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Imagine My Surprise
04:24
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Well, just the other day I was thinking
Just the other day I was thinking about you
How you still live on the hill
And how you never come down
Woah ho ho ho, imagine my surprise
Sometimes I like to put my thoughts down
Sometimes I like to put ‘em down on paper
Sometimes I like to put ‘em in a picture
Sometimes I like to put ‘em out for everyone
Woah ho ho ho, imagine my surprise
Sometimes I like to write a story
Sometimes I like to write a poem
Sometimes I like to write a good song
Sometimes I get it right and sometimes it’s wrong
Woah ho ho ho, imagine my surprise
Well, once upon a time I was an angry man
Once upon a time I was a bad man
Once upon a time I was a stupid man
Once upon a time I was scared of the dark
Woah ho ho ho, imagine my surprise
You can take the fool out of the man
You can buy a good tool and drive a big sedan
Keep going to school
You’ll end up in the can
There ain’t any rule
There’s no master plan
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I got some bones to pick with you
All the things you said you’d never do
You’ve done ‘em all the same
This ain’t my protest song, now
I simply haven’t got that long
I know to you the whole thing’s just a game, yeah
Rake over ashes looking for a doctor
Walk in the desert looking for your sister
Die in a war zone
Looking for a story of how the tide will turn
The emerging nations
All want power stations
We can send them all the stuff we’ve hardly used
Radioactive waste
T-shirts in bad taste
Container loads of worn out clothes and foods they can barbecue
Take the wages of sin
Throw the truth to the wind
From 1997 heaven to 9/11 and 7/7
Everyone we trust is never to blame
Well, it must come down to you me
We never seem to see
Democracy was never perpetrated in our name
Rake over ashes looking for a doctor
Walk in the desert looking for your sister
Diana Warzone
Looking for a story of how the tide will turn
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Indigo Child
05:52
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Ignorance is bliss!
Have you heard the news?
You got one living down your street
Come to banish all your blues
Smiling eyes and light on her feet
The next step for humanity
Sharp as a tack
No messing about
Intelligent humility
Tell a lie she’ll point you out
She’s beautiful
And she’s smart
Makes the rest of us look like fools
She’ll tell it straight from her heart
We built the world by breaking her rules
Patching up the ozone
Cooling down the air
Feeding all the hungry
Free the oppressed
She smells good
Got flowers in her hair
She’s like heaven in a long red dress
Have you seen the Indigo Child?
Ignorance is misinformation
Isn’t the same as knowing
Isn’t understanding
Isn’t wisdom
Wisdom’s not for you!
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Quiet Heart
05:18
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You say light is in the world
I say it’s in your head
You say the world must come to us
I say it’s already here
And you say kill
And I say be killed
You say thrill
And I say be still my quiet heart
You say the classics swing
I say they do no such thing
(It ain’t never be heard of, boy)
You look for complexity
Where there’s only simplicity
(Because that’s the way you mind works fella!)
You say President
I say King
(Because that’s what he is)
You say terrorist
And I’m nothing with the quiet heart
But you know what?
At the end of a long hard day I can truthfully say
(Yeah, I can)
That I love everything just a little more than I did yesterday
(And that ain’t nothing)
You war can be justified
(Are you such a fool?)
Yeah, you call it war
I call it fratricide
(You shoot them women and children down)
You say might is always right
(How can you be wrong? You got the bomb?)
I that what you tell yourself
When you wake screaming in the middle of the night?
(Here it comes)
You say love
I say be love
And you say hate
And I say it’s too late for my quiet heart
(But you know what?)
At the end of a long hard day I can truthfully say
That I love everything just a little more than I did yesterday
Can you say the same?
I don’t think so
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Strawberries
10:14
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Dad, what are you doing?
What are you doing dad?
What are you doing dad?
What are you doing?
Why?
I’m doing OK OK OK
I’m fine I’m fine I’m really doing fine
I’m fine
I’m fine
Here comes the sting in the tail
You got nothing on me
Ladies and gentlemen,
Ladies and gentlemen,
The first thing you should know is that I don’t exist
Officially
Nothing I say should be taken seriously
Everything I say is a lie
(Except that of course)
Nothing I say can harm you
Words are not weapons
The pen is not mightier than the sword
I should know
You have nothing to fear from me
I'm only here because I’m concerned for my people
I’ve seen all the horrors
The suffering, the starvation, the failed marriages
The dead babies
Children crying on their mothers’ breast
I tell you it’s a tragedy
And one that I would like to put an end to
Yes, that’s right, I intend to end all suffering
No, really
You think it can’t be done?
Well, that’s what “they” would have you believe
Of course “they” want the suffering to continue
As long as you don’t actually die
Because if you die
Well, you don’t consume in Heaven
She can’t hear any music can she?
I know so well
The taste of the strawberries in your hair
Now I’m in Hell
I see your face everywhere
My heart broke up
It was made of glass
And in my coffee cup
I found the grains of the past
Spelling out your name
Recording my every move
Nothing stays the same
I’m always fighting against the grove
Everything change, yeah
I’m looking for a leap of faith
Nothing be strange
I got emotion leaking from my face
I know so well
The taste of the strawberries in your hair
Now I’m in Hell
I see your face everywhere
Is that made of glass?
No, that’s made of pottery
Has it got glass in it?
No
Oh, that’s OK then
Can I see me?
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The Same
05:46
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This is my version
Of a song you know so well
This is my version of a kind of living hell
It don’t matter my fingers hurt
My throat is bleeding too
I travelled long and hard to lay this shit on you
Yeah I been through the desert
Yeah I been through the storm
Thirty years I built this house
But it don’t keep me warm
If you see me hanging around
Don’t be afraid to sit right down
We can talk
I won’t ask your name
We’re both the same
Once I had a wife
Babies on my knee
Seemed like a good life
Oh,now lucky me
It don’t matter how much you love
If you can’t feel the pain
The world is full of tears
Washing us down the detain
It ain’t that you don’t matter
‘cause everyone’s a star, yeah
Some reach that Milky Way
But we won’t get far
Little Johnny falls
Down on the street
But Mama picks him up, dusts him down
And he’s back on his feet
Did you ever shoot a man
For what was in his head?
Thoughts come spilling out
The walls are running red
That ain’t the way to change his mind
He’s gone and he’s gone
When you turn his world to dust
Who you gonna put your burden on?
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Peri Urban UK
Like all musicians I wished I had the same number of limbs as an octopus. My wish was granted, but not in the way I had hoped for. My cephalopod partner is an enthusiastic volunteer from the worldwide animal charity Save Humans From Themselves. We share a special kind of love. ... more
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