Us We Are

People say we are sane
Lock your doors and play the games
Out in a constant search of fame
If we tell them of our dreams
Some but bright and subtle schemes
Others true and honest means
Oh you people out there
With your marshmallow wills
Your tragic days
And your tranquillizer pills can't you see?

People got to be believed
Words have got to be perceived
Won't you listen to us please?
Maybe to you it's another day
Do you want to see the sun
Coming up in gray?
Tell me what the difference is
Between your life and pay
Does the fire of your optimism
Flare up in the dark?
Can you come to me with open arms
And strike the finite spark of love?

Could be a case of velleity
On your part my part
Or anyone who thinks they see
Through a decade an epoch
Or maybe even centuries
What do you think could be your reality?
Does your breath go away
For anything you plainly see?
Talking to God or going on the nod
Or freaking out a fancy free
Take your time in the morning sun
It lasts for half a day
Speak your mind to your only son
If that's what you have to say to him

I know I'm living in utopia
With a strangely cloying
Absence of euphoria
And the rapidly increasing senses of dementia
The anticipation in my life
Now lends an ear
And I know I gotta choose
Gonna win or gonna lose
Ah maybe that's the fear
I only hope that the choice of death
Will be mine to make and clear

Take your time in the morning sun
It lasts for half a day
Speak your mind to your only son
If that's what you have to say to him



Burning Fingers

I look up in the sky
A figure bows its head
And then I wonder why
They tell me I'll be dead
The ashes in the tray
My bones of mortal webs
The blood of liquid clay
The brain that swiftly ebbs

We speed on towards the light
Hurling blockades into sand
We know that that is right
We need to hold a hand
That makes us all the same
We see and hear and taste
We speak and play the game
Are you worried about the haste?
Can you identify with I?
Do many pieces still remain?
Or do you ebb and cry
And forget you have a name?

Have you ever felt the wind
In the leaves among your heart?
Or do you still intend
To let your love depart?
The force of love is strong
Like the light from distant space
The might of love is long
Despite refusal to end the race
The sun is setting down
Where are the eyes to see it rise?
No one keeps a crown
Except of thorns or gaudy paste

The time is drawing nigh
We can go and self destruct
Or simply fade away
With the rosy glow of dusk
Or open up our minds
And realize the depth
Or never see the pines
And accept the tragic death
Our fate is in our hands
Can the demons gain the sway
Or sow the lovely lands
And ye gods will know the way



Moonshine

Yellow flowers
Bought today
I bought 'em from the man who lives in the other way
Wilting flowers
Couldn't stay
Not enough water gotta fill 'em to the brink today

Another moonshine
Oh, moonshine
Moonlight halo gonna tell about a coming rain
Another moonshine
Oh, moonshine
Moonlight halo gonna tell about a coming ...

I don't believe it can be verified
I don't believe it can be put right
It's too confused in all of its facets
It's too complex in all of its ways
They just continuing to tell me their trouble
They just continuing to tell me their lies
They don't believe in helping their brother
They're standing still and hearing his cries
If you believe that you got the power
If you believe it deep in your heart
You're on the run in front of a gunner
You're on the run and no one said start

I said moonshine
Oh, moonshine
Moonlight halo gonna tell about a coming rain
Another moonshine
Oh, moonshine
Moonlight halo gonna tell about a coming ...

Red moon rising, dogs are howling
Throwing stones at Willy on the other side
Octogenarians intermarrying
What you gonna do when the light goes out?
Madly scrambling in the brambling
Up the mountain like a frightened trout
Killing relieves the hunting imperative
Maiming relieves the sadist's delight
They don't believe in what they are doing
I do believe that they are uptight
Safe and secure in maudlin commodities
Smug and pedantic into their lives
Stupidity can never make answers
Pathos is there in all of its might

I said moonshine
Oh, moonshine
Moonlight halo gonna tell about a coming rain
Another moonshine
Oh, moonshine
Moonlight halo gonna tell about a coming rain

Talk about after, there's gonna be laughter
Talk about after, yeah, there's gonna be laughter
Talk about after, heh, there's gonna be laughter someday
Talk about after, there's gonna be laughter someday

Another sunshine
Oh, sunshine
Sunshine comin' gonna be another brand new day, yeh
Sunshine comin' gonna be another brand new day, ah
Sunshine comin' gonna be another brand new day
Sunshine comin' gonna be another brand new ...



For Her

I write this song in memory
Of a woman that I knew
She loved me much and I loved her
But then she never knew
And I was forced to go away
There was nothing I could say
I had to leave that very day
For almost two years or more

And now she's gone and I am left
With memories of her breast
And days of life and nights of love
And all the wondrous rest
I shan't forget
And the effect
It isn't even finished yet
It started 'fore we'd barely met
Ten long years ago
Yesterday



What's Happenin' Jim!

I hear voices calling me
Won't you take me to
The day I know
Where the sun keepsa shining through the snow
And you're looking at me with the eyes of someone loved
Or loving
In the world of steel and the world of clowns
You don't know where you stand right now
And the change is driving you right out of your mind
Or inside
And are you going to be afraid today
There are so many ways that you make your fear
The things you see and the things you hear
Around you
But what you gonna do when the sun goes down
And there ain't nobody else there in the town
And you have to go walking around all by yourself
In misery?
But don't you see the green on the mountainside
Or don't you feel the love that you fight inside?
Like the rock that breaks and falls into the sea
It's falling
And ol' Jim Creegan he's singing this song
He's playing that guitar all day long
Bringing it back to where it's a comin' from
He's calling



Armed

Armed with the thought of being God
I respectfully decline
There wasn't really very much money
And the work was awful hard
But we'll get by
By the skin of our teeth
If we look at my denial
Well now here we go
We're still on bloody trial

Filled with the scent of lilac gold
And wandering bazaars
Brought with love and simple chores
From hoping lands afar
Sent with characteristic joy
A value that is lost, embossed
While we sit here
They are still

Alive and teeming, millions
Struggling for the right to life
In desert homes of drifting sand
Or darkly gleaming light
Out in space
No mouths to feed
Just searching questing minds
They find
While they're finding
They are coldly kind



Spaceman

Joy is at the end of hoping
Happiness is there some days
Jesus told me I'm a spaceman
And I believe in every word he says

Sorrow can keep you crying
Tomorrow I may be dying
Can I borrow some of your trying willful way
Baby, you won't believe me when I tell you
I want to hear what you have to say
It's just as important to me
As the rising of the sun each day

Another stage
Play I'm in a cage
Say, won't you tell me why you're in a rage

Lovely blond lady in a loose dress
Gave me joy when she said to me
I don't have to leave right now
'Cause I'm telling you I am free
Tellin' me she is free
Tellin' me baby, tellin' me she is free
Tellin' me baby, tellin' me she is free

From her mother
See
She's another
Be
Like no other

Put your bag and baggage in your head now
Walk about salt and land
When you find what you're looking for
Come back to this lonely man

Joy is at the end of hoping
Happiness is there some days
Jesus told me I'm a spaceman
And I believe in every word he says
I believe in every word he says, yeah
I believe in every word, believe in every word he says
I believe in every word, believe in every word he says
I believe in every word, believe in every word he says



Times Of A Madman, Trials Of A Thief

Times of a madman and trials of a thief
Appalling decisions of squalling belief
Basking in bedrooms that hookers bequeath and they search for pleasure
Constant confusion calamities' plight
Doubtless it doubles the devil's delight
Easy as dying away from the light and they're dead in leisure
Footing the future as part of the bill
God is within you and works through your will
Hating to stay there and watch while you kill all your sons and daughters
Imminent idols absurdly enchant
Justification to rave and to rant
Knighting is over we've learned how to plant and we'll change things gently
Love is the lotus of white baby blue
Man and his woman collapse when it's true
Never some try it 'cause they're scared of you but the fire is raging
Open your mind and your heart to be still
Peace is the endlessly crest of the hill
Quietly shattering and soft as a quill then it stays forever
Reality's frozen in art and your heart
Simply believe it and then you can start
Truth is the answer and not just a part yet the word's been spoken
Unity struggles on this speck of dust
Valiantly scraping the fast forming rust
World is as beauty it's under the crust in its formless phases
Xenophobes revel in ignorant fear
You are belittled when this is too near
Zoning's absurd and it shouldn't be here for we all are living



8500 Years

For 8500 years it's churning
The wheels of gore have not stopped turning
Are we gonna have another century of war?

The force on both sides doesn't balance
The fear of each it keeps away alliance
To terrible sounds of suffering at the door

Flagrant conflicts of conceptions
The art is gone of kind exception
Have we gone insane
Do we really want to cry for more?

If a man wants to live in country splendor
In God's creation green and tender
Who are you to tell him you think that that's a bore?

Any man can do whatever he wishes
Life is sacrosanct is the only ism
We're telling you to stop before you get to war
Any man can do whatever he wishes
Life is sacrosanct is the only ism
We're telling you to stop before you get to war

Any man can do whatever he wishes
Life is sacrosanct is the only ism
We're telling you to stop before you get to war



Coming Down Soft And Easy

Tell a tale of married men
Of simple shells and curried zen
Falling through the world of when
Today
Serpent coils and hydrofoils
You don't believe what he does with oils
Speaking words that he said once
Yesterday
Peaches are predominant
Peace has got no counterpoint
Peter said he had to go nowhere
Away

But could it be a grand joke
A puff of smoke
Yes it's but a great day
To know the way
Don't you see the huge clouds go flying by
Don't you know
Deep down we all are butterflies
Just you take another look round
What you been seeing
What's been running through your mind
Is all we have at all
Have you been to the tinkers' ball
Waiting for the light to come again
Yes, we was sitting on a rooftop
Looking at the planets
Have you looked out there?
Today is like tomorrow then
A little scared of the affairs of men
Everybody also knows that they're been afraid
'Cause they are frightened by a love life with everybody
Terrified by the thought of
Unity is probable
Vanity is escapable
Violence, the workings of a tortured mind
Waterbeds are really fun
Sleeping in the baking sun
Debbie's disappointed
But I think she knows it's right
Jellyfish are dangerous
Politics are perilous
And I'm really glad that I'm not Richard's friend
'Cause I say sexual repression can make a lot of trouble
It can only lead to
Craziness
Is in the head
The heart is short of being dead
Have you got a reason for survival in the fall
Oh look at blood-soaked Charlie on a silk-stained bedsheet
Can you tell me do you really want to
Die in all your false belief?
I tell you now that there is no relief
Oh, you really gotta grow again
Psychosomatic delusions of euphoria
Better dig it now
Before the coming in memoriam

Could it be a grand joke
A puff of smoke
Yes it's but a great day
To know the way
Don't you see the huge clouds go flying by
Don't you know
Deep down we all are butterflies


Springwind

Now the wind of change is blowing through the towers
And the hard rain's pouring down
And the face of man has turned into a glower,
And he's forced to scheme to keep his limited powers
And the not-so-strong are merely made to cower
But there's a springwind, springwind blowing through the bamboo leaves
Springwind, springwind blowing through the bamboo leaves
Yet the spirit of man growing ever higher every time he plants a field
To grow and to sow, again he's repeating, recreating what he feels
The lives of a farmer, the lives of a doctor should be running parallel
Shrewd politicians meet wealthy morticians and do they really burn in hell?
Come a springwind, springwind blowing through the bamboo leaves
Springwind, springwind blowing through the bamboo leaves

Take a world and then you fill it full of peoples
And the force of life is bound to go shatteringly forward
Make a law for man, it doesn't work for mayhem
But the task at hand is so unbearably rewarding
And as we see the change is not so crawling
'Cause there's a springwind, springwind blowing through the bamboo leaves
Springwind, springwind blowing through the bamboo leaves