Roy Harper

No good pretending girl
You were for spending
The rest of your days round my neck
Well I'm not that strong
And my time isn't long
And my love isn't something to wreck
I wish we could share
But you'll never be there (with me)
Having those kids with one man
Milk his frustration
And get his submission
And weep and wear black when he's gone

Well I'll see you again by accident
Or maybe I'll see you again
I'm feeling the reasons for why I went
Like mountains between now and then
I wanted to help, but I couldn't stay
And I flew, what else could I do?
I needed to stop you from falling in love that way
I didn't have it for you
No way No way (that way)

I left you stony
With dreams cold and bony

I know how it feels, I've been there
I was your only
You fault you're so lonely
A face with a permanent stare
And all I was wanting was friends and good hunting
But you want my soul behind bars
Well love isn't jealous or bitchy and callous
She's here for us all and she's ours

Well I'll see you again by ......

Sweeping skies and breezey greens, can maybe show us what it means,
To feel the worlds, imagination.
I'll come and see you yesterday, we'll close our eyes and drift away,
Can we be real, without escaping?

Twelve hours of sunset, six thousand miles.
Illusions and movies, far away smiles.
Twelve hours of sunset, half a day in the skies,
I'll see you tomorrow, as the steel crow flies........
.....oh...........how time flies......

I used to think I wasn't mad, but now I know its all I had,
Can hope be lost, or only seeming.
Now that time's turned into space, there's no time to check the pace,
And no-one cares, except for dreaming, (dream.......)

Twelve hours of sunset, twilight sublime,
Be with you tomorrow, backwards in time.
.....oh...........how time flies......

I thought I heard the sound of my name and I looked back down behind me
And with hair like the ripened wheat she came, sure as the west wind to find me
And just for a moment I wished my life to see our friends all around us
And I turned to her but I held my breath in the far Norwegian mountains.

For there we stood two children of spring as everything seemed to be gleaming
Her looking breathless clean out of my mind and me with my crazy dreaming
To think of my friends underneath the same roof in one common destination
When all we do is remain aloof like we have no close relation.

And love is my torment and I'll take when I can
But I'll give in the moment when you are my woman and I am your man.

And I watched her makin' her first daisy chain as her nipples hung hard in suggestion
And naked, gnat-bitten we drifted fain in the hazy deserved sensation
And we dreamt of all the loves we'd known and we never never thought of the sorrow
With forelocks wound over primrose down in the wood by the emptin long barrow

Two silver greenflies to flicker the backdropping, lush of the emerald springtime
To lust for a moment in love of another is dust on a dragonfly's wing.

And love is no torment for we'll give when we can
And we'll live in the moment when you are my woman and I am your man.

And the blackcap sings and the forest rings, the nettles tall around me
With shafts of sun and moving things and poems fast and slowly
And fantasies of luscious thirst for new lust and fresh waters to seek it
Like diamonds set in realities of skies drawn back in secret

But somewhere out there with my heart in her care and her prayers in the breezes that caught them
She sits like the earth as I fly to her arms like the showering yellows of autumn

And love is no torment for we'll give when we can
And we'll live in the moment when she is my woman and I am her man.

If you're travelin' in the north country fair,
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline,
Remember me to one who lives there.
She once was a true love of mine.

Well, if you go when the snowflakes storm,
When the rivers freeze and summer ends,
Please see if she's wearing a coat so warm,
To keep her from the howlin' winds.

Please see for me if her hair hangs long,
If it rolls and flows all down her breast.
Please see for me if her hair hangs long,
That's the way I remember her best.

I'm a-wonderin' if she remembers me at all.
Many times I've often prayed
In the darkness of my night,
In the brightness of my day.

So if you're travelin' in the north country fair,
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline,
Remember me to one who lives there.
She once was a true love of mine.

We're just spinning leaves
In the flight of dawn
Little girl
Falling through an eternal horizon of time
But as we lie here I'd like to think
That all we've got will be ours forever
Don't you think we're forever
I can hear a voice
On the wings of my dream
Little girl
Melting me into love as it touches my heart
But sheltered in the distance of your sleep
Is all that I could love in a lifetime
Don't you think we're forever

Open your eyes
To the call of the winds
Little girl
Can't you here them all saying I'll always be yours
Lying in the misty morning sun
The pillow of the night still beneath you
Don't you think we're forever

The earth is possessed
By the curse of the west
Who devour
Newpaper furniture
Paparazzia by the hour
But a man with a vision
Believed
That tomorrow's begun
And has to be won
And nobody here is reprieved
O Chico, Chico Mendes
The man in a million
Stood in the way
Stood his ground
For the earth
For the coming of day
The chorus of dawn
On the perch of each morning
Receives
A forest of tears
As the joy reappears
On their leaves
And believes
Sings his name
And the tallest tree
Forever stands
Beyond the flame(s)
North south east and west
We can all reach the rest
Every day
Now is the change
To set out together
For a beautiful day
Whoever saw it
A different way
Was a man in a nightmare
Too numb to the future
Of brilliant possibles
Ever to share
The same air
As the men in the clay
O Chico, Chico Mendes
There are men who are more that just men

Miles away and gone
Half my life passed on
A spirit now
In leaves that blow
And leaves a world
To me to you
To everyone

It's high time to fly
In the face of the lie
It is over
To slave for ideals
That have long been ordeals
Must be over
So come on you man
Don't be conned yet again
Finding out you've got nowt...
Must be over... for good
Sometimes I vote
For the man in the coat
But I'm dreaming
With community dead
And rat race instead
I'd be dreaming
That I could be heard
In the state of absurd
Really dreaming... whacko...
Right out there
(For good?)
You know in your heart of hearts
In your vision
In your children
That you've gotta make a new start
In this hour of decision
If you are the tabloid
Caught up in this typhoid
Of cuckoo
Still hoarding the butter
In the mountains of muttering
Voodoo
Spreading this gospile
According to hostile
Well fuck you... fuck you
You deserted the spirit forever... sheep
Fuck you... for good
Why don't you fuck off
With your certified culture
Whimping away to some
Pasturised future
Killing the airwaves
Gannets for guano
Shit for propaganda
Radio dumbo
The people who've got
Three worlds on sale (just gimme)
Would rip the fourth apart
Re-package you
Rip you off
Flog the only heart
In the sell out, the sell out
Not brave enough to change it
Too low down to inherit the earth
So look in the mirror
And tell me
It's all going to happen
That the doors of perception
And justice
Will finally open
All by themselves
Without lifting a finger
Just by hoping... just by hoping...
Opening
Pandora's box...
So fill all the forms in
With misinformation and vanish
Or pass to your children
The code they will need to diminish
The world that you knew
That you brought them into
For the anguish
For the relish... for the fish...
For all of us
You know in your heart of hearts... etc
So pull up a fire
And throw down your gun
The fourth world is here
Soon there'll either be none
Or one global village
With faces as bright as the sun
One global village
With faces as bright as the sun

Cardboard city
Who gives a shit
Cardboard city
It's a hit
Hoards of the medias
Whirring their cameras
Living vicarious lives
Tasting it
Cardboard city
Beyond telethon
Cardboard city
Unwashed and gone
Who needs the dregs?
We should cut off their legs
And their thoughts
And have gone
I live in the loneliest place
I could find
A city where everyone's
Very mankind
You get what you vote
To perpetuate
Cynical people, trivial state
Cardboard city
The underclass
Cardboard city
You quickly pass
It might be someone
Who would be like
No one you knew
You bet your ass
Cardboard city
A sympton of
Cardboard city
A loss of love
The face of your parliament
Cold on your pavement
And you can't get enough

There was a time
When you ran after me
And we could run
I took you for granted
In my fantasy
(but) Those days are gone
I love you I love you I love you
My darling and I miss you so
I'll shed these last tears tonight
On your pillow
For without you I am a shadow
I will not make
One more tomorrow
Since you've been gone
I've been wasting away in agony
Reliving memories of many a day
You'd say to me
I love you I love you I love you
My darling and I need you so
Will you lay me down tonight
On your pillow
For without you I am a shadow
Please help me through
True love tomorrow
I've got so got so down
I feel paralysed
I'm hardly here
Nailed to a nightmare
That's immobilized
Living in fear
I love you I love you I love you
My darling
Out I feel so low
I don't trust myself tonight
On your pillow
For without you
Life has no meaning
Without you
My hear will break
Without you
Your helpless shadow
Just might not make
One more tomorrow

I thought I saw a swallow land
Upon my hand on summer day
I thought I saw my true love standing
In the sand
One old may day
I thought I hear the dolphins sing
'You gotta bring her back
On summer day'
See her run along the tide line
Where the trade winds blow
Feel the breath of summer
In her hair, oh!
Underneath the shooting stars
I've wished and would you know
I thought I saw a swallow land
Upon my hand
On summer day
I thought I saw a swallow land
Upon my hand on summer day
But here in cold midwinter's night
Another light has come to play
Steals across the misty sky
And bye and bye
She'll maybe stay
Can there ever be again again
Another spring
Will the birds forever hold us
On the wing
Light the fire in our home of hearts
And hear me sing
I thought I saw a swallow land
Upon my hand on summer day

If you're travelin' in the north country fair,
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline,
Remember me to one who lives there.
She once was a true love of mine.

Well, if you go when the snowflakes storm,
When the rivers freeze and summer ends,
Please see if she's wearing a coat so warm,
To keep her from the howlin' winds.

Please see for me if her hair hangs long,
If it rolls and flows all down her breast.
Please see for me if her hair hangs long,
That's the way I remember her best.

I'm a-wonderin' if she remembers me at all.
Many times I've often prayed
In the darkness of my night,
In the brightness of my day.

So if you're travelin' in the north country fair,
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline,
Remember me to one who lives there.
She once was a true love of mine.

The judge sits on his great assize
Twelve men wise with swollen thighs
Who never ever told no lies
Whose minds were ever such a size
Whose lives were ever such a prize
Whose brains bred answers just like flies
Whose answers stalked their thoughts like spies
Whose lead ball through the courtroom flies
To rip a hole clean between two eyes
That never ever wore disguise
And never ever saw blue skies
Who quickly lived now slowly dies
Who closed unopened otherwise
Well you can lead a horse to water
But you're never gonna make him drink
And you can lead a man to slaughter
But you're never gonna make him think
The critic rubs his tired arse
Scrapes his poor brains, strains and farts
And wields a pen that stops and starts
And thinks in terms of booze and tarts
And sits there playing with his parts
He says I'm much too crude and far too course
And he says this singer's just a farce
He's got no healing formulas
He's got no cure-all for our scars
He's got no bra-strap for our bras
And our sagging tits no longer hold a full house of hearts
And you know what? I don't think this little song's gonna make the charts
Well you can lead a horse to water
But you're never gonna make him drink
And you can lead a man to slaughter
But you're never gonna make him think

The rain falls like diamonds
Pinpricks the still waters
And spreadeagles its laughter
Across the green sheet of
The sleeping sea

She's the one
She's so gone
She's the one who throws the skins at you
And says lets all turn on

She's the one
She's so gone
She's the one who throws her pants at you
And says O.K. you're on

She's the one
She's so gone
She's the one who takes the stomach
Makes the tea and cleans the jon

She's the one
She's so gone
She's the one who hands the blankets round
And comforts everyone

She's the one
She's so gone
She's the one who buys the comics
Drops the kids and knows the com

She's the one
She's so gone
She's the one who you don't miss
Until you find she's really gone

You say that it's got you beat
And you dont know which way to turn
You say that she's oh so sweet
But there's nothing left for you to learn
You say that it's not your fault
You've seen through all the doors
Ah but how can any man talk like you
With a wonderful wife like yours

You say that its all washed up
And as bad as it could ever get
You say that you've filled your cup
And you light another cigarette
You say its O.K. for me
But I don't see her claws
Ah but how can any man talk like you
With a wonderful wife like yours

You tell me that I can't see you problem
But I don't have to live with you to know
That she's a very beautiful young woman
And your a fool if you can let her go

You sit down and heave sigh
And say that you'd welcome death
You step out into the sky
And mutter underneath your breath
You thump tables, spit and curse
But I can't see the cause
Ah but how can any man act like you
with a wonderful wife like yours

You say that you've packed your bag
It must be a heavy load
You light yet another fag
And say its a long hard road
You say the wind is blowing you
To other distant shores
Ah but how can any man talk like you
With a wonderful wife like yours

You tell me that I can't see you problem
But I don't have to live with you to know
That she's a very beautiful young woman
And your a fool if you can let her go

She's the one
She's so gone
She's the one who throws the skins at you
And says lets all turn on

She's the one
She's so gone
She's the one who throws her pants at you
And says O.K. you're on

She's the one
She's so gone
She's the one who takes the stomach
Makes the tea and cleans the jon

She's the one
She's so gone
She's the one who hands the blankets round
And comforts everyone

She's the one
She's so gone
She's the one who buys the comics
Drops the kids and knows the com

She's the one
She's so gone
She's the one who you don't miss
Until you find she's really gone

You say that it's got you beat
And you dont know which way to turn
You say that she's oh so sweet
But there's nothing left for you to learn
You say that it's not your fault
You've seen through all the doors
Ah but how can any man talk like you
With a wonderful wife like yours

You say that its all washed up
And as bad as it could ever get
You say that you've filled your cup
And you light another cigarette
You say its O.K. for me
But I don't see her claws
Ah but how can any man talk like you
With a wonderful wife like yours

You tell me that I can't see you problem
But I don't have to live with you to know
That she's a very beautiful young woman
And your a fool if you can let her go

You sit down and heave sigh
And say that you'd welcome death
You step out into the sky
And mutter underneath your breath
You thump tables, spit and curse
But I can't see the cause
Ah but how can any man act like you
with a wonderful wife like yours

You say that you've packed your bag
It must be a heavy load
You light yet another fag
And say its a long hard road
You say the wind is blowing you
To other distant shores
Ah but how can any man talk like you
With a wonderful wife like yours

You tell me that I can't see you problem
But I don't have to live with you to know
That she's a very beautiful young woman
And your a fool if you can let her go

Little goldfish in your bowl
I've dug you all day long
Yellow scales arising
Through the ceiling of my song

Little bee sat on your flower
A-swaying in the breeze
Funny little furry voice
A-buzzing through the leaves

Little bird sat upon your twig
Your sounds ring through my ears
Waking me each sunrise
To the morning's hopes and fears

Crazed blue-eyed starry-minded
fluffly little ball
Oh little baby on my knee
I love you most of all

The bumble bees stumble
The butterflies tumble
The birds on the water-line stare
The heavens have crowned her
The star grass grows round her
her dreams fill the very still air
Just east of the sun
where our loving was done
I can still see her breasts on the edge of the morning
I can still taste the salt in her hair

I've been walking all over the place, now I'm walking back again
I've been smiling all over my face, I wonder where the hell I've been ?
And won't you take me by the end, divided by my brain
I'm feeling all the Saturday of failing to explain.

And I've been walking up into the air following my aeroplane
One of these days we're gonna land somewhere, I do believe you're all insane
And I've brought home a piece of cloud and stick it in a jar
And stuffed it on the mantlepiece to tell me just how far.

And mum's just bought herself a leaning-post, it's made of words and pages
It says God gives us all our daily toast but dad still earns the wages
And I've just bought a jigsaw puzz, it's made of cotton wool
And when I've undone every piece, the truth will fill my skull.

And I've got a brother and he's one year old, he wears a zappy little nappy
He squeezes the content through the cot rails, what a very crappy little chappy
And lately I can even rest my toes on the horizon
I think my hands are just the job to rest my nothingness on.

Davey, oh Davey
With seashells on our ears
We spun a web of voices
We danced a day of years
Yesterday marooned us
Making for today
We spun along times tide line
As he washed us both away

Far across the ocean
In the land of look and see
There once was a time
For you and me

Where the winds blow sweetly
And the easy seas flow still
And where the barefoot dream of life
Can laugh and cry its fill

Where slot machine confusions
And the plastic universe
Are objects of amusement
In the fiction of their curse

And where the crazy whiteman
And his teargas happiness
Lies dead and long since buried
By his own fantastic mess

For I hate the whiteman
And his plastic excuse
For I hate the whiteman
And the man who turned him loose...

And the reins of coloured thunder
Of the stallion of the dawn
Ride the coalfire morning
On the beach where all is born

Where the emperor of meaning
Is burning up his forts
And sits to warm his toes around
A fire made up of useless thoughts

And when the children tempt him
With the riddles of their trance
He flings the flames of solstice
Casting laughs into their dance

And while a crazy whiteman
In the desert of his bones
Lies as bleached as the paradise
He likes to think he owns

And I hate the whiteman
In his evergreen excuse
Oh I hate the whiteman
And the man who turned him loose...

And far across the reaches
Of the drifting yellow sands
The living carpet wilderness
Forever joins its hands

With heaven hell's attainment
In a surging crest of fire
Where more than all is thrown upon
The ever lasting pyre

And through the countless canticles
Of Jason's charcoal fleece
Are sung the songs of nothing
In the timeless masterpiece

And there stood in the middle
Guess who?
It's the everlasting burst
Built by god's very own whiteman
As he tries to rule the dust

And I hate the whiteman
In his doctrinaire abuse
Oh I hate the whiteman
And the man who turned you all loose...

And the bowels of his city
Have been locked into a safe
Where the spew stains on the sidewalks
Are defenders of his faith

While back inside his kitchen
The bowler hatted, long haired saint
Cleans with soap and water
But it's really just white paint

While his golden headed scandal sheets
Present their daily bite
To give their righteous news-bleeders
Drugs to keep them white

While outside in the whitewash
Where the guns are always, always right
A shooting star has summoned
Its dark angel from his night


And I hate the whiteman
And his evergreen excuse
Oh I hate the whiteman
And the man who turned you all loose
And the man who turned him loose...

Your conscience rolls in torrents down each side of your face.
Your chair is full of silence, your hand is full of lace.
You say that you should have been by him when the bullets
laid his head.
Strange it's always the living who fear the idea of the dead.
Goodbye.
I'll take my leave of all of you as you sit and wonder why.

And you who stood around us and said that we were great.
Until your instant riches made us second rate.
Well you're the same old hangman who rationalizes hope.
Whose left hand pats my children and whose right hand holds a case full of rope.

He wears the sweeping landscape in the crystal of his eye.
And he jumps into the rain pools as the people pass him by.
He rubs the dusty ages across his tender brow.
He laughs and cries and sniffs and sighs. It's four long summers now.
Goodbye.
I made my peace with all of you as you sat and wondered why.

She walks the clover meadows in the dandelion days.
She throws her golden shadows across the silver haze.
She wanders with the swallows in the noonday passion plays.
She sits beneath the willow and she waits for me and twilight to come our ways.
Goodbye.
We made our peace with all the world as you sat and wondered why.

I thought you had passed, but you caught me at last,
Where you know I could never be worn.
And now that you're here, and you finally hear,
It's so clear on the wings of the dawn.
Where your smile starts to shine, as you breath in the brine
Of the spray on the very same day.
The same day we all go, when we're sure that we know,
What it is to be floating away.

And there's a lovenest, on Tom Tiddler's Ground
And there's a lovenest, on Tom Tiddler's Ground
And there's a lovenest, on Tom Tiddler's Ground
Long before Eden, was lost and found.

But you know you'll have to be kind, if you're ever gonna find,
The place that your face could have been shown.
Especially when you don't dare, to force anyone there,
To share in the ice being blown.

And there's a lovenest....

And you heard me say 'yes', but you know its a guess,
As somebody else shouted 'no'.
And you know freedom is free, of all the forces that be,
And the ice that you too thought you should throw.

And there's a lovenest....

I thought you had passed, but you caught me at last,
where you know I could nvere be worn.
And now that you're here, and you finally hear,
It's so clear on the wings of the dawn.
And you know freedom is free, of all the forces that be,
And the ice that you too thought should be thrown.

And there's a lovenest....

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

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

The song of love
We sing in silence
Every moment long

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

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

The dance of love
We dance just once
In unique circumstance

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(after Laurence Binyon)

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

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

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

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

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

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

I thought I heard the sound of my name and I looked back down behind me
And with hair like the ripened wheat she came, sure as the west wind to find me
And just for a moment I wished my life to see our friends all around us
And I turned to her but I held my breath in the far Norwegian mountains.

For there we stood two children of spring as everything seemed to be gleaming
Her looking breathless clean out of my mind and me with my crazy dreaming
To think of my friends underneath the same roof in one common destination
When all we do is remain aloof like we have no close relation.

And love is my torment and I'll take when I can
But I'll give in the moment when you are my woman and I am your man.

And I watched her makin' her first daisy chain as her nipples hung hard in suggestion
And naked, gnat-bitten we drifted fain in the hazy deserved sensation
And we dreamt of all the loves we'd known and we never never thought of the sorrow
With forelocks wound over primrose down in the wood by the emptin long barrow

Two silver greenflies to flicker the backdropping, lush of the emerald springtime
To lust for a moment in love of another is dust on a dragonfly's wing.

And love is no torment for we'll give when we can
And we'll live in the moment when you are my woman and I am your man.

And the blackcap sings and the forest rings, the nettles tall around me
With shafts of sun and moving things and poems fast and slowly
And fantasies of luscious thirst for new lust and fresh waters to seek it
Like diamonds set in realities of skies drawn back in secret

But somewhere out there with my heart in her care and her prayers in the breezes that caught them
She sits like the earth as I fly to her arms like the showering yellows of autumn

And love is no torment for we'll give when we can
And we'll live in the moment when she is my woman and I am her man.

I never know what kind of day it is on my battlefield of ideals
But the way she touches and the way it feels, must be just how it heals
Ah but it's got a little better since I let her sundance

I never know what time of year it is living on top of the fire
But the robin outside has to hunt and hide in the cold frosty shire
Ah but he knows just what goes in between his cold toes and his warm ears
And he's got no disguise in his eyes for his love as she nears

He spreads her a shelter
She takes the tall skies
As they helter skelter
Along the same sighs

And she wakes my days with a glad face
She fakes and says I'm a hard case
She makes and plays like a bad ace
Carrying my ways into scarred space
And she knows me well
Ah but what the hell
Only time can tell, where we're going to

Me and my woman
Me and my little woman

And the Lord speaks out and the pigpens fawn
The sword slides out and the nations mourn
The hoard strides out and the chosen spawn
The devil rides out and the heavens yawn
And he knows me well
Ah but what the hell
Only time can tell, where we're going to

Me and my woman
Me and my woman
Me and my little woman

What a lovely day
What a day to play at living
What a mess we make
What a trust we break
Not giving our wings to our children
O how we fail them
O how we nail them

Sunset my colour
And king is my name
Darkness she's my lover
And we live in shame

Too far away
From the light of the day
And so near, and so near, near
Can i break through the silence that has taken my place
On the plains of the morning that i just could not face

Asking you these questions
telling you these lies
Enveloping directions
Developing disguise
Open to suggestions
But closed to all my eyes

Dead on arrival, right where I stand
Dead on arrival, right where I stand
Dead on arrival, right where I stand

Space is just an ashtray
Flesh is my best wheel
The atmosphere's my highway
And the landscape's my next meal
I need my own Good Friday
And I'm trying my best to fix the deal

Dead on arrival, right where I stand
Dead on arrival, right where I stand
Dead on arrival, right where I stand
Dead on arrival, right where I stand

I am the new crowned landlord
Of all beneath my star
Queuing up for doomsday
In my homesick motor car
Born before my mother
Died before my Pa

Dead on arrival, right where I stand
Dead on arrival, right where I stand
Dead on arrival, right where I stand
Dead on arrival, right where I stand

The cuckoo, she moves through the dawn fanfare
The dew leaves the rooves in the magic air
Feel a finger running through my nightmares lair
Feel most together with my nowhere stare
and you know me well
Ah but what the hell
Only time can tell, where am I going to

Me and my woman
Me and my little woman
Me and my woman
Me and my little woman

Take a look down your highway
Tell me what d'you see
Well if you're down my way
It could well be me
Stood on your corner
I'm nearly down on one knee
Can you hear me calling for you
So damn easy to see
And it can't be forever
And it won't be for long
So don't you think that it's better
We speak the same tongue
Out here in this weather
We must surely belong
Birds of a feather
Whatever the song:
Please give me a lift man
It can't be for far
The way that you shift man
In your empty car,
I've got the highway blues
In my holy (holey, wholly) shoes
And I cannot choose
What I look like
And I got here from yesterday
On porridge and bait
Swallowing sorrow
Following fate
Poaching tomorrow
From God and the state
Of homo his shadow
The well known long haired straight
But I've got a good reason
For being this way
I'm happy for certain
And hoping to stay
Travelling trust
Across the new day
Gathering dust
Down your highway
Please give me a lift man...
It can't be for far
The way that you shift man
In your empty car
I've got the highway blues
In my holy shoes
And I cannot choose
What I look like
Out on the streets
Or where my drum beats
In between the clean sheets
Of my love life
And I need little Margaret
Out here again
Screwing some traffic
From the shaven insane
With thumbs like a dragnet
She pulls like a train
And she looks like a magnet;
And she comes like a warm rain
Please give me a lift man, etc

The kettle's on, the sun has gone, another day
She offers me Tibetan tea on a flower tray
She's at the door, she wants to score
She dearly needs to say

I loved you a long time ago, you know
Where the wind's own 'Forget me nots' blow
But I just couldn't let myself go
Not knowing what on earth, there was to know

But I wish that I had 'cause I'm feeling so sad
That I never had one of your children
Then across the room, inside the tomb, a chance has waxed and waned
The night is young, why are we so hung up in each other's chains?

I must take her and I must make her while the dove domains
And feel the juice run as she flies
Run my wings under her sighs as the flames of eternity rise
To lick us with the first born lash of dawn

Oh, really, my dear, I can't see what we fear
Sat here with ourselves in between us
And at the door, we can't say more than just another day
And without a sound I turn around and I walk away

I was the master's best friend
He was the only man I knew
It's been a tall harvest
And he turned us all on two
but my lips are sealed by history
And my tale I cannot tell
My name is Judas Iscariot
My home address is Hell

So baby don't you grieve after me
No no no, don't you grieve after me
So baby don't you grieve after me
No no no, don't you grieve after me

Baby you don't grieve for me when I'm here
Don't grieve for me when I'm gone.

It was two hours gone midnight
When he called me to his side
He said, hey Jude, I need you boy,
I need you to take a ride.
I want you to tell those guys down town
My time's almost due But wait a minute
Jude don't stick around
'Cos no body's gonna love you

Now you've got all the silver
But no forgiveness in your heart
And I've got 20 feet of rope
To end just where?
Your guessing game starts.
I've got endless books to write you
But my tale I cannot tell
The only way you're living is
If you're living in the same Hell.

Well the generations come
Hoy-polloy or chewing gum
Bad manners in style
And a very low profile
As the new wave rebel hoards
Scribble balls on notice boards
And the old wave hierarchy
Try to take 'em seriously
Because they have to
Ten years ago we were dreaming
Upstart youth and rebels all
Who have faded to the wall
Counting points of social scale
While our water brother whale
Meets extinction on the seas
On a million wounded knees
While the taxman robs the poor
Like he's always done before
Whatever system
Ten years ago we were dreaming
Dreams
There are men employing men
Employing men employing men
Employing men employing men
Who fill in forms employing men
That forms a queue of paperwork
Clear stretching out into the mirk
So that nine-tenths don't produce
Holding ransom calling truce
And looking dangerous
Ten years ago we were dreaming
No change

One of those days in England that you said could never end
As I was crashed out, livin' every chance
One of those days in England we've been saving up to spend
Buying rides on Mother Nature's funny belly dance

My love, it seems, so long away
Since when we both, together, lay
And yet it's only yesterday
Dreamin' of tomorrow,
My love, there's no today
My love, my love

One of those days in England with the country goin' broke
And Sunday's joint is cooking in my tree
One of those days in England chompin' baked beans in my coat
Tell me when it matters, love, I might just wanna get out of bed to see

The lentil in my garland, let's get down and make some fun
There's really nothin' better we can do
One of those days in England and our love has just begun
Half the fun in fallin' is you don't care where it's to

My love, it seems, so long away
Since when we both, together, lay
And yet it's only yesterday
Dreamin' of tomorrow,
My love, there's no today
My love, my love
Today, my love
Today
You make my love to you
My love, to you
My love, to you
My love, to you
Make my love to you
To you, to you, to you

Black clouds are hanging
From a patch of blue sky
We're walking together
My lover and I
Like we've been in love forever

Her soft heart beats a path
Wynds right out of my sight
The dusty days walk
To our love in the night
Our beautiful thoughts lie together

All in sun my love
To the world on its way
The rippling textures
Are thrown through the day
Woven in the tide of the waves

A breath lest the watch
You wake up and moan
Will i see you forever?
Or will you be gone?
Is our love just a toy that we borrowed?

Black clouds are hanging
From a patch of blue sky
We're walking together
My lover and I
Like we've been in love forever

Oh girlie with your brown eyes
And your long flowing hair
With the lantern shining through your lips
I slip on through my stare
With your pink glass sunken past the walls
You kiss my thistle eyes
Can't you take me in Loch Ness
Have your hair soaked in crystal skies

Oh girlie, oh girlie
Carve my name out on the elm tree sun
Among the plastered burn shaded by woven fur
Will you run my reaching fingers
All around your swimming gill
Sillouette me through the brush strokes
Of your naked whirling figure

Oh girlie, oh girlie
I am to ask you
"Can't you cast me in your spell"
And live my dream along days
Lost inside your spring shell
For my time is swiftly sliding
Down the rainbow of my youth
Won't you make me while i pittle yers
Can't tell us all the truth
Oh girlie

Hey Francesca you gave me no warning
hey Francesca, tiptoes in the morning
thanks for leaving the sunshine
thanks for leaving me
thanks for being all mine
thanks for being free

The bumble bees stumble
The butterflies tumble
The birds on the water-line stare
The heavens have crowned her
The star grass grows round her
her dreams fill the very still air
Just east of the sun
where our loving was done
I can still see her breasts on the edge of the morning
I can still taste the salt in her hair

I once held a lantern of love in my hands
She was all I could see
Kicking the brown leaves of childhoold around us
We danced the deep sea
That welled from the spring of the boy that I was
Held in her flame
Feeling her learning
Watching her burning
To see the first man I became
Little lady
Who made me
Was it you
Or is it that old unforgiveness
That I can't forget
I was her warchild and she was my wildcat
We lived in a dream
Woke up for summer unfolding the secret
And broke up downstream
Facing the current that said that we couldn't
Go on
Tearing the seed out
With sharp tongues
And no doubt
Before it was born
Little lady, etc
Sometimes I cry in the flood of my guts
Laughing in sadness
Bursting with rage in the wounds of revenge
Bleeding forgiveness
It isn't you love or anything new
I just tasted
It's myself standing
Standing watching me,
Getting hung up
Spaced and wasted
Little lady, etc

If you're travelin' in the north country fair,
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline,
Remember me to one who lives there.
She once was a true love of mine.

Well, if you go when the snowflakes storm,
When the rivers freeze and summer ends,
Please see if she's wearing a coat so warm,
To keep her from the howlin' winds.

Please see for me if her hair hangs long,
If it rolls and flows all down her breast.
Please see for me if her hair hangs long,
That's the way I remember her best.

I'm a-wonderin' if she remembers me at all.
Many times I've often prayed
In the darkness of my night,
In the brightness of my day.

So if you're travelin' in the north country fair,
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline,
Remember me to one who lives there.
She once was a true love of mine.

No good pretending girl
You were for spending
The rest of your days round my neck
Well I'm not that strong
And my time isn't long
And my love isn't something to wreck
I wish we could share
But you'll never be there (with me)
Having those kids with one man
Milk his frustration
And get his submission
And weep and wear black when he's gone

Well I'll see you again by accident
Or maybe I'll see you again
I'm feeling the reasons for why I went
Like mountains between now and then
I wanted to help, but I couldn't stay
And I flew, what else could I do?
I needed to stop you from falling in love that way
I didn't have it for you
No way No way (that way)

I left you stony
With dreams cold and bony

I know how it feels, I've been there
I was your only
You fault you're so lonely
A face with a permanent stare
And all I was wanting was friends and good hunting
But you want my soul behind bars
Well love isn't jealous or bitchy and callous
She's here for us all and she's ours

Well I'll see you again by ......

The naked flames of cracking dawn come searing through with cruel scorn
To furrow wounds across each frown inside the breast of love's sad clown
Who chases fleeting silhouettes with swollen dreams and rising sweats
Who taunts and bluffs the savage god with a broken heart and a hanging head.

I would we were but I wish in vain to have you here to hold again
My blood boils ice in deep despair but worse of all you couldn't care
Remember when the world was ours and at our feet ten thousand stars
Who saw us then could now relate who would have guessed, this was our fate.

I'm sorry that you thought of us as painful and superfluous
But please don't think I'm that thick skinned to want my seed in any old wind
I can't believe we'll just exist as figments of each others past
Where is it at to get to this, when lawyers lurk where lovers kiss ?

The alter of October stands with opening arms and dripping hands
Unveiling storms, collecting skies and gathering leaves to whisper sighs
As from the pulpit summer shrinks and hope of us together sinks
As fast as all those burning lies, and just as hard to memorise.

The ages pass with the flick of a thumb, love has lost and pride has won
But through old destruction flies new dawn and I rode the winds into the morn.

I thought I heard the sound of my name and I looked back down behind me
And with hair like the ripened wheat she came, sure as the west wind to find me
And just for a moment I wished my life to see our friends all around us
And I turned to her but I held my breath in the far Norwegian mountains.

For there we stood two children of spring as everything seemed to be gleaming
Her looking breathless clean out of my mind and me with my crazy dreaming
To think of my friends underneath the same roof in one common destination
When all we do is remain aloof like we have no close relation.

And love is my torment and I'll take when I can
But I'll give in the moment when you are my woman and I am your man.

And I watched her makin' her first daisy chain as her nipples hung hard in suggestion
And naked, gnat-bitten we drifted fain in the hazy deserved sensation
And we dreamt of all the loves we'd known and we never never thought of the sorrow
With forelocks wound over primrose down in the wood by the emptin long barrow

Two silver greenflies to flicker the backdropping, lush of the emerald springtime
To lust for a moment in love of another is dust on a dragonfly's wing.

And love is no torment for we'll give when we can
And we'll live in the moment when you are my woman and I am your man.

And the blackcap sings and the forest rings, the nettles tall around me
With shafts of sun and moving things and poems fast and slowly
And fantasies of luscious thirst for new lust and fresh waters to seek it
Like diamonds set in realities of skies drawn back in secret

But somewhere out there with my heart in her care and her prayers in the breezes that caught them
She sits like the earth as I fly to her arms like the showering yellows of autumn

And love is no torment for we'll give when we can
And we'll live in the moment when she is my woman and I am her man.

Davey, oh Davey
With seashells on our ears
We spun a web of voices
We danced a day of years
Yesterday marooned us
Making for today
We spun along times tide line
As he washed us both away

The kettle's on, the sun has gone, another day
She offers me Tibetan tea on a flower tray
She's at the door, she wants to score
She dearly needs to say

I loved you a long time ago, you know
Where the wind's own 'Forget me nots' blow
But I just couldn't let myself go
Not knowing what on earth, there was to know

But I wish that I had 'cause I'm feeling so sad
That I never had one of your children
Then across the room, inside the tomb, a chance has waxed and waned
The night is young, why are we so hung up in each other's chains?

I must take her and I must make her while the dove domains
And feel the juice run as she flies
Run my wings under her sighs as the flames of eternity rise
To lick us with the first born lash of dawn

Oh, really, my dear, I can't see what we fear
Sat here with ourselves in between us
And at the door, we can't say more than just another day
And without a sound I turn around and I walk away

Once I was anothers lover
Now I am my own
Trying to call myself a brother
Living here alone
Maybe if you came to see me
Wishing I wasn't so blind
Sitting here thinking to be free
Maybe we'd all change our mind

She is kind and beautiful
I am young and strong
We have never met each other
But it can't be long
Oft' I have slept by her window
Often I whisper her name
And wonder that words in the wind blow
Happy that hers are the same

Locked in mortal combat as the future shadows loom
The guardian of my spirit fights his way across the room
To where the sick majority infest the myths of doom
But the lanterns of children hold firm in full bloom

And we'll walk a long long way
Oh, together.
Though we found ourselves that way
Long before we knew.
Ah, but you know the way its worked I feel that
when I laugh it's with your soul.
And when I cry..........................It's you

I ride inside the purple dawn collecting golden dew
That falls from citidels of dreams I shake whilst flying through
Creation's key seems just in reach, ah but then its overdue
But as darkness surrounds us I'm reaching for you.

Far across the universe the goblins of the night
Sometimes corner sunrise and keep it out of sight
And wandering the crossing minds, hallucinating light
Is the dream that I have of you holding me tight.

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

As I walked over North Botley copse
I saw a fine lady ghost across the tops
With a ring on her finger and the wings on her toes
She can have music wherever she goes
Those were the days in the cradle of our love
Those are the days I dream of sweetly
Those were the days and I thank the stars above
The flycatcher, the cherry tree, the chestnut coal fire sea
As the last hope of sunshine embers on the hill
At the end of all the rainbows where the timeless legends dwell
A ghostly coach and four love, storms the midnight rain
As silently aurora almightly refrains
Those were the days in the cradle of our love
Those are the days I dream of sweetly
Those were the days and I thank the stars above
The flycatcher, the cherry tree, the chestnut coal fire sea

I thought I saw a swallow land
Upon my hand on summer day
I thought I saw my true love standing
In the sand
One old may day
I thought I hear the dolphins sing
'You gotta bring her back
On summer day'
See her run along the tide line
Where the trade winds blow
Feel the breath of summer
In her hair, oh!
Underneath the shooting stars
I've wished and would you know
I thought I saw a swallow land
Upon my hand
On summer day
I thought I saw a swallow land
Upon my hand on summer day
But here in cold midwinter's night
Another light has come to play
Steals across the misty sky
And bye and bye
She'll maybe stay
Can there ever be again again
Another spring
Will the birds forever hold us
On the wing
Light the fire in our home of hearts
And hear me sing
I thought I saw a swallow land
Upon my hand on summer day

Here comes the patter of rain on my window
I've woken again to the world on my pillow
Wondering how I can beg, steal or borrow
A girl who won't fight me but quietly follow.

Straight as a die and as clear as a crystal
I come from a temple as trod as a footstool
To hiding a brothel inside a cathedral
The man in the mirror, the fool in the ideal.

Pulling apart with a speechless unweaving
Dignity reels in the hearts of the grieving
Walking the touch line twixt truth and deceiving
A tear in a smile and a while wrenching leaving.

Oh help me now, my long lost love, the dusk has drawn my soul
Relishing the autumn
Maybe it's the tragedy in loving that I live
Cherishing the lonesome.

I'd like to dance and sing my song upon a summer mountain
With just a quiet girl along for daisy petal counting
To set our sails into the West, the dream of all our forebears
To where the sun is at his best, gathering us lovers.

Oh help me now, my long lost love, the dusk has drawn my soul
Relishing the autumn
Maybe it's the tragedy in loving that I live
Cherishing the lonesome.

Cherishing the lonesome
Cherishing the lonesome.

You stand in the doorway with tears in your sorrow
Saying there must be some way to tomorrow
And just for a few hours I think I can borrow
A girl who won't fight me but quietly follow.

So now you tell me that you're leaving, my friend
And I can but leave you
Into your world blowing
There isn't time to say goodbye
Nor would I ever wish to

You brought me a very many good dreams, my friend
And I'll smile beside you
For I know I saw you
The two halves of our spinning mess
Covering our laughter

And time may spread it's woven whirlwind, my friend
Far beyond our hearing
Through eternal raging
And yet I hear our voice of love
Above the loudest madness

So now you tell me that you're leaving, my friend
And I can but leave you
Fare you well
Fare you well
We'll meet again along those paving stone
Patterns of our living

And was it gold or is it silver, my friend?
I can hear you crying
Through the mist you stumble
And when you've taken that last sun
We'll watch it in the darkness

There was a time
When you ran after me
And we could run
I took you for granted
In my fantasy
(but) Those days are gone
I love you I love you I love you
My darling and I miss you so
I'll shed these last tears tonight
On your pillow
For without you I am a shadow
I will not make
One more tomorrow
Since you've been gone
I've been wasting away in agony
Reliving memories of many a day
You'd say to me
I love you I love you I love you
My darling and I need you so
Will you lay me down tonight
On your pillow
For without you I am a shadow
Please help me through
True love tomorrow
I've got so got so down
I feel paralysed
I'm hardly here
Nailed to a nightmare
That's immobilized
Living in fear
I love you I love you I love you
My darling
Out I feel so low
I don't trust myself tonight
On your pillow
For without you
Life has no meaning
Without you
My hear will break
Without you
Your helpless shadow
Just might not make
One more tomorrow

We're just spinning leaves
In the flight of dawn
Little girl
Falling through an eternal horizon of time
But as we lie here I'd like to think
That all we've got will be ours forever
Don't you think we're forever
I can hear a voice
On the wings of my dream
Little girl
Melting me into love as it touches my heart
But sheltered in the distance of your sleep
Is all that I could love in a lifetime
Don't you think we're forever

Open your eyes
To the call of the winds
Little girl
Can't you here them all saying I'll always be yours
Lying in the misty morning sun
The pillow of the night still beneath you
Don't you think we're forever