Shawn Phillips

Phillips

If all the kings and castles in the world are becoming one
We'll ride in the light of God's desires
And live in their house of none
Conceived with the eyes of total love
Live in the heart of everyone in love

And those that are there can find us
And those that are not won't bind us
For we cannot believe in the madness of your kindness
And do you believe in changes
And the way that the Lord arranges?
Are we going to fight Him every step of the way?

And small steps make a distance
And I know your love reminiscence
But the fact of the matter remains that we have to change
And changes are the best way we can learn to be
I see it in the fields and the forests
And the colors in the rippling sea
And in the ponds of stagnant water
From the lack of running free

And peace is just a state of being
It can come from letting love inside
Filling you with warmth and calmness
It's all that we can do is try
And share it in the human circle
And learn that there is no miracle in love

T'was a man of youthful features
T'was a boy of sorrowful eyes
Watching out by looking inward
Tall and stately and full of life

In his life, he spoke but rarely
In his mind he cried for light
Painting perceptions trying to capture
That which he saw in his questioning strife

Once in Lisbon, twice in London
Travelling around for all of his time
Looking for and finding a goddess
He took Diana to be his wife

Of the children, they'd begotten
Two had died without knowing life
And the third I know not whereof
But if she lives, she will yet be kind

Casey had a mark of simple value
He had a star between his eyes
In his hands he held an axe blade
The Greek symbol of thunder and fire

On a night when the heavens were crying
He went out and took his blade
Chopping wood to warm his heartside
The lightning came and my brother died

Bring him no wine from faraway vineyards
Tell him no tales of the canyon's might
But wish him peace and eternal wisdom
For he has died and he died by light

Phillips

I believe in something
I do believe I believe in life
I do believe that the sun is shining, on the other side of the night
And I know that we are growing
We should spread through the land,
We got time, and it ain't no crime
To want to hold your brother's hand
And it all depends on if you're feelin' fine!

I got time to love you,
I got time to make you mine
We got time to make the circle in the best part of our lives

But the worst part of the waiting is the time that you're away
And I ain't denyin' that I feel like cryin'
When the plane takes off again
And it all depends on if you're feelin' fine

We are made of sunbeams
We are made of molten glass
We can light the fire of living
We can learn with an ugly past
We can roar into the future
Like a bull with battered brains
And it's a mighty thin line
'Tween livin' and dyin
And all these stupid games
And it all depends on if you use your mind

All the world is spinning 'round
Slow and sure and voidly bound
To keep the weed of life alive
To take back those who won't survive
Whether in the air or the wind tossed sea
Life is gonna be there that you see
We're the only ones that sit and count the hours
And all the stars and all the flowers
And the myriad means to accrue our powers to shape the hand of fate
His name is destiny

And if we can refrain from the game of pain
There's nobody left now to place the blame
I see no reason why we can't go on in life
I say life

Phillips

Mr. Blunt and Mr. Frank
Were standin' in the halls of their 7 figure bank
Wonderin' what in the world
They were gonna do for you

I can take the brunt
If you can take the flank
Explained Mr. Blunt to timid Mr. Frank
Wonderin' what in the world
They were gonna do for you

We been stealin' this money most every day
And ain't nobody caught us in any way
But something's tellin' me
Now our goose is cooked
We been raisin' our prices
On the kiddies ices
And the bedroom suites on the corner store
Don't you think that they could go up some more?

Then with everybody jivin'
About how to be survivin'
We could bring 'em back down again
And it's gone full circle
While the world bank wins again

Revolution no solution
To the government's illusion
That the people are amusin'
With the prices that we're usin'
And I think that they're abusing
Everything that we try to do
Defamation to the nation
That is drowning in inflation
Immigration, isolation is a useless tabulation
To the calculation that the world
Is gonna want to come to you
So people in distress gonna worry nonetheless
'Bout the monetary mess from an educated guess, never really blessed
I think we must confess it now

So people jump and shout,
Everything is out
And I've said what I have to say
Everybody sit back
While I get ready to play
Where you gonna go
When the people gonna know
That they're ripping us off again
Right back down
To the same old hole we been in
Bet your bottom dollar
That you're really gonna holler
When your friends turn you down again
Not a thin dime
To keep in you in your time of men

Now I told you a long time ago, that I'd hold you
Never let you go behind
Anywhere I might flow

And I know you believe in me
And I hope you are seeing my dream
A whole lot of people in this world
Is a running around

And it's a long way in the face of fear
And there's a lot of men left without any tears
Anymore

And money is the name in the game of fame
But the music don't come out quite the same
Anymore

It's all about a bright white light
Shining through your mind and guiding your way
Mama, put your arms around me
Fill me with your joy and rock me tonight
I said, bright white light
Shining through your mind and guiding your way

I told you a long time ago, that I'd hold you
Never let you go behind
Anywhere I might flow

And I'll hold you in winter and spring
And behold you in everything I sing
Being in your arms is just like coming home

And it's a long way in the face of fear
And there's a lot of men left without any tears
Anymore

And money is the name in the game of fame
But the music don't come out quite the same
Anymore

It's all about a bright white light
Shining through your mind and guiding your way
Bright white light
Shining through your mind and guiding your way
Mama, put your arms around me

Fill me with your joy and rock me tonight
I said, bright white light
Shining through your mind and guiding your way
Bright white light

Shining through your mind and guiding your way
Bright white light
Shining through your mind and guiding your way
Bright white light
Shining through your mind and guiding your way

Phillips

City to city, we're on the road
And we don't know where we're bound
We just bringing you music lovers
The sound there is around
And when we come into your town
You can bet we will astound
We will play you all we've found
We will fill your life with sound

We will sing you a song
We will do you no wrong
We will brighten up your day
We will make you a king with an eloquent ring
We will serenade your queen

White line flashin' and the wheels are roarin'
And the country's rollin' by
From the snow capped Rockies to the Midwest plains
We will stop and tell you 'hi'
And if you want to hear our story
We will never bring you down
And we will play you all we've found
We will fill your life with sound

We will sing you a song
We will do you no wrong
We will brighten up your day
We will make you a king with an eloquent ring
We will serenade your queen

From New York City to the angel town
We will always come again
We will bring you a storm or a summer's day
But right inside your head
So when we come into your town
You must bring your folks around
We will play you all we've found
We will fill your life with sound

We will sing you a song
We will do you no wrong
We will brighten up your day
We will make you a king with an eloquent ring
We will serenade your queen

Phillips

How I hate to leave you
How I hate to see you go
I feel so down without you
Dying surely couldn't get this low
But the minute that we're together
I can't think of anything other than you
Looking in your eyes, totally surprised
Far out on the limb, not another whim for you.

Do you miss me sometimes?
Do you miss me in the night?
Do you read the moonbeams making tasseled silver light?
And quicksilver's densely viscous
Compared to the time it takes to get to you.
Figure I can fly
Never been so high
Catch you from above
You know that I'm in love with you

Dream queen, how you seem to shine
Poised and lovely woman mine
Sitting on your doorstep
Waiting for your footsteps to come around
People passing by me
I could be entirely drowned
And you know I heard you call
And suddenly I joined the ball for you
Not a petty thrill, forget your little pill
Come and be my mate, then we'll celebrate
One in two

Sitting on your doorstep
Waiting for your footsteps to come round
People passing by me I could be entirely drowned
And you know I heard you call
And suddenly I joined the ball for you
Figure I could fly, never been so high
Catch me from above, you know that I'm in love with you

Phillips

The golden flower of a love that is blooming
Makes me believe that something, somewhere is looming
The sounds of morning intermingling our living
In evening laughter is the stillness of giving

The silver showers of life in its crystal form
Don't have to be forlorn
Go on and know you're born now,
Make peace inside and you will watch as the days they go by

She took my hand and led me down to the water,
I kissed her lips and never since have I faltered,
They come between us shadows of human failing
Then pass like clouds before the wind's bitter wailing

The understanding in explicit simplicity
Comes to you blindingly, never you mindingly how
It makes its changes and yet nothing is changed
You're enthralled

The mind and heart they should be one thing together
We're born and die but they will go on forever
Our fear of being hurt and hurting is finally
The only constant in our scope of reality

In tears of sadness we call on our fellow clan
Explain if you think you can, I am but just a man now,
We're being guided we can look to ourselves for the way
We're being guided we can look to ourselves for the way

Mama
When you coming home
Mama
When you coming home

Mama
You don't have to roam
Mama
You know you're coming home

If you look over there babe
You know you might find
Somethin' over there
Gonna blow your mind

Mama
When you coming home
Mama
You don't have to roam

Mama
It's another day
Mama
You know that you can stay

You can stay
Yes I keep on telling you
To keep on keeping on
I keep on telling you
To work it on out

Keep on telling you
To keep on keeping on
I keep on telling you
To work it on out

Mama
It's another day
Mama
You know that you can stay
You know that you can stay

If you look over there babe
You know you might find
Somethin' over there
Gonna blow your mind

If you look over there babe
You know you might find
Somethin' over there
Gonna blow your mind

Mama
When you coming home
Mama
When you coming home

Mama
You don't have to roam
Mama
You know you're coming home

If you look over there babe
You know you might find
Somethin' over there
Gonna blow your mind

Mama
When you coming home
Mama
You don't have to roam

Mama
It's another day
Mama
You know that you can stay

You can stay
Yes I keep on telling you
To keep on keeping on
I keep on telling you
To work it on out

Keep on telling you
To keep on keeping on
I keep on telling you
To work it on out

Mama
It's another day
Mama
You know that you can stay
You know that you can stay

If you look over there babe
You know you might find
Somethin' over there
Gonna blow your mind

If you look over there babe
You know you might find
Somethin' over there
Gonna blow your mind

In the consecrated chambers
Of a mountain's winter day
I left her at the turning
To go on her seeking way

To pass o'er meadows green and bare
Or brown as her auburn hair
O'er all the waters on the face of the earth
To find that I really care

And the myriad reflections of myself
In her buttons on her oversize navy coat
But only reflections and never an image
In her mind's unfathomable moat

But some castles where she wanders
Are yet crumbling into dust
In this house of visions, on top of the hill
The glass has turned to rust

So never again will I look in her eyes
Nor shall she hear my voice
But I hope she will find a better man
To love him and rejoice

And he will turn the secret key
Nay, I know it's not up to him
But somehow in his words and love
Answer her every whim

So seek ye lass for what you wish
But in your troubled heart
And let not your mind race ahead of your breast
For the quicker shall you part

And wait for the click that you speak dear of
And never will you run
Light will splinter through open clouds
And you'll look straight at a face like the sun

In the consecrated chambers
Of a mountain's winter day
I left her at the turning
To go on her seeking way

To pass o'er meadows green and bare
Or brown as her auburn hair
O'er all the waters on the face of the earth
To find that I really care

And the myriad reflections of myself
In her buttons on her oversize navy coat
But only reflections and never an image
In her mind's unfathomable moat

But some castles where she wanders
Are yet crumbling into dust
In this house of visions, on top of the hill
The glass has turned to rust

So never again will I look in her eyes
Nor shall she hear my voice
But I hope she will find a better man
To love him and rejoice

And he will turn the secret key
Nay, I know it's not up to him
But somehow in his words and love
Answer her every whim

So seek ye lass for what you wish
But in your troubled heart
And let not your mind race ahead of your breast
For the quicker shall you part

And wait for the click that you speak dear of
And never will you run
Light will splinter through open clouds
And you'll look straight at a face like the sun

Phillips

Lady, like a blue rose, soft and clear, you glow
Woman, are you coming home?
You know that I could love you so
I'd never make you go
Lady, of the blue rose
In your time be mine
I saw you from years ago
I've told the truth
And now you know
You told me it was so

Lady, for a blue rose, will you share my life?
Stars are born and then they die
And I know that we could learn to fly
For love can never die

The blue rose in the garden
That someday may exist
The blue rose of the legend
That task of nature's twist
The blue rose of a heaven
That's deep within our souls
The blue rose of our union
The one that I behold, I behold, I behold

Lady, see the blue rose
Make it shine for you
Close your eyes and you will see
And it will show you how to be
And to care for me

Lady, you're my blue rose
You're the only one
Share this gift that we two have
For all that need and cannot have
For that may never pass by

Phillips

I know where you'll find
Lasting peace of mind
Life is full of trial
Don't you let yourself be defiled
You know in your heart
You have got a secret part
School can't teach you all
If so how should I be called
And some will know my name
For to them it has no shame
I begin the game
And 'tis I will end your name
And time is made in your mind
Made in your mind
And you might go for the ride
Go for the ride
And you will love to be alive
Gotta be alive

If you want to see
Fill yourself with thee
Can you sense your strength in the sea
And rich and poor are void
No one's soul can be destroyed
Close your eyes and cry
And you'll feel your laughter drawing nigh
Take another look
You'll see it coming over
Take another look
Don't you feel it flying by now
Take another look
It's a force of new creation
Take another look
It's a loss of all sensation
Take another look
'Cause it's rolling out of nothing
Take another look
'Cause there's definitely something there

I keep lookin' down out of my windows at the people below
So slow
I keep lookin' down out of my windows at the people below
Lordy, go slow

Sure would like to know what you been thinkin'
But I don't want to know when you been sinkin'
Go slow
Yeah, sure would like to know what you been thinkin'
But I don't want to know when you been sinkin'
Go slow

You see yourself in a coffee cup
But you cannot stimulate the future up
Go slow
You see yourself in a coffee cup
But you cannot stimulate the future up
Go slow

Every time I'm doin' a number
I'm thinkin' that I see your eyes
I keep crossing over borderlines
Seein' little babies die

And even though I'm economizing
I can't keep your high livin' style child
It takes so long to believe it Charlie
But what have you done to your smile

I keep lookin' down out of my windows at the people below
So slow
I keep lookin' down out of my windows at the people below
Lordy, so slow

The alternative to truth is hypocrisy
If you want to choose the latter you won't never be free
Go slow
The alternative to truth is hypocrisy
If you want to choose the latter you won't never be free
Go slow

Ain't no such thing as revolution
It's got another name
It's called evolution
Go slow

Ain't no such thing as revolution
It's got another name
It's called evolution
Go slow

Part of being free is a state of mind
You just got to learn to leave it all behind
Go slow
Part of being free is a state of mind
You just got to learn to leave it all behind
Go slow

Phillips

Sitting still and looking at the angel
Giving life and granting all the love
And I know that all of us are able
We can live in love above it all

There's a time of the year when you start to feel your fear
And you really wonder where you're going
And you know you hear the call
When the leaves begin to fall
And the melancholy's fast approaching
But with the mountains so clear
You know another year has gone and nearly passed you by
Then all you need is joy
Like that of a little boy
To live in rapturous wonder

Must we kiss the height of our delusion,
Idolize the spectra of illusion
And all your prayers and tribulations
Rack and tortured exaltations
And our cornered expectations
And our ferocious intimations
We are more

How I wish that you were not deluded
I sympathize, I know it's very hard
We have to live in midst of the confusion
But even so we all can touch a star

But the greatest thing of all
Is the coming of the call,
'Cause it keeps you on your toes
It's catching

And you know you got a friend,
When you deign to let her in
'Tis the angel of the briefest passing,
And when the sunset's aflame
You know it's all a game
But no one really plays the same,
And all we got is rules
To keep us from the fools
That live in heartless cruelty

Phillips

Lovely lady
Never shady
Running up the mountain side
Purple brocade
Woolen top coat
She cast away her useless pride
On her own
Her soul has grown
To bring about her peace of mind
In her hand
A lovely land
To help her look and search and find
Swirling forms of tantric art
Are filling out her schedule planned
And she's without a man

Woman blonde
Climbing on
To reach a level in her heart
It's the same
Without a name
You're doing fine with a running start
In the door
You'll work some more
You're finding where it's at for sure
Every other day
It will pay
You'll love to live and be the way
You feel the start of day

You'll be sad
It won't be bad
But you can get away from that
Crystal facet
Not an asset
You have your friend the jet black cat
He will follow
Crying hollow
Scratch his head and stroke his ear
He will bring you in your love now
Ever close and ever near
And you will feel no fear

I am glad
It's now a fad
But there are some who won't go on
Full expression
No suppression
But she is strong
The woman blond
Lovely lady
Never shady
Running o'er volcanic land
Make your curry
Never worry
It is settled in your plan
And you will find your man

Phillips

Lovely lady
Never shady
Running up the mountain side
Purple brocade
Woolen top coat
She cast away her useless pride
On her own
Her soul has grown
To bring about her peace of mind
In her hand
A lovely land
To help her look and search and find
Swirling forms of tantric art
Are filling out her schedule planned
And she's without a man

Woman blonde
Climbing on
To reach a level in her heart
It's the same
Without a name
You're doing fine with a running start
In the door
You'll work some more
You're finding where it's at for sure
Every other day
It will pay
You'll love to live and be the way
You feel the start of day

You'll be sad
It won't be bad
But you can get away from that
Crystal facet
Not an asset
You have your friend the jet black cat
He will follow
Crying hollow
Scratch his head and stroke his ear
He will bring you in your love now
Ever close and ever near
And you will feel no fear

I am glad
It's now a fad
But there are some who won't go on
Full expression
No suppression
But she is strong
The woman blond
Lovely lady
Never shady
Running o'er volcanic land
Make your curry
Never worry
It is settled in your plan
And you will find your man

Phillips

In a street of many colors
Dripping rain and running water
Galli said to Mr. Troster
Have you found your seven sons
Yes I have for that conclusion
He was suffering from delusion
From an honorable institution
And he came very close to losing
And I know the one that's choosing
Any name you've been perusing
And he walked down in the gardens
Said to prosper

(Chorus)
And you take his hand when he starts crying
'Cause he's lost his band from too much flying
In his manhole covered wagon in the morning yeah

So now Fanny is resting easy
On a crocheted quilt in town
Making love to Johnny Colter
In his home outside the sound
And they're thinking of creation
With their gathering elation
So to populate the nation
With a thought to emancipation
And a silent exclamation
With its current constipation
And its dead-set against malasian
Kind of thinking

(Chorus)

Then he spoke to all his children
Said we're building up the brawl
Just you keep your fists from flying
In its holographic cause
And bring your love and guitars
While we sit and count the stars
And talk about faith among us
Without visiting any bars
Mr. Troster replies to Galli
Among the bright and heavy cars
And the truth about life among us
That it's trying very hard

(Chorus)

Phillips

In a street of many colors
Dripping rain and running water
Galli said to Mr. Troster
Have you found your seven sons
Yes I have for that conclusion
He was suffering from delusion
From an honorable institution
And he came very close to losing
And I know the one that's choosing
Any name you've been perusing
And he walked down in the gardens
Said to prosper

(Chorus)
And you take his hand when he starts crying
'Cause he's lost his band from too much flying
In his manhole covered wagon in the morning yeah

So now Fanny is resting easy
On a crocheted quilt in town
Making love to Johnny Colter
In his home outside the sound
And they're thinking of creation
With their gathering elation
So to populate the nation
With a thought to emancipation
And a silent exclamation
With its current constipation
And its dead-set against malasian
Kind of thinking

(Chorus)

Then he spoke to all his children
Said we're building up the brawl
Just you keep your fists from flying
In its holographic cause
And bring your love and guitars
While we sit and count the stars
And talk about faith among us
Without visiting any bars
Mr. Troster replies to Galli
Among the bright and heavy cars
And the truth about life among us
That it's trying very hard

(Chorus)

Phillips

In the days of tomorrow
In the time of the passing years
I will look through my window
And my window will see my tears
And the green rocky hillsides
Are the shade of a lonely man
And the blue ever changing
Sea of gold lends a helping hand
In a minute there can be an hour
In a second there can be a day
And a thousand years may pass us by
And we will be that near, be that near
And the black gray night will fall around
This glasshouse that I'm in
And the day will break onto my bed
And I will see again, see again

In a minute there can be an hour
In a second there can be a day
And a thousand years may pass us by
And we will be that near, be that near
And the black gray night will fall around
This glasshouse that I'm in
And the day will break onto my bed
And I will see again
See again, see again
See again, see again
See again

Phillips

In the days of tomorrow
In the time of the passing years
I will look through my window
And my window will see my tears
And the green rocky hillsides
Are the shade of a lonely man
And the blue ever changing
Sea of gold lends a helping hand
In a minute there can be an hour
In a second there can be a day
And a thousand years may pass us by
And we will be that near, be that near
And the black gray night will fall around
This glasshouse that I'm in
And the day will break onto my bed
And I will see again, see again

In a minute there can be an hour
In a second there can be a day
And a thousand years may pass us by
And we will be that near, be that near
And the black gray night will fall around
This glasshouse that I'm in
And the day will break onto my bed
And I will see again
See again, see again
See again, see again
See again

Phillips

Salty tears from a lady with electric knees
Seven years I've been smoking that anti-freeze
Silly fears and I never even held the keys
Won't you please take another look
Are you going to the marketplace
Read another book
Learn the rules of the human race
Try to learn to cook
'Cause there isn't time to see the face
Wrapped in silk and lace

Paper men pentagon hives
Paper men polluting our lives
Paper men telling their lies

Start another war
And you'll find it very hard to copy
Spring it on the poor
And you're acting like another Pope
Well they won't take any more
But they'll give another length of rope
It's our only hope
Flying like a bird
In the open sky of fantasy
Listen to the word
Before you reach a state of entropy
Well it really is absurd
For a man to think he isn't free
The key is me

Laced lady take another mountain
Laced lady climb another mountain
Laced lady what do you see
Laced lady now you are free

Phillips

She was cleaning her house
When a temple souse
Came knocking at her purple door
Saying wait right here
Cause the cycle's near
And we can communicate some more
And the very last session
Gives a good impression
Of the things that are to come
Like a laser beam rays
And Confucius says
On earth thy will be done
And like an ion sun
You're on the run
And capable of causing fun, summer sun

Now old King Kong
Is a merry old song
And it goes on the twenty-three hour
And like a diamond is ice
With pale fire thrice
And you've gained your gentle powers
And a kiss to the mind
Like lacquer thinned
To emulate a fine violin
Brings a silent range to your subtle change
Or more commonly yclept being
And your double track sphere
Is uncommonly clear
And it outshines all the seas and all the seething

And spun gold hair
Is your common flair
For covering what makes your art
And a small detail
Is a billowing sail
And you've just begun to start
And an elephant book
Is but one outlook
Yet it lacks not a thing in size
And the etiquette of grass
Will have to last
And we'll save it for the very last prize
And the utilization
Makes a unified nation
We may see it with our very own eyes, very own eyes

And the vestiges of an air hammer
Received with the coming light
And the moon wanes
Over the looming crags
With its silver bluish light
She came with the grace of an angel here
And her melting doelike eyes
In her velvet dress
Like the soul she is
As open as the starry skies
And we made love in the morning
With the red sky dawning
And our souls merging into one
And the olive trees
Had a gentle breeze
When she took her silent leave
We made love in the morning
With the red sky dawning
And our souls merging into one
And the olive trees
Had a lovely breeze
When she took her silent leave
And then was gone

Phillips

She was cleaning her house
When a temple souse
Came knocking at her purple door
Saying wait right here
Cause the cycle's near
And we can communicate some more
And the very last session
Gives a good impression
Of the things that are to come
Like a laser beam rays
And Confucius says
On earth thy will be done
And like an ion sun
You're on the run
And capable of causing fun, summer sun

Now old King Kong
Is a merry old song
And it goes on the twenty-three hour
And like a diamond is ice
With pale fire thrice
And you've gained your gentle powers
And a kiss to the mind
Like lacquer thinned
To emulate a fine violin
Brings a silent range to your subtle change
Or more commonly yclept being
And your double track sphere
Is uncommonly clear
And it outshines all the seas and all the seething

And spun gold hair
Is your common flair
For covering what makes your art
And a small detail
Is a billowing sail
And you've just begun to start
And an elephant book
Is but one outlook
Yet it lacks not a thing in size
And the etiquette of grass
Will have to last
And we'll save it for the very last prize
And the utilization
Makes a unified nation
We may see it with our very own eyes, very own eyes

And the vestiges of an air hammer
Received with the coming light
And the moon wanes
Over the looming crags
With its silver bluish light
She came with the grace of an angel here
And her melting doelike eyes
In her velvet dress
Like the soul she is
As open as the starry skies
And we made love in the morning
With the red sky dawning
And our souls merging into one
And the olive trees
Had a gentle breeze
When she took her silent leave
We made love in the morning
With the red sky dawning
And our souls merging into one
And the olive trees
Had a lovely breeze
When she took her silent leave
And then was gone

Davies-Phillips

Sleepwalker
Walking around
Sleepwalker
Wearing a frown
Sleepwalker
Going downtown
Sleepwalker
Going all the way down
Cheap hotel
Cheap hotel
Cheap hotel
Cheap hotel

Davies-Phillips

Sleepwalker
Walking around
Sleepwalker
Wearing a frown
Sleepwalker
Going downtown
Sleepwalker
Going all the way down
Cheap hotel
Cheap hotel
Cheap hotel
Cheap hotel

Saturday morning, yeah
I come in late
Just to find if you were there
Just to look at your long brown hair

And dream a dream out in the hall
Was that my name that's just been called?
I don't know, it could be
Have you got something to tell on me?

If you got something to tell on me, babe
It better be good
Even though you hate me so much
I'm still comin' back

Like you knew I would
You can't believe
What I been through these last few months
It's very difficult to tell the difference

Between the trumps and the down home dumps
Only one thing I can say to you
Even if you don't believe it's true
It's true

It's our turn now
To find out where we're going
It's our turn now
To find out where you've been

It's our turn now
To keep the new direction
It's your turn now
To cast off all your sin

Fellatia, Fellatia, how do you plead?
You don't have to plead
For anything that you really need
Plead, have mercy

When the wind starts blowin' hard
And this cardboard world we're livin' in
It ain't forgotten, out in the yard
Out in the yard

Where the air is cold
And there ain't no leaves to fall
He's lookin' hard at the ground for somethin'
Somethin' that won't show up

I keep lookin' back over my shoulder
Couple of good friends goin' by
Pour some wine over their fire
Don't let the tears stay in your eyes

He's not gone so very far
I know he's very near
'Cause every time I call his name
I know that he can hear

It's our turn now
To find out where we're going
It's our turn now
To find out where you've been

It's our turn now
To keep the new direction
It's your turn now
To cast off all your sin

Hey, Mr. Roberts, don't you tell me no lies
I don't mind you being vain
Pick up the phone in your whitewashed house
Simpering that same refrain

Three to five more years
Is all you got
For you to do your nasty thing
Making rain, suffering pain

Telling everybody that it's in his name
His name, whose name
What are you telling me?
I don't believe your tales

Too many people in this world
Don't like being snails
If you gonna do it
Better get it together

Better go and make the change
Do it right now
Do it while it's warm
Do it while it's there within your range

It won't be so very hard
You better have no fear
'Cause by the time you get it done
It'll be so clear

It's our turn now
To find out where we're going
It's our turn now
To find out where you've been

It's our turn now
To keep the new direction
It's your turn now
To cast off all your sin

Phillips

Oh, archer with your bowstring tight
Won't you let fly with your shaft of light
Are you hunting your quarry now
Are you leaving me babe, leaving anyhow
But I will remember you when the rain pours down
And I see you standing there in your bright blue gown
Fyodor's there, still he doesn't care
You're gone

Tell me you don't want to travel
To go back amidst the noise and babble
But you hear me when I tell you that
You know it won't be so long babe
You know you're coming back
And I'll wait right here till the sky is clear
And I'll keep looking into that endless sphere
And then you're gonna know
There really wasn't nothing to fear

So don't cry baby in the dark of night
When you know I ain't there to hold you tight
And I can't answer any of your questing glances
Like when we woke up in the morning
And we saw the dawn was storming
And the clouds were there love
Outside the window so fair
And the sun came rising
It was surprising
Cast out all your dark surmising
And then the car came
You spoke my name
And left me

But I'm not alone on this earth so fair
There's something else beside me here
Something keeps me ever looking forward
And it's brighter than the sunlight
And it's purer than the moonlight
And it's drawing me toward it
Like a moth out of the night
And I know I'll arrive
Where there ain't no time
Non-dimensional plane of joy sublime
Keep on being free
Lord it's gotta be
Infinity
Hey!

Phillips

Oh, archer with your bowstring tight
Won't you let fly with your shaft of light
Are you hunting your quarry now
Are you leaving me babe, leaving anyhow
But I will remember you when the rain pours down
And I see you standing there in your bright blue gown
Fyodor's there, still he doesn't care
You're gone

Tell me you don't want to travel
To go back amidst the noise and babble
But you hear me when I tell you that
You know it won't be so long babe
You know you're coming back
And I'll wait right here till the sky is clear
And I'll keep looking into that endless sphere
And then you're gonna know
There really wasn't nothing to fear

So don't cry baby in the dark of night
When you know I ain't there to hold you tight
And I can't answer any of your questing glances
Like when we woke up in the morning
And we saw the dawn was storming
And the clouds were there love
Outside the window so fair
And the sun came rising
It was surprising
Cast out all your dark surmising
And then the car came
You spoke my name
And left me

But I'm not alone on this earth so fair
There's something else beside me here
Something keeps me ever looking forward
And it's brighter than the sunlight
And it's purer than the moonlight
And it's drawing me toward it
Like a moth out of the night
And I know I'll arrive
Where there ain't no time
Non-dimensional plane of joy sublime
Keep on being free
Lord it's gotta be
Infinity
Hey!

I talk to the lady with the steel gray eyes
While the sun is going down
And we talk of the things that we wish to know
But she's really not around

And the sunset on the mountain is the same color
As her cascade chestnut hair
And now loving is in living for forgetting your past
So now why the distant stare?
Could it be there is someone who remains
In her heart and she cares?

And the ice of her kisses lingers on and on
And the image of her body live
Yet you walked on black sand by the sea's turmoil
In the dark of a velvet night

Then you sat down and gave your hands to be kissed and loved
Could not you hear a gentle sigh?
And by the stars part control of your wandering life
Do you believe in not telling lies?
But it was good that you were warm
On your way back home, short love, goodbye

I talk to the lady with the steel gray eyes
While the sun is going down
And we talk of the things that we wish to know
But she's really not around

And the sunset on the mountain is the same color
As her cascade chestnut hair
And now loving is in living for forgetting your past
So now why the distant stare?
Could it be there is someone who remains
In her heart and she cares?

And the ice of her kisses lingers on and on
And the image of her body live
Yet you walked on black sand by the sea's turmoil
In the dark of a velvet night

Then you sat down and gave your hands to be kissed and loved
Could not you hear a gentle sigh?
And by the stars part control of your wandering life
Do you believe in not telling lies?
But it was good that you were warm
On your way back home, short love, goodbye

Phillips

He will squire his gentle lady
Through the chores of being hazy
While he waits to be believed that he is home
And the double toil of living makes it so much more fulfilling
When she comes into his arms
She keeps him warm
Then she bestows her favors gently
Then she scratches him perversely
And he loves it when her lips descend and sigh
Then he thinks of getting bolder,
But he knows he's getting older
And he knows that they will live until its
Time keeps rolling
All is growing

And the time is passing by them
And she knows she can't deny him,
All the love she has to give
And so much more
And like the seasons and the weather
He will love her more than ever
She's the woman that he wants to call his own

On a summer day bye and bye
With a lone cloud in the sky
And the light that's in your eye
I see you
On a summer day bye and bye
On a summer day bye and bye

Phillips

Well my eyes flew open this morning
I was thinking about a troubled dream
The technotronic lad was feeling very bad
He was working on a naughty scheme
If we can get some of that good brown rice
From out of that oozin mud
Throw it on a platter say lookee here
I took it with my own red blood

Chorus:
No, you can't make me believe that's right
You're wrong in what you say
You computed your head
While laying in a bed on a bright and sunny day
Full of vermouth while searching for the truth
In a slight haphazard way
Then you told me that the band would play
On a dull and gloomy day
And I know it's not true

Well he got out his toy computer
Little slide rule in green
Started calculation with a bit of fabrication
On a world with his promised dream
Territorial right was what he had to fight
And he said he knew that 'it ain't mine'
But see here now child
We been good everything'll just be fine

He was expending all of his power
They took away one of his toys
And old mother Hubbard was running around
Saying what have you done to my boys
With your nice clean clothes
You're playing in the mud
You don't listen to my advice
Now sit here and get in this house
And watch the cat go looking for mice
Well I hope to God that that woman's right
She's right in what she say

Phillips

Victoria Emmanuele, she looks so clean and lithe
Victoria Emmanuele, finds it hard to pay the price
Victoria, your mouth is open
You look like you're catchin' flies
You're sick and tired of all the games
The polyglot and the lies
Won't you,

Sing this song while you're walkin through your life
Walk this way and you know it's gotta treat you right
Victoria Emmanuele, is all right by me

Victoria Emmanuele, she's stickin' to her guns at last
Victoria Emmanuele, she's sheddin' off an ugly past
She's subsidized by lots of love
Morality has just begun
Filled to the brim with light divine
She never feels the need to run
And she,

Sings this song while you're walkin through your life
Walk this way and you know it's gotta treat you right
Victoria Emmanuele, is all right by me

Victoria Emmanuele, beginning to believe in life
Victoria Emmanuele, discovered how to know the height
Victoria Emmanuele, reality's not hard to find
And all your days and all your ways
It's the only thing we must define
And you,

Sing this song while you're walkin through your life
Walk this way and you know it's gotta treat you right
Victoria Emmanuele, is all right by me

Victoria Emmanuele, she's keepin' on in every way
She gets a little tired from time to time
But everybody does today
Too many people got specialized
Ain't nobody got the time to sit with their friends
And spend some love and put the washin' on the line

Phillips

In the days of tomorrow
In the time of the passing years
I will look through my window
And my window will see my tears
And the green rocky hillsides
Are the shade of a lonely man
And the blue ever changing
Sea of gold lends a helping hand
In a minute there can be an hour
In a second there can be a day
And a thousand years may pass us by
And we will be that near, be that near
And the black gray night will fall around
This glasshouse that I'm in
And the day will break onto my bed
And I will see again, see again

In a minute there can be an hour
In a second there can be a day
And a thousand years may pass us by
And we will be that near, be that near
And the black gray night will fall around
This glasshouse that I'm in
And the day will break onto my bed
And I will see again
See again, see again
See again, see again
See again

Phillips

In the days of tomorrow
In the time of the passing years
I will look through my window
And my window will see my tears
And the green rocky hillsides
Are the shade of a lonely man
And the blue ever changing
Sea of gold lends a helping hand
In a minute there can be an hour
In a second there can be a day
And a thousand years may pass us by
And we will be that near, be that near
And the black gray night will fall around
This glasshouse that I'm in
And the day will break onto my bed
And I will see again, see again

In a minute there can be an hour
In a second there can be a day
And a thousand years may pass us by
And we will be that near, be that near
And the black gray night will fall around
This glasshouse that I'm in
And the day will break onto my bed
And I will see again
See again, see again
See again, see again
See again

Phillips

He got trouble, he got strife
He got difficulty in his life
He got trouble walkin' on his toes
And I think there's something wrong with his nose

And he don't know where he's goin'
And he don't care where he's been
But now he knows he's alive givin' out with his jive
And he's makin' me pale with his sad little tale about love

He got women, he got wine
He got everything to make him feel fine
He got everything this world can give
But he still don't know how to wake up and live

And he don't know where he's goin'
And he don't care where he's been
But now he knows he's alive givin' out with his jive
And he's makin' me pale with his sad little tale about love

'Cause he be too black and too proud
Or too white and too loud
He be too low or too high
The difference is he's frightened and he don't know how to try

And he don't know where he's goin'
And he don't care where he's been
But now he knows he's alive givin' out with his jive
And he's makin' me pale with his sad little tale about love