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Dry In The Sun

 

Orange and green we ride to the edge of the dawn
Where the animals run, the animals run

All the eyes I've seen haven't been here for long
But the vision lives on, the vision lives on

Letting you out, out of your cage
Into your time, into your wave
Everyone knows what they can't see
Is a following friend, a shapeless dream

We dipped into the pond with the sweet laughing day
Where the source had begun, the source had begun

Spread out on the stones without any names
We dried in the sun, dried in the sun

Letting you out, out of your cage
Into your time, into your wave
Everyone knows what they can't see
Is a following friend, a shapeless dream

Oh these wobbling days
They shiver and they blaze
With the times like zebra skin
It's hard to know just where we've been

African birds, what do you know?
You flash the sky and streak the soul
I know for real that we're the same
Before the light there was a flame

 

In The TIme Of Man

 

In the time of man there were falling stars
They released ideas about who we are.  Can you tell me?
Are we cosmic rain?
Are we the ocean's babes?
In the time of your life
Well you just might find

And then woman came with her sweet, sweet taste
But I know what I know, don't you feel so antsy in those tight places
Do you want to stay?
Do you want to go?
In the time of your life
Well you just might find

On the morning stone with its silent grace
The wise wind told, put your feet on the ground and move forward with strength
Do we have souls inside?
Or is it all in our minds?
In the time of your life
Well you just might find

 

Fingertips

 

I think I'll use my fingertips, I think I'll use my fingertips
To feel the world

I like the way the dew drips, I like the way the dew drips
Onto the sand

This neighborhood is made of wood
Does it matter if we think we could
Step outside

What would you realize if I manifest my mind
What would you realize if I manifest my mind

The light is on below the bay
Looking down into lower space
The stars, they swirl

She's blonde and blue and she knows the truth
A lightening rod is what they used
To feel her buzz

The cat's clipped claws have grown again
And now they won't let him back in
Because he understands

What would you realize if I manifest my mind
What would you realize if I manifest my mind

What would you realize if I manifest my mind
What would you realize if I manifest my mind

 

Little Laughing Sound

The desert keeps me honest with dry teeth
The forest keeps me humming it's melody

Humble is the man that knows his place
Every point in time will be erased

So hear that little laughing sound

Crumbled was the city by the sea
Easy was the living before the siege

Dusty eyes look out into space
Randomness collides like ocean plates

So hear that little laughing sound

If all that you'd lost was found
Would you still need to find your way out
There's a light passing through the air
There's a man walking up the stairs

Do we wait for the form to appear
Or do the lines bend to where we steer

 

Gunny Sack

 

Take me to the corners of your dark dreams
Take me to the secrets they've been hiding
Cause I know that there's something there for sure

Everyone is bending to the norm now
All our thoughts are ending with a storm that flies by
Until everything is forgot

You can find it on the run with a gunny sack
Lying down in the sun
You can sense it with your eyes closed
When you hold them tight something has begun

Take me to the green field where I saw her
Take me to the night when we touched minds
Before it all was lost

A dusty road is leading to the south now
Following the rumors of a hole in the sky
And this pilgrimage still stands

You can find it on the run with a gunny sack
Lying down in the sun
You can sense it with your eyes closed
When you hold them tight something has begun

You can find it on the run with a gunny sack
Lying down in the sun
You can sense it with your eyes closed
When you hold them tight something has begun

 

Unseen Powers

 

Over the ice a pink light glows
Over the ice a pink light glows

Deep inside that same light beams
Is everything just what it seems?

I can't fly but I can slip into another state of mind
Unseen powers, lay within, they lay within the hours
Flirting with a spark nearly every single day
TIll my thoughts spin round and I find my way

In the neon streets the people stride
In the neon streets the people stride

A million thoughts and no one knows
A secret sleeps in the side shadows

I can't fly but I can slip into another state of mind
Unseen powers, lay within, they lay within the hours
Flirting with a spark nearly every single day
TIll my thoughts spin round and I find my way

Under the earth the lava flows
Under the earth the lava flows

Turning it over day by day
The churning loop and the magnet rays

I can't fly but I can slip into another state of mind
Unseen powers, lay within, they lay within the hours
Flirting with a spark nearly every single day
TIll my thoughts spin round and I find my way
 

Narrow Streams

 

Elephants are sauntering through a shady crystal green
Walking in the park with me, walking in the park with me

Sitting in the basement, talking to the future
Dreaming about the present, thinking about what might have been

The glass bowl bends these images, it translates what the sunlight says

Blowing up perceptions, asking lots of questions
My good man he knows but where do we go from here

The jungle and the jive and the Mississippi slide
Mama don't look now cause the coast is not clear

Tales are spun but you can't find

The opposites are blending, taking sense from everything
I imagine myself rowing a blade of grass down narrow streams

Sitting in the basement, talking to the future
Dreaming about the present, thinking about what might have been

Blowing up perceptions, asking lots of questions
My good man he knows but where do we go from here

Tales are spun but you can't find

 

The Silver Symbol

 

Chased into the field
Where the silver symbol gleams
I don't know what it is
But it's right here next to me

Its light cannot describe anything that's in this life

It pulls us from within
With magnetic imagery
Its emptiness calls out
And something in us leaves

Working where I'm told
With the symbol on my sleeve
The white walls on the ridge
Are painted beautifully

So I can't clearly see what it is that they keep

It pulls us from within
With magnetic imagery
Its emptiness calls out
And something in us leaves

Take me through the trials of the seasons
Let me know the hunter's got his reasons
Send me to the spires of the mountains
Touch me with that whisper on my bare skin
Speak to me the language of emotion
Tell me bout the surge that's been waiting
Deep down in the center red and blazing
Red and blazing
Red and blazing
Red and blazing

The ice melts in the sun
Your consciousness springs
You've taken back your eyes
You've taken back your eyes
You've taken back your eyes
You've taken back your eyes
You've taken back your eyes
You've taken back your eyes

Now go and live your life
Now go and live your life
Now go and live your life
Now go and live your life
Now go and live your life
Now go and live your life
 

 

Blue Fuzz

 

 

Blue fuzz, open your mouth to the sky

Blue fuzz, do what you feel is right

 

Flower, flower

 

Its a buzz in your mind

So far back, so far behind

You just can't tell what it is

It just pops up like a memory before time

Like a memory before time

 

Blue fuzz, open your arms to the sky

Blue fuzz, gather your breath from the night

 

Flower, flower

 

Its a buzz in your mind

So far back, so far behind

You just can't tell what it is

It just pops up like a memory before time

Like a memory before time

 

 

 

Up The Walls

 

Up the walls, up to the ceiling
You're gonna drive me out
Chalk it up, pin it down
Walk along the lines

We can talk, we can rub
Play some cards but don't lock me in a small room

Oh oh, it's a mountain
Oh oh, it's a kind word
Oh oh, I can see through this fog

Afternoon is sweaty hot
Stagnant and confined
Pace the boards to make it clear
But still it burns your eyes

We can talk, we can rub
Play some cards but don't lock me in a small room

Oh oh, it's a mountain
Oh oh, it's a kind word
Oh oh, I can see through this fog

Oh, the way you walk
The way you move
You know I like it, I like it
You know I like it

Swallowed up by motion and the flutter in the corner of your eye
We've been taken past the point where the prism can deny the light

We can talk, we can rub
Play some cards but don't lock me in a small room

Oh oh, it's a mountain
Oh oh, it's a kind word
Oh oh, I can see through this fog