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Of the TIme I Was Away

 

Of the time, of the time I was away
Of the light, the orange tropical days
All the children smiling how they feel now
Down the road that run along the river now

Don't you go
Don't you go and break my wheel

 

Of the time, of the time I was away
Of the night, the unpredictable ways
A woman just might put you in a rhythm now
A thief just might catch you by the wallet now

Don't you go
Don't you go and break my wheel

 

Some are here to entertain a girl now
Some are here to ask questions of the world now

Don't you go
Don't you go and break my wheel

 

Of the time, of the time I was away
Of the sight of Montego Bay
A sticky music penetrate the street now
There's a camp fire in the middle of the city now

Don't you go
Don't you go and break my wheel

 

From Far Banks

 

Put you down and put you up some
Many things go unperceived
Move in groups under the round sun
There's white eyes in the trees

 

I'm gonna watch you paint
From far banks
I'm gonna watch you paint
From far banks

 

Sittin on rocks watching the sky run
A calling sound, it goes unseen
Today can't we just have fun
There's clear pools in the stream

 

I'm gonna watch you paint
From far banks
I'm gonna watch you paint
From far banks

 

All of us as old as the first one
The plants and ground and everything
There's a voice that speaks without a tongue
And it's riding through the breeze

 

I'm gonna watch you paint
From far banks
I'm gonna watch you paint
From far banks

It's everything eventually
You'll understand

 

Strong Gap

 

We call them strangers for coming a long, long way from here
It's got me thinking about the strong gap between reality and dreams

You got me walking along the street stones, the same stones that my father walked on
But just ahead there, there's the crossroads where I'll be making my stand

 

We're going away, we're too far apart
We're going away, we're just too far apart

 

Now I'm coming round a corner track and know it's just more of the same poverty
Its got me thinking bout how many work under the few, what about my own seeds

 

We're going away, we're too far apart
We're going away, we're just too far apart

 

Now I'm coming down through district 4 and I can see the palm trees up in number 5, way up high
They say you better find your own way cause you get no help from no one, you can rely on no one

 

We're going away, we're too far apart
We're going away, we're just too far apart

 

And Then a Brown Haired Girl

 

Caught up in miracles, attracted to mystery
I know why I'm here but I don't know the reason we try
All of those years just waiting to come home at night
To put it inside of you, lifting you up off the floor

 

And there's blonde colored Tracy, she's naked and crazy
And all of the future my past has made up for
Salty and wet, the white water is rushing the shore
So feel your feet in the sea

 

In sweaty debauchery we're no longer holy
This moment has told me we no longer need what it's for
Oh oh, the pieces defeated the whole
Its all that I'd like to do, it's all that I'm longing for

 

There's bright yellow flowers in the mountains
And now I'm loving the way they look in her brown hair
When I look to the sky well I think we could live anywhere
As long as that horizon brings

 

Well I pictured myself in her bed
And I lived it soon after we met
And the sun makes the icebergs forget
Into rivers and then lakes and then where.....

 

Let the Time Be Time

 

Put down your life, let the time be time

Searching with light, but you never do find
Searching with light, but you never do find

Won't you let the time, let the time be time

 

Put down your life, let the time be time

Way down below it's the same mankind
Way down below it's the same mankind

Won't you let the time, let the time be time

 

Put down your life, let the time be time

We're falling into and yet you hold so tight
We're falling into and yet you hold so tight

Won't you let the time, let the time be time

 

Survive the Raid

 

Born free, born of the land and sea
Alive under ancient sky's moonlight

Gradually absorbing mentality
The youth in the elder's mold but rivers flow
And this river will flow

Survive, surive
Survive the raid
Survive, surive
Survive the raid
Survive, survive

 

It seems to me that we're living another's dream
The dream that the mercenary conceived

So ask why all of your passion died
Why some birds no longer fly, they just watch skies
They just watch skies

Survive, surive
Survive the raid
Survive, suvrive
Survive the raid
Survive, survive

 

Finally Fields

 

The cool metal tone of the glassy-eyed clones, they look but they are not seeing
The fireballs of the engines explode sending the birds away screaming
Down a narrow tube, funneling the filtered few
Convincing - you should be filtered too

 

We clomp our steps down the endless road, through tangles and corners we wander
The violence of the changing mold, these tornadoes are hungry for answers
It's a restless sea, a cut that will not bleed
We stare across a bridgeless blue

 

There's a feeling you know in the grassy green where sunlight is bending through marbles
Where Kid Kazam and his bag of sand could break the spell you are under
But elastic ropes, they will not let you go
So we stand alone in some crowded places

 

Along the wires of the fences that block, it's our fears and our worries repeating
Over and over burns the rhyme until sense is gained without feeling
Yes the waterfall, it fills up the pool below
Do you understand the machine that made you

 

We're lacking the pull of the "never before", our days become numbers
With it all so clean in this symmetry we are lost on an ocean of hours
So let's lose this bet with mojo sweaty night steps
Bring the sound of circles breaking

 

Inside the outs of the trackless beyond our own reflection is ending
What will we see in this opening when the light is chomping the shadow
Yes eventually the tangent must jump from the stream
So we walk along inside the outs

 

Finally
Finally
Finally
Finally Fields

 

Upriver Fade

 

All of a sudden such a light light load
What is time, what is time when I'm leaving

Down a lane where the fruit trees grow up to the sky
Up to the sky so I'm smiling

 

All my thoughts leave me now
All my thoughts, they leave me now
I'm fixed on a white light
Fixed on a white light
When all you know has gone away
It goes away, let it go away
Into a white light

 

Check the river how the water flow
Down a canyon under the tree, that's that freedom

And I like the way the sunshine glows into my eyes
Into my eyes so I am warm again

 

All my thoughts leave me now
All my thoughts, they leave me now
I'm fixed on a white light
Fixed on a white light
When all you know has gone away
It goes away, let it go away
Into a white light

 

No Borders

 

Aren't we the lucky ones
It seems like we go on and on and on
Don't worry about the lines
We'll cross it
We'll cross it

 

Now I have to say

Oh lord freedom knows there's no borders
Oh lord won't you hear me now, there's no borders
It's who we are
It's who we are now

 

Green trees they fill my eyes
Borders they leave my mind
Sunlight you show me know
All things as they really are
There's no borders
No borders
No borders

 

You make me want to say

Oh lord freedom knows there's no borders
Oh lord won't you hear me now, there's no borders
It's who we are
It's who we are now

 

Aren't we the lucky ones
It seems like we go on and on and on
Don't worry about the lines
We'll cross it
We'll cross it
We'll cross it
We'll cross it

 

 

Coin Chase

 

Blood, blood is running on down these streets
In a bush there hides a vampire
Run, run till you get what you need
You will break your back to build that empire

Come, come down the road which they lead
You know they need to wood for that engine
Don't you know the fire is coming

 

If I count my coin do I see the truth
And if I got no coin what's it make me do
It's all I know
It's all I know

 

Blood, blood is running on down these streets
In a the bush there hides the vampire
Could you run, run till you get what you need
Would you break your back to build that empire

Come, come down the road which they lead
You know they need to wood for that engine
Don't you know the fire is coming

 

If I count my coin do I see the truth
And if I got no coin what's it make me do
It's all I know
It's all I know

 

I roam the trees, saw a free country
I roam the trees, sam my free country
I roam the trees, saw a free country
I roam the trees, free country