Jack Pound

Low Pool Music

Temptation - Lucky tonight - Faded Photograph - Sasquatch - Two Wrongs - Scarecrow Dance - This is love – The Movie - Nice Boys - Scared of Sleep - Old Years Night - Low Pool Music - Creole Lady - Bones Keep Movin' - Tunnel Town 3 Step  - Kid Ego - Off The Deep End

Temptation 

Temptation came up to me 

And asked why I did not phone any more 

My head says run, but I stay 

Feels like she’s nailed my feet to the floor 

Temptation came up to me 

And says I don’t think you are so kind 

Then she smiles and strokes my hair again 

I say oh no not a second time 

It’s the uncertainty it’s the pain 

The promise to the wife 

That I wont see you again 

But memory gets clouded, 

Thoughts become confused 

I say oh no oh no 

Don’t let me be used 

Don’t take me in your arms and let me be used 

Temptation came up to me saying 

I know it’s your birthday 

She sees me looking at the clock 

and tells me stop 

It’s early honey wont you come out and play 

It’s early honey, come out and play 

Now I’m performing, walking through the fire 

I told myself I wouldn’t but you know that I’m a liar 

Her eyes see right on through me 

Cutting down my barbed wire fences 

I say oh no oh no 

I have no defences 

Temptation 

I have no defences 

Lucky Tonight 

I’m feeling lucky tonight 

Looking for some girl 

That I used to know 

Got no place to lay my head 

The radio has been forecasting snow 

Sin eaters are full 

They wont swallow it at any piece 

Chapel doors they keep them locked 

Folks around here are as poor as church mice 

I’m feeling lucky tonight 

God knows I’ve no reason to 

There’s been another riot down the town 

They say the police aint letting no one through 

Recognition in her eyes 

For some flip side from yesterday 

A cup of coffee, a few lines 

This bible salesman will be on his way 

I’m feeling lucky tonight 

Communion, 

Rose wine reflection 

She says now wont you stay awhile 

Testament to a love resurrection 

Faded Photograph 

I don't want this faded photograph 

I don't want this memory to last 

I've seen the real live picture 

It jumps right out of the frame to hit you 

And I don't want this faded photograph 

Every night when the sun goes in 

Out comes the poison and the fun begins 

She sticks the knife in, she sticks the knife in 

And she twists it now and then 

And I don't want this faded photograph 

Let the truth be known 

The good times that we had 

Cannot hide the scars 

'cause lovin' you is hard 

Everyday the scolds and curses 

Every night the poison wrapped in verses 

And I don't want this memory to last 

And I don't want this faded photograph 

Sasquatch 

I make the scene on Onion Mountain 

Back up in the timberlands and gorge 

Coach loads of week-end hunters 

Lemming like I lead those punters 

Seeking out their trite rewards 

You know the coon hounds can’t catch me 

It is on the lost trails I roam 

Got no money but I should say so 

I make out like a Greta Garbo 

I just want to be alone 

I’m the Sasquatch baby 

I’m the big foot child 

The Sheriff said come up and seem me 

Dead or alive 

How can I survive? 

Running wild 

A walk on part at Bluff Creek 

Made me a movie star 

I leave an imprint of a footprint 

Sit back 

And return my first Oscar 

But I’ve got to keep on running 

Can’t afford to fall to human hands 

Civilisation you are rookies 

Want to feed me on stale cookies 

In a cartoon cage of Disneyland 

I’m the Sasquatch baby 

I’m the big foot child 

I run them wild 

Two Wrongs 

Down the road stolen truck 

He pumped the pedal he pushed my luck 

All on a Sunday night 

Received that letter but still in hope 

Goodbye John is all she wrote 

What a great big fight 

Two wrongs don’t make a right 

A house is not a home 

If it’s made of glass 

It cannot last 

We shouldn’t get to throwing stones 

To the airport stop a plane 

He didn’t want t to lose her again 

By this time its Monday morn 

It’s a hustle hustling through the crowd 

See the big Tristar disappear in cloud 

And he’s left there feeling ripped and torn 

Two wrongs… 

He goes back home and packs a grip 

Reservation on the morning trip 

It is late that afternoon 

He pours him a drink cause he’s so uptight 

But then he sees the light 

A she comes a walking 

Back into the room 

Two wrongs… 

Scarecrow Dance 

There’s a hobo on the highway doing a scarecrow dance 

Aright Jack just cruise on bye don’t give him a second chance 

One day his wife done told him she didn’t love him anymore 

Took his harp and his bedroll and walked right out that door 

I wish this world would cause me no more pain 

I wish this world would cause me no more pain 

I’d move on up if I got that chance 

I don’t want to do a scarecrow dance 

Would you? 

When you’re broke and hungry aint it easy to walk tall 

Slim demands for an honest man down at the city hall 

Eating trash can pizzas stealing door a beer 

A man behind the flashlight says ‘you can’t stay around here’ 

You move on you move on 

You better move on 

I wish this world would cause me no more pain 

I’d move on up if I got that chance 

I don’t want to do a scarecrow dance 

Would you? 

I don’t want to do scarecrow dance 

I don’t want to do scarecrow dance 

I don’t want to do a scarecrow dace 

There’s a hobo on the highway doing a scarecrow dance 

He never saw that rig a coming he never did stand a chance 

Now he don’t blow so good now and his dancing days are done 

Don’t fill in that hole yet plenty more where he came from 

I wish this world would cause me no more pain 

I’d move on up if I got that chance 

I don’t want to do a scarecrow dance 

Would you? 

This is Love – The Movie 

Boy meets girl and John meets Mary 

Romeo’s and Juliet’s 

Summer evening, river disco 

It’s the kind of night you don’t forget 

Misunderstanding in the darkness 

They lose each other at the dance 

But this is love - it’s the movie 

And so next day they meet by chance 

Johnny‘s mum is getting weepy 

Mary’s dad is acting proud 

Mary kisses the little bouquet 

Before she throws it to the crowd 

Sun shines on the happy couple 

Technicolor wedding day 

This is love - it’s the movie 

We always write the script this way 

Two kids later, a Red Setter 

And a Barret home in Penge 

This is love it’s the movie 

Always has a happy end 

Always has a happy end 

Nice Boys 

Nice boys fresh in today 

Look them over pick one out and pay 

Nice boys a meal to remember 

Everyone young everyone tender 

Come in Madame 

We have saved your table 

Made the reservation 

When we got your cable 

We have Madam 

What you’re looking for 

The prefect appetiser 

For discerning carnivores 

Were selling 

Nice boys fresh in today 

Look them over pick one out and pay 

Nice boys we can recommend 

And if you like them 

Please tell all your friends 

Come in Madame 

Make yourself at home 

Do you like them rare 

Or straight down from the bone 

We’ll cater Madame 

For your every need 

Complete satisfaction 

Well it’s always guaranteed were selling 

Nice boys fresh in today 

Look them over pick one out and pay 

Nice boys juicy not greasy 

And rest assured 

La Patronne mange ici 

Scared of sleep 

Morpheus hits 

A heartbeat misses 

Night nurse knits 

A patient prays and wishes 

He’s praying’ Hey Hey 

In bad dreams of a déjà vu 

Cold lips screaming 

Like a saxophone in blue 

Do you feel it too? 

Jackie 

A zombie dawn is looming at me 

Since I’m missing you 

The boogie-man has boogied 

Right into my mind 

Deep is dark 

And the dark is deep 

Holding tight 

But I’m scared of sleep 

Old Years Night 

Six white horses, an open carriage 

String of pearls and a china blue gown 

Wait along you good looking' woman 

I'll take you down to Bridgetown 

I'm putting on my new tuxedo 

Cummerbund, got my silver head cane 

And I will lay me a cloak down for you 

Just in case there's a pool of rain 

It's Old Years Night 

Blowing in 'cross the ocean 

Old Years Night 

its time to put the p[arty in motion 

The bands starting' up 

And they're raring' to go 

Here's my request for a lovers calypso 

It's my way of letting' you know 

Love can only grow 

On Old Years Night 

Old acquaintance are not forgotten 

A resolution has been passed 

It's a rendezvous for a champagne breakfast 

Were gonna toast a love gonna last 

It's old Years Night 

All across the island 

Old Years Night 

Here's to you darling 

The moonlight the magic 

The smiles everywhere 

I'm feeling so good 

I could go dancing on thin air 

You by my side and a future to spare 

On Old Years Night we got love to share 

Low Pool Music 

Low pool music 

In the hall 

Hot nights 

Await your call 

Full moon rising 

Shadows fall 

Sweet soul 

Playing sad an all 

Pretty baby wont you catch me please 

I’m down, don’t you know that love is my disease 

Catch me baby anytime I fall 

I’m down. But I wont stay down that long at all 

No No 

Numbered colours break that flow 

Hustled, watch the past tense go 

Killing time well yes and no 

It’s only pool music 

Low pool music 

Landlord fill that flowing bowl 

Before these blues infiltrate my soul 

I’ve got to let those good time roll 

Let em roll 

Hot summer nights and Rhode apple red 

I’m on fire and it’s going right to my head 

Smiling faces hazy conversation 

I’m drifting it’s and old sensation yeah 

I’m saying oh well oh well 

Aint that low pool music 

Creole Lady 

My every thought my every action 

Feels for the promise of your face 

But in the searching my hearts scattered 

Won't you put it back in place 

You Creole lady 

You walk like a huntress through no man's land 

And though you may think me half crazy 

If you want to catch me I'm sure you can 

I've loved you from that very moment 

Your light awoke my eyes to see 

For though I was just a wayfaring stranger 

You gave a smile to me 

You Creole lady 

You bring about beauty with your sunny ways 

And though you may think me half crazy 

I'd like to idle in your shade 

For you I'd carve my name on water 

For you I'd net a whistling wind 

For you I'd disperse into music 

For you let me know where love begins 

You Creole lady 

You could make the stars forget to shine 

And though you may think me half crazy 

I'll be yours if you'll be mine 

Bones Keep Moving' 

Down in Christchurch Barbados 

All alone in the gloom 

Every night they got some action 

Down in the Waldron tomb 

The tale is so disturbing the 

Story is ever so strange 

How the chase family coffins 

Become so wildly disarranged 

Bones, bones, bones keep movin' 

Under a horny moon 

Bones, bones, bones keep movin' 

The good folks can pray all that they like 

It seems the devils got the best tunes 

Bones, bones, bones keep movin' 

Whilst dogs are barking in the back yard 

Bones, bones, bones keep movin' 

Is this what they call Danse Macabre? 

So they sent for the governor 

My good lord Combermere 

Master preserves us from this thing 

Deliver us from this fear 

He re-stacked those lead coffins 

Put on twenty-five door seals 

Next year they opened them up again 

The dreadful truth it was revealed 

Bones, bones, bones keep movin' 

They sure know how to get it on get it on 

Bones, bones, bones keep movin' 

Now won't you join us before long? 

Shy bones sly bones let talk about the love bones 

All those bones they keep movin' 

Aunt no sin to take off your skin 

And dance around in your bones 

With Barbados becoming the world's newest republic, a song from the 80's about one of the world's paranormal wonders that happened on that island of Bim. The Chase Vault is a burial vault in the cemetery of the Christ Church Parish Church in Oistins, Christ Church, Barbados, best known for a widespread urban legend of "mysterious moving coffins". According to the story, each time the heavily sealed marble vault had been opened for the burial of a family member including 1808, twice in 1812 and in 1816 and 1819, all of the lead coffins had changed position. 

Kid Ego – Private I 

All I want in this creation 

Is a big Rolls Royce and a TV Station 

Rags to Riches if you please 

And a wife with a gold mine right above her knees 

There’s a war on want and being so greedy 

I get so much and still I’m needy 

Spoonfeed, jackpot, golden handshake 

Serve it up from a silver side plate 

All the girlies sing 

Him Kid Ego – Private I 

Ask his lawyer she’ll tell you why 

His truth don’t need no alibi 

Him Kid ego private I 

I’ve learnt this life is just theft and fiddle 

From the top to the bottom of the left, right, middle 

I don’t get caught I understand 

You don’t have to dress in drag to be an honest man 

Him kid ego private I… 

Him kid ego macho man 

Paid attention on demand 

Be sure you don’t let go my hand 

Before I reach the Promised land 

Me kid ego private I… 

Off The Deep End 

You flirt with other guys 

Always working on my jealousy 

Telling those white lies 

It’s just confusing me 

When I’ve been drinking 

Or when I’m cold sober 

It’s the negative thinking 

Green monster he want to take it over 

I catch a deep breath 

But the red mist descending 

Emotions rise and darlin’ 

I’ve got to count to ten 

Can feel myself go right off the deep end 

Can feel myself go right off the deep end 

Again 

I love you so much 

But you still get under my skin 

Am I a soft touch 

Is there no way I can win 

You freeze my mind 

Make me feel unsure 

You treat me unkind 

And I can’t stand it anymore 

I catch a deep breath 

But the red mist descending 

Emotions rise and darlin’ 

I’ve got to count to ten 

Can feel myself go right off the deep end 

Can feel myself go right off the deep end 

Again

Glass Citizen  

I Lost a World - Orphan from the Storm - Glass Citizen Auto Erotica Blues - Ditch Vision - Eco Song (The Thin Green Line) -Ballad of San Diablo - To Hold You in My Arms Again - Watcher on the Hill - Talk in Tongues - Tiny Tears - Apres Jaques - Greek St. Muses

I Lost a World - Emily Dickenson Poem 

I lost a world the other day 

Has anybody found? 

You'll know it by the row of stars 

Around its forehead bound 

A rich man might not notice it 

Yet to my frugal eye 

Of more esteem than ducats 

Oh find it Sir for me 

Orphan from the Storm 

She came into that dockside bar 

Asking me to light her cigarette 

Her was red, her hair was damp 

Copper in the ultra violet 

An orphan from the storm 

In need of wine and company 

A Cajun band was playing on 

I asked her if she’d care to dance with me 

She told me 'first I read the palm 

Can’t have a stranger holding me in his arms 

Who knows? 

Before the dance is through 

You get to know me - 

I get to know you' 

Let the music play 

Dance and sway 

Come up alongside me 

Oh those eyes 

How they hypnotise 

It’s enough to steal a sailor from the sea 

That’s me 

night time haunts a lonely man 

With sounds of laughter down from lovers lane 

Would it spoil some eternal plan? 

If I got to see her once again 

an orphan from the storm 

Looking for safe anchorage 

Lovey dovey through til dawn 

Picture this 

We parted as unkissed 

Glass Citizen 

Are you protected? 

Who's asking? 

Someone to watch over you! 

We live our lives 

In the wilderness of mirrors 

We live our lives 

In the wilderness of mirrors 

On the day that you were born 

They filed your name in data form 

Making sure that from that day 

You could never get away 

Private lives - You can't have Private lives 

Oh no - Secret wives 

Private Lives - You can't have Secret wives 

Nowhere left to run 

We live our lives in the wilderness of mirrors 

We live our lives in the wilderness of mirrors 

Do they have a need to know 

Your sex, your dreams, your rock 'n roll? 

Do they have a need to know 

You'll be worn out long before you die? 

Who's asking? Glass citizen! 

Private lives. . . 

We live our lives in the wilderness of mirrors 

We live our lives in the wilderness of mirrors 

They got evil lie detectors 

Mean on-line tax collectors 

Social suicide, you betcha 

If the media tweets don't getcha 

Who's asking? Glass citizen! 

Who's asking? Glass citizen! 

Who's asking? Glass citizen! 

Do they have a need to know 

If there's an eye inside your house? 

Do they have a need to know 

If there's an ear pressed to your wall? 

Do they have a need to know 

Your sex, your drugs, your rock 'n roll? 

Do they have a need to know 

You'll be worn out long before you'll die? 

Private lives... 

Who's asking? 

Who's asking? 

Who's asking? 

Someone to watch over you 

We live our lives in the wilderness of mirrors 

We live our lives in the wilderness of mirrors 

Algorithms click bait the gutter 

Where critics pitch and mutter 

Wanton partners that may have made you 

Now post their story to degrade you 

Who's asking? Glass citizen! 

Ethnic Humanoid Blues by Click Bait and the Al Gore rhythms 

Auto Erotica Blues 

I am here to reinstate my gender 

Pull on up honey bump my fender 

Gonna bump – grind 

Up front – behind 

Chrome alone it don't do it for me 

Chrome alone it don't do it for me 

Some say beaten copper 

For them is a show stopper 

Let's rivet – pop 

Bop til we drop 

Chrome alone it don't do it for me 

Chrome alone it don't do it for me 

I'm flesh and blood but i'm on my mettal 

In top gear – ace - 

Like a young F1 Sebastion Vettel 

I don't need no big four wheeler 

Scrapyard challenge – Ozone stealer 

Personalised number plate 

To arrogant to even indicate 

Well, it's your thing 

Do what you got to do 

Drive bye bling 

Till the rust bleeds through 

And a wrecking crew 

Comes to call on you 

To put the brakes on you 

Then you can scream – shout 

Polish your lamp til the Genie pops out 

You can scream – shout 

Polish the lamp til the Genie pops out 

But your chrome alone don't do it 

Check the mirror man 

Your chrome alone 

Don't do it for me 

Smash – crash – burn 

Honey I'm here to reinstate my gender 

Pull on up honey bump my fender 

You can scream – shout 

Polish the lamp 'til the Genie pops out 

Chrome alone don't do it 

Chrome alone it don't do it 

Chrome alone it don't do it for me 

Ditch Vision 

The grass never sleeps when you're thirsty 

Neither the roses or the lily 

Someone I loved 

Once gave me a box full of darkness 

And told me 

Keep a secret eye on that until morning 

It is a gift 

The sun went down that day 

Like a fist 

We love Ditch Vision 

Children of the wheat king 

Nothing much happens here 

The rain queen is grinning 

Crops are gathered 

We are winning our wheat way home 

Full moon at harvest 

Spoon full for Christmas 

Fruits of love, what else matters? 

Plough-boy's wages, good seed scattered 

We love Ditch Vision 

Children of the wheat king 

Nothing much happens here 

Soon the mountain will become a white whale 

The lanes lined with ice 

Trees will have stars in their branches 

All the fields will sparkle 

Christmas in Ditch Vision 

The Thin Green Line - by Jack Pound/Charles Causley 

The earth does not belong to man 

man belongs to the earth 

the song that sings the bird 

the leaf that grows the land 

the tide that moves the moon 

the stream that halts the sand 

I'm a warrior – Eco warrior 

Cleaning up my own backyard 

I'm a conqueror, of my own stupidity 

Cleaning up my own backyard 

I don't want to wake to a silent spring 

flowers wilt - birds don't sing 

got to give my kids their future back 

can't dump shadow in recyclable sack 

I'm a warrior - Don't trust - Don't fear - Don't beg 

the cloud that drives the storm 

the earth that lights the sun 

the fire that strikes the stone 

What in the world is going on? 

bleeding tears 

for damage done 

Mother Nature on the run 

leaving kids to right this wrong 

I'm a warrior – Eco warrior 

Cleaning up my own backyard 

I'm a conqueror, of my own stupidity 

Cleaning up my own backyard 

Ecocide, no place to hide - the clay that shapes the hand 

Ecocide, no place to hide - the word that speaks the man 

Not to say, but to do and be 

All knowledge is broadcast 

but who's listening? 

certainly not the Fly Tippers 

with their tsunami of plastic hurtling towards our oil slick shores 

Vision this? 

skeletal forests, scummed-over lakes 

cracked riverbeds 

extinction rebellion 

in homes of dwindling resources 

a zombie populace 

doubling a doubling a doubling a doubling 

Soon the machines will revolt 

taking to the streets 

looting human flesh 

Fridges beating up pets 

used smart phones perched in the pylons 

before swooping and pecking 

the eyes out of non believers 

Old TV sets basking on the beach 

exhausted vacuum cleaners 

finding a new habitat in polluted canals and ocean floors 

Vision this? 

Time is running out 

but there's still hope 

Not to say, but to do and be 

Warrior / Eco Warrior / Walking the Thin Green Line 

The Ballad of San Diablo 

Lord have mercy on this damaged community 

Where love is offered with weird cruelty 

Where hope is crushed with impunity 

Neath the red eye sky of San Diablo 

Bird wings broken - It’s a bad new day 

Highs need fixin’- Can’t fly away 

The same old tipple - It’s all gone wrong 

Since we hit the bluffs - We ain’t got long 

¿Fuimos tú o yo el primero en tropezar? No importa, no importa El que encuentra la fuerza para levantarse primero Debe ayudar al otro 

Was it you or I who stumbled first? 

It does not matter, it does not matter 

The one who finds strength to get up first 

Must help the other 

It once was so beautiful 

Now it’s just pitiful 

We’ve no sense of time 

This town is one big let down 

And life is passing us slowly by 

Neath the red eye sky 

Of San Diablo 

sí, un tiempo oscuro pasó sobre esta tierra 

Yes, a dark time passed over this land 

The knocked up girls - Up against the night 

Are crazy to stay - Where no dawn delights 

señor ten piedad 

En esta comunidad dañada Donde se ofrece el amor Con crueldad extraña Donde la esperanza es masacrada Con impunidad Bajo el cielo rojo 

De San Diablo 

Bird wings broken - It’s a bad new day 

Highs need fixin' - Can't fly away 

Threats caress - As spirits fail 

The promised miracle's - A fairytale 

¿Fuimos tú o yo el primero en tropezar? 

No importa, no importa El que encuentra la fuerza para levantarse primero 

Debe ayudar al otro 

Was it you or I who stumbled first? 

Does it matter? Does it matter? 

The one who finds the strength to get up first 

Must help the other 

It once was beautiful 

But now it’s just pitiful 

We’ve lost our sense of time 

This town is one big let down 

And life is passing us slowly by 

Neath the red eye sky 

Of San Diablo 

From sleep take joy - You rebel head boy 

Looking for trouble - No plot no ploy 

You curse you swear - You make a noise 

But it’ll pass - Like a toxic shock 

Surely the day misspent, Surely the love misplaced, has inside it the seed of redemption. Surely nothing is exempt from resurrection? 

It once was beautiful 

But now it’s just pitiful 

We’ve lost our sense of time 

This town is one big let down 

And life is passing us slowly by 

Neath the red eye sky 

Of San Diablo 

sí, un tiempo oscuro pasó sobre esta tierra 

Yes, a dark time passed over this land 

señor ten piedad 

En esta comunidad dañada Donde se ofrece el amor Con crueldad extraña Donde la esperanza es masacrada Con impunidad Bajo el cielo rojo 

De San Diablo 

Seguramente el día malgastado, 

Sin duda, el amor fuera de lugar, 

tiene dentro la semilla de la redención 

Seguramente nada está exento de la resurrección 

To hold you in my arms again 

I thought I'd never hold you in my arms again 

When your lover drove off in his shiny car with you and our kids that day 

I stood in tears outside our home with no words to say 

I had begged, I had pleaded, asked just what was needed 

Was there any way that I could make you stay? 

It was then a big fire curtain, got pulled down on our life 

No more you and me, no more a family, no more man and wife 

I never thought I'd hold you in my arms again 

I knew things could never be the same 

I thought I'd never hold you in my arms again 

One day a neighbour told me that he'd seen you around 

Your lover broke all his promises and dumped you back in town 

I searched the streets endlessly until I tracked you down 

And told how much I'd missed not having you around 

Then we cried so ugly, we cried so long 

So your hero turned villain and done you wrong 

Thank God I didn't kill him otherwise I would have been locked away 

And I would never get to hold you in my arms again 

Watcher on the Hill 

Someone up there likes you 

It aint every girl can say 

A guardian angel watching 

You both night and day 

He’s only round the corner 

Always on the tide 

Inside out, so near, so far 

Just on the other side 

HHe loved you then 

He loves you still 

He'll always be you friend 

There is no end to his Vigil 

Believe in him 

He swears he will 

Be forever now as then 

Your watcher on the hill 

Listen to the words of love 

He wrote them on the wind 

When you look into the summer eyes 

Of a Harlequin 

For a moment you may know 

And come to recognise 

When it is time to let go 

And get on with your life 

He loved you then 

He loves you still 

He’ll always be your friend 

There is no end to his vigil 

Believe in him 

He swears he will 

Be forever now as then 

Your watcher 

Your watcher on the hill 

Bells are ringing 

Sunday morning 

The storm has passed 

The air is still 

On wings of prayer 

You hear him calling 

There is no end to his vigil 

He'll take you where 

Hearts are open 

To care and share 

Where love will guide you 

Through all ill 

Forever now as then 

Your watcher 

Your watcher on the hill 

Love is gold 

And time's a thief 

Prayer is to care 

And faith is belief 

Talk in Tongues 

When the singing of the hymns are over 

And the praying has begun 

When you feel so moved to tell us? 

That's when you talk in tongues 

I want to see your eyes a rollin’ 

And hear those lips a scream 

Holy holy howling 

To know exactly what you mean 

Shall I ride the magic carpet? 

Do I really want to share the dream? 

When you start crusades hummin’ 

Like that young maid of Orleans 

Word is you had a vision 

Dark fire in the fields 

Big house on the hill, burnin’ 

For poorly souls not healed 

And you’re witness to the rise and rapture 

Above the carnage to the sky 

And you look down on this world of suffering 

Without a tear to cry 

Preacher man he talk the talk 

He say 'Get yourself some love divine 

Pick your bed up start to walk 

Turn your water into wine 

Everything we do God sees us 

Whole world over, pole to pole 

Credit card can buy you Jesus 

Direct debit – save your soul' 

Tiny Tears 

Tiny tears roll down your cheek 

Tiny Tears make my knees go weak 

How I love it when you smile 

But it lasts the shortest while 

Then those tiny tears fall down your face 

Each tiny tear a saving grace 

I'm grown up now, still I don't know 

Tiny Tears make the big tears flow 

Hush a bye, don't you cry, it's time to rest 

No child could ever be so loved so blessed 

Head on pillow so serene 

Who could guess what you dream 

All the tumbles, the bumps, the pain 

Our fairy tale of dragons slain 

Baby teardrops, tiny tears 

Melt away, come child at play 

Why ain't your daddy here? 

Apres Jaques 

Greek Street Muses 

Yaimas! 

Come again 

Come again for me 

Oh lovely daughter of Zeus 

In real time or in fantasy 

Hand me down my air guitar 

Is there ouzo in the Jar? 

Steal a lick from Johnny Marr 

Tonight's the night we shoot the moon 

Take it slow or pick up sticks 

Like Zorba's dance and good Greek music 

Here's a chance for me to prove it? 

Tonight's the night we shoot the moon 

I'll say it loud I'll say it proud 

Just we two or in a crowd 

Who cares what sacred laws allow 

Tonight's the night we shoot the moon 

Holy rollers of the Naz 

Delta blues and Creole jazz 

I'd rather dig Greek razzmatazz? 

You bring to me ease of being 

You sing to me new ways of seeing 

Play it again 

My lovely mistress of the muse 

Play it again for me 

When you're with me my pulse gets quicker 

I get real hot my eyelids flicker 

Love's a bug I just get sicker 

Tonight's the night we shoot the moon 

What's not below must be above 

Like Lord Byron did oft write of 

Lamenting minstrels 

Romantic love 

Tonight's the night we shoot the moon 

From a selective, introspective 

subjective, point of view 

Would you love me, like I love you? 

Your dawn is love, I greet it 

Your food is love, I eat it 

Pure myth or reality 

You walk in beauty 

Oh lovely daughter of Zeus 

Imelda Marcos loved her shoes 

Richard Burton loved the booze 

Scientology loves Tom Cruise 

Tonight's the night we shoot the moon 

Here's the message, don't delete it 

Here's the puzzle, complete it 

There's the challenge, let's meet it 

Tonight's the night we shoot the moon 

Come again 

Come again for me 

Oh lovely daughter of Zeus 

In real time or in fantasy 

Download my desire 

Light up this dark heart 

With your Greek fire 

Oh what a perfect night to shoot the moon 

I like Cajun and Tex Mex 

Blue-beat, Ska and T. Rex 

Play it again Sam ... 

Lambada, Salsa, Rock 'n Roll 

Reggae, Rap and Northern Soul 

Play it again Sam ... 

Big Bands, Soca and Bebop 

Down-home Gospel and Hip Hop 

Play it again Sam … 

I like Can Can, Zydeco 

Belly Dancers and Calypso 

Play it again Sam … 

Acapella, Repartee 

Barber Shop and Comedy 

Play it again Sam … 

OK – then don't. 

Play it again Sam … 

Vinyl, tape or CD 

Love's a bug infecting me 

I'm downloading

Carnival of Hearts 

Folkestone Moon - Cajun Honey - Coup del Rio - She Devil -Johnson Girls - Rainy Night in Cattlewash -Dance without Music -Rise up Lazurus -Robbery and Murder- Small Fry on a Hot Rock -Mysteries -High and Dry

Folkestone moon 

Keep on shining bright 

For my love tonight 

You big old moon 

Folkestone moon 

Hold your head up high 

For my love and I 

You big old moon 

Young couple strolling 

Down the harbour way 

Talking of love 

I over heard them say 

Folkestone moon 

Keep on shingling bright 

For my love tonight 

You big old moon 

Going down the warren honey 

For a moonlight swim 

When the mermaids have a party 

I’ve got to jump right in 

Folkestone moon 

Hold your head up high 

For my love and I 

You big old moon 

Cajun Honey 

I want to go back to New Orleans 

I gotta save up my money 

Eh la bas at the Mardi Gras 

Taste a little ol' Cajun honey 

Do drop in at the Dew drop Inn 

Say hello to Art and Aaron 

Check out if that bald head girl 

Really got some hair on 

Take me back take me back 

To the land of my dreams 

Wake me up and shape me up 

In the city of New Orleans 

I wanna step out on Bourbon street 

Got to spend my every dollar 

Second line on down Dumaine 

Hear the famous bluesmen holler 

Steal a scene at Tipitines 

Remember old ‘fess Longhair 

Keyboard king of New Orleans 

His sound will always live there 

Take me back take me back 

To the land of my dreams 

Wake me up and shape me up 

In the city of New Orleans 

I wanna call out on the Bayou then 

Paddle Piorot from the middle 

Fish with the Alligator man 

Listen to some Cajun fiddle 

And while I’m down in Louisianne 

Ride on over to east Texas 

I'd love to hear a Tex Mex band 

Roll on from now 'til Xmas 

Take me back take me back 

To the land of my dreams 

Wake me up an shape me up 

In the city of New Orleans 

In the land of the Cajun Queens 

In the city of New Orleans 

That's what it means 

To miss New Orleans 

Cajun Honey reprise 

Down the track 

Form the chicken shack 

Through the Raindog daze 

And the Delta haze 

Lies the moonshine booze 

Of Baton Rouge 

Where Kid Creole 

Eats seafood soul 

On a silver dish 

Of crawfish 

In the Malls 

The Conjure Gals 

Wear spangled turbans 

Give kisses bourbon 

As red snapper - spiced 

Throws a tumbling dice 

As seen through 

The eyes of fire 

Of Obadiah 

Coup del Rio 

No pleasure cruise the South Atlantic 

Riding shotgun on a mighty 'Man of War' 

No rest and no recuperation 

Six months without a run ashore 

Silver horns blowing at the Hot Club 

Sequins scramble on the tangerine 

You danced right out of the ethos 

Prettiest damn chick this guy had ever seen 

It was a Coup del Rio 

A walkover, no contest 

There aint no shame in surrender 

Especially when you're taken by the best 

Let me tell you 'bout the Coup del Rio 

This is where the revolution starts 

A boy and girl just like you and me O 

You get the coolest coup that ever hit the heart 

We went walking on love mountain 

Got it as high as we could go 

Can't ever facing coming down again 

I'm so scared of getting vertigo 

Turbines turning in the basin 

Eight bells sounding 'round the port 

A captain looking back in anger 

A ship it sails with one man short 

Johnson Girls 

Johnson girls are making honey 

Sipping champers in the shade 

Every day got bright and sunny 

Don't you wish you had it made 

Step up loverboy don't be afraid 

dem fierce 

Step up loverboy don't be afraid 

Johnson girls cry 'Party Party' 

Cocktail set to bacchanal 

Play the music loud and hearty 

J.Girls at the carnival 

Step up loverboy don't be afraid 

dem fierce 

Step up loverboy don't be afraid 

He hitched his star to a Johnson girl 

He always liked to play the fool 

Now it's 'game on' for the social whirl 

Of a Johnson girl 

Some girls hide all lipstick traces 

Behind torn skirts and scratched faces 

Others simply raise their glasses 

To the guys that make the passes 

J.Girls ask 'Who's to blame?' 

In this mating game 

We all act vain 

It's stand your ground or hit and run 

Whatever makes your lovin' fun 

He hitched his star to a Johnson girl 

He always liked to play the fool 

Now it's 'game on' for the social whirl 

Of a Johnson girl 

Johnson girls would like to marry 

Raise some kids and settle down 

Be the perfect wife and mother 

Meantime they go paint the town 

Step up loverboy don't be afraid 

Soul sisters on parade 

Step up loverboy don't be afraid 

dem fierce 

Playing hard to get 

With a Fella that you met 

Till your left glad handing 

The last man standing 

Hey sister 

You better tell your mister 

You've never been the same 

Since the bacchanal kissed you 

It's loveship, friendship, courtship, marriage 

These traditions don't disparage 

With your wild and free 

Crying me me me 

Your world is an Oyster 

And the moon is a pearl 

So let's dance to the tune of a Johnson girl 

Let's dance to the tune of a Johnson girl 

She Devil 

If you want it bad enough 

She Devil got all the stuff 

She’ll make sure that you suck seed 

She got everything you need 

Come on be a devil and don’t say a word 

I’ll be your She Devil 

You’ll be the man that I saved 

Don’t say I told you so 

When you’re out there 

Lost in Limbo 

Got to get it before you grow old 

What the price of a little soul 

Come on be a Devil 

Reverend in your tall black hat 

You think you know where it’s at 

All this talk of purgatory 

From your book of Deuteronomy 

Come on be a devil 

Last night in another dream 

Thought I heard my mother screaming 

Screw them ma I bit the apple 

Reverend God as struck you blind 

Those sins are only in your mind 

Evil thoughts you cant confess 

And it’s eating up your flesh 

Rainy Night In Cattlewash 

Listen to the radio. 

Listen to the wind blow 

all the way from Africa. 

Step inside a heart so warm. 

Shelter from the tropic storm 

that's rolling in from Africa. 

It's spirit sings through flesh and bone 

happy in this Island home, 

on a rainy night in Cattlewash. 

Karie phoned me up to say 

she's on her way. 

And if it's OK 

she'd like to stay the night with me. 

And I say OK 

I guess the barbecues a miss. 

Hear the hot coals hiss. 

Puddles on the east coast road. 

Warm and tender falls the rain, 

washing clean the soul again. 

Rainy night in Cattlewash. 

Feel the peace. 

Feel the peace. 

Can't you feel the peace. 

Dance without Music – Talk without Words 

We sleep, skin to skin - We see, eye to eye 

Pray to the same gods - Under the one sky 

We fit, hand in glove - We dress, just the same 

Look like each other - Sharing the same name 

Close, close, closest - In our symbiosis 

In our symbiosis - We come closest 

We dance without music 

We talk without words 

We come together at night 

We have our own world 

So dance 

Forget your troubles and dance 

Let's dance 

We think - The one thought 

We have - Empathy 

Breathing the same air - Swim in the one sea 

Lower the flags – rub the lines off the maps 

Strip off the clothes – fuse all the Gods 

What have you got? The human condition 

Do we not love our children? 

If you cut us do we not bleed? 

If there's God in man 

There's a man in God 

All around the world 

Through all our common senses 

Could we not have commonsense? 

So let us dance without music 

& talk without words 

Stand up – Be counted! 

We all search for the perfect partner 

That soulmate who's out there somewhere 

Someone who knows what we are going to say 

before we say it 

Knows what we are going to feel 

before we feel it 

A fusion of senses – a fusion of souls 

Devine symbiosis – that's tight 

Dance without Music 

Talk without Words 

Rise up Lazurus 

Lazarus sleeping in the garden 

When he opened up one eye 

He cracked a smile at the brand new morning 

Said 'Man it's so good just to be alive' 

And he winked at the sky 

So put your hand upon your heart now 

And take a walk out on the street 

O.K. so it's very faint 

But soon I swear you'll feel the beat 

When you're walking down the street 

And what if we start to dancing 

Like chickens without any heads 

It's a lovely day 

Come out and play 

You'll be a long time dead they say 

You're gonna be a long time dead 

Take a shell and you will hear now 

An old song of the sea 

It's recorded a long time ago now 

By the band at Calvary 

Robbery and Murder 

Waiting by the telephone pretending not to care 

Paging the Oracle search for someone who's not there 

Distract myself, write down words 

Set to tunes I've never heard 

Rehearse casual, practise cool 

Feeling I'm above it all 

Maybe I will take a walk and forget it all 

The phone is off the hook unobtainable the call 

Am I convincing is there some doubt? 

What if she's calling on me while I'm out? 

Strangers talk, feeling free 

If I'm available, it aint up to me 

But it's worth it just to hear you say 

Babe it isn't easy I can't get away 

I think she knows, yeah she knows 

She's wasting my life, stealing my time 

Theft and murder, it must be a crime 

Moment by moment stealing my time 

Robbery and murder, aint that a crime 

I will give it one more try, I'm saying 'what the hell' 

If I'm left high and dry, must be someway I can tell 

The cool embrace, that desperate kiss 

I'll trade them both on a night like this 

More tears meet the eye 

I got to shape up, don't ask me why 

Time wastes our body, time wastes our wits 

Maybe it's time for us to call quits 

You duck and you dive whilst I shadow box 

It's like I'm pedalling backwards with one eye on the clock 

once was the time we walked hand in hand 

Now you let the timer run out of sand 

And it's a crime 

Robbery and murder 

Aint that a crime 

Small Fry On A Hot Rock 

Man I thought it would be so nice 

To cut a lime in paradise 

But I got caught up in the middle 

Of a Caribbean griddle 

Hey diddle diddle 

She fed I Red Stripe be the dozen 

Herb to regulate the oven 

I fell asleep and woke up the poorest 

Blown out red legged tourist 

The immaturest 

I sighed 

Oh babe I can’t cool down 

I can’t cool down 

Easy over I’s sunny side up 

Coming to the boil in oil of coconut 

No blistered lips on her loving cup 

Small fry on a hot rock 

I made advances on her sister 

She says “No way Mister 

You much too thin you much too white 

You’ll give me Ma a fright 

In the night 

Oh what a sight” 

Mysteries 

No Angel passed the note 

So who's the hand that wrote 

Do you want me 

Why should she come at all 

If I made a pass I don't recall 

She wants me 

Rising of the full moon 

Shining through the trees 

Dark Star's the Lady of Mysteries 

And if this aint what it seems 

More fool me for chasing dreams 

She wants me 

No secrets to reveal 

Within the love I feel 

Do you want me 

I've waited such a time 

To see that Love Light shine 

Yeah She wants me 

Rising of the full moon 

Shining through the trees 

Dark Star's the Lady of Mysteries 

And if this aint what it seems 

More fool me for chasing dreams 

She wants me 

Such is the night 

Deep and lovely in her eyes 

High and Dry 

She left me here 

High and dry 

She left me here 

to sit and wander why 

Could I ever love, could I ever love 

Could I ever love that younger girl again 

I've been waiting in the rain 

Acting like a crazy fool again 

Could I ever love, could I ever love 

Could I ever love a younger girl again 

Late last night cool and clear 

She promised to meet me here 

I should have read 

The writing on the wall 

I see her by a taxi stand 

With a suitcase in her hand 

It seems I'm heading for a fall 

She left me here High and dry 

She left me here To sit and wander why 

Could I ever love 

A younger girl again 

Aint no use to shout and holler 

Walk away turn up my collar 

Misunderstood 

Just what she meant 

Rain down tears and feeling hurt 

Missing out on just deserts 

I'll put it down 

To experience 

I've been waiting in the rain 

Acting like a crazy fool again 

Could I ever love 

A younger girl again 

I could love that youger girl again

People Who Are Dead - And Don’t Know That They Are 

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Carnival of Hearts 

Mardi Gras 

ce soir 

Eh la bah Cher 

Eh La bah 

Working hard all season long 

For the dollar in my pocket 

To keep a smile upon the face 

Of the girl here in my locket 

If love don't come my way tonight 

I'll have the reason why 

Hand in hand in paradise 

Beneath a wild Watusi sky 

Clap hands 

It's enough to set the spark 

Walk on 

To a carnival of hearts 

In my mind there's a Mardi Gras 

Where good folks come from near and far 

Lovers, wives, sons and daughters 

To feast their eyes as wide saucers 

On the Carnies’ big parade 

On the lovers masquerade 

And I'll be stepping out in style 

Ever anxious for your smile 

Clap hands 

It's enough to set the spark 

Love will be our troubadour 

At the Carnival of hearts 

Switchback yells 

Of dream weavers 

Cast their spells 

On unbelievers 

The smell hot dogs everywhere 

Fresh cut grass in the evening air 

The gypsy told me that tonight 

She'd fall for me completely 

Giving for the orphanage 

Selling kisses oh so sweetly 

Clap hands 

Beat the drum 

It's enough to set the spark 

One step two step marching on 

At the Carnival of hearts 

Hail the princess hail the king 

Everybody dance and sing 

Everybody makes the scene 

Tonight's the night 

I'll crown her queen 

Clap hands 

It's enough to set the spark 

Get gone 

To the carnival of hearts 

People That Are Dead – And Don’t Know That They Are 

Maybe I’m dead and don't know it 

How can be sure? 

People that are dead and don’t know that they are 

Are riding round with you in the back seat of your car 

And most very morning on daytime TV 

They are sitting in the empty seats 

Up in row thirty three 

Now people say I’m crazy to still be chasing you 

And you don’t even notice anything that I do 

And if I tapped you on the shoulder would you turn around 

Would you walk right ion through me Trample me under ground 

Cause I’ve got to thinking lately 

That maybe I’m the one 

Who don’t know that he’s dead? 

Or rapping with the medium 

People That Are Dead – And Don’t Know That They Are 

Maybe I’m dead and don't know it 

How can be sure? 

People that are dead and don’t know that they are 

Are riding round with you in the back seat of your car 

And most very morning on daytime TV 

They are sitting in the empty seats 

Up in row thirty three 

Now people say I’m crazy to still be chasing you 

And you don’t even notice anything that I do 

And if I tapped you on the shoulder would you turn around 

Would you walk right ion through me Trample me under ground 

Cause I’ve got to thinking lately 

That maybe I’m the one 

Who don’t know that he’s dead? 

Or rapping with the medium 

Dream Lover

I got a girl I call dream lover 

Meets me at night behind eyelid screens 

She blow a kiss and I duck for cover 

Could there ever be another lover so obscene 

Dream lover 

Dream girl 

How I’d love another 

In the waking world 

Lift my soul 

Hear those old police sirens wail 

No tonic for a sol fa scale 

No bonhomie, no good intent 

Saxophones cry in sad lament 

Bring no more sad songs 

Hitler and Stalin 

Give it up for me – this cult of personality 

You are too young darlin’ 

To remember Hitler and Stalin 

Too young to remember when 

The world was full of these hard men 

Franco and Ho Chi Min 

Pinache’ Idi Amin 

Mussolini, Molotov 

Marshall Tito and Khrushchev 

Jitterbugging world bandstands 

The blood of millions on their hands 

Now there are new kids on the block 

Trying to be the big shot 

Now there are new kids on the block 

Trying to be the big shot 

Give it up for me – this cult of personality 

Even chairman Mao and Pol Pot 

Super twenties century death despots 

Didn’t do it for me darlin’ 

They were never in the premier league 

Like Hitler and Stalin 

Name and shame them 

Name and shame them 

Name and Shame them now 

Hole in the heart 

Shame shame 

No blame game 

My aim is true 

You had spiritual colours 

Gold, white and blue 

But you got a hole in your heart 

That I can see through 

And it’s a shame shame shame 

To let the colours run 

Shame shame shame 

And the damage done 

An elusive karma 

And a disappearing soul 

Had me following foolishly 

Through a big black hole 

And it's a shame shame shame 

A kiss would not do 

Shame shame shame 

Cause I really did love you 

To the heights of passion 

How oft’ times we soared 

Like two fallen angels 

Fatally so flawed 

Now you’re emotionally bankrupt 

With accounts overdue 

You got a hole in your heart 

That I can see right through 

And it's a shame shame shame 

Nothing was new 

shame shame shame 

cause I really did love you 

Cryin' Tuff 

Let the sun go down upon the dog that’s had its day 

Press the bottle to his lips and help him on his way 

Despite heroic efforts make sure you don’t revive 

The love he has betrayed for the one that could survive 

Be tuff 

The affair is dying 

Be tuff 

Look how he’s been lying 

Be tuff 

Leave him crying 

Cry tuff 

Take him in an ambulance pretend its Christmas day 

Let nurses sing him carols to help him on his way 

Doctors in their party hats will know the symptoms well 

A victim of his own greed still they’ll wish him well 

Plead to the judge and jury that they should show no pity 

He’s the owner of a penthouse suite 

In the heart of cardboard city 

Tell how you stuck beside him for as far as you would go 

And how he tried to swap you for all the bars in Soho 

Lovely Ladyboy 

Shaved legs – bikini wax – faked nails 

Strapless bras, ooh 

Six inch heels and walking tall 

The belles are blossom 

At the coming out ball 

Lovely Ladyboy 

Ladyboy down from the country 

Ladyboy turn head around 

Ladyboy are naughty naughty 

Ladyboy let knickers down 

Ladyboy swear they diva 

Ladyboy with flag unfurled 

Ladyboy no gay deceiver 

Ladyboy Mr Miss World 

Lovely Ladyboy 

You can kiss and you can smell 

But you can’t always tell 

Was it just a muscle spasm or a real cool fake orgasm 

Who knows why and whip knows when 

Ladyboys come Girlie men 

I love you Ladyboy 

Midnight at the gender bender 

Micro skirts and roller blades 

The fleet is back in port tomorrow 

Tonight I sing this serenade 

A Shadow falls 

A shadow falls 

The sun sets 

Ultimately life goes on 

But you never can forget 

We were working hard to get it right 

Sometimes it seemed that it could 

At last, almost be getting good 

No matter how fast you would run 

Away from the setting sun 

You’d always lose the race 

A shadow falls across your face 

Only god know what secret ghosts come a knocking on your door 

You no longer scream out in your dreams 

You don’t sleep anymore 

Après la deluge 

Every dream got broken 

Helpless as I stood by 

As the floodgates opened 

You’d pull the drawbridge up 

Set up your defences 

I could never climb those invisible fences 

Leaving us more or less 

In some kind of wilderness 

Each time you would fly 

Off into the kind of Gemini 

Only so many Bravehearts 

Only so many brand new starts 

Only so much TLC 

Only so much life expectancy 

Out on the lawn 

The sun was so warm 

Then a shadow falls 

The sun sets 

Ultimately life goes on 

But you never can forget 

Only god knows what secret ghosts come 

A knocking on your door 

You no longer scream 

Out in your dreams 

You don’t sleep any more 

No matter how fast you would run 

Away from the setting sun 

You’d always lose the race 

A shadow falls across your face 

Vamps 

Vamps 

Vamps 

Vamps 

Come by here and lay with me 

Unhinge the mind to find 

The measure of your fantasy 

Kiss the lips – enjoy 

Stroke the mane – touch the skin – enjoy 

Taste the sin – enjoy 

Come – come within 

We know where you want to be 

Down where the Divas lust 

Oblivion and ecstasy 

She thinks she’s got me in her pocket 

For crying out loud 

There are no pockets in a shroud 

And if the truth be known 

Apart from hunger, fear and jealousy 

Life beyond the grave is emotionally arid 

‘Embrace the dark ‘she urges 

But when I contemplate the unearthly hours 

The dead among the living has to keep 

I tire easily and long for sleep 

Finding it hard to get into the spirit of things 

Like having to constantly provide 

The vital fluid 

On which the unmerciful woman 

And her siblings exist 

I lie on the bed 

Trying to keep my end up 

Listening to the succubus I made a pact with 

Talk dirty 

But jokes about 

Predatory harridans 

And well-endowed young men 

Wear thin 

I ask myself 

When I was mortal 

What was my fall from grace? 

What prompted this sick, sordid affair? 

The answer is simple 

I allowed myself to be seduced 

Seduced by her boundless knowledge 

Of forbidden fruit 

Seduced into letting 

Her ghost write my story 

About Renaissance man’s discovery 

Of the female seat of pleasure 

Most of all 

Seduced by the wine 

That flowed beneath her young 

Creole skin 

That was then 

When I was mortal 

Look at her now 

Although still highly intelligent 

Years of bad blood 

Have soured her 

Turning her tortured soul 

Hideously deformed 

And as for her once beautiful sisters, 

The relentless pursuit 

Of pleasures of the flesh 

Has left them 

Drunk on violence and 

Maddened by addiction to pain 

Sometimes when I turn over quickly 

In the abyss of the bed 

I catch a glimpse of their true being 

Old, ugly, 

Little more than 

Sticky leather carapaces 

Full of bile and puss 

Blessed be the dammed 

They sing 

Blessed be the damned 

An eternity of sexual disgust 

Is the price I pay 

For my fleeting literary success 

Open Secret 

Simmering on a back burner 

What started as two faint 

heart murmurs 

No chance we could ever keep it 

In the end it was and open secret 

In the end it was and open secret 

So were we only two dark horses 

Magnetised by cosmic forces 

Looking like the cats that got the cream 

Would sooner or later spill the beans 

Building up such fake facades 

Acting out daily charades 

Complicating alibis 

Desperate to disguise 

Passion that was so dramatic 

Strangely only telepathic 

Each with their own entourage 

Two chameleons of camouflage 

The talk of café society 

Unheard of impropriety 

In a situation fate might twist 

No hope we could ever resist 

Two conspirators who were in league 

Defying rumour and intrigue 

No chance we could ever keep it 

In the end it was an open secret 

No chance we could ever keep it 

In the end it was an open secret 

Native North Americans 

We dream 

We dream we shall live again 

Doctor? Witch Doctor? 

He’s not a Doctor, He’s a Medicine Man 

Each night when the moon-dust falls 

They walk war ponies through my walls 

Hanging out – having fun 

Pass the pipe – play some drums 

Conjured up from ancient caves 

In dust and bone 

Of paleface plagues 

From totems that were all burned down 

Ghosts in embers on the ground 

Na na na 

Na na na na 

Native North Americans 

The old man with the long grey hair 

He’s taken a shine to me 

Opens my eyes that I might see 

Great spirituality 

They will cut my chains 

Clink Clank Clunk 

Time to open up the treasure trunk 

Out they come – there you go 

Shawnee, Pawnee and the Crow 

Na na na 

Na na na na 

Native North Americans 

We will never give up 

We can penetrate that wall 

We will never give up 

We can penetrate that wall 

Play the White-man Tonto 

The only good Injun is a dead un 

Pass the peace pipe Kemo Sabe 

Pass that peace pipe now 

A sea of white men from the east 

Come to party poop our feast 

Five hundred pony soldiers ride 

In the night of the long knives 

Pack up my tee pee, lance and bow 

For Colonel Cody’s Wild West Show 

Worshipping the whiskey still 

Giving head to Buffalo Bill 

History books cannot hide 

Four hundred years of genocide 

Beware the hairy beast 

Not least 

The foul mouthed brutal cowboy 

With a gun 

It’s how the west was spun 

Beware 

The iron farmer 

Who ploughs the earth black forever 

He thinks not with his heart 

He is a liar 

He works but cannot dream 

Why work with people who cannot dream 

We dream 

We shall live again 

We shall live again 

We are Native North Americans 

We can penetrate that wall 

We will never give in 

Universe Forever 

Universe forever 

Endless endless 

Universe forever 

Forever and ever 

I came a long way from Sagittarius 

Without suspicion without fear 

With one thought to keep me going 

Across the endless, dark light years 

Life is endless 

Time is being 

Being is life 

In endless time 

In endless space 

In endless love 

I saw you cross at a time window 

Pale as the Arctic sun 

A flower in a polar desert 

A daughter of the chosen ones 

I know you are super sensible 

Elemental 

Multidimensional 

You know I am metaphysical 

Indivisible 

Philosophical 

A love forbidden by the Sanskrit 

A meeting of the Aconin 

Still, I wrote it bright 

In the Northern lights 

Aquila loves Chameleon 

Aquila loves Chameleon 

In a universe forever 

A universe that’s endless 

A space that is endless 

A time that is endless 

Endless love 

Endless time 

Endless space 

Universe forever 

Ever and ever 

Being From Another Planet = Befap 

Manifestation from Another Dimension =Manadim 

Another Conscious Intelligence = Aconin 

Hurts So Good 

In the heat of the night 

There blew a cooling breeze 

As my heart took flight 

I fell down on my knees to plead 

What does it mean? 

Working out in a sexy dream 

I know she’s out for blood 

It hurts so good 

Hot or what? 

Well lock upon my door 

Baby we can journey on 

Until the morning comes 

Wrap your arms around me like a circle round the sun 

My oh my 

I don’t k now if I should laugh or cry 

I know she’s out for blood 

It hurts so good 

She used to a shy girl 

Before she became my girl 

Now she’s hot or what? 

The girl can’t help it 

I know she’s out for blood 

It hurts so good

King Troubadour's Tears

Lost Want Found - Soldiers in the Army of Love - Fragile Earth - Fragile Heart - Traveller No More - Stephen Lawrence - Brave New Blues - Fish - Me and Joe - Jesus in Her Soul - My Own man - Soldiers – re enlisted 

Lost-want Found 

Found what I wanted, lost what I had 

It made me happy, It made me sad 

Has anyone here, has anybody seen her? 

I was looking where the grass is greener 

Weighing the odds, hedging the bets 

Learning to live with regrets 

Holding tight ‘til it comes around 

I been lost and I want found 

Stolen glances, taken chances 

Desire and dangers, sex with strangers 

I was hungry oh so needy 

So hot, too greedy 

If love comes bye, share it 

On your knees, declare it 

On your back grin and bear it 

If the cap fits wear it 

Soldiers In The Army Of Love 

New Millennium promises bring up a golden age 

Put an end to war on want, release mankind from its cage 

Brother, sister forward, let’s work hand in glove 

As soldiers in the army of love 

Let ships of plenty set sail to each land in need 

Till such time each mouth is fed and every spirit freed 

Brother, sister forward, for the common good 

As soldiers in the army of love 

Soldiers, soldiers, soldiers 

Over land and sea and from the sky 

Freedom be our battle cry 

Soldiers in the army of love 

Hands across the ocean one in the church of the heart 

Two thousand years we get it wrong 

Well maybe here’s a brand new start 

Are you ready to so battle, spill not one drop of blood 

As a soldier in the army of love 

We got soldiers, no helmet on our head 

We got soldiers, no weapon in our hands 

We got soldiers, no malice in our hearts 

We’re the volunteers and we will make a stand 

Raise the banner high, praise be to the glory band 

Of Soldiers….. 

Fragile Earth - Fragile Heart 

Where seeds of love have not been planted 

There goes the poor soul taken for granted 

And what's more than just skin deep is still hard to find 

The emotion and purpose for our peace of mind 

So child learn from your mother 

Earn the respect of your sister and brother 

Let your love flow 

Let it shine from within 

Let's make this world a better place to live in 

Give what you can in this world which we're blessed 

Share in the wonder change yourself for the best 

And it would be to your lasting credit 

To make safe tomorrow for kids to inherit 

So child learn from your mother 

Earn the respect of your sister and brother 

Let your love flow 

Let it shine from within 

We'll make this world a better place to live in 

It's a fragile earth that's got a fragile heart 

Each one of us must stand up and play a part 

Don't say too late just make that new start 

Heal a fragile earth's fragile heart 

Save a fragile earth's fragile heart 

Traveller No More 

I just want to live by the side of the road 

I just want to live by the side of the road 

I just want to live by the side of the road 

A traveller no more 

I’m tired of knocking at your door 

With my hand out for a score 

Getting rich by acting poor 

A traveller no more 

Say goodbye to the cushtie life 

Your lucky face the backstab knife 

Fruitless nights with your frigid wife 

A traveller no more 

Gridlock highway, mobile home 

Take my shotgun to the mobile phone 

Waver all my rights to roam 

A traveller no more 

It’s long gone, long gone John 

The open road we travelled on 

I’m going back to Avalon 

It’s my spiritual home 

It’s where I first signed on 

A traveller no more 

A traveller no more 

Stephen Lawrence 

I woke up this morning to a pillow full of tears 

The murderers are still among us killing me with fear 

I cried Lord, help me cage the beast 

Good Lord let not the vigil cease 

Remember Stephen Lawrence, may he rest in peace 

They stabbed him at the bus stop ‘cause of the colour of his skin 

The cops they know who did it so why can’t they bring them in 

He’d everything to live for his family’s pride and joy 

But white scum were jealous of this young gifted black boy 

Bear witness to the slaughter this is not their lawless land 

But they will get away with murder if we let the verdict stand 

What’s the colour of innocence? What’s the colour of blood? 

What’s the colour of bigotry? What’s the colour of love? 

And when we cry for justice what is the colour of our tears? 

Remember Stephen Lawrence May he help us too see clear 

Brave New Blues 

What's it to you babe? pass the soma, slip this pill (2x) 

If my religion don't get you, the dream police will 

Aint it easy to falter and land on some one's files (2x) 

When it's three after curfew and your out alone on brain drain mile 

Have you heard 'bout Android Johnny? He's up on a charge of Data rape 

He contract the electric horrors whilst in a suspended animation state 

Computer jury found him guilty, ordered Dr. Nerve Gap to decide his fate 

Lord have mercy on his Robot soul 

I catalogued my reaction 'As above as below' (2x) 

But my transplant heart stopped beating as the doomsday pointer neared Zero 

My bad girl Machine Mary heeds her genders liberation call 

She births babies in bottles which leaves the spare time free to ball 

She argues the point Women are only humanoid after all 

But Granddaddy was a savage he made a pregnant Mother do 

Sometimes I wander what those good old days were coming to 

But I can't keep on changing as fast as the makers want me to 

It's hard to stay non violent when your adrenaline dosage hits the sky 

And the authorities they ban anything that will not keep you high 

Then I find my best friend the dog is an 'automatic obedience process spy' 

I'm a clone of human heartache, a world of virtual misery 

synthetic human heartache, a world of virtual misery 

In Holographic deprivation I see everybody's getting it but me 

I'm leaving in the morning first light of the artificial sun 

My anti paranoia capsules low I've trained my cyber legs to run 

There's a brave new world waiting and I mean to get me some 

Fish 

Oh the Ice caps are melting 

Ha ha ha ha 

I’m a fish, I’m a fish 

The oceans are rising 

Ho ho ho ho 

I’m a fish, I’m a fish 

The global is warming 

Sunamis are forming 

Spawning the dawning 

Of your last death wish 

See a shoreline that’s shrinking 

Hee hee hee hee 

Think fish, I’m a fish 

Anchors are dragging 

Like fishwives nagging 

At skippers not blagging 

Their landlubbers dish 

Blame a hole in the ozone 

Ho ho ho ho 

I’m a fish, I’m a fish 

Me and Joe 

Me and Joe sitting on a tank 

Chewing on gum talking to the Yanks 

Mamma came down she sure looked annoyed 

She took this picture with her Polaroid 

Me and Joe talking to Tex 

Eating candy from the PX 

See the war-birds rolling ‘cross the Norfolk skies 

We were too young to ever question why 

Me and Joe together again 

Curtsey of one Saddam Hussain 

Eyes full of sand, lungs full of grit 

You better watch out here comes the Brits 

Me and Joe just about dawn 

Riding on a desert storm out 

War-birds rolling ‘cross the Kuwait sky 

We’re under orders not to question why 

Me and Joe sitting on a tank 

We took it direct from the Yanks 

Who could say just what went wrong 

I could not tell you in the words of song 

Joe has gone now his death it leaves a void 

And all I got is this here Polaroid 

Of Me and Joe sitting on a tank 

Chewing on gum and talking to the yanks 

Jesus in her Soul 

She likes John the Baptist, I like Jean Genet 

She digs the Christian brothers since they forgave brothers Kray 

She likes to kneel and pray whilst I perfect the boogie and the twist 

She’s got Jesus in her soul but me I’m an existentialist 

She’s goofing’ on beat poetry by this dude call Cliff 

If I hear him chant just one more line I’m going to throw him off that cliff 

Because I need a Freudian session whilst she makes her confession 

About that dynamite explosion the first time we kissed 

With Jesus in her soul and me the existentialist 

She keeps a bible by the bed I keep a rifle next to mine 

She digs the number 42 it used to be 69 

Until that tragic moment we both puckered up but missed 

Then she got Jesus and I became an existentialist 

Just like Eve’s little apple I got bitten 

I’m tall as Goliath but helpless as a kitten 

I was looking at the world through a velvety mist 

until she got Jesus and I became an existentialist 

She thinks therefore I am an existentialist 

My Own Man 

Please don't kick me out of church if I refused the bride 

I didn't ask for wedding bells I'm here for the ride 

Though it makes me look the kind of guy who likes to hit and run 

The simple truth is I prefer If we kept courtin fun 

I'm my own man my own man 

Lover please understand 

You flaunt this family plan but 

I don't give me a damn 

Take me as I am 

And I'll fix you he best I can 

I'm looking for a lover 

Gonna make me my own man 

When love fell like an angel didn't I help it to it's feet 

One shoul always be prepared to help he heart complete 

I'll take care of arrangements babe pull you through the booze 

Is this the kind of thanks I get well I must refuse 

I'm my own man my own man 

Lover please understand 

You flaunt this family plan but 

I don't give me a damn 

Take me as I am 

And I'll fix you he best I can 

I'm looking for a lover 

Gonna make me my own man 

Follow in my footsteps honey I'll jump you for a lark 

Your gonna have to find out my bark's worse than my bark 

And if that's no inspiration leave well enough alone 

You may know my schedule but you aint my transport home 

I'm my own man . . .

Between Kiss and Curse 

Third Rock from the Sun - Anna House - Blue Honeymoon - Catherine at the Chapel - Dim the Lights - Good/Bad - Gypsy Idyll - Sea of Souls Taste - Tiny Tears - Waltzing for Newlyweds - Patterns - Days Run  High 

3rd Rock from the Sun 

It’s in the book of revelations 

They will dance at the famine or the feast 

As ghosts walk upon your dead space stations 

They will sign their time with the mark of the beast 

Once upon a time, third rock from the sun 

Creatures run when the Apeman come 

Up on their hind legs and in your face 

Sow the seed to breed a master race 

Lord of the flies and all they survey 

Weapons with language winning the day 

Set wheels a turning, fires a burning bright 

Starship invaders in the daemon night 

Apeman kill for God, they kill for land 

Apeman kill for oil under the sand 

The smiling face, the sleight of hand 

Cometh the hour of the Apeman 

Sure as the sun shall rise their will be done 

Bringing home the bacon to kingdom come 

Up on their hind legs and in your face 

How could chosen angels fall from grace? 

It’s in the book of revelations 

They will dance at the famine or your feast 

As ghosts walk upon your dead space stations 

They will sign their time with the mark of the beast 

Apeman kill for God, they kill for land 

Apeman kill for oil under the sand 

Beware the false heart of the closed hand 

Cometh the hour of the Apeman 

Anna House 

Wait ’til I whistle darlin’ 

Then run on home to me 

It’s been a while my sweet sweet boy 

I miss your company 

Wait ‘til a hunter’s moon 

Come shining through the trees 

I will whistle you a come home tune 

From where I want to be 

Wait ‘til I whistle darlin’ 

It may be some years still 

Wait ‘til that willow herb 

Is growing on our hill 

Wait, wait, wait 

Please wait for me 

It’s been a while my sweet sweet boy 

I miss your company 

Wait ‘til I whistle darlin’ 

You’ll know what to do 

At Anna House I laid you down 

And said farewell to you 

Wait, wait, wait 

Please wait for me 

It’s been a while my sweet, sweet boy 

I miss your company 

Blue Honeymoon 

Fair is the skin on black satin sheets 

My how the summer runs red 

It's late afternoon by the time that we meet 

And make ourselves cosy in bed 

Working the blue honeymoon 

Celebrating love's first bloom 

Me and my girl 

Not a care in the world 

Working the blue honeymoon 

It's crazy she says that such a straight dude 

Can make it so subtle at play 

I says, “Honey, I's merely a cuddly toy 

Who's learning to bend 

Your any which way” 

Working the blue honeymoon 

Burning the candle, popping balloons 

Me and my girl 

Not a care in the world 

Working the blue honey moon 

There's me, room service, another bottle of wine 

As she rolls me a soft cigarette 

Crackin’ a joke about the folly of time 

We’re giving as good as we get 

Working the blue honeymoon 

Hey cupid play us a tune 

About a woman and man 

Out on a lam 

Working the blue honeymoon 

It seems I lost my cherry you see 

To a sultry, young, red headed girl 

She replies, “well obviously 

It made you a man of the world” 

Working the blue honeymoon 

Celebrating love's full bloom 

Me and my girl 

Not a care in the world 

Working the blue honeymoon 

Fair is the skin on black satin sheets 

My how the summer runs red 

Then up pops the moon to make complete 

Two lovers at a party in bed 

Working the blue honey moon 

Catherine at the Chapel 

I see Catherine at the chapel 

Where she likes to kneel and pray 

Come see Catherine at the chapel 

I’ll be working there this Sunday 

Pity me a bible salesman 

Won’t you roll me in the hay 

If I sing it loud enough now 

Maybe she would look my way 

I know she’s an honest woman 

Folks round here give her respect 

If I’d say I’d marry for her 

What do you think expect 

Cathy, Cathy, Cathy 

Oh, Catherine my dear 

I’ll bring flowers for your mother 

Take your dad out for a beer 

Dim the lights 

Friday night, I'm homeward bound 

Oh for the smell of the home ground 

Familiar sights, familiar sounds 

Guess I'm starting to wind down 

It’s Matthew, Mark, Luke and John 

Bless this bed that we lie on 

She makes everything so right 

I can't wait to dim the light 

Take it slow 

Mellow down easy now 

Tell her how I love her so 

She work so very hard to please me 

How I love that woman so 

Maybe there's a bomb in every bar 

Maybe there's a fire on every farm 

When the world is maudlin 

I’m heading home 

Got to have my sanctuary and calm 

She cooks my stew 

From a different point of view 

Feed my ego 

Scratch my back 

If there's life outside of here 

Tonight’s the night 

I don't want to hear 

Take my cool down from the rack 

Matthew, Mark, Luke and john 

I pray for the love that’s still to come 

Lord she make everything so right 

And I can’t wait to dim the light 

Dim the light 

Mellow down easy 

Take it slow 

She work so very hard to please me 

How I love that woman so 

God know s how I love her so 

Mathew Mark Luke and John 

Please bless the bed that we lie on 

Good / Bad 

Love is pleasing, love is teasing 

Love is a pleasure when it’s new 

Can't pay much attention to the world and all its ways 

I'm in love; the sun it shines, even on the rainy day 

It's like I'm living on the ceiling and I can't stand the suspense 

An out of body, out of mind, total experience 

Aint it been a long time coming 

From what started with a rush of blood 

Now my heart tells me when you're near 

Happy is the course I steer 

Can it be so bad to feel good? 

Love is easy when it’s understood 

Even nicer when you’re feeling good 

Patience is a virtue they preach to me as fact 

But once in a while 

Mother Nature throws up the perfect double act 

It's like I’m living on the ceiling and I can’t stand the suspense 

An out of body, out of mind, total experience 

Aint it been a long time coming 

From what started as a rush of blood 

Now my heart tells me when you’re near 

Happy is the course I steer 

Can it feel so bad to feel so good? 

Gypsy Idyll 

In endless hurly burly days 

We ran so wild like waifs and strays 

Telling fortunes, cooking spells 

Drinking out of wishing wells 

Charmed right off a killing floor 

Forget the life I led before 

Thinking I could live on love 

With the dark-eyed Gypsy Girl 

Trade a pick-up; scrap the car 

Follow the tribe down to Del Mar 

Sleeping out in natures yard 

Our summer home, the deep Camargue 

Chestnut mares and stallions 

Pie bald ponies, swift as wind 

And there was I horse whispering 

With my dark-eyed Gypsy Girl 

Around the campfire burning bright 

Dusky maidens dance and sway 

Story telling through the night 

In honour of the Roma way 

To accordion and Violin 

When moved by her, I might sing 

Songs of virtue, songs of sin 

About my dark- eyed Gypsy Girl 

Freedom dreams off beaten tracks 

Poems written in gold haystacks 

Stardust melting in your hand 

Lost in love’s mysterious land 

Black Sarah grant your favours here 

Let me eat and drink like these here musketeers 

And take on any Hadge who dares leer 

At my dark-eyed gypsy girl 

They’ll get more than they bargained for 

As her brothers sought me to persuade 

That bulls ran once will run no more 

And laid me low with boot and blade 

Decreed our love could never be 

I was of the wrong blood you see 

Then a handshake reluctantly 

Was no welcome to the family 

Of the dark-eyed gypsy girl 

The caravans rolled that autumn day 

While I’m left sleeping in the hay 

Midst, cold mist, swirled in from sea 

To hide the hurt and what they stole from me 

Now late flamingos all have flown 

With Heron high across the Rhone 

As I wander down the trail alone 

Seeking out my gypsy girl 

My dark-eyed gypsy girl 

Sea of Souls 

Father have you seen the scan? 

No more girls in our family plan 

You know what to do my dear 

Try for a boy next year 

Try for a boy again next year 

That’s what we’ll do my dear 

No more girls in our family plan 

Father have you seen the scan? 

Father have you seen the scan? 

Here in the sea of souls 

How they dance and swirl 

Spirits of a million, trillion, zillion 

Unborn girls – Unborn Girls 

Each one had their birth denied 

Out there looking for a ride 

Hitching on Diwali night 

For a festival of light 

For a festival of light 

Hoping this Diwali night 

Some kind husband, some kind wife 

Might offer them a gift of life 

Offer them a gift of life 

Here in the sea of souls 

How they dance and swirl 

Spirits of a million, trillion, zillion 

Unborn girls – Unborn girls 

Swimming in a sea of souls 

How we dance and swirl 

With the spirit of a million, trillion, zillion 

Unborn girls 

Sea of Souls - A song to highlight the lost souls of unborn girls in India, hoping at Divali some kind husband, some kind wife might offer them a gift of life - - - 

In India though evidence reveals new-born girls as biologically stronger, they remain socially vulnerable due to widespread male child preference, reflected in the higher infant and under five mortality of girl children. India is the only large country in the world where more girl babies die than boy babies 

Taste 

I guess you thought I must be joking 

When I said I want to quit my smoking 

It’s ever since you became my neighbour 

I thought I’d do myself this favour 

From the tip of your tongue the faintest hint 

Cool, fresh, peppermint 

When we talk of love how we embrace 

Taste 

Woman you’ve got taste 

Lately I’ve been thinking 

Maybe it’s time to curb my drinking 

Only so I can savour 

You’re exotic body flavour 

Now I know what I’ve been missing 

On the lips that I am kissing 

A touch of class, refined yet chaste 

Taste 

You chill the wine then you warm the bed 

Ain't that what the good love guide said 

Close to you and closer still 

When your cuddles start to thrill 

Regret in leisure if one moves in haste 

Taste 

I ask you would you find it funny. 

Jack the lad on milk and honey 

Perfect skin from head to feat 

You look so good and smell so sweet 

One could sense that I’m a hopeless case 

Taste 

Why waste 

Taste 

Taste through the eyes 

Taste through the ears 

Taste through the nose 

Taste through touch 

From lip to cup 

Don’t waste 

Taste 

Tiny Tears 

Tiny tears roll down your cheek 

Tiny Tears make my knees go weak 

How I love it when you smile 

But it lasts the shortest while 

Then those tiny tears fall down your face 

Each tiny tear a saving grace 

I'm grown up now, still I don't know 

Tiny Tears make the big tears flow 

Hush a bye, don't you cry, it's time to rest 

No child could ever be so loved so blessed 

Head on pillow so serene 

Who could guess what you dream 

All the tumbles, the bumps, the pain 

Our fairy tale of dragons slain 

Baby teardrops, tiny tears 

Melt away, come child at play 

Why ain't your daddy here? 

Waltzing For Newlyweds 

See how he’s floating, while she’s on the ground 

She makes the moves and he likes her around 

He gives her the ribbon that keeps him in bounds 

Maybe its fate or just something they’ve found 

Let us be lovers, if you have a mind 

I’m easy if you are, if you feel inclined 

To make that commitment, so both of them dare 

And to dance beneath starlight’s a pleasant affair 

So, hey, come and dance with me, easy and light 

Waltz with me close on this late summer night 

Hold me forever or just for one time 

Perhaps I’ll be yours, perhaps you’ll be mine 

He’s compass needle; she’s magnetic force 

When he feels uncertain she keeps him on course 

And if she feels like crying but doesn’t know why 

He’ll whisper the words that’ll keep her eyes dry 

So, hey, come on dance with me, easy and free 

And sign with your hearts blood this angel decree 

Consign to forgetting the heartache that’s been 

So I can be king and you can be queen 

My beautiful queen 

Patterns 

You like patterns, I know you do 

Too many years, living with you 

Patterns in memory, patterns in veins 

Patterns recurring time and again 

Hey ho, the wind and rain 

Same old feelings back again 

Patterns of chaos, patterns of pain 

Patterns recurring time and again 

Paisley scarves and painted ties 

Rainbow wings on butterflies 

Patterns in lonely, patterns in crowds 

Patterns in road maps, patterns in shrouds 

Coming from where I come from 

Meeting you where you are 

Night and dark wind blowing 

Clouds and a single star 

You like patterns, I know you do 

Too many years loving you 

Patterns in memory, patterns in veins 

Patterns recurring time and again 

Days run High 

Now the waterwheel’s turning round and round 

Down by the river with hardly a sound 

Life is a blur, spirits in a trance 

And I am blessed with a second chance 

How the days run high 

And every night is moonkissed 

The hands on the clock ticking away 

Write all night and sleep all day 

Leaves on the carpet come in from the cold 

My stall is set out – a love story told 

How the days run high 

And every night is moonkissed 

Spill the wine 

So Heloise comes to Abelard 

Like Cleo comes to Anthony 

And in your own sweet time 

My special friend 

You will come to me 

Mon bien aimee 

Let the days run high 

And everynight be moonkissed