Faith in Your Soul
Now I'm lookin' down at you
lookin' at your face
lookin' at this man
that fighted everyday
Yes, I saw you runnin'
and on saddle down the plains
and I've said enough
'bout time's waves
Sometimes a good soldier crosses arms
sometimes a lone feeler loses world
Sometimes autumn prairies seem so cold
Sometimes muddy rivers have no wade
sometimes you feel lonesome in a crowd
sometimes you stand proud and alive
and hold the world in your hands
tell me 'bout the boy you were
tell me 'bout the love they gave
it's only time, you know,
time, you know
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
and fields in winter and so many lylacs springs
gotta get faith in your soul, faith in your soul
something deep inside that's only yours
I'm talkin' bout the faith in your soul,
something 'bout the faith in your soul
something deep inside that's only yours
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Isaac and Jakob
Vanity of Vanities
said the Book of Books
seemed written in marble words
and gold ain't what it looks
Jacob dreamed Ladder
could be a bridge in sky
so he thought he could try
Vanity of Vanities
said the Book of Books
woke one day from his sleep
breakin' bread of Truth
Isaac held them sticks
and father went so straight
this time no angel did came
no ram to give in turn
Jacob dreamed Ladder
was a blinding tale
Isaac's neck was so white
Jacob kept lookin' for
a love that couldn't lie
Isaacs they don't feel no pain
Isaacs they live with some blame
Vanity of Vanities
said the Book of Books
seemed written in marble words
and gold ain't what it looks
Ash is the Righteous
and ash's the Wicked too
Forgive the Lambs they can't see
one day sons they just leave
and sometimes fathers too
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Gold Fever
Woke and jerked this morning, that phone ring like an off slap
my commerce lawyer told me : “Man, you gotta bankrupt”.
Thought like it from some time, to tell the truth I just hoped
those shares of my soul were still worth but they cracked
they tell Gold Fever’s in sight
I’ve got Gold Fever in my mind, I’ve got Gold Fever in my mind
I’ve got Gold Fever in my mind, I’ve got Gold Fever in my mind.
So I embarked me on a whaler, felt like some old blue Greg Peck
I pursued glory, anticipated the feel, was little part of a part of an unwritten book.
That damn freedom was fancy, the White Whale was but a big cod,
all crew plugged leaks with lying and I landed in Nantucket,
an anticipated downfall, I anticipated all words, anticipated any call.
So I joined a prayin’ group, kept invokin’ the End of the World,
some Delivery Heaven to know, I said no, said no, said no no no.
I disagreed with their cryin’, disagreed with their diet - oh, no more meat!-
If Apocalypse will come it won’t be no bang, no whisper, Tommy, no whisper, no bang, at last a laughter that roars and will shake all the oceans and the mountains from their sides
I got Gold Fever in mind, got Gold Fever in mind,
still got false aimings in mind, I got Gold Fever in mind.
Won’t you listen, I wanna get doubts, I want to break with those square truths you feign,
call me Ishmael, I wanna go down, I want to go where there’s pure air around
I told you I wanted a lone scene, dig in hand for some gold, must be when I found uncovered cheques on dreams, I got Gold Fever in my mind, I got Gold Fever in my mind, I got Gold Fever in my mind
I got a fool Gold Fever in my mind
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Lawman Johnny
Lawman Johnny was a simple man ‘til the day somebody said
There ain’t no such thing like a simple man
So he sank into himself like an eagle on the dive
And came up with some worn jewel, a broken clock and mud
Oh Lawman Johhny
Lawman Johhny
Lawman Johhny was a man of truth, read others read him like a book,
He spent years believin’ all aimed Good
Sold his fine new toys for coloured beads and cracked glass
Bad thing when he saw his words bounce back
Twisted and bended like rusty hooks
Oh Lawman Johhny
Lawman Johhny
Lawman Johhny only needed love, just like anybody in town,
Found the crooked love of a woman and her son
That was his nemesis and lasting hell
‘til the day he found no thorn
Johnny changed sparkle in his eyes
Began fighting more than ever did
Then one day he woke up laughing high
Made a pile of all things
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Handbooks for Ghosts
I write this handbooks now
about to fade,
i look for different measures to be unseen
eyes stick to a distant line
So I fell down the road,
been difficult down the way,
I'll find a river, a river there someday
O grant me Thy peace
Some cheap sins are worth no cross
but keep pounding the same
some fighters sometimes feel a little tired
and give up the game
At times I feel I lived
so much, too much
and think I've not decided what's my trade
-daysleep, sleepwalk or dream
And ghosts learn keyhole's way
they leave no trace and sway
seasons are but empty names
running blind
I won't hide any mistake
don't like to become a fine old man
I slide and feel like yesterday's train
I wanted to be no leader or no superstar
no cruel banker and no shark
only wanted to walk plain
I climbed on all ladders remaining still
feel my hands they lose their grip
I feel like a ghost that dreams
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Living in the Jungle
Livin’ in the jungle
Livin’ with them Rambo copiers
I’m hidin’ in the jungle
I got hide-and-buy gadgets fever
Carnival masks tough faces
up from urban rain forest
Livin’ in the jungle
Livin’ with them dumb scared warriors
Everybody’s concern
Is that frogs may fall from sky
Everybody’s answer
Is changing cellphone and not look high
There’s a channel on my T.V.
Broadcasting Doomsday films
Don’t know if they’re tryin’
To tell me something
Livin’ in the jungle
Livin’ with them blind zombie news
Gasoline and ozone
No one wants to hear the dues
Cities stand their long siege
From ghosts that no-one sees
Eight hundred thousand whispers
Blow a senseless wind
another night in my cellar
with no shotgun I can clean
Other kind of revolution now
Think I’ll buy a GPS
Livin’ in the jungle
Livin’ in the jungle
Livin’ in the jungle…
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Consider Indians
Steps leavin’ out of the light
Bite freedom into the night
Bound for the Indian camp
Look for some feathers’ crown
(You’d) like to be a raven that flies high
They saw you giftin’ gold to them riders
And then leavin’ -thief at midnight-
You could be anyone
You could feel something more
You couldn’t be anyone but you
All the pacts you’re breakin’, they don’t count no more
All the love you craved for is like an empty store
No more indecision
You’re still waitin’ for some more
You sit in the chilly morn in your tepee and look at the door
All the facts you’re fakin’, they’re still here and don’t count
All the love you traded is but lonesome whistles round
No more half decisions
You’re still waitin’ for some more
Find some real fine good claws
They’ll be useful, later on
Steps leavin’ into the light
Bite freedom an bless the night
consider Indians, they just can wait somehow
consider Indians, they can wait
hey, hey, hey…a-uh, a-uh
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So Long, Josey Wales
I think they heard your name
through them trails
they built some legends
'bout Josey Wales
You knew dreams' tough clay
you knew men's pits
and you escorted them
'til they could walk alone
Through the winter rains
or the new-cut hay
in silver dawnings
as in blind midnights
something's burning
sets you on the run
With your innocence dressed in hard words, Josey Wales,
you will wave your cowboy hat and so long, Josey Wales
Last trains don't have no station
last trains don't ask you why
Some good dreams they last a while
nightmares they don't have no end
some good dreams are worth a try
see them fade in grey sunsets
And rebels they rose and followed your way
sensed your presence
so long, Josey Wales
tired of their opinions
tired of yours too
are you tired of you?
Legends know there comes a day
to say farewell
Legends come and legends go
they know so well
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Restless Paradise
How can I explain the situation here,
Livin’ in a Restless Paradise?
Mocking signboards they move the highway’s end
And all I can do is run, I can rest but sometimes
Bought sandglasses out for savin’,
I been down some lonely town
I been up to feel that morning train
All I can do is run, yes, all I can do is run
All I can do is waitin’, and all I can do is run
Oh won’t you follow me in a Restless Paradise
How can I explain this endless burning ride,
Runnin’ in a Restless Paradise?
I dig in circle my same old true lies
All I can do is wait, all I can do is run
Yearn for that sensation every day
Once I thought I would know
Fly from that position after waiting for some tales
And all I can do is run, all I can say is wait
All I can do is run, and all I can do is run
All I can do is waitin’, all I can do is run
Yearn for that sensation every day
Once I thought I would know
Fly from that position after waiting for some tales
And I can do is run, all I can say is wait
Now I can’t see if you’re runnin’ ‘cos all I can do is run
And all I can do is waitin’, all I can do is run
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Little Less Than This
Been a hard wandering time, now the board is so clean
Nothing’s missing when we smile,
Past fragments fly
Looking for your face in the crowd
Waiting for the time you’ll come
Longing for that missing heartbeat
I’m feeling I’m at home
I can walk beside you
We forgot what’s wrong
We look so different
Passers-by don’t know
Looking for your face in the crowd
Waiting for the time you’ll come
Longing for that missing heartbeat
I’m feeling I’m at home
Distant houses in blue dusk
While the Greyhound rides on,
In a station in nowhere
I’ll come, you’ll laugh
Warm rising tide that’s comin’ right to you
An endless breeze is driving me in time, to you
You can walk beside me
Just a little truer in a world that bluffs
We don’t fear to show our happiness
Couldn’t be pleased eith little less than this
Don’t ever ask me little less than this
We looked for nothing, nothing little less than this
We won’t have nothing little less than this
We won’t have nothing little less than this
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Medicine Joe Is Back in Town
Medicine Joe is back in town
He’s up to pull up who feels down
Always dressed in black standin’ near the shack
When he’s back the fields will turn brown
Like heliotropes boys will sway to him
Medicine Joe sells no dreams
One town is narrow for hungry fine souls
On rainbow’s end some say there’s gold
Dance light in sunsets, ghosts’ endless lines
Some stakes are worth no bets
Dance ’til daylights
A worn photo album shows Medicine Joe
With town boys of long time ago
In one he’s got a bunch of prematurely cut flowers
Another one’s faded, like the world
See him with ole Tin Toy Bert and Maggie the Squaw
Names that nobody will know
Look at their shy flyin’ here to say that they were
Look at Al, he’s never gone
Some unsung heroes they swarm in nights
They had such long wings dust made fall
Who could stop Joe’s words?
Who turned the light?
So ring them bells that no rust will stall
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Trilogy- Tales on Jeannie Finn
1. JEANNIE FINN
Jeannie Finn, was his old time religion
Jeannie Finn he rode for miles to see her
verbena smell was driftin' through the reeds down the pond
robins sang until morning
unseen light her eyes sent when he stepped through the fence
Jeannie Finn
- no one else could
Jeannie Finn
– constantly in their own minds
winter crisp or summer's burst she ran in the courtyard
an endless first time
Jeannie Finn, Jeannie Finn, Jeannie Finn
2. RAINBOW RIVER
The day they met by Rainbow River
when they were both eight years old...
3. JEANNIE FINN'S APRON
Jeannie was the lady of a timeless time,
Jeannie-was a young lady, so fine,
Jeannie was the fairest of county's gals
She wore that apron low
she didn't mind
Jeannie was a prairie windfall
he could stare for days
Jeannie stood near the old peach-tree
a wildflower brightness
Jeannie was his lady she made him meals
Jeannie gathered elder in cans laid on the sill
she knew the weight of seasons
that wear out fields
but she knew / that man was bound / (to) sail in her time
time is a pencil writin' plain
time is the still rain song
time is Miss Bolter blackboard duster
time is a walking cane
she asked why
me why
I don't share what they believe
I don't fear what they do fear
I go light where they feel weight
I feel fine not their way, the way I feel
4. HOMEWARD SONG
Jeannie keeps on throwing back the fishes in pond
she's still talkin' with wood toys
honeysuckle(caprifoglio) through her hair
doesn't care what they say in town
she just knows that he's near her
her beloved is back
she can feel his own presence around
she can feel his deep voice from far
I walk beside you
I'll never let you down
time is just a weaver working fine
Jeannie, Jeannie come here around
Jeannie, Jeannie come here my love
Jeannie, Jeannie we loved since we were just two kids
Jeannie you're fine like the first time I saw you
Jeannie laugh at life passing through
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On Wind's Wrong Side
I was sittin’ on the top of New Jerusalem
Watching the ‘Men at Work’ signboard
I felt a Stranger in Paradise
Then I moved north and ran into the Long Warm Wave of Love
That young girl handed me a tunic
But I wasn’t ready for Woodstock yet
Always on wind’s wrong side, always out of time
I’m the drunken dancer on the edge of ice
I only seem to feel home in the chilly nest
In the chilly warm cool nest that lies on the wind’s wrong side
Then I knew it was time to move to old holy Holywood
And I entered the studios proud with Fitzy’s hat and Papa’s glass
I was perfeclty mimetic, then, I couldn’t even know myself
I couldn’t even know my mind
I resisted seven days
Always on wind’s wrong side, always out of time
I’m the stubborn seagull in the storm that cries
I only seem to feel home in the chilly nest
In the chilly warm cool nest that lies on the wind’s wrong side
So I decided I should grow and become King of the World
Seemed so nice in those first days but I quickly tired to play
I put up a palace plot to knock down the Mean King
Nothing serious, I didn’t agree with his foreign politics
Always on wind’s wrong side, always out of time…
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Senseless Ride
Told you about the Loves & All The Things That Happened To This Strange Man
told you about the chessboards that I ended entangled in
yes I must confess that more than some time I bought masks and figures
but there is no doubt it is a thing you sure have learned by now
Told you about the rebels and the hitchhikers and the lonely lawmen
told you many times about my father and my best friend then
been a slope so steep and in the meantime it has been so gentle
don't know why today I speak so open only know I do
Have-I surrended now?
Am I turned into a zen boss
I don't ask and keep living 'til I tire
After all this time I find myself here in this Shangrifunland
after all this strain I've come to be a quiet warrior it's late, and then?
I ain't got a fraction of an ounce of me to offer to sorrow
Shylock too believes i've paid my share and now I accept things end
and you just do what you want
world can do what what wants
I'm lookin' at this sundown and I smile
I' m thinkin' bout this senseless ride and laugh
tomorrow I'll get up or I'll be down
up and down
freely around
up and down this senseless ride
There are times in which I ask myself if I have really said it all
there are times I think there were not many damn truths to say
finding words that paint a whole life
is like filling sieves with thin sand
Was it all written then
or will it be clear in the end?
I lived & loved & wounded without will
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Saint John Built Starships
Scrawling on a wall ain't like screaming
seems that Nowhere's sprawling here
the ether is filled with no good strange signs that paint fear
it's a feeling all around everybody sense the end come like an ocean
flyin' with tarred wings and a load nobody knows
Dyin' ain't just like that daydreaming
rotting by the side of the road
this revolution babe will turn tables 'pside down
and change sky
Down in Patmos Town
Saint John built starships
he kept silent then
and dreamed of freedom
Some say there are lids one can't raise up
some say Middle Ages won't come
this rough solution will burn
money churches and faith factories
Down in Patmos Town
Saint John built starships
he kept silent then
and dreamed of freedom
Break the Seal
free them Sins
the've been chained up for too long
sky is slitting
and sea is swollen
sea is swollen with them lies
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