THE CHANGES I’M GOIN’ THROUGH
It was a story of faces gone red, Melting snow let show something sad. You ate like bread every lie that they said, While I knew it was time to get bad.
Oh oh, the changes I’’m goin’’ through Oh, oh, they make me think of you, In a way it’’s so sad That I will never come back
It was a friend of mine who came in for pride You saw in which walls he was trying to hide Then took him out for a hopeless ride How could you know it was you to get tied?
Oh oh, the changes I’’m goin’’ through Oh, oh, they make us feel so blue, In a way we are mad to play games with heart and head.
It was the past time that came so disguised, you felt the truth was right by his side, I tried to tell you how shamelessly he lied, maybe you thought it was for me that I cried
Oh oh, the changes I’’m goin’’ through Oh, oh, they make me think of you, In a way it’’s so sad, but I still need to hold your hand
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HARD TIMES FOR WAITIN'
Common as bread, I’’m quieter than snow, I do my job and pay for everything I own. I’’ve built an ivory tower, soundproof and warm, But I woke up this morning with vultures on high And distant cries of a girl
Hard times for waitin’’, hard times for doves, Hard times for silence, hard times for love
I acted all day normally, yet with voices in my mind, Disguised as myself, I left myself far behind. The aggression of reality T.V. can’’t keep, the refusal of silence, mouth filled by lies and endless talk shows to end
Hard times for kingdoms, hard times for fools, Hard times for jokers, hard times for you
I had a clear vision, I saw a bunch of million dumb men like me, I had the vision of a river that was coming to deliver this town. Wasn’’t heavy anymore, Painted my face with signs of war, Passed all night in my cellar to clean up my gun And sat out waitin’’ to part
Hard times for jokers, hard times for fools, Hard times for kingdoms, now, And hard times for you Hard times for waitin’’ and hard times for love Oh yes I’’m talking ‘bout the hard times talking ‘bout the hard times talking ‘bout the hard times talking ‘bout some hard times now
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(LOVE AIN’T NEVER) ENOUGH
Haven’’t I hug you, haven’’t I hold you long enough to make you feel my arms and tell you they won’’t do you any harm? They can crush mountains and swim across the oceans but can build you a robin’’s nest where you can sleep.
See this bonfire that burns Coming from deep inside It will shine all the night
Didn’’t I sing you strong enough until my lips they will be bleeding And played on this guitar until it burns? Haven’’t I cried so strong I won’’t surrender to any wind And told you there’’s no night that makes me go?
No storm no quicksand no hole I’’m just here and won’’t go Love ain’’t never enough
Haven’’t I look at you, didn’’t I stare your eyes enough to sink into the bottom of their light, their warm flashing light? Didn’’t I look for you in every corner of this town, this abandoned town, where people left one day, will they come back?
I keep walking through streets There ain’’t no one to meet Love ain’’t never enough
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DAEDALUS
1. Here’’s the usual song in E Minor, written for the pleasure of friends, Progressively flowing to her C and D chords, like an arrow path. 2. I got plenty of drifting in the Mirror River, Make plentiful drafts of same things, I know changing chords won’’t mean being rid of what keeps on hindering me, Still got some knocking demand. 3. All I ever wanted was a flight on free skies, and I got me a maze in small towns, all I ever wanted was a light through dark nights, and I’’ve found me a glass and a tower. 4. I’’m like a Daedalus building always the same damned corridor, I’’m like a Daedalus jailed here, I won’’t come and I won’’t go I’’m like a devil that’’s cheated, nil’’s worth over ten for me, Oh if that nation of fellows in prison could tune on Radio A. M. Please don’’t go, please fall bewitched, just keep the line, No surrender for these Ego News, Hey, hey, hey, mingle in the river that flows, Hey, hey, hey, I won’’t stall and I won’’t go 5. Give ears to this Daedalus calling, gets no farther than an old T. V., One can’’t gather what he ain’’t sown, it’’s what they say about silence 6. It’’s my usual song in E Minor, during the Exodus of close friends, written through the hazy drops of a subway in Milan, d’’ya remember when? 7. I’’m just gambling now, and lies they ease me, in the middle of a hurricane-juggler idiot jest made for me. I’’m only mixing things in memory, I just deal the cards, Never been in a subway in Milan But please don’’t walk out and don’’t turn Please don’’t fade, please don’’t leave me, Turn on once more, Radio A. M. is gonna greet you now, Hey, hey, hey, cette amour so strong so fool, Ain’’t we all Preverted too? (or ain’’t we just Preadverted too?) 8: Here’’s the usual song in E Minor, written through some blood, sweat and tears, here’’s communication entrusted to mad winds, I sing for me. 9. I’’m like a Daedalus building always the same damned corridor I’’m like a Deadalus jailed here, I won’’t come and I won’’t go I won’’t come and I won’’t go...
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LOVE DESPERATE
There’’s a woman who’’s love desperate Sitting outside of the Red Brick’’s Bar, she’’s just thinking ’’bout her man now, people talk, her gaze is far. There’’s a man who’’s as love desperate, sitting on a chair in an empty kitchen, he’’s feeling her in his heart, this is his home, he wants to tell her
You, you are the one, she whispers You, you are the one, he murmurs You, you are the one, they’’re crying Crying so loud the world resounds
See this woman with her friends, see bewilderment in her eyes, see this man in a too big house, see him look at the ghosts of her
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There’’s a love desperate woman who walks head in hand, there’’s a love desperate man wanderin’’ head in hand She wants him, and he wants her Soon, at once, at all, that’’s impossibile, but won’’t be, there will be another day ’’cause she’’s feeling his hand on her life, he’’s feeling her love in his soul
Chorus
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COUNT ON YOU
I woke and colours burned out wild, saw all things with painter’’s eyes, strange to find some new feeling, Good enough to walk out and not feel lonely in the crowd, I’’m no stranger, I cried so loud.
Oh if I’’d ask you could I count on you, if I needed to find you? Would I lose way could I look if you’’re near me? Bad thing a lone dance in the rain.
I’’d do the same, I’’d do run plain, if you’’d fall down I’’d stand and come, if you’’d feel down I’’d hear your claim, if you’’re around just count on me.
Oh if I’’d ask you could I count on you, if I needed to find you, and would you ask could you look if I’’m near, count on me, I’’ll count on you.
Look at the moon, I can walk over her, if you’’d fall down I’’d bring you up there, if I’’d lose my way you’’d know to send me home, could I try to tell your name?
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LITTLE JIMMY TALKS TO THE MOON
They keep telling him he will discover —they’’re so reliable They still flatter him, they try to cover —life will be a great ball Talking in the dark, most at random Jimmy waits for her, high in her, high in her kingdom now
Jim keeps talking low to his lone shadow he only sees Jim is walking slow in deep green meadows, he looks for bees He keeps feeding dreams, his heard of light filled dreams He keeps counting beans from his tin, Beans in tin like dreams
He won’’t guess forward his time, he’’ll linger in his mind He knows it sounds absurd That older fellas tell him lies They don’’t know he won’’t believe them, they’’re trying Blame on no-one.
“If you’’re friend to me we will grow older,” But they’’re wrong Alone with fantasies he won’’t grow older, But days are long Dusty roads are there, but they’’re damn hot He just waits for the Moon, the sister that will tell him all
He’’s a dreamer —talking to the Moon He’’ll be a loser —won’’t be no tycoon He’’s a dreamer —never win a rodeo He’’s a dreamer —a legend in his world He’’s a dreamer —talking to the Moon He’’s a dreamer —talking to the Moon.
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MICHAEL IN THE RAIN
Thousand miles of highway lines -a truce with time– winter boots and an unstrung necklace, sun on her face, Helen knows the price of running, The beast to tame, But there are things most people can’’t see -they don’’t care.
Make believe is everything And she makes believe she is well, Tryin’’ to fin d a way or two to get out of her lonesome shell, Frosty morning up in Maine, There he came, And the only thing that she calls back is her Michael in the rain.
Carvin’’out a piece of beech-wood (is it any good?) Sunburned trails in Mexico they can turn you old, Yonder comes a greasy señor, “Mi querida, amor”, But the only thing that she calls back is her Michael in the rain.
Tall and distant like a bird in flight Michael smiled, Wet hair shining in a highway bar, shining like some stars, Their eyes met but not a word, He never knew her name, From then the only thing she feels she has missed is her Michael in the rain, The only thing she’’s ever lost is Michael in the rain.
“Run from words and you’’ll run from you”, Some old friends are true, But little Helen and her blues walk silent and wear out shoes, Cities pass but she’’s so wild And recalls a day in Maine, And a flash and a face and a service station and her Michael in the rain, She just recalls a day in Maine and her Michael in the rain, Michael, Michael...
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LEARNED TO BE ALONE
Yippie-iai-yei, so yippie-iai-yei That’’s when a boy learned to be alone Yippie-iai-yei, so yippie-iai-yei That’’s when a boy learned to be alone
Through the eyes of Bobby driving in a blood-red nightly New York, through the notes of a saxophone meeting Gene’’s madness in a destroyed apartment, in the guns, alcohol and sorrow of Billy, Ben, Ernest and Warren, in the tall dim figure fading in the sunset of Juarez
Chorus
With the pigeons in a wind swept street, with spanish poets singing in a bus in spring, through the strings of a dark guitar, by the refusal of the mud we are, by a million moments that no-one can share, under the rain, waiting for a Cindy that won’’t come, that’’s when he learned, he was alone
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(WHAT HAPPENED TO) THOSE FINE BLUE DREAMS
Used to dream about those angel eyes Used to run around a bird that flied so high Used to dream about those angel eyes Used to search for something, would I find it
Used to dream and wish for one love try Talked ‘bout time with things That only last a while
Strange to learn the way all things go fast Get concerned to keep memories while they last Hate to see things go wrong but I do Need to live with something of my own
Need to learn and rise up from the dark Take defeats and know defeats they just don’’t lie
I don’’t know what happens now I don’’t know what happens now to dreams, Those fine blue dreams Those dreams...
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ATLAS AND ALICE IN WONDER ATLANTIS
Was a million years ago or a jump of minute hand? Not sure that I really know Lost in the hazy lawns of Time
I sat down, thinkin’’ ‘bout Atlantis And all of that damn heavy water on her Just like me and Atlas and Alice Atlas and Alice in Wonder Atlantis
Was it yesterday’’s night or twenty years ago? Not sure that I really know Lost and stumbling in full light
I remember I woke up from my mind and Put a reward on my fugitive soul Nobody took his horse and searched for Only the Fool on the Hill came on And asked me What’’s a mind? What’’s a soul? I told him I’’m not sure that I really know Some kind of mash of thick dreams, noises and haze —An endless radio show Nobody knows nobody cares.
So I smiled, thinkin’’ ’’bout Atlantis There ain’’t no Atlantis, no Atlantis, Alas And no Lands, No Wonderland, Alice, Atlas and Alice in Wonder Atlantis
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HOUSE NEAR THE FERN
There’’s a house near the fern there’’s a house far from all, there’’s a house near the fern it’’s a path we have learned.
There we’’re going when there’’s a bad storm, there we’’re going when world’’s flooded by sun, we learned to leave any indecision, there’’s a house near the fern there’’s a house near the fern
There’’s a house near the fern there’’s a house far from all, there we’’re going when love’’s burning, we can do nothing but hear her call.
The house near the fern it’’s our warm shelter from all, it’’s our little house we’’re building it’’s our little house, see it shining, it’’s our love’’s house near the fern.
there’’s a house near the fern there’’s a house near the fern
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LOSERS
Losers – I’’ve seen those spaceships filled today Leavers –ten thousand candles in the haze Losers – itching for those blanks out in space Choosers – believing widening is their grace
Everywhere I turn there are lookers for the Moon Every dream that burns leaves losers out of room
Losers – diviners scan the eagle’’s flight Risers – rusty embers in bonfires Losers – Bad Boys keep losing down Silver Knife – they prey will run ‘till they don’’t meet Losers – Turning out to silver skies Turning out, turning out
(Spaceport Announcer: ladies and gentleman and other beings, the flight to Arcturus IV is taking off in thirteen minutes, the passengers are requested to reach Gate 16.014)
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THE RIVER OF BLUE TIME
Never been so naked down these heart’’s pages, never been so open right through this heart’’s maze, it’’s just the River of Blue Time, I got the River of Blue Time.
Walk like all mornings like they all expect me too, can’’t tell the story I bear inside. I do deliver all things to this songs, I do believe there isn’’t word to find, it’’s just the River of Blue Time, I got the River of Blue Time flowin’’ down I got the River of Blue Time, it turns me round.
Closed deep inside all day, closed deep inside I sing closed deep inside I see rivers right out.
Don’’t want Salvation, don’’t look for Glory, tell me the story, tell me the story about the River of Blue Time, I got the River of Blue Time, it’’s just the River of Blue Time, I got the River of Blue Time.
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