LYRICS
MUSIC
LYRICS
MOONGREENING
I’ve seen the Buddha walk on air
And heroic black angels with no faces anymore, anywhere
All down Manhattan, the lines go on repeating
Punch the number, stop the bleeding
I’ve heard the buzzing from the bush
Beyond the row of oaks, twilight overtakes and gives a push
Ask what you came to, I won’t tell you false
Punch the number, check the pulse
Days of doubt, nights of dreaming
The further out you get the more it bears repeating
But I don’t blame you for listening at the latch
When they said nobody will know
Careful now — it’s a long way down
Voices leave an echo that never makes a sound
It’s an honor, it’s a trap, it’s a curse, it’s a key
Some would slay it as it sleeps, some would wake it just to see
Days of doubt &c
I’ve seen the Buddha walk on air
And heroic black angels with no faces anymore, anywhere
All down the freeway, the lines go on repeating
Punch the number, stop the bleeding
Punch the number, punch the number
Days of doubt &c
ART OF WAR
Let your worries disappear
Let your worries disappear
Cry baby don’t you cry
Calm down, just let the noise in
And after that, survive
I’m gonna get some even if it’s poison
For it’s what’s keeping me alive
Kept alive but on his own
Sand in the fire, it’s time for us to go
Lost my footing, left to drown
Thinking all about how I wish that I was up
But when I’m there, I want to come back down
When I’m there, I want to come back down
When I’m there, I want to come back down
All I can see, all I can see
The vinyl skips, the oil slicks
Come along the way is clear
The children waited round all Indian Summer
For their tall friend to reappear
The gifts that we brought with us were thrown into the fire
On the hottest day of the year
They sang, Let your worries disappear
Let your worries disappear
24 + 24
I wonder who you are
24 and 24
I wonder who you are
24 and 24
Do you hear the chime
24 and 24
Of the life behind your time
24 and 24
I wonder who you are
24 and 24
I wonder who you are
24 and 24
THE ARK
When the light comes up the hill
That’s where you’ll find me
On another shore, at another time
Maybe when we’re older, baby, down the line
Oh, the promises we made
Think how happy we will be
When we both can see
Everything, everything, everything
And it rained, and it rained
In they’re marching two by two
What’s a sailor boy to do
Divine in me, divine in you
Happy just to make it shine
On another shore, at another time
Oh, the promises we made
Think how happy we will be
When we both can see
WORDS OUT OF MY MOUTH
Your clock is gonna stop
And I want you to know
All the years, let ‘em go
24 passing by and they ain’t ‘bout to slow
Soon soon they’re telling you
That shoe is gonna drop
So you better stay home
So the rice don’t burn
And the years don’t yearn
And the heart don’t learn
So the Christ is crossed
And the secret’s lost
And the floodtide return
But the heart don’t learn
The heart don’t learn, the heart don’t learn
But eyes opened wide can see
Off in some distant night of memory
The gray ponies
You’re holding her in your arms like you’re married
Singing slowly
Hold me in your arms like a baby
Hold me in your arms when we’re 80
LOVE COMES TO THOSE WHO ASK
Love comes to those who ask
It follows you at last
Blow wind, blow rain
Blow it all away
Start it all over again spare nothing in the way
All across the earth the continents bow and shake
I know you know how just give me any other shape
Love comes to those who ask
It follows you at last
Come moon, shine Mars
Send a sign from where you are
With a key unlock my door and we will fly away
To a desert island
Love comes to those who ask
It follows you at last
As the fire burns out
Watch me dancing round and singing songs
And laughing softly in the trees
Hurry on you’ll hear us
Calling in the dark on a summer’s night
But it’s no great mystery
REPORTER
Reporter call my phone
You’re holding onto smoke
The sky is like a blueprint for itself
Traitors eat the young on the borderline
Separating eyes
Couldn’t see it on TV
Didn’t see it in the streets
Where have the saviors gone?
Beto’s not the one
Babe, I know you want it, but it’s so
Wonder if he knows
I wonder if he knows
The feeling comes and goes
As he wanders on
In the earth a stream
In the final night a dream
I’d like to roll along
The kingdom when it comes
Where all souls sing along
Time revealed
Like a wheel within a wheel
Nothing else was real
Babylon adored
The serpent or the sword
Not a burning face was bored
Red, white, blue and ash
The rider free at last
The masters with a thousand masks
Reporter did you ask
The words of first and last
Go tell them to the past
Tell them all you know
Tell them it was true
HEARTFALL
A broken heart, a broken heart can see
But my heart is free
It ain’t much, but it’s home
Out here with everything in bloom
But when your hair blows in your face
Weather’s turning strange
Pretty soon, all the lights are fading
Everything is gonna change
Air and fire turned but the water was awaiting
Everything’s gonna change
But babe your colors never fade
Heartfall, heartfall
A broken heart, a broken heart can see
But my heart is free
It ain’t much, but it’s home
Alive forever in the tomb
We stormed the gates of paradise
As the Lethe overflowed
Always knew that man would go down swinging
But he was singing as he cried
In the end everything is not forgiven
Just look outside
Heartfall, heartfall
Babe, your colors never fade
Heartfall, heartfall
A broken heart, a broken heart can see
But my heart is free
SONG FOR SAM
If the pipe dreams elevate you and you just clear the gate
From the dark side of the well they’ll be chanting your fate
And me, I should know for I’ve slept with the dead
But my dreams are like the deep streams raging round in my head
Zoroaster’s a disaster still the greatest of all time
Said, Better the blue devil you danced with than mine
They’re extolling Eckhart Tolle as if to say
You’ve suffered quite enough sir that’s fine for today
Take the Lord’s name and a snake egg and a moonbeam so bright
Deep into the forest where she’s dressed all in white
Take all you learned, though it wasn’t enough
And if you don’t know what to do with such powerful stuff
Then do like the tough do when the going gets tough
Well, that big wheel keeps a-turning and we’re down in the street
And the dogmas chase the karmas above the rows of bare feet
Dear friend, I miss you, but I hope you are free
Comminutions, institutions, it don’t matter to me
Comminutions, institutions, it don’t matter to me
VISION
Everyone can see him
Like a nomad from a dream
Change himself completely
In a flash of something green
Remember back in art school
When she was always getting stoned
She said I’ve got to get away to see
The surest things erode
I changed myself completely
Now I’m different, so I’m told
Once I saw it coming
To look me right in the eye
Like a line of cars approaching
Somebody had died
My friend was singing ‘Ego Death’
Though this he planned to leave behind
‘Miles, when you’re ready,
You can follow me inside
Do not fear me, do not fear me’
But babe, I couldn’t see you
Should have been a painter
I would paint a thousand stones
And drop them in the river
To see the rainbow from your home