of thy ghost Walk I will walk A burning stem To illume thy night (Three steps ) Blood of my blood Bone of my bone (Three steps ) Can but do for you I and I alone Two steps Till I can rest Two steps Till I'm blessed by you Oh oh oh Can but do for you I and I alone Oh oh oh |
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from Patti Smith - Gone Again (1996)
It's been a hard time
And when it rains it rains on me The sky just opens And when it rains it pours I walk alone assaulted it seems By tears from heaven And darling I can't help Thinking those tears are yours Our wild love came from above And wilder still is the wind that howls Like a voice that knows it's gone 'Cause darling you died and well I cried But I'll get by Salute our love And send you a smile And move on So darling farewell all will be well And then all will be fine The children will rise Strong and happy be sure 'Cause your love flows And the corn still grows And God only knows we're only given As much as the heart can endure But I don't know why But when it rains it rains on me The sky just opens And when it rains it pours But I look up and a rainbow appears Like a smile from heaven And darling I can't help thinking That smile is yours |
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from Patti Smith - Horses (1975)
The boy was in the hallway drinking a glass of tea
From the other end of the hallway a rhythm was generating Another boy was sliding up the hallway He merged perfectly with the hallway, He merged perfectly, the mirror in the hallway The boy looked at Johnny, Johnny wanted to run, but the movie kept moving as planned The boy took Johnny, he pushed him against the locker, He drove it in, he drove it home, he drove it deep in Johnny The boy disappeared, Johnny fell on his knees, started crashing his head against the locker, started crashing his head against the locker, started laughing hysterically When suddenly Johnny gets the feeling he's being surrounded by horses, horses, horses, horses coming in in all directions white shining silver studs with their nose in flames, He saw horses, horses, horses, horses, Horses, horses, horses, horses. Do you know how to pony like bony maroney Do you know how to twist, well it goes like this, it goes like this Baby mash potato, do the alligator, do the alligator And you twist the twister like your baby sister I want your baby sister, give me your baby sister, Dig your baby sister Rise up on her knees, do the sweet pea, do the sweet pee pee, Roll down on her back, got to lose control, got to lose control, Got to lose control and then you take control, Then you're rolled down on your back and you like it like that, Like it like that, like it like that, like it like that, Then you do the watusi, yeah do the watusi Life is filled with holes, Johnny's laying there, his sperm coffin Angel looks down at him and says, "Oh, pretty boy, Can't you show me nothing but surrender ?" Johnny gets up, takes off his leather jacket, Taped to his chest there's the answer, You got pen knives and jack knives and Switchblades preferred, switchblades preferred Then he cries, then he screams, saying Life is full of pain, I'm cruisin' through my brain And I fill my nose with snow and go Rimbaud, Go Rimbaud, go Rimbaud, And go Johnny go, and do the watusi, oh do the watusi There's a little place, a place called space It's a pretty little place, it's across the tracks, Across the tracks and the name of the place is you like it like that, You like it like that, you like it like that, you like it like that, And the name of the band is the Twistelettes, Twistelettes, Twistelettes, Twistelettes, Twistelettes, Twistelettes, Twistelettes, Twistelettes Baby calm down, better calm down, In the night, in the eye of the forest There's a mare black and shining with yellow hair, I put my fingers through her silken hair and found a stair, I didn't waste time, I just walked right up and saw that up there -- there is a sea up there -- there is a sea up there -- there is a sea the sea's the possibility There is no land but the land (up there is just a sea of possibilities) There is no sea but the sea (up there is a wall of possibilities) There is no keeper but the key (up there there are several walls of possibilities) Except for one who seizes possibilities, one who seizes possibilities. (up there) I seize the first possibility, is the sea around me I was standing there with my legs spread like a sailor (in a sea of possibilities) I felt his hand on my knee (on the screen) And I looked at Johnny and handed him a branch of cold flame (in the heart of man) The waves were coming in like Arabian stallions Gradually lapping into sea horses He picked up the blade and he pressed it against his smooth throat (the spoon) And let it deep in (the veins) Dip in to the sea, to the sea of possibilities It started hardening Dip in to the sea, to the sea of possibilities It started hardening in my hand And I felt the arrows of desire I put my hand inside his cranium, oh we had such a brainiac-amour But no more, no more, I gotta move from my mind to the area (go Rimbaud go Rimbaud go Rimbaud) And go Johnny go and do the watusi, Yeah do the watusi, do the watusi ... Shined open coiled snakes white and shiny twirling and encircling Our lives are now entwined, we will fall yes we're together twining Your nerves, your mane of the black shining horse And my fingers all entwined through the air, I could feel it, it was the hair going through my fingers, (I feel it I feel it I feel it I feel it) The hairs were like wires going through my body I I that's how I that's how I I died (at that Tower of Babel they knew what they were after) (they knew what they were after) [Everything on the current] moved up I tried to stop it, but it was too warm, too unbelievably smooth, Like playing in the sea, in the sea of possibility, the possibility Was a blade, a shiny blade, I hold the key to the sea of possibilities There's no land but the land looked at my hands, and there's a red stream that went streaming through the sands like fingers, like arteries, like fingers (how much fits between the eyes of a horse?) He lay, pressing it against his throat (your eyes) He opened his throat (your eyes) His vocal chords started shooting like (of a horse) Mad pituitary glands The scream he made (and my heart) was so high (my heart) Pitched that nobody heard, No one heard that cry, No one heard (Johnny) the butterfly flapping in his throat, (His fingers) Nobody heard, he was on that bed, it was like a sea of jelly, And so he seized the first (his vocal chords shot up) (possibility) (like mad pituitary glands) It was a black tube, he felt himself disintegrate (there is nothing happening at all) and go inside the black tube, so when he looked out into the steep saw this sweet young thing (Fender one) Humping on the parking meter, leaning on the parking meter In the sheets there was a man dancing around to the simple Rock & roll song |
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from Patti Smith - Jubilee (2004)
Oh glad day to celebrate 'Neath the cloudless sky
Air so sweet Water pure Fields ripe with rye Come one, come all Gather round Discard your Sunday shoes Come on now Oh my land Be a jubilee Come on girl Come on boy Be a jubilee Oh my land Oh my good People don't be shy Weave the birth of harmony With children's happy cries Hand in hand We're dancing around In a freedom ring Come on now Oh my land Be a jubilee Come on girl Come on boy Be a jubilee We will never fade away Doves shall multiply Yet I see hawks circling the sky Scattering our glad day With debt and despair What good hour Will restore our troubled air? Come on people Gather round You know what to do Come on people Oh my land What be troubling Oh my land What be troubling What be troubling What be troubling you We are love and the future We stand in the midst of fury and weariness Who dreams of joy and radiance? Who dreams of war and sacrifice? Our sacred realms are being squeezed Curtailing civil liberties Recruit the dreams that sing to thee Let freedom ring Freedom ring Freedom ring Jubilee Oh my land Oh glad day Oh my land Hear our cry Freedom ring Oh glad day Oh my land Jubilee Jubilee |