"Blues For Your Baby"



Well, Mister Saxman, how do you do?
There's nobody here but me and you
You've been blowin' all night I know and you need your rest
But before you go to bed, man, I've got one request

You played a blues for your baby
Now play a blues for me
You played a blues for your baby
Now play a blues for me

Ah, Mister Saxman, don't be shy
Don't be complaining that your mouth is dry
I got a bottle of something right here in my coat
Stone guaranteed to lubricate your throat

You played a blues for your baby
Now play a blues for me
You played a blues for your baby
Now play a blues for me

Now, Mister Saxman, I know you play your horn
Like every shred of your soul was tattered and torn
You can make it sound like crying
You make it sound like a full flood of tears
Bring that thing over here

Let me hear you play it for the lost and the lonely
Play it for the tricked and misused
I want to hear you play it for every storm-blown disappointed soul
For every heart that's been abused

Let me hear you play it for all the women in the world
And make it blue
And Mister Saxman, play it for me
Because I'm hurting too

You played a blues for your baby
Now play a blues for me
You played a blues for your baby
Now play a blues for me

"Bring 'Em All In"



Bring 'em all in, bring'em all in, bring 'em all in,
Bring 'em all in, bring 'em all into my heart
Bring 'em all in, bring 'em all in, bring 'em all in
Bring 'em all in, bring 'em all into my heart

Bring the little fishes
Bring the sharks
Bring 'em from the brightness
Bring 'em from the dark

Bring 'em from the caverns
Bring 'em from the heights
Bring 'em from the shadows
Stand 'em in the light

Bring 'em out of purdah
Bring 'em out of store
Bring 'em out of hiding
Lay them at my door

Bring the unforgiven
Bring the unredeemed
Bring the lost, the nameless
Let 'em all be seen
Bring 'em out of exile
Bring 'em out of sleep
Bring 'em to the portal
Lay them at my feet

Bring 'em all in, bring 'em all in, bring 'em all in,
Bring 'em all in, bring 'em all into my heart
Bring 'em all in, bring 'em all in, bring 'em all in
Bring 'em all in,bring 'em all in to my heart

"Bury My Heart"



Bury my soul
Where the dust meets the sea
Turn it loose in a lonely place
Where man can still be free
Make up my clothes and sheets
In a ball, put them in the ground
Tell my children only truths
Teach them to be proud
Tell them dreams and miracles
When thy thunder stops
Bury my heart!

Bury my heart!

I was born a travelling trooper
But I laid my wings to rest
Once I beat myself in squallor
Now I feather up my nest
There are flags in my back yard
Colours on my wall
I pay my servant well
But I made the bastard crawl
And I pretend no blessed evil soul
That I don't hear that thunder start
Bury my heart!

There's a lily in the valley
Where I brought the news to Ro
I offered him my visions but
The heathen rose to go
So I took my shining sabre and I slew
My sinning friend
A christian burial was all he needed
To make him whole again
And I looked up way above me
and God rent the sky apart
Bury my heart!

Bury my heart!
Bury my heart!

We're God's chosen people
This and other truths I know
Put them into vicious practice
Because the bible tells me so
And I drowned the noble savage
In the blessed holy water
I burned his filthy village
And I civilized his daughter

The liars in this world
Who say we shame the blood of Christ
But killing is his mercy
And nits grow into lice

And all those gooks I napalmed
Man, I did it in God's name
When the fools put me on trial I shouted out
I'm not to blame -- I did it for him!
I did it for him!

I did it for him!
He made do it!
He tore the heavens apart

Bury my heart!
Bury my heart!
Bury my heart!

Now I'm going to wilderness
On a horse that I can trust
I will die where I fall
In the hot dry dust
And if you come to that place
Remember this truth

That he who's born to property
Is he who's born to lose
Will you bury my soul
Where the dust meets the sea
Will you bury my heart
At Wounded Knee!
Bury my heart
At Wounded Knee!
Bury my heart
At Wounded Knee!
Bury my heart!

"Cathy"



Cathy so crazy 'bout all the latest fashions
Sits in her empty room staring at the wall
She lives in a castle somewhere in the mountains
Oh I wish that she was in love with me
In love with me

Watch her as she looks up from the pages of her paper
She tosses her head and slowly looks away
Pours another measure from her half empty bottle
Oh I wish that she was in love with me
In love with me
Oh I wish that she was in love with me

Slowly she pours herself another picture
Sinks down into her oldest saxon chair
Looks up and crosses her heart out with all the debris
Oh I wish that she was in love with me
In love with me!

"Church Not Made With Hands"



Bye-bye shadowlands
The term is over
And all the holidays have begun
Now she walks in fresh fields
Her tracks are on the land

She is everywhere and no place
When it's dark and evening falls
She moves among men
They would seek to have her as a prize
But she is in the shadows
The ocean and the sand

She is everywhere and no place
Her church not made with hands
Not contained by man

She is dancing high as clouds
Faster than the arrow
As straight as any crows that flies
Accross great seas she travels
Up through rising lands

She is everywhere and no place
Her church not made with hands
Not contained by man

Isn't that a pretty sun
Setting in a pretty sky?
Will we stay and watch it darken?
Will we stay and watch it darken?

The church not made by hands
Not contained by man
That precious place
Unmade by man

"Come Live With Me"



Come live with me and be my love
Share my bread and wine
Be a part of me, the heart of me
Be mine

Come live with me and be my love
Let our dreams combine
Be wife to me, be life to me
Be mine

With these hands I will build a roof
To shield your head
And with these hands I will carve the wood
For our baby's bed

Come live with me and be my love
And let me love you all the time
Be mate to me, be fate to me
Be mine

I will try to do my best for you
I swear, I promise you
I will cry for you, I will comfort you
My whole life through

Come live with me and be my love
Share my bread and wine
Be a part of me, be the heart of me
Be mine

"Corn Circles"



Corn Circles
Appearing all over the land
Corn Circles
Appearing all over the land
Nobody knows where they come from
Nobody understands

Corn Circles
Mysterious symbols in the fields
Corn Circles
Mysterious symbols in the fields
No one knows - are they phony
Or maybe are they real?

Corn Circles!
Corn Circles!

Corn Circles
Is somebody playing a trick?
Corn Circles
Pixies, witches, hoaxers
Take your pick
Throw a few theories out there
See what sticks!

Corn Circles!
Corn Circles!

Corn Circles
Patterns in the gold
Corn Circles
Pretty patterns in the gold
Like something out of the future
Or something very old

Corn Circles!
Corn Circles!

"Crown"



I've had money, and I've lost it
seen an ocean, nearly crossed it
I have been to another world and I have returned
and for every high joy a hard lesson learnt

But when love comes tumbling down
I will wear a crown

I've had power, I've used and abused it
tasted glory, I have wooed and refused it
Tried to live in a sacred way, I did and I did not
and for everything I've lost, there's been something else I've got

But when love comes tumbling down
I will wear a crown

I've been up and I've been down
sometimes almost level with the ground
Once in every hundred years I can
still remember who I am

Been in danger, I tried to face it
I saw a mirage, and for seven years I chased it
I'm not through with my changes,
I've got a long way still to run
I'm going to play this show even if nobody comes

But when love comes tumbling down
when love comes tumbling down
When love comes tumbling down
I will wear a crown

"Custer's Blues"



Well you look just like General Custer
On the day of his last stand
Heading up proud and glorious
Singing "this land is my land"
Sword it by your side
And map in your hand
Heading up into the rain
Singing "this land is my land"

Now I've seen your dust arising
Lord, your horses smell
I've seen you crossing across the bad lands
And I've seen you towing your line as well
I've watched you when you're sleeping
I've seen you filling up your can
Singing as you work
That this land is my land

You're busting into my country
Messing up my fields
Playing games in my holy places
Tearing the earth with your wheels
right now your star is ascending
And your head is busting with pride
But I wonder if Custer was still singing
"This land is my land" when he died

Was he still singing "It's is my land" when he died?
Was he singing when he died?

"December"



December is the cruelest month
This time for once my cheeks are warm
After long years in the monkey-house
I am ready for the storm
Let them throw all their cannonballs
Let all their strongmen come
I'm ready to go anywhere
Through venom, sick and scum!

December isn't always cold
This year she's mine, I know why
Somewhere a flower has to grow
For every flower that dies
I'm stricken with fever
But my heart is strong as steel
I'm ready to go anywhere!
I can believe I can feel!

December is a trusted friend
I always recognise her face
It's a plague of fool thrown aside
Forever by her soft and silent grace
She is reckless as a Mayday
Gentle as a stone
She's ready to go anywhere
To carry me back home!

December fell deep in the bleak
Winter time when Jesus Christ
Howled to save your baby's howl
Primal truth as pure as ice
And though we crucified him on a cross
And dragged his word from payer to curse
He was able to go anywhere
He was almost one of us!

"Destinies Entwined"



Her point of view was radical
More than just a change of plan
She sold me her proposal
Which I did not understand
She said the secret is in the road
I tried to decode the signs
And followed her for seven years
All eyes and ears
Our destinies entwined
Our destinies entwined

The new land lay like Eden
Underneath my hungry feet
Its trees were talk
its people all so noble in defeat
Men were digging
Men were building
Men were killing time
I took a spade and volunteered
A pioneer
Our destinies entwined
Our destinies entwined

I made a stand on principle
but I had not grasped the facts
One folly breeds another
I made all the wrong contacts
I fell in with strange company
for their armour it did shine
I took the only path I knew
they took it too
Our destinies entwined
Our destinies entwined

While all men shouted black is white
And swore that good is ill
I saw three crosses pierce the sky
Above a distant hill
The sky burned red as I turned my head
And I left that scene behind
I took another god to be my guide
The one inside
Our destinies entwined
Our destinies entwined

I lay in bed and as stumbled
from the vale of sleep
across the theatre of my mind
A passing thought did creep
That love is all and all is love
Love infinitely kind
I woke and glimpsed through prison bars
A billion stars
Our destinies entwined
Our destinies entwined

Our destinies entwined
Our destinies entwined

"Don't Bang The Drum"



Well here we are in a special place
What are you gonna do here?
Now we stand in a special place
What will you do here?
What show of soul are we gonna get from you?
It could be deliverance, or history
Under these skies so blue
Could be something true,
But if I know you you'll bang the drum
Like monkeys do

Here we are in a fabulous place
What are you gonna dream here?
We are standing in this fabulous place
What are you gonna play here?
I know you love the high life, you love to leap around
You love to beat your chest and make your sound
But not here man - this is sacred ground
With a Power flowing through
And if know you you'll bang the drum
Like monkeys do

Here we stand on a rocky shore
Your father stood here before you
I can see his ghost explore you
I can feel the sea implore you
Not to pass on by
Not to walk on by
And not to try
Just to let it come
Don't bang the drum
Just let it come
Don't bang the drum
Just let it come
Don't bang the drum
Do you know how to let it come now?
Don't bang the drum
Just let it come now..
Don't bang the drum...
Don't bang the drum
Don't bang the drum
Don't bang the drum
Don't bang the drum
Don't bang the drum
Don't bang the drum
Don't bang the drum
Don't bang the drum
Don't bang the drum

"Down Through The Dark Streets"



Down by old house
Over the bridge
Down through the dark streets
Where we used to live
Out by the cornfield
And the sycamore trees
Down to the water
Will you come, Lassie please?

Snow in the town square
December afternoon
Christmas lights
A crescent moon
A boy selling chestnuts
Roasted and brown
Dropping black cinders
That hiss on the ground
You and I stand like strangers
In our Hokusai clothes
Like we come from some strange country
That nobody else knows
And to go where the wind blows
Are just the words of thieves
So will you come with me, Lassie
Will you come Lassie, please?

There's a place there by the river
I never showed you before
But when I'm far away
That's where I go
Outside it's lamplight
High time we leave
Winter-a-borning
Will you come Lassie, please?

The big blue sea between us
Is thousands of miles
It's cruel I know
But you just have to smile
I'd be back for you
If I could just believe
That everything is right and pure
That everything is right and pure
That everything is right and pure
Will you come, Lassie, please?

"Dumbing Down The World"



I'm dumbing down the world
Yes, I'm dumbing down the world
And my head is held high
And the glint in my eye
And my arrogance rumbles before me!

I'm dumbing down the world!
I'm dumbing down the world!
I'm dumbing down, I'm dumbing down the world!
I'm dumbing down the world!

And my thoughts are banal, like a stagnant canal
and my sycophants shamble behind me

I'm dumbing down the world
Yeah, I'm dumbing down the world
I'm dumbing down, I'm dumbing down the world
Yeah, I'm dumbing down the world!

And my power is come around, is come around
Yes! My hour is come around, is come around - look around!

I'm dumbing down the world
Yes, I'm dumbing down the world

And my works are designed to suck blood from your mind
for you energy feeds and sustains me!

I'm dumbing down the world!
Yes, I'm dumbing down the world
I'm dumbing down the world (and I love it!)
I'm dumbing down the world

"E.B.O.L."



You are an eternal being of love
You are the light of the world

"Every Breath Is Yours"



Every breath is yours, beloved
Every breath is yours
Every breath is yours, beloved
Every breath is yours I give myself to you, beloved
The self that I thought I was
I give myself to you, beloved
The self that was mystified and lost

Every breath is yours, beloved
Every breath is yours
Every breath is yours, beloved
Every breath is yours

Who is it moves in me, beloved?
Whose hands and feet are these?
Who is it moves in me, beloved?
Whose heart beats? who breathes?

Every breath is yours, beloved
Every breath is yours
Every breath is yours, beloved
Every breath is yours
Every breath is yours

"Everybody Takes A Tumble"



To break your heart into rubble
Is what I'm here to do
I've got nothing but trouble, babe
In store for you
I've got one eye fixed on the main chance
One hand behind your back
And you just stumbled blind, babe
Right into my track

And that's when you fell so low
Everybody takes a tumble, don't you know?
That's when you fell so low
Pick yourself off the floor before you go

There's vengeance in my belly
Slime on both my shoes
And everything bad that you ever heard
About little old me is true
My trigger finger is itchy
My humour is black
And you just stumbled blind, babe
Right into my track

And that's when you fell so low
Everybody takes a tumble, don't you know?
That's when you fell so low
Pick yourself off the floor before you go

Now the devil drives a hard bargain
Preacher burns his hands
Fireman makes a sermon
Lord surveys his lands
Huck Finn just went out for sticks
He ain't coming back
And you just stumbled blind babe
Right into my track

And that's when you fell so low
Everybody takes a tumble, don't you know?
That's when you fell so low
Pick yourself off the floor before you go

Faces start-a shining
Flags begin to sway
Would you believe I came a long distance
To be with you today
Your crooked partner
He just got the sack
And you just stumbled blind babe
Right into my track

And that's when you fell so low
Everybody takes a tumble, don't you know?
That's when you fell so low
Pick yourself off the floor before you go

"Fisherman's Blues"



I wish I was a fisherman
Tumblin' on the seas
Far away from dry land
And its bitter memories
Casting out my sweet line
With abandonment and love
No ceiling bearin' down on me
Save the starry sky above
With light in my head
You in my arms
Woo!

I wish I was the brakeman
On a hurtlin' fevered train
Crashing a-headlong into the heartland
Like a cannon in the rain
With the beating of the sleepers
And the burnin' of the coal
Counting the towns flashing by
In a night that's full of soul
With light in my head
You in my arms
Woo!

Tomorrow I will be loosened
From bonds that hold me fast
That the chains all hung around me
Will fall away at last
And on that fine and fateful day
I will take thee in my hands
I will ride on the train
I will be the fisherman
With light in my head
You in my arms

Light in my head
You in my arms

"Further Up, Further In"



Further up, further in
Further up, further in

I dreamed the wind came to my house
These are the words fell from his mouth
"The King you seek you'll find him true
but only if he rides the road with you"

Further up, further in
Further up, further in

I was sent to the war, stripped of my power
Gagged and imprisoned in a tall dark tower
I must have cried for an age or more
Till I saw through tears and I found the door

Further up, further in
Further up, further in

I stepped aboard a ship that flew
It took me wherever it wanted to
Far above land, far above sea
The Dreamer and the Doer agreed to agree

Further up, further in
Further up, further in

High on a cliff, in georgeous clothes
A madman danced on the balls of his toes
Forgetting myself I fell at the feet
Of the greatest Fool I ever did meet

Further up, further in
Further up, further in

The stars were bright and magic afoot
On the summer wind rose the sound of a flute
I saw the musician, my heart knew Him well
What happens next, no rhyme can tell !

Further up, further in
Further up, further in

We came to the end of the world one day
A dolphin swam in a sheltered bay
I paid to the King what it was I owed,
Put my face to the wind, and my foot on the road

Further up, further in
Further up, further in

I find I've wandered far from home
But home is in me wherever I roam
I thought I was an hour or a year behind
But the hours and the years are only time

Further up, further in
Further up, further in

"Gala"



Gala hangs from the window frame
Dressed in black and white
Her face is colourless
In the moonlight
She turns around and her lips move
But the words just drop away
She leans on the back of a chair
And her arms begin to sway
She and I can hear voices
Talking in the room next door
Saying things we used to say
That we can't believe in any more
We've seen too many castles crumble
Made too many innocent mistakes
Who could have known that one house
Could hold so much heartbreak?

And then the clockbell rings
The wind blows in -
Gala makes for the door.
Her eyes blaze
And her hands are shaking
She opens her mouth and ROARS!
Gala doesn't want, Gala doesn't need
She claws at her face
With her nails till it bleeds
She runs down the stairs
In her poor bare-feet
She's too woman to cry or go down on her knees
Then her mother is there
And her voice is soft
She pulls Gala close
She soothes Gala's cuts
And gently chides
And Gala knows...

That Gala shouldn't worry
She needn't be afraid
Because there are sailors on the sea tonight
In ships that God made
Look! They cast out the line
With a "heave two-three-four"
And they sing as they pull
Our lost souls aboard