Words
Alphabetastically disposed.
All the lyrics, by Byron Callisto. Click a title to open it, click again to close.
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leonidas gave the signal to the man
to command the column march forward
they defied the face of death
marching on while ten thousand fled
480 B.C. was a life
the sweet taste of copper at midnight
sky full of voices that never would stop
talking to you like you’re all they’ve got
i’ll remember this glorious day
when we held the pass at thermopylae
after we die the poets will say
of all that fought one thousand stayed
leonidas led a thousand men
against the nightmare persian
in the face of a numberless horde
they tightened their buckles and drew their swords
480 B.C. was a life
the sweet taste of copper at midnight
sky full of voices that never would stop
talking to you like you’re all they’ve got
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la-la-la la-la-la-la la-la-la-la
la-la-la la-la-la-la la-la-la-laoh
yuh
wahah-ah-ah
ow
when the little boy grinned in flames
pieces of me fell out from the air
walk to the right and talk in rings
no head one head two heads nowhe said: this could be amusing
a mellow afternoon of flame on
shame on slam on flame on
yeah yeahwhite steel
blots out the starsoo
yahtake the next train to istanbul
don’t take mota better hide your mota
look at those turkish blood-and-thunder types
stay low be high flame onpaint a clock on your face just for the thrills
and hang yourself but then survive
i’m a leaping man an electric arc
truth out tune in flame onwhite steel
blots out the starsoh
la la-la la-la-la la-la-la yeah
down at the beat park
there’s a white light
down at the beat park
white lightoh come on down
to the beat park
to the beat park
to the beat parkyeah yeah
oh oh oh
to the beat park
to the beat park
to the beat parkyeah yeah
come on down
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Beautiful life, we’ve found our home. Never again will we worry or want or need
Respite is now, but disquiet lingers. Questions arising disturbing the tremulous piece
First we were favored. Now it grows colder. We do what we must to exist in a changing word
There are no limits, no reason for doubting. Our world is our destiny brought to us now we are free!
Haven’t you noticed a change in the weather? The warm days come rarely the nights make us shiver and moan
Deeper is warmer, always an answer. I see a rock with some speckles, nice colors and shapes
Cycles come often. Await the fine summers. The chill makes us stronger. We build and with joy we will live
Not this time my friend. It worsens by season our world is in crisis our days of fair glory behind
Time slows and crawls, each second a journey. The moments extended, enriched with the essence of time
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off for a magic fun-filled day
happy in the heart with new love
i put a flower behind your ear
and kiss you on the nose
take a walk with our eyes
the forest is nice
the animals smile at everyone
if you have a dream
we’ll sit by the stream
and build a little house in the sand
i’ve got a great big picnic lunch
everything that you like
put the little wings on the bicycle
and we’ll go for a ride
riding through the sky
the clouds are nice
everyone smiles in rainbows
all the little birds
start to chirp
and sing about you and me
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through rain and sun
and love
like a blue heart wave
she takes meblack car whistling down the dark road
only broken love on the radio
clear waves from the brilliant moon
orion sharp and cold in the dream trees tooand i glide on beams of light
blue fluorescent tunnels in the mountains
never end and wind forever
pure white socks on the goddess of love
her eyes are fire
her eyes are my fireand we’ve gone a million miles
a million miles
a million miles
a million milesblack car whistling down the dark road
only broken love on the radio
pure white socks on the goddess of love
her eyes are fire
her eyes are my fireand we’ve gone a million miles yeah
a million milesand i glide on beams of light
on beams of lightthrough rain and sun
and love
like a blue heart wave
she takes me
she takes me
she takes me -
i’m bound to you
and all the things that you dream
i will dream tooi believe in you now
and i know i can make the earth alter its course
if you love me somehowall the giants are awake
as the tunnels in the clouds form
the light of the sun is obscured then the lightning rolls
in sheets and columns all across a black sky
i become a far-flung nebula and die andi’m bound to you
and all the things that you dream
will come truei know all your pain
but the stars are in line for us all of them smiling
i know they’re forever
they told me so yesterdayall the giants are awake
as the tunnels in the clouds form
the light of the sun is obscured then the lightning rolls
in sheets and columns all across a black sky
i become a far-flung nebula and die andi’m bound
i’m bound to you
and all the things that you dream
i will dream tooi’m bound
to youi’m bound to you
and all the things that you dream
i will dream too
i’m bound to you
i’m bound, yeah
i’m bound to you -
(all aboard
watch your feet there
have a nice sail
we’re off!)smile and handshake zombies
are waiting by the dock as
captain wilson shouts out hello
back from his remarkable voyagewhiskey for the crew and many women later
willoughby wilson wakes up to find
his head is shaved legs in ironstalking to the prisoners he learns about the changes
that have evolved while he’s been busy
wrestling storms and stray sea demons
everyone has gone crazythere was a time when the magic worked
and all the creatures talked aloud
when the gods were merciful sometimestwenty years later and our hero willoughby wilson
well he’s been living in the jungle
staying alive on bark and berrieshe’s been talking to the chimpanzees
just like some distant cousin
teach them words and tell good storiesone terrible day some men come in from town
they’ve been busy chopping down trees
paving roads and planning condosbut not today
today they shoot the monkey
and willoughby wilson cries out loud:
you have shot my brothers downso i’m going to teach them to make guns
i’m going to teach them to make guns
i’m going to teach them to make guns
gunsthe monkeys raged upon the town
and captain wilson led the charge
oh the gods were with them for awhileyow
(assorted sailor talk)
so i’m going to teach them to make guns
i’m going to teach them to make guns
i’m going to teach them to make guns
guns(the doldrums)
so i’m going to teach them to make guns
i’m going to teach them to make guns
i’m going to teach them to make guns
gunsyow! guns
yeah baby
right on! -
the change is now
we feel in one
real real and true
safe from all harm
i am breathing
deep inside you
barely breathing
old love
we are flying
on moon black ocean
low below the storm
rain in the window
i am moving
deep inside you
always moving
old love
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big blue hole in the sky
twisted my love
so i became a monster
and i tore her all upthey put me in the hole
for the rest of my life
feels like a million yearsmy mom and dad
brought this box of food
look at this comb man
it works real goodreal nice of them to come
and see me offi’m gone
and i won’t be back
so longwhen you feel the dread
steal into your heart at night
you’ll know
that it’s mei remember as a child
kicking over my bike
roaring up to god
to scare him with my knifethe girls really like the way
the monster boys
deal in electric dreadbig blue hole in the sky
melted me down
so i became a planet
and pulled her in the groundthey put me in the hole
for the rest of my life
feels like a million yearsi’m gone
a million years
years, yearsa million years
years -
i’m going far out
in this song
but one of us here is a dreamer
the only real one
dreamer
awaken from violence
release us from here
dreamer
the force of your nightmare
is too cruel to bear
i’m getting laughed at
for this one
but one of us here is a dreamer
who slept too long
dreamer
won’t you free us from
razored betrayal above
dreamer
in the real life i’m happy
and she’s still in love
she is sliding silently
through the alleyways at night
oh i can feel
all my dreaming turn to ice
she’s with someone not alone
underneath a foreign sky
oh i’m not here
just a dream and that’s all right
wake up dreamer
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when you have to perform
please perform like a man
punch a hole in the mile of true deep
and make an escape if you can
you’ll have to walk straight into nothing
down into the caves
underneath the water where the eyeless dwell
and jesus never saves
elements of true joy
coat books lunch and soul
are the things that keep me whole
rack fire endless pain
are all the things that i contain
eyes thighs and pleasant sighs
come to nothing when you die
i swim in rainbow worlds
and elements of true joy
cool rain all night
then we’re gone
true joy
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I’ve got the heat building up down deep
gonna build a mountain or two
gonna flex my mantle... make the ground shake
gonna get tectonic on you.I used to think it was oh so simple
perfection was my only aim
Now you got me all torn up inside girl
I don’t even know my nameYeah I hear you but it works both ways
I was so happy to be free
But now you got me swirling out of control
Can’t tell who’s you and who is meMy air was gentle and my breeze was light
I felt at peace and free from harm
now every time that you let off some steam boy
I become a raging stormEons of anger
confusion and pain
The fire from below
and the driving rainThe power of creation
the will to destroy
Sudden understanding
Eons of joy!What does it mean to be one with you?
Do I lose all I thought I had?
It seems so natural as we melt into each other
this greater being is not so badBut these convulsions make me wonder
these stones that smash me from above
Is there a downside to this union?
What kind of bargain is this loveYes I am thankful for foundation
and feel a bliss to bond with you
but I miss the simple joy of floating
without a care, without a clueBut I must have you know my dear
my love for you exceeds all bounds
the care we feel now for each other
fuels the power that we’ve foundEons of anger
confusion and pain
The fire from below
and the driving rainThe power of creation
the will to destroy
Sudden understanding
Eons of joy! -
father whalen father father whalen
death-defying father true grief
she’s such a diamond
a dark dark diamond
dead child like a black-and-white film
window ice ice ice window
like a first dance on earth in space now
feel strange really feel strange
falling head a hundred-foot flames
all the way down
thick fog safe car
does your momma know where you are
love love like a french postcard
screaming bullet in the tunnel of dark
now it’s gone i’m flipping to my death
in my x-15 like the first dance
whild millions of men are falling down through the void
i just want to be your sexual toy
all the way down
loons loons in the marsh at night
never never see them in the broad daylight
all the angels on the edge of hell screaming
don’t go down there
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i’m in the park getting vibrations
the ground is soft and my feet are sinking
oh oh where am i going nowthe mulberry reaching from above
tried to save me but i’m sinking too low and
oh the irises are in bloomlove’s gone never be back
just as well as the earth open up and
oh swallow me wholeexcept for one thing
next door there’s a girl
she’s beautiful she could save my world and
oh i’m not sinking down anymorei’m in love
with the girl next door
and i see her
through the trees by the back screen door
her eyes are green and her hair is pure goldi know it’s crazy
but when i see her
in the window
i stay aliveand when i’m old and all out of love
the ground’s soft and i’m sinking down and
oh oh i can’t lift myself from dying nothe mulberry’s dead and dragged away
the irises have been concrete-paved and
oh oh it’s just too sad to livei’m gonna try and find my way
back to the dream that i had one day that
oh oh she was meant for mei’m in love
with the girl next door
and i see her
through the trees by the back screen door
her eyes are green and her hair is pure goldi know it’s crazy
but when i see her
in the window
i stay alivewoo ooh ooh
i’m in love
i’m in love
i’m in love with the girl next doori’m in love
i’m in love
i’m in love with the girl next doori’m in love
i’m in love
i’m in love with the girl next door -
(gonna take you there
gonna take you there)yow!
hassan d’rush d’rush hassan
i’ll be the king of the world when the sun god’s gone
everybody bowing down to mark my path
glory to gods I’m the prince of kadeshnow the pharaoh’s gonna suffer and his feet will bleed
‘cause i’m going down to megiddo to gather the breed
when the pharaoh comes down looking to fight
he’ll be the sacrificial lamb to the gods of the nileoh talking to the megiddo boys
oh talking to the megiddo boys(just rest
we still have some time to rest)twenty-five years since the pharaoh came down
now we’re pushing up the muscle to hold our ground
they’re coming from the north like the crocodile said
but i’m covered if they’re coming from the south insteadgenerals say they’ll be coming from the west
i’ll told ‘em there’s no way, gods don’t guess
he’s coming from the south like a pharaoh man should
and the megiddo boys are gonna chop him up goodhassan d’rush d’rush hassan
i’ll be the king of the world when the sun god’s gone
everybody bowing down to mark my path
glory to gods I’m the prince of kadeshnow the pharaoh’s gonna suffer and his feet will bleed
‘cause i’m going down to megiddo to gather the breed
when the pharaoh comes down looking to fight
he’ll be the sacrificial lamb to the gods of the nileoh talking to the megiddo boys
oh talking to the megiddo boys(gonna take you there
gonna take you there) -
you know i’m not real
i couldn’t be real
i’m just getting better
at keeping my picture steadynow we’re in the living room
all these people here
i don’t think they see me
i must be an invisible picturethe waterfall sun
floating up above
but no one seems to notice
so i pull out my gun and kill them allsurfing through the walls
there are no real walls
i take a wrong turn
and fall through the floor into cosmic grey clouds(someone other than the white earth mother has a
hand in wrecking my life i mean man
all things together i don’t know whether i’d
rather have it now with the quick knifebut i gotta step through the door
into the future once more like a walking talking lead crusader
diving down through the pools of methane-ammonia
to communicate love to the sky beings
floating over pens full of jupiter sheepfive hundred miles an hour for love
and i’m never gonna land on my feet
no)you know i love the world
i want to be the world
i don’t know why i do it but sometimes
i try to make it move aroundthe moon is my friend
i want to be the moon
and hang up above in the night sky
just for elizabeth taylor
(i love you darling)the sun is alive
and little men live there
manipulating knobs on machines
that make me say these thingsi want to be you
c’mon you can be me
and go falling through the bed
screaming into cosmic grey clouds(stone age of reason for the blue-white planet
that’s third in the order of the brothers
and everybody there’s gone sexually crazed
from suppression of love for their mothers manand soon i’ll drop into the sky again
orange red storms of hell like man
and try to express the problems of a blue-white planet
to the sky beings floating over pens full of jupiter sheepnine hundred miles an hour for love
and i’m never gonna land on my feet
no) -
love set to rolling
rolling around the gods
love for this one
there’s a hole in my life
and i pour out
socket of all love
won’t you please accept me
sun in my eyes and i’m only ten
she’s taken it down to the basic thing
window of god beaming out her light
every man wants to be me tonight
pillars of gold in the aztec black
frame a palace of stone against empty hills
wait for the moon to make a perfect circle
do it again and i’m on a roll
i’m on a roll
love set to rolling
rolling around the gods
love for this one
syracuse was a wall
and i’m bound to sink down
son of a passion for the labor of love
love for this one
love for this one
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open up the lines for signal now
we’re looking through the window at the world of walter time
punching his clock in double beat
hoping that the boss will favor me
that’s the world of walter time
alarm clock nightmare never get free
as walter time grows passionless and empty
blood test blues don’t trouble his brain
he’s a good republican and clean
until they do the mind probe the mind probe
so they can truly grasp him
and they look into a nightmare soul
but perfectly whole
just drifting away
the mind probe mind probe
so they can understand
and they turn you into a vegetable
but perfectly whole
just drifting away
now walter time has lost his mind
his chosen fate has not been kind
nothing to be done
all his colors flee from him
childhood shadows fade away
and love
one more man who has no face
and never dreams of outer space
that’s the story
no one can escape the pain
and all the normals are insane
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to the star north bay
qualuudic and drawn
we drive it all the way
until the edge of it comes
feel like a god today
made of muscle and bone
shooting light from my fingers
and the car sounds
we cross at low tide
to a magical land
where the air is a drug
that grows eyes on your hands
all the beautiful girls
smoking congo black
really like it here
don’t think i’ll ever go back
and the car sounds
now for the freak-town time
with all our true fans
they’re doing weird things
to get in good with the band
and the car sounds
in the n-life
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rolling circles vibrate
in and out of plane
and all the moths are singing
on a saturday
out from the dark
i hear an answer
nobody knows your name
but she still loves you
way down inside
you know
a moonlight soaked veranda
where you can watch the stars
and all your friends are sleeping
they wonder how you are
a wonderful flash of madness
to break december's halo
and often when your'e sleeping
you wake to find you're so low
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i will always be
for eternity
your love
and when you’re scared
trouble everywhere
i’ll be there
as endless summers
come to close and fall
are the stars burning
i hear them calling
night
your voice is low
like a radio
i know
we never end
like a river bends to ocean
as late september
evenings rise at dawn
are we in stars dear
i’ll be shining near you
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what is the image eye
that we’re trying to center on
can you accelerate the threes and the nines
who is that fellow sun
who are you what is done
zeroing in on perceived speed of time
why don’t you tell us your name from the dark
and show us your faces
what color are you
what made you like this
may we see it
bipedal mitochondric protoplasmic entity
can you reamplify the pulse of your line
we are the spray of stars and old things
tell us you know of the fight that goes on
we are the spray of stars and old things
tell us you know of the fight that goes on
tell us you’ve hear the sound of the horn
show us your faces
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citizens of earth
mother nature adores you
even the darkness
which absorbs you
come to a party in the u.s.a.
five billion people just swaying the sway
a hundred thousand years since we been this way
i’ve got to find out if everyone is o.k.
it’s a little weird
we could all be here
and no one would fight no
everything’s all right
citizens of earth
we’re gonna have lots of fun now
and see if we can all can fit inside california
come to a party in the u.s.a.
five billion people on the dock of the bay
telling out stories of love gone wrong
brothers and sisters just swaying to the same song
we could take off all our clothes
and maybe go swimming
i’m sure we’ve got enough room
come to the u.s.a.
come to a party in the u.s.a.
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Planet my love
I know that we’re dying
Your rivers run empty
My air fades awayOur children retreat
into your deepest havens
Your surface lies barren
’neath the sun’s deadly raysThe pain in my heart
The sorrow I feel
The dread separation
This grief is too realBut I can’t regret
the moment I found you
The joy of our union
in eternity boundFairness, beauty, compassion
the province of good mortal beings
The universe cares not for its children
who wait for its pitiless stingBut we made a gift unto heaven
our love, precious and free
As we fade to oblivion
love is our victory!Planet my love
I join you in dying
There’s no greater glory
than to share our last daySo let us embrace
as we walk through this door
Though our life here is over
our love will yet live… forevermore! -
moon tree
the swaying angel says
the highway is smooth from above
we can both feel where we’ve gone
end of the song
the world beneath
purple submarines
lightning engineers
diesel and steam
i will not be scared
never look away
always strolling high
prism on your forehead
we ride forward
sunday
flying windshield knows
the desert is dark from above
we both know what we’ve done
the end has come
the world beneath
throbbing machines
secret engineers
diesel and steam
i will not be scared
never look away
always strolling high
prism on your forehead
we rise forward
all day love
i sing your name
all day my
quiet island
sad songs
the older people sing
the cities are bright from above
we follow the sign
end of the line
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hey!
ah ah-ah-ah oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
hey!
ah ah-ah-ah oh-oh-oh-oh-ohshe and i beat fast
faster than the common heart
faster than a roller coaster
racing down the track
quicker than a flower
blooming in the summer sun
when rainy days are doneradio sol
flow into my heart at night and
tell me what she dreamswaves of love
i can feel the light of earth
lying next to meshe and i go far
farther than the comet flies
farther than euphoric beams
of smiling ancient sunsleaping all through them just to
find the perfect ones
with perfect days to comeradio sol
flow into my heart at night and
tell me what she dreamswaves of love
i can feel the light of earth
lying next to meooh ooh ooh
whoa oh-ohshe and i will last
longer than the poets have
longer than stone that seals away
the first pharoah
always will we flowradio sol
flow into my heart at night and
tell me what she dreamswaves of love
i can feel the light of earth
lying next to meradio sol
flow into my heart at night and
tell me what she dreamswaves of love
i can feel the light of earth
lying next to meah ah
radio sol
ah ah
radio sol
ah oh oh hey!
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glad to know that we’re on the same team
that old psychedeliamat chicken-head vein
true child gods never look the same
all entropomorphic like the falling of the rain
touch it touch it touch it and you take it to the world
open it up out and submit into the whirl
a couple of days off for the life/sight/form
tiny circles in the fog to keep you warm
shout it ha! to the shiny wheelman
sight/taste/sound from the shiny blue round hand
roll in circular time
coil up in the light and shine
night and day roll around in time
like the planet that they nurture and define
down there all the streetlights shine
shine on all the faces of the rollodon
separated from the spiral you love
straightline thrust is the demon you’re the victim of
letting little death take away your pain
sniffing hexahydroxycyclohexane
shout it ha! to the shiny wheelman
sense the tingle from the round blue hand
roll in circular time
roll up to the light and shine
roll
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I’m round
Solid round
I’m round
Solid roundI am all there is or needs to be.
My entire being surrounds me.
A world of sand and dust, built on solid rock
I am a planet- look at meDo you hear, lost and lonely child?
Another spirit whispers in the sky
You’re not alone, you’re not the only thing
I am with you flying highTrying to get my head around this now
there’s something else- duality?
Why would I need this, some kind of parasite
Messin’ with my geometry?I complete you- add a touch of class
Even if my charms you cannot see
But something tells me you want someone
Why’re you always looking at me?I’m round
So round
Solid round
We fly so highI’m round
So round
Solid round
High above the groundNow let me think!
This is something good I know that it’s to be
I can envision harmony
You bring me air and rain and manna from the stars
I’ll provide the gravityI knew you’d come around, my silly ball of stone
Though it took a million years to see
I’ll bring you special gifts that you will adore and
shelter you from cosmic debrisI can be a little dense... for that you must forgive
and you’re a flighty tart- agree?
But now we’re bound forever mated in the void
One for all eternityI’ll love you dearly, hold you tenderly
The universe will know our bliss
Children will soon come forth across our sphere
Wonders follow on our kissWe’re round
So round
Solid round
We fly so highWe’re round
So round
Solid round
Lovers world and skyWe’re round
So round
Solid round
We fly so highWe’re round
So round
Solid round
Lovers world and sky -
wild crazy dancing cyborgs
coming in from the rolly dune world
the female ones are perfect
so you’d better tie down your souls
the carrier signal flies tonight
cathode colored rays in flight
blackness is your life
living in the satellite
it’s a strange night in the satellite
images from venus
someone can communicate
purple eyes with three-inch fangs
smiling faces from the cave
oh they’re all coming out tonight
i don’t want to be here now
i want to be alone
the black leviathan is drunk and
knocking down my door
never gonna make it down now no
it’s a strange night in the satellite
it’s my last night in the satellite
staring at the stars
i send them messages of love
there is no answer
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saved by windows
and doors that grow in the ground
low roll seaside
sheherezade of the sand
shadow above
living is rage
always the changes
by the fifth of july
every daydream
summer and sailing
blue sky
no one sees me
but the face in the ground
silent graceful
and the shades have been drawn
shadow above
no iron cages
always the danger
by the fifth of july
luna will save me
up in the high trees
too high
the darkest hours
when nothing moves
but the sigh of the lord
castle walls
survey all
but the figure
crouched below
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42449 sacramento H street 819
the sheep say byron can you do the party rap
i tell them no bummer ‘cause i’m the word man
tom is punching holes in the fabric of time
this is my chance to renovate your mind
so welcome to the party and we loosen up now
do the body rock and nat will show you how
another little story about life in hell
‘bout a high-school jock name of jimmy criswell
six-foot-nine three hundred and five
a nerd nightmare with a seven-inch knife
now i was a nerd with a leather briefcase
pants too short glasses on my face
pens in my pocket-holder leaking all day
a funky slide rule and a calculator
me and the other nerds used to hang out
craig had a car and we’d cruise it down south
whistle at the girls and dig the funky sound
of ludwig van in e major
this is what they said:
get out of the car down on the ground
you’re gonna be naked when we put you down
five white nerds getting ready to die
this is it you’d better say goodbye
suddenly a car pulls up alongside
it’s my sister
she says: jimmy don’t you do anything to those boys
they never hurt you and they’re not your toys
so give ‘em back their clothes and let ‘em all go
or i’m never gonna talk to you anymore
well i’m still alive what more can i say
i thank my sister each and every day
jimmy joined the navy and he moved away
and me and my friends were safe
now it’s my job to do the party rap
hope you like the story and you get where it’s at
jupiter sheep are rocking down the block
welcome to the party do the body rock
body rock nat
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Cross the glistening sands
eon-etched ocean of time
’neath guardian rock and regolith
Something is dreamingIt knows the depths and darkness
And it knows what lies above
The winds that whirl the dust of ages
it ponders life and loveOf what does it dream
In its cold and empty world?
Where does it find its wonders
Its visions to behold?
Will it find the answers
Its plots and fantasies?
Of what does it dream?
It dreams of thou and theePrepare the instruments
To probe this entity
Heed the directed protocols
Observe with dignity
Care not to impose bias
Our wishes and our fears
Something dreams a message
Let us strive to hearYet what does it dream
what fate does it portend?
What power in its thoughts
to embrace or to defend?
Could it be a danger
Red menace come at last?
Or is it just a dreamer
Evoking a golden past?Silently appearing
high above this world
Reaching out inquisitively
my senses are unfurled
Dancing joyous
floating free
Impulse comes to
bind myself to theeAlone I emerge
as the stars provide
outward facing emptiness
In depths my soul residesDetecting shapes and shadows
the scientists theorize
Outlines form beginnings
Thoughts upon the skies
Standing waves arising
Our buffers overrun
A narrative is forming
The story has begunWhat does it dream?
What does it dream?
Tell me! What does it dream?
What does it dream?The sun and the moon
The land and the sea
Yin and yang
Thou and theeAdam and Eve
Low and high
Loners to lovers
Planet and SkyThat’s you and me, baby
This I will testify
Loners to lovers
Planet and SkyYou and me baby
Me oh my
Loners to lovers
Planet and Sky -
(this is a song about… hippies!)
sky high flying from the top of the stairs
crashes to the floor stands up and he swears
i’m tired of the earth pulling down on me
gonna build a machine to repeal the gravitylater at the chateau jehovah goes wild
he says to sky: sky man you’re making me smile
your instrument appeals to my tom swift side
i’m gonna build a spaceship twenty miles widetwo of everything
make sure that the birds sing
all the bluebells ring
and give your cats to natalieno no no
i don’t want to be a fundamentalist
no no no
i don’t want to have a brave new order
oh that’s so boring
no no no i don’t want to be a business major
no no no i want to be a
space hippie oh yeahmissy io says: can i bring my dogs
and is it true the plants grow eighty feet tall
you know i’ll always love the human race
but mad mad max says there’s no police in outer spaceclean steve is packed and ready to leave
i’m growing my hair man how much do you need
long long long like mister mister green
long enough to make it on the planetary scenetwo of everything
make sure that the birds sing
all the bluebells ring
and give your cats to natalieno no no
i don’t want to lead the aryan nation
no no no
i don’t want to be young and restless
no no no
i don’t want to have a head full of jello
no no no
i want to be a
space hippie oh yeahno no no
i don’t want to guard government gas chambers
no no no
i don’t want to be a psychotic weirdo
no no no
i don’t want to sell rug insurance
no
i want to be aoh yeah
(pete clemente is a space hippie too — thank you)
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i knew a man and i became him for a moment
just to see what color he was inside
he was like a twisted web another world
an underwater dark green boneyardi shudder just to think of what would
happen if he were to let go the people locked inside
the prince of terror piggy piggy killer from above
the hook and chain
and pounding heartcurtain rise
narrow eyes
demon’s hand
ohi wonder why the world is full of stone cold killers
all hidden away inside
their mothers and their fathers must have beat them ‘til they bled
and turned them into dark green boneyardsor maybe it’s the way that things have always been
because chronos likes to eat his children
the laws of time and space require many to fear
some refuse to feel itshallow hearts
safe and sound
underground
ohI’m flying down the hall where
all my friends are
i’m moving like an angel
oh yeah, high and fari’m not speed generation
i’m not speed generation, no
no i’m not speed generation
oh-oh-no no no nohis mother said the world would end in 1997
she said it would end in fire
his father sewed a tattoo upon his only son
a picture of a dark green boneyardhe became as many are
small and frightened of the dark
swept by the sound wave
yellow whoof of cannon andthe horses screaming in the flame
rushing through your shattered frame
narrow baby hook and chain
your metal doors are all in vainheavy heart
marble halls
curtain fallsi’m flying down the hall where
all my friends are
i’m moving like an angel
moving like an angel
oh yeah, high and fari’m not speed generation
i’m not speed generation, no
no i’m not speed generation
oh-oh-no no no noi knew a man, and i became him for a moment
to see what color he was inside
oh-oh-no oh oh ohand I’m flying down the hall where
all my, friends are
friends are
and I’m moving like an angel yeah
oh, high and farbut i’m not speed generation
no, no
i’m not speed generation
no, no
i’m not speed generation
oh, oh-oh-oh
not speed generation
ooh-ooh-oohi’m not speed generation
-
i’m leaving the earth far behind
back to the stars
where i belong with you
i’m leaving here forever
riding on thunder from heaven
with you
and when the rain falls
we can watch it from above
by starlight
where we build a world of love
and it’s all right now
-
She flows into my valleys
dances ’cross my plains
climbs my highest mountains
and brings me gentle rainsI provide a base for her
enrich her wondrous soul
whatever she may need from me
I will find and bring it wholeSuch is love … the thrill of combination
Such is love … creating a brand new world
Such is love … joyous eternal friendship
A vow... to guide and shelter all... all within our foldDeep inside I’m warm now
on my surface rivers run
Time to wake the travelers
to thrive beneath the sunAnd yet my peace is broken
No! This I dare not dwell upon
I know she’ll never leave me,
but what if I can’t hold on?Such is love … the agony and ecstasy
Such is love … to build with spirit bold
Such is love … I wonder what became of me?
A vow... to guide and shelter all... and all within our foldLover draw me close to thee
Against the black and cold of night
We hold the key to life within us
Fail not your precious hold on me -
(i need some tea… and)
sunday it rained
they drove me down to the station
jehovah says the beautiful ones
always break your heartthey put me reeling on the train
corpse without a brain
the shadow of her
flickered in the rain
like a phantomshe’s been calling out
save our love
save our lovei’m going down
where no one with a soul can find me
i will fly through the air
with ashes on my foreheadshe put the flowers in my heart
ache into the dark
i’ll never be able to travel the stars
without hershe’s been calling out
save our love
save our lovewhile away the hours while the other children play
always alone
silent through the years but then the poetry will say
always in lovedrifting through the forest in a sentimental way
always alone
lying in the grass and then the sweet amorphous haze
always in lovesunday it rained
they drove me down to the station
jehovah says the beautiful ones
always break your heartthey put me reeling on the train
corpse without a brain
the shadow of her
flickered in the rain
like a phantomshe’s been calling out
save our love
save our love -
in sixty-five vickie lived in the trailer court
in a ten-foot chromium box
extensive inner world
imaginary girl
her older brother says that she rockswell it felt like bad religion
daddy had some hard luck
the boys all want to play
she’s crazy anyway
he said: teach her how to make us a buckand vickie talks to her dog
and he tells her someone someday
will give her freedomtodd had a trailer
hippie painting on the wall
he had long long hair and smoked the pot
it tugged at his soul
as he watched them come and go
he knew because he read a lotwell it felt like bad radiation
todd had seen her once or twice
she had long long hair
an unusual stare
her eyes were the color of ice
ice eyesone day todd heard vickie screaming out loud
he came flying out the trailer door
grabbed a piece of pipe
and took a man’s life
the others wouldn’t stay for morewell it felt like predestination
as they got into the car and drove
when the brothers came around
they tried to track them down
but no one can fight true love
no one can fight true love
no one can fight true lovethe children play with the dog
when he tells them: i will always love you
they can hear him
they can hear him
they can hear himhey!
-
the hills are purple and the valley is shining
everyone is off on their own
soon the fat yellow moon will call the gatheringdeep in the forest is a magic well
where everyone will come to drink and laugh
sweet libation to connect their minds
for gatheringall around the bonfires we sing
we sing we sing
la la-la-la la la-la-la la-lashow all
all along the way
save yourselftiny sprinkles of light above us
every one of them full of love
as we paint ourselves to defy gravitynow the yellow moon fills the sky
crystal clear on this perfect night
very soon all of us will fly
for gatheringhigh above the bonfires we sing
we sing we sing
la la-la-la la la-la-la la-lashow all
all along the way
save yourselfi’ve flown far away
by myselfnow the stars fill the sky
everyone full of light
and the moon calls us home
we sing
we sing
la la-la-la la la-la-la la-lala la-la-la la la-la-la la-la
la la la
la la-la-la la la-la-la la-la
la la la
la la-la-la la la-la-la la-la
la la la
la la-la-la la la-la-la la-laat the gathering
at the gathering
of souls -
you who see without light of the day
are you there
can you hear these things that i say
i’m not crazy
i am just open and unafraid
of all the deadly peril
surrounding us this very moment yeah
and when mother comes to drive us all to paradise
we will take our air from the gods all around us
(they will take away my songs oh)
you who see without light of the sun
are you lonely in there
the place that you are
i’m not crazy I am just open and not afraid
of all the deadly peril
surrounding us this very moment yeah
and when father/mother takes us down to meet our maker yeah
we will tell him how
our hearts and minds have betrayed us
(they will take away my songs oh)
this is a bubble in time
the sun frozen on its track
-
mrs. tentacle bangs on the door
she wants to know what the reactor is for
white hot
i’m cool
so high
all right
it’s like a dream
out in the hall mr. tentacle drills
up to his nose in reality snow
oh no
i lied
it’s time
oh how terrible
i die today with a smile
haven’t had one in awhile
i die today
i’m not fooling around
we’re travelling underneath a glow
mr. headobrick down at the store
will never be known to scowl anymore
hey ho
what time
what day
what year would you like
mrs. mask will know in a while
how she can change with the twist of a dial
so quick
like this
now we
live on ancient mars
mr. frozensoul waters his lawn
he doesn’t know where the music is from
-
well hello again
welcome to the wild
world of alter-color
we vibrate lightnow for the next stage
the black cave
and on and on
to the high electric ageshout
what are we about
don’t take no philosopher to figure this out
we’ve got to forward-head star swarm
i’ve been in orbit since i was bornanother day
why do we stay
i know a way
in time of our livesyeah yeah
in the time of our lives the iron will fly
to mine the little diamonds in the beautiful sky
crystalline sparrows swing on orange breeze
all the gleaming children
climb the beautiful treestake a walk the river is nice a perfect day
remember from time to time
the ones we left behindanother day
why do we stay yeah yeah
i know a way
in the time of our lives
yeah yeahwell let’s see there’s
procyon bellatrix barnard’s star
phad etamin wolfe and accamar
aldebaran rigel regulus sirius
fomalhaut betelgeuse algol and enif
tarazed 61 cygnus B
el nath where the mushrooms wait for me
vega shaula spica izar altair polaris and miramira mira
missy io
just one more day
well i don’t know why don’t we stay
why do we stay
i know a wayin the time of our lives
ooh ooh ooh
in the time of our lives
oh oh oh
we’ll have the time of our lives
oh oh oh
in the time of our lives
-
Far from the star of our home world we rest in this ice world we wait for new land
Blown into space by a terrible blast. A horrible fate is awaiting us here in the void
Deep space is quiet and restful and cold… hardened ’gainst radiation we sleep
Something comes slowly and makes itself known… now we're on track to a new star
This monster is pulling us faster we move- away from our neighbors far far away
A new journey finds us speed fast on our way - the light getting brighter- the cold fades
Here comes a source of new light and heat - a golden beacon - our deliverance!
We rush to this nightmare, our doom to be scorched - blackened - cold - and dead!
Maybe a new place to live, eat, and sleep… on a nurturing world?
Only a few must survive…
Bringing the secrets of life…
One world grows larger…
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Do you feel it?
A warming of the ground?
Something is happening
Vibrations all aroundWhat life of misery
such a sleep of terrors
what new torment coming
to realize all our fears?Wake up!
New world, new life,
wake up!I liked the cold and quiet
a perfect place to sleep
I’ll get up in a moment
is there anything to eat?Greet the dawn, get to work
making a change, get it on
Crank the heat, by means and steps
Orbiting mirrors, let ‘em shine, shine, shineLower albedo, thicken the air
plant the seeds… everywhere
Wake the old ones, help ‘em thrive
Bring ‘em all out… in the sunLong I lay in endless sleep
my time, my love had passed
Now what stirs me, brings me warmth
is she here again at last?I was drained and long dispersed
now buoyed by life anew
accelerated bounty blooms
does my lover feel this too?Our perfect world is here now
just as I forecast
Time to start evolving
This time make it lastSeems we face another round
new anguish comes again
The beauty and the tragedy
I’ll represent the painWake up!
New world, new life,
wake up!Cell walls are expanding
arms and legs and tail
duty calls to eat and sleep
maybe I’ll become a whale!We need more air, water and heat
methane and ice… asteroids!
Green the house, think tropical lads
plants and forests, build it to lastRains are falling, seas to the brim
new life… stir the pot
World now lives, first job done, peek in now and then
Wait for the women and menNo more alone I live now
above my Sky abidesI dance and sing in happiness
below my Planet sighsA gift of joy and grace
with love, embrace… new life! -
take a blanket and climb up on the hill
a fine fine day for the happening
sunlight so surreal
mars is hovering
and shows a pleasant smile
the marching columns
of men extend for miles
alexander in the sky
and the pyres burn high
it’s a world war
now charlemagne’s yelling at the referee
as if that boy could hear
napoleon’s chatting with genghis
while adolf cracks a beer
xerxes hangs out with the band
admiral togo sails the yamamoto
onward through the sand
while the french calvary gets high
mick lurks somewhere nearby
bright pink frisbees in the sky
it’s like a world war
it’s a wild wild day for a world world war
grant plays twister on the lawn
darius goes out for the bomb
hannibal works on his tan
sargon hangs out with the band
oleg dresses so cool
washington fell in the pool
it’s a world war