SMALL BEGINNINGS
In the morning when you start your day
do you feel yourself quite lost
in a world of countless millions
on the tide of your life you're tossed
don't think you're getting nowhere
you know we all must start
from very small beginnings off to a better part
I n the rush and hustle of your day
when all your world seems mad
do you look at ev'rything you see
and know that it's not so fine
just take your time and work it out
you know what's in your mind
from very small beginnings off to a better time
take your time and work it out, then maybe you'll see
your not wasting your time going around
just acting a play, just finding your way
your making it pay, you're making today
When the darkness of a brand new day
when ev'rything's hushed and still
you can look at ev'rything you see
and know that it's all worthwhile
the dark long night is fading and creeping ups
the sun it starts from small beginnings
then spreads to ev'ry one
take your time and work it out, then maybe you'll see
your not wasting your time going around
just acting a play, just finding your way
your making it pay, you're making today
in the morning when you start your day (4x)
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MORNING HAZE
Mysteries that stay unsolved
Fumbling for that pot of gold
Understanding lacks in days gone by
Lions call or Motor Car Vision Halts
Can't see too far
Looking at the haze from today darkness stops the way
Come the dawn, excite me
Gray hazes is lifting, I can see now
Gray lady peeps thru her window
Wonders on my colors
She can't really see thru morning haze
Evening falls and smothers her window
She can see no more
The day was too short but her green eyes met mine
Come the dawn,excite me
Gray hazes lifting, I can see you now
Loving slumber warms my heart
My dreams are pierced now by you?
Spirit rises greeting morning haze
Evening falls and smothers a window
She can see no more
The day was too short but her green eyes met mine
Come the dawn,excite me
Gray hazes lifting, I can see you now
repeat 3x
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CHILDREN OF THE UNIVERSE
Children of the universe
as much as sky and seaway
you have a right to be here
Keep your soul in company
with graceful spirit 'round you
be alive with sympathy
La ouv ya ouv ya la ouv ya ouv ya la
ouv ya ouv ya la ouv ya ouv ya la oh
All the worldly prophets say
believe in a guardian angel
Banish thoughts of misery
Be prepared to live your life
with little on your table
save your hunger for your soul
La ouv ya ouv ya la ouv ya ouv ya la
ouv ya ouv ya la ouv ya ouv ya la oh
W hen the crimson river light of dawn surprises you
awaken now you're other self
when the darkess demos call your name out loud and clear
it must be known you cannot hear
Love the girl and feel the world
get a little warmer
feel the touch of ecstasy
Maybe some day we will learn
as much as all we all need to know
and you can be a child again
when the princess fell to sleep and danger points at sake
and you say free your darkness, fear
when the crimson river light of dark surprises you
awaken now now you're other self
Children of the universe
as much as sky and seaway
you have a right to be here
Keep your soul incompany
with graceful spirit 'round you
be alive with sympathy
La ouv ya ouv ya la ouv ya ouv ya la
ouv ya ouv ya la ouv ya ouv ya la oh
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DREAMS OF HEAVEN
The sky is turning gray and
the bottom's falling out of ev'rything.
Gone are the dreams of heaven.
They won't come now, not ever;
Never again.
Black Cat,
Nine lives
Soft Pad
Green eyes.
Stone Street
Stone Feet
Trick Brick
Sun rise
Glass Moon
Dawn Mist
Red sea
Sun Kissed
New dawn.
New day.
New life.
New way.
(Repeat verse 2x)
Diamond Cut
Skies Scratched
Minds turn
Plots Hatch
Easy To
Understand
Innocence in a child's hand.
Brush stroke
White cloud.
Day Moon,
Blue Shroud,
No words can say feelings today.
the Time has come to take back everything you owe.
the Time has come to pay back everyone you know.
The lies you told well they ain't gonna help you now.
The crimes you told well they don't matter anyhow.
What are the chances of finding the answers
and using them before you die?
There are so many that haven't found any,
but still they continue to try.
There are some people who sit and they think
that they know so much more than they do.
I am not saying what game they are playing,
but I think you know what is true.
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TIME IT TAKES
In the time it takes for me to sing this song
A thousand rights, a thousand wrongs
As darkness falls around me
The trumpet sound and play with beating drums
Their sound still fills the air as morning comes
The princess sitting in her prison tower
By her window, hour by hour
The morning mist is lifting
Her virgin silken robes all flowing white
She waiting for her shining armoured knight
Far way a ship rides on a raging storm
Fighting men returning tired and battle torn
On a distance shore, so many fought and fell
Will he be returning? only time will tell
Coming home, coming home
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LIFETIME
Minutes and hours keep on tickin' past
The moves you make today could be your last.
If you're still gambling with, what ain't yours,
If I were you I wouldn't feel that good. *
Well it's the same thing everywhere I go
The same old story, it don't take long to show, oh no
Do you think that I can't see through your veil
Well try to realize you feel your pain
You find it telling people, what's to gain?
Watch out that it won't blow up in your face
Well it's the same thing everywhere I go
The same old story, it don't take long to show, oh no
Give what you can
Take what you need, after the harvest
You must plant a seed
Take what comes
Sunshine or rain don't waste your time
It won't come again
Ah, sisters brothers, friends and others, passing through my days
Give 'em time to remind, in so many ways
Just like a sparrow, not colorful nor beautiful
You can drown me in your song
Like the sun in the rain, oh yea
Minutes and hours they don't make up the time
That you spend from the day your born until you die
Your time is made up from the things that you do
Some people live a life well that's up to you
Well it's the same thing everywhere I go
The same old story, it don't take long to show, oh no
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MONDAY MORNING EYES
Monday morning eyes
heavenly disguised like a wall paper gaze
Ten o'clock reports
a gorgeous girl with bedroom eyes is saying to me
I feel the breath of life today inside of me
Riverside at noon
a dozen songs are bursting through to take a man
Shadowed by the gloom
of city life they wither now to where they came
Never to be heard today and take their place
Thinking someday they will say the words you feel
Thinking maybe they are in your heart
Could a human voice convey the feelings in your world
Could a person see the smallest light
Would it take a stronger hand than fate to kill
Every ounce of hope you have but still
Long time is needed for the celebration
?
But there are some times when hallucinations are strong
if not to dominate your situation
What a day has dawn
?
The path is clear
and you've been told
Thinking someday they will say the words you feel
Thinking maybe they are in your heart
Could a human voice convey the feelings in your world
Could a person see the smallest light
Would it take a stronger hand than fate to kill
Ev ery ounce of hope you have but still
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BLACK AND WHITE
Frozen horses in the snow
Chapel bells uh chime
Looking from the hill top shatters time, time, time, time, time
Frozen train kits ? hanging loose
Sign of ecstasy
Moving flesh and race and bread
Less I cannot see, time, time, time, time, time
Graceful shades of black and white
Will soothe me through the years
Moving flesh and race and breath
Unlock my thoughts and tears, time, time, time, time, time
Make love to warmer white, you can burn me I don't care
Bright lights that tantalize, deodorize the air
Make love last longer then it will be when I'm not there
Make love last longer then and tantalize
Come look at the golden land
Shine and sky and burning sand
Come look at the golden land
Graceful favors your command
You and your colors black and white see
You and your lovers take it from me
Come look at the golden land
Shine and sky and burning sand
Come look at the golden land
Graceful favors your command
(repeat 1x)
Maybe it's time to get away
After all this while
Something gained and nothing lost
Perhaps a little time, perhaps a little time
Once in your life can be bad
There is so little time
Something gained and nothing lost
Perhaps a little time, perhaps a little time
Frozen horses in the snow
Chapel bells uh chime
Looking from the hill top shatters time, time, time, time, time
Graceful shades of black and white
Will soothe me through the years
Moving flesh and race and bread
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THERE NO MORE
Fortune favors nature lives there innocent favors age
Animals caged in zoo men cells nature tells to rage
Apologize to the seven seas
See yourself as a soul to please
Living here in mystic peace
Surrounded by some friends
?
Their innocence turns my to rest forgetting all I've done
I pictured them with a camera capturing the view
Blossom drenched morning afternoon, what world so new
Fortune favors children's eyes there innocent favors ?
Living free a lifetime stolen looking for a dream
A lucky gaze from a lady gave me ??
Through windows shinning gave me princess of my dream
Morning came like heaven's money shared it's scene by few
Afternoon went sinking down and disappeared from view
Devil's reel play through the Thai lands?!?!?
Brought tears for who sat on the shore
Three men played a cricket jumped?!?!?
And I was there no more-
NONE THE WISER (KING)
Kings Of Kingdoms to all mankind
Gates of wisdom and truth
We believe that they find
and lead us through or make signs
We read none the wiser
Worlds of worlds
We were chosen the One
Precision operation to assist the population
A prophet would lead us
A nd give signs
We's read none the wiser
Young man of honour
With good faith in his brothers,
The chosen one
They were afraid he wouldn't return
He didn't know
None the wiser
The Master of Wisdom
Was taught by a King
Whom we would think of as a god
Both came from far away Catalina,
An island in the Sea of Stars
"Mother Earth will welcome you"
He said, "when you get there;"
"It's all planned,
Every minute of every hour
Your ship will be powered
By the Suns of the Universes
All the way across the Sea of Stars, Stars, Stars
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FAREWELL NUMBER ONE (PAWN)
"Take good care of yourself, my son,
Remember never be afraid of anyone;
You've a long way to go,
It will be some time, before we see you again
Remember we love you
Aand we think you're doing the right thing
For your country
Your brother will miss you
He wishes he could go
I'll explain and try to make him understand
It's time to go, the ship is waiting
Climb aboard, it's time to say goodbye."
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MAN OF HONOUR (Knight)
A Man of Honour
A soulful brother
A soldier with long tangled hair,
Disliked by his masters
Because he is honest,
But loved by his lady fair
A Fortune Teller
So young but so wise,
A knight by day
His day in disguise.
Born to live in history books,
It's sad that he can't find his way.
Even then he wouldn't be any use
'Cause knights didn't live quite that way
He is a leader,
Lost in space,
Came at the wrong time,
He's out of the race.
You'll find him flying airoplanes,
You'll find him gone far out to sea;
You'll find him misplaced everywhere
A victim of Time's mystery.
A Man of Honour
Without armor,
And no place in history
A Soulful Brother, closer to truth
Than all his close friends can see.
He has a power
Which he must hide,
A Master of Wisdom,
B but only in rhyme.
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DEAD AHEAD (Queen)
Mother Nature stands nearby,
Trying to please her king,
He sees her there, he knows the score
He knows the luck she'll bring.
Queen Bee giving all she has
For everyone she'll sing
A wounded bird, a wounded dog
A wounded crocadeercat.
Dressed in royal finery,
A feathered hat she wears,
In a crowd around her royal feet
Is a girl in quiet tears.
Strangers look through jealous eyes
At a woman with a ring;
She has her share of happiness
And all her children sing.
Mother Earth, a fountain ---
Likes statues of a thousand years
Mother Earth, a mountain
And still her shadow falls on you
She reigns when Sun is shining;
Protector of the City Heart
Source of all your dying.
Protector of the City Heart
Keeper of it's keys;
Dreams and pictures of the times,
Childhood's only friend.
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THE BISHOP
Sideward stepping ---
Acid eating ---
Architechs of Politics
Behind your hover with a glove of power.
Old and frail ---
Like a picture rail ---
With a fortune made, there hangs a tale
A Judge should witness if he had the hours
Mandatory beaurocracy
Fattened hog - like burly chassis
Lord and Master of the Working Classes
Eyeless seeing nothing new
Battle weary holding on
Like an old dog with a bone
He'll go on gnawing
Mismanagement, a mental garbage can;
Self punishment
The Lord of teeth and trousers
Back - stabbing rebel rousers.
Wino gourmet
Kipper fillet
Breakfast Boffin
Sending letters to his MP
Hoping someone will eat it.
Press those charges in the morning
You won't get a second warning
Hope you learned your lesson, my boy,
Beat it.
The Cardinal
A red-faced Desperate Dan
A second man the extra on a film set
The filler of his basket.
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PSYCHOSYNC (Farewell Number Two)
"Raise your eyes, your not yet dead
Although your youthful head has changed.
Two summers gone, she counts the days
But coming like a wind, I see the way."
Although your youthful head has changed.
"Catalina's breath, it seems, is
Curling 'round my ears, is in your trees.
The more I love your greenest land,
The more I feel the need to go away."
"Giving all I could within reason,
Despite doubt the makers of my fate would cast"
Carpenters and paperhangers
Tradesmen through to royal shoemakers.
Leave them all behind (Noble they may be, they should be psychosync)
A clearer state of mind (A clearer state of mind)
"Having one to talk to
After losing everything I thought
Was all it should have been.
Grey-green eyes looked out upon a world
And saw my words were true
But fell in backward rhyme."
Like seagull's taking flight (Seagull's taking flight, flying low)
Birds could never know (Birds could never know).
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MANHATTAN MORNING (Christmas '72)
Cold and grey Manhattan morning
Steals into the day
Shattered doors, newspaper torn
And blowin' down the street.
Somewhere in the city heights
A frightened siren screams
A truck rolls by and I just stand and watch
Locked in a dream
And I feel like I'm the only one
That knows how it feels to be this free
Walking by store windows
That reflect the neon flares
See my breathing turn to white clouds
As it hits the morning air.
I can hear the early subway train
Go rumbling' underground
A cop rides by on a horseback
Jesse James has just hit town.
And it feels like I'm the only one
That knows how it feels to be this free.
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SHADOWS (Its You)
When you stand in the crowd
But you feel you're there all alone
When your head tells you everything's fine and O.K.
But you're heart tells you no
When the lights are too bright
And take the warmth of the shadows away
When the night is too cold and there's nobody there
To hold on 'till the day.
And if the dreams we make
Just fall apart and break down
It's always you that comes
To help me when I'm down
You help me make it when there's no way out
You help me fake it when I need some help
You help me take it, take it to the end.
It's you that's gonna be with me when we all go home
It's you, you're gonna to me when we all go home
It's you, that's going to live for me when we all go home
it's you, that's going to be with me when we all go home
Come on you, you're gonna give to me when we all go home.
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Thanks to Ray Bennett for his assistance, and * David Holloway.
