NEIL YOUNG: World Record (2022)

 

1. Love Earth

2. Overhead

3. I Walk with You (Earth Ringtone)

4. This Old Planet (Changing Days)

5. The World (Is in Trouble now)

6. Break the Chain

7. The Long Day Before

8. Walkin' on the Road (To the Future)

9. The Wonder Won't Wait

10. Chevrolet

11. This Old Planet (Reprise)

LOVE EARTH

(Love Earth)

(Love Earth)

And your love comes back to you

(Love Earth)

Such an easy thing to do

(Love Earth)

Till the water and the air is pure

From the birds in the sky

To the fishes deep in the sea

(Love Earth)

(Love Earth)

(Love Earth)

The place where all the children can live

(Love Earth)

Really nothing better to give

(Love Earth)

And your love comes back to you

So I’m calling out

So I’m calling out to you

(Love Earth)

(Love Earth)

The sky was blue and the air so clean

The water crystal clear

We lived by the sun and have it all

We were living in a dream

(Love Earth)

(Love Earth)

(Love Earth)

We can bring the seasons back

(Love Earth)

Can you imagine that

(Love Earth)

Your love comes back to you

So I’m calling out

So I’m calling out to you

(Love Earth)

Love Earth (Love Earth)

(Love Earth)

Love Earth (Love Earth)

The sky was blue and the ear so clean

The water crystal clear

We lived by the sun and have it all

We were living in a dream

(Love Earth)

(Love Earth)

(Love Earth)

(Love Earth)

(Love Earth)

(Love Earth)

(Love Earth)

OVERHEAD

I was walkin' in a dream

And I couldn't get the message

You tried to call me but I was not home

It's more than what it seems

And I'm pickin' up some meaning

But I'm just not sure if I can reel it all in

It's my life (it's my life)

It's my love (it's my love)

It's my day

In the old world life was just a rollin' and a tumble

One foot in front of the other all day

But I found you now and I'm trying to make the difference

Trying to make it through the beautiful day

It's my life (it's my life)

It's my love (it's my love)

It's my day

Crimson Pirate on the big screen

And I'm lookin' at the ocean

Tryin' to see if I belong out there

I got love and light and devotion

Got a chance to make a difference somewhere

It's my life (it's my life)

It's my love (it's my love)

It's my chance

Overhead in the skies of blue

Not a thing between me and you

All the love in the world there too

Overhead in the skies of blue

I'm a bird and so are you

We can fly in the world there too

We've got to say goodbye before I go into the good times

Got to say hello when we meet again

Thinkin' 'bout us now on the porch outside the Lincoln

Parked out front, so we're ready to go

It's my life (it's my life)

It's my love (it's my love)

It's my chance (it's my chance)

It's my life (it's my life)

It's my love (it's my love)

And my chance (and my chance)

I WALK WITH YOU (EARTH RINGTONE)

I saw the change rolling by out the window of my life

I'm so grateful to have lived all these years

From the falling leaves to the snow in the trees

And the spring to the summertime we knew

As they came and they went and I rode along with life

In my ways with my memories and love

I look out at the change and I wonder how the Earth

Could be going to somewhere I've never seen

Walk with me now to the ends of the Earth

And you'll see what the damage can be

Fight with me now to the end of the wars

And believe what they've done for you, if you now are free

The end of wars, the price of life

The cost of care, the toll of strife

I walk with you and count the days

Walk by my side as we enter the days

And we find what we have in store

Stand with me now as we walk through the land

And we wonder what we were fighting for

THIS OLD PLANET (CHANGING DAYS)

Well they say the autumn leaves

Don't fall in the springtime

It's just too soon

And the time has home

But it's just too soon

You're not alone on this old planet

It's still all yours to do as you may

You're not alone on this old planet

Time was long ago

When we were just children

The sun would rise and the sun would fall

On the changing day

The big blue sky and the sparkling water

The river flowed right through our town

On the way down to the lake

You're not alone on this old planet

It's still all yours to do as you may

You're not alone on this old planet

Time was long ago

When we were just children

The sun would rise and the sun would fall

On the changing days

The sun would ride and the sun would fall

On the changing days

The sun would ride and fall

On the changing days

THE WORLD (IS IN TROUBLE NOW)

The flowers growing from the ground

The sunlight shining down

My memories of the past delight

In all the things I found

Because the earth has held me so

I never will let go

I never will let go

I never will let go

On this street we walk together now

To send this message here

Let me wait beyond the things I know

And try to be a light

Searching for the way back home

And lost in your delight

Well, I try to make the feelings show

I try to make it right

Take my life towards the endless flow

And move me with the night

I'm beyond the time I had to know

I'm waiting out of sight

These things are kept from me

By defense I must know

I could hear you in the early prime

You let your feelings go

The flowers growing from the ground

The sunlight shining down

My memories of the past delight

In all the things I found

Because the earth has held me so

I never will let go

I never will let go

I never will let go

BREAK THE CHAIN

I'm gonna love every breath that I take

(Break the chain)

Down to my soul that my heartbeat makes

(Break the chain)

(Break the chain)

Walk as straight as my eyes can see

(Break the chain)

I'm gonna stay home in eternity

(Break the chain)

(Break the chain)

When I'm outside and I take a deep breath

(Break the chain)

It's like I'm dancin' am I dancin' with death?

(Break the chain)

(Break the chain)

Let's break the chain, let it die on the vine

(Break the chain)

No human home and scarce little time

(Break the chain)

(Break the chain)

Break the chain

Break the chain

Break the chain

Break the chain

THE LONG DAY BEFORE

In the old days and the newer days

The present days and the future days

Tomorrow will never be late

If your dreams can come true

On the true days and the lyin' days

The crowd stays and the purple haze

Is floating down from the sky

That's where it shows

On the TV, in the newscast

They're never gonna talk about

On the front page of the internet

You're never gonna see about

The big thing in the room

That's happening right now

In the long day before

To the night of the morning and after it

Will live on as a memory of fate

It's so big that you can't see

It's so large that it's you and me

It's nothing if not the dream

We have is not coming true

People swear it's a conspiracy

A dirty trick to get you and me

Into believing that something's not real

WALKIN' ON THE ROAD (TO THE FUTURE)

Walkin' on the road to the future is scary

We want to make the best of the past and not tarry

These are the things we've done and they have a cost

We will take it on and try to make the best of us

Walk with me brothers and sisters of the future

To the world as we know it and the Earth as we knew it

Hand in hand, fist to fist with no more weapons, no more war

No more war

Only love

No more war

Only love

Walkin' with me now to the future of all mankind

One step right in front of the other

Walkin' to the future, as sisters and brothers

We've got to do it now, though some may say it's too late

No more war

Only love

No more war

Only love

Walk with me now for the children of the future

The green grass, blue sky, clear water future

With sun shedding light through a flicker in your laughin' eyes

Your cryin' eyes, your laughin' eyes

Your cryin' eyes, your laughin' eyes

No more war

Only love

No more war

Only love

THE WONDER WON'T WAIT

The wonder won't wait till tomorrow again

The wonder won't wait for you

To come back home

If you're lost where you are and you can't get back

The wonder won't wait for you

To swing at the stars in the sky

Take some time to live before you die

'Cause the wonder won't wait

No, the wonder won't wait

I'm the air all around the bank

Where your money pays for crimes against me

'Cause I'm the Earth and I wanna live

But the wonder won't wait for me

To swing at the stars in the sky

Take some time to live before you die

There's something big happening and part of it's you

You've got to stand outside yourself

Get out your own head so you see what you do

You've got to stand outside yourself (stand outside yourself)

Take some time to live before you die

'Cause The wonder won't wait

The wonder won't wait for you

The wonder won't wait

The wonder won't wait for you

To stand outside yourself

CHEVROLET

Almost got an old Chevrolet

Man, that car was talking to me

Chevrolet

Pretty red lights and the paint was gleaming

I was seeing myself in a different way

Chevrolet

Shifting gears, I had to pull away

Lost on the winding highway in my mind

Oh, but it feels so good

How will it comfort me

Burnin' all that fuel again?

Gone is the crowded highway

Lost, are the roads we left behind

Found in the place they live inside me

Chevrolet

Chevrolet

Wanderin' with an ancient Nomad

On the dusty lanes of this old highway

Chevrolet

Never lost before I found you

Now I need to just forget our bad turns

Chevrolet

What a curve and what a way to go

We took it fast before we took it slow

Oh, and it feels so good

Rollin' the window down

Ivory wheel in my hands again

Gone is the crowded highway

Lost, are the roads we left behind

Found in the place they live inside me

Chevrolet

Chevrolet

On the road in my old Corvette

New mama said we have a baby on the way

Chevrolet

Soon enough, we lost all contact

We were young and foolish, that's behind us now

Chevrolet

One bad turn behind us now

That's the road we can't go back on

That's the turn we've already made

Oh, but it feels so good

Rollin' the window down

Ivory wheel in my hands again

Gone is the crowded highway

Lost, are the roads we left behind

Found in the place they live inside me

Chevrolet

Chevrolet

Chevrolet

Chevrolet

THIS OLD PLANET (REPRISE)

…

But it's just too soon

You're not alone on this old planet

It's still all yours to do as you may

You're not alone on this old planet

Time was long ago

When we were just children

The sun would rise and the sun would fall

On the changing day

NEIL YOUNG: Toast (2022)

 

1. Quit

2. Standing in the Light of Love

3. Goin' Home

4. Timberline

5. Gateway of Love

6. How Ya Doin'?

7. Boom Boom Boom

QUIT

Don't say you love me (Don't say you love me)

Don't say you love me (Don't say you love me)

Don't say you love me (Don't say you love me)

Don't say you love me (Don't say you love me)

Hey baby

I'm your man

I know I treated you bad

But I'm doin' the best I can

Now is not the time

To cash it in

I'm with you babe

I've always been

And I got to tell you baby

That our love is strong

And I'm the one

The one that did you wrong

Don't say you love me (Don't say you love me)

That's what she said (Don't say you love me)

Don't say you love me (Don't say you love me)

Don't say you love me (Don't say you love me)

Hey baby

Don't count me out

I still got a lot to give

Stick around and find out

I might surprise you

With what our love still brings

I'm never quiting you

Even if you quit me

Oooh I got to tell you baby

And our love is strong

I'm the one

The one that did you wrong

Don't say you love me (Don't say you love me)

That's what she said (Don't say you love me)

Don't say you love me (Don't say you love me)

That's what she said (Don't say you love me)

(Don't say you love me (Don't say you love me))

(Don't say you love me (That's what she said))

(Don't say you love me (Don’t say you love me))

(Don't say you love me (Don't say you love me))

(Don't say you love me (That's what she said))

STANDING IN THE LIGHT OF LOVE

I don't wanna get personal

Or have you put me on the spot?

Don't know how you feel

But for me it's getting hard

Floating in the deep blue sea

Standing in the big parade

All it takes is a little shade

Standing in the light of love

Standing in the light of love

All we need is a little love

To make a handout worth a lot

Doesn’t matter where you are

Or where you’re not

Sinking in the deep blue sea

Marching in the long parade

All you need is a little shade

When you’re standing in the light of love

Standing in the light of love

Drowning in the deep blue sea

Drudging in the long parade

All it takes is a little shade

Standing in the light of love

Standing in the light of love

GOIN' HOME

On the hill where Custer was

Making his last stand

With the Indians all around him

And his gun in his hand

Such a wind was blowing that day

Through the battleground

I could feel it in my hair

As I turned towards downtown

Weaving through the buildings

Cutting though the streets

Slicing through the culture

Piling on the weeks

Goin' home, I'm goin' home

Goin' home, I'm goin' home

Dropping in on you, my friend

Is just like old times

Said the fool who signed the paper

To assorted slimes

It's hard to get blood from a stone

But I'll give it a try

To provide your accommodations

And leave you satisfied

You'd think it was easy

To give your life away

To not have to live up to

The promises you made

Goin' homе, I'm goin' home

Goin' home, I'm goin' home

Goin' homе

Elusively she cut the phone

And went from cell to cell

Really looking remarkable

And obviously doing well

Made a turn on a wooden bridge

Into the battleground

With a thousand warriors on the ridge

She tried to turn her radio down

Battle drums were pounding

All around her car

She saw her clothes were changing

Into sky and stars

I'm goin' home, I'm goin' home

Goin' home, I'm goin' home

Goin' home, I'm goin' home

Goin' home, I'm goin' home

Goin' home, I'm goin' home

Goin' home, I'm goin' home

TIMBERLINE

Well, I saw you on the timberline walkin' with your tools (Timberline, timberline)

I know you seen the signs, know you know the rules (Timberline, timberline)

You saw my machine, all of them are legal (Timberline, timberline)

Monkey with that madness, I'll blow your head off (Timberline, timberline)

Fooled by the Lord

Fooled by his grace

Put my faith in Jesus

Took away my livin'

Took away my place

Oh, Lord

Well, they really did it to me when they closеd down the cut (Timberline, timbеrline)

They left that baby standing and it wrenched me in the gut (Timberline, timberline)

They really did it to me when they closed down the cut (Timberline, timberline)

Finger on the iron

Got you in my sight

Put my faith in Jesus

Goin' back to school

Gonna show them what I've learned

Oh, Lord

Well, they really did it to me when they closed down the cut (Timberline, timberline)

Left those babies standing, wrenched me in the gut (Timberline, timberline)

They really did it to me when they closed down the cut (Timberline, timberline)

Fooled by the Lord

Fooled by his grace

Put my faith in Jesus

Took away my livin'

Took away my place

Oh, Lord, yeah

GATEWAY OF LOVE

Background noise on a changing sky

Blacked out eyes saw the reason why

I still feel you in my heart's eye

Gateway of love

Gateway of love

Try to find the perfect time (Perfect time)

To say something to you

Filled with need and filled with truth

But I'm just a drifting soul

With nothing much to say

Strong in the head

And bound to stay that way

I got almost everything except that little key

To the gateway of love

Gateway of love

Once I heard, there's a place all high (Therе's a place)

Where angеls spread their wings

And babies learn to fly

Once I heard, there's a place all high

But I'd like to stay down here

And try to love someone

Caught in our life

While we watch the bouncing sun

I'd just like to hold her near

And bring her back to me

But the gateway of love

Gateway of love

Background noise on a changing sky (Background noise)

You're making love to me

I still feel you in my heart's eye

If I could just live my lie as easy as a song

I'd wake up someday and the pain would all be gone

Help me now, I'm sinking fast, I gotta get along

To the gateway of love

Gateway of love

Try to find the perfect time (Perfect time)

To say some things to you

Filled with need and filled with truth

If I could just live my life as easy as a song

I'd wake up someday and the pain would all be gone

Help me now, I'm sinking fast, I gotta get along

To the gateway of love

Gateway of love

HOW YA DOIN'?

Where did all the feelings go?

What about that happy glow?

Was that so long ago

When we were first in love?

I didn't feel the change

Everything was still the same

And when that moment came

I didn't know

I miss the feeling

I miss the light

But I got faith in something

I'll never give up the fight

Why's it so heavy?

This heart of mine

I lost the feeling

I lost the time

I'd like to shake your hand, disappointment

Looks like you win again

But this time will be the last

Let's say I got a habit

Let's say it's hard to break

Let's say we gotta do something

Before it's just too late

I wanna get you back

I don't know how to do that

I miss you loving me

The way we used to

I'd like to shake your hand, disappointment

Looks like you win again

But this time will be the last

I'm taking the blame myself

For livin' my life in a shell

And now I'm breakin' out

But will you still be there?

Let's say that love is blind

Let's say that time is kind

Let's say that it's not over

'Til it's over

I'd like to shake your hand, disappointment

Looks like you win again

But this time will be the last

I'd like to shake your hand, disappointment

Looks like you win again

I'd like to shake your hand, disappointment

Looks like you win again

So now it's up to me

To set your spirit free

So you can swing again

On our gate

BOOM BOOM BOOM

There ain't no way I’m gonna let the good times go

There ain't no way I'm gonna let the good times go

The touch of my woman can soothe my soul

When she make me feel right that’s when the good times roll

Let the good times roll

Oh, she's a healer to me

Oh, yeah

The blue-eyed woman is a mystery to me

The blue-eyed woman is a mystery to me

The touch of my woman can soothe my soul

When she make me feel right, that's when the good times roll

Let the good times roll

Oh, she's a healer to me

Oh, yeah

Way out on the prairies where the wheat fields grow

Way out on the prairies is back where the wheat fields grow

I stop to slap plastic at an Esso station

About a thousand miles from my destination

Let the good times roll

Oh, she's a healer to me

She's a healer to me

All I got is a broken heart

And I don't try to hide it when I play my guitar

There ain't no way I’m gonna let the good time go

There ain’t no way I'm gonna let the good time go

There ain’t no way I'm gonna let the good time go

There ain't no way I'm gonna let the good time go

Blue-eyed woman is a healer to me

(Blue-eyed woman)

If I lose that woman I'm history

(Blue-eyed woman)

Blue-eyed woman

(Blue-eyed woman)

If I lose that woman I'm toast

(Blue-eyed woman)

There ain't no way I'm gonna let the good time go

There ain't no way I'm gonna let the good time go

There ain't no way I'm gonna let the good time go

(Ain't no way)

(Ain't no way)

JETHRO TULL: The Zealot Gene (2022)

 

1. Mrs. Tibbets

2. Jacob’s Tales

3. Mine Is The Mountain

4. The Zealot Gene

5. Shoshana Sleeping

6. Sad City Sisters

7. Barren Beth, Wild Desert John

8. The Betrayal Of Joshua Kynde

9. Where Did Saturday Go?

10. Three Loves, Three

11. In Brief Visitation

12. The Fisherman Of Ephesus

MRS. TIBBETS

Blinkered against the harsh and raging sun

They said, divert your gaze: don't look behind

It was time, they said, to do that thing;

Mindful, they, of peace and peace of mind

Don't feel bad, they said, about the numbers

Don't feel bad about the melting heat

The burning flesh, the soft white cell demise

And the shattered ground beneath the trembling feet

Mrs. Tibbets' little boy

August morning silence breaks

Eyes to heaven, Manhattan toy

Drops in for tea and Eccles cake

All for the good and ultimately

Saving precious lives in longer run

Set a course for home and happy holidays;

Tell yourself thank God what's done is done

Mrs. Tibbets' little boy

August morning silence breaks

Eyes to heaven, Manhattan toy

Drops in for tea and Eccles cake

Maybe if Lot had stopped and stood his ground

And maybe if Peter hadn't turned away

What if that Judas stole no kiss?

What if, what if, Enola Gay?

Mrs. Tibbets' little boy

August morning silence breaks

Eyes to heaven, Manhattan toy

Drops in for tea and Eccles cake

Have yourselves a merry little Christmas;

Open parcels, gifts of different kind

A bigger bang will call for bigger bucks

So pay the ransom, don't look behind

JACOB'S TALES

Who cares about the family silver

That glints in dusty halls

Lined with badly painted landscapes

On badly painted walls?

Who cares for family favourites

Dangling from the family tree?

That Auntie Mabel loved you more

Loved you, loved you more than me

We're not old fools of competition

Jacob's tales or superstition

But siblings born in equal grace

Seated at set-table place

Same old chances, toss of dice:

Evil eyes look twice as nice

Blood runs thicker, blood runs cold;

Seize legacy before it's sold

Who cares if I am comfortable

In leafy rural lane

While you are tied to drudgery

Left staring at the rain

That washes out your young ambition

Hung out left to dry

And wither on the washing line

Washed out, washed-out butterfly

We're not old fools of competition

Jacob's tales or superstition

But siblings born in equal grace

Seated at set-table place

Same old chances, toss of dice:

Evil eyes look twice as nice

Blood runs thicker, blood runs cold;

Seize legacy before it's sold

MINE IS THE MOUNTAIN

Mine is the power and mine is the glory;

Mine is the mountain up which you tread

Give me bold questions, give me good reason

Tell me you love me, fear all I have said

Don't imitate me, don't forsake me

In images silver, in idols of gold

Don't make me jealous; don't make me angry

Don't ever leave me out in the cold

Mine is the mountain

Bring all your pomp

Precious jewels and your finеry

Build me safe haven for tablеts of stone

To live through the ages to scold and to guide you

Threaten cajole you and cut to the bone

Mine in the mountain

I'm no pushover lamb, no gentle provider;

Vengeance, retribution are my middle names

I can make a cadaver of your women, your firstborn

With a snap of a finger, of salt and of flame

Matty and Lucas may bring something softer

Gentle in word and gentle in deed

But you who ignore these things that are written

Will define the story your children will read

Mine is the mountain

Bring all your pomp

Precious jewels and your finery

Build me safe haven for tablets of stone

To live through the ages to scold and to guide you

Threaten cajole you and cut to the bone

Mine in the mountain

So think of me fondly in spite of the raging

The ranting, the raving, the threatening tone

For I am the father, the power and the glory

And now, for God's sake, kindly leave me alone

THE ZEALOT GENE

Half of us are in the apple;

Half of us are in the pie

All of us are in the pudding

When the last bus has gone by

Someone has to take the high road

Someone has to make the bed

No-one has the right to tell you

To lie down when all is said

The black and white, the stereotype

The polarising pitch at play

While some of us sit in between

Interminable shades of grey

No need to walk the tightrope

Set out on that great divide

The balance scales may tremble

But the featherweights are on our side

Carrying the Zealot gene

Right or left, no in between

Beware, beware the Zealot gene:

Naked flame near gasoline

The populist with dark appeal

The pandering to hate

Which xenophobic scaremongers

Deliver on a plate

To tame the pangs of hunger

And satisfy the lust

Slave to ideology

Moderation bites the dust

Bee buzzing in your bonnet

And a wasp right up the bum

A V-8 under hood

A cocked hammer under thumb

Ear-splitting twitter thunder

And a screaming banshee wail

You got too many opinions

And a tom cat by the tail

Carrying the Zealot gene

Right or left, no in between

Beware, beware the Zealot gene:

Naked flame near gasoline

Carrying the Zealot gene

Right or left, no in between

Beware, beware the Zealot gene

Naked flame near gasoline

Half of us are in the apple

Half of us are in the pie

All of us are in the pudding

When the last bus has gone by

Someone has to take the high road

Someone has to make the bed

No-one has the right to tell you

To lie down when all is said

The black and white, the stereotype

The polarising pitch at play

While some of us sit in between

Interminable shades of grey

No need to walk the tightrope

Set out on that great divide

The balance scales may tremble

But the featherweights are on our side

Carrying the Zealot gene

Right or left, no in between

Beware, beware the Zealot gene

Naked flame near gasoline

SHOSHANA SLEEPING

Sleep: the time's not yet;

Early birds soon crowing

Wake when dawn declares

Woman risen from childish airs

I watch, across the room;

Dancing shadow, torch outside

Lights path down cobbled lane

Which I have walked, will walk again

Sweet field lily, sweet Shoshana

Names to conjure fragrant danger

Fingers tremble, trace the line

From nape to sacrum down the spine

Poisoned prize a trophy

Freely taken, hardly won

A minute, holds back hours

Bud emboldened, forest flowers

Moist under my hand

She sleeps; breath comes quickly

A sigh parts silky lips

Soft-swell breasts, proud goldеn tips

Sweet field lily, sweet Shoshana

Names to conjure fragrant dangеr

My fingers tremble, trace the line

From nape to sacrum down the spine

Sweet sadness fills my heart

Offered chances best not taken

Unsullied, no vain glory:

Chapter, verse, another story

Brushed eyelids gently closed

Beauty framed in dawn-light

Savored moment blessed

A kiss, farewell, and leave to rest

Sweet field lily, sweet Shoshana

Names to conjure fragrant danger

My fingers tremble, trace the line

From nape to sacrum down the spine

SAD CITY SISTERS

Hard to choose, to choose between them:

Tramps on a night out, out of season

Bare legs and arms at the taxi stand

Shoes in hand, cold kerb to freeze on

What desperation, what souls possessed

With lonely demons are put to test?

Why should we worry, why should we care

That warrior horsemen shame, defile them?

Why tip the cabbie, plus his fare?

So send them home to stumble in

And toss their knickers in the bin

Repentance looms then mеlts away

Mocked by dark unearthly silencе

Replaced by incubus at play

Bad sisters stare, graffiti walls

Stare in return when weekend calls

The empty bragging, the empty lives

In anguish echo through empty malls

What desperation, what souls possessed

With lonely demons are put to test?

Why should we worry, why should we care

That warrior horsemen shame, defile them?

The six-gun notches say it all

It was hard to choose, to choose between them:

Tramps on a night out, out of season

Out of body and out of mind

Out of dark and into reason

Get them home to stumble in

And toss their knickers in the bin

Demons loom then melt away

"Enough!" disrupts the earthly silence

Guilty Eros had his day

Hands two sad souls to Agápē

BARREN BETH, WILD DESERT JOHN

Oh, the joy! Oh, the joy

To feel the faint beat pulsing

Cousin Mary, Cousin Mary

Set two hearts racing

Winged Gabriel, young Gabriel

He started something

Angry ranting and raving

Four bad winds chasing

You know he's going to be so special

Not number one, maybe number two

Filled with passion, preparation

A dip in Jordan’s heady brew

Cousin Mary gets all the credit

Iconic mother: that's all understood

While Barren Beth, wrinkly life-bringer

Helped two Jays, two little Jays

To find their nests

What would one be without the other?

What would one be without the tale?

Dark narrative of grave and passion

Head on platter, cross and nail

Oh, the joy! Oh, the joy

To feel the faint beat pulsing

Cousin Mary, Cousin Mary

Set two hearts racing

Winged Gabriel, young Gabriel

He started something

Angry ranting and raving

Four bad winds chasing

You know he's going to be so special

Not number one, maybe number two

Filled with passion, preparation

A dip in Jordan’s heady brew

THE BETRAYAL OF JOSHUA KYNDE

You just know it, don't you?

You can sense it, can't you?

There's always someone to spoil the party fun

Turncoat in right-hand, right-hand trusted service

The moment come for the coup-de-gun

What did I do to so upset you?

Did you feel so cruelly, cruelly maligned

To push you to this cold conclusion

And the betrayal of Joshua Kynde?

A spy with coin, a coin of sweet betrayal

Of dagger hidden, black cloak unfurled?

Swayed, perhaps, by idealogical obsession

Or plain detachment, dark other world?

So take this silver, feel it rattle

Comforting in pocket and comforting in mind

Should I be flattered at this price upon my head

And the betrayal of Joshua Kynde?

How does it feel to point the stabbing finger

With perfidious kiss from those deceiving lips?

You sealed my fate as goodly Joshua Kynde:

The kind who played with fish and had his chips

So take this silver, feel it rattle

Comforting in pocket and comforting in mind

Should I be flattered at this price upon my head

And the betrayal of Joshua Kynde?

WHERE DID SATURDAY GO?

Where did Saturday go?

Lost in a whirlwind, heady passion

Long faces hang so low

High-flying dreams to earth fell crashing

Deeply regrettable, somewhat predictable

Faintly implausible, quite unmissable

But where did Saturday go?

Friday felt so alive

Savagely, wickedly entertaining

Watching comeuppance arrive:

The howl of the pneuma, the last breath remaining

For bucking the system, ascending the rostrum

Occasional tantrum, offering nostrum

But where did Saturday go?

Empty sun on an empty hill

Suffering simply sеt aside

Silent screams, a silеnce shrill

On a one-way donkey ride

Empty sun on an empty hill

Suffering simply sеt aside

Silent screams, a silеnce shrill

On a one-way donkey ride

Sunday started so slow

Empty beds in emptier places

How were we meant to know?

Ghostly soul amongst crazy faces

Striking ascendance, in due accordance

Ultimate prescience, what a performance

But where did Saturday go?

Where did Saturday go?

Go

THREE LOVES, THREE

Call it what you will; I just need to hear it

Tell me, fill the night; blow warm breath to cheer it

It's not for me that I ask sweet reassurance

It's for you to see, to see love's firm endurance

It's not for me that I ask sweet reassurance

It's for you to see, to see the three loves, three

Cold lambs are stirring on the gentler edge of dawn

Good shepherds watching: alert, they linger on

Long after sun's up on just another day

And night's dark whispers have had their say

Long after sun's up on just another day

It's for you to see, to see the three loves, three

Be it love of spirit, of brothers, lovers, sons

Or blood-heat emotion, burning lava, bright it runs

I'll take what's offered, made bold and manifest

Remember me, long gone, long gone to rest

I'll take what's offered, made bold and manifest

It's for you to see, to see the three loves, three

Three loves, three

Three loves, three

Three loves, three

IN BRIEF VISITATION

I still need someone to love:

Someone outrageous, someone to make me laugh

Someone who fell from above

To channel my hopes and write me an autograph

Here on my heart, engraved dedication

The fall guy was here, in brief visitation

I still need someone to love

In brief visitation, the fall guy was here

Dangerous affections sublime

Smother objections with infinite kindness passed

Between us, a steadying sail

Never to flutter, never to break the mast

Write on my heart, engraved dedication

The fall guy was here, in brief visitation

Dangerous affections sublime

In brief visitation, the fall guy was here

In brief visitation, the fall guy was here

They still need someone to hate

To brand with harsh accusations, to scare

The many and even the few

Who flock to the party but turn from the glare

When caught in the headlights and taken to task:

Cowardly persuasion behind the life mask

They still need someone to hate

In brief visitation, the fall guy was here

THE FISHERMAN OF EPHESUS

Ten set out along the rocky road to suffer for their saintly sins

The great betrayer missing having topped himself or split his skin

Now, the young beloved one last son of father Zebedee

Comes to the town of Ephesus to spin the lure and reel them in

Casts a line, sits waiting quietly for the telltale nibble to reveal

The passing curiosity the inner need, the faint appeal

Sings sweetly for his supper sings of miracles and fairy tales

Of barley loaves and two small fish to make, for multitudes, a meal

Fisherman of Ephesus surveys the spirits' battleground

Flag was flown, a story told of crucifix and thorny crown

Hard to go on living with the guilt of chance survival

All alone to fall from sky crash landing on arrival

To walk again the rocky road no martyrdom to comfort

Wait out the years to join the ten in fairytale revival

The test of Poison cup a little boiling oil along the way

On isle of Artemis to toil write memoirs at the end of day

Then back to lie in Ephesus alone amongst the dozen

As harbour slowly suffocates and the catch has swum far away

Fisherman of Ephesus: did he know the fate of others?

Their sticky end, the harsh rebuttal he alone without his brothers