PERCEIVE IT

Stop the car if I have come this far
Without learning how to make an unexpected turn
Learn to play the changes to the beat of time
Satisfaction never was a friend of mine

Perceive it and say goodbye to it
Don't hold on to any one moment
You've got to love it and then release it
Don't hold on to any one moment

Send a postcard if you go to France
Let me know if you're alive and doing fine
I have never loved by mail
So here's my chance
I would like to write it if I ever get the time

Perceive it and say goodbye to it
Don't hold on to any one moment
You've got to love it and then release it
Don't hold on to any one moment

Draw your boundaries and paint your signs
Though they say "alone"
At least I have a word to pray
And I follow needing all there is of time
Solo dancers learn their steps along the way

Perceive it and say goodbye to it
Don't hold on to any one moment
You've got to love it and then release it
Don't hold on to any one moment

Oh oh oh, oh oh oh...
Don't hold on to any one moment


I'VE GOT MY MO-JO WORKING

I got my Mo-Jo working but it just won't work on you
I got my Mo-Jo working but it just won't work on you
I want to love you so till you don't know what to do

I got my hoo-doo ashes all around your bed
I got my black snake boots underneath your head
I got my Mo-Jo working but it just won't work on you
I want to love you so till you don't know what to do

I got a gypsy woman giving me advice
I got some red hot tips I'm gonna keep on ice
I got my Mo-Jo working but it just won't work on you
I want to love you so till you don't know what to do

Got my Mo-Jo working
Got my Mo-Jo working

I got my rabbits foot, I know it's working right
I keep your strand of hair with me day and night
I got my Mo-Jo working but it just won't work on you
I want to love you so till you don't know what to do

I got my Mo-Jo working (got my Mo-Jo working)
I got my Mo-Jo working (got my Mo-Jo working)


LOVING MY CHILDREN

Drinking the Water I'm given the right to
Living anyway that I chose is all that I can do
Adding some kindness to the truth that I've lived to know
And Loving My Children, till love in the World is born
Till love in the World is born
Till love in the World is born
Loving My Children, till love in the World is born

Down by the wayside I've wandered and stumbled some
Riding the backroads of youth I can't run away from
Earn my own living and living all I can
And teaching my children till Love is born in man
Till Love is born in man
Till Love is born again
Loving My Children
Loving My Children, till love is born in man.


ALMOST LIKE BEING IN LOVE

What a day it has been
What a rare mood I'm in
And it's almost like being in love

There's a smile on my face
For the whole human race
And it's almost like being in love

Well the music of life seems to be
Like a bell that keeps ringing for me
And from the way that I feel when that bell starts to reel
Well, it's, I swear that I'm falling
Yes I know I am falling
And it's almost like being in love
Almost like being in love

Almost like being in love
Almost like being in love

Well the music of life seems to be
Like a bell that keeps ringing for me
And from the way that I feel when that bell starts to reel
I swear that I'm falling
Yes I'm sure that I'm falling
And it's almost like being in love
Almost like being in love.


WHAT DO I KEEP

The name that I have doesn't belong to me
And there's only a circle where his ring used to be
I'd like to go back to what I was once before
But I'm nobody's little girl any more

What do I keep
What do I throw away
How am I different
What was I yesterday
What can I be tomorrow
When I can't even think of today
How can I ever end my sorrow
When the night doesn't end with the day

When I look around everything seems so strange
And I don't need a mirror to tell me how much I've changed
The things I never thought I could do I have done,
But I'm too weak to stop
And much too frightened to run

What do I keep
What do I throw away
How am I different
What was I yesterday
What can I be tomorrow
When I can't even think of today
How can I ever end my sorrow
When the night doesn't end with the day


AFRAID OF THE DARK


People who are afraid of the dark
Send their children to bed and stay out all night
While they lie
Their lives are in safe keeping
They roam the corners of night
Afraid of the Dark
So they can't see the light sleeping


WHERE'S THE BAND

My eyes are open but I couldn't see no how
Words were spoken but they couldn't be true
Here's a singer with some time on her hand
What can I do now, Where's the Band
What can I do now, Where's the Band

The sun was shining
But the day was dark as night
Darkness miming vision and light
When the fleeting moments asked if I'd like to dance
I said "Yes, I might,"
I said "Yes, I might,"
I said "Yes, I might, Oh Where's the Band"
Where, Where's the Band

He's a lover, he's a killer, he's a friend
He's a hunter and the hunt never ends
But the inner woman that's inside every man
Might just sing sometime
Might just sing sometime
Might just sing sometime where's, oh no, Where's the Band
Where's the Band


YOU CAN'T HURRY LOVE/MAMA SAID

You can't hurry love
No you just got to wait
You know love don't come easy
It's a game of give and take
You came in my way
How much more can I say
You got to trust give it time
No matter how long it takes

How many heartaches can I stand
Before I find the love to let me live again
Right now the only thing that keeps me hanging on
When I feel my strength
When I feel my strength is gone

I remember Mama said
They'll be days like this,
They'll be days like this, Mama said
Oh yes she did, Mama said
They'll be days like this,
They'll be days like this, Mama said

And then she said
Someone will look at me
Like I'm looking at you one day
Then I might find I wouldn't want it any other way

You can't hurry love, no you just got to wait
They'll be days like this, Mama said
You can't hurry love, no you just got to wait
They'll be days like this, Mama said
You just have to wait


SANDMAN

Go away from my window
Go away from my door
Don't want to see you
Hanging round here anymore

Well, you used to be a comfort
When I needed to believe
But the furies are in heaven tonight
And the sandman's in the sea

And I never heard of anything that I didn't half believe
And the furies are in heaven tonight
And the sandman's in the sea

Aerial photo of my down-to-earth life
Your falling star shone in my telescopic sight
Man is always in the moon
And no woman can be free
And the furies are in heaven tonight
And the sandman's in the sea

And I never heard of anything that I didn't half believe
And the furies are in heaven tonight
And the sandman's in the sea

And I never heard of anything that I didn't half believe
And the furies are in heaven tonight
And the sandman's in the sea


PEOPLE ARE JUST GETTING READY

People are just getting ready when it's already time to go
Filling their lives without meaning for the meaning scares us so

Sometimes we're slow to realize
That harmony is paradise and
Here and now is where it lies

People are just getting ready when it's already time to go
Some of us craze with the knowing that we truly are alone
Filling our nights with dark passion and our days with a burning glow

Sometimes we're slow to realize
That harmony is paradise and
Here and now is where it lies

People are just getting ready
People are just getting ready when it's already time to go
Filling their lives without meaning for the meaning scares us so


DREAM SELLER (MEET ME ON THE CORNER)

Hey Mr. Dream Seller
Where have you been
Tell me have you dreams I can see
I came along just to bring you a song
Can you spare one dream for me

You won't have met me
So soon you'll forget
So don't mind me tugging at your sleeve
I'm asking you if I could fix a rendezvous
For your dreams are all I believe

Meet me on the corner
When the lights are coming on
And I'll be there,
I promise I'll be there
Down the empty streets will disappear
Into the darkness you have dreams enough to spare

Lay down your bundles
Of rag and reminders
And spread your wealth on the ground
Well I got time if you deal them mine
I'm just hanging around.

Meet me on the corner
When the lights are coming on
And I'll be there,
I promise I'll be there
Down the empty streets will disappear
Into the darkness you have dreams enough to spare

Hey Mr. Dream Seller
Where have you been
Tell me have you dreams I can see
I'm asking you if I could fix a rendezvous
For your dreams are all I believe

Hey Mr. Dream Seller
Where have you been
Tell me have you dreams I can see
I came along just to bring you a song
Can you spare one dream for me


THE SUN AND THE MOON

With the sun on my right side
And the moon in my breast
I've been taking my pennies
From the rich and the blessed
And they expect all their soldiers
To parade what they've won
Then to march back to heaven
Or where ever they come from

If I ever live alone again
I would live in the pines
For I'd remember the future
And I'd leave it behind
And in the new fallen snow I
Make angels in men
To create a snowheaven
And believe in it again

And oh every moment isn't clear,
Sometimes I feel I've been there before
And oh how some moments grow into patterns
And puzzles and lifestyles and schemes
With so little difference in nightmares and dreams
And oh how some moments glow

With the sun in my eyes
And the moon in the rest
Let the northern star guide me
To the place I love best
Where I'll put on my old coat
And I button my eyes
And I'll weave my reflection
In the tears that I've cried.

Ain't got no home in this world anymore
Ain't got no home in this world anymore
Farewell sorrow, praise god the open door
Ain't got no home in this world anymore


OL' MAN RIVER

That ol' man river
That ol' man river
He don't say nothing
But he must know something
He's ol' man river
He just keeps rolling along

Well I get weary
And sick of trying
I'm tired of living
And I'm feared of dying
He's ol' man river
And he just keeps rolling along

He don't plant 'tatos (?)
He don't plant cotton
And then they fence him (??)
He's soon forgotten
He's ol' man river
And he just keeps rolling along

That ol' man river
That ol' man river
He don't say nothing
But he must know something
He's ol' man river
And he just keeps rolling along