FORTHCOMING ALBUM
HOPPER 2001
FOREVER
EVERGREEN
FOREVER EVERGREEN
I awoke in a forest
The rain was falling like tears on my face
In this forest it came to me
We gotta find a way to save this place
Cause I know and you know
We can't keep living this way
Yes you know and I know
We always want it to stay
Forever evergreen
God left it so pristine
Forever evergreen
For our children and not you and me
Forever evergreen
The only planet that I've ever seen
Forever evergreen
We got to find a way to keep it clean
Cause I know and you know
We always want it to stay Forever green
As I walked through this forest
The sunlight made it's way through trees
Surrounded by this magnificent forest
I said a prayer as I fell to my knees
LIVING THINGS
God is at work in the heart of mankind
And in your heart you won't find
Suffering, injustice, depression and war
Crime and hunger...no more
Don't be prejudiced, we're part of a team
Cause we are a part of the living things
Cause we are a part of the living things
Yes, we are apart of the living things
Billions and billions of grains of sand
Hold back the tides from the moon and the stars
that
Holds back the universe where god watches us
dream
The rain falls from the sky
Every time those clouds roll by
The sun comes up every day
And washes the grey clouds away
The ocean is an awesome site
Standing on the shore in the moonlight
Those are a few of nature's scenes
Those are some of the living things
You can change the world
You got the power in your hands
You can make a difference, but
Get your head out of the sand
You can start today and
Fulfill all your dreams
I strongly suggest you
Become one of the living things
Take a big breath and
Become one of the living things
The eagle flies oh so high
Ain't no doubt who owns the sky
The green, green valleys below
Hold up the mountains all covered in snow
The rivers run through the trees
Leading to the grasslands swaying in the
breeze
Those are a few of nature's scenes
Those are some of the living things
The children always see the sun
Laughing faces having fun
Mom and dad work so hard
The children playing safe in the yard
The cool clean air we breathe
The cool clear water, a gift we received
From gods own gracious hands
We got to learn to respect the land
Those are a few of nature's scenes
Those are some of the living things
EVERYBODY'S TALKIN' (Neil)
Everybody's talkin' at me
I don't hear a word they're sayin'
Only the echoes of my mind
People stoppin' starin'
I can't see the faces
Only the shadows of their eyes
I'm goin' where the sun keeps shinin'
Thru the pourin' rain
Goin' where the weather suits my clothes
Bankin' off the northeast wind
Sailin' on a summer breeze
Skippin' over the ocean like a stone
Everybody's talkin' at me
I don't hear a word they're sayin'
Only the echoes of my mind
And I won't let you leave my love behind
©1968 Fred Neil
I WAS BORN
Well I was born, Yes I was born
Well I was born
Well, I was born in Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-
three
In a little ole town called Old Hickory,
Tennessee
And that little frame house that we grew up
in
Was a castle to the Dupont working man
You could cruise through Rayon City
Past my daddy's Pole Cat Inn
And if you ever walked down Hadley Avenue
Well, you'd wanna do that again
I wanna go back there
I wanna do that again
I wanna go back there
Life was so much simpler then
And you head down through ole Hopewell
Passed the Hopper and Anderson old coal
yard
Well, Debow St. is what I remember best
If daddy hadn't drank, life wouldn't been that
hard
You come up through Dupontonia
Past the old Dupont High
Well, it burned to the ground one summer
They built it some place else and we never knew
why
I wanna go back there
I wanna do that again
I wanna go back there
Life was so much simpler then
Well I was born
Yes I was born
Now me and Rosie Jorner and old Gene Scott
Got in a big ole fight in a construction
lot
Uncle Joe Dickson said, Son, are you ok?
I said I was the last man to go down, that's
the way we like to play
DO YOU FEEL IT (Moore)
I'm gonna show you how to dance
But first ya gotta pull off your pants
I'm gonna show you how to flirt
But first ya gotta pull off your shirt
Now you're set to be my mate
You're the fish, I'm the bait
Do you feel it?
I'm gonna show you how to groove
But first ya gotta pull off your shoes
I'm gonna show you all the knocks
But first ya gotta pull off your socks
Now you're set blow me down
You're the state, I'm the town
Do you feel it?
Do you feel it
Good god amighty do you feel it
Do you feel it
Good god amighty do you feel it
Na na na na na na
Na na na na na na
Do you feel it?
I'm gonna show you how to love
But first ya gotta pull off your gloves
I'm gonna show you how it's at
But first ya gotta pull off your hat
Now you're set to treat me nice
You're the glass, I'm the ice
Do you feel it?
I'm gonna show you so much more
But first ya gotta pull off your drawers
I'm gonna show you how to mix
But first ya gotta pull our your sex
Now you're set to be a machine
You attract me stronger than I've ever seen
Do you feel it?
©1975 R. Stevie Moore
SOAK UP THE SUN
Take me to an island
In the middle of the sea
Sail away and leave me
That's where I wanna be
I'll live amongst the natives
On rum and coconuts
There I'll spend all of my days
Soaking the sun right up
Yes, I'll soak up the sun
Soak up the sun all day
Yes, I'll soak up the sun
I'm a slave to the sun that way
And when the sun goes down
I'll throw down and play
Lay down here beside me and feel the warm sand
The moon light says the day is done tomorrow
I'll soak up the sun
Don't want no crowded beaches
Just a warm ocean breeze
The palm trees swaying ever so gently
And me doing what I please
I'll find me an island princess
Play my bongos just for fun
There I'll spend all of my days
Soaking up all the sun
THE YELLA IN ME (Presley)
©1966 Reg Presley
ODE TO THE SPELL-CHECKER (Hopper/Moore)
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a kee and type a wurd
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever rong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its ledder purfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
©2001 Hopper/Moore
FIVE YEARS (Bowie)
Pushing thru the market square
So many mothers sighing
News had just come over:
We had five years left to cry in
News guy wept and told us
Earth was really dying
Cried so much his face was wet
Then I knew he was not lying
I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies
I saw boys, toys, electric irons and TVs
My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things to store everything in there
And all the fat-skinny people
And all the tall-short people
And all the nobody people
And all the somebody people
I never thought I'd need so many people
A girl my age went off her head
Hit some tiny children
If the black hadn't a-pulled her off
I think she would have killed them
A soldier with a broken arm
Fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest
And a queer threw up at the sight of that
I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour
Drinking milk shakes cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine
Don't think you knew you were in this song
And it was cold and it rained so I felt like an actor
And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there
Your face, your race, the way that you talk
I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk
We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that's all we've got
We've got five years, what a surprise
Five years, stuck on my eyes
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that's all we've got
Five years
Five years
Five years
Five years
©1972 David Bowie
All lyrics by Mike Hopper, except has noted.
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