Take It Easy

He came here out of nowhere
The man without a name
He brought no sense of vision
From a vast and empty plain
And all the darkness in her life
Simply cease to be
He took the place of a sentiment
He came up with the key
Now you stand there in the doorway
Silently you cry for help
You, you in your long and yellow nightgown
And your cast and rattled self
I see a woman of life's charades
Looking at me
I see the questions in your eyes
How do you want to be
You want to be like anyone else that's trying so
Hard in search
For themselves to be free
Take it easy
And we can make it, we can do anything in this
World if we only try
Get the prize
For free
Take it easy
And we can make it

Now the clouds are around the mountains
In a mantle like a velvet shroud
The mimosa is about to flower
And he is not so very proud
But life is good and life is cruel
It's always been the same
And if we can we will make it through
And look out at the rain
Even to the call of the mind's demise
The problem remains as to who gets the prize for free
Take it easy


I'm An American Child (On A Nuclear Pile)

I was born in Fort Worth, Texas with a silver spoon
The war was rollin,' and the deaths were tollin' and Crosby crooned
The year was '43, I started learnin' how to be and I was on my way
Partisans in Italy were fighting Mussolini's team and making hay
Then another two years of people shedding tears and it had all begun
This bludgeon of insanity, power into vanity, to make the sun
I started comprehending the beginning of the ending of the human race
Now all I want to do is stop the follow-through I want to save my face

Chorus:
'Cause I'm an American child on a nuclear pile
I been pampered, I been hampered, now I'm slandered, yeah!

Children of the twenty-first haven't got sense enough to raise their minds
Too busy gettin' crazy, or learnin' to be lazy, or tryin' to find
A way of bein' funny so to make a lot of money off another man's spine
Capitalist prigs and communist pigs, well you are all so fine
Always hypocritical, I think you're hypothetical, I will not climb
Cannot get in here, can't get out of there and there is no more time
And like the man said it's a pity he is dead, that all the world's a stage
So if you want to keep it for the next performance, you had better rage

Chorus

Now I got a feelin' that what we're really needin' is a lot of love
And the little man to say he can, regardless of the master plan or velvet glove
Stand up his integrity, and fight the things that he can see are oh so wrong
There is a good solution, and it's not a revolution, and it won't take long
Let loose that want to fight go slobber through the night with their neutron bombs
There is more creation in the face of devastation, there are just more slums
And if you want utopia, you cannot have myopia, it must be clear
And a little isolation, so to prop a falling nation, from its only fear


Implications

She brought me love like no one else has ever
Brought me through these many years,
She made me sound and took me 'round in ever upward swirling chandeliers

At the pain of an ending is like a cauldron seething in fire,
For no one else could ever take me higher
The roses sent were never meant as offerings of peace for all the tears,
Nor solace for the years alone

I cannot bring myself to voice my fears
Oh, but life you are sacred, you are the only the we bear,
You are adamant implication that we care
The winds of life have brought me strife, I must face up to what
I think is real, and if she wants to go to him I will not hold her back from what she feels
Ah the love gives me courage, it stops the pain and heals me inside,
My very soul is a thing I cannot hide
The windows in her eyes are dark
The stars are never there as they appeared and gone is all the joy for me
She's found another man and I am here

Ah the pain of an ending is like a cauldron seething fire,
For no one else could ever take me higher
In the sky to the blue of God's eye where the winds begin to blow
And the earth is brown and green and gold
With the universe above and I must not lose my love,
No I must not lose my love again


Lady In Violet

She's a lady in violet
She is inviolate
All alone
And no one can touch her 'cause I am not much of a rolling stone
When she walks down the street all the people she meets are just totally
Blown away by the fact that she puts on no act, she is on her own
When she stands by the sea I can hardly believe
There's a distant shore
'Cause she captures my own vision in a one way collision
Like a nova's born
The dignified lady that makes me so crazy at home

She is in white today, she takes away the grey from the clouds
And she weaves and she sways as she goes on her way and she parts the crowds
But a woman that's beautiful cannot be dutiful in her love
There's too many factions and lighting reactions the curing of
And I made the mistake of just letting her take my heart all the way
And now I must suffer the way she is tougher with me today

The dignified lady that makes me so crazy
That magical lady that makes me so hazy at home

But time passes easily, but stops when she looks at me moving slow
Like a bird on the wind and a flimsical whim she's too much to know
But she is destructive and almost reluctant to save her soul
And she goes toward her end in a state of chagrin though it's not her goal

Though she knows that I love her she cannot recover from all I've done
And he's in the middle and I am a riddle to ponder on

The dignified lady that makes me so crazy at home

But when she comes back to me after she's had her spree I will know
She'll come to my arms and I'll succumb to her charms like the falling snow
And I'll drink her nectar and never neglect her as long as I live
And all I can do is just hope that she's through and she wants to give
Now I wait for the day she will come up to me and say I love you
Then I'll break down and cry, then I will laugh at the sky
And I will know it's true

The dignified lady that makes me so crazy
That magical lady that makes me so hazy
The beautiful lady that makes me so crazy at home


Good Evening Madam

Good evening madam you take me by surprise
'Cause it's been a long time since I've looked into your eyes
Good evening madam and where would you like to go
To the bottom of the ocean or up into the mountain snow
I'll take you places that you have never been
Places in the world that few men have ever seen
'Cause now that you're with me I do believe we can begin again
Keepin' on living and knowing that there is no end

Good evening are you living in a state of grace?

And now that I leave you, you know where I will be
And I can only hope that one day we'll be free
May God be with you in everything you may intend
Keepin' on living and knowing that thee is no end


Lament Pour L'Enfant Mort

All I wanted was to hear him say
Will you tell me why there's light in the day?
Will you bring me to the why of things?
Will you tell me why the bumblebee stings?
To watch him grow into a man if he can
He never saw the people laughing gay
He never felt the way that man betrays
He never saw the countless stars above
He never felt what it is to love
He never smiled inside of him
He never climbed up to the highest limb
He never felt the strength of God inside
He never came into our lives
The child has died
And it would have been a little girl

I would have given her the whole wide world
She would have taken all her mother's grace
And all the beauty that is in her face
And all the fire that's in her eyes
The child has died

And we who live 'tween sea and sky
We laugh at life and then it makes us cry
We hold ourselves in high esteem
We're not as fine as we may seem
We'll never match the flower's bloom
We'll never stop the waning moon
But if we don't believe in love
Then we can say good-bye
For we will die
But life goes on all its days
And we may separate and go our ways
We have to learn to smile again
'Cause if you don't it is the very end
We have the love inside
It's hard to hide
The months have passed and it's still hard to be
We have to get back to that harmony
Accept the things we cannot change
And realize that life is strange
And love again with all our heart
Or be alone and walk into the dark
We musn't let our minds take us away, we have to learn what is the way


Julia's Letters

Julia writes me letters
Julia writes of life
Julia's joy cuts through her words like a surgeon's gleaming knife
Julia's got two babies
And another one is on the way
She is another one that works so hard just to keep on from day to day
Julia's got a new old house
It's bigger than the one before
James is working in a flour shop
He's learning how to make the dough
Julia tends the babies
Sometimes she is alone
She's just waiting for the day to end when her man'll be coming home
Julia is the power
Julia is the world
Julia keeps the harmony
And the next ought to be a girl
A little girl for the balance

A woman for a lonely man
Perfection in the form of a consciousness and a presence for an empty land
And Julia tries
And Julia cries
Julia writes me of her hopes inside
And Julia seems
To hold her dreams
Till they are real
Enough to feel
And when they come
They're like the sun
The warmth and light
And all is right

Chorus:
Oh Julia, James....Jesus, and Joaquin


Motes Of Dust

Motes of dust fly through the air they're dancing in his vacant stare
The hollows in his cheeks are haunted shadows
And down below the sea is strong, the wind it whips itself a froth
A storm is coming on, let's hope it passes
But storms will come with squalling rain and lightning hurled in screaming pain
The night becomes like mind left standing helpless
But thunder dies away in time to leave the silence so sublime
And once again the need for light is urgent

Though even in the center stage
A paler light doth he make rage
Than those who live their lives in poorest splendor
And diamonds yet festoon the trees
If you but have the eyes to see
To share it with the ones that you are loving
To cast your force into the land in hopes that you can make a plan
To live, let others live and not regret it
And love is peace and God is war
You've seen it all go down before
And more's the shame to stand by while it's happening
For we are like the storms at sea
A moment's life like lightning be
Ourselves our only slaves
And only masters


Ease Your Mind

Ease your mind
And leave your troubled heart behind you
Take your time
And I love you
Ease your mind
And leave your cares and the world behind you
Life can be unkind
And I love you
We're living now
Our life begins
You know you're always living in my mind
And I love you
Ease your mind
And I love you
Ease your mind
And I love you