Do You Wonder

Do you ever see what you want to be
Do you wonder
Do you ever feel that you're not being real
Hear the thunder

And woman you're so enticing
You're the cake and not the icing
Can't you see?
And you'll wake up one of these mornings
To the sound of your own drummer
Wait and see

And you'll wake up feeling open,
Filled with the force of hoping
Makin' your big decision
In the face of all derision
And you'll find it so insightful
You'll be feeling so delightful
Can't you see?
And you'll wake up one of these mornings
To the sound of your own drummer
Wait and see

In the space that you're displacing
Ain't no sense in your evading
How to be
And the direction that you're facing
Ain't no use in all your racing
Just you be

And woman you're so enticing
You're the cake and not the icing
Can't you see?
And you'll wake up one of these mornings
To the sound of your own drummer
Wait and see


Xasper

He got trouble, he got strife
He got difficulty in his life
He got trouble walkin' on his toes
And I think there's something wrong with his nose

And he don't know where he's goin'
And he don't care where he's been
But now he knows he's alive givin' out with his jive
And he's makin' me pale with his sad little tale about love

He got women, he got wine
He got everything to make him feel fine
He got everything this world can give
But he still don't know how to wake up and live

And he don't know where he's goin'
And he don't care where he's been
But now he knows he's alive givin' out with his jive
And he's makin' me pale with his sad little tale about love

'Cause he be too black and too proud
Or too white and too loud
He be too low or too high
The difference is he's frightened and he don't know how to try

And he don't know where he's goin'
And he don't care where he's been
But now he knows he's alive givin' out with his jive
And he's makin' me pale with his sad little tale about love



City To City

City to city, we're on the road
And we don't know where we're bound
We just bringing you music lovers
The sound there is around
And when we come into your town
You can bet we will astound
We will play you all we've found
We will fill your life with sound

We will sing you a song
We will do you no wrong
We will brighten up your day
We will make you a king with an eloquent ring
We will serenade your queen

White line flashin' and the wheels are roarin'
And the country's rollin' by
From the snow capped Rockies to the Midwest plains
We will stop and tell you 'hi'
And if you want to hear our story
We will never bring you down
And we will play you all we've found
We will fill your life with sound

We will sing you a song
We will do you no wrong
We will brighten up your day
We will make you a king with an eloquent ring
We will serenade your queen

From New York City to the angel town
We will always come again
We will bring you a storm or a summer's day
But right inside your head
So when we come into your town
You must bring your folks around
We will play you all we've found
We will fill your life with sound

We will sing you a song
We will do you no wrong
We will brighten up your day
We will make you a king with an eloquent ring
We will serenade your queen



Blunt And Frank

Mr. Blunt and Mr. Frank
Were standin' in the halls of their 7 figure bank
Wonderin' what in the world
They were gonna do for you

I can take the brunt
If you can take the flank
Explained Mr. Blunt to timid Mr. Frank
Wonderin' what in the world
They were gonna do for you

We been stealin' this money most every day
And ain't nobody caught us in any way
But something's tellin' me
Now our goose is cooked
We been raisin' our prices
On the kiddies ices
And the bedroom suites on the corner store
Don't you think that they could go up some more?

Then with everybody jivin'
About how to be survivin'
We could bring 'em back down again
And it's gone full circle
While the world bank wins again

Revolution no solution
To the government's illusion
That the people are amusin'
With the prices that we're usin'
And I think that they're abusing
Everything that we try to do
Defamation to the nation
That is drowning in inflation
Immigration, isolation is a useless tabulation
To the calculation that the world
Is gonna want to come to you
So people in distress gonna worry nonetheless
'Bout the monetary mess from an educated guess, never really blessed
I think we must confess it now

So people jump and shout,
Everything is out
And I've said what I have to say
Everybody sit back
While I get ready to play
Where you gonna go
When the people gonna know
That they're ripping us off again
Right back down
To the same old hole we been in
Bet your bottom dollar
That you're really gonna holler
When your friends turn you down again
Not a thin dime
To keep in you in your time of men



Believe In Life

I believe in something
I do believe I believe in life
I do believe that the sun is shining, on the other side of the night
And I know that we are growing
We should spread through the land,
We got time, and it ain't no crime
To want to hold your brother's hand
And it all depends on if you're feelin' fine!

I got time to love you,
I got time to make you mine
We got time to make the circle in the best part of our lives

But the worst part of the waiting is the time that you're away
And I ain't denyin' that I feel like cryin'
When the plane takes off again
And it all depends on if you're feelin' fine

We are made of sunbeams
We are made of molten glass
We can light the fire of living
We can learn with an ugly past
We can roar into the future
Like a bull with battered brains
And it's a mighty thin line
'Tween livin' and dyin
And all these stupid games
And it all depends on if you use your mind

All the world is spinning 'round
Slow and sure and voidly bound
To keep the weed of life alive
To take back those who won't survive
Whether in the air or the wind tossed sea
Life is gonna be there that you see
We're the only ones that sit and count the hours
And all the stars and all the flowers
And the myriad means to accrue our powers to shape the hand of fate
His name is destiny

And if we can refrain from the game of pain
There's nobody left now to place the blame
I see no reason why we can't go on in life
I say life



As All Is Played

As all is played
We can't evade
We all are made
In nature's glade

And Lord I pray
To live this day
To walk away
To feel and say
The words I know

To see the snow
To see the rain
To hold the pain
Of life
Sweet life
Again

And some will say
They're on their way
To see the light
Beyond the night
And on and on

Beyond the sun
Into the soul
Of all the whole
Of life
Of God's delight in love



Golden Flower

The golden flower of a love that is blooming
Makes me believe that something, somewhere is looming
The sounds of morning intermingling our living
In evening laughter is the stillness of giving

The silver showers of life in its crystal form
Don't have to be forlorn
Go on and know you're born now,
Make peace inside and you will watch as the days they go by

She took my hand and led me down to the water,
I kissed her lips and never since have I faltered,
They come between us shadows of human failing
Then pass like clouds before the wind's bitter wailing

The understanding in explicit simplicity
Comes to you blindingly, never you mindingly how
It makes its changes and yet nothing is changed
You're enthralled

The mind and heart they should be one thing together
We're born and die but they will go on forever
Our fear of being hurt and hurting is finally
The only constant in our scope of reality

In tears of sadness we call on our fellow clan
Explain if you think you can, I am but just a man now,
We're being guided we can look to ourselves for the way
We're being guided we can look to ourselves for the way



Looking At The Angel

Sitting still and looking at the angel
Giving life and granting all the love
And I know that all of us are able
We can live in love above it all

There's a time of the year when you start to feel your fear
And you really wonder where you're going
And you know you hear the call
When the leaves begin to fall
And the melancholy's fast approaching
But with the mountains so clear
You know another year has gone and nearly passed you by
Then all you need is joy
Like that of a little boy
To live in rapturous wonder

Must we kiss the height of our delusion,
Idolize the spectra of illusion
And all your prayers and tribulations
Rack and tortured exaltations
And our cornered expectations
And our ferocious intimations
We are more

How I wish that you were not deluded
I sympathize, I know it's very hard
We have to live in midst of the confusion
But even so we all can touch a star

But the greatest thing of all
Is the coming of the call,
'Cause it keeps you on your toes
It's catching

And you know you got a friend,
When you deign to let her in
'Tis the angel of the briefest passing,
And when the sunset's aflame
You know it's all a game
But no one really plays the same,
And all we got is rules
To keep us from the fools
That live in heartless cruelty


Summer Vignette

He will squire his gentle lady
Through the chores of being hazy
While he waits to be believed that he is home
And the double toil of living makes it so much more fulfilling
When she comes into his arms
She keeps him warm
Then she bestows her favors gently
Then she scratches him perversely
And he loves it when her lips descend and sigh
Then he thinks of getting bolder,
But he knows he's getting older
And he knows that they will live until its
Time keeps rolling
All is growing

And the time is passing by them
And she knows she can't deny him,
All the love she has to give
And so much more
And like the seasons and the weather
He will love her more than ever
She's the woman that he wants to call his own

On a summer day bye and bye
With a lone cloud in the sky
And the light that's in your eye
I see you
On a summer day bye and bye
On a summer day bye and bye