Childhood's End

You shout in your sleep.Perhaps the price is just too stepp.Is your conscience at rest if once put to the test?You awake with a start to just the beating of your heart.Just one man beneath the sky,Just two ears, just two eyes.You set sail across the sea of longpast thoughts […]


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Let There Be More Light

Let There Be More Light" Far, far, far away – wayPeople heard him say – sayI will find a way – wayThere will come a day – daySomething will be done. Then at last the mighty shipDescending on a point of flameMade contact with the human raceAnd melted hearts Now, […]


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Free Four

The memories of a man in his old ageAre the deeds of a man in his prime.You suffle in gloom in the sickroomAnd talk to yourself till you die.Life is a short, warm momentAnd death is a long cold rest.You get your chance to tryIn the twinkling of an eye:Eighty […]


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Cymbaline

The path you tread is narrow and the drop is shear and very highThe ravens all are watching from a vantage point near byApprehension creeping like a choo-train up your spineWill the tightrope reach the end; will the final cuplet rhymeAnd it’s high timeCymbalineIt’s high timeCymbalinePlease wake me Butterfly with […]


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A Spanish Piece

Bath of tequila, ManuelLeaf and cringleLaugh at my lisp and kill youI thinkThis Spanish musicIt sets my soul on fireLovely senioritaYour eyes are like starsYour teeth are like pearlsYour ruby lips seniorita


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Flaming

Alone in the clouds all blueLying on an eiderdown.Yippee! You can’t see meBut I can you.Lazing in the foggy dewSitting on a unicorn.No fair, you can’t hear meBut I can you.Watching buttercups cup the lightSleeping on a dandelion.Too much, I won’t touch youBut then I might.Screaming through the starlit skyTravelling […]


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Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun

Little by little the night turns aroundCounting the leaves which tremble at dawnNovices lean on each other in yearningUnder the leaves the swallow is restingSet the controls for the heart of the sunOver the mountain watching the watcherBreaking the darkness waking the grapevineOne inch of love is one inch of […]


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Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun

Little by little the night turns aroundCounting the leaves which tremble at dawnNovices lean on each other in yearningUnder the leaves the swallow is restingSet the controls for the heart of the sunOver the mountain watching the watcherBreaking the darkness waking the grapevineOne inch of love is one inch of […]


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Stay

Stay and help me to end the day.And of you don’t mind,We’ll break a bottle of wine.Stick around and maybe we’ll put one down,Because I wanna find what lies behind those eyes.Midnight blue burning gold.A yellow moon is growing cold.I rise, looking through my morning eyes,Surprised to find you by […]


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Shine On You Crazy Diamond (VI-IX)

Nobody knows where you are, how near or how far.Shine on you crazy diamond.Pile on many more layers and I’ll be joining you there.Shine on you crazy diamond.And we’ll bask in the shadow of yesterday’s triumph, sail on the steel breeze.Come on you boy child, you winner and loser, come […]


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A Pillow Of Winds

A cloud of eider down Draws around me softening the sound Sleepy time in my life With my love by my side And she’s breathing low And the candle dies. When night comes down you lock the door The boot falls to the floor As darkness falls and waves roll […]


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Shine On You Crazy Diamond (I-V)

Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.Shine on you crazy diamond.Now there’s a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.Shine on you crazy diamond.You were caught on the crossfire of childhood and stardom, blown on the steel breeze.Come on you target for faraway laughter, […]


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