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Distance To Find

 

Never seen the eyes of a magic man
Never seen the snows of the very north pole

All the world just a floating pearl
No sense of time in the insect mind

I’ve got my own distance to find

The dragon of the East on a folding
The island chief with his harem in the sand

Wooden wheel through the age of steel
Is it a black hole or universal soul

I’ve got my own distance to find
 

 

Eastern Bells

 

I see you out at night
The girl that couldn’t sleep
Walking under lights
That give shadows to the trees one more time
One more time

There comes a time when the wind will start to blow
When the horses are standing on the beach
When the sound is flying through your mind you can’t leave

Deep down in the dark
It all can be bought
The days that never came
Are rolling round your thoughts one more time
One last time

There comes a time when the crows will share a glance
When your connections will all start to fade
When the sound is flying through your mind
You can’t stay

The eastern bells
In your mind



Orange Canoe

 

Caught up in a blitz
Indian islander yellow shirt bullshit

Put some milk on your fingertips
And watch the tiger stripes hypnotize
Your bouncing eyes

In my canoe
My orange canoe

The white whale is crossing the sea
And there’s  a thunderstorm thundering

This jungle, it has no end
So now we forever begin

In my canoe
My orange canoe

And we say “oh oh oh”

 

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The Hirondelle Song

 

The hirondelles (swallows) are flying easy
There they go, they’re laughing at my feet
Send my regards to the chief, way down in Africa
Well it hurts to see you leave

Oh no, I’m not a farmer
Oh no I can’t water the same seeds
The neighbors are proud of all they own
But really man, it just don’t mean shit to me

Oh a fluttering feeling
Way down in the mines
And I know we’re gonna go

And now she wants to have my baby
She says, “Oh its really no big thing.  We can still get away for the weekend.”
Its a crazy thing ending up in your dream

The steamboat is slowly churning
Floating through forests that breathe
There’s no telling where it goes
But you’re right next to me ending up in my dream

Oh a fluttering feeling
Way down in the mines
And I know we’re gonna go

Dah da da da da dah

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A Circle In The Sky

 

A circle in the sky
A thickness in the air
Scooped out with a wing
The condor knows its there

I watch you climb

High above the stones
A weight that’s left behind
Ego and pretense
Drifting out of sight

I watch you climb



Pink Bend

 

Sitting in the backyard
Miles from the front door
I can see the ocean
I can see a lot more

Waiting for the pink lights
In between the black waves
I’ve got my little feelings
No one knows the way

I see the day
And all the night
Coming back
Out of sight

A long way



Frozen Lights

 

Oh this life has meaning

But that feeling comes and goes

I feel locked down in the winter

With a light that no one knows

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Please, please believe me

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When I say play play play play play with your friends

Go now play play play play play with your friends

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We charged that hill without a reason

I can see it flashing by

We climbed those trees without thinking

Just to feel the open sky

 

Please, please believe me

 

When I say play play play play play with your friends

Go now play play play play play with your friends

 

 

 

Athens In The Galaxy

 

Fifteen days in the mountains
Taught me all there is to know
Underneath is a labyrinth
From up above we all live so small

I laid down long in the meadow
I let so much leave my hands
The center of the truth has no weight
The future that I fear cannot be saved

I left this world for another
I ran towards life and far from place
The sweet morning of the woman
A thousand faces in the great lake

The marbled cities of the ancients
Like the bones of a man
In a galaxy that has no end
I’m walking down a street in Athens

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This Might Be What I'm After

 

All you have been is leaving
With the soft steps of the evening
This might be what I’m after

For your life now, there’s no reason
At least not the one you’ve been thinking
This might be what I’m after

The Gods have run away without speaking
And still we sit here carefully listening
This might be what I’m after

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Between Strangers

All the eyes that just fly by
They could be something shiny and new
But be prepared for the stone cold stare
Yeah she’s loving everything that I do
And all at once well I see my thoughts
And I grab my lucky elephant ear

Its a long ghost that’s following me
I think its time you  saw the things that I see

Feel the day like its going away
Cause baby that’s all you really have
We’re in between on the edge of a wing
Toes made of glass
She’s got the German slang and the skin like rain
And I’ve just gotta see what’s in her bag

Its a long ghost that’s following me
I think its time you  saw the things that I see
Ordering an old man to put his blood on the wall
Torturing an old God that’s ready to fall


 

Dark Hairs Blonde

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Your father's eyes

They would shine so bright in the evening

He'd point out the stars

That now light your way

In this bamboo night

Where the insects scream as one

By this brackish stream where you really must decide

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We turned all our dark hairs

We turned all our dark hairs blonde

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Down from the pines and into the golden promise

Into the smoke where the voices spoke of themselves

And up the stairs, you shook their hands and climbed

Till the final door till there was nothing left to find

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We turned all our dark hairs

We turned all our dark hairs blonde

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We turn and we turn and we turn

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Another woman in the sheets

Another place I haven't seen

Another meal on my plate

Another push into the day

Can this cycle bring me peace

Or will it be the end of me

We used to sit down and speak

Under the cypress tree

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