THE STORY OF THE GHOST
| 1 | Ghost |  |
| 2 | Birds of a Feather | |
| 3 | Meat | |
| 4 | Guyute | |
| 5 | Fikus | |
| 6 | Shafty | |
| 7 | Limb By Limb | |
| 8 | Frankie Says | |
| 9 | Brian and Robert | |
| 10 | Water in the Sky | |
| 11 | Roggae | |
| 12 | Wading in the Velvet Sea | |
| 13 | The Moma Dance | |
| 14 | End of Session |
Ghost
I feel I've never told
you the story of the
ghost who I once knew
and talked to
of whom I'd never boast
But this was my big secret
How I get ahead
And never have to worry
I'd call him instead
His answer came in action
He never spoke a word
Or maybe I lay down the
phone before he could be heard
I somehow feel forsaken
Like he had closed the door
I guess I just stopped needing him
as much as once before
But maybe he's still with me
the latch was left unhooked
He's waiting in the wind and rain
I simply haven't looked
I feel I never told you
the story of the ghost
Birds
of a Feather
It's easy sometimes we just coast along
But like it or not something always seems to go wrong
Sometimes people build you up just so they can knock you down
Sometimes they will have you there because they need someone around
Perhaps you'll receive invitations for tea
or perhaps you will laugh and you will make them all smile
Or maybe you'll join them cause they have to be
Perhaps you'll forget that you forgot for a while
Birds of a feather are flocking outside (4x)
like whippets they dance in a curly queue dance
of pulses and ringing and campfire chants
of ritual drumming although at first glance
you thought you could run but you won't take a chance
it's not an experience if they can't bring someone along
they hang on emotions they bottle inside
they peck at the ground and they strut out of stride
Birds of a feather are flocking outside (8x)
Meat
I am a prince I have it all
I hear your footsteps through the wall
I wait in silence for your call
then take a shot and watch you fall
I am a ghost but I cannot fly
I'm stuck here as the years slide by
I need a resting place 'cause I
already felt my body die
if I had a host of ghosts
living on my street
I'd jive and strive to stay alive
and offer them some meat
I need a different life I think
perhaps I'd be the missing link
and treasure moments as I drink
away the memories let them sink
Guyute
Guyute was the ugly pig
Who walked on me and danced a jig
That he had learned when he was six
Then stopped and did some other tricks
Like pulling weapons from his coat
and holding them against my throat
He lectured me in a language strange
Then scampered quickly out of range
I'm bouncing like a new born elf
I can't believe inside myself
Guyute glances in my eyes
and manages to hypnotize
and as I sleep the sleep of death
He sucks from me my only breath
That i have breathed since I was ten
I hope this happens once again
Fikus
Fikus dreamed a dream for me
it cost me nothing it was free
he dreamed of walking in the sand
of blossoms forming in his hand
of kitchen cake and cedar shakes
of waterfalls and yellow snakes
of earthen dams and hydrofoils
of watching water 'til it boils
of holding forth from singing words
of flying south with flocks of birds
none of this was charged to me
for as I said it was free
Shafty
the terrible thing about hell
is that when you're there you can't even tell
as you move throught this life you love so
you could be there and not even know
but you say so what I'm doing just fine
the irony is that is't all in your mind
and that is why hell is so vicious and cruel
but you'll just go on an oblivious fool
Limb
By Limb
The
shoulder that I leaned on was carved out of stone
But when I'm done freezing I want to be alone
Never want my hand cut off
Never want a hacking cough
Never need a cliffside push
Never turn my brain to mush
Always give me what I lack
Always take the best parts back
Always recognize your fate
Always just a moment late
Left is where I always turn
Left is how I'm forced to learn
Left the room my walking takes
Left alone with my mistakes
Up against a person who
Up til now I never knew
Up from hell the answer blew
Up and down it's up to you.
Drop me off the chinese wall and peel my fingers off the rim
I come unglued while in mid-air and land to reform limb by limb
limb by limb by limb by limb
And I am taken far away....
Lingering slowly and melting away
Tossed with the salad and baled with the hay
Pooling like water that drips from above
Trampled by lambs and pecked by the dove
Silence is suddenly smothering me
Nothing I touch and nothing I see
Posseses impulses fit to be seen
If I am the drone than where is my queen
Frankie
Says
Time is me, and I should know
I knew this several months ago
I knew more than I do now
For I've been turned around somehow
Relax, the world will spin beside itself and suck you in
With threats and hopes beyond compare
Relax, the world will spin beside itself and suck you in
With threats and hopes beyond compare
I change the landscape as I pass
Meandering from sand to glass
I suction there for one whole day
Until the feeling goes away
Relax, the world will spin beside itself and suck you in
With threats and hopes beyond compare
Relax, the world will spin beside itself and suck you in
With threats and hopes beyond compare
I don't need these orbits in my live
Revolve and cycle through, don't keep coming back for more
I don't need this circular design
Wheel and spin away from me, I've been by here before
Relax, the world will spin beside itself and suck you in
(I've lost my mind, I've lost my way)
With threats and hopes beyond compare
(I'm bound to lose, I don't know where I am)
Relax, the world will spin beside itself and suck you in
(I've lost my mind, I've lost my way)
With threats and hopes beyond compare
(I'm bound to lose, I don't know where I am)
(I've lost my mind, I've lost my way)
(I'm bound to lose, I don't know where I am)
Brian
and Robert
If you're just staring at your walls
Observing echoing footfalls
From tennants wandering distant halls
Than this one is for you
All alone the life you lead
A silent diner where you feed
You bow your head pretend to read
Then this one if for you
If children playing all around
To you is noise, not pleasant sound
And you'd be lost on the playground
Then this one is for you
Slip past strangers in the street
There's no one that you care to meet
Longing for your TV seat
Then this one is for you
Then this one is for you
If you're just staring at your walls
Then this one is for you
Water
in the Sky
Listen as she speaks to you
hear the voices flutter through
the barriers arranged by you.
Close the shutters draw the shades
Filter out the everglades
Glistening with evening dew
Thunder calls through waterfalls
Rising tide and ocean walls
I can hear you when you sigh
Listen as she speaks to you
Hear the voices flutter through
Through the water in the sky.
Roggae
The circus is the place for me with bears and clowns and noise
I love the shiny music that descends from overhead
Gordon knew the moment when the stars all turned around
But from that vantage point I frowned
If life were easy and not so fast
I wouldn't think about the past.
I can't forget to turn the earth so both sides get their share of darkness and
of light
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh (x2)
So now I wander over grounds of light and heat and sound and mist
provoking dreams that don't exist
A circus of light where dreams can take flight
In the peacefulness dreaming dreams bring.
If life were easy and not so fast
I wouldn't think about the past
Wading
in the Velvet Sea
I've been Wading in the Velvet Sea
Took a moment from my day
wrapped it up in things you say
mailed it off to your address
you will get it soon, unless
the packaging begins to break
and all the points I try to make
tossed like thoughts into a bin
as time leaks out, my life leaks in
You won’t find moments in a box
and someone else will set your clocks
took a moment from my day
and wrapped it up in things you say
And mailed it off to you
Moma
Dance
All throughout I gaze and glimpse you
Nothing ever did convince you
See you when you're all alone
It's not the person, I'm not known
The moment ends although I feel winds
Blowing differently then ever before
And they're pushing me further from shore
The moment ends though I feel winds
The moment ends the moment ends
The moment ends the moment ends
Up the river, taking sail
Mind the skipper will not fail
He'll bring out wine it will be fine
Just heed the order, watch the sail
The moment ends though I feel winds
The moment ends the moment ends
The moment ends the moment ends
End
of Session
a silent bird / a raging tide a mountainside
an open door / loomingfrom the surf
a whispered word / a steady wind as we begin
and then no more / to close in on the earth
