TRACKS

 

Daddy

 

Daddy, strong and cold,

I lie in awe.

Daddy, can you come home now

or is it me I saw

leaving home

turning the darkness to day

turning the feeling away?

 

Daddy, I know you hear me.

Why don't you answer now?

Daddy, was there ever a memory

you care to miss and how.

Are you happy now

to suffer from joy

like a little boy?

 

It's so depressing to see

so much feeling

out of what just can't be.

I'm sick to death of shouting

and trying to get through;

so there's nothing I can do.

 

Daddy, why don't you ever change.

Daddy, why don't you ever change.

Why don't you change

your mind about me...

 

 

Elizabeth

 

Elizabeth, can't you find the time for sleep;

so busy loving the world and all you've got.

That's not too much, but you've had a lot.

You gave it all away, yesterday.

 

Elizabeth, you're a queen in the salvation army

and so proud to show the velvet over tattered clothes.

so much tenderness on an air of faded perfume

in a gone-away, lonely and suffered-in room.

 

Can't you find the time for rest?

Can't you find your way to happiness,

Elizabeth?

 

Elizabeth, you're so many things that can be.

When I look at you, sometimes I see

all the things that I could be.

Let me know you before you're set free.

 

Elizabeth, someday I'll know you for sure.

They'll see what you tried to stand for.

So misunderstood a woman in time,

you've chosen the highest mountain to climb.

 

 

The Making of a Thrill (Dylan's Clothes)

 

The train rushed me onward to Chelsea.

The day rushed me on words I can't say.

So let me sink to the drink,

give in to the drug.

Let me pave one road or another.

Or I'll be sane in a mad world,

mad in a sane world.

Sane in a mad world,

mad in a sane world.

 

Overdosed on man and myth

taken for granted my gift.

Eating lambs and kings in bed

just as Dylan Thomas said.

He said.

 

His head smoke-circled poetess

excess, obsess, regress, confess.

 

Who will measure my success?

and if I'm sounding too wanton

send me a picture of the train you're on.

I kiss his mouth and aptitude

till all my mind is black and blue'd.

Come learning pen, be my villain.

Wrap your soul around me, Dylan.

 

 

The Rainforest is Crying

 

The rainforest is crying.

It's sad for all the world.

It takes the brunt of all humanity,

(and) forgives us with its tears (dry them all).

 

So take the time to give.

Do your share

so future generations may live

breathing clean air, with the snow.

Drink in clean water

and the glow of the morning sun.

 

The rainforest is dying.

We've cut it down,

only to rob our own clean air.

It's true, we are the species that knows.

Sad irony.  Because of our wisdom, everything goes.

 

The rainforest is sighing.

It's tired and wants to go to sleep.

 

 

Moments

 

There is sadness when the colour bar limits our kaleidoscope.

Purity when complements dominate my fear and hope.

I wash the play of coloured light.

Can't be colour blind!

To capture moments with my paint - just small fragments of time.

These moments, precious moments.

 

I paint the passing moments as sudden flashes fade.

It's all in black and white - like day and night.

I am in love with these moments, precious moments.

I am in love with these moments to remain.

 

Madness and mystery, crimson and grey

My imagination's flight moves me toward the Light.

It's a visionary sight.

I see red and I sing the blues ---

 

Valued dark in the light portraying pain of night.

On seven steps, I meditate.  Chromatics vari'egate.

The sound of truth is radiant in the eyes of the innocent.

Moments clash in harmony (as) perfect as the blackbody.

These moments, moments to relive

in time.

 

I sing the blues.

 

 

Black Heaven

 

(I'm) lost--- in the forest, in the shadow of sin.

(I) weep--- in the wind, fall in delirium.

And step by step I'm pushing on, condemned to an icy hell!

 

The RED HAND--- pushes me.

RED HAND--- pushing me

down, down, down, down, down...

 

When the moon's eclipse and the howling dogs

and faces that people the blankness

are the nightmare visions of my eyes--- 

Mirror all the lies---

I approach--- horizons--- of silence where forgotten Masters dream

They'll never understand!

 

Now--- I'm in a trance of shadows where the

larks--- are woven golden suns in me.

            and silver moons and shining starlight.

No! I'm not the Luck-Child, a puppet in grips.

Tails-trailing stars shine from my lips.

 

Black skies of night! (dead to a black heaven)

Circle of the self-soul! (black heaven, white hell)

Uncertainty! (black--- black--- fear)

 

 

Free Man's Mind [from "Acceptance" rock opera]

 

Every child is a creator

until he's told he's not.

Everyone's a great creation

until it's taken from him.

 

Free man's mind, free man's mind

Free man's spirit, free all of mankind

 

We've been told about religion

so do we really believe

There are no fathers and no heroes

it's just a possibility.

 

 

Gretchen's Dream

 

Walk the coloured lane

Pouring purple rain

All the fields are fair

With flowers ev'rywhere

 

[You and me, we and he, ah--

You can breathe with me

We'll be free with no care

With flowers ev'rywhere]

 

The trees are old at last

and all the cars drive past

Trails of perfect smoke

of ordinary folk

 

Ev'ry headline reads

"Love will fill our needs"

The sky is blue today

We've not much more to say.

 

 

Guerrillas' Dance

 

Silence...

Land mine explosion

Two nuns were killed, a third wounded...

Lost a lot... lost a lot of blood...

Panama's freedom.

Nicaragua's revolution.

Oust Noriega!

Punish all evildoers.

Oust Ghadaffi!

Ceausescu's dead - convicted of genocide and other grave crimes.

Romania is free

Tear down the Berlin wall in minds of many.

Give women back their choice.

Free Tiananmen Square!

 

 

Warhol's Melee

 

(I) thought I saw someone I knew

though there were only pages.

Pages and pages of all the sinister people.

Drinking, sinking, seductive, deductive

intrusions of the beat.

 

They're rumours of peace.

A painter of flowers and pillows.

A player plays in boldness.

Their hair droops forth in poses

and they wear the shirt and roses.

 

The sculpture's pave in rudeness.

A small mind cries in one corner

of a dirty room where no one hears.

They drain the joys and drown the fears

and made addictive settlements

and seconol relieves the way

and builds the thoughts to overtake.

 

Those of them who were not clad

they've been losers from the start.

 

 

Life is Fighting

 

It's no use, no use

in standing your ground

when there's no one around

to believe you, believe in you.

You'll feel homeless and far,

still won't know where you are.

Life is fighting, not inviting.

 

It's no use, no use

in pretending this way

when the things that they say

will surpass you, are surpassing you.

When the young leave their home

and have no place to roam,

it's a war out there,

confusion everywhere.

Life is fighting, harsh and biting.

 

 

Mountain Dream

 

I awoke from inner peace

and found the story not complete.

I took a walk back through my life

and I was followed by a man

on a quiet mountain side.

There were people in the air

and mist of color everywhere.

 

I'm on a mountain dream

and I turn to see his face

and I find that there is

peace-- peace-- peace--

 

On that quiet mountain side

in a cold and drifting tide

was the doorway of my life

and it seemed there was no use.

My golden calf had walked away.

He lived in another day.

No more silence can I say, can I say--

 

 

 

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