This album is for Jeordie and Leilah - my career for the last two years when I wasn't really away. Your mommy is the kind of woman who never gets to bed on time. This morning started off with last night's moon and the sun gets a rise from the lady with a tune on the dawn and a baby on her mind.
CYCLONE * Hold tight cyclone Found love in the music but lost in the overtones Sweat on the brow blood on the lips, love for the money And gold at the fingertips...at the fingertips Hold tight cyclone A fool to continue but love keeps me holding on And it feels good real slow I love you to hurt but pain makes me let you go... Makes me let you go Hold tight cyclone Don't need no religion to look for the kingdom come Gotta feel for the ground reach for the sky leap off the edge To see if you fall or fly if you fall or fly I wait for the day to burn into night And then I wait for dawn And I open my eyes when it gets bright And know I must be home I know I must be home I know I must be home Hold tight cyclone Found love in the music but lost in the overtones Sweat on the brow blood on the lips, love for the money And gold at the fingertips...at the fingertips Cyclone - lost in the overtones Cyclone - lost in the overtones... Hold tight!Last night I lay in bed dreaming (not asleep dreaming, California dreaming - Mamas & Papas, 1965...Mama's dead) about the time in my life with a window on my left and the Eastern storm blowing past it in October. I counted every leaf. You could do that in those days; there weren't so many trees. How come you could count the leaves? asked a question in my dream. Too tired to answer, never really sleeping at all - just easier to do a dream sleeping.I moved a lot. I had windows - sometimes in the front or in the back and right - but it was the one on the left with the Eastern storm outside of it that makes me want to go home.
In the bridge of "Cyclone," I envision Dorothy clicking her heels: "I want to go home..."
IF I NEEDED YOU * I've gotten rid of my g(u)ilt and my lily white And I've gotten used to an empty bed...sometimes We used to be glowing But I wouldn't be going now If I needed you... If I needed you Oh love, you know I could hold you long But the holding has turned to lean upon And I may be blowing it But I wouldn't be growing now If I needed you... I'll take this space in time For what I need to say Some race within the limit Winning 'cause their needs are in it Mine have always got in my way But, I'll sing along to the life and times Just go wandering alone and learn that I'm the guide At least it keeps me believing But I wouldn't be needing now If I needed you... I wouldn't be bleeding now I may be blowing it But I wouldn't be growing now I would be lying But I wouldn't be crying now This might be living But I wouldn't be dying now I may be blowing it But I wouldn't be growing now I would be lying But I wouldn't be crying now If I needed you...Passed through someone's Winter
In the middle of my Summer
A nighttime visitor
Singing for her supperWho never stays for dinner
And the plane never leaves in the morning
Put your number on a paper
Mine keeps changing.
THE LETTER * Give me a ticket for a airplane Ain't got time to take a fast train Lonely days are gone I'm going home My baby wrote me a letter I don't care how much money I gotta spend Gotta get back to my baby again Lonely days are gone I'm going home My baby wrote me a letter He wrote me a letter Said he couldn't live without me no more Listen mister Can't you see I've got to get back got to get back To my baby, don't you know...don't you know Give me a ticket for a airplane Ain't got time to take a fast train Lonely days are gone I'm going home My baby wrote me a letter He wrote me a letter Said he couldn't live without me no more Couldn't live without me no more, oh God Listen mister Can't you see I gotta to get back gotta to get back To my baby don't you know...don't you know Lonely days are gone I'm going home My baby wrote me a letter I'm going home my baby wrote me a letter Lonely days are gone and I'm going home Lonely days are gone and I'm going homeHonerable (ah-so) Mention: The Mikado (Best Western) Motel, room 67.
GROUNDHOG DAY I've grown fat I've grown a beard I've grown alone Seems no one comes to stay in my loneliness Sometimes love and sometimes none I'm out of luck but I'm not done Today is Groundhog Day Take me to a party take me to a room Where there ain't no corner For me to run into I think I'm gonna have to touch everyone in the place A game of hearts playing face to face How long a line to a space Where I look at mine You know I'm gonna have to touch everyone in their place Feel every part tasting every taste How much more running in place will it take to find It's Groundhog Day I've grown fat I've grown a beard I've grown alone It must be a year today It's Groundhog Day, groundhog day Oh take me to a party Take me to a party I think I hear the music playing, ooh Take me out of my room I gotta get to a party Take me, take me to a party Take me out I think I gotta get out of my place I hear the music playing...GREAT MANTRA
From the point of light within the mind of God
Let the light stream forth into the minds of menLet light descend on earth
From the point of love
With the heart of GodLet love stream forth into the hearts of men
May Christ return to earthFrom the centre where the will of God is known
Let purpose guide the little wills of men
The purpose which the master knows and servesFrom the centre which we call the race of men
Let the plan of love and light work out
And may it seal the door where evil dwellsLet light love and power restore the plan on earth
"I have and have not seen my shadow;...either way I'm not afraid"
NICKEL SONG *with refrain from "MUSIC! MUSIC! MUSIC!" * Put another nickel in In the nickelodeon All I ever want from you is music I'll do anything for you anything you want me to All I ever, all I ever wanted was music Well you know that I'm not a gambler but I'm being gambled on They put in a nickel and I sing a little song In the nickelodeon All I ever, all I ever, wanted was music Well I don't mind that They're lucky but it seems like they always win And gambling is illegal in the state of mind I'm in And if I had a nickel for each time that I've been put on I would be their nickel man and I'd sing a little song You know they're only putting in a nickel And they want a dollar song, oh They're only putting in a nickel And they want a dollar song Oh yeah, all I ever wanted was the music I'll do anything for you anything you want me to All I ever all I ever wanted was music sweet music They're only puttin' in a nickel To get rid of a lot that's wrong Oh you know they're only puttin' in a nickel And they want a dollar song They're only puttin' in a nickel And they want a dollar song Yeah..."Nickel Song" was originally recorded in 1971, but tutored all over the world - a child who has grown and matured.
PHOTOGRAPH Do you have a photograph when you were still in high school Were you happy in it Little reason lots of rhyme Were you happy in it at the time Way back in your memory Do you recall the line When your heart was in it And your reason changed your mind Did you love forever at the time Are you living here and now Or in the moments past Is now tomorrow's memory and will the memory last How much of this will pass Do you have a photograph when you were only growing And your heart was in it And your reason changed your mind When you loved forever But your reason changed your mind The songs that you once loved to sing Are ones that make you cry And wouldn't you just give it all to never say goodbye We once lived in forevers But we learned to say goodbye... Do you have a photograph when you were only growing And your heart was in it Little reason lots of rhyme Were you happy in it But your reason changed your mind Did you love forever But your reason changed your mind Were you happy in it at the time Is what you wanted long ago long gone from your mind Asks a ghost in dreaming Or a friend you left behind The songs that you once loved to sing Are the ones that make you cry And wouldn't you just give it all to never say goodbye... Oh goodbye...goodbye...goodbye...goodbye...You know, ROSE-PETAL JAM was once a possible title for this album, but that was before I wrote this song.
I'M SO BLUE * I'm so blue What happened to me shouldn't happen to the worst of you What can I do to prevent you from going thru What I've been going thru Momma told me this man would leave me eventually I couldn't see the trees from the forest or How does that saying go I'm so blue Since you're gone well to tell you the truth I feel I can't go on Where love has gone there's the emptiest feeling in all of this world I'm a lonely girl I'm so blue There are no warning words that we'll listen to Nothing I can do to prevent you from going thru what I've been going thru I'm so blue...I'm so blue...I'm so blueFor my mother, who taught me never to sing or make love unless I meant it; because I never thanked her on an album before, and because I started writing "I'm So Blue" for her thirteen years ago.
SECRET OF THE DARKNESS (I Believe)As a person sitting on a rock, I asked these questions:There's no thought left unstoned There's no evil like the fear of harm And though good gets kicked around A little falls on everyone I believe when it's said and done That a little falls on everyone Where's the hand I can hold Where's the fire when I'm feeling cold There's no warmth like the sun And a little shines on everyone I believe when it's said and done That a little shines on everyone I believe - I believe and I have heard The story - I believe - about a man and the people Called him saviour - I believe He told the truth bet he never told the secret I believe in the secret of the darkness I believe in life everlasting I believe I do There's a path there's a plan There's a soul for man to travel in And when that traveling's done The soul he loved will live again I believe when his life does end That the love he gave will live again I do believe when it's said and done That a little falls on everyone I believe when it's said and done That a little falls on everyone Though good gets kicked around A little falls on everyone Though good gets kicked around A little falls on everyone... I believe I do believe...For Bob Cato who, after five years, still believes that I believe and named the "Secret of the Darkness."
SAVE ME Hey you in the distance, you smiled from my past Here's a song I wrote for you and all I'm left to do Is feel when I sing it She speaks in stacatto and she writes without rhyme I keep leaving love about and keeping myself out All that's left is to feel it and I feel all the time Save me, save me... Take the lady out walking with a bottle of wine Kiss a little in the glow of the drinking if it snows She won't freeze and shatter Let her down with the dawning, let her break like she will Cause there's nothing you can do I'm the kind that makes it through, just to crumble and shatter But she's just being silly, so what does it matter Save me, save me Save me, save me, save me... Take my dreams on vacation to a room with a view Out the window all I see is the space inside of me That could be filled with you Love lost in the difference of opinions you're gone And I'm home again with pride and a little love inside And a lot more alone And a lot more alone... All my doorways are open on todays without form And I cover up the night with the warmth of love and light And the yet to be born I'm closing the distance with love in the far, far away Save me... Oh save me, save me, save me..."Save Me" was written, arranged and recorded in one day on nothing but a glass of wine and David Campell's strings.
RAINDANCE * I'd like to be clear but the words are old First person songs about second hand roles I'd like to play you one this time I'd like to explain But all I do is play my heart and soul out and do a dance for rain Let it rain...rain rain Let it rain All I do is play my heart and soul out and do a dance for rain You know they looked at my heart and then they looked at my head They pulled my worlds apart and they left them for dead But I'd like to give you one this time I'd really like to explain And all I do is play my heart and soul out and do a dance I do a dance for rain So, let it rain...rain rain Let it rain All I do is play this heart and soul out and do a dance for rain I'd like to give you one this time I'd really like to explain But all I do is play my heart and soul out and do a dance for rain Oh, let it rain...rain rain Let it rain All I do is play my heart and soul out and do a dance I do a dance for rain Let it let it rain let it rain let it rain let it rain All I do is play this heart and soul out and do a dance for rain Let it rain... Let it rain, let it rain Let it rain, oh...As the air has wind and wine in it,
Thick with it,
And the path filled with moss and mushrooms
How am I to remember the way
Except to follow the breezes
Soused and simmered with after-dinner drink
Wake me up for the mint.
FRIENDS & CO. Too much singing for my living tonight Do a song for friends and company Too much is the matter with giving on spite Here's one for the giving and the other for free The straw that broke the camel's back Is blown upon my window sill I may look beaten but I don't look back When you break my heart You feed my will This should be an instrumental But it seems I've made up words Though they have a way of getting in the way What a way to be absurd It's a way of being heard Too much is the matter with giving on spite Here's one for the giving and the other for free Too much time for resting easy Not enough to sleep all night And the shooting star I take the dreaming weighs me down The doctor's right, is the doctor ever right Oh god I need to swallow you whole again I've gotta mend the old soul again all I need is some inner peace Oh god I need to swallow you whole again I've gotta mend the old soul again all I need is some inner peace Oh god I need to swallow you whole again I've gotta mend the old soul again all I need is some inner peace Give the soul a way to fly...sooth the eyes of memory Let's give it all for an answer why If you reach the heaven the spirit's on me Too much singing for my living tonight Do a song for friends and company Too much is the matter with giving on spite Here's one for the giving and the other for free