something in the sky
waiting there for me
The antelope grows hurling back
the servicemen would like to sigh
the memory went flowing rounds
as Lucy in the sky
Oh oh did you ever know
no never ever will they ascend
Summoning in his cosmic powers
and flowing slightly from his toes
psychedelic nations fly
REMEMBER A DAY
Remember a day before today
a day when you were young
renew a play along with time
evening with a thyme
Sing now a song that can't be sung
without a morning's kiss
dream you shall be it if you wish
look for your king
Why can't we play today
why can't we stay that way
Climb your fatal apple tree
try to catch the sun
hide from your little brother's gun
dream yourself away
Why can't we reach the sun
why can't we blow the years away
go away
remember remember
SET THE CONTROLS FOR THE HEART OF THE SUN
Little by little the night turns around
counting the leaves which tremble in the dawn
notices leaning on each other and yearning
under the leaves the swallow is resting
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
On to the mountain watching the Watcher
breaking the darkness, breaking the grapevine
the moment your flaw is run to your shadow
notice the shadow that reopens the vine
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
heart of the sun
Breaking the shape of his questions for ever
when the sun will fall in the evening
will he remember the lesson I gave him
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
heart of the sun
CORPORAL CLEGG
Corporal Clegg had a wooden leg
he won it in the war in nineteen forty four
Corporal Clegg had a medal too
in orange and in blue, he found it in the zoo
Dear oh dear, oh are they really sad for me
dear oh dear, oh will they really laugh at me
Mrs. Clegg, you must be proud of him
mrs. Clegg, another drop of gin
Corporal Clegg, umbrella in the rain
he's never been the same but no one is to blame
Corporal Clegg received his medal in a dream
from Her Majesty the Queen, his boots were very clean
SEE-SAW
Fairly girls were very much in love
but he doesn't mind
pickin' up his sister
makes his way to the see-saw land
all the way she smiled
she goes up while he goes down
Sits on a snake in the river
laughter in his sleeves
sister's throwing stones
hoping for a hit
he doesn't know, so there
she goes up while he goes down
Another time, another day
her brother's plain to me
another time, another day day day
She was selling plastic flowers
on a sunday afternoon
pickin' up me, she has not got the time to care
all can see, he's not there
she grows up for another man and he's down
JUGBAND BLUES
It's awfully considerate of you to think of me here
and I'm most obliged to you for making it clear
that I'm not here
and I never knew the room could be so big
and I never knew the room could be so blue
and I'm grateful that you threw away my old shoes
and brought me here instead dressed in red
And I'm wandering who could be writing this song
I don't care if the sun don't shine
I don't care if nothing is mine
and I don't care I'm nervous with you
I'll do my loving in the winter
And the sea isn't green
and I love the queen
and what exactly is a dream
and what exactly is a joke
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‘69
CIRRUS MINOR
In a churchyard by a river
lazing in the haze of midday
laughing in the grasses and the graves
Yellow bird you are not lonely
in singing and in flying on
in laughing and in leaving
Willow weeping in the water
waving to the river-daughters
swaying in the ripples and the wreaths
On a trip to Cirrus Minor
saw a crater in the sun
a thousand miles of moonlight later
THE NILE SONG
I was standing by the Nile
when I saw the lady smile
I would take her out for a while, for a while
like tears that like a child
how her golden hair was blowing wild
then she spread her wings to fly, for to fly
soaring high above the breezes
going always where she pleases
She will make it to the island in the sun
I will follow her in her shadow
and I'll watch her from my window
one day I will catch her
She is calling from the deep
summoning my soul to endless sleep
she is bound to drag me down, drag me down.
CRYING SONG
We smile and smile
laughter echoes in your eyes
We climb and climb
fruit falls softly in the pines
We cry and cry
sadness passess in a while
We roll and roll
help me roll away the stone
GREEN IS THE COLOUR
Heavy hung the canopy of blue
shade my eyes and I can see you
white is the light that shines through the dress that you wore
She lay in the shadow of a wave
hazy were the visions overplayed
sunlight in her eyes, but moonshine made her cry every time
Green is the colour of her kind
quickness of the eye deceives the mind
envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned
CYMBALINE
The path you tread is narrow and the trumpets sheer and very high
the ravens all are watching from a vantage point nearby
apprehension creeping like a tube train up your spine
will the tight rope reach the end, will the final couplet rhyme
And it's high time, Cymbaline
please wake me
A butterfly with broken wings is falling by your side
the 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
please wake me