LYRICS
All songs are copyright 1998-2002 by their authors.
Karma Parade - 1998
Autumn Nights
/ Worlds Apart
/ Gravity
/ Prisoner's Parade
/ Frantic
/ Hey God!!!
/ Causes are Idols
/ Departure
/ Illusion
/ I Won't Leave
/ Goodbye
Tide Must Turn - 1999
What To Do
/ Never Knowing
/ River Pirate
/ Screw Us All
/ Rapids
/ John and Mary
/ SOBAL (Song of Beauty and Love)
/ Fight the Good Fight
/ Tide Must Turn
/ Hum
/ Patchouli
/ Cleansing
/ I Could Never Be Loved
/ Train Song
/ Endings
Molotov Cocktail Twist - 1999
Rainbow's End
/ Crylawn King
/ Canine Play
/ Clash of the Storm
/ Autumn Nights
/ Patchouli (re-release)
/ Cleansing (re-release)
Spaceworthy - 2000
Space Man
/ Down
/ Bellerophon
/ Transfer Orbit (jam)
/ Looking East (jam)
Dreams and Nightmares - 2001
First Lady's Food
/ Tarry Can't Hurry
/ Explorer's Dawn
/ Captain Nemo
/ Into the Hole
/ Crucified
/ Mrs. Rutland
/ Gloomy Gus
/ Resolution
/ Alien
/ Muse
/ Isaiah
Karma Parade - 1998
Autumn Nights (Trey Cook)
Verse: Sometimes I think back on those cool autumn nights
There were rainbows in the trees and jack o'lantern lights
There was a smell in the town and I cannot pin it down
There were love letters I kept inside my drawer
Are there elves in the woods depends on who you ask
And all the kids that were down were back there smoking grass
Still what stands out the most is I think I was in love
With a full moon above us we began to kiss
Chorus: And I believed that the girls would always keep me warm
And I believed that the love that was there could do no harm
It's just a breeze through the trees but it meant so much back then
Break the chain leave the pain it was good to live in sin
Verse: I will have this again if it's the last thing I do
So much time has passed since then and I'm still thinking of you
When you said that you loved me I believed it was the truth
And all the time in the world could not cut us from the root
There were games going on in the distance in the field
But they weren't the games we played to our passions we would yield
It's just a season after all and everything must pass
Given time there is grime and we start to become crass
Chorus
Verse: Wasn't I just the nerd who thought of it as more
Than the others who'd forgotten and gone and closed the door
Do we just sit back in life and let ourselves grow old
or do we live out a new story that later will be told
Chorus, Solo, Chorus
Gravity (Trey Cook)
Verse: You look at me you feel and don't see cause you're in my field
What could it be, just what could it mean, can it even be real
You know it's a spell from heaven no hell could stop such a force
Do I want you you know that it's true oh sweetness of course
Chorus: So what can we do there is no stopping gravity
So it's not what you'd choose but it's a full moon you're spellbound
This thing in your eyes it's hidden for a time it's gravity
And now we're earthbound with hardly a sound I'm on your mound
Verse: I could tell you the things I would do but I'll just let it flow
It's coming it's new it's all about you come here after you go
I'll never feel bad about what we have I want you woman
Without the ground we'd never be found and chaos goes on
Prisoners Parade (Ken Barnes)
Verse: I've buried the gold in the cellar
And I've put the shells into my gun
When the fences come down and the horses come round
Then you run
Three days north, the mountain pass
the snow will freeze you snow fast
When you reach the doors of Honolee
Knock six times for me
Chorus: That way we know who's at the door
At the sound of the sign we'll fear you no more
Yes, we know for one more day
We'll escape the rain of the prisoner's parade
Verse: It's gathering time you get in line
And the neighbors will see you no more
The soldiers of hell with a mark on their arm
Knock three times at the door
The strong have all while the children starve
You can't just turn away the troops
When the soldier comes down to find him a whore
Knock six times at the door
Chorus
Verse: The statesmen have their passwords
And Christians have fish in the sand
The elite so they think have their knowing looks
And so on all over the land
They keep their precious secrets
But what would they think of our band
Do they know that our secrets
Keep us from being the damned
Frantic (Ken Barnes)
Verse: In the day, in the day of my father yeah
you walk kinda slow, no need to bother
And the soul of the city was never very busy
cause everyone smiled on their way to work
Somewhere, someone said someday
I won't have to follow them rules
And the soul of the city got really really shitty
and everyone turned into a jerk
Chorus: Frantic, Frantic, the pace-a my life is frantic
Frantic, Frantic, let me catch my breath
Verse: Driving on them highways, byways
Gotta be on time for my brand new job
Copper zapped me, slapped me, then he
said "slow down or you're gonna die"
Running up the stairs to my job
The boss said, "Boy you look like a slob"
Then the corp men taped me, raped me, spanked me,
And I don't even know just why
Chorus
Bridge: The clouds in the sky from here look like horses and faces and birds
and cotton candy.
Mmmmmm.
Why is my life so tight
God help me I'm blind (repeat)
Verse: In the day, in the day of my doctor
doctor said, "no doubt your health is a bother
If you can't slow down you'll return to the ground
If you can't slow down then you're gonna die."
This time, I'm a gonna say
All of you mother fuckin' fools get outta my way
Gonna hate you, bait you, pop you, drop you
And you'll like it or you're gonna die
Chorus (X2)
Causes are Idols (Ken Barnes)
Verse: What makes a mortal man / pray for something more
The scraps are all you get / before they shut the door
The failings of human life / are only good if you can learn from it
But causes are idols / they sweep you up into some righteous shit
Bridge: You can't turn me / from who has loved me
God does not hate easily
We're living in a nation / of Revelations
But your causes are idols
But your causes are idols
Chorus: We will never be broken
You will never be free
Cause your causes are idols
We will never give in
Verse: Why are your people / so inbred
They're like generational Huns / we'd rather build walls than be fed
Paid off fraternity boys / and righteous idealistic men
We talk one and do the other / technically not a sin
Bridge
Chorus
Verse: Don't give me your reasons / don't make them think they are well
Give them a chance to know / they are already in hell
Man does not change / in the course of a single day
Let them know they won't come back / before you order them into the fray
Bridge
Chorus2: We will never be broken / but we are too young to die
Give us just one more chance / to leave and say goodbye
Throw the smoke grenades / to make a getaway
Like the ones before / let us live out our days
We will never be broken / we will never give in
Cause your causes are idols / and our causes are sins
Departure (Trey Cook)
Verse: At that moment I'll fly like a bird in the sky
When I've had my last breath I will pass through that death
And all the time to higher climb soul is rung like a chime
Be prepared this I've said still the devil's in my head
Yet I still through acts of will my will to give that I may live
And all the time to higher climb soul is rung like a chime
Chorus: Let me never be strong now I know where I belong
I surrender to the light it's always day it's never night
Verse: No more sorrow I will be in the joy of mercy
To joyfully embrace the ones that I've missed while undone
And all the while where there's time planet Earth's new paradigm
Shifting colors green to white third eye's carried like a kite
From this sphere of guilt and pain to the heavens where love reigns
And all the while where there's time planet Earth's new paradigm
Chorus
Solo over Verse
Chorus
Chorus2
Hello mother is that you is there so much more to do
I surrender to the love the spirit of the lasting dove
Solo over Verse
Continue solo over Chorus
Keyboard Outro
Illusion (Trey Cook)
Verse: Illusion why don't you go away
Confusion well I just cannot say
Happiness is all I want anyway
Sometimes I can't even remember the way
I swam through marshes I swam through seas
I found out it's not all about me
This clinging, stinging - oh mind be free
Sometimes it's not clear these things I see
Chorus: La da di dee dah…
Verse: Who's the greatest in all the world
We compare ourself to an image hurled
The universe can't exist without
A single soul in the all about
I've been blind in my jealousy
Possessiveness has a grip on me
But I'm letting go, it's the truth I know
If I'm the truth it will surely flow
Chorus
Verse: Girl I'm happy you've found your man
And I should say now I understand
Liberation's a light we shine
When we see life through the eye behind
Clouds of karma will pass on by
I'll keep watching the cloud filled-sky
And soon it'll be clear - I know it's true
Surprise there's one - never me and you
Chorus
Tide Must Turn - 1999
Never Knowing (Ken Barnes)
Verse: I fall for auburn hair tangled in blue eyes
With a million no's in as many tries
Now I know my passions were too high
For someone who can't look you in the eye
Chorus: These are the days that are real
Never knowing who to turn to
Never caring for the new
Sometimes I see you see me
Never knowing that I love you
Never caring for the new
Verse: How hard it is to live this way
Harder still to turn away
From this little world that is my shade
From the heat of the perfect love
Chorus
Verse: I fall for auburn hair tangled in blue eyes
With a million no's in as many tries
Maybe now I can say you set me free
Please cry these tears of joy with me
Last Chorus (voice & acoustic guitar only, ¾ time)
River Pirate (Ken Barnes)
Verse: The frontier left us behind and the weak all went east
The scurviest ones of all stayed on the river called Beast
Verse: What I do for fun is strictly legit and the mob yeah they want to
be a part of it
I could have been death but the shroud didn't fit I said "Hey Bones man do
you wanna get lit?"
Chorus: Hey Bartender (Hey Bartender)
Hey Bartender (Hey Bartender)
Hey Bartender (Hey Bartender)
Happy days are here again
Verse: (Spoken) Yeah I'm a river pirate / I got your jolly Roger right here
You ain't getting no other supplies / (sung) so look here and feast your
Verse: Men, I got your girls / Women (spoken) I got you some girls too
(Sung) Who wants some beer, trade food for gold / Pay up now or you're out
in the cold
Chorus
Bridge: We sing praises to the Virgin Mary / to ward away the things that
are too scary
Those aren't the things that will send you to hell / it's the necessary vices
that you know too well
Verse: The men went underground / when our footing was not that sound
But we survive to this day / as the men you see as Karma Parade
Chorus, Bridge (slow down on last line)
Screw Us All (Ken Barnes)
Verse: Corp man, sell out, brainwashed, devout
Total faith in thin air, blind men going nowhere
I don't know which is worse carrying this damn curse
Of knowing there is something more than just the writing on the wall
Chorus: They're out to screw us, they're out to screw us all
With a gun to our head and my back against the wall
They're out to screw us, they're out to screw us all
Verse: There was a family
Who never wanted for nothing
He lost his job on the line when the
boss wanted him to do some double fucking overtime
Chorus: There was a poor man
Happy with his home
Got his ass sued thrown in jail
He didn't make the judge's bail
And now some guy named Howard
Wants to get him in the shower!
They control all what you see
The censorship is killing me
I'll never know about free will
Until I pay all of my bills
Money, Power, Sex and Hate
Chain your soul to the state
Of living in an evil trance
Because you can't take a stance
To cover all the bills you have
And take a trip to Disneyland
Until then you just take a walk
Down to your cemetery plot
And pray for the day that
They cannot tax you in anyway (take your soul away)
Is there any other way?
I dunno, I'm only saying…
Chorus
Rapids (Trey Cook)
Verse: I have traveled across this land with a burning in my heart
There was something that I lacked before the very start
I ran across the hills, I journeyed to the stars
With two legs in the forests, and the highways in my car
Sometimes turning away, and always somewhere else
An awareness that I found I had put up on a shelf
So difficult to see, so ever-present still
So simply lingering, it's something beyond will
Chorus: There's nowhere that joy can be found but behind a foolish pride
Begging, fighting, tantalizing - none of these can stop the grind
Better to sit still a spell and let it all congeal
There's an empty peace behind the rapids that I feel
Verse: They say no rest for the wicked, well I guess they never rest
Something brown is in my bloodstream, a thickness in my chest
But hey, some men have limited time and a smile upon the face
When you truly know where you're going, there cannot be a rat race
Give the nickels and the dimes away, you won't be needing them
See, most of life has us ill-prepared we're caught up in the sham
How many daring Hail Marys, how many purges now
I dropped the paper for my news-sat down to find the route
Chorus
Verse: Moses was a holy man and he saw the Promised Land
But even he couldn't set foot there, his sin was contraband
I don't know how much sin I have, could it be that I'm a saint
Sometimes we find hidden writing when we chip away the paint
Listen listen can you hear the buzzing in my ear
Behold the cold of legends told, our heroes drunk on beer
Please delay I'm not on my way now the monkey's off my back
If you never move when you hear the whistle it's a given that you're on track
Chorus, Verse(solo), Chorus
John and Mary (Ken Barnes)
Verse: Flood rains coming down, everybody's down down
In the town that always sleeps around
Barricades and rusty rockets over there
I'm watching your eyes reflect the lightning
Bridge: Never again will I turn away
From all that graces me today
This town can be thrown away
Except for you, yeah
Chorus: Let's take our exit to the coast
Escape the rain and find the sun
Change our names to John and Mary
and play a little one-on-one
Find the beach, it's not too hard
You'd never think we could be so high
We'd be like little kids laughing in the day
And lovers in the night
We do it / We do it right
Verse: People saying don't go everybody's low low
In the town that does not get around
Outside my window are others
Looking out their window
Bridge: They just don't understand
I want to feel the sun and sand
I'll leave it all behind
Except for you, yeah
Chorus
Verse: Someday I don't know I might want to go go
Far away from this old barren town
Round here you're bored off your ass
Ever since Tip Top closed down
Bridge: And the coffee houses
Play to those half asleep
No listens to the music
Except for you, yeah
Chorus, exit
SOBAL - Song of Beauty and Love (Trey Cook)
Verse: Beautiful sphere in the starry skies / green and blue why are you
disguised
From the world at large under rule of Mars / bent on struggle you know who
they are
But to you I give my prayers and praise / For all that you are in the passing
of days
Chorus: Your beauty is the first step toward the love / that's supreme in
the eye of the one
Your blessings rain down on my heart like a waterfall
Cleansing me as the sun / still shines tomorrow
Verse: In my dreams nightmares I should say / that's where I have seen just
what chaos will bring
But just like a child I am innocent / when I'm wrapped in your beauty oh
the time that I've spent
With the goddess of love tell me what can compare / the light of her body
and stardust in her hair
Chorus: Her beauty is the first step toward love / that's supreme in the
eye of the one
Her blessings rain down on my heart like a waterfall
Cleansing me as the sun / still shines tomorrow
Solo Verse
Chorus
Fight the Good Fight (Trey Cook)
Verse: If I gave up every time there was an obstacle
Tell me how far could I go
We're all tested along the path of life
We've all got to take our blows
But I believe these trials will only make me stronger
The make me work harder, they make me work longer
You see I'm just not the type of man to back down
Chorus: Fight the good fight my brothers - yeah
Fight the good fight till the end
Let's be an example for others
Let's fight the good fight my friends
Verse: The voices of doubt never cease that's the way it is
I say that we gotta let them have their say
But I'm not the one to be a prophet of doom
Where there's a will there is a way
I know in time we will see our dreams come true
So never give up if there's still a breath in you
You know can't never could but I can and yes I will
Chorus (x2)
Verse & chorus (solo)
Chorus, repeat last line
Hum (Trey Cook)
Verse: Hey man of the world know your toils are for nothing
When you reach your goal will you be satisfied
Woman of the world know you charm is for nothing
Once you've charmed the world you will just want to hide
And always you were here, you were now on the prowl
And always there's a hum like a drum, there's a sound
Hey rebel youth know you're fighting's for nothing
If you win the fight you will only feel shame
Hey grumpy old man know your insults are for nothing
You'll be gone and forgotten, but what's in a name
And always you are here you are now on the prowl
And always there's a hum like a drum there's a sound
Chorus: Om Mani Padme Hum
Om Mani Padme Hum
Om Mani Padme Hum
Verse: Hey music man all your music's for nothing
It's only a tool there to teach you emptiness
Hey college student all your knowledge is for nothing
Life is just a game, so why are you distressed?
And always you are void, ever broad, flesh of god
And always silence reigns, beneath the pains, beneath the rot
Hey planet earth all your struggling's for nothing
It's just a page in forever's book
Hey universe, do you know you are nothing
Still you break down just to get a different look
And I know birth is death; death is birth, and there's a wheel
And I know it's nice to taste, nice to smell, nice to feel
Chorus until fade
Patchouli (Trey Cook)
Verse: Smell of Patchouli sweet honeysuckle
Red roses sunset pink in the sky
Smiling spring lady child with a blessing
Radiant gemstone makes me feel high
Chorus: Mother Nature's love keeps me grounded in comfort
Rivers of fortune flow through my heart
Green goddess with me I am where I need be
Sun God send power, every day's a start
Verse: Girl you're a pleasure sweet charming treasure
Let us go out on the hills on this day
We'll hear the birdsong and pass the word on
Under the maples, that's where we'll play
Chorus
Instrumental Verse & Chorus (Harmonicas)
Instrumental Verse & Chorus (Guitar)
Cleansing (Ken Barnes)
Verse: The world is your life and the world is filled
Tolerance makes the body count build
The flow is blocked by the countdown clock
And the dead heart stops…tick tock!
Chorus: I must cleanse my soul
But the world will pollute me again
I must cleanse my soul with fire
I must cleanse my soul
But the world will pollute me again
I must cleanse my soul with fire
Verse: People here fill my mind with hate
I look in the mirror and my face is gray
You are different so you can't relate
So leave us to our gruesome fate
Bridge: Don't get in my way now
We will make it through somehow
The fight is ours alone….so you know….
2nd Part: Now you know peace in your soul
You can breathe easy
Words flow feelings show
At night you can sleep
Tears flow, no sorrow or joy
But only release
One day these feelings will fade
So I'll love you today
I'll love you today (repeat, fade)
I Could Never Be Loved (by a girl like that) (Ken Barnes)
Verse: Step forward, Step away
Oppose every move I make
Supposed to take back what I give
But I have nothing to give
Bridge: See the beautiful girl
With her handsome boy
See how they look at each other
Their lives are filled with joy
Chorus: I could never be loved by a girl like that
I don't know what she's thinking but I can tell
I'm her best friend in all the world
But I could never be loved by a girl like that
I could never be loved by a girl like that
Verse: Outside is not a lonely place
Outside is where the dreamers are
But what would you give
To take one step in
See the beautiful girl
Through the window
You can see her but you can't hear her
But you can hear the wind blow
Endings (Ken Barnes)
Verse: I want to be alone now / I know the world before
Had a crowd that was very loud / and I think they might have loved me
You have walked through the door now / With all those who shout my name
People grow but I am slow / I dwell in history
Chorus: Though the darkness shares its comfort / in its bosom far below
You want it to be over / but I don't want to go
There are new things to go on to / In the new world we can grow
But an ending's still an ending / I know (this I know)
Verse: Blank slate as the newborn / So I begin again
Yet others say I should come away / I should be wiser my friend
We now can leave behind / the life that was unkind
But for me change is rare / And I'm scared more than before
Chorus
Verse: You are happy in your cycles / You are cheerful at the wake
As my brother sits with Michael / I drink beside the lake
I am not one to be morbid / I know what must be
But the sorrow of the existential / Still can't make me leave
Chorus
Molotov Cocktail Twist - 1999
Rainbow's End (Trey Cook)
Verse: Behind the falls where Emerald drinks / there is a cave with many
links
It is the dwelling true of Shinkonan the wise
There is a cot within the cave / where a traveler may rest from play
And the keeper watches over till his rise
There is a garden just outside / Where unicorns and sylphs reside
The lady of the wood protects them all
And those who defy gravity / Come to this land of joy and glee
To rest their aching bones or find a guide
Bridge
Verse: I am a seeker from the realm / where disbelief damns soul to hell
My happiness - the Lady and the Lord
The people where I journey from / need parables that still they shun
You see that with this world I've become bored
My music is a heaven sent / To shine on those that are hellbent
And I can't accept the glory as my own
For there are powers far and wide / That know our deepest thoughts inside
With some I'd say their beauty I'd adore
Bridge
Verse: The moon shows us Diana's light / and in the day the sun king bright
Our children do not question what they see
Can you hear whispers from the trees / or messages from honey bees
Perhaps you'd rather say it's fantasy
All they taught you in their schools / was how to follow shallow rules
No wonder that you made logic a god
Yet your logic and your reasoning / do not provide you with seasoning
Life's so full of magic when we're free
Bridge
Verse: I beg of you to walk eight miles / as I inquire of sun dials
We'll sit down where the faithful meet to dance
And frolic in the silver light / oh woe to foes who dare to fight
The pure of heart protected by the land
If we get lost it's just as well / the faery kingdom leads us there
So furnish so much humor for the hike
Your calculations will not show / the way that we must surely go
Still nothing in this world occurs by chance
Chorus: I'm leaving this world for a while dear friend
Will you join me at the rainbow's end
Great things are found just around the bend (repeat until fade)
Canine Play (Trey Cook)&nbps;
Verse: You've got the power / Woman of the hour&nbps;
You make me tower / You give me showers&nbps;
You've got control now / And I'm so in you now&nbps;
&nbps;
Chorus: You got me feeling like a dog (x4)&nbps;
&nbps;
Verse: You've been a bad girl / And that makes you proud girl&nbps;
I'm giving you my whole world / You make me lose my love pearl&nbps;
I can't get away bitch / I wanna duck in your trench&nbps;
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Chorus&nbps;
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Verse: Now the war is over / And you roll over&nbps;
And I'm not so sober / I need to get recovered&nbps;
You've got control now / And I'm so in you now&nbps;
&nbps;
Chorus&nbps;
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Clash of the Storm (Ken Barnes)
Instrumental Verses
Verse: One sees dark clouds ahead and cannot change course
It is unavoidable it is a powerful force
Steer your ship into the storm your fear takes solid form
The water flows over your head and tries to drown you
But the clash of the storm fills your soul with happiness
But the clash of the storm fills your soul with happiness
Verse: Friends you never said goodbye to, lovers you let go
You now follow a purpose one that plainly shows
Where am I in all of this; you are water that stands alone
And all the time that you say love you truly mean fear
But the clash of the storm fills your soul with happiness
But the clash of the storm fills your soul with happiness
Chorus: Rage, Pain
With a smile on my face we have fallen from grace we have fallen from grace
now
(Repeat)
Verse: Lightning is the brightness on your serene face
Thunder is the cheer that states your case
The roar of the waves drives you to the pain
And the cold wind blows as it tries to freeze you
But the clash of the storm fills your soul with happiness
But the clash of the storm fills your soul with happiness
Chorus
Instrumental Verse, End
Spaceworthy - 2000
Space Man (Trey Cook)
Chorus: So float on Space Man through / the infinite night sky
There's a future there for you / Can you really get that high?
Know somewhere in time / the continuum is pinched
Rocket fuel and aluminum shine / You see the signs
Verse: I saw the space man take the podium
He laced my daily rations with his sodium
Though he was long winded, he had a hope in his eye
There could be no life out there but we should know why
Did he find a religion, can you call it that for sure
A dozen cruise ship flights, and he came to the core
Merry be in no gravity, so far the day is night
Chip away as you do what you say, as you come to see the light
Chorus
Verse: Was he torn between two worlds, did he have to lose it all
To find a vision and follow it through - he had to heed the call
Does the poetry make sense, it depends on who you ask
We're in a convoluted waveform so he won't wear a mask
And to answer that question, he'll point you to the stars
Where he can listen to the music of the spheres and follow with guitar
Long live the Space Man, his vision be sustained
He'll fly away on space dust while the rest of us remain
Chorus
Down (Trey Cook)
Verse: Why maybe flutters never still I cannot ground
Always now it shudders disbelieving in the sound
Make it down - make sure to point it down
Dragging might be better, than propulsion from the cave
Take me where I never smile, and there I know I am saved
And so it's down - make sure to point it down
I've been gone for far too long, maybe even now
Shambles of our yesteryear, and forever now
But make it down - make sure to point it down
You know me in silence, that is where I dream
When the heart is pounding, then silently I scream
Make it down - always point it down
Chorus: Jake take the latter from me
Never move and always keep me down
How dare you rise above me
Keep it steady, always pointing down
Proud ambiguous choir, that's treble in the wake
Portal to the senses cleansed with every new intake
So let me down - make sure to point it down
Featherly quagmire, beatings on the back
If you can't learn to transcend, you will surely crack
And then be down - make sure to point it down
Did you catch the feel for westerns, revel in the doom
Knowing all the trouble's over, hovering in the gloom
Now I'm down - just keep it pointed down
Chorus, Solo, 3 Choruses
Bellerophon (Trey Cook)
Verse: And over ale and bread I've boasted of my daring feats
Across the hills of Avalon to slay the fiery beast
Legends were born around me, my friend let's raise a toast
That we can say upon this day the chimera gave its ghost
In the company of women I grow weary - time to travel on
What brings gold is for the morrow - to steal Apollo's song
And by the wings of Pegasus - the victory's mine to bear
Alas, perchance that Zeus would strike and knock me from the mare
Chorus: Don't hold me back woman, adventure awaits me on this day
You know we will embrace again, and why not, you know I live to play
Gotta go live the magic, never does the sundial sleep
Don't hold me back woman, the sirens call to journey deep, to journey deep.
Verse: Paralda is the wind I sail by, I'm a leaf caught in the breeze
The currents take me near and far, across the lands and seas
Athene make me strong in life, these battles must be won
To fly with wings up to Olympus, to penetrate the sun
These coins should cover what I drank, I'm grateful for the stay
And as the wheel of fortune spins, I pray things go your way
Luck and honor, beauty, strength, and all I have not thought
So long, the chariot's gaining speed, to linger would be naught
Chorus
Verse: What is the spinning of the web, what thing is this called fate
To ponder is a waste of time the hour's growing late
Look as far as you can see, that is my errand's end
To view the new and bid farewell to meet with other friends
Chorus x2, solo, end
Dreams and Nightmares - 2001
First Lady's Food (Trey Cook)
Verse 1: What is the whisper in the bush that tells her there's no need to rush
She can know, she can know
Supposed enmity put there but now I see it very clear
I see it go, I see it go
She calls the serpent many names and gives her body to the flames
And she is queen, she is queen
And now there is another way so we can dance away the day
And be obscene, be obscene
Chorus: The whore of Babylon is risen, shall we come to dine
A web is woven, everything that is is fine, is is fine, is is fine
Verse 2: Back when the world was not so small then she was in the all in all
And could not have seen, not have seen
All the singing nymphs were there, shining eyes and golden hair
They're in between, in between
The god of our technology, the wonders of our blasphemy
What can be, what can be
And if it all can go her way, an animal will seize the day
Now look and see, look and see
Tarry Can't Hurry (Trey Cook)
Verse: Love, oh my love I have battled my self
And the quota is crazy, they draw it in hell
And "next" someone said as I caressed my heart
We are divided and conquered and that from the start
Chorus: I will tarry, can you carry
The pain that was passed to me - I'm all gone
Whistling Toto for all that is done
Verse: Self-indulgence I'm guilty I'd say
But someone taught this to me, they showed me the way
Stop & smell the flowers or coffee for some
Deep down inside we know it's already been done
Chorus: I won't hurry my vision is blurry
Fortune is found on the silver plate
So I am worth silver we'll just have to wait
Bridge: I want the world to be my bed
I want the girls to all hear what I said
I want the gold at the end of the rainbow
I'm sad I want you for a pillow
Into the Hole (Trey Cook)
Verse: I see you moving and I hear your voice
But nothing's on my mind
You ask me questions, do I have a choice
There's nothing here to find
Call it a sacrifice of identity
The hanged man has to wait
Such a lovely sinking remedy
But there is nothing to gain
Chorus: Into the hole, Into the hole
No point in screaming, I'm falling
Into the hole, into my soul
All for redeeming I'm falling
Into the hole
Verse: No more acting in the soap opera
Reality is so bland
So enticing but I cannot bother
Inside a dying man
I've heard it said before and it seems so wise
To give up everything
Then the whole world drops its thin disguise
And the heart can sing
Chorus, Inst Chorus
Repeat 1st verse, Chorus
Mrs. Rutland (David Hewitt)
Verse: The stars tell me the faith ensured thus
That the whole kettle will explode soon
Gathering heat, climbing exponential
I touched the face of God and I found my friends
Now I am forever changed, grounded in that feeling
Chorus: The muses, they blew in our ears
All along the path with lit fuses
Soon it will be a wildfire
Soon it will be our homefires
The lady, she appeared before my thoughts
Like the enchanted goddess she was she told me
Stories of rabbits and helionic lodges
She was the ultimate test in the faith of vision
Full blown and ungrown yet the manifest is near
Bridge: Tell me my friend, where are you going
I'm sure it's where I'm headed tonight
Let's ride the stream of thought and see the truth
Tonight in my dreams I see that folding of space
The starlight bent around my unfurling vision
We have come so far yet we really know so little
We have tapped the potential of infinite stories
What dreams may come; now I know they are true
Chorus
Muse (Trey Cook)
Verse: Could be there's nowhere to go / When the beads of time pass slowly
by
You feel pulled by the hands of undertow / Silently drowning, but alive,
still alive
I'm thankful for the breath I have / when the burning inside just won't cease
Say a prayer to the waterfall outside / Silently singing, liquid silver,
deliverer
Chorus: Ooh, ooh, I love what I can't understand
Ooh, ooh, the sweet caress of nature's hand
She must be the dream girl that I lost
Ooh, ooh, an apparition as I sleep
Ooh, ooh, secrets from he whispering deep
She must be the goddess behind form
Verse: There is no place where she resides / And yet I've seen her everywhere
Muse of the ages I have sought / slipping away from me, after found, she's
all around
I kissed the moon and held the pine / I melted with the infinite sea
I feel she sees me as her own / So why am I lonely, always yearning, ever
burning
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