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Juggler's Song
By Robin Williamson

Gather round friends and I'll show you what I made,
Something in my bag that'll surprise you all
It's a secret, don't push, I'm not ready
Something to dazzle your eyes-o

Something to blow your mind away,
Something that I made today

The first little ball is red and green
Oh it's pretty
Yes I know what you mean
I call it Space, do dio dio do
And what it will do I just don't know

But the trees may whisper and the hills may grow
While it's changing

The first and only juggler, I must be the best
I love to see the rings spin, never at rest
Up in the air and back to me
What it will do I just can't see

Something to blow your mind away,
Something that I made today

The next little ball is silver and black
See it chase the first one forward and back
I call it Space, do dio dio do
What it will do I just don't know

But it seems to make a difference just to have it so
While it's changing

The next little ball is too hot to hold
I have to keep tossing it and I hope it gets cold
I call it Power do dio dio dio
What it will do I just don't know

But it seems to make the whole thingummywhojemyflippery rattle and go
While it's changing

Something to blow your mind away,
Something that I made today

The next little ball is orange and blue
I can't juggle four so I'll toss it to you
And I call it Time...

Time
By Robin Williamson

Arise, arise and follow me
as best you can
Come follow me, my measured dance
Come see my circus, come dice with chance
Now you are come beneath my sway
Who once was as the daylight gay
Here's rights and wrongs
and reasons why
A time to live
A time to die

I was your slave, now you are mine
I am Time, I am Time.

Experience will teach you what you may
and what you may not do
I'll teach you to forget the truths
you always knew
See what might be,
See what might have been
Though you yourself created me,
Your own mistake has set me free

I was your slave, now you are mine
I am Time, I am Time.

Bad Sadie Lee
By Shankman

I was born in Wild Wyoming
I always fancied roaming
Til I rode into Old Dodge City
Now I'll stay there til I die
I'm wanted in Texas and Tennessee
Dead or alive Bad Sadie Lee
I take just what I want as I pass by

I can draw faster than a man can see
I can shoot better than Annie Oakley

Ain't no-one around who shoots better than me
And I'll show you just what I mean
Fired a shot at a buzzard on a limb
Killed him stone dead but it went through him
Shot a buffalo down in Mexico
Shot a blasted Jim Crow
In a bar I never had been

I don't have to wait for Sadie Hawkins Day
All I have to holler is the word okay
They know I'll shoot them if they run away
But there's one true love I've had
The man I loved was called Daniel Boone
We crooned beneath the watermelon moon in June
But he left me for a ginger-haired ornery raccoon
And that's what turned me bad

Queen of Love
By Robin Williamson

A strong power calls from the left hand
Across the waters deep
a strong power calls from the left hand
let all things sleep or weep

oh the queen of love, you have unwove my eyes
and my heart will not sleep

the eye would sleep but the mind would rise
I must needs walk down God's eyebrows
and along the street of his eyes
look for me and you will see me in my red cloak
swimming determined
as God's blood flows

creatures of grief you beg from the thief
I will not carry home your sacks of sorrow
but I will pay the fiddler good silver if he smiles
pray God he see tomorrow

and the fine fine girls that are into it
and my eyes with salt water swim
and we disputing with a brittle gaiety
upon the world's rim
if I sought to love you with my body
it would be with a bent back
unto the day of doom

Oh the Queen of Love
I am in her heart
she is in my room

and together alone we clasp hands
and in each other's eyes walk the endless shore
and below I have my duty to perform in the song
and that that I was
you will see it no more

the snow is on the hills of my heart
and to speak is to die
the men at arms do seek to mark me
and the monks raise hue and cry
seek me in vain on Golgotha
or in fear's hollow
for the way I take today
only the true may follow

the ancestors in stone armour
calling for loyalty untrue
seek to make a zigzag of the arrow's flight
it is so swaddled in the bands of form
but I am girdled with the storm
and cloaked with the night
I am not to be seen or found
save only in what I cause
standing outside on the inside outside
perfectingness and flaws

how will I say where I end
or where you begin
how will I say, what shall I play
shall it be you or the wild wind
as Pan with the unsane eyes
or with the wild horns
or when I am crowned with the paper crown
or with the crown of thorns

a strong power compels distortion from the right hand
fleece to the grey wolves
fangs to the grey sheep
but the Queen of Love she strokes
my body alive, that I do not sleep.
The doctor brews potions and pills
to open his own front door
and the locksmith makes strong bolts
to bar his gates to every new breeze that blows
shall I now put lion's ears upon my ears
hear every sound as a roar
shall I now put mouse's eyes upon my eyes
gauge the moon for size against my paw

while the Queen of Love
she sings to me
from above and beyond the world

and I observe my mind
it is playing ignorant boy
while at her feet I am curled

and I remember all female movements so well
of such a form to bring much joy and ease much care
to perfume and let fall the coloured gown
and to let down the curling hair.

But now I play seed thrower
and I will play three-legged man
I will play dream weaver and day bringer
and catch as catch can

While the Queen of Love
she swims like a silver dove in my mind's room
and my body sleepwalks down the road
in a warm dark swoon

Light In Time Of Darkness/Glad To See You
By Mike Heron

Oh light in time of darkness
When your eyes on mine fell
My heart on timeless waters drifted

chorus:

I want to know you
I want to know you
I want to know you well

Oh strength in time of trouble
Pray your nature tell
Oh beautiful and shining one

chorus:

Oh timeless closeness springing
Between our paths in time
Oh crystal bell of truth ringing

chorus:

Oh formless bliss come flying
On wings of laughter free
Oh road of beauty crying

chorus:

Brother all I know is I am
I know not yet who I am
But a bright star took my right hand
Led me to this strange and far land
Oh new star touch with your silver breath my light
Then you may know who I am

Brother the sun shines on our path
Flowers grow and birds sing on our path
Come to me love take my right hand
Together to walk in this far land
Oh new star touch with your silver breath my light
Then you may know who I am

Glad To See You

I'm glad, glad to see you
So glad, glad to see you
It must feel good to be you
And it feels good to be me
When you're glad to see me

Walking Along With You
By Mike Heron

There are many things'll give you a good time
I have known a few
But my lover it's you that makes my eyes shine
And makes the sky so blue
And it makes me feel so very good
When I'm walking along with you

When we're walking along
You've got the power you're so strong
But you move your body like a midnight song
I love you

Last night we made a meadow
Bathed among the dew
And out of buttercup's pale clear light
I was born anew
And it makes me feel so very good
When I'm walking along with you

When we're walking around
I see your feet kissing the ground
Your arms make music without a sound
I love you

Hirem Pawnitof
By Mike Heron

It's of a famous highwayman a story I will tell
His name was Hirem Pawnitof, in bread street he did dwell
Through all the storms of his career few troubles he had missed
His tale was wrote from ear to ear, and he looked like this:

Throughout the land his gallant band in many a song did star
With Biceps dead, and Pretty Boy fled, and Boothill claimed Bill Star
Though the best are gone, he still rides from Leeds to Carter Bar
Weedy and few his motley crew
And here they are:

His purse was lined with empty air, his wherewithall was low
The last good swag to pad his lag was 40 years ago
His motley band were out of hand, their breakfast they had missed
Then travellers two hove into view
And he challenged them like this.

The stranger turned to his lady fair
A smile played on his lips
What's the deal, are they for real
they've been taking too many trips
No gold need we, we travel free, here's something we won't miss
A treasure map from Gabby the Flap
And he gave it him like this:

His glasses perched upon his nose the map he carefully sussed
Each robber's eye filled with surprise, there's gold in it for us
The strangers waved the band goodbye but they did not see them go
Hirem got his compass out, said follow me lads, Westard Ho

Then had not gone but 20 yards when a pieman they did spy
They smacked their lips with hunger keen - my kingdom for a pie
The peddlar twinkled once or twice
Not one word did he say
With snake-like eyes he shouted 'pie'
and he struck him on the head with the tray

At that moment Hirem Pawnitof attained enlightenment.

Come on said Hirem laughing much
Let's see what's down this road
His troop were dropping, wearily stooping
men of no fixed a bode
Just then a milkmaid Hirem spied
their hearts were filled with bliss
Like long lost friends who meet again
they fondly kissed like this
I need a man around the place
the milkmaid breathed with charm
And Hirem twirled his long mustache and took her by the arm
The last we heard they all lived there
doing what the law allows
They all ate breakfast every day, happily growing cows.

Bridge Song
By Mike Heron

Beautiful Girl:
To the South a brightness
It is not the moon deep dreams unfurling
It is not the starlight far but near
I feel in my heart bright joy stirring
Look yonder love, see it comes more clear

To the South a brightness
City of light unfolds its glory
How it calls me on through the night
Pinnacles of gold, towers of the silver bright
And the soul of city calls,
Come, be my bride tonight

To the South a brightness
And I must go
The bridge opens its arms and bends low
And you my love must go where you will

See you

Seeker:
Beloved how I love, how I love
To see things through the magic of your eyes
To share things that make your spirit rise up
But try as I might, and try as I may
I can't see anything

Invocation
By Robin Williamson

you that create the diversity of the forms
open to my words
you that divide and multiply it
hear my sounds
I make yield league to you
ancient associates
and fellow wanderers
you that move the heart
in fur and scale
I join with you
you that sing bright and subtle
making shapes that my throat cannot tell
you that harden the horn
and make quick the eye
you that run the fast fox and the zigzag fly
you sizeless makers of the mole and of the whale
aid me and I will aid you

I make a blood pact with you
you that lift the blossom and the green branch
you who make symmetries more true
you who consider the angle of your limbs
who dance in slower time
who watch the patterns
you rough coated who eat water
who stretch deep and high
with your green blood
my red blood let it be mingled
aid me and I will aid you

I call upon you
you who are unconfined
who have no shape
who are not seen
but only in your action
I will call upon you
you who have no depth
but choose direction
who bring what is willed
that you blow love upon the summers of my loved ones
that you blow summers upon those loves of my love
aid me and I will aid you

I make a pact with you
you who are the liquidness of the waters
and the spark of the flame
I call upon you
you who make fertile the soft earth
and guard the growth of the growing things
I make peace with you

you who are the blueness of the blue sky
and the wrath of the storm
I take the cup of deepness with you
earthshakers
and with you the sharp and the hollow hills
I make reverence to you
round wakefulness we
call the earth
I make wide eyes to you
you who are awake
every created thing both solid and sleepy
or airy light
I weave colours round you
you who will come with me
I will consider it beauty

Robot Blues
By Robin Williamson

Down in Robot City, you might think it's play play play
Down in Robot City, you might think it's play play play
But a Number 5 Robot he must work in all the night and day

Number 1 come by, he give my work to me
Oil the flowers, fix the showers, clean the electronic trees
Shine the light, fix it right, now listen carefully
Don't you go romancing with that pretty Number Three
and that's why, why I got the Robot Blues,
Down in my heart compartment
Down in my old magnetic sole shoes

When I see that Number 3 I get charge all in my dial
When I see that Number 3 my piston fills with oil
You know what I'm talking about
But she likes that number 1 because he's rich with
all my toil toil toil

That Number 3 she charm the heart of any robot man
Moving her body like an old tin can
If I could get my claws on her
I would lubricate her free
I've got a perfect action why won't she play with me

and that's why, why I got the Robot Blues,
Down in my heart compartment
Down in my old magnetic sole shoes

Well I think I'll get a ray gun
I will see what that will do
I think I'll get a ray gun
I think I'll get a ZZ Special Q
I will blast the Number 1's gaskets
and his coils I will refuse to renew

He seen me coming, sneak up from behind
switched off my vision and he left me stone blind
I could not see to blast him
here's the ending of my tale
He went of with Number 3 and I cursed to no avail

and that's why, why I got the Robot Blues,
Down in my heart compartment
Down in my old magnetic sole shoes

Puppet Song
By Robin Williamson

Now you may have observed if you walk into a wall
you get a certain sensation of reality
when you take a look through your memory book
you may perceive a certain rhythmic regularity
the crazy things your mind gets up to when you're away
throwing clouds of rain over brightest day

there was once a little man
he worked all day and slept all night
he looked at the sun
it didn't seem bright, it didn't seen right
he wondered did the world go rolling along on its own
or did some spirit move it with a black cat bone
and he set out to find the causes behind
the events in the world
and the seasons of the mind

so he asked his wife about it, and his wife said yes
come back and see me if it's time to know less
you do too much aquestioning of the world at large
everybody knows the politician's in charge

so he went to the Kinghouse just the next day
to see that politician with his hair dyed grey
jump down turn around blow you up or kiss the ground
trying to be the president of the land so gay
he had false pretendies, I had to love his style
bound to make some havoc with that violin smile
hey, Salvador Dali, make a walking talking something
you paint some freaky pictures, make a likeness of that man
muchos dollars if you can

so the little man asked the politician who makes the plan
who makes the plan, what happens to me
and who has the key

now you are asking me who makes the scene
his highness King Gold and Madam Silver his queen
they keep it all arustling with the dollars and pounds
and everyone knows that money makes the world go round

so the little man asked King Gold and Madam Silver
come tell me what you can
and King Gold said, lifting his golden voice from his golden bed

now money is something, it's a basic flow
and me I am the archetype of jewels and dough
I do a lot of talking both slow and fast
but me make decisions, no of course it's the past
for the past is something, we all have some
and universal history is a bundle of fun
now I'm getting sleepy, starting to nod
if you want to check the picture, want to check the picture
want to check it, check it with God

so the little man climbed up on a rickety ladder, to the heavenly lands
and he shed a tear, 'it's all so queer and it doesn't seem clear'

now God was sitting easy in a heavenly chair
breathing deep and lazy on the heavenly air
the little man got near him just to get right from wrong
said 'God are you responsible for all that goes on'
God looked up from having a heavenly think
he gave that little questioner a heavenly wink, saying

'men have coloured me with the colours of their minds
so I find
they used me as an excuse for all kinds of goofs
and for crimes of all kinds
all your so hard facts painted thinly on the void
why were you not more pleasantly employed
anything you want to do, I'm happy if you make it go right
and it's true if it makes you happy you know it makes the
world more bright
and you shall have liberty
it always was yours anyway
you're one of my kind, you're an infinite mind
you make each new day
there's nothing more I can say'

Cutting The Strings
By Robin Williamson

There now, they've all gone
almost as if they never had been
I turn my eyes backwards and I gaze into my own gaze
I turn my eyes inwards and I gaze into my own face

I built my prison stone by stone
how many useless knots I tied
I dug the pitfalls in my path
how many useless tears I cried
here to build in worlds of beauty
no-one made a joy a duty
no-one, no-one but me

I saw the birds that flew so free
I envied them their grace divine
I saw the dancer's airy steps
theirs was a different world than mine
here to build in worlds of glory
no-one made my sad sad story
no-one, no-one but me

when useless walls come tumbling down
sparrows will sing on the fallen stones
Adam will pull the knife from his brow
Eve will lick the salt from his wounds
free to make my own tomorrow
free to free my heart from sorrow
free to hear and smell and see
free to be me, free to be free

I Know You
By McKechnie

I know you
through and through
Saw you kiss the flowers
For hours and hours
Saw you colour the flowers
For hours and hours

You and all the ones I've known
Shall wear my crown
Winged we were before time was
How we've flown, how we've flown

I love the others
My sisters and brothers
I love them all the more

Now that I've found you I love them all
The more.

Rainbow
By Mike Heron

Golden seeds of autumn streak the purple sky
miles of amber raindrops stretch between our hands
just then, just then
my heart lept high
beautiful colours danced
in my eye
walked to the window
looked up at the sky

As I lit an evening candle
feeling you were there with me
all around me, saw your love come shining brightly
You're a rainbow

And me I'll come shining though
Rain's gone, and the sky is blue
I'm a Rainbow too

No-one can say how long I've loved you
Rainbow shine
no-one can say cos nobody knows
Rainbow rainbow rainbow time

Morning light of springing snowdrop
golden sun - at midday hour
twilight violet
midnight stars come shining silver
you're a rainbow

and you take my breath away
you make me stop and say
I'm a rainbow too
If you see a soft light falling
And you feel I'm there with you
All those colours
They do not come from the candle, Oh no
you're a rainbow

Born are the words
On the silent wings of love
So dear to me, sweet song of love
Coloured are the words with the rainbow of truth
So dear to me
As long as I live I will sing that song so dear
So dear to me

And merging with mine the voice of all that you are will shine
so dear to me
sweet song of love

And me I'll come shining through
Rain's gone and the sky is blue
I'm a rainbow too

No-one can say how long I've loved you
rainbow shine
No-one can say, cos nobody knows
Rainbow rainbow time

Me, I'm not missing you
I'm right there kissing you
I'm a rainbow too

I can tell by your eyes
You've been singing that old sweet song
Let your love roll on
Everybody here I think will agree
That they can sing that song
As good as can be
You know I'd hate to go
I'd hate to go
Before I see everybody here
Shine like a rainbow

I have seen you there

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