BILLY BREATHES
| 1 | Free |  |
| 2 | Character Zero | |
| 3 | Waste | |
| 4 | Taste | |
| 5 | Cars Trucks Buses | |
| 6 | Talk | |
| 7 | Theme From the Bottom | |
| 8 | Train Song | |
| 9 | Bliss | |
| 10 | Billy Breathes | |
| 11 | Swept Away | |
| 12 | Steep | |
| 13 | Prince Caspian |
Free
I'm floating in the blimp a lot
I feel the feeling I forgot
Swimming weightless in the womb
Bouncing gently round the room
In a minute I'll be free
And we'll be splashing in the sea
I feel no curiosity
I see the path ahead of me
In a minute I'll be free
And we'll be splashing in the sea
We hear a tiny cry
As the ship goes sliding by
Free!
Free!
Free!
I'm floating in the blimp a lot
I feel the feeling I forgot
I'm floating in the blimp a lot
I feel free!
Free!
Free!
Free!
Free!
Character
Zero
I was taught a month ago
To bide my time and take it slow
But then I learned just yesterday
To rush and never waste the day
We'll I'm convinced the whole day long
That all I learn is always wrong
and things are true that I forget
But no one taught that to me yet
I ought to see the Man Mulcahey
I was taught a month ago
To bide my time and take it slow
But then I learned just yesterday
To rush and never waste the day
Now I'm convinced the whole day long
That all I learn is always wrong
And things are true that I forget
But no one taught that to me yet
I ought to see the Man Mulcahey
Waste
Don't want to be an actor pretending on the stage
Don't want to be a writer with my thoughts out on the page
Don't want to be a painter 'cause everyone comes to look
Don't want to be anything where my life's an open book
A dream it's true
But I'd see it through
If I could be
Wasting my time with you
Don't want to be a farmer working in the sun
Don't want to be an outlaw always on the run
Don't want to be a climber reaching for the top
Don't want to be anything where I don't know when to stop
A dream it's true
But I'd see it through
If I could be
Wasting my time with you
So if I'm inside your head
Don't believe what you might have read
You'll see what I might have said
To hear it
Come waste your time with me
Come waste your time with me
So if I'm inside your head
Don't believe what you might have read
You'll see what I might have said
To hear it
Come waste your time with me
Come waste your time with me
Come waste your time with me
Come waste your time with me
Come waste your time with me
Taste
I'm up and I can take what you give
and I'm here but I don't want you to live with me 'Cause all I want is a taste
for free
I'm down and I will drag you along and around Intil you burst into song and
unwind
And leave the new life behind for a while 'Cause I can see through the lines
I can see through the lines
I'm down and I will drag you along and around Intil you burst into song and
unwind
And leave the new life behind for a while
I'm out and I will stay here alone and without
Someone controlled by the phone and TV
'Cause what it's done to me is fine
'Cause I can see through the lines
I can see through the lines
Step into space
Alter my place
That someone else made
Why I have stayed
Into things I could be
Or if I could see
Into fog that surrounds
And leads me to the ground
I can see through the lines
I can see through the lines
I can see through the lines
I can see through the lines
Cars
Trucks Buses
Instrumental
Talk
I can talk my talk with you
Nothing's ever soaking through
The filter that surrounds your thoughts
And holds out lessons left untaught
I can talk my talk with you
Nothing's ever soaking through
The filter that surrounds your thoughts
And holds out lessons left untaught
I can talk my talk with you
I can sing my song with you
Nothing's ever soaking through
The filter that surrounds your thoughts
And holds out lessons left untaught
I can sing my song with you
Nothing's ever soaking through
The filter that surrounds your thoughts
And holds out lessons left untaught
I can sing my song with you
I can talk my talk with you
Theme
From The Bottom
I feed from the bottom, you feed from the top I live upon morsels you happen to
drop
The coffee that somehow leaks out of your cup If nothing comes down then I'm
forced to swim up
On the way upwards the colors come back
But all on the bottom is blue, grey and black
The darkness is cold and perception goes wrong
And the night seems to go on incredibly long
So I ask you why
If I'm swimming by
Don't you see anything that you'd like to try?
Pantomime mixtures of heaven and earth
Jumbled events that have less than no worth
Time in the forest to dig under rocks
We're floating in the ocean asleep in a box
I sink just below all the churning in froth
Swim to the light source, a-fly like a moth
So toss away stuff you don't need in the end
But keep what's important and know who's your friend
So I ask you why
If I'm swimming by
Don't you see anything that you'd like to try? If I'm swimming by
From the bottom
From the top
Train
Song
All the way home we felt we had a chance
To review the cards before we were born
and to invite a new game of chance
Absorbed in the clouds a voice from afar said
With the right device you can make a pattern grow
Or you can tune up your car
So we stayed on the train admiring the time
As the lights of the city drew near
We drank a little wine
They were blurry and green
Outer space in between
With a depth and a form unclear
Then we saw it up ahead
A flickering lantern lit up on the tracks
In the rocks that are covered up the bridge
From the banks of a river
to the bed of a valley upstream
to the place where you live
The glass on the lantern
Cast back the sight of a drive-in movie
We drove by below
We saw where we'd been
and the pictures within
Projecting all the places we would go
So we followed the scene and flowed up your steps
To a smooth wooden floor in a trance
The train whistle melody wove through the trees
And in through a door to signal the turns of a dance
Bliss
Instrumental
Billy
Breathes
Tumbling greens a pickup screams
Alone above the square
Who oh sing softly
Above the trees where Billy breathes
We float upon the air
Whoa oh softly sings
sweet songs
Silent scenes emotion beams
I wake you and we're there
Who oh sing softly
Time it seems and broken dreams
To sleep beside the stair
Whoa softly sings sweet songs
Whoa oh softly sing sweet songs
Swept
Away
Much ado is all I see
And feel like it's surrounding me
The crowd intrudes all day
'Til I'm finally swept away
I'm finally swept away
I'm finally swept away
I'm finally swept away
I'm finally swept away
I'm finally swept away
I'm finally swept away
Steep
Much ado is all I see
(although my roots were deep)
In fact it is surrounding me
The seething crowd intrudes all day
(I sank in hillsides deep)
Until I'm finally swept away
Although I thought my roots were deep
(the rivers that erode)
I sank them into hillsides steep
And riverbanks that soon erode
(and canyons overflow)
And canyons that have overflowed
Prince
Caspian
Oh to be Prince Caspian
Afloat upon the waves
Oh to be Prince Caspian
Afloat upon the waves
Oh to be Prince Caspian
Afloat upon the waves
Oh to be Prince Caspian
With nothing to returns to
But the demons in their caves
Oh to be Prince Caspian
Afloat upon the waves
Oh to be Prince Caspian
Afloat upon the waves
Oh to be Prince Caspian
Afloat upon the waves
Oh to be Prince Caspian
And the children in the fields
all sowing seeds and chaffing wheat
Oh to be Prince Caspian
with stumps instead of feet
Oh to be Prince Caspian
Oh to be Prince Caspian
Oh to be Prince Caspian
Oh
