Abbatoir Blues
The sun is high up in the sky and I'm in my car Drifting down into the abattoir Do you see what I see, dear? The air grows heavy. I listen to your breath Entwined together in this culture of death Do you see what I see, dear? Slide on over here, let me give you a squeeze To avert this unholy evolutionary trajectory Can you hear what I hear, babe? Does it make you feel afraid? Everything's dissolving, babe, according to plan The sky is on fire, the dead are heaped across the land I went to bed last night and my moral code got jammed I woke up this morning with a Frappucino in my hand I kissed you once. I kissed you again My heart it tumbled like the stock exchange Do you feel what I feel, dear? Mass extinction, darling, hypocrisy These things are not good for me Do you see what I see, dear? The line the God throws down to you and me Makes a pleasing geometry Shall we leave this place now, dear? Is there someway out of here? I wake with the sparrows and I hurry off to work The need for validation, babe, gone completely berserk I wanted to be your Superman but I turned out such a jerk I got the abattoir blues I got the abattoir blues I got the abattoir blues Right down to my shoes ___________________
Babe, You Turn Me On
Stay by me, stay by me You are the one, my only true love
The butcher bird makes it's noise And asks you to agree With it's brutal nesting habits And it's pointless savagery Now, the nightingale sings to you And raises up the ante I put one hand on your round ripe heart And the other down your panties
Everything is falling, dear Everything is wrong It's just history repeating itself And babe, you turn me on
Like a light bulb Like a song
You race naked through the wilderness You torment the birds and the bees You leapt into the abyss, but find It only goes up to your knees I move stealthily from tree to tree I shadow you for hours I make like I'm a little deer Grazing on the flowers
Everything is collapsing, dear All moral sense has gone It's just history repeating itself And babe, you turn me on
Like an idea Like an Atom bomb
We stand awed inside a clearing We do not make a sound The crimson snow falls all about Carpeting the ground
Everything is falling, dear All rhyme and reason gone It's just history repeating itself And, babe, you turn me on
Like an idea Like an Atom bomb ___________________
Breathless
It's up in the morning and on the downs Little white clouds like gambolling lambs And I am breathless over you And the red-breasted robin beats his wings His throat it trembles when he sings For he is helpless before you The happy hooded bluebells bow And bend their heads all a-down Heavied by the early morning dew At the whispering stream, at the bubbling brook The fishes leap up to take a look For they are breathless over you Still your hands And still your heart For still your face comes shining through And all the morning glows anew Still your mind Still your soul For still, the fire of love is true And I am breathless without you
The wind circles among the trees And it bangs about the new-made leaves For it is breathless without you The fox chases the rabbit round The rabbit hides beneath the ground For he is defenceless without you The sky of daytime dies away And all earthly things they stop to play For we are all breathless without you I listen to my juddering bones The blood in my veins and the wind in my lungs And I am breathless without you Still your hands And still your heart For still your face comes shining through And all the morning glows anew Still your soul Still your mind Still, the fire of love is true And I am breathless without you ___________________
Cannibal's Hymn
You have a heart and I have a key Lie back and let me unlock you Those heathens you hang with down by the sea All they want to do is defrock you I know a river, where we can dream It will swell up, burst it's banks, babe, and rock you But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten But I'm glad you've come around here with your animals And your heart that is bruised but unbeaten And beating like a drum
I will sit like a bird on a fence Sing you songs with a happy ending Swoop down and tell you that it don't make sense To attack the very thing you're defending Didn't I just buy that dress for you? That pink paper pinafore that you keep mending Well, if you're gonna dine with the cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten But I'm glad you've come around here with your animals And your heart that is banging and beating And banging like a gong
I can see that they've hurt you, dear Here is some moonlight to cloak us And I will never desert you here Unpetaled among the crocus Allow me, my love, to allay your fear As I swim, in and out of focus But if you're gonna dine with the cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten But I'm glad you've come around here with your animals And your heart that is bruised but bleating And bleeding like a lamb Banging like a gong Beating like a drum ___________________
Carry Me
I lay down by the river The shadows moved across me, inch by inch And all that I heard Was the war between the water and the bridge Turn to me, turn to me, turn to me Turn and drink of me Or look away, look away, look away And never more think of me
Carry me [2x]
I heard the many voices Speaking to me from the depths below This ancient wound This catacomb Beneath the whited snow Come to me, come to me, come to me Come and drink of me Or turn away, turn away, turn away And never more think of me
Carry me Carry me away
Who will lay down their hammer? Who will put up their sword? And pause to see The mystery Of the Word
Carry me [3x] Carry me away Carry me [3x] Carry me away ___________________
Easy Money
It's difficult. It's very tough. I said to the man who'd been sleeping rough To sit within a fragrant breeze All among the nodding trees That hang heavy with the stuff
He threw his arms around my neck He brushed the tear from my cheek And held my soft white hand He was an understanding man He did not even barely hardly speak
Easy money Rain it down on the wife and the kids Rain it down on the house where we live Rain until you got nothing left to give And rain that ever-loving stuff down on me
All the things for which my heart yearns Gives joy in diminishing returns He kissed me on the mouth His hands they headed south And my cheek it burned
Money, man, it is a bitch The poor, they spoil it for the rich With my face pressed in the clover I wondered when this would be over And at home we are all so guilty-sad
Easy money Pour it down the open drain Pour it all through my veins Pour it down, yeah, let it rain And pour that ever-loving stuff down on me
Now, I'm sitting pretty down on the bank Life shuffles past at a low interest rate In the money-coloured meadows And all the interesting shadows They leap up, then dissipate
Easy money Easy money Easy money Rain it down on the wife and the kids Rain it down on the house where we live Rain it down until you got nothing left to give And rain that ever-loving stuff down on me ___________________
Fable Of The Brown Ape
Farmer Emmerich went into his barn And found a cow suckling a serpent And a brown ape clanking a heavy chain Said Farmer Emmerich to the ape Never ask me to come into this barn again So Long Farewell So Long
Farmer Emmerich caught the serpent And the brown ape in a cage And took them into his house He fed the snake a vat of milk And when the ape rattled its chain He tossed the ape a mouse So Long Goodbye Farewell
The villagers found out that Farmer Emmerich Was nurturing a serpent And descended upon his farm All rabid in their blindness They dragged the snake outside Chopped it open with an axe And the ground soaked In the milk of human kindness So Long Farewell So Long
But the brown ape escaped And was heard to roam the ranges Clanking its heavy chain Down in the valley it sang to its friend Whom he may never see again ___________________
Get Ready For Love
Get ready for love! Praise Him! [2x] Get ready for love! Get ready!
Well, most of all nothing much ever really happens And God rides high up in the ordinary sky Until we find ourselves at out most distracted And the miracle that was promised creeps quietly by
Calling every boy and girl Calling all around the world Calling every boy and girl Calling all around the world
Get ready for love! Praise Him! [2x]
The mighty wave their hankies from their high-windowed palace Sending grief and joy down in supportable doses And we search high and low without merty or malice While the gate to the Kingdom swings shut and closes
Calling every boy and girl Calling all around the world Calling every boy and girl Calling all around the world
Praise Him till you've forgotten what you're praising Him for [2x] Then praise Him a little bit more
Yeah, praise Him a little bit more Praise Him till you've forgotten what you're praising Him for [2x] Praise Him a little bit more Yeah, praise Him a little bit more
Get ready for love! Praise Him! Get ready for love! Get ready!
I searched the seven seas and I've looked under the carpet And browsed through the brochures that govern the skies Then I was just hanging around, doing nothing und looked up to see His face burned in the retina of your eyes
Calling every boy and girl Calling all around the world Calling every boy and girl Calling all around the world
Get ready for love! Praise Him! [2x] ___________________
Hiding All Away
You went looking for nur, dear, Down by the sea You found some Iittle silver fish But you didn't find me I was hiding, dear, hiding all way [2x]
You went to the museum You climbed a spiral stair You searched for me all among The knowledgeable air I was hidden, babe, hiding all away I was hidden, dear, hiding all away
You entered the cathedral When you heard the solemn knell I was not sitting with the gargoyles I was not swinging from the hell I was hiding, dear, I was hiding all away [2x]
You asked an electrician If he'd seen me round his place He touched you with his fingers Sent sparks zapping out your face I was hidden, dear, hiding all away I was not there, dear, hiding all away
You went and asked your doctor To get some advice He shot you full of Pethidine And then he billed you twice
But I was hiding, dear, hiding all away [2x]
You approached a high court judge You thought he'd be on the level He wrapped a rag around your face And beat you with his gavel I was hiding, habe, hiding all away I was hidden, dem, hiding all away
You asked at the local constabulary They said, he's up to his same old tricks They leered at you with their baby blues And rubbed jelly on their sticks I had to get out of there, babe, hiding all away I had to get out of there, dear, hiding all away
You searched through all my poets From Sappho through to Auden I saw the book fall from your hands As you slowly died of boredom I had been there, dear, But I was not there anymore I had been there, now I'm hiding all way
You walked into the ball of fame And approached my imitators Some were stuffing their faces with caviar Some were eating cold potatoes I was hiding, dear, hiding all away [2x]
You asked a famous cook if he'd seen me He opened his oven wide He basted you with butter, babe And made you crawl inside I was not in there, dear, hiding all away [2x]
You asked the butcher Who lifted up his cleaver Stuck his fist up your dress Said he must've been mad to leave you But I had to get away, dear, hiding all away I had to get away, dear, I was hidden all away
Some of us we hide away Some of us we don't Some will live to love another day And some of us won't But we all know there is a law And that law, it is love And we all know there's a war coming Coming from above
There is a war coming [2x] ___________________
Let The Bells Ring
C'mon, kind Sir, let's walk outside And breathe the autumn air See the many that have lived and died See the unending golden stair See all of us that have come behind Clutching at your hem All the way from Arkansas To your sweet and last amen
Let the bells ring He is the real thing Let the bells ring He is the real, real thing
Take this deafening thunder down Take this bread and take this wine Your passing is not what we mourn But the world you left behind Well, do not breathe, nor make a sound And behold your mighty work That towers over the uncaring ground Of a lesser, darker world
Let the bells ring He is the real thing Let the bells ring He is the real, real thing
There are those of us not fit to tie The laces of your shoes Must remain behind to testify Through an elementary blues So, let's walk outside, the hour is late Through your crumbs and scattered shells Where the awed and the mediocre wait Barely fit to ring the bells
Let the bells ring He is the real thing Let the bells ring He is the real, real thing ___________________
Messiah Ward
I hope you're sitting comfortably I saved you the best seat in the house Right up in the front row The stars have been torn down The moon is locked away And the land is banked in frozen snow You are a force of nature, dear Your breath curls from your lips As the trees bend down their branches And touch you with their fingertips They're bringing out the dead, now It's easy just to look away They are bringing out the dead, now It's been a strange, strange day We could navigate our position by the stars But they've taken out the stars The stars have all gone I'm glad you've come along We could comprehend our condition by the moon But they've ordered the moon not to shine Still, I'm glad you've come along I was worried out of my mind Cause, they keep bringing out the dead It's easy just to look away They're bringing out the dead, now And it's been a long, strange day You can move up a little closer I will throw a blanket over We can weigh all the tears in one hand Against the laughter in the other We could be hanging around here for centuries Trying to make sense of this, my dear While the planets try to get organised Way above the stratosphere But they keep bringing out the dead, now It's easy if we just walk away They keep bringing out the dead, now It's been a long, long day Look away Look away ___________________
Nature Boy
I was just a boy when I sat down To watch the news on TV I saw some ordinary slaughter I saw some routine atrocity My father said, don't look away You got to be strong, you got to be bold, now He said, that in the end it is beauty That is going to save the world, now And she moves among the sparrows And she floats upon the breeze She moves among the flowers She moves something deep inside of me I was walking around the flower show like a leper Coming down with some kind of nervous hysteria When I saw you standing there, green eyes, black hair Up against the pink and purple wisteria You said, hey, nature boy, are you looking at me With some unrighteous intention? My knees went weak, I couldn't speak, I was having thoughts That were not in my best interests to mention And she moves among the flowers And she floats upon the smoke She moves among the shadows She moves me with just one little look You took me back to your place And dressed me up in a deep sea diver's suit You played the patriot, you raised the flag And I stood at full salute Later on we smoked a pipe that struck me dumb And made it impossible to speak As you closed in, in slow motion, Quoting Sappho, in the original Greek She moves among the shadows She floats upon the breeze She moves among the candles And we moved through the days and through the years Years passed by, we were walking by the sea Half delirious You smiled at me and said, Babe I think this thing is getting kind of serious You pointed at something and said Have you ever seen such a beautiful thing? It was then that I broke down It was then that you lifted me up again She moves among the sparrows And she walks across the sea She moves among the flowers And she moves something deep inside of me She moves among the sparrows And she floats upon the breeze She moves among the flowers And she moves right up close to me ___________________
O Children
Pass me that lovely little gun My dear, my darting one The cleaners are coming, one by one You don't even want to let them start
They are knocking now upon your door They measure the room, they know the score They're mopping up the butcher's floor Of your broken little hearts
O children
Forgive us now for what we've done It started out as a bit of fun Here, take these before we run away The keys to the gulag
O children Lift up your voice, lift up your voice Children Rejoice, rejoice
Here comes Frank and poor old Jim They're gathering round with all my friends We're older now, the light is dim And you are only just beginning
O children
We have the answer to all your fears It's short, it's simple, it's crystal dear It's round about, it's somewhere here Lost amongst our winnings
O children Lift up your voice, lift up your voice Children Rejoice, rejoice
The cleaners have done their job on you They're hip to it, man, they're in the groove They've hosed you down, you're good as new They're lining up to inspect you
O children
Poor old Jim's white as a ghost He's found the answer that was lost We're all weeping now, weeping because There ain't nothing we can do to protect you
O children Lift up your voice, lift up your voice Children Rejoice, rejoice ___________________
Spell
Through the woods, and frosted moors Past the snow-caked hedgerows I Bed down upon the drifting snow Sleep beneath the melting sky I whisper all your names I know not where you are But somewhere, somewhere, somewhere here Upon this wild abandoned star
And I'm full of love And I'm full of wonder And I'm full of love And I'm falling under Your spell
I have no abiding memory No awakening, no flaming dart No word of consolation No arrow through my heart Only a feeble notion A glimmer from afar That I cling to with my fingers As we go spinning wildly through the stars
And I'm full of love And I'm full of wonder And I'm full of love And I'm falling under Your spell
The wind lifts me to my senses I rise up with the dew The snow turns to streams of light The purple heather grows anew I call you by your name I know not where you are But somehow, somewhere, sometime soon Upon this wild abandoned star
And I'm full of love And I'm full of wonder And I'm full of love And I'm falling under Your spell ___________________
Supernaturally
Through the windswept coastal trees Where the dead come rising from the sea With a teddy-bear clamped between her knees She says, where can my loverman be? Well, I'm down here, babe, with the Eskimos With the polar bears and the Arctic snow With a party of penguins who do not know flow How I can get back to thee Well I'm gonna ask you, babe Hey! Ho! Oh baby don't you go Hey! Ho! Oh no no no Hey! Ho! Oh baby, don't you go All supernatural on me Supernaturally
Once I was your hearts desire Now I am the ape hunkered by the fire With my knuckles dragging through the mire You float by so majestically You're my north, my south, my east, my west You are the girl that I love best With an army of tanks bursting from your chest I wave my little white flag at thee Can you see it, babe? Hey! Ho! Oh baby don't you go Hey! Ho! Oh no no no Hey! Ho! Oh baby, don't you go All supernatural on me Supernaturally
Now I've turned the mirrors to wall I've emptied out the peopled halls I've nailed shut the windows and locked the doors There is no escape, you see I chase you up and down the stairs Under tables and over chairs I reach out and I touch your hair And it cuts me like a knife For there is always something Other little thing you gotta do Hey! Ho! Oh baby don't you go Hey! Ho! Oh baby, no no no Hey! Ho! Oh don't you go All supernatural on me Supernaturally ___________________
The Lyre Of Orpheus
Orpheus sat gloomy in his garden shed Wondering what to do With a lump of wood, a piece of wire And a little pot of glue O Mamma O Mamma
He sawed at the wood with half a heart And glued it top to bottom He strung a wire in between He was feeling something rotten O Mamma O Mamma
Orpheus looked at his instrument And he gave the wire a pluck He heard a sound so beautiful He gasped and said O my God O Mamma O Mamma
He rushed inside to tell his wife He went racing down the halls Eurydice was still asleep in bed Like a sack of cannonballs O Mamma O Mamma
Look what I've made, cried Orpheus And he plucked a gentle note Eurydice's eyes popped from their sockets And her tongue burst through her throat O Mamma O Mamma
O God, what have I done, he said As her blood pooled in the sheets But in his heart he felt a bliss With which nothing could compete O Mamma O Mamma
Orpheus went leaping through the fields Strumming as hard as he did please Birdies detonated in the sky Bunnies dashed their brains out on the trees O Mamma O Mamma
Orpheus strummed till his fingers bled He hit a G minor 7 He woke up God from a deep, deep sleep God was a major player in heaven O Mamma O Mamma
God picked up a giant hammer And He threw it with an thunderous yell It smashed down hard on Orpheus' head And knocked him down a well O Mamma O Mamma
The well went down very deep Very deep went down the well The well went down so very deep Well, the well went down to hell O Mamma O Mamma
Poor Orpheus woke up with a start All amongst the rotting dead His lyre tucked safe under his arm His brains all down his head O Mamma O Mamma
Eurydice appeared brindled in blood And she said to Orpheus If you play that fucking thing down here I'll stick it up your orifice! O Mamma O Mamma
This lyre lark is for the birds, said Orpheus It's enough to send you bats Let's stay down here, Eurydice, dear And we'll have a bunch of screaming brats O Mamma O Mamma
Orpheus picked up his lyre for the last time He was on a real low down bummer And stared deep into the abyss and said This one is for Mamma O Mamma O Mamma
O Mamma O Mamma O Mamma O Mamma O Mamma O Mamma ___________________
There She Goes, My Beautiful World
The wintergreen, the juniper The cornflower and the chicory All the words you said to me Still vibrating in the air The elm, the ash and the linden tree The dark and deep, enchanted sea The trembling moon and the stars unfurled There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes again John Willmot, penned his poetry riddled with the pox Nabakov wrote on index cards, at a lectern, in his socks St. John of the Cross did his best stuff imprisoned in a box And Johnny Thunders was half alive when he wrote Chinese Rocks Well, me, I'm lying here, with nothing in my ears Me, I'm lying here, with nothing in my ears Me, I'm lying here, for what seems years I'm just lying on my bed with nothing in my head Send that stuff on down to me Send that stuff on down to me Send that stuff on down to me Send that stuff on down to me There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes again Karl Marx squeezed his carbuncles while writing Das Kapital And Gaugin, he buggered off, man, and went all tropical While Philip Larkin stuck it out in a library in Hull And Dylan Thomas died drunk in St Vincent's hospital I will kneel at your feet I will lie at your door I will rock you to sleep I will roll on the floor And I'll ask for nothing Nothing in this life I'll ask for nothing Give me ever-lasting life I just want to move the world I just want to move the world I just want to move the world I just want to move There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes again So if you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it If you've got a field, that don't yield, well get up and hoe it I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a muse, but then I weren't much of a poet I will be your slave I will peel you grapes Up on your pedestal With your ivory and apes With your book of ideas With your alchemy O Come on Send that stuff on down to me Send that stuff on down to me Send that stuff on down to me Send that stuff on down to me Send that stuff on down to me Send it all around the world Cause here she comes my beautiful girl
There she goes my beautiful world There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes my beautiful world There she goes again
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