January First

I'll sing you a song of the deepest blue, if you tell me all the colors that you see in the human hue
I'll sing you a song of the brightest hope, if you show me a man who's reassured that he can cope
I'll sing you a song of beige and livid green, if you show me an earth that is slowly getting clean
And I'll raise your spirit higher, make you tremble with delight, if you lay down all your weapons, if you make the truth your fight
Lay down all your weapons, if you make the truth your fight
If you make the truth your soulmate, keep it with you all the time, then by the grace of God inside, you'll live in heaven's clime
If you talk to me of atom bombs, if you explain what they are for, I'll sing you all the songs I know about a world I see at war
A war that's greatly based on fear that's the only way they'll work, authority and governments they hide behind their smirk
For they think that you don't know it yet they think you're not aware, that the potential of the human soul lies just in human care
So won't you sing this silly song with me, come and give me a gift, we all are one in life and love, we all provide the lift


Starbright

Starlight burn bright
Countless eons of time
Have you burned that way for a billion years
Glittering ever brightly
And I see earthrise, our eyes
How much longer to go
Little sphere of dirt that we live upon
Trembling in its last throes
And I say no man, all can
Carry part of the load
Do you have to get paid for survival
In your old age
Think right what you gonna do
Look at your child will he follow you
Take another look 'cause your baby's liable to die
Politicians have their say, you once mattered
But you're in the way, why do we let these
People run our lives,
For the country isn't run by the statesmen now
But by the gentry who see
And I see starbright, cold light
Shining through the night



Breakthrough

All your tears come rolling down your cheeks
I been watching you build this for several weeks
Do you want to stay with me now, do you want to be so free, so free

Eight long years, you've gotta forget the days of pain
All your life you cannot fight every drop of rain
If you need me call me over, if you want me hold me closer, so near

Don't wake up and start your day so down
I'll be there to make like I'm your clown
With your laughter you fill my heart now, with your sorrow you're tearing me apart, my heart

Turn me round, I've got to find a way
Woman gotta live, gotta be a mother
Woman gotta give, gotta be a lover
Woman ought to live her life the way she feel
Woman ought to have the choice to make the deal

Hush your crying, brush my lips on yours
Miss your sighing, swept out on the moors
In your pain it's not so plain if I'm the one
That is to blame, my name

When he's grown and gone his way in time
Send him strong and full of love and lime
He's the one now make him happy, we're not done yet
I'll be his pappy, he's free



Ninety Two Years

Ninety two years of progress is beginning to decry the toil
City in chaos, country apathetic and there's something wrong with the soil
Secondhand truth, people so aloof
Don't you see your senator crying
Helpless, selfless, living off the lifeless
Ain't no wonder that there's so much prying

Sillified scenes of mongoloid plans
Anything to make a buck
Riptide, sulphide, throw it in the river
And your water's going to turn to muck
Maximinity, inferiority, they always gonna go together
Hamlet is the loser and Apollo is the winner
'Cause they tell me that's the new frontier now

God is on the road, along with Mr. Toad
They're looking for another planet
Christ is on a cross, he suffered heavy loss
And we're worshipping a piece of granite
Buddha's sittin' still, high upon a hill
He couldn't care one way or the other
Allah's in the bath, he doesn't want to laugh
'Cause he's sick of tellin' us we're brothers

Chorus:
We go to grow
I say grow
Grow


See You

See you
Free you
Then I think you'll find you have
The time to be you
And your days will stay so high
Filled with love of life and God inside
And the little things that bug you
Don't you let them get you down
I'll be there to hug you
When I think you're on the brink of down

Love you
Want you
A million different reasons why I need you
I will keep you safe and sound
Fields of jasmine round
To tie your hair
To see you there
In the haze that comes with summer
In the blue mist of your slumber
I will come to you in wonder
And I think I'll sometimes ponder
Are you me?

Dawn rise, sun sighs
I can see into your eyes
Green and gold morn, reflected o'er born
We speak in few words, we still the very birds
In love's belauded world, against the madding world



Troof

And the truth shall make you free
And the light is all around us
Even though some people really couldn't give it a damn
But those people gonna find out that the world
Is here to feel
And oh my God I do feel real, feel so real, real

Take my heart and lead me through
Will you be with me tomorrow?
Spinning my soul with all your love and care
And if you do decide to leave me
Then you must know the way I feel
And oh my God I do feel real, feel so real, real

Since the time I saw your face
I have wondered how to touch you
Bright light shining through the depths
Of my very core
And if you do decide to leave me
I will lose my even keel
But I'll still know I did feel real, felt so real, real

And the truth shall make us free
And I speak of a love unending
Even though some people really won't give it a chance
But we are here to make it stronger
For as many as want to feel
And oh my God, we could be real, could be real, real



Song For Northern Ireland

Come to thee, the peace, on a green and lovely island
If you please, if you please
Where the gorse is brightly growing
In the mirror of the morning
And the sweeping hills surround you
And the time it cannot bind you
With the cattle grazing slowly
While the sun is setting lowly to the ground
Such a golden sun above thee
When the rain is not upon thee
And the emerald glint abounds thee
And the colors dost astound thee
Can you see them through the bloodbath?
Can you see them through the tears your people shed?
And the wrath of God now smolders
And the weight's upon your shoulders
And the weight is never ending
'Till you're stopping all the killing
Don't you see?



Mr. President

Great God! What do you see
It's falling to the ground
The very fabric of our lives
Is turning upside down
We learn to kill before we read
To turn the bastard round
We got the means to foil the world
Does that mean we got to do it now?

Hey Mr. President I really do hope
That you don't watch your T.V.
And keep your fingers
Away from those buttons

For me and my family and my friends afar
And the ones we haven't met
We are aware of your sophisticated toys
And the violence they beget
We don't approve of the way things are
Much less the present set
Things gotta change in the next ten years
'Cause we don't intend to buy the farm yet

Mr. Prime Minister won't you administer
Decrees to decrease the war
It really ain't funny when you're
Makin' that money from

Gore and blood and spillin' his guts
And he really doesn't understand why
We been fillin' his head with
Vicarious dreams, 'bout the paradise
In the sky, and if you don't kill him
We'll kill you is our insidious reply
'Cause it's gone full circle
And returned again
And nobody really knows why

Hey Mr. Premier won't you take another year
To let your people be
Elevating, tolerating
All that they could be creating



Talking In The Garden

Talking in the garden
Yelling at the yardman
Can you look me in the eye with a clear live gaze
Through a knowing haze
All of us are slowly
Trucking through a world of pain
But being through the bane and the flat out rain
There's love around the man
Kindled by the work that he deems to do his way
Savior of a planet in its dying throes
He knows what must be done
Call upon the sun
Your actions intermittent, and you're slightly
Non-committal of your plans

Passing through the pasture
Have you ever asked her
If she'd like to spend the day
Fill your heart and soul
Make you feel real whole
Can you make a promise to the wind
That sets you free?
That you'll help us in our age
While we turn the page of life
Using our compassion in a way
That we know is right
Color isn't valid when there is no
Black and white, there's only light
Don't you be so mean
All is ever changing
And my God it's so
Amazing what we've seen

No is not the answer
That could give you cancer
Yes is what you have to say
To a world at large what a garbage barge
When will we begin to try
And make some peace
And money's such a bitch it can make you
Rich and poor to want some more
Ironic little rival to the fact
Of mere survival, what's in store?
Harmony resulting from the force of many minds
Of different kinds
Waking isn't trite
Spin us ever upward, can we do without
Our supper for the
Light in every being
Seeing is believing
Loving when we're able
Cards upon the table
Turn a world of sadness
Full of sudden gladness
Then we'll have some time to
Boogie!