HW: Lyrics for LSD

[M Holmes]

Martyn White writes:

>         Since the lyrics for the track LSD are being discussed, I
> checked my HW lyrics file and I do not have them.  In my index, there is
> Lost Johnny followed by Magnu with no LSD in between.  I must have an
> out-of-date version, I think, so I go to the WWW....
>                 no HW lyrics archive to be found.
>
> So, did I miss a site or have lyric files been withdrawn from the web
> because of some copyright reason?
>
> Whichever, could someone post/private email me the lyrics for LSD
>
> Thanks
>
> Martyn
>
> "If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space"

Last Revision 22/6/96
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5/4
25 Years
Abducted
A Day In The Office
Adjust Me
The Aerospaceage Inferno
Alien (I Am)
Angels of Death
Angel Voices
Are You Losing Your Mind?
Arrival in Utopia
Assault and Battery
Astronauts
The Awakening
Back in the Box
Back On The Streets
Beam Me Up
The Beast of Chaos
Be Yourself
Black Corridor
Black Elk Speaks
Blue Skin
Born to Go
Brainbox Pollution
Brainstorm
Bring It On Home
Came Home
The Changing
Children of the Sun
Choose Your Masks [2 versions]
Chronicle of The Black Sword
Coded Languages
Coleridge On The Enterprise
Confrontation
Cymbaline
Damage of Life
Damnation Alley
Damned By The Curse of Man
Dangerous Visions
The Dark Lords
Days of the Underground
Dead God's Homecoming
Dealin' with the Devil
Death of War
Death Trap
The Demented Man
The Demise
Disintegration
Down through the Night
Dragons and Fables
Dragon Song
Dreaming City
Dream Worker
D-Rider
Dust of Time
Dying Deas
Earthed to the Ground
The Earth Ritual
Ejection
Elric the Enchanter
Elric the Enchanter Part II
Experiment with Destiny [see Virgin of the World]
Fable of a Failed Race
Fahrenheit 451
Fall of Earth City
Festivals
Fifth Second of Forever
The Final Fight
First Landing on Medusa
Flying Doctor
Free Fall
Gaga
Gimme Shelter
The Golden Void
Good Evening
Green Finned Demon
Hades Deep
Hassan I Sabha
Hawkwind
Heads
High Rise
Hi Tech Cities
Horn of Destiny (Fate)
Hurry On Sundown
I'm Waiting For The Man
Images
Infinity
In the Egg
In the Office
Into the Realms
It's So Easy
Jack of Shadows
Joker at the Gate
The Joker of the Universe
Kadu Flyer
Kapal
Kerb Crawler
Kings of Speed
Land of Inspirations
Levitation
Lighthouse
Living on a Knife Edge
Looking in the Future
Lord of Light
Lords of Chaos
Lost Chances
Lost Johnny
Love In Space
L.S.D.
Magnu
Make What You Can
Mark of Cain
Mask of Morning
Master of the Universe
Messengers of Morpheus
Micro Man
Mirror of Illusion
Moonglum
Motherless Children
Motorhead
Motorway City
Mutation Zone
My Armour's Killing Me
Narration I
Narration II [Elric the Enchanter Pt1]
Needle Gun
Neon Skyline
New Jerusalem
Night of the Hawk
Note From a Cold Planet
Now is the Winter of Our Discontent
Nuclear Drive
Nuclear Toy
Ode To A Crystal Set
Ode to a Timeflower
On the Case
The Only Ones
(Only) the Dead Dreams of the Cold War Kid
Orgone Accumulator
Oscillations
Out of the Shadows
Over the Top
Paradox
The Phenomenon of Luminosity
Processed
Psi Power
Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear in Smoke)
Psychosis
PsychoSonia
PXR5
Quark, Strangeness and Charm
Rambo In Space
Reefer Madness
The Right Stuff
Right To Decide
Robot
Rocky Paths
Running Through the Backbrain
Sadness Runs Deep
The Sea King
Secret Agent
Seven By Seven
Shot Down in the Night
Silver Machine
Sleep of a Thousand Tears
Social Alliance
Solitary Mind Games
Song of the Swords
Sonic Attack
Space is Deep
Space Travellers
Spirit of the Age
Sputnik Stan
Standing at the Edge
Star Cannibal
Starflight
Steppenwolf
Streets of Fear
Sweet Mistress of Pain
Sweet Obsession
Sword of the East
Technicians of Spaceship Earth
Ten Seconds of Forever
The Timeship Will Not sail Again
They've Got Your Number
Time For Sale
Time We Left (This World today)
Transdimensional Man
Treadmill
TV Suicide
Uncle Sam's on Mars
Urban Guerilla
Utopia '84
Valium Ten
Virgin of the World [2 versions]
Void City
Waiting for Nati
Waiting for Tomorrow
The War I Survived
Warrior on the Edge of Time
Warriors
Wastelands of Sleep
The Watcher
Watching the Grass Grow
We Took the Wrong Step
Web Weaver
Welcome to the Future
The Welcoming Hands of Space
Where Are They Now?
When the Going Gets Tough
Who's Gonna Win the War
Wings
The Wizard Blew His Horn
Words of a Song
Xenomorph
You Know You're Only Dreaming
You Shouldn't Do That
You'd Better Believe It
Your Secret's Safe With Me
Zarozinia
(Unknown Track)

{ } indicates original lyrics not included when used on the Live
Chronicles albums
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5/4
===
I can feel it
My mind is going
I can feel it
I can feel it
My mind is going
I can feel it
There's no question about it
My mind is going
I can feel it
Oh no, my mind is going.....
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25 YEARS
( - Brock - )
I went to school and I studied and I got my G.C.E.
My City and Guilds and my Sky Diary
But it didn't do me no good
They didn't like my looks
I burnt my books

Spent 25 years doesn't matter anymore
Stand around the streets
And lie around the floor
Looking at the sky
I watch the world go by

I started out one day and I worked in a factory
My mind went blank I needed a battery
Didn't do no good
I got the sack, my work was slack

They said there's life up there in the galaxy
The world in collision
There's people with an allergy
25 years of, 25 years of, 25 years
of social research

Spent 25 years doesn't matter anymore
Stand around the streets
And lie around the floor
Looking at the sky
I watch the world go by
25 years, 25 years
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Abducted
========

On board the craft
I noticed a lot of electrical ceiling lights
Like the lines in the human brain.

There are windows or screen areas all around the ship
They're like a two-way mirror - a kind of projection place
It is as if these windows creens are made of a combination of
metal crystal or mirror glass
I see a cloudscape or landscape on suspended plastic sheets.

I noticed slanted surfaces on the tops of machines with instruments
or panels.
Small creatures are busily moving around.
They are seated at the controls at the base of the slanted walls.
Robot-like creatures with large black eyes
that appear to have reptilian or insectile facial qualities.

I don't have any problem facing the little ones. they are so blissful
The the ugly ones scare and repulse me.
It's like the lava inside the leather face skin of a hard dark
scary machine.
The reptile faced insect bodied robots
They are being brought forth to perform specific functions...
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A Day In The Office
===================

I pay my stamps and I pay my tax
I daren't stop working and that's a fact
And all I see on the TV screens
Are starving kids and war machines
Is this what I've been taught in school?
Is education the golden rule?
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Adjust Me
=========

City black, encase the time
World full of men, who all are blind
Who walk and talk and say as one:
"Androids are we", heir to no son
Adjust me
Adjust me
Adjust me.....
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The Aerospaceage Inferno
========================

A flight of steel eagles tearing by
The ripped silk screaming of the rended sky
Flame on through sound and make time fly
What a good way to go....
What a good way to go
In the aerospaceage.......inferno

Fly through the ground like a circus hound
Through the burning hoop in just one bound
So not even your ashes will be found
What a good way to go....
What a good way to go
In the aerospaceage.......inferno

Set the controls for the heart of the Earth
The silver machine's worth more than you're worth
But the phoenix soul is bound for rebirth
What a good way to go....
What a good way to go
In the aerospaceage.......inferno
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Alien (I Am)
============

"What kind of receiver would be capable of processing these signals?"
"A system designed to modify the electromagnetic spectrum and carry
 those messages directly to the human brain"    <Quote from Star Trek:
                                                 The Next generation>

Squatting in your bodies
Microscopic breeding
I sleep in you
And eat from within
I am The Alien
We are here to help you
Make the mend
In the chemical bend
We are The Aliens


I lack emotion, have no love that I can find
I want some devotion to ease a worried mind
The heart is softened the soul is scorched
The mind erodes away some sentimental thoughts

The window cracked is closed
The door slams shut
The lights put out, say no more speak no less

For you I become the alien I am
For you I become the alien I am

The cry primal is muffled
The mouth seals tight
The eye looks within
Say no more speak no less
I the alien reject your human touch

This is Alien Control calling spaceship Earth
Alien Control calling Earth. Are you receiving Earth?
Are you receiving...
We are the Aliens.
We have warned you about
the DANGER
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ANGELS OF DEATH
( - Brock - )
We're angels of life, we're angels of death
We were born to blaze a nuclear way through space
A way out of the waste that held the human race
We're angels of life, we're angels of death
We are the dead who are never led
We are the warriors at the edge of time
We lurk inside your brain, we hide inside your mind
We're angels of life, we're angels of death
We stalk the city streets to kill all we meet
Nostrils flare awhile, it makes you want to smile
We're born to erase, all of your days
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Angel Voices
============

Final adjustment to timing sequences for the master control system
Main engine check
Proton drive unit:  PDU meter reads level
Linear acceleration module: LAM meter reads level
Crystal absorption unit: CAU meter reads level
Vector thrust module: VTM meter reads level
Vector Activity:
        Vector activity reading is on scope at minus oh two one point seven
Readjustment recommended
Vector activity reading level
Flight deck computer check complete
Passenger module computer check: Dream Sequencing - functions activated.
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Are You Losing Your Mind?
=========================

Watching TV.   Walking down the street
I realised I had a problem
A big problem in my mind
I had to get the problem out of my mind
I realised I had a -
Silicon chip
In my head
I had a
Silicon chip
In my head

<repeat>

Ah.  I'm losing my mind control
I'm losing my mind
Are you losing your mind?
Mind control
Mind control
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Arrival In Utopia
=================

We dreamed of golden shining towers
Of lazy days and thrilling hours
Fields of wonder, streets so fair
Of amber ships which sailed, through the air

Dreamed of steel and glass and wire
Of days of wine and nights of fire
Dreamt of dogs that talked like boys
Of girls who flew, of unnamed joys

And now our dreams are true
We don't know what to do
For we don't like it here
There's nothing for us to fear
Bored mindless in Utopia

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ASSAULT AND BATTERY
( - Brock - )
Lives of great men all remind us
We may make our lives sublime
And departing leave behind us
Footprints in the sands of time
Of hewn stones the sacred circle
Where the wizened sages sat
Let us try to remember
All the times where they were at.
So your thoughts they were expecting
Assault and battery of the human anatomy
Assault and battery of the human anatomy
{Man}
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Astronauts
==========

The Astronauts are here on Earth
Their spaceship is an armoured car
In a landscape increasingly lunar
I've seen them on the Northern Sands
With geiger counters in their hands
Their movements slowed by gravity
And bureaucratic necessity
How the minds within the helmets
Must be filled with sad regrets
For the days of weightlessness
A heady time before ballistics
And falsification of field statistics
Imagination leads us on
It's one small step for the likes of me
And yet in fickle reality
The first space age has come and gone
We reached a psychic barrier
A hand
Maybe a mirror
Which told us "go no further"
Besides, considerations fiscal
So swiftly severed our umbilical
We turned our backs on galaxies
We changed NASA priorities
To fit in with the military's
Launching Star Wars technology
Co-existent with satellite TV
We follow the lead of Hollywood
Tail firmly wagging the dog

You and I are parasites
We have the anti-Midas touch
Turning everything to dust
We are the poisons and disease
There is no magic cure for these
Boxed deposits in sea and soil
Outlast Humankind itself
Like cats we bury our detritus
We've brought the craters back home with us
And the astronauts are here on Earth
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The Awakening
=============

I would rather the fire storms of atmospheres
Than this cruel descent from a thousand years
of dreams, into the starkness of the capsule.

Where two of our crew still lay suspended cool
in their tombs of sleep.
Those nagging choirs of memory
the tubes and wires
worming from their flesh to machinery
I would have to cut

Such midwifery is but one function of the leader here
Floating in a sac of fluid dark
A clear century of space
Away from Earth
While one man stirs from the trauma of his birth
Attending to the hypno-tapes
Assuring him
that this was reality
however grim
Our journey's end

Landing itself was nothing
We touched upon a shelf of rock
selected by the automind
And left a galaxy of dreams behind.....

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Back in the Box
===============

Back in the box, shut in the dark
Falling apart

Digging the dirt
Hiding the hurt

Locked in a dream
What does it mean?

Shut in the box
Too many locks

Back in the box, back in the box
Back in the box, back in the box

Counting down
Twisting round
See behind your back
Counting down
Twisting round
See behind your back
....behind your back    [ x 7 ]

Locked in dreams
What does it mean?

Shut in a box
There's too many locks
Shut in a box
There's too many locks

Round and round
Round and round and round

I see you
Hanging there

Switch on the TV, look at the screen
Money for a Rolls or a washing machine
You pay your money and you pay your rent
Every day it's always spent
Maybe it starts to be the same
You look out your window and it starts to rain
Someone is saying it's time to die
Send us some money and I'll tell you why
I pay my stamps and I pay my tax
I daren't stop working and that's a fact
But all I see on the TV screen
Is starving kids and war machines
Is this what i've been taught in school?
Is education the golden rule?
             the golden rule
             the golden rule.......

Back in the box
Back in the box
Back in the box
Back in the box
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Back on the Streets
===================
I took a ride in an elevator, I was
heading for the 99th floor
In less than just a split-second later, I was
standing right outside of her door
She looked kinda mean on her video screen
And she said "Come in and please take a seat"

That's when I was
Back on the Streets
Back on the Streets
Back on the Streets Again
Back on the Streets
Back on the Streets
Back on the Streets Again

A businessman had said sign his contract to
make you a supernova exploding star
The galaxies will shake with your impact
You'll make everything on Earth a bazaar
Just sign on this line
And drink up your wine
The Universe is in for a treat

That's when I'm
Back on the Streets
Back on the Streets
Back on the Streets Again
Back on the Streets
Back on the Streets
Back on the Streets Again

Feel the concrete under my feet
I'm freer than a cheetah, man
Back on the Streets Again
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Beam Me Up
==========

Supernatural.
Biological.
Transluscent glaze.
Night Spirit.
The Folding Eye.
Free my soul
Supernatural.
Extra Terrestrial.
Supernatural.
Extra Terrestrial
Beam Me Up.   <repeat>

I'm being beamed up.  Now.

<spoken> "The fusion bomb was invented in 1934 but we didn't see it
          until 1945"

Hiroshima.
Nagasaki.
The fusion bomb,
the future bomb.
Is always wrong.
The neutron bomb.

Monitored by the alien control satellites.
We have holographic images showing the destruction of the World.

I thought it was a dream but then I wasn't in bed
A fractured dream
Through the broken screen
Projected.
Injected
Into my head
Under the skin
Inside my mind
Through the golden stream of time
Into my mind
Through the golden stream of time
I'm being beamed.
Up.
Now.
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The Beast of Chaos
==================

The Beast of Chaos has no shape of its own
The Beast of Chaos has no identity
It's form is ever changing
It can be a rising tower with a thousand eyes
Whose gaze can turn the world to stone
It can fart a battery of sound
Like cannons aimed at Heaven
Belching fumes of industrious flak

It swallows them at morning
And spews them out at evening
Wasted and pale
It feeds on their time

The Beast of Chaos has no soul of its own
The Beast of Chaos has no conscience
Its change is ever forming
It can pass like a flight of steel eagles
With claws of fire
Or trample the Earth to dust
With monstrous millions of iron feet
It can dehydrate the oceans with its breath
It can crumple the sky with its palms
It can blot out the Sun
It can black out the stars
The Beast of Chaos comes from nowhere
And leaves nothing behind

The Beast of Chaos has no soul of its own
The Beast of Chaos has no conscience
Its form is ever changing
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BE YOURSELF
( - Brock - )
Be yourself, see yourself
I can see others like me
Be yourself, see yourself
Try and find peace of mind
Be yourself, see yourself
Be yourself, see yourself
I can't find peace of mind
Be yourself, see yourself
I can see others like me
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BLACK CORRIDOR
( - Moorcock - )
Space is infinite, it is dark
Space is neutral, it is cold
Stars occupy minute areas of space
They are clustered a few billion here
And a few billion there
As if seeking consolation in numbers
Space does not care, space does not threaten
Space does not comfort
It does not sleep, it does not wake
It does not dream
It does not hope, it does not fear
It does not love, it does not hate
It does not encourage any of these qualities
Space cannot be measured, it cannot be
angered, it cannot be placated
It cannot be summed up, space is there
Space is not large and it is not small
It does not live and it does not die
It does not offer truth and neither does it lie
Space is a remorseless, senseless, impersonal fact
Space is the absence of time and of matter
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BLACK ELK SPEAKS
================
( - Brock/Black Elk - )

Grandfather, Great Mysterious One, you have been always, and before you nothing
has been.  There is nothing to pray to but you.   The star nations all over the
universe are yours.  And yours are the grasses of the earth.  Day in Day out,
you are the light of things.  You are older than all weeds.  Older than all
things on Earth.

Grandfather, all over the world the faces of living ones are alike.  In
tenderness they have  come above the ground.  Look upon your children with
children in their arms, that they may face the winds and walk the good road to
the day of quiet.

Teach me to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that lives!  Sweeten my heart
and fill me with light.  Give me the strength to understand, and the eyes
to see.  Help me for without you I am nothing. Hetchetu aloh!

In your throat is a living song
A living spirit song
His name is long life maker
Yes, I'm here to heal
With the healing ways
Of the magic of the ground
And the magic of the earth

So go on my friend
And sing with the healing spirit
With the magic of the ground
With the magic of the earth
You look back over your life
Through the power of the words
Through the magic of the ground
Through the magic of the earth
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Blue Skin
=========

No ballpoint pen
No type set in
The ultrasonic tapping machine
Take control.   Takes control
Issues its command
Clicking and clattering into the black
Indian ink of night.

Heiroglyphic ancient scrawl
Dot to dot
I'm bleeding for you
Bleeding for you
My blood is blue
Penetration stainless steel
Surgically screened
The needle machine

Slice the flesh like the Teko-Teko's stare
Cut statistics on my face, on my face
Name, Age, Place of Birth, Race
Village and tribe,
Carve deeply
Erase doubt as to who I am
As to who I am
Who I am
Who I am

Prick, prick, ow
Transfer inscribed
Images of sweet roses red
Blood drips
Blood drips
The emporium

The tattoo hole in my skin
Drains the blood
Pain
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BORN TO GO
( - Brock - Calvert - )
We were born to go, we're never turning back
We were born to go, and leave a burning track
We were born to go, and leave no star unturned
We were born to grow, we were born to learn
We're breaking out of the shell, we're breaking free
We're hatching our dreams into reality
We were born to blaze a new clear way through space
A way out of the maze, that held the human race
We were born to go, as far as we can find
We were born to go, to blow the human mind
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BRAINBOX POLLUTION
( - Brock - )
Well my body's burning up
And I'm feeling so bad
And I think it must be something that I've just had
Screaming sounds are buzzing through my brain
Am I mad or am I sane?

I can't control my body anymore
It's reaching down into the very core
I've gotta find a way of solving the solution
Is this what they call brainbox pollution?

Take my hand, I'll lead you on
To learn so far, my dreams your own
Is this world that we all find
It's leaving us so far behind
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BRAINSTORM
( - Turner - )
Standing on the runway waiting for takeoff, I wanna fly,
wanna watch me flake off,
I can't move 'cause the man has a rake off, you gotta help me,
help me to shake off,
This body of mine, I wanna get out of this void,
This body of mine, and I don't wanna be destroyed,
this body of mine, I don't wanna turn android,
This body of mine, you gotta help me avoid that,
Brainstorm, here I go, Brainstorm, flying low
Brianstorm, I wanna miss it, Brianstorm, you'd bet I'd kiss it,
this body goodbye.
I can't get no peace until I get into motion,
Sign my release from this planet's erosion,
Paranoia police have sussed out my potion,
You gotta help me or there'll be an explosion
in this body of mine,
I wanna get out of this void,
this body of mine, and I don't wanna be destroyed,
this body of mine, I don't wanna turn android,
this body of mine, you gotta help me avoid that,
Brainstorm, here I go, Brainstorm, flying low
Brianstorm, I wanna miss it, Brianstorm, you'd bet I'd kiss it,
this body goodbye.
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Bring It On Home
================

Well, I bought my ticket
And I got my load
And the conductor yelled
Now all aboard

Well, I take my seat
And I sit right back
And I watch
That train go down the tracks

Said Baby
I said Baby
Gonna Bring It on Home Now
Gonna Bring It on Home Now
Gonna Bring It on Home Now
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Came Home
=========
Well I came home the other night
I thought I had a bride
Had a big fat momma layin' on the floor
Sayin' look here daddy dun' treat me right
The situation was, as I recall
Lookin' pretty bad
Look here Momma, you know, I say
Your the bestest woman that I ever had
She lay on the bed, and turned on her head
I didn't know if I was 'live or dead
Cause I said Momma, try some o' this stuff
Well she opened her mouth and popped one in
She said Oh Daddy you know what I mean
I can't help nothin' but see what's on my mind
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The Changing
============

I will adjust this thing in here..

We're gonna change you
Rearrange you
We're gonna change you
Rearrange you
We're gonna change you
Rearrange you.............

Now you must be me
Our system's fine, we'll soon see
You'll have no cause to worry now
Just play your part in the show
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CHILDREN OF THE SUN
( - Turner - Anderson - )
The golden age of the future comes
That which was dreamed of in the past
Where freedom reigns on minds of peace
Minds rich in wisdom to the last
We are the children of the sun and this is our inheritance
No longer chaos and confusion
But love and laughter
Song and dance
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Choose Your Masks
=================

They're handing out the weapons
And your armour's ready too
But the most important item
Has been left up to you
You must make a firm decision
And once it's made you'll find
That the form that you have chosen
Can entirely fill your mind

For the mask you have selected
Stands for Chaos or for Law
And you cannot take it off now
'til you're no longer in the War
And the Masks of War are grinning
And from under them you howl
Out the slogans of the part you play
for the Battle's starting now

Choose your Masks
The ranks are forming
Choose your Masks
The day is dawning
Choose your Masks
And choose the side that you'll be on
And learn the words of your new song
For the Battle will be long.....so long........

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Choose Your Masks [incl Fight Sequence from Live Chronicles]
=================

They're handing out the weapons
And your armour's ready too
But the most important item
Has been lift up to you
You must make a firm decision
And once it's made you'll find
That the role that you have chosen
Will entirely fill your mind

So choose your Masks
Choose the side that you'll be on
Learn the words of your new song
For the journey will be long

Over poisoned crystal deserts
Where the ruined towers shout
In our mirrored flashing armour
In our secret, hideous helms

Death to life and Death to earth
Death to fire, Death to death
Death to death
Death to death
Death to death
Death to life and death to anger
Death to sadness

On dead horses our dead warriors
Seek the last retreats of life

The last retreats of life

Seek the last retreats of life
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Chronicle of The Black Sword (Moorcock)
=======================================

Now begins the tale of Elric
proud prince of ruins
who bore The Black Sword...

Here is the Chronicle of that albino lord
Who came to be called The White Wolf
Who was called The Kinslayer
Who was called Womanslayer
Who was doomed to be torn
between Chaos and Law
Who was born to be the pawn
of the Cosmic Balance
Who was at once, more his own master
than any who had lived before
And was at the same time slave
to bloodshed, cruelty, and war
Listen, listen now....
Listen to the tale of how
the White Wolf came by his Weird
Listen to how Elric earned
The Bane of The Black Sword

Elric of Melnibone
The Sailor on the Seas of Fate
Elric
Who battled to bring about the End Of Time
Elric
Who bore the sentient sword Stormbringer
And who killed the only two mortal women he ever loved
This is his sad, his terrible
Aye, and his heroic Saga

The Saga men call
The Chronicle of The Black Sword.....
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Coded Languages  (Bainbridge, Moorcock)
---------------
Investigate the meaning of your sentence
What is it telling you ?
Where does it begin and where does it end ?
Question the nature of your orders
Question the nature of your orders
Question the nature of your orders
What do they want from you ?
A rendezvous upon the sound
The cars rev up the word goes round
Their words are weapons of their will
Their words can hurt
Their words can kill
A burning phrase can burn a town
A syllable can bring you down
Their languages are coded
Your image is eroded
Listen to the sound you heard
Learn to fight against their word
Vocabularies of death
Destruction in their breath
They use the lie
They use the myth
Seek only to confuse
And liberty abuse
The lies they tell are pretty
And blow up another city
They steal away your freedom
And your love
Their sentimental calling signs
Are calculatingly designed
To rob you of your mind and time
And still you listen to
The lulling drone of reassuring voices
Tunes to take away your choices
Make you slaves to fancy words and phrases
Until you're pushing up the daisies
They steal away your freedom
and your love
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Coleridge On The Enterprise
===========================

One day the Vulcan dropped some speed
And from his post on the battered bridge
Proclaimed "My dear Captain Coleridge
It seems to me that what we need
Is less astrophysics
And more metaphysics
I've heard the music of the spheres
And now my captain it appears
The true space is between my ears."
Such sentiments overturned the common notion
That he was pure science without emotion
And when our destiny loomed on the screen -
Lush Xanadu the final goal -
Our Vulcan had become a human being,
Had switched off the computer in his soul,
And somewhat softened his heart of granite
To be so thrilled by landfall on the planet
And I am the captain of this ship
And I am very happy.

This Captain's Log reminds me of how once we were
Moral adventurers in a decadent universe
Crusading for freedom
By stamping out content
Boldly going
Boldly doing
On our warped way we went.
Enterprising sentinels
Crashing through the asteroid belts
Offering help and death knells
To settlers, aliens, and infidels
But now our starry fighter is disarmed,
The Sun is warm
The herbs have our heads encharmed.
Life is an ion storm
And I a spacefaring mariner becalmed
Endlessly circling the jolly green planet
Bereft of all logistical logic
And I am the captain of the ship
And I am very happy

There's no right in might or imposing force
And freedom is the albatross.
Now sensual bliss
Is our greatest wish
No matter how we attain it
In this swiftly decaying orbit.
So we're beaming down to the jolly green giant
And I am the captain of this ship
And I am very happy

The grass it grows between my toes
The roots twirl round my feet
The galaxies are opium seeds
As rhyme and reason leaks through my cerebral sieve
I start to question all I once believed
Like the glorious Fundamentals of Apha Three
And the valiant Constitution of the U.S.A.
In fact I've lost all interest in fair play
I'd rather sit and smoke and toke all day.
So I offer a V-sign to the Federation
'cause I'm not shooting up to the Constellation
But to complete sensory satiation,
Beaming down to the jolly green planet,
Pressing the pause button on this transcript...
And I am the captain of the ship
And I am very happy
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Confrontation
=============

I AM NOT INTERESTED IN ANYTHING YOU HAVE TO SAY

During 1985 the activities of alternative groups such as the "Peace
Convoy" posed a number of serious public order problems for the Police.
In particular a violent confrontation took place at Hardcastle,
Wiltshire on Sunday 1st June when a convoy of 170 vehicles was being
driven towards Stonehenge at the time of the summer solstice
celebrations, in clear defiance of injunctions which were in force.

When the hippies were stopped, by a roadblock, from proceeding further,
they entered a nearby village where a violent confrontation with the
Police took place and 420 persons were arrested.

I AM NOT INTERESTED IN ANYTHING YOU HAVE TO SAY

"It is clear to me that the problem is not going to go away. Nor do I
believe it is going to be solved by the approach of `Shoot them, gas
them, and send them back to the cities where they came from.'"

ANYTHING YOU SAY WILL BE TAKEN DOWN AND USED IN EVIDENCE AGAINST YOU
_____________________________________________________________________________

Cymbaline
=========

The path you tread is narrow and the drop is sheer and very high
Ravens are all watching from a vantage point nearby
Apprehension creeping like a tubetrain up your spine
Will the tightrope reach the end?  Will the final couplet rhyme?
And it's high time, Cymbaline.  High time Cymbaline
Please wake me.

Butterfly with broken wings has fallen by your side
Ravens all are closing in, there's nowhere you can hide
Your manager and agent are both busy on the phone
Selling coloured photographs to magazines back home
And it's high time, Cymbaline.   High time, Cymbaline.
Please wake me.

Lines converging waves and they must have moved the picture frame
Leaves are heavy round your feet, you hear the thunder of the train
Suddenly it strikes you that they're moving into range
And Dr. Strange is always changing sides
And it's high time, Cymbaline.   High time, Cymbaline
Please wake me.
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Damage of Life
==============

I wander around the streets so lonely and empty
Lost in a crowd, but I can't hide
Is there a place where I can escape to?
A desert island where I can die

The Damage of Life is never ending
There's no escape and we can't hide
Maybe our time is up, but we don't want to
Face up to facts, but live this lie

Can't you see the pain tattooed on faces
Cracks appearing on a broken plate
Mirror, Oh Mirror is there any answer?
But the mirror drops smashing our fate
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DAMNATION ALLEY
( - Brock - Calvert - House - )
I've got the serum and I'm going to take it
All the way to Boston, oh I've got to get through
The going won't be easy, but I'm going to make it
It's the only thing that I'm cut out to do

Ride the post-atomic radioactive trash
The sky's on fire from that nuclear flash
Diving through the burning hoop of doom in an
eight wheeled anti-radiation tomb
Thank you Dr. Strangelove for going do-lally and
leaving me the heritage of Damnation Alley, Damnation Alleyway

No more Arizona, now Phoenix is fried up
Oklahoma City what a pity it's gone
Louisiana delta where the Mississip's dried up
No more Chatanooga, Cherokee, Lexington

Radiation wasteland, radiation wasteland
Ashes coming at me now, craters coming at me now
Radiation wasteland, I've got my anti-radiation machine
Thank you Dr. Strangelove, I said thank you Dr.
Strangelove
For giving me the ashes and post-atomic dust
The sky is raining fishes it's a mutation zoo
Going down Damnation Alley, well good luck to you
Good luck to you now
Armor plated angel, motor-pony express
Armor plated angel, motor-pony express
Going down Damnation Alley it's one hell of a mess
___________________________________________________________________________

Damned By The Curse of Man
==========================

We have despoiled our land and our women are dishonoured
With our weapons we have melted every gateway to salvation
We thought ourselves safe in our armour and our masks
And so we saved ourselves, it's true, for our damnation

We're damned by the Curse of Man
      damned by the Curse of Man
      damned by the Curse of Man


We refused to hear the outrage of reason's daughters
The anger of unwarlike sons which crossed our waters
The pleadings of the innocents, the moral arguments
To moderation, generosity, kindness and consent

We're damned by the Curse of Man
      damned by the Curse of Man
      damned by the Curse of Man

We raised a genocidal flag, imperial and boastful flag
Raised a standard of contempt, and mounted on a boney nag,
Became the herald of apocalypse, the enemies of women;
The vicious harvesters of souls; Death's chuckling children

We're damned by the Curse of Man
      damned by the Curse of Man
      damned by the Curse of Man
      damned by the Curse of Man
      damned by the Curse of Man........

In our warlike swaggering and our childish rage
We robbed ourselves of liberty, and built the cage
In which we're hemmed, condemned, forever damned
For violence is the curse of man
And now we're damned by the curse of man
Forever damned by the curse of man
The curse of man......


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Dangerous Visions
=================
Night sky on city
Keeps us in
Life signs of pity weep with sin
Games of reality are hard to win
The child of the Third World looks so thin

Dangerous visions, taunt me
Ancient memories, haunt me
Future decisions, confuse me
The story so far just eludes me

The man on the pavement catches your eye
You look in amazement, he's decided to die
The crowd have engagements, they're just passing by
The child of the Third World, is wondering why
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The Dark Lords
==============

I have turned Zarozinia into a giant slug, Elric
You will no longer mate with woman like her
We will have the Sword from you Elric
One way or the other, it makes no difference
Look at him scurry backwards and forwards
The poor little wretch does not know which way to turn
Ah we've really got him this time.
Zarozinia has been turned into a worm, ha, a slithering worm
Your spells are no good now
You will give us Stormbringer
Go on Elric, look in your Law books,
You will find that we are right
You will find that you have to give it to us
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DAYS OF THE UNDERGROUND
( - Brock - Calvert - Shaw - )
In visions of acid we saw through delusion and
brainbox pollution,
we knew we were right.
The streets were our oyster, we smoked urban
poison and we turned all this noise on,
we knew how to fight.
We dropped out and tuned in, spoke secret
jargon and we would not bargain for what
we had found in the days of the underground.
We believed in Guevera, we saw that head held up
and our anger welled up,
but we kept it cool.
No need for machine guns 'cause the system was
crumbling, our leaders were fumbling,
while we broke every rule.
We saw them on T.V. they'd blown their cover and we
tried to smother their voices
with sound, in the days of the underground.
Whatever happened to those chromium heroes, are
there none of them still left around, since
the days of the underground?
Now we can look back at the heroes we were then,
we made quite a stir with our sonic attack,
street-fighting dancers, the assassins of
silence, with make-believe violence, on a hundred
watt stack.
They offered us contracts, we said "we don't
need 'em", we'll just take our freedom and will
not be bound in the days of the underground.
And some of us made it but not smiling Michael,
his black motorcycle got eaten by rust.
And John the Bog dreamt that he slept at the
wheel, but when he woke it was real, too late
to have sussed.
And Jeff was a poet who wrote with a spray
can on walls,
saying "Hey man, I believe that we've drowned"
in the days of the underground.
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Dead God's Homecoming (Moorcock)
================================

You raise your eyes to the howling sky
Raise your sword to the haunted Moon
You raise your voice in a battle cry
And you raise your shield
You raise your shield
Against unholy doom

For they shan't possess your will's control
Shall not enslave your mortal soul
And won't divert you from your goal
Though dark war rules from pole to pole
You are the Lord of Ruins
Albino Prince of Ruins
And your sins shall save the world

Beyond the ocean brews a battle
Beyond the battle blood shall fall
If Elric's kinsman ventures with him
(Bearing a twin of that which he bears)
To a place where man-forsaken
Dwells the one who should not live
There's a bargain to be entered....
Elric's wife shall be restored
Elric's wife shall be restored
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Dealing with the Devil
======================

Now, my baby got excited about a little ring
But our marriage didn't mean a thing
I've been dealing with the devil
I've been dealing with the devil
I've been dealing with the devil
My baby, she doesn't love me no more

I got the meanest woman man has ever seen
She sleeps with a knife in her hand Lord, she fights all in her dreams
I've been dealing with the devil
I've been dealing with the devil
I've been dealing with the devil
My baby, she doesn't want me no more

Now I ain't going down ain't by myself
If I can't take you girl, I'll take someone else
I've been dealing with the devil
I've been dealing with the devil
I've been dealing with the devil
My baby, she doesn't want me no more

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Death of War
============

Ebbing eyesight in chlorine clouds
stealing away barbed wire shrouds
mowed down in mud by machine gun fire
trapped and strangled in barbed wire
silent nights smashed as big guns fill bodies full of shrapnel
in their crusade to kill
Far away, politicians, glasses of port
meet in a toast to a war they've not fought
Holy fire directed and idly discussed
manufacturing hatred, engineering distrust
trading clarity for confusion,
the ruthless powerlust.
Only one thing in common do leaders share
with those on the battlefield fallen down everywhere
and that is their wine, has good body and it is red
draining away forever like the blood of those dead.

________________________________________________________________________

DEATH TRAP
( - Brock - Calvert - )
In the back of my neck I can feel a strange sensation
Feels like I'm heading for the crisis of all creation
Only those with death wish understand my situation
Feels like Jesus Christ heading for the stations

of the cross, in my death trap, death trap
Running in my death trap, death trap
Chicken running in my death trap, death trap

Cruising for the crossroads of fiery crucifixion
Lighting up the night sky with bitterness distinction
While I hold the wheel of fate, smell of burning friction
I feel like a hero heading for extinction

It's the shell of steel or plastic
Monkey on elastic, going up and down
Crank shaft cracking up
Oil pressure going down
Brake drums blowing out
Tyres on fire now
Differential seize up, unbalanced cam shaft
Worn out pistons rings, brake fade, brake fade
hydraulic leak out, radiator overheat
Monkey on elastic, going up and down
Shell of steel or plastic, turning round
Shell of steel or plastic
Monkey on elastic, going up and down
__________________________________________________________________________

THE DEMENTED MAN
( - Brock - )
The questions asked but never known,
The feeling, god knows which way you'll go
Endless circles on my mind spiralling a downward climb
Which way I'll go.
The thoughts are there for you to find, but you never
know which way you'll go

Those flashing lights are warning me
But ever bidding voices see
You're caught in a web of emptiness
The tales told the path you tread
Does it lead into your head?
Or back to a world of emptiness?

Smiling faces watching me
Helping hands just wait and see
Which way I'll go
White walls stretching in the sun
Was it here that I began?
Which way I'll go
Faintly voices plead with me, ever asking ever see
which way I'll go.
_____________________________________________________________________________


THE DEMISE  (see Lords of Chaos)

Arioch I summon thee
Lord of the Seven Darks
Arioch I summon thee
Put fire in my heart
Arioch I summon thee
Can you hear my plea
Arioch I summon thee
In my hour of need

- I am here. What dost thou wishest?
_________________________________________________________________________

Disintegration  (Brock)
--------------
Is this the time gone before
Is this the way ?  No I'm not sure
Can I stop is it too late
Is this the place where I disintegrate
_________________________________________________________________________

DOWN THROUGH THE NIGHT
( - Brock - )
Down down and down, down down and down
As we spin through the night
With ever increasing might
Down down and down, down down and down
Returning volumes of sound
Into the blackness we drown
Round round and round, round round and round
As we lay in our sleep
The appointment we keep
Down down and down, down down and down
Only the rushing is heard
Onward flies the bird
Deep, deep, and deep, must we sink in our sleep
Down down and down, down down and down
Returning volumes of sound
_________________________________________________________________________

Dragons and Fables
==================

I am the child of wars never won
Take heed prisoner, I am the One
Your battle is over before it's began
For a child on the run, I am free

Many tournaments fought in this land
Flying banners now dashed in the sand
The colours you wear will not keep me
For a child on the run, I am free

The courts and knights of the table
Bold stories of dragons and fables
Your sword is red-stained I can see
For a child on the run, I am free

Silks, satins, riches in plenty
Acres of land, four and twenty
I am not you, I am me
For a child on the run, I am free
______________________________________________________________________

Dragon Song (Moorcock)
======================

In a time before this time
Those ancient gods of mine and thine
Proclaimed our twin fates intertwined
And named our day of destiny
Calling all to come and feast
To witness blood of man and beast
Intermingled West to East
North to South and sea to sea
Mortal shall have dragon kin
Share blood in virtue and in sin
'gainst common enemies shall win
And ever bound in twain shall be!

Now dragons wake to dragon's flight
Drahon beauty, dragon bright
Rise in vengeance, soar to fight
Dragons roar fills up the night
Firedrake's form blots out the Moon
Dragons rise from sleeping grave
When brothers sing the dragons tune
Echoing through the dragon's cave
Dragon singer, dragon cry
Dragon rider mounts the sky
Dragon brother, legends fame
Hear me call the dragon names:

Flamefang! Hornblow! Rainbow Wing!
'Tis time we heard the dragons sing
Spiketail! Sharpclaw! Snout-On-Fire!
Create our enemies' funeral pyre
Steelcrest! Blackscale! Golden Bone!
Rise to defend the Dragon Throne

{Dragon steed bears dragon kin
Towards the howling battle din
Dragon rider's cry is wild
Dragon mother, dragon child
Dragons' wings unfolded wide
Aloft now spreads the dragon tide
Dragons dive and dragons sear
Bring the death which all men fear
For Death is now the dragon's bride

Upward now the dragons spear
Higher where the air is clear
Above the clouds, close to the Sun
Dragon brothers, we are one!

Dragons kill and dragons slay
Dragons fly towards the fray
Pay the price all dragons pay
For victory brings our funeral day!}
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Dreaming City
=============

Gleaming towers that touch the sky
Ancient turrets catch the eye
You stand so proud
Coloured walls that shine so bright
A monument to truth and light
You carry on
Yet fate is working fast to bring you down

Peopled by a master race
But living lives so cruel, so base
Unconquered souls
Their master knows not how to rule
Dark forces use him as their tool
He carries on
And fate is working fast to bring him down

Dreaming City your light is fading
Amidst the chaos that now is reigning
Uncaring beings come soon to raze
Your tall, fair towers to set ablaze
So fate is working fast to bring you down
_____________________________________________________________________

Dream Worker
============

I have come.
But I do not choose now,
to do what I came to do.

Navigation Computer report:

Orbital status now maintained.
Target zone vectors logged in.
The Tube is now ready.

Please swallow your blue Dreamer
and place the helmet on your head.

Can you hear the lights approaching?
There's a sudden rush of sound
You laugh but no-one's joking
The Dreamer's turned you round
And now there's no distraction
You've slipped the noose of fate
Your dreams are now in colour
You've reached your future state
You've reached your future state
You've reached your future state......

________________________________________________________________________

D-RIDER
=======
We're children playing in the sun
A sense of freedom on the run
We never knew what time it was
We just knew how sublime it was

Our course determined by our stars
My momma knows just where we are
The Earth was forming from below
A dragon showed which way to go

Spacing out, we're spacing in
Phasing out, we're phasing in
Turning up by burning out
Lifting off and gazing in

Our luck, it changes with the tide
Our constellations changing side
Macro mirror-image fades
Our over-conscience colour shades

We're astral-planing, floating free
On our continuum frequency
A ring was formed out of the stone
Metamorphose, tetraform

Spacing out, we're spacing in
Phasing out, by phasing in
Turning up by burning out
Lifting off and gazing in

________________________________________________________________________

DUST OF TIME
( - Brock - Bainbridge - Lloyd-Langton - )
Waiting in the valley of all creation
Calling out a song for the state of the nation
I am son born of father never related
Frozen in a bank of ice essence liberated

Looking from the future into the past
Footprints of awareness approaching so fast
Queues of sterile mothers waiting for inspection
Populace diminished everywhere there is rejection

Dust of time caught in your eye
A fleeting glimpse gone in a sigh
__________________________________________________________________________

Dying Seas
==========

We've flotsam been, and the jetsam
In highness being, gonna get some
On the water walking, it's easy to be
Centralised we to infinity
For oursel'n only have we to thank
If fool enow are we to walk the plank
Eternity to spend in mime
Drowning in the dying seas of time

With galleon astral sailes set
And with the tide we'll sail ayet
By light propelled, Karma our guide
The shores spatial pass we beside
Past rotting hulks of culture drifting
Lost souls ghostly trawlnets lifting
Themselves against which have made crime
Drowning in the dying seas of time
________________________________________________________________________

Earthed to the Ground
=====================

Delicate, slimline, sturdy wood
Got my hi-fi, as I should
Video cassette is what I need
Record my favourite programs on TV
Separate slider, tone control
Extra speaker with bass and roll
Audio spectrum, sonic swirl
Computer next with buttons to twirl
Super giant TV screen
Then a camera to take pictures of me
I get my girlfriend to come round
To freak her out with raucus sounds
My automatic camera then will spy
As on the bed now we would lie
Educational programmes flash on the screen
Where moments before, we had been
I'm wired up for sound
I'm earthed to the ground
I'm wired up for sound
I'm earthed to the ground....


I have good news
A Prince has been born and some say he will be King.
I told them it was a boy instead of telling them the truth that it was a girl.
Only a few people know
Let me propose a toast to Silverland and its new King (laughter).
___________________________________________________________________________

The Earth Ritual (Moorcock)
===========================

We bring you the ritual of the ravaged Earth
For we are all the Children of the Mother Sea
We bring the rites of the reign of fire
We are the Lords of Hunger
The Ladies of Pain
The weeping victims of our ruined brains
And we're tired
So tired of making love
It is cold on the Edge of Time

We are the oracle of the nuclear night
Heralds and explorers of eternal ice
We are the acolytes of your hidden flame
Guardians of the dead; no longer sane
We are the ghosts of that lifeless, nuclear night
And we're tired
So tired of making love
It is cold on the Edge of Time

We are the Lost
The Last
We are the half-blind
We are the Warriors at the End Of Time
Ravenous and white in perpetual freezing night
We are the Daughters of the Moon
Sons of the Ice
And we're standing on the very Edge of Time
And we're tired
So tired of making love
It is cold on the Edge of Time

It is cold and hopeless at the End of Time
You grow hard of heart and lose your sign
To your Rites of Earth, and soul, and mind
Too weak to protest at their martial crimes
To cry out for your rights, to hold the line...
It is cold on the Edge of Time
And we're tired of making love

Demand your rights to air, and earth, and fire
Demand your rights so all shall share
Or stand forever lonely on the Edge of Time
Freeze forever at the Edge of Time
For it is cold, so cold, at the Edge of Time
It is cold on the Edge of Time
And we're tired of making love
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Ejection
========

There's only one course of action
Left for me to take
I've tried every switch selection
That might control this state
I think for my protection
I better make it straight
Into Ejection
Better tell Base
Ejection
That I think it's a case
For Ejection
Explode into Space
Ejection
Protect my Face
Ejection

The radar screen's projection
Tells me I'm too late
To make a course correction
I'm about to meet my fate
No time for reflection
I'd better make it straight
Into Ejection
Bust through the sky
Ejection
The air rushing by
Ejection
It's a case of goodbye
Ejection
I'm too fast to die
Ejection

When a ship meets with destruction
The Captain stays to drown
But no tin contraption
Is going to drag me down
My reference intersection
Tells me that I'm bound
For Ejection
Eight times my weight
Ejection
I've got to escape
Ejection
Only one move to make
Ejection
Abandon this crate
Ejection
__________________________________________________________________________

ELRIC THE ENCHANTER

The song he sang was surfaces
Nothing deeper than a child knows
He could sing sand into pearls
So the saying goes
Some said he was a sorcerer
Or a warrior chief
But he was the stealer of souls
The lord of Chaos reaps
And he's frozen in a time trap
Slowly losing power
And he's frightened if he makes a move
The dream will soon turn sour
Sprawling in a Ruby Throne
Head cupped in his hands
The lord of dragons, Elric's thoughts
Were of quests to far off lands
A black sword was at his side
Murmuring in its scabbard cold
Waiting for the moment to arrive
To drink the very essence of soul
He did not know that the sword he'd hold
Would turn his priceless empire into fool's gold
The truth, the shadow of the sword will hide
Til it's too late, a traitor at his side
And as he gazes from his ruby throne
He's growing restless of the life he's sown
To get away, embark on a quest
And put his powers of sorcery to the test
The drugs he takes to keep himself awake
Lose their effect, he can no longer wait
To find the sword and gain more power
And make his move before the dream turns sour
_________________________________________________________________________

Elric the Enchanter Part II  [from Live Chronicles]
===================================================

He did not know that the sword he'd hold
Would turn his priceless empire into fool's gold
The truth, the shadow of the sword will hide
Til it's too late, a traitor at his side
And as he gazes from his ruby throne
He's growing restless of the life he's sown
To get away, embark on a quest
And put his powers of sorcery to the test
The drugs he takes to keep himself awake
Lose their effect, he can no longer wait
To find the sword and gain more power
And make his move before the dream turns sour
__________________________________________________________________________

FABLE OF A FAILED RACE
( - Brock - Calvert - )

Our legends tell we came from a seed
That travelled at a whirlwind speed
'Til it came to rest upon this land
That once was green and is now all sand
That buried us up to our eyes
And made us watchers of the skies
'Til the shadow wings came for our sight
And left us to conspire with night.
__________________________________________________________________________

Fahrenheit 451
==============

In Lexington they're going to burn
The Library of Congress for charity
Round it's funeral pyre the flames will churn
As night and winter's darkness spurn
And threaten with their clarity

See the flames they're burning up
Burning so bright, Fahrenheit

Fahrenheit 451 Fahrenheit 451
The fun has just begun, Fahrenheit 451

Oh see the pages all catching fire
See the building shimmering now
It was like this when witches reared
Against the stake, we stood and peered
At such Aladin's caves of air
Oh I wish you could have seen us there
Spreading all around that funeral pyre
Watching the flames burn higher and higher

Fahrenheit 451, Fahrenheit 451
The fun has just begun, Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451, Fahrenheit 451
The burning has just begun
It's like a mushroom cloud on a sun
Fahrenheit 451
The fire's fierce theatre draws herds of folk
All willing to be hypnotised
Anemones of flames and smoke
Enchant us so we gladly choke

Fahrenheit 451, Fahrenheit 451
The fun has just begun, Fahrenheit 451

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Fall of Earth City
==================

News had drifted on the wind of many minds that this was to be an
occasion of great importance. For it was said by some that Earth City
had somehow uncovered a single time sleeper from the time before.

Although the cryptic writings upon his tomb were now faded beyond
decipherable reading, it was said, by the disembodied members of the
ruling kind, that the entombed was from the time on Earth before the
city stretched its metal web from pole to pole leaving green things only
in the wells of immortal minds.

Upon the third revolution after its arrival, the tomb that slept without
life was removed for inspection. The day was programmed for a clear dome
above, with a mild breeze wafting from the central weather post. Below,
throngs of class three occupants were gathering from various sectors to
observe the opening. As per standard procedure, their data input
stations were fed appropriate propaganda so that their reports would
coincide with what the rulers had predetermined.

And so it was upon that day of opening, his spirit did appear and confuse
once again. It was evident to all that what lay within was not of mortal
composure. Thoughts emanating from deep within its dimensionless cave
conveyed this belief to all within the medi-dome.

What is this apparition now amongst our kind?

Quickly thereafter, all pressure was released from within the stillness.
Earth City, unknowingly at that time, was about to enter a new phase of
its existence.

Violent quaking began to shake the towers of sector 63. Manifestations
of melting spead its wings over the structure until once again, ancient
soil kissed the sky.

And the beginning of the end swept all that was into its eternal grasp.

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Festivals
=========

The spirit once lived
In all of our hearts,
A spirit of freedom,
Dance, music and Arts.
We gave what we could,
But they wanted more.
We came in peace,
But left in war.
A society infiltrated from the inside,
Government instigators?
Nowhere to hide.
We have allowed it to happen,
It is so very sad,
Everyone is guilty,
Though not everyone is bad.
Those carefree days of summers past
At the time seemed too good to last.
But I thought that it would be destroyed,
>From the outside... not from within,
By the closed minded fascists,
Not by our own "Kith and Kin".
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FIFTH SECOND OF FOREVER
( - Brock - )
There's a circle on a paper
High a planet in the sky
>From the dust which will not settle
Hours is the time you lie

Trace your finger in the cluster, you've found the cause
which is called must
Remember always you are nothing, though others say that
you must suss, you must trust the new messiah

________________________________________________________________________

The Final Fight   (Moorcock)
===============

Ships of Chaos upwards churning
>From the nightmare realms below
Dragons downwards, venom burning
Now attack the malformed foe

Lords of Hell, all pity spurning
Cry "Revenge" and lust for death
Their servant Elric's mind is turning
To sweet Law's promises of rest

Monstrous men and manlike monsters
Battle for the end of time
Meanwhile heavy metal songsters
Cut themselves another line...

Speed now!  Speed to war and horror
Speed to battle - Speed to die
Hasten, for there's no tomorrow
The future's merely another lie

Dragons sigh and dragons soaring
Marshall for their Final Fight
Chaos creatures in torment roaring
Seek the rule of Earth's old night.

Dragon brothers onward fly
Chaos summons all her might
Dragon Lord is coming nigh
Come to fight the Final Fight

        Come to fight the Final Fight
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First Landing on Medusa
=======================

Full Waking took us days to realise
Adjusting to the newness of our eyes
We stayed inside, performing simple tasks
Hardly speaking, faces set like masks
Until the time came round for us to set
The first feet on this world, to get
our samples, and erect the instruments
A barren planet, but to all intents
Another Eden opening its gates
For this chosen few who'd outslept their fates
Anonymous, identical in our suits
We entered the airlock. My weighted boots
would be the first to touch this unknown stone
I led some distance, then, I felt alone
So I turned and saw, that the others were
standing still, I radio'd to make them stir
but got no answer. So I waved my arm
But they still stood as though a stoning charm
had taken hold. I made my slow way back
And found each man had frozen in his track
I hammered my gloved fist on visor-plate
And pulled at pressure-padded arms. A state
of utter trance had overtaken all my men
My mouth felt dry, my fingers stiff, and then.....
_________________________________________________________________________

FLYING DOCTOR
( - Calvert - Brock - )
He sneaks through the door of the surgery
He's got the drug cabinet key, he did something funny
and tied up his arm
It's just the flying doctor, no cause for alarm
He sprinkled out a powder, and spread out a line
He sniffed it up his nostrils, and he's feeling so fine
Feeling so fine, it feels like he's flying
Feeling so fine, it feels like he's flying
His receptionist saw him, it certainly shocked her
She said "Look out, you'd better duck, here
comes the Flying Doctor"
Out in the outback there's been an outbreak
And the Flying Doctor's got nothing to take
He went to the cabinet and the cabinet was bare
His eyes dilated and you can see by his stare
Called up his base on the radio, he said "My supplies
are running low"  They're running low you can see
where they go.  They're running low I see where they go
Out in the outback with my merciful claptrap
Look out you'd better duck, here comes the Flying Doctor
He's got the cabinet key, the cabinet key, the cabinet key
"This is the Flying Doctor calling Wallaralla base.  Wallaralla
base come in please.  I want to talk to you about
my drugs situation..  My drug supply is getting rather tight..
About as tight as a kangaroo's khyber, I'd say.

Cabinet key
Wake up one, two, three, four
A Sheila in the bush by a Coolibah tree needing an
urgent appendectomy
The Flying Doctor like a true Australian, performed the
operation with a soldering can, he made a rough incision
and tried to chew it out, he had no anaesthetic
So she started to shout, she started to shout.  When
he was chewing it out.  She started to shout and
tried to chew him right out, balled up his fist and
scientifically socked her
Look out you'd better duck.  Here comes the Flying Doctor.
Cabinet key, cabinet key, cabinet key...

________________________________________________________________________

FREE FALL
( - Calvert - Bainbridge - )
Before you jump you wear the frown
of someone who is stalling
There's no up there's only down
The other fear of falling

All you need to do is take
One step into the sky
Give yourself to gravity
Give death another try
In free fall, free fall

The wind'll take your frightened face
And force your mouth to smile
While destiny is on your case
The gods look up your file

The clouds are coming at you
Like a host of angels wings
For thirty seconds of freedom squared
You've cut the puppet strings
In free fall, free fall
__________________________________________________________________________

Gaga
====

This is a time for shutters
Dark space beckons
And there is no day or night
There is no where or when
There is no now or then
Though this may be the beginning
Or this could be the end
The Watcher only knows
This is the mental liftoff
This is the Countdown that is called
This is Hawkwind
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GIMME SHELTER  [Hawkwind & Samantha Fox charity CD]
=============

Oh, a storm is threat'ning
My very life today.
If I don't get some shelter
Yeah, I'm gonna fade away.

War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away.
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away.

See the fire is sweeping
Our very street today.
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost its way.

Rape and murder, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, rape and murder, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

Hmmmm, the flood is threatening
My very life today
Gimme, gimme shelter
Or I'm gonna fade awau

War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away.
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away.

War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

I tell you love sister, it's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Love, love sister, it's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Love, love brother, it's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Love sister, it's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Kiss away, kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Kiss away, kiss away
It's just a kiss away
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THE GOLDEN VOID
( - Brock - )
The golden void speaks to me denying my reality
I lose my body, lose my mind, I blow like wind,
flow like wine
Down a corridor of flame, will I fly so high again
Is there something wrong with me, I cannot hear,
I cannot see
Down a corridor of flame
So you think the time is past, the life you lead will
always last
Chaotic fusions of your soul, down below
that rocky knowle
Through the clouds an open sky, the wind flows
through your watering eyes
The sounds are pitched to draw you on your never
ending journey on
The edge of time, the edge of time, the edge of time
_________________________________________________________________________


GOOD EVENING
Good Evening
Mommy Daddy said to me
"Get A Job"
Mommy Daddy said to me
"Get A Job"
Mommy Daddy said to me
"Get A Job" (eight times)
Just cause it has been ?easy?
__________________________________________________________________________

Green Finned Demon:
===================

He Draws the moon towards him
With a wand of whales' bone
The submarine magician is returning to his home
His slow hair floats around him
And his cloak spreads like a flower
The submariner has the oceans in his power

Green finned demon take me down
Green finned demon take me down

He speaks the bubbing language
Of everything that swims
He knows the eightfold secret
Of the Octopus's limbs
His skin is silver scales
And his hair is green as weed
His eyes are phosphorescent
A sea-horse for his steed

Green finned demon take me down
Green finned demon take me down

Captain Nemo knew him
In his underwater deep
He understands the meaning
Of the dolphins' joyful leap
Green finned demon take me down
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Hades Deep
==========

Quick!  Somebody help me!  This man is dying!

Beware you slithering slime of earth
You shall return to the time of birth
We shall destroy your civil globe
Slice apart your left ear lobe

We'll tie your tongue of deceit into a knot
Melt you down to liquid snot
Hair will burn from the Acid Rain
While we'll now surgivally remove your brain

We'll feast upon your kind at will
And your babies we shall kill
You mother will die a hideous death
Your father will burn from our fire breath

We are the dark lords of hades deep
It's here your filthy soul will keep
You'll burn forever in the pit of hate
For to suffer in Hades' your fate
___________________________________________________________________________

Hassan I Sabha
==============

Hashish-hashin Hashish-hashin
Hashish-hashin Hashish-hashin
Hashish-hashin Hashish-hashin
Hashishin

Black-September Black-September
Black-September Black-September
Black-September Black-September
Black-September

Death unto all infidels, in oil
Guide us o thou genie of the smoke
Lead us to a thousand and one nights
In the perfumed gardens of delight

Petro-dollar Petro-dollar
Petrol-D'allah Petrol-D'allah
Petro-dollar Petro-dollar
Petro-dollar

It is written
In the soul of the desert
It is written
In the signs in the stars
It is written
In the sands of the hour-glass
It is written

It is written
In the eye of the falcon
It is written
In the shade of the scorpion
It is written
In the wealth of the sun
It is written

It is written
That man's truth is a mirage
It is written
That death's an oasis
It is written
For all unbelievers
It is written

_________________________________________________________________________

Hawkwind (Dumpy's Rusty Nuts with Dave Brock)
=============================================
And in the fullness of time, The Prophecy must be fullfilled. The
Hawklords return to smite the land and the Dark Forces shall be
scourged. Peace shall come to everyone, for is it not written that the
sword is the key to Heaven and Hell.

It's eighteen years since they were formed
>From the land of thought where they were spawned
The realm of the Hawk is soon to show
Silver wings for you to go

Hawkwind, Hawkwind, here's the verse
Masters of the Universe
Take me back to the Ritual time
Peace and love forever mine

To save you for the Sonic Attack
The Angels of Light take you back
To Utopia where thinking's a crime
So you can be in paradise

Hawkwind, Hawkwind, here's the verse
Masters of the Universe
Take me back to the Ritual time
Peace and love forever mine

Adjust me, adjust me, adjust me, adjust me
In search of space the sundown came
The runways laid in your brain
Storm into the dark of light
451 Fahrenheit

Hawkwind, Hawkwind, here's the verse
Masters of the Universe
Take me back to the Ritual time
Peace and love forever mine
_________________________________________________________________________

HEADS
=====

Limits of the infinite
Have never been defined
A spirit lies in atrophy
In a state to late to unwind
Trophies on the back shelves
Procreating all our race

Ideals of our fantasies
On which all things are based
Collecting every prospect
Running through your tests
With manikin expressions
They end up like the rest
In glass booths they're wired
With needles in their flesh

They're pickled for posterity
And eternally refreshed
So link yourself to others
Talk yourself to sleep
It's all so superficial

No use for you to weep (seven times)

So place your trust in science
For it has come so far

Well, Necromancy lives forever
Preserved within a jar
(repeat six more times)

___________________________________________________________________________

High Rise
=========

Flat block
Of two dimensions
Neon tote board to the sky
Keeping scores of people stacked up so high
Above the ground
But all they can hear is the sound
Of the wind in the antennae
It's a human zoo
A suicide machine

Childhood
Of concrete cube shaped
A flypaper stuck with human life
Caged up rage
Swarming all the time
Tear out the telephones
Rip up the pages of directories
And wreck all these
High speed lifts and elevators
Be a sabotage rebel without applause

High rise
Living in a high rise
High rise
Living in a high rise
High rise
Living in a high rise
High rise
All stacked up in a high rise block

High rise
Living in a high rise
High rise
Living in a high rise
High rise
Living in a high rise
High rise
All stacked up in a high rise block

Starfish
Of human blood shape
Tentacles of human gore
Spread out on the pavement from the 99th floor
Well somebody said that he jumped
But we know he was pushed
He was just like you might have been
On the 99th floor of a suicide machine


High rise
Living in a high rise
High rise
Living in a high rise
High rise
Living in a high rise
High rise
All stacked up in a high rise block
____________________________________________________________________________

Hi Tech Cities
==============

Country people always exist
Where there's no telly
And no place to get pissed
The crops they have sown
Have had a bad year
Their children will starve
And live in fear

Ordered patterns
Never random
Cubicle dwellers
Live in cellars
Hi Tech Cities
Such a pity
Life is sterile
Never gritty

Originality
Is there no goal?
Be the same
Is their logo

Minds on a circuit
With Big Brother
All thoughts are common
There is no other

No air to breathe
The masses seethe
In occupations, manipulations
All your movements are on the file
This we say "don't chance to smile"

_______________________________________________________________________

HORN OF FATE (DESTINY)

Yet year on year the greedy tide
Swelled from the west unsatisfied
And ever with impatient fret
Gnawed at the human banquet
And many with madness in their eyes
Stared gibbering at the white hot skies
Where foul birds circled overhead
Shadowing the living and the dead
Southward to where the blood red sun
Sickens at noon in vapours dun
He stumbles with the fear-tamed herds
Of savage beasts
While homeless birds fly overhead

Southward, southward, southward
_________________________________________________________________________

HURRY ON SUNDOWN
( - Brock - )
Well hurry on sundown
See what tomorrow brings
Hurry on sundown
See what tomorrow brings
Well it may bring war
Any old thing
Well look into your mind's eye
See what you can see
There's hundreds of people like you and me.
_________________________________________________________________________

I'm Waiting For The Man
=======================

(Lou Reed)

I'm waiting for my man
Twenty-six dollars in my hand
Up to Lexington, 125
Feel sick and dirty, more dead than alive
I'm waiting for my man

Hey, white boy, what you doin' uptown?
Hey, white boy, you chasin' our women around?
Oh pardon me sir, it's the furthest from my mind
I'm just lookin' for a dear, dear friend of mine
I'm waiting for my man

Here he comes, he's all dressed in black
Beat up shoes and a big straw hat
He's never early, he's always late
First thing you learn is you always gotta wait
I'm waiting for my man

Up to a Brownstone, up three flights of stairs
Everybody's pinned you, but nobody cares
He's got the works, gives you sweet taste
Ah then you gotta split because you got no time to waste
I'm waiting for my man

Baby don't you holler, darlin' don't you bawl and shout
I'm feeling good, you know I'm gonna work it on out
I'm feeling good, I'm feeling oh so fine
Until tomorrow, but that's just some other time
I'm waiting for my man
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IMAGES
======
( - Brock/Davey/Wishart - )

Memories surround him
Walking through the door
Smells of dust and summer heat
Embroidering his thoughts

The seeing hand
The face of fate
The shifting scenes I can't explain
The crazy fool who screams his pain
As he tries to cheat life's final game

Whispering from the balcony
Lingers in the hall
The well worn path of mortality
Appearing here once more

It's gone now
It's gone now
Twist the soul
Turn Flesh to stone
The fear and the anger
Of the lost and alone

Endless dreams of wasted days
Slowly fade away
Laughter echoes glittering
There's no need to stay
__________________________________________________________________________

INFINITY
( - Calvert - Brock - )
I used to be of human kind,
I had a life to lead
But now I'm frozen in a dream
My life is lost it seems
She turned the key
Of endlessness and locked me
In a dream, Infinity

Infinity so beautiful
Has turned my soul to ice
And crystallized eternity
For all my future time
She turned the key
Of endlessness and locked me
In a dream, Infinity

I met her in a forest glade
Where starbeams grew like trees
I did not take her for a witch
She wasn't what she seemed
She turned the key
Of endlessness and locked me
In a dream, Infinity

She led me to a palace gate
With constellation towers
She is the keeper of my fate
I sleep locked in her powers
She turned the key
Of endlessness and locked me
In a dream, Infinity
_______________________________________________________________________

In the Egg
==========

We live in the Egg
We live in the Egg
We have covered the inside wall of the shell with dirty drawings
and the christian names of our enemies
We are being hatched
Whoever is hatching us is hatching our pencils as well
Set free from the Egg one day, at once we shall draw a picture
of whoever is hatching us
We assume that we're being hatched
We imagine some good natured fowl and write school essays about the colour
and creed of the hen that is hatching us
When shall we break the shell?
Our prophets inside the Egg, for a middling salary, argue about
the period of incubation
The posit a day called "X"
Out of boredom and genuine need, we have invented incubators
We are much concerned about our offspring inside the Egg
We should be glad to recommend our patent to whom looks after us
But we have a room full of hardheads, senile chimps, polyglot embryos
chatter all day and even discuss their dreams
But what if we're not being hatched?
What if the shell will never break, if the horizon is only that of
our scribbles, and always will be?
We hope that we're being hatched
Even if we only talk of hatching there remains the fear
that someone outside the shell will feel hungry
and crack us into the frying pan with a pinch of salt
What then my brethren inside the Egg?
_________________________________________________________________________

In the Office
=============
I am so distant
And so cold
I've lived too long
And I'm so old
I've tried so many distant ways
I've watched each one of them delayed
I can't expound for the ages
While we are leafing through the pages
The office blocks from which we march
Mirrored shades of the Patriarch

Lounge lizards in penthouse flats
May soon find out where it's at
They gnaw away our hard earned pay
We walk the treadmill every day

Caught by streams of constant motion
Most of the workers have no notion
Sitting glued to the computer screens
Fingers raised - "must finish the scene"
Techno Tropic Zone exists
Within these walls we can't resist

_____________________________________________________________________

Into the Realms
===============
Long ago these un-neutered skies
Told our race a tortured lie
The winds had borne them across the land
Their existence still dust in our hands

Our voices cackled in their ears
Could not abate all of their fears
The seas had frothed and flashed to steam
Their flesh was scalded for one human's dream
A human's dream
A human's dream
________________________________________________________________________

IT'S SO EASY
( - Brock - )
Try to understand it, though it's very hard to see
The reason that we are living, no longer seems to be
Revolution's coming the chaos will soon end
We've reached the age of learning
You'll see it in the end.

It's so easy, it's so easy, it's so easy, it's so easy

To say what you say, do what you want
It happened today no matter what
They say this world's so mixed up everywhere you go
Everywhere you go, everywhere you go, everywhere you go
_________________________________________________________________________

Jack of Shadows
===============

Jack of Shadows, nocturnal outlaw
Daemon of darkness, brother to the night
Jack of Shadows, what's he hanging out for?
King of the dimensions, the other side of light

And when he passes
He casts shades of mystery black
Flowing like molasses
It's only Jack of Shadows on his way back
To the kindom of thieves
Before the skies crack

Jack of Shadows, cloak of constellations
Draped around his body, blanking out his face
Jack of Shadows, don't believe in God, he
steals from the future, fades without a trace

And when the flames flare
Flickering forms of velvet dark
He plays his games there
It's only Jack of Shadows, he's lit up by a spark
To run into the umbra , as fast as a shark

Jack of Shadows, ultravoilet eyesight
Giving him the vision that cats-eye infrared
Jack of Shadows, watch him as he flies right
Through all of the umbras, quicker than the dead

And when he passes
He casts shades of mystery black
Flowing like molasses
It's only Jack of Shadows on his way back
To the kindom of thieves
Before the skies crack

Jack of Shadows, Jack of Shadows
Jack of Shadows, Jack of Shadows
Jack of Shadows, Jack of Shadows.......

________________________________________________________________________


The Joker at the Gate
=====================

People function, dreaming their dreams.
People function, scheming their schemes
People function, trusting to fate
Looking for the Joker, but it's too late

Is there still a moment somewhere
That will surprise us with its tricks?

I am the holder of seven dreams
Faceless possessor of all life's schemes
Through me you can laugh in the face of fate
I am the Joker at your gate

__________________________________________________________________________

The Joker of the Universe (Moorcock)
====================================

They have killed the great Sun Jester
Who danced between the stars
They have stripped him of his manhood
Signs of Venus and of Mars
The cynics left him weeping
And the jackals left him torn
But the jester reaches out blind hands
he can touch the stars no more
And he danced for us
And he laughed for us
And he gave us all he had
He was Jesus, he was Jonas
He was good and he was bad
And he took the stars in his hands
And as he scattered them he'd shout
"I'm The Joker of The Universe
 I'm what it's all about!"
Now he's dying in his dream
And the hard men drag him down
They have killed the wild-eyed jester
They have killed the Fireclown
Now his blind eyes seek the starlight
And his fingers seek controls
To take him into space again
Where he was both young and old
The dancers legs are stiffened with pain
And they've made him kneel too long
And the madness they have driven out
They've left him cold and sane
He'll never sing his songs again
He'll never dance between the stars again
He'll never laugh again
He'll never dream your songs again
He'll never sing his songs again
He'll never sing his songs again
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Kadu Flyer
==========

I want to try, I want to be me
I want to get high, I want to see
I want to fly, I want to be free
I take the trail from Katmandu
With a different kind of trip in view
Everest is behind the town
Mountain High-bound to get higher
My glider, I'm the Kadu Flyer
Cygnus of the skies, the prize
And I will rise to win it
Never fly through a cloud
if there's a mountain in it

My route is by the steep ascent
Do battle with the elements
Reefs of peril, fierce freezing winds
Downdraft dangers want to drag me down
My straining ailerons the only sound
I'm carried by the keening wind, with the dandelions glide
Everest, I'll never rest
I'll see you a mogul when I'm high

Crawl the thermal up a mountain
Like the Pteradacyl's wings
Waves of lift and wing vibrations
Help me to invoke the sun
True me up in soaring fun
Rising like the phoenix
In full flight from the fire
A dragon wing of string and sticks
Gliding higher and higher and higher
_______________________________________________________________________

Kapal
=====

To be, or not to be - that is the question;
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them

Married with my uncle,
My father's brother: but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules.   Within a month...
... She married.   O, most wicked speed, to post
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
It is not, nor it cannot come to good.
But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue

"To be or not to be
That is the question"
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KERB CRAWLER
============
Syncromesh Gearbox
Overhead Cam
Mohair motorised wolf
L-L-L-L-Looking for lambs

Power-Assisted Steering
8-Track Stereo
Leopard Skin Upholstery
FM Radio

Kerb Crawler
White side walls with grooves
Kerb Crawler
So fast he hardly moves
Kerb Crawler
He really approves of
Your high heels clicking
Like a pair of cloven hooves

Excuse Me Lady
Are you looking for a lift?
I ain't going nowhere special
I'm just out on the drift
I'll take you anywhere you want
Drop you outside your door
I might burn us down the Autobahn
With my foot right to the floor

Adagio insect in the skyscraper shade
He's a night-city mantis
In the neon parade

Come on, come on

________________________________________________________________________

KINGS OF SPEED
( - Brock - Moorcock - )
Kings of speed, kings of speed, we're gonna make you, kings
of speed, kings of speed
Between you and me Mr. C, I think we have what these boys need
Step this way lads, it ain't no lie,
Try your luck and be the human fly
Kings of speed, kings of speed, we're gonna make you, kings
of speed, kings of speed
We're gonna take a tasty trip on Frank and Beasley's rocket ship
The biggest attraction, the brightest star, boys
you're going fast and far
Kings of speed, kings of speed, we're gonna make you, kings
of speed, kings of speed
We guarantee you the sweetest ride
You'll go so far you'll think you've died
Step this way lads it ain't no lie
Try your luck and reach the sky
_________________________________________________________________________

Land of Inspirations
====================

The shores of our imaginations
Running on a far horizon
We have no operation
We are free to look around
Infinite possibilities, no choice
Scarce is the same story
In this land of aspirations
No conception goes to waste
Lightning strikes
Blazing revelations scorch this air
There is no true refuge
No Nirvana in which to hide
Earthbound poets
Guiding us through dark places
Out into the light
No laws to contain us
Our will prevails.
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LEVITATION
( - Brock - )
In the darkness I will shine, cast not shadows, not define
I walk on water, float on air, there's no other to compare
I have this fascination, no cause for deviation
It's called levitation
There's no cause to start and scream, nor rub your eyes,
this is no dream
Although I sit upon this chair, I rise and float up in the air
I have this fascination, no cause for deviation
It's called levitation
Magnetic force, repel-attract, once it starts, there's
no turning back
I offer you this chance to learn, take it now
there's no return
_________________________________________________________________________

Lighthouse
==========

Far Away in outer space
A Lighthouse guiding star
It's there to help you, human race
and tell you where you are

So take a fix on Lighthouse
And home into its beam
And light the lasers in your heart
For all the world to see

Cosmic sound and laser light
Tools Lighthouse uses well
It signals out across galaxies
Where crystal people dwell

And take a fix on Lighthouse
And home into its beam
And light the lasers in your heart
For all the world to see

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LIVING ON A KNIFE EDGE
( - Brock - )
Everytime I go out, I think I'm being checked out,
Faceless people watching on a TV screen
Do you begin to sense it, just beneath the surface
Reflections of a window whilst walking down the street
Computers are abused, school records are fed
Police are checking on what you said
The number of your car's fed into a box
Your journey's being checked, it's a paradox
Duplicate forms, and ID cards are next in line to disregard
Future generations are relying on us
It's a world we've made - Incubus
We're living on a knife edge, looking for the ground
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LOOKING IN THE FUTURE
( - ? - )

Lives of great men all remind us
we may make our lives sublime
And so departing leave behind us
Footprints in the sands of time
And with the writing I will show you
Looking in the days beyond recall
As I lecture with the spirits of the other side

I'm living in the future
I'm looking in the future
I'm living in the future

Not a sound was heard
No call came from the bird
Only the carpet of green
>From towering trees was seen
Where have they all gone?
Why was there no song?

I'm living in the future
Looking at the past
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LORD OF LIGHT
( - Brock - )
The elements that gather here upon this hill
shall cast no fear
Of lines that match across the world for travel
which no man has ever heard
The moon that shines its beam so bright
of stones that measure the silvery light
of energy that travels here
it happens on the seventh year.
A day shall come, we shall be as one
Perhaps the Dying has begun
>From the realms beyond the sun
here our lifetime has begun
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Lords of Chaos
==============
Arioch aid me in my time of need, From inside my soul doth bleed, with
your help I'll find the embrasure. The Dukes of Hell, they come, Arioch
help me or my life is done.

I am here, what dost thou wishest?
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LOST CHANCES
( - Brock - )
Crystal evenings, long ago, twisted winds and weeping snow
We missed a turning in the past, is there anything that can last
The race is run, the time is right, get out your gun
it's time to fight
And all our dreams just turn to dust, look to the future
forget the past
Mistakes you've made can't be redeemed, they are made
because you dreamed a dream
Honest sunsets turn to paint, the lie you tell
becomes a taint
The house you built reverts to dust, the sword
you held it turns to rust
The lies you tell destroy your will, the price
you paid you're paying still
And the rocks in the river grow higher and higher
As the water gets lower and lower
There are ghosts in our lives that will not fade
There are ghosts in our lives that will not fade,
until we've paid
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Lost Johnny
===========

You only get a single chance
The rules are very plain
The truth is well concealed inside
The details of the game
You can see it coming
You can hear it from afar
It's pale and it flickers
Like a faded movie star

And up there in the castle
They're trying to make us scream
By sticking thumb tacks in her flesh
And cancelling the dream

Can you find the valium?
Can you bring it soon?
Lost Johnny's out there
Baying at the Moon

The time has come for you to choose
You'd better get it right
Berlin girls with sharp white teeth
Are waiting in the night
But you oughta really get some
It surely can't be hard
There's always trouble waiting
When you leave your own back yard

And underneath the city
The alligators sing
About how the puppets cannot dance
Since someone cut the strings

Run and get the morphine
For God's sake make it brief
Lost Johnny's out there
Looking for relief

Now Simon looks so evil
And you know he really tries
But every time he makes a play
That vital number dies
And Sally buys her underwear
>From a store where no-one goes
She makes it big in photographs
On the strength of what she shows

And here inside the waiting room
The radio still screams
And we're all taking Tuenol
To murder our young dreams

Run and fetch your credit card
Try to make it quick
Lost Johnny's out there
Trying to turn a trick
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Love In Space
=============

Love in space I dream of you
Love in space I scream to you
Love in space I cry for you
Love in space I fly to you

Drifting in our capsules of icy mist
The ship of dreams sails on

Love in space I dream of you
Love in space I plead for you
Love in space I sigh for you
Love in space I die for you
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L.S.D.
======

By mere existence, we are elite
Without a body, we are complete
There is no Master, we are alone
There is an answer, where we have flown
hello     hello..........goodbye.

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MAGNU
( - Brock - )

Magnu, horse with golden mane
I want your help yet once again
Walk not the earth but fly through space
As lightning flash and thunders race
Swift as the arrow from the bow
Come to me so that no one can know.
Sunbeams are my shafts to kill
All men who dare imagine ill
{Deceit that fears the light of day
Fly from the glory of my ray}
Good minds open and take new might
Until diminished by the reign of night
{A burning brand was seen to fall
It lit the darkness of the hall
The flying hoofbeats circling in
Come to me and let us spin.}

[Live Chronicles has The Conjuration of Magnu - a narration of the first
four lines + "Magnu, Magnu, Magnu.  Come to me"]
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Make What You Can
=================

make what you can when you say
Take what you can when you may
I see it all through my eyes
I see it all through these lies

Make what you can when you take
Take what you can when you make
Make what you can when you're takin'
Take what you can when you're makin'

Make what you can when you take
Take what you can when you make
I see it all in your eyes
I see it all through my eyes

Make what you can when you take
take what you can when you make
Take what you can when you make it
Make what you can when you take it
Take what you can when you make it
Make what you can when you take it
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Mark of Cain
============
>From war to war, hang up your swords
And rest to heal their wounds
But time has taught, without a thought
Their guns will call the tune

They say it is tha mark of Cain
It's imprinted on our hearts
The shame it is that I should go
Seems we've grown apart

Mostly blind, can't see the signs
They stumble in the dark
My eyes confused, our lives abused
Just trying to make a mark

They say it is the mark of Cain
It's imprinted on our hearts
The shame it is that I should go
Seems we've grown apart
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Mask of Morning
===============

In the cold grey-mask of morning I cry out,
But you don't hear the sound that I shout,
And you don't see me through the tears you've shed,
all you hear are the voices in your head.

In the dream-world that you've found
will one day drag you down,
The mirror of illusion reflects the smile.

The world from your back door seems so wide,
The house, so tiny it is from inside,
A box that you're still living in,
I cannot see for why
You think you've found perception's doors, but they open to a lie.

As the rain will come downward now is prepared
I will have a smoke, become the slayer of alien power, but now am I?
And in my dreams that mirror the workings of the mind
dreams that reflect all the desires of the body,
dreams that bridge the void between this world and beyond.

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MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE
( - Brock - Turner - )
I am the centre of this universe
The wind of time is blowing through me
And it's all moving relative to me,
It's all a figment of my mind
In a world that I've designed
I'm charged with cosmic energy
Has the world gone mad or is it me?

I am the creator of this universe
And all that it was meant to be
So that we might learn to see
This foolishness that lives in us
And stupidity that we must suss
How to banish from our minds
If you call this living I must be blind.


[1st verse only used in Live Chronicles and slightly amended: "I am the master of
the universe"]
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Messengers of Morpheus
======================
He who finds to himself a joy
And does not winged life destroy
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in an eternal sunrise

Morpheus, Morpheus, Morpheus
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MICRO MAN
( - Calvert - Brock - )
It's the age of the Micro Man, who sees the detail but never
the plan
It's the time of the tiny creep, who pulls the levers
while he falls asleep
Twenty five years of social research

It's the age of the insect man who pushes buttons
and takes back the can
It's the age of the Micro Man who sees the detail but never
the plan
Twenty five years of social research
Twenty five years of social research
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MIRROR OF ILLUSION
( - Brock - )
In the cold grey-mask of morning I cry out,
But no-one feels the sound that I shout,
And you don't hear me through the tears you've shed,
and the dream-world that you've found will one
day drag you down,
The mirror of illusion reflects the smile,
The world from your back door seems so wide,
The house, so tiny it is from inside,
A box that you're still living in,
I cannot see for why
You think you've found perception's doors, they
open to a lie.
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Moonglum
========

Moonglum, friend without a reason
Moonglum, friend without a cause
Embarrassed by a show of love
But would stand by the man of the feeble blood

This bond meant much more to him
Than a kingdom offered by a queen
No words for his silent trust
As the Sword goes on to sate its lust

Moonglum and Elric hunting Theleb K'aarna
Myshella now replacing Queen Yishana
See them travel through open skies
See the amazing steel bird fly

Armies stand, so soon to fall
Sorcery is the tune they call
Pitting wit against flesh and gall
Timeless searching in timeless halls

Walking out to meet his death
To find this was no release
Searching for some sort of ease
Denying feelings that made him weak

Moonglum and Elric hunting Theleb K'aarna
Myshella now replacing Queen Yishana
See them travel through the open sky
See the amazing steel bird fly

________________________________________________________________________

Motherless Children
===================

Motherless children have a very hard time when their mother is gone
Motherless children have a very hard time when their mother is gone
Motherless children have a very hard time,
all that weeping and all that crying
Motherless children have a very hard time when their mother is gone

Some people say that a sister will do when their mother is gone
Some people say that a sister will do when their mother is gone
Some people say that a sister will do,
soon as she's happy turn her back on you
Motherless children have a hard time when their mother is gone

Father will do the best he can when their mother is gone
Father will do the best he can when their mother is gone
Father will do the best he can,
so many things that father don't understand
Motherless children have a hard time when their mother is gone
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MOTORHEAD
( - Kilminster - )
Sunrise wrong side of another day
Sky-high and six thousand miles away
Don't know how long I've been awake
Wound up in an amazing state
Can't get enough and you know it's the righteous stuff
Goes up like prices at Christmas, Motorhead
You can call me Motorhead alright
Brained out total amnesia
Got some mental anaesthesia
Don't move, I'll shut the door and kill the lights
If I can be wrong, I must be right
All good clean fun, have another stick of gum
Man you're looking better already, Motorhead
Remember me now, Motorhead, alright
Fourth day, five day marathon
We're moving like a parallelogram
Don't move, the morning's not a pretty sight
I guess I'll see you on the ice outside
I should be tired, and all I am is wired
I Ain't felt this good for an hour
Motorhead, remember me now Motorhead
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MOTORWAY CITY
( - Brock - )
Turning star projections, voices from the deep
Throbbing of the engines, you exit from the heat
Paper on the pavement, cars crawling in the road
Emotions of the city, you ease your heavy load
A Motorway City, well it ain't the same
Lighting up the night sky, with an orange flame
A Motorway City, well you exit on the right
Cruising on the highway, when you're driving through the night
A Motorway City, well it ain't the same
Lighting up the night sky, with an orange flame
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Mutation Zone
=============

Welcome to the Mutation Zone
It's all change
In this activated city
You can't call
Your body your own
There's no real protection
>From this potion of molecules
Down here
In the Mutation Zone

Mutation Zone
Is my home
Beneath the rubble
It's here I struggle
Where silent lakes of dead water
Left scorched mountains for an altar
It's here the one armed anglers bait
Their hooks for creatures of a similar trait
For gaping holes fill the ground
Craters are spewing out constant sound
Living in a quicksand pit
Of chemicals and useless shit
Can't you see what we've done
Blown this Earth to kindom come
A swirling mist of nuclear haze
Where once before we walked and gazed
There is no price to save your soul
So disappear up an old black hole

Activated city
Mutation Zone

Activated city
Mutation Zone

Activated city
Mutation Zone

Activated city
Mutation Zone

It's all so pretty
For this mutant terror
There's no escape
>From the chemical error
Your card's been punched
Your cover's blown
Down here in the Mutation Zone
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My Armour's Killing Me
======================

If you try to take it off it will destroy you
And it's almost impossible to remove
Wear it carefully, wear it carefully
It will protect you against all enemies including yourself.
The armour should be given in perfect condition.
Any weaknesses should be reported immediately.
Your armour will protect you from all conceivable dangers.
Especially from within
Especially from within
It will enable you to resist
All temptations and all changes
Your armour shines and gleams so well
Enabling you to walk through Hell
And keep your enemies at bay
Through darkest night and brightest day
If you keep it carefully
You'll burn in it and die in it
And never know you didn't have to wear it
You'll never know you didn't have to wear it
My armour's killing me
My armour's killing me
My armour's killing me
My armour holds me tight
My armour blocks the light
My armour's all I want
'cos I'm too scared to shed it
Yes I'm too scared to shed it
My armour's killing me (repeat)
_____________________________________________________________________

Narration I [from Live Chronicles]
===========
Elric's cousin Yrkoon has usurped his throne and has taken Elric, the
weak one, prisoner. He places him on board a ship and has him ...
attempts to have him done away with. He has him thrown overboard, but
Elric calls upon the Sea-King to help him.
_________________________________________________________________________

Narration II {Elric the Enchanter Pt1} [from Live Chronicles]  see Elric the Enchanter
============
Some say he was a sorcerer
Or a warrior chief
But he was the stealer of souls
The Lord of Chaos reaps
And he's frozen in a time trap
Slowly losing power
And he's frightened if he makes a move
The Dream will soon turn sour
Seeking Stormbringer, the Stealer of Souls
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NEEDLE GUN

So you're alive, I thought you was done
I'm gonna bring you down with my needle gun
Feel my pin prick tattoo your spine
Give it a minute, your life's entwined
With mine
It's gonna make you run
Needle, needle gun

Hear my laughter
In your head
It's a pity it's a shame
Nothing's been said
It's a vaccination joy
With the ultimate death toy
It's gonna make you run
Needle, needle gun
Evil needle gun
______________________________________________________________________

Neon Skyline
============

Before my eyes, a neon skyline
Colours drip, dimensions entwine
Twisting matter, time and space
Got to leave reality's waste

Colours blind us
Lights and liquids
Darkness hides us
>From the conscience

I changed my course, I had no choice
I always listen to my inner voice
Projecting auras used to create
Escape into the next stargate

Colours blind us
Lights and liquids
Darkness hides us
>From the conscience

Before my eyes, a neon skyline
Another trip, beyond the mind
Senses swirling in my head
As darkness falls upon the ledge

Colours blind us
Lights and liquids
Darkness hides us
>From the conscience
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New Jerusalem
=============

"Nor shall my sword rest in my hand
'til we have founded Jerusalem
Here in Englands green and Pleasant Land"

                                            William Blake (1778)

And here's this crystal city
That is mapped out like the stars
She's been waiting there for ages
For us to give her force
Some call her Ynnis Glytrr
Crystal Isle to you or me
So full of glowing emanations
That you don't need eyes to see

So here inside these valleys
That are so full of energy
We'll build a New Jerusalem
With Love from You to Me

Pyramids and Stonehenge
Are Ley lines to this place
City of Revelations
That governs inner space
So now tune in your auras
Let Solstice music sound
And build New Age vibrations
And feed them to the ground

So here inside these valleys
That are so full of energy
We'll build a New Jerusalem
With Love from You to Me

Light that shines through darkness
For us, it's plain to see
Our Cosmic generation
Has power enough to be
So find this inner vision
And grasp it at the start
And build a New Jerusalem
Inside your loving heart

And here inside these valleys
That are so full of energy
We'll build a New Jerusalem
With Love from You to Me

                                    Tim Blake (1978)
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Night of The Hawk
=================

In all official circles
Across this big wide world
Between the radio stations
A coded message heard
No one knew the meaning
All our efforts seem to fail
But if they catch you listening
Then they'll lock you up in jail
So we found ourselves a place we did not know
Tension in the air and a strange earthly glow
Then amidst the noise of a thousand people's talk
There came a cry "It's The Night of The Hawk!"

The wind was raging, and the stars were black
We all knew there was no turning back
The gates of Hell stared in our face
Nowhere to hide in this wasted space

The curious folk who chanced to stray across this downland way
Heard the music blast apart
The games that politicians start
On English land the people dance
Like moths caught in a lamp
Where tribes of wanton peacocks strut
All waiting to encamp
So we found ourselves a place we did not know
Tension in the air and a strange earthly glow
Then amidst the noise of a thousand people's talk
There came a cry "It's The Night of The Hawk!

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Note From a Cold Planet
=======================

There is ice everywhere now, from pole to pole
And we live in a kind of miserable twilight
Mining what we can of the food we left behind
Mining for Campbell's Soup and Birds-Eye peas
For Heinz baked Beans and sliced Kraft cheese

Yes all the food is frozen now
    all the food is frozen now

Last year we struck a forest two hundred feet below
It was perfectly preserved. It was as though
Some cryogenic process petrified it in time
It seemed a shame to drag it up and burn it
But we've no choice if we wish to stay alive

Yes, all the trees are frozen now
     all the trees are frozen now

There are fourteen of us left in our group today
Three of these are women: warriors from Mandalay
The others are from Africa, America, Japan
The English cannibal is, of course, a man
He claims it is the price he has to pay

Yes, all our hearts are frozen now
     all our hearts are frozen now

I know for certain there is earth below the snow
The land we lost only a few short years ago
When in our euphoric ferocity we loosed the fires
No water could extinguish. A hundred billion funeral pyres
Their fumes became our shroud. There's nowhere left to go

Yes, all our hopes are frozen now
     all our hopes are frozen now

We denied ourselves the right to walk upon the Earth
To walk upon the surface of our Earth
We denied our rites, the lore of ancient wisdom
We can no longer walk upon the surface of our Earth
Denied the facts of death and the facts of birth

Yes, all our Future's frozen now
     all our Future's frozen now
___________________________________________________________________________

Now is the Winter of Our Discontent
===================================

Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York
And all the clouds that lower'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures
Grim-visag'd war hath smoothed his wrinkled front
And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute
But I, that am not shap'd for sportive tricks
Nor made to court an amourous looking-glass
I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty
To strut before a wanton, ambling nymph
I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature
Deform'd, unfinished, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them
Why I in this weak piping time of peace
Have no delight to pass away the time
Unless to see my shadow in the sun
And descant on mine own deformity
And therefore since I cannot prove a lover
To entertain these fair well-spoken days
I am determined to prove a villain
And hate the idle pleasures of these days
Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous
By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams
                                         [opening speech in Richard III]
Can I do this, and cannot get a crown?
Tut! were it further off, I'll pluck it down
                                         [Gloster (later Richard III) in
                                          Henry VI Part III act iii scene 2]
___________________________________________________________________________

Nuclear Drive
=============

Before I had time to think about it
And right before my eyes
The machine had landed and the door was open wide
I stepped inside the spaceship, a voice said
"Take a seat man, do you want to cruise the Universe
 go where no one else has ever been?"

With your nuclear drive
With your nuclear drive
With your nuclear drive
With your nuclear drive

But before I could answer
The ship began to rise
I looked out of the porthole
And felt most peculiar inside
Take me up the skyways
Show me what you've seen
I want to cruise the universe in your superspace machine

With your nuclear drive
With your nuclear drive
With your nuclear drive
With your nuclear drive
_________________________________________________________________________

NUCLEAR TOY
( - Brock - )
Nuclear facts are hard to take
Harrisburg, Windscale, it's no use to fake
Potassium iodide radiation drug
Won't save yourself from being a mug

A generator pumping out active gas
Polluting the atmosphere and killing en-masse
Strontium-90 cancer in the blood
Who's gonna pay for the radiation flood?

It's a nuclear toy

M4 missile cruising in the sky
Setting off catastrophe in a flickering of an eye
Radiation fallout it's a setting sun
Looking down the barrel and firing the gun

Nuclear death is sweeping the Earth
Babies being born deformed from birth
Mutations are working in the factories
The landscape's full of artificial trees

It's a nuclear toy

_______________________________________________________________________

Ode To A Crystal Set (Calvert)
==============================

There wasn't much to you at all. A pair
Of headphones, and a knob to twiddle
But you beat the sixgun and the saddle
You were futuristic as Colonel Dare

And so was I, in your bakelite 'phones
Tuned-in, to the insect language of Morse
Always at war with the alien force
Of crackling static's interference zones

And at night I listened to voices drone
With your dark conches pressed against my ears
And dreamt there were voices among the stars
The privilege of hearing was mine alone

With your earthed antenna divining air
You traced the future of your trans-sisters
Oracular wire, you were the cat's whiskers
'Til I heard the superheterodyne's blare
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ODE TO A TIME FLOWER  (Calvert)

Your calyx hides a nectary of time
That with my fingers I could pluck as easily
As sounding strings to recite their chime,
And your most exquisite petals melt icily
In my palm.   To hold the flow of moments past
As carefully as I would my last
Few seconds left on Earth.  Would that be crime?
Or if I picked you just to see you turn
To crystalled pearl in my eyes and learn
How man is Angel on his way from slime.

Did heedless Eve think twice before she broke
The enjewelled fruit from its brittle stem.
Or the first man to reach out and stroke
The marijuana leaf, condemn
Himself for greed when harvesting
And burning such a golden thing.
As this dreaming poet who just then spoke
Of your sacredness, and is now prepared
To do exactly as he first declared
And make of his museful words a joke.

But not quite as easy after all
I find, as my fingers reach to grasp,
Your gleaming head to wrench from its tall
Transparent stalk, they refuse to clasp.
As did Pandora's eager hands hold still
At the thought of the box containing ill.
Or the stoned explorers of Medusa stall
For time not entered in their log
Before they dared the petrific fog
That holds them still in its timeless thrall.

.......................... a nectary of time
That with my fingers I could pluck as easily
As sounding strings to recite their chime,
And your most exquisite petals melt icily
In my palm.   To hold the flow of moments past
As carefully as I would my last
Few seconds left on Earth.  Would that be crime?
Or if I picked you just to see you turn
To crystalled pearl in my eyes and learn
How man is Angel on his way from slime ....
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On the Case
===========

On the case
I'm not tired
I'll be wired
A bit strung out
Never sleep
Gotta keep her
Hung out
Check a lead
Check a read..
Check a..
Check a....
Check a readout
Find a clue
And follow through
Then eat out
And now I'm clearing some confusion
It's disappearing without a trace
I'm on the case
I'm on the case

What's your name?
What's your game?
The details like a cop
Can't stop
Empty trails
I suspect
And detect
A windup
Making sense
Evidence
Is lined up

Rainy night
Neon light
Reflection
In a store window
Saw a connection
In the dark
Shadow stark
Don't crack up
Work alone
On your own
No backup

Ovaltine
Nicotine
Stained fingers
Follow up
Collar up
Hat pulled down
On the beat
In an empty street
Let's cool down
Truth and Justice
Voice of freedom
All that must
Disguise it's face
When I'm on the case
I'm on the case........
___________________________________________________________________________

THE ONLY ONES
( - Calvert - Brock - )
Icarus flew too near the sun
Into the blue his red wax did run
He fell to the earth and sealed the scroll
The daredevil angels our luck would unfold

They are the only ones
The chosen only ones
They are the only ones who are free

Half-human half-bird acsending so high
No whisper is heard from deep in the sky
On wings they climb, they beat and they soar
Through space and time toward heaven's door

In chariots of fury and flame
We head for above to stake out our claim
With radioscopes, electronic eyes
We scan for our hopes in different skies
________________________________________________________________________

(ONLY) THE DEAD DREAMS OF THE COLD WAR KID
( - Calvert - )
If he blows his cover he might blow the lid
So he stays in the shadows like he always did
Deep in his trenchcoat secret papers are hid
It's only the dead dreams of the cold war kid

In a tower by the wall the machine gunners wait
To type out the orders that seal his fate
Deep in the shadows where he always hid
It's only the dead dreams of the cold war kid
Only the dead dreams of the cold war kid

Secret career in counter espionage
Covering his fear with clever camouflage
Only the dead dreams of the cold war kid
Only the dead dreams of the cold war kid

Railway hotel with gun oil on the sheets
The man at the harbour waited in the streets
It's only the dead dreams of the cold war kid
Only the dead dreams of the cold war kid
__________________________________________________________________________

ORGONE ACCUMULATOR
( - Brock - Calvert - )
I've got an orgone accumulator
It makes me feel greater
I'll see you sometime later
When I'm through with my accumulator

It's no social integrator
It's a one man isolator
It's a back brain stimulator
It's a cerebral vibrator

Those energy stimulators
Just turn your eyeballs into craters
But an orgone accumulator
Is a superman creator

It's no social integrator
It's a one man isolator
It's a back brain stimulator
It's a cerebral vibrator

I've got an orgone accumulator
And it makes me feel grater
I'll see you sometime later
When I'm through with my accumulator.
__________________________________________________________________________

Oscillations
============

Sound vibrations in the air
Can cause panic everywhere
Reduce tall buildings into dust
TV pictures to adjust

Oscillations in my head
All I hear is constant sound
Makes my brain go round and round
Makes my brain go round and round
____________________________________________________________________________

OUT OF THE SHADOWS
==================
( - Brock/Davey/Buckley - )

Out of the shadows
And into the light
Out of the background
And into the fight
Out of the jungles
And back on the streets
Out of the blizzard
And into the heat

Out of the rat race
Into the lagoon
Out of the stone age
And onto the moon
Out of the nameless
Onto the front page
Out of the basement
Onto the Stage

Out of the rainbow
Into the black
Out of the fox hole
And into the flak
Out of the shelters
Under the Bomb  bomb  bomb.....
________________________________________________________________________

OVER THE TOP (LIVE)
===================

[[Intro, stage banter]]

This is a very heavy microphone stand.
Aha, no queen could banish this I tell you that.
This is a real man's microphone stand 'ere Dave.
'Ere, where d'you get these stands from?
They're really heavy.
So are you.
Well we're gonna do something really heavy in a minute.
Like, err.., fall off the stage on top of you,
With about two hundredweight of iron in my hand.
You're a very tiny person, aren't you?  Eh?
You're all very tiny down there.
You know, when I'm up here, I feel so big and mighty,
I feel like I'm the
Master
Of the
Universe.
You made me feel like that,
And now,
It's almost true.
Just wait and see,
What we do.

Alright, cut the gypsy music.
A band of gypsies...


[[Begin song proper(?)]]

All in a day's work, all in, all in.
All in a day's work, all in, all in.
All in a day's work, all in all.

I would rather the firestorms of atmospheres
Than this cruel descent from a thousand years of dream.
Into the starkness of this capsule,
That two of our crew still lie suspended,
Cool in their tombs of sleep.
The nagging choirs of memory,
The tubes and wires worming from their flesh to machinery
I would have to cut.
Such midwifery is but one function
Of the leader here.
He's floating in a sac of fluid dark, a clear
Century of space away from earth.
One man stares from the trauma of his birth.

Attending to the hypno-tapes, assuring him,
This was reality, however grim.
Oh our journey's end
The landing itself was nothing;
We touched upon a shelf of rock selected by the automind.
And left the galaxy of dreams behind.
And it's all a fable for fountains now.
It's all a fable for fountains now.
It's all a fable for fountains now.
All your childhood dreams, all are a fable,
For fountains now,
For fountains now,
Now now,
Now now now,
Fountains, fountains,
All going up in fountains, fountains.
All a fable for fountains now

And just a minute now.
When you look into my eyes,
You're looking at your own reflection.
And all you see is your disguise
You wear for your own protection.
So don't go telling me that you know just when to stop,
When to stop.
You know you go over the top.
Over the top.
It's over the top.
Over the top.
Hey he's going, over the top.
Over the top, oh.
Over the top, alright here it goes...

In 1916,
They dug the trenches.
We don't need them;
We have our own defences.
We don't need no officers to blow no whistle and scream
"Come on you guys wake up out of your dream
And follow me
Cos I'm going,
Over the top.
Over the top.
Follow me over the top.
Here goes now,
Your country needs you."
(Hey Kitchener, don't you know that moustaches went out with the Beatles?)
Give me white feather!
Give me white feather!
Give me white feather!
Hung upon the wire.
Give me white feather!
Give me white feather!
Give me white feather!
Hung upon the wire.
Hung upon the wire.
Strung on barbed wire.
Huh, strung on barbed wire.

Goodbye genocide.....
________________________________________________________________________

PARADOX
( - Brock - )
The story that I'm telling you
Something that you can do
Ask yourself and try to find the answer
See the signs they're always there
But you know you never care
You're always looking for another reason
Try to reach it's not too far
See it as you really are
Ask yourself to try and find the answer

Always, always it's the same thing
Try it, try it, you just can't win
Circles, circles spinning round
People, people always bring you down and down
Round and round you go
__________________________________________________________________________

The Phenomenon of Luminosity
============================

Friendship Seven:

I'll try to describe what I'm in here. I'm in a big mass of some very small
particles that are brilliantly lit up, like they're luminescent. I never
saw anything like it. They're coming by the capsule, and they look like
little stars. A whole shower of them coming by.
________________________________________________________________________

Processed
=========

Every time I go out, I think I'm being checked out
Faceless people watching on a TV screen
Do you begin to sense it, just beneath the surface
Reflections off a window whilst walking down the street

Spying, lying, there's no denying
You can't escape, just be discreet
Computers are abused, school records are fed
Police are checking on what you've said
The number of your car's fed into a box
Your journey's being checked, it's a paradox
Duplicate forms and ID cards, are next in line to disregard

Future generations are relying on us
It's a world we've made - incubus
We're processed, we're processed, we're processed
____________________________________________________________________________

Psi Power
=========

When I was a kid in school
They showed me symbols on a card
Then they sent them from a locked and bolted room
I had to fake that it was hard
Circle, square, triangle, waves
I got them crystal clear by the hour
And all I said was "may I please take a rest?"
I didn't want them to know I was possessed
with Psi Power

Psi Power
Psi Power
I can read your mind like a magazine
I see where you're at
I know what you mean
I get all the secrets that you'd rather keep

When I was a teenage kid and I hung around the streets
I could see inside the mind of any girl that I wanted to meet
Wave, triangle, circle, square
They opened to me like a flower
Would you like to have your mind carressed?
Can't you feel that I'm possessed
with Psi Power

Psi Power
Psi Power
I can read your mind like a magazine
I see where you're at
I know what you mean
I get all the secrets that you'd rather keep

Psi Power
Psi Power
Psi Power
I can read your mind like a magazine
I see where you're at
I know what you mean
I get all the secrets that you'd rather keep

It's like a radio you can't switch off
There's no way to get peace of mind
I'd like to live inside a lead-lined room
And leave all this Psi Power behind
Circle, square, triangle, waves
It's a gift that soon turns sour
Why don't they let me get some rest?
It's too much to understand and to digest
Psi Power

Psi Power
Psi Power
I can read your mind like a magazine
I see where you're at
I know what you mean
I get all the secrets that you'd rather keep
_______________________________________________________________________

PSYCHEDELIC WARLORDS (Disappear In Smoke)
( - Brock - )
We're sick of politicians harassment and laws
All we do is get screwed up by other people's flaws
World turned upside down now there's nothing
else to do
But live in concrete jungles that just block
up the view

And that ain't no joke, you can disappear in smoke
And that ain't no joke, you can disappear in smoke
I'm telling you, that ain't no lie

You think you know the answers but we don't tell no lies
We can take you anyway thro' seven different highs
World turned upside down now, there's nothing else
to do, but live in concrete jungles, but they block up the views
________________________________________________________________________

Psychosis
=========
We have malfunction on screens
Switching to computer override now
__________________________________________________________________________

Psychosonia  (Moorcock, Bainbridge, Lloyd-Langton, Brock, Griffin)
-----------
Abu-Wabu
Abu-Wabu
Mabu-Dabu
Mabu-Dabu
Aka-Taba
Aka-Taba
Kata-Bata
Kata-Bata
Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da
Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da
Tee aitch ee why
Aey are and ee
Tee are why i
En and a jee
Tee and an o
Are o bee
You and an ess
Oh eff oh you are
Are i jee aitch tee
Tee and an o
See oem em
You en i see
Aey tee and ee

Silence is a virtue and speaking is crime
If you're dumb you're happy
And if you're dumb you're mine
I've got you where I want you
I'll hold you till I'm through
Just listen to these words I'm giving you
_________________________________________________________________________


PXR5
( - Brock - )
Two years ago our nova-drive failed and we drifted in space
But now repaired our motors run to continue the race
Three of our crew who were with us then did not survive
Their life supports could not take the strain and so they died

And so we search until we find the answers that we left
behind, and we go from star to star to find the dream
And we will pursue the race that made us journey into space
and led us to become a seed of life, PXR5, PXR5

Robots call, but we don't answer to their wail
Computers hum and bright lights flash to no avail
The course has been set for us to go in light years past
Outlaws of time, visions of an ancient cast

And so we search until we find the answers that we left
behind, and we go from star to star to find the dream
And we will pursue the race that made us outlaws of this space
and led us to become a seed of life, PXR5, PXR5

_________________________________________________________________________

QUARK, STRANGENESS AND CHARM
( - Brock - Calvert - )
Einstein was not a handsome fellow
Nobody ever called him Al
He had a long moustache to pull on
It was yellow
I don't believe he ever had a girl
One thing he missed out in his theory
of time, space and relativity
Is something that makes it very clear
He was never gonna score like you'n'me
He didn't know about Quark, Strangeness and Charm

I had a dangerous liason
To have been found out would've been a disgrace
We had to rendezvous some days on
The corner of an undiscovered place
We got sick of chat chat chatter and the
look upon everybody's face
But all that does not anti-matter now
We've found ourselves a black hole in space
And we're talking about Quark, Strangeness and Charm

Copernicus had those Renaissance ladies
Crazy about his telescope
And Galileo had a name that made his
reputation higher than his hopes
Did none of those astronomers discover
While they were staring out into the dark
That what a lady looks for in her lover
is Charm, Strangeness and Quark.
________________________________________________________________________

Rambo In Space
==============

I wear a helmet
But I've got a bare chest
I do some talking
But my phaser does the rest
Don't like your tentacles
Don't like your face
Don't like your planet
I'll just lay it to waste

Because I'm Rambo in space
I'm Rambo in space.

I go for first strike
Nuclear Attack
put me in retro
But I'm bouncing right back
I've got a spaceship
Loaded with guns
Substitute penis
And here it comes

Because I'm Rambo in space
I'm Rambo in space.

The hand of freinship's
No hand of mine
Too many fingers
Some gook design
I ain't got time for diplomacy
I murder aliens
So men can be free

Because I'm Rambo in space
I'm Rambo in space.

They tried to test me
Those Sigmund Freuds
But I just hid among
The asteroids
Space vigilante's
What they call me
The greatest threat to peace
In the whole galaxy

Because I'm Rambo in space
I'm Rambo in space.

The Universe is
mirrored in my head
Great empty spaces
Brain cells all dead
The Moon caught fire
My parents died
Eternal vengeance
Has messed me up inside

And so I'm Rambo in space
I'm Rambo in space.
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REEFER MADNESS
( - Brock - Calvert - )
Open your eyes, you'll get a surprise, evil is sweeping
the nation,
It's killing your sons and what merely stuns is
Your daughters are out for sensation
When they turn on their morals are gone
They don't really know what they're doing
It's a teenage malaise, a dangerous craze
Leading their bodies to ruin
Reefer madness has stolen all their souls
Reefer madness is right out of control
Evil reefer madness is a mind eating troll

Marijuana monster is stalking the streets
You know what he's after and you know what he eats
He gobbles your body and spits out your mind
If you don't believe it then you must be blind
Reefer madness has stolen all their souls
Reefer madness is right out of control
Evil reefer madness is a mind eating troll

Marijuana's real enough
Marijuana's real enough
Marijuana's real enough

One night I was smoking dope, when I looked at
my hand, and I saw that I had eleven fingers,
one of these fingers fell from my hand,
onto the carpet, crawled across the floor,
Up on my shelf, inside my piggy bank and stole
my stash, stole my stash.
Reefer madness has stolen their souls
Reefer madness is right out of control
Evil reefer madness is a mind eating troll.
______________________________________________________________________

The Right Stuff
===============

I don't feel fear or panic
And nothing brings me down
I'm an aerospaceage warrior
I can fly sideways through sound
My reflexes and reactions
Are as fast as a machine
I'm the right stuff baby
The right stuff
I'm the right stuff baby
The right stuff
Just watch my trail

When the dial needle flickers
Around mach one or two
And something happens suddenly
I know exactly what to do
My hands move without thinking
And my feet like lightning too
I'm the right stuff baby
The right stuff
The right stuff baby
The right stuff
I never fail

My nerves are made of steel
And my eyes are eagle sharp
And what would freak the average man
Does not affect my heart
Not even if this jinxy jet
Should shake itself apart
'cause I'm the right stuff baby
The right stuff
The right stuff baby
The right stuff
As hard as nails
I never fail
Just watch my trail
___________________________________________________________________________

Right to Decide
===============

I'm a digital citizen safe in my room
I've got my video to relieve the gloom
My mind's on a circuit with the news on a screen
Life's a no-go area it's so obscene

'cause you can't do this, you can't do that.
You can't go forward and you can't go back.

I'm a plugged in person, I'm a TV fan
but there's so many things that I don't understand
Why do you want to steal? When on TV it's not real
It's a viewing game

'cause you can't do this, you can't do that.
You can't go forward and you can't go back.
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ROBOT
( - Calvert - Brock - )
Nine to five or ten to six, up to the city and back to the sticks
You've got to unwind your mind, you've got to unwind your mind
Sit back, switch on, your face has got a twitch on
Your fuses are blown out in a double bind
Air-conditioned, psycho-analysed, you're very nearly human,
you're so well disguised
Robot, Robot, you're a Robot, Robot
You're warm when it's cold, you're cool when it's hot
Your life is recorded on a micro-dot, Robot, Robot
You'd hold the whole world in your metal claws
if it wasn't for the three laws of robotics

Automated homunculus, you queue for the paper
You queue for the bus, you're a "good morning" machine
You're a "how are you?" device
Sit back, light up, never put a fight up
Sit there fuming until your face goes green
Air conditioned, and desensitised, you're very nearly human
You're so well disguised
Robot, Robot

I am a robot
I am your slave
I can not harm you
I can only obey
The Three Laws
_______________________________________________________________________

ROCKY PATHS
( - Huw & Marion Lloyd-Langton - )

Rocky paths winding round, the inspiration is to be found
Following us now with sound coming from earthy ground
Keeping up an open mind
In everyone you will find a path to help you climb the walls
built up by time
Never close yourself to more, learn we can, that's for sure
And it isn't hard to ignore a heart that has an open door
_______________________________________________________________________

Running Through the Backbrain
=============================

Running through my backbrain in the morning
I think that what I'm getting is a warning
Messages are scrambled but they're urgent
Something in the cortex 'bout detergent

I think it's coming clearer
I can see it in the mirror
Heading for a relapse
Clogging up the synapse
Or is it just Cassandra yawning?

Killers in the streets are wearing striped pants
They are interfering with my larynx
My brother and my sister joined the army
They promise that they do not mean to harm me

Messages messages Persecution Persecution messages messages.....

Now it's growing dimmer
I can see the mirror shimmer
Sounds are getting stranger
warning me of danger
Or can it be that I am merely tired?

There's a roaring in my ears that will not die
And signals in the sky I can't identify
My eyes are melting and my lips are moving
And the words that I am hearing are not soothing

Breathing's getting harder
There's nothing in the larder
The building's falling over
Or the Sun is going nova
Or is it my old-fashioned paranoia?

I think that it's important information
giving me my future destination
Fragments of mysterious conversation
Lend the game a frightening complication

I know they're trying to tell me
What can they want to sell me?
The floor is undulating
My bones are soft and aching
Or have I temporarily lost my bearing?

Every little sound is charged with meaning
Percentage bandits riding out of Ealing
Stuttering, shouting, crying, and declaiming
Sentences are waxing, now they're waning
A myriad of letters
>From my elders and my betters
The Killer's moving faster
He tells me that he's my master
Or was he just asking me "the time please?"
____________________________________________________________________________

Sadness Runs Deep
=================

I have the dream in the palm of my hand
but if I fell off that tightrope on which side would I land?
Insecurity and freedom, it's a narrow path
don't know what she wants now
('cos I've ) forgotten how to laugh.
Frightening thoughts spin, around my head
betrayal and misery, things that were said
deep-down inside me the sadness runs deep
the only release from the torture comes when I'm asleep
all of these feelings are trapped deep-down inside
for you it's a joke now I've got nowhere to hide.

Send someone to help me,
I'm lonely and I'm scared
I was gonna pile up,
my emotions they were bared
my weak points they were noted,
put away for future use
she says that she loves me,
as she tightens up the noose.

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THE SEA KING

Sinking deeper beneath the waves
Mind now resigned, accepts his fate
Ancient alliance creeps into his thoughts
Unbid to him comes a rune once taught
Sea King comes to him - Sea King, to save him
Unsure whether he's dreaming or dead
Seeing the face that his youth has bred
{Slowly} realizing that to him has come
His ancestors' ally, friend only to some
{Sea King comes to him - Sea King, to save him}
He sees that his life is safe
His foe Yrkoon has failed
The deed that was to finish him
Has come to no avail
Sea King comes to him - Sea King, to save him
To his kingdom he is now bound
The sea around him is his shroud
Age old wisdom has set him free
So to realize his destiny
Sea King has come to him - Sea King, to save him
__________________________________________________________________________

The Secret Agent
================

I was trained in Arizona,
in a secret desert camp
where we did night manoeuvres
without a lighted lamp.
I've got an old worn Trilby hat
that doesn't keep me dry
when the rain falls on my mac
plays havoc with the dye
I wear my dark shades every day of the year
when I see my reflection it strikes a note of fear.

I've got a dozen gadgets concealed in my clothes
I've got some suicide pills that taste like herb of cloves
I've not got a single friend just my armpit gun
and when I go to bed at night it certainly helps me son
I'm always getting in tight spots
I manage to escape
by either jumping off a train
or swimming in a lake
soon I'm in a right state

I'm a secret agent there's nowhere you can hide
I'm a secret agent taking you for a ride
what's your name what's your game
details never stop
work alone on your own
collar up, hat pulled down
on the beach, with a peach
sometimes good, sometimes bad
drinking coffee, feeling sad.

There's one thing that I want to be involved with
That's Truth and Justice and I sincerely mean that.
And if everybody was involved in Truth and Justice
There would be no need for secret agents.
That's what happens when you get in tight spots.

He's in a tight spot
I've yet to crack-up
Ain't got no backup
what's your name
what's your game
A bit strung out
Ain't got no backup
I'm beginning to crack-up
Think I'll go bankrupt
It's all confusion
disappearing without a trace
I'm a secret agent

He's in a tight spot
       Attention, Attention

 REPEAT VERSE 1

and everybody rushes away to hide
certainly take you for a ride baby! baby!

(listen)
 REPEAT VERSE 2

That's because I'm in a tight spot
        He's in a tight spot
I like tight spots
        He's in a tight spot

What's your name, what's your game
Details never stop.
Working alone on your own
There's no backup beginning to crack-up
no backup beginning to crack-up

It's a rainy night, neon light
          rainy night, neon light
          rainy night, neon light
Beginning to crack-up
Ain't got no backup
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SEVEN BY SEVEN
( - Brock - )
Lost am I in this world of timelessness and woe
Can I find the doorways through which I must go
Is the key to this plane too much for me to
try to gain
Is the passport to this world my astral soul
7 signs rode on 7 stars, 7 ways to find the
long lost bards
7 days became 7 years, while Pocus laughed
and called foul jeers
7 times he cursed the 7 tears, each one
became their 7 fears
What is lost is never gained again, I've cast the
spell that eternity chained
No more to cry o' mortal soul, the astral
path is now your fortuitous role.
__________________________________________________________________________


Shot down in the Night
======================

Numbers called as they're waiting in a line
Camouflaged like a jungle snake
Acting tough, just enough
'til they start to break
Then they're off with a rush of adrenalin
Holding on to a world unseen
the only sound is the pumping of the great machine

[chorus:]
The secret's only for a few
Superpower looks down on you
Someone's watching every move
You can break the lock and turn on the light ?
You know your danger feelings are right
Try to run or put up a fight
You'll be shot down in the night
Shot down like an animal


See them run like rats from the factory
Push them out to the twilight zone
Let them feed on their needs
'til they're overthrown
Take them up to a place in the gallery
Show them God with an angel face
Curtain call for the fall
Of the Human race

<chorus>

Play it straight and it seems like a mystery
Tell the truth and it sounds like lies
Looking down at the ground
With your angry eyes
Play the game and you'll see there's a difference
Join the ranks and you'll get your kicks
See the world, and the girls, and the dirty tricks

________________________________________________________________________

SILVER MACHINE
( - Brock - Calvert - )

I just took a ride
in a silver machine
and I'm still feeling mean
I got a silver machine

Do you want to ride
see yourself going by
other side of the sky
Well I got a silver machine

It flies sideways through time
It's an electric line
To your Zodiac sign

It flies out of a dream
It's antiseptically clean
You're gonna know where I've been
In my silver machine
_______________________________________________________________________


SLEEP OF A THOUSAND TEARS

zWith your white arms wrapped around me
And locked in embraces so cold
We slept a 1000 years or more
To awake in a land of gold

Where, the king of the world was a creature
Both man and woman and beast
And the landscape boiled with a million strange flowers
And the sun set in the east

And we were heroes you and I
By virtue of age and skill
And we rode to a land
At the edge of the sky
To an emerald tower on a hill
_______________________________________________________________________

Social Alliance
===============

A social alliance, are you in distress?
Just contact me and I'll do my best
She said "I'm a person, so don't abuse me"
You know I am a doctor of the third degree

We're part of a structure
That needs no consent
You think you're the same
Now we're all different
Jeanie lives for fashion
And I live to fight
Before life was easy
Now we're creatures of the night

We're creatures of the night
We're creatures of the night
We're creatures of the night
Creatures of the night

Don't miss the sensation
It's never too late
If you think you're ready
There's no need to wait
Can your mind take it?
Do you really care?
_____________________________________________________________________________

Solitary Mind Games
===================

Unbelieving
Non-receiving
Mind is in a Void
Unforgiven
Bodydriven
Striving to avoid
Anger growing
Can't help knowing
Hiding from the pain
Everlasting
Grains of Truth are
Gnawing at his brain

Now he wonders
Fears but wonders
Where it all will end

Never certain
Far from certain
Can the future mend?

Conscience torn out
Doesn't know how
He will ever find

Peace of mind in
Warlike visions
Tormenting all his kind
_________________________________________________________________________

SONG OF THE SWORDS
A clash of steel
A blinding light
Is this the start of Chaos' fight?
We were born to be free
Not live in terror under tyrrany
[My eyes were blind I could not see
What was this kind of sorcery?
I heard a murmuring in the night
Black swords hanging cold as ice
Will they lead me to Paradise?]
Take up the sword
And take up me
The Chaos lord's answer is to be
"Your path is chosen, you have no choice
Come join us now", thus spoke the voice
Paradise, is this my Paradise?
The cool brain tortured by neurotic fears
The man of ice melts in shameless tears
The journey onward, it never ends
When you're alone with so few friends...
__________________________________________________________________________

Sonic Attack
============

In case of Sonic Attack on your district, follow these rules.....

If you are making love it is imperative to bring all bodies to orgasm
simultaneously
Do not waste time blocking your ears.
Do not waste time seeking a soundproof shelter.
Try to get as far away from the sonic source as possible,
but do not panic.....

Use your wheels. It is what they are for.
Small babies may be placed inside the special cocoons,
which should be left if possible, in a shelter.
Do not attempt to use your own limbs.
If no wheels are available, metal, not organic, limbs
should be employed whenever practical.....

Remember, in the case of Sonic Attack, Survival does mean every man for himself.
Statistically more people survive if they think only of themselves.
Do not attempt to rescue friends, relatives, or loved ones.
You have only a few seconds to escape.
Use those seconds sensibly or you will inevitably die.
Do not panic.
Think only of yourselves....

These are the first signs of Sonic Attack:
You will notice small objects, such as ornaments, oscillating.
You will notice a vibration in your vertebrae.
You will hear a distant hissing in your ears.
You will feel dizzy.
You will feel the need to vomit.
There will be bleeding from orifices.
There will be an ache in the pelvic region.
You may be subject to fits of hysterical shouting, or even laughter.

These are all signs of imminent Sonic destruction.
Your only real protection is flight.
If you are less than ten years old, then remain in your shelter and use
your cocoon.
But remember:
You can help no-one else, No-one else, No-one else......

________________________________________________________________________

SPACE IS DEEP
( - Brock - )
Space is dark, it is so endless, when you're lost it's so relentless
It is so big, it is so small, why does man try to act so tall,
Is this the reason deep in our minds.
It does not feel, it does not die, space is neither truth nor lie
Into the void we have to travel, to find the clue which will unravel
Is this the reason deep in our minds
The secret lies with our tomorrow, in each of us is a hidden sorrow
The path goes onward through the night beyond the realms of
ancient light.
Is this the reason deep in our minds
___________________________________________________________________________

Space Travellers
================

Turning star projections
A voice across the screen
Surreal landscapes that flash at intervals
Where life has always been
Star travellers in their coma
Faces deathly white
Unaware of the galaxy
That drifts past them in the night
Signals Signals
Lightbulb Lightbulb
Signals Signals
Lightbulb Lightbulb
Signals Signals
Lightbulb Lightbulb.........
____________________________________________________________________

SPIRIT OF THE AGE
( - Brock - Calvert - )
I would've liked you to have been deep frozen too
And waiting still as fresh in your flesh for my
return to earth
But your father refused to sign the forms to freeze you
Let's see you'd be about 60 now, and long dead
by the time I return to earth
My time held dreams were full of you as you were
when I left, still underage
Your android replica is playing up again
it's no joke
When she comes she moans another's name
But that's the spirit of the age, that's the
spirit of tha age
I am a clone, I am not alone
Every fibre of my flesh and bone is identical to
the others
Everything I say is in the same tone as my test
tube brother's voice
And there's no choice between us, if you had ever
seen us you'd rejoice in your uniqueness
And consider every weakness something special of
your own
Being a clone I have no flaws to identify
Even this doggerel that flows from my pen
Has just been written by another twenty
telepathic men
Word for word it says
"Oh, for the wings of any bird other than a
battery hen".
__________________________________________________________________________

Sputnik Stan
============

They call me Sputnik Stan
I view the Earth from a garbage can
I'm in Earth's orbit
It's a junkyard, man
It's just a job,
I'm a satellite junkman

They call me Sputnik Stan
Spaceways maintenance man
I see a satellite about to fade
Got to collect
Weigh it in and get paid


My name's Stan
I've been commissioned
By the Alien Federation
To collect all this junk
Floating around in space
So don't you go nicking it
'Cause it's all mine

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STANDING AT THE EDGE
( - Moorcock - House - King - Powell - )
We're standing on the edge
The edge of time
And it is dark, so dark on the edge of time
And we're tired of making love
We are the lost, we are the ravaged
We are the unkind
We are the soldiers at the edge of time
And we're tired of making love
Where are our children
Where are our fathers
Where is our desire
And it's cold, so cold on the edge of time
Where is our joy
Where is our hope
Where is our fire
And it's cold, so cold on the edge of time
We are the lost, we are the forgotten
We are the undying
We are the soldiers at the edge of time
The veterans of a thousand psychic wars
We are ths soldiers at the edge of time
The victims of the savage truth
We are the soldiers at the edge of time
And we're tired of making love
_______________________________________________________________________


Star Cannibal
=============

Jaws of blue open wide the sky
Silence split with thunder men who fly
Descend the jaws of cosmic brood
For their appetite we the fleshly food

Rising souls and carcassed bone
Fleshless remains in every home
Onwards crunching munching men
Star Cannibal has come again

Flesh fondue - main course stew
Of his unearthly human crew

He partakes of us at will
Enigmatic one we cannot kill
Flesh fondue - main course stew
Of his unearthly human crew

_______________________________________________________________________

Starflight
==========

READY?
Ready. R for Ruminant
LARGACTIL: FIVE MILLIGRAMMES
Check
VALIUM: TEN MILLIGRAMMES
Check
HALIPERIDOL: FIVE MILLIGRAMMES
Which?
THE LITTLE WHITE ONES. W FOR WHITE
OK Check
PHENOBARBITONE: FIVE MILLIGRAMMES
Check
DISIPEL: FIVE MILLIGRAMMES
Check
GLASS OF WATER
Check

Our Father
Which art in Heaven
Mea Culpa
Mea Culpa
Mea Maxi Ma Culpa.........
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STEPPENWOLF
( - Brock - Calvert - )
You can see my eyes are lupine
The liquid golden fires glare
My loping walk, my slinking spine
Are signs that there is something there
The way my nostrils flare for odours
The way my ears prick up for sound
My hair's electrically aware
Tells me things for miles around
I am a man-wolf, I am a wolf man
I have half a canine mind
I have half the mind of man
I am neither of one kind
Maybe it was only an hallucination
I'm no stranger to such things
I made a thorough investigation
The image had a power that clings
To my jaded imagination
My brain has found the bells it rings

Like a wolf my wilful loafing
My languishing alone in my lair
Where you will never hear me laughing
I'm half in love with dark and despair
The Moon's a howling, mouth of mercury
Quicksilver quivering in the sky
It echoes like a cave of chromium
That'll vacuum up my soul when I die
I am a wolf man, I am a man-wolf

A freak, a fiend, a figment of mind
A species of the steppes and city

I am neither of one kind
Dissolving in the slendour of this desolation
The forest has been filled by a fog
Exactly a description of my isolation
I made a note of it in my log
To the secret of all creation
I follow my own trail like a dog

I am a wolf man who walks alone in the gas lamp
Shadows of the streets at night
I am a  man-wolf upright on two feet in the
city dressed somberly as a man
I am a wolf man under skies heavy with snow
My eyes are convex lenses of ebony embedded
in amber
I am a man-wolf
The fat bourgeois and his dopple ganger
are buried in their solid glare
Twin specimens of insect set for display
I am a  wolf-man, the man in me would kill the wolf
I am a  man-wolf, the wolf in me would eat the man
I am a wolf man, who despises the striving of common men
Who sees them at work, at their daily tasks
at factories and office desks
Who watches them at evening, elbows lift at tavern tables,
heads lolling in song
Ich weiss nicht was ich sagen soll

I saw a neon sign reflected in a pool of liquid sky
It was not what I expected I was only walking by
The sign said "to the magic theatre"
It is not for everyone
It is but for madmen only, the first performance has begun
I looked up to see that notice where the lights were
shining from
Nothing but blank wall was there
and their reflection too was gone
Maybe it was only an hallucination
I'm no stranger to such things
I made a thorough investigation
The image had a power that clings
To my jaded imagination
My brain has found the bell it rings
__________________________________________________________________________

Streets of fear  (Brock)
---------------
What is this that I see here
You're walking through the streets of fear
What is this did I consent
Armed guard of punishment

What is life and what is death
You may laugh or gasp for breath
I ride the streets now filled with hate
Carve pathways through the lines of fate

With my energising ray
Power is the game I play
I can murder steal or rape
Panic is the rule I make
Panic is the rule I make
Panic is the rule I make
_________________________________________________________________________


SWEET MISTRESS OF PAIN
( - Brock - )
Feel the pain burning, reaching up your spine
How your body shudders higher as you climb
You're reaching for the sky as the lash descends
Tingling stars of fire, burning in your head
Lightning in you opening eyes, bursting thoughts
of power
Feel the velvet whip turning sweet thoughts to sour

Down and down you slowly slide
Your burning body under mine
Together a world with legs entwined
Silky skin with hardened lines
The scent of leather in the air
The colours change not really there
You taste the sweetness of the pain
Will you ever climb so high again

___________________________________________________________________________

Sweet Obsession
===============

I'm standing at the station waiting just to see your face
I'm looking in shop windows whilst trying to retrace
I received your letter, though the information's clear
I want to keep the feeling going, not let it disappear
All the time we've spent together, memories of the past
The future holds the key forever, let's make the future last

Your confession
My sweet obsession
Your confession
My sweet obsession
Your confession
My sweet obsession
Your confession
My sweet obsession
Your confession
My sweet obsession

I received your letter, though the information's clear
I want to keep the feeling going, not let it disappear
All the time we've spent together, memories of the past
The future holds the key forever, let's make the future last
I received your letter, though the information's clear
I want to keep the feeling going, not let it disappear

Your confession
My sweet obsession
Your confession
My sweet obsession
Your confession
My sweet obsession
Your confession.........
________________________________________________________________________

Sword of the East
=================

A starless night
Colder than death
The sand dunes of life
Hold their breath
My eyes are closed
Dreaming for you
The holy wars
Time will subdue

Hot desert winds
Never cease
Forgive their sins
Sword of the East

Your swords of steel
Have turned to guns
Your desert steed
Has been outrun
And now you hide
Under the night
To wait for dawn
To continue the fight

Hot desert winds
Never cease
Forgive their sins
Sword of the East

Gather up the fallen!

The children you bear
Are born into war
Their eyes of despair
Your generals ignore
So now you dream
Of mysterious lands
Warm blood of the past
Still flows in the sand

Hot desert winds
Never cease
Forgive their sins
Sword of the East

_________________________________________________________________________

Technicians of Spaceship Earth
==============================

We are all co-pilots of Spaceship Earth
We are out of control
We have lost control
Our airlocks are threatened by cosmic rays
Invasions from the wounded galaxies
By the ectoplasmic leeches of pure enthusiasm
And the souls of erection joy
Our portholes daubed with mind-eating acids
That corrode the perspex shields of vision
Our computers have gone crazy
And are in need of electrotherapy
Our fuel tanks dream of explosion
Taste and scent phones send messages
Of peace from long lost Earth

We are all co-pilots of spaceship Earth
Soul brothers in a coma
We have lost control

Technicians of Spaceship Earth
Your captain is dead
Your captain is speaking
Your captain is dead
This is your captain speaking
Your captain is dead
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TEN SECONDS OF FOREVER
( - Calvert - )
In the tenth second of forever, I thought of the
sea and a white yacht drifting...
In the ninth second of forever, I thought of a
leaf, a stone, the plastic fragment of the child's
toy...
In the eighth second of forver, I remembered a
warm room where voices played...
In the seventh second of forever, I thought of
the life I would not lead...
In the sixth second of forever, I saw your mouth
whispering something I could not hear...
In the fifth second of forever, I thought of
the vermillion deserts of Mars, the jewelled
forests of Venus...
In the fourth second of forever, I could
remember nothing that I did not love...
In the third second of forever, I thought
of rain against a window and I thought of
the wind...
In the second second of forever, I thought
of the pair of broken shades lying on the
tarmac...
In the first and final second of forever, I
thought of the long past that had led to
now and never... never... never... never...
__________________________________________________________________________

The Timeship Will Not Sail Again
================================

The ghosts of unborn children play with toys
The memories of the future
are a wild confusing noise
And we cannot stick to flashes of the future we have seen
And we can't act for terror
Of what will be and what we've been
And we're frozen in a time trap
And we're slowly losing power
And we're frightened if we makes a move
That the dream will still go sour
There are memories all around us
And images of the past
And the crying of the children keeps us tied round the mast
But the timeship will not sail again
Until we find our nerves
And the timeship cannot fight again
"til we know who it is we serve
And the memories of the future
Are a weapon in their hands
And we'll always be defenseless
Until we make a stand
The timeship cannot sail again
Until we make a stand
The timeship cannot fight again
'til we give up all we've gained
The timeship cannot ride again
'til we give up all we've gained
And smash the memories of the future
Forever we're aftaid
The timeship cannot sail again
The timeship cannot sail again
The timeship cannot sail again
________________________________________________________________________

They've Got Your Number
=======================

They got your number, they got your name
You are the one they will blame
Accused of being the leader of the pack
You are the one who wouldn't turn his back

They try everything, but it's all turned out the same
"They lied" you said, but you know that you will still be framed

They got your number, they got your name
They got your number, they got your name

Do you not now see what their problem is
They can't accept your solution
Though we all see that you pay the price
The rest of your days will be spent in seclusion

They try everything, but it's all turned out the same
"They lied" you said, but you know that you will still be framed

They got your number, they got your name
They got your number, they got your name
__________________________________________________________________________

Time For Sale
=============

<Calvert>

Roll up everybody, here's an offer you can't refuse.
If you're wasted price'll show ya' more surprise if you've got the
                                                              blues
Wouldn't you like to tell that card from way back before you fail?
Why don't you take a look at my stock, I've got time for sale.

Works out quite expensive but you've a lot of time to pay
So don't be apprehensive come on, buy up the time today
Wouldn't you like to tell that card from way back before you fail?
Oh Why don't you take a look at my stock, I've got time for sale.
                                                   time for sale.
                                                   time for sale.
                                                   time for sale.

Got what you need - it's all guarenteed
You can have a time of a whale
If the boss don't suit ya - you can try on the ledger
You don't have to pay on the nail - I've got time for sale.

'ere.....D'you wanna buy some time?
Want to buy some time?
Coz' I've got second-hand time for sale.
              second hand time
              second hand time for sale.

Take a look in his pouch
You see what I see there?
That's Helen Of Troy there!
- He got Helen Of Troy there!
You can have her if you pay for time
              second-hand time
              first hand time
I've got first hand time, once upon a time
a second  a second   a second   a second

I sicken for this time
        second hand time time time
         first hand time time time

I can sell to you an hour
        or a complete eternity
I can sell to you the power
        to have complete immortality
Wouldn't you like to be the boy
who could make the old mantra quale
Lying in the arms of Helen Of Troy
        I've got time for sale
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TIME WE LEFT (THIS WORLD TODAY)
( - Brock - )
Time we left this world today
Time we left this world today
Time we left this world today
So many people seem to say
"Time we left this world today"
They watch you as you seem to say
"Time we left this world today"
They watch you as you walk the street
Cast sly glances at who you meet
Brain police are not far behind
Trying to make you lose your minds
Time we left this world today
Watch you as you walk the streets
Make you sit in your house and say
"Time we left this world today"
So many people seem to say
"Time we left this world today"
___________________________________________________________________________

TRANSDIMENSIONAL MAN
( - Brock - )
Where the speed of light breaks thro'
Changing shapes distort the view
Red rimmed stars, tear-drops of light
I can vanish into the night

Chorus:
With laser eyes I will awake
Panic is the rule I make
Trace my background identikit
A source of light which shall emit

I see what no one fortells
I can travel down to hell
I know what is often said
Written in the book of the dead

I can travel anyway
With my energising ray
And I'll visit in your room
Appearing from within the gloom
Watch me take you in your dreams
Cascading iridescent light beams
Fingers curling in the sun
Reaching for what has begun

Suddenly I hear all your lies
See all the secrets of 1000 eyes
But you may laugh or gasp for breath
What is life and what is death
_________________________________________________________________________

Treadmill
=========

I'm so distant and so cold
I've lived too long and I'm so old
I've tried so many different ways
I've watched each one of them decay

Mechanics battle for the ages
While we are leafing through the pages
The office blocks from which we march
The mirrored shades of the patriarch

Caught by streams of constant motion
Most of the workers have no notion
Sitting glued to computer screens
Fingers raised - " must finish the scene"
Lounge lizards in penthouse flats
May soon find out where it's at
They gnaw away our hard earned pay
We walk the treadmill every day

I'm so distant and so cold
I've lived too long and I'm so old
I've tried so many different ways
I've watched each one of them decay

I can't expound before the ages
While we are leafing through the pages
The office block from which we march
The mirrored shades of the Patriarch
________________________________________________________________________

TV Suicide
==========
( - Bainbridge - )

All our life
Is squarely pictured
An eye on the world
It's no mystery
Grazing with the handset
Is a nightly feature
Everything I need is on my TV
     Soft soap, Hard Sell
Infrared Remote Control
Your finger is on the button
But whose got your soul?
     Soft Soap, Hard Sell, Come on down the price is hell
Can you tell the difference?
     Soft Soap, Hard Sell, Come on down the price is hell
Ha Ha You can't get better
     Soft Soap, Hard Sell, Come on down the price is hell
Hit pain where it hurts
     Soft Soap, Hard Sell, Come on down the price is hell
Don't hold back
     Soft Soap, Hard Sell, Come on down the price is hell
Have I ever let you down?
     Soft Soap, Hard Sell, Come on down the price is hell
Trust Me, Trust Me
     Soft Soap, Hard Sell, Come on down the price is hell
_______________________________________________________________________

UNCLE SAM'S ON MARS
( - House - Brock - Calvert - King - )
Shoals of dead fish float on the lakes,
but Uncle Sam's on Mars
And science is making the same mistakes,
but Uncle Sam's on Mars
No one down here knows how to work the brakes,
but Uncle Sam's on Mars

Uncle Sam's on Mars, Uncle Sam's on Mars, Uncle Sam's on
Mars, he's on Mars

Layers of smoke in the atmosphere have made the earth
too hot to bear
The Earth might be a desert soon, America has left
the Moon

Uncle Sam's on Mars, Uncle Sam's on Mars, Uncle Sam's on
Mars, he's on Mars

He's digging for dreams in the red sand
He's got his bucket and spade in his left hand
He's digging for dreams
He's looking for life

What's he doing out there?
He's looking for life
Looking for life
There may be life out there

(Nixon to Armstrong - July 21st 1969:)
I'm talking to you by telephone from the Oval Room in the White House.
And this certainly must be the most exciting telephone
call ever made here on Earth.  I just can't tell
you how proud we all are.  For every American this
has to be the proudest day of their lives.  And
for people all over the world, I'm sure they too
join with us in recognising what a tremendous
achievement this is. For one priceless moment
in the whole history of Man......

MacDonalds Hamburger
Construction works
And he's looking for life
Looking for life to wipe out
He's looking for life to stamp out
He's looking for life to grind out
He's looking for life, so mind out

I hope you brought your credit card with you, and I hope you know how to
drive on these long, lonely freeways and intersections we've got up
here.  We've got two cars in the garage, two cars in the garage, and
drum-majorettes in white ankle socks and baton twirling on Sundays.
We've got stripes and the stars and Uncle Sam's on, Uncle Sam's on, Uncle
Sam's on, Mars....
________________________________________________________________________

URBAN GUERILLA
( - Brock - )
I'm an urban guerilla
I make bombs in my cellar
I'm a derelict dweller
I'm a potential killer
I'm a street fighting dancer
I'm a revolutionary romancer
My rising sign is Cancer
I'm a two-tone panther
So let's not talk of love and flowers
And things that don't explode
We've used up all of our magic powers
Trying to do it in the road

I'm a political bandit
And you don't understand it
You took my dream and canned it
It is not the way I planned it
I'm society's destructor
I'm a petrol bomb constructor
I'm a cosmic light conductor
I'm the people's debt collector
So watch out Mr. Business Man
Your empire's about to blow
I think you'd better listen, man
In case you did not know
_________________________________________________________________________

Utopia '84
==========
Utopia, Utopia, Utopia
Welcome to Utopia
Planet of your wildest dreams
Where everbody drives a Cadillac car
And the streets are paved with hamburgers
And the rivers run with Watney's draught Red Barrel
Utopia, where all your needs are catered for
Anticipated, calculated
All your wants are monitored, programmed, computer formulated
We know you will be very happy here
Nobody has complained
Yet......
___________________________________________________________________________

Valium Ten
----------

When you start to think of it
She began to moan and shout
Riding in my car at night
She began to scream and fight
She began to moan and shout
When I got my valium out
When you start to think of it
She began to moan and shout
Moan and shout
Moan and shout.....
_________________________________________________________________________

VIRGIN OF THE WORLD (Experiment with Destiny)  [Church of Hawkwind
version]

In the mirrors of myth
The secrets of these timeless layers unfold
Their echoes in the future
Traces of times past untold

Is there anything left to me
In this experiment with destiny

[lyrics printed in Church of Hawkwind booklet but not used]

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VIRGIN OF THE WORLD  [Sonic Attack version]
( - Bainbridge - )

The fire's burned, the ashes spread
The lifted light hears all that's said
We are undead

_________________________________________________________________________

Void City
=========

There is nothing wrong with your television set
Do not attempt to adjust the picture
We are controlling the transmission
If we wish to make it louder
We will bring up the volume
If we wish to make it softer
We will tune it to a whisper
We will control the horizontal
We will control the vertical
We can roll the image, make it flutter
We can change the focus to a soft blur
Or sharpen it to crystal clarity
For the next hour, sit quietly
And we will control all that you see and hear
We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set
You are about to participate in a great adventure
You are about to experience
the awe and mystery
Which reaches from the inner mind
To The Outer Limits

Void City here we come...
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Waiting for Nati
================

?????????????
It was bursting out in Spring
An energy to drown everything
You and I
????? ????? love
On the first day I did declare to you
Not before I never felt the way I do
You and I
We fell in love
Now it's Spring again
Yes a whole year has passed
And that old cosmic magic has worked at last
It's your birthday ???????????
It's there for all to see
Yes it's growing and feeling ?????
Nati, Nati
You made me feel a man at last
And she's waiting and breathing
And loving and feeling
And you to me
Nati
???? child of love
Oh little child of freedom
Shine like a god
You made me feel a man at last
And we're living and breathing
And feeling and loving
And you for me
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Waiting for Tomorrow
====================

Moon streaming through the trees
I wonder what this means
Clouds forming into swords
Shining like I've never seen

Waiting for tomorrow
Hiding from tomorrow
Waiting for tomorrow
Hide from all our sorrows

Words written in the sky
Tell me, could this be a dream?
Silently, pilots are circling
Waiting for the unforseen
Red alert goes through the world
The heavens are opening
Run to the shelter nearest you
Our planet's running out of steam

Waiting for tomorrow
Hiding from tomorrow
Waiting for tomorrow
Hide from all our sorrows

Moon turning red, the trees are dead
I wonder what this means
Clouds have changed to sheets of mist
Like I've never seen

Waiting for tomorrow
Hiding from tomorrow
Waiting for tomorrow
Hide from all our sorrows

Stars are fading from the sky
Tell me, could this be a dream?
Silently, pilots land
Waiting for the unforseen
Waiting for the unforseen
Waiting for the unforseen......
________________________________________________________________________

The War I Survived
==================

Death comes like a glacier from the peaks of all wars
Reason and logic, the generals cry "more"
Bodies in gullies, contortionist poses
Fogged by the scent of mustard gas and roses

Take me back to the war I survived
I can't live no more, this is slaughterhouse five
Take me back to the war I survived
I can't live no more, this is slaughterhouse five

As buildings belch bombs to the haloed Moon
Entrust this landscape to the barren gloom
A bulletproof Bible can protect your heart
Who'll cover your eyes when you're falling apart

Take me back to the war I survived
I can't live no more, this is slaughterhouse five
Take me back to the war I survived
I can't live no more, this is slaughterhouse five

Mischief rides high upon the martyr's back
Giving further credence for unprovoked attack
Yet in their use can these shadows have form
Armies create circles, sparks for the dawn

Take me back to the war I survived
I can't live no more, this is slaughterhouse five
Take me back to the war I survived
I can't live no more, this is slaughterhouse five

There's only bombs, nobody's left alive
Take me back to the war I survived
These were people like you and I
Take me back to the war I survived
________________________________________________________________________

WARRIOR ON THE EDGE OF TIME
( - ? - )
We are standing on the edge
On the edge of time
We are standing on the edge
On the edge of time
We are standing on the edge
And we're tired of making love
We are the warriors at the edge of time
We walk hand in hand with horror
We ride side by side with death
We are the warriors at the end of time
Over poisoned crystal deserts
Where the ruined towers shout
We march towards our dying scarlet sun.
Death
Death to life!
Death!
Death to time!
We bring sweet destruction now to everything.
In our mirrored flashing armour
By our secret, hideous helms
We are the Angels of our ruin
And we climb obsidian mountains
On our final, dreadful quest
Crossing lakes which cry with pain as we pass by
Death to all things living!
Holy death will cleanse the world!
Death, our standard!
Death, our only joy
We are the Warriors at the edge of time
Death to earth and fire and water
Death to light and air and sound
Death to anger, love and sadness
Death to death... and time... and space.
On dead horses our dead riders
Seek the last retreats of life
Life betrayed us now we slay it
Corpses locked in battle
Dancing at the Edge of Time
It's cold at the edge of time
So cold on the edge of time
________________________________________________________________________

Warriors
========

We are the warriors at the edge of time
We are Humanity's scythe to sweep this way and that
And cut the Enemy down as weeds
We are Humanity's spade to dig up the roots wherever they have grown
We are Humanity's fire to burn the waste to the finest ash
We are the wind which will blow the ash away
As if it had never existed
We will destroy those Enemies
But we must first know the Enemies
And the Enemies are the devils that hide in our minds
And make us less than happy
They make us less than happy
We are the warriors at the edge of time
We are the veterans of a savage truth
We are the lost
We are the last
We are the betrayed
We are the betrayed
We are the betrayed................
________________________________________________________________________

Wastelands of Sleep
===================

Drifting through the wastelands of sleep
Rivers formed by those who weep
All missed by the wakeful mind
Memories are left far behind
But you can always return tomorrow
Escape in sleep from all of your sorrows
And then I can reach out for your touch
Am I asking for too much?
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THE WATCHER
( - Kilminster - )
We are looking in on you now
What do you think you can do now
You're very small from way out here
The last thing you will feel is fear
I gave you the chance to do the right thing
I gave you the chance to do the bright thing
Now our sense is all disgusted
Re-affirm you can't be trusted
A world imprisoned screams with pain
There are no leaders you can blame
Your avarice has destroyed your sphere
And there's no room for you out here
This is the end now.
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Watching the Grass Grow
=======================
We are the Survivors
The eternal survivors
Androgynous energies
Travelling through time

Particle Accelerators
Morality Degenerators
Dadata Disseminators
Cyclotron attenuators
Hyperspatial Conflagrators
MEST Integrators

Well your neutron bomb neutralised your history
Wiped cancer from the Earth, and mystery
Now we're pushing over concrete
Blowing up the rockery
Watching the garden

Letting the grass grow
Letting the grass grow
We all know where the flowers went today
Media explosion blew them all away
After the thunder
Always comes the rain
We're coming up again
Letting the grass grow
Letting the grass grow

Post future reality, it's a better real world
Post future reality, it's a real better world
Post future super-reality, it's a real super world
Post holocaust hilarity, it's a super real world
Post future surreality, it's sure a surreal world
Post future surreality, it's a real surreal world

Tell me Doc Spock have you got all your answers
Ephemeral vision recalling the dancers
Picking up the pieces
In a progress picture
Taking samples to his curator
Letting the grass grow
Watching the grass grow
Pieces of the omniversal zoo
But will we survive?
we always do
We're coming up again
We're coming up again
We're coming up again
Watching the grass grow
Watching the grass grow
Watching the grass grow
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WE TOOK THE WRONG STEP
( - Brock - )
Think about the things that we should have done before
The way things are going the end is about to fall.
We took the wrong step years ago
We took the wrong step years ago
We took the wrong step years ago
Take a look around and see the warnings close at hand
Already weeds are writing their scriptures in the sand
We took the wrong step years ago
We took the wrong step years ago
The morning sun is rising, casting rays across the land,
Already nature's calling, take heed of the warning,
We took the wrong step years ago
We took the wrong step years ago
We took the wrong step years ago
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WEB WEAVER
( - Brock - )
Larynx cries no longer heard
A chord was struck that chilled the nerve
It froze the time that we all lived
The roles reversed to downward spin
Is life finished or hung within
The voices pleading went unheard
And shattered membranes of our lives
Hung suspended from the hives
Where the harmony the sad voices waned
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WELCOME TO THE FUTURE
( - Calvert - )
Welcome to the oceans in a labeled can,
Welcome to the dehydrated lands,
Welcome to the self-policed parade,
Welcome to the neo-golden age,
Welcome to the days you've made
You are welcome
You are welcome
Welcome
Welcome
You are welcome
You are welcome.
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The Welcoming Hands of Space
============================

The stars are sprinkled in handfuls tonight
They are something we can't crush or deface
Rough cut diamonds in a juggler's palms
The welcoming hands of Space
The welcoming hands of Space

Orbital junk and failed re-entries
Unclear warheads and nuclear waste
A fragile girdle, jet-propelled
Into the welcoming hands of Space
Into the welcoming hands of Space

Fate decides, your gods provide
They show us but one face
We call it "All the Universe"
The welcoming hands of Space
The welcoming hands of Space

Blind alleys, divine ironies
Launch us out to the cold embrace
To seek enclosure and completion
In the welcoming hands of Space
In the welcoming hands of Space

Once we looked to the skies with bright-eyed vision
But now we view them with suspicion
We must be bold angels
Seeking new realities
We must be bold angels
Seeking new trajectories
Carry us from this dead horizon
To the welcoming hands of Space
To the welcoming hands of Space
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When the Going Gets Tough
=========================

Way out in the jungle things aren't bright
Looks like the natives are preparing to fight
Sharpen their spears and rapping their shields
It's time for the white man to take to the fields

You know the saying folks

But just a minute what's caused all the fuss?
Police have blown in and made a big bust
All that coca chewing and all that weed
They've scooped the lot, a dastardly deed

When the going gets tough, the tough get going
When the going gets tough, the tough get going
When the going gets tough, the tough get going........

So what's the score? Now it's lost
An empty plane, who'll cover the cost?
Fake a deal with the FBI
Flying guns, they'll turn a blind eye

You know the saying folks:

When the going gets tough, the tough get going
When the going gets tough, the tough get going
When the going gets tough, the tough get going........

Who's gonna pay for all this?
No more coca chewing
No more smoking that weed
What are we gonna do?
We're all gonna turn into seeds
Blown off into space
And what can we do?
No one will save the Human Race

When the going gets tough, the tough get going
When the going gets tough, the tough get going
When the going gets tough, the tough get going........
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Where are They Now?
===================

Where are you now?
Where are you now?
I look down from my lonely mountaintop
Crumbling cities of a race that would not stop
Only bloodshapes hover in my empty dream
Where are you now?

What do you do
when you're going to faint?
I tried so hard
Do they explain?
I cast my light
The clouds remain
The circle turns
So we remain
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WHO'S GONNA WIN THE WAR
( - Brock - )
Lonely figures waiting, shadows on the hill
Looking into valleys where everything is still
Only death is lurking, the creeping sickness waits
So who's gonna win the war, now
Who's gonna win the war, now
Who's gonna win the, who's gonna win the
Who's gonna win the war
Radiation wastelands in the setting sun
Dust clouds they are gathering to obliterate the guns
Already weeds are writing their scriptures in the sand
So who's gonna win the war, now
Who's gonna win the war, now
Who's gonna win the, who's gonna win the
Who's gonna win the war
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WINGS
=====
( - Davey -)

I could see their dying note
In the sky that is so old
I remember where they once flew
Where they sang to the morning dew
Now their wings are soaked in oil
Caged wings that can't unfurl
No longer do we hear them sing
No longer do we hear the fluttering
Of wings

Underneath the iron bird
Their song cannot be heard
Above the human sound
Above the poisoned ground
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THE WIZARD BLEW HIS HORN
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The Great Hound Barked
And the world turned white
The Great Hound Sighed
And the forest died
The Wizard Blew His Horn
The Wizard Blew His Horn

The snow snake hissed
And the world turned round
The snow snake grinned
In his fine cold sin
When The Wizard Blew His Horn
The Wizard Blew His Horn

The horse wept blood
And the Earth did groan
The tall horse reared
>From a lake of tears
To seek a Champion
To seek a Champion

The world was bleak
And the Earth did fear
The Wizard's Horn
The magic Horn
So it screamed for a champion
It screamed for a champion

The eagle laughed
And the world grew black
It stretched giant claws
And it snatched the Law
And the Champion stirred in his sleep
The Champion stirred in his sleep

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Words of a Song
===============

Switch on the TV, look at the screen
There's money for a Rolls or a washing machine
I pay my money and I pay my rent
But everyday it's always spent
Maybe it starts to be the same
Look out the window and it starts to rain
Someone is saying "it's time to die"
Send us some money and I'll tell you why
I'll tell you why

Broken cars in the street
Do you really want to eat?
Do you need all these things that you see on the screen?
I drive my car when I go home
It's hidden somewhere in the words of a song

I pay my stamps and I pay my tax
But it's not working and that's a fact
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Xenomorph
=========

Mine life be with thine zenomorphic cries
You can't escape me once you are chosen
The forces within me to take you over
Chemical machine, assailants of mankind
Skeletal life forms are born to be my toys

Allotrious
Mind Invaders
Xenomorphic
Liquidators

Life will escape
Now you've been chosen
The force is within me
Your life is over
Inside I'm machine
Counterfeit android
I solely exist
Simply to destroy

Antibodies feel me
You can't even see me
Synthetically productive
Xenomorphic blood test
My blood type has raped tyou
I'll have to sedate you
You'll have to escape through
The tunnel of light
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YOU KNOW YOU'RE ONLY DREAMING
( - Brock - )
One more touch and then you'll see a world of
hidden mystery,
Visions of you know you're only dreaming
Colours change, I stand upright
Screaming souls in the night
Visions of you know you're only dreaming
Chaos all within my mind
Try to reach and I wanna be with my own kind
Visions of you know you're only dreaming.
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YOU SHOULDN'T DO THAT
( - Brock - Turner - )
You shouldn't do that, should do that
You try so hard to get somewhere,
They put you down, and cut your hair,
They're saying you're no good, they just don't care,
You're trying to fly, you get nowhere,
You get no air, you're getting aware.
You shouldn't do that, should do that.
You want so hard to get somewhere,
With trees and flowers growing there,
If you can't make it you're going spare,
You're trying to fly, you get nowhere,
You get no air, you're getting aware.
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YOU'D BETTER BELIEVE IT
( - Brock - )
I wandered far in lands unknown until I came to
my earthly home
Far away I found life's dream drifting on a silver
beam,
You'd better believe it, It's so easy to say.
Travelling at twice the speed of light, Orion's stars
are high tonight
The gentle madness has touched my hand, now
I'm just a cosmic man.
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Your Secret's Safe With Me  [Wishart song from '89 tour]
==========================

Official prying, Mandy's crying
Fever's up but still surviving
Your secret's safe with me
Your secret's safe with me
Crossfire themes and electric beams
Whitewashed walls and madman's dreams
Your secret's safe with me
Your secret's safe with me
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ZAROZINIA

Fire of destiny
Fire of reality
Zarozinia
The burning of flesh
Flames loving caress
Zarozinia
Water from a thousand tears
Feeling of a thousand years
Flows over me
But the dream it is too real
Cold reality of steel
Zarozinia
Hurt and wounded you return
But deep down feel the anger burn
Zarozinia
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