Red Is A Mean, Mean Colour He can remember hearing words of wonder ";Failure is on the inside"; so often does he wonder how hard it is without a guide This manipulator of crazes he can win any race that you name like a disease he comes in stages and affects everybody the same Chorus: He's just a body, a beat-up body He gets his kicks on a fatal crash And he carries a sign that screams ";Red is a mean, mean colour !"; He keeps his money under his mattress and his conscience in his pocket he heart runs on batteries he has two eyes to each socket Now here's a thing, a very silly thing he say's it's easy easy to make a million yeah, here's a thing, avery silly thing he say's you steal from a broken brazilian Chorus: He's just a body, a beat-up body He gets his kicks on a fatal crash And he carries a sign that screams ";Red is a mean, mean colour !"; Life's a game of colours and shades Llife's an ugly hue life's a pageant that we paint. Can you remember being South of Brighton head full of floating memories swimming to the Grey Horizon trying to escape the enemy Who can quote from a thousand young poets and with a flag on his backhe can shine who has a dream but can never show it who is drunk from the Mad Man's Wine Chorus: He's just a body, a beat-up body He gets his kicks on a fatal crash And he carries a sign that screams ";Red is a mean, mean colour !" ************************************************************************ White, White Dove Rose and Cross - so is the battle lost? Is there now no time to jive? Rose and Cross - you know the price it's cost? But the hope is still, the hope is still alive Rosicrucius - is your story told? Or is there still more to come? Rosicrucius - from my simple soul I shall eat the morning, eat the morning sun Chorus: If I was ordered not to travel another mile If I was told I could never see another city There is one thing I'll always hold, that's the smile Of the symbol that is peace, the white, white dove Rose and Cross - can we ever toss All our prejudice aside? Rose and Cross - turn this petty loss into hope and glory, hope and glory with pride? Rosicrucians - paint your symbols fair write your verses in the sand Rosicrucians - you missed Baudelaire But we still extend, we still extend our hand... *********************************************************************** Understand Shall I begin from here to tell everything ? Relinquish honour in order to make it ring ? You'd have to give me your promise You won't expect too much from this You'll just be happy with the gold that I bring We've been playing cat and mouse now for far too long I can't let it simmer and just go gruelling on I have to make my move I've still got so much to prove You can't imagine the life that I've had Chorus: If I could put the words together If I could put the words together If only i could put the words together You'd understand You've been a magnet stuck in my memory I'd hide if i could but I'm red in a yellow sea Consider me lost in aspic (I'd give in but that's not my schtick) You'll haunt me for ever, I know you will Chorus: If I could put the words together If I could put the words together If only i could put the words together You'd understand ************************************************************************ All Men Are Hungry Was in the early evening and the sun was punching into my head outside a Stockholm cafe at the river's edge we sat and smiled we said how rich we were and how warm we felt with a cognac heart talked over women in a lonely voice and began to jive All the men are hungry, all the men are in search of time Was in a scene from ";Death in The Afternoon"; when I almost cried i realized Papa wanted me to live in his Bull Ring Life it made me hungry for Peace and it made me wild and tore my heart it didn't help to wipe away the fears like he often claimed All the men are hungry, all the men are in search of time Was in a frenzy from the Midnight air when I saw the light i realized only children can live upon a Timeless Flight it made me hungry for youth and it made me sad and made me laugh to think that as we live and learn we only follow God's path All the men are hungry, all the men are in search of time All the men are hungry, all the men are in search of time ************************************************************************ Black Or White (And Step On It) Behind the wall the ears of love are listening Behind the door they kneel Behind the boy from whom we steal Behind the dark, deserted halls of memory Inside the sound: ";Ahoy ! ";We have just landed for employ ";We need your hands to carru us to our joy"; To black or White And step on it Black or White Between the Shadow and Uncertain Colour Between the Word and Sign Between the Man and all his Time Between the Sidewalk and the Moving Stairway Between the Yay and Nay ! There falls the Thruth we aim to slay There falls the Thruth we do so righteous flay Come Black or White And step on it Black or White Until we gather Life and all our Dreams Until we cool the heat Until we share our cup of Meat Until the Trail of Waste is put to stud Until we drift away Towards the picture in the frame Our celebratian comes a Game to Play Just Black or White And step on it Black or White ************************************************************************ Everything Changes I can remember heaven it came to me only seven years ago when I was a lad and from the professionals I got fired Had a good time in a way took a different trip a day buried the fear that I was only here to be borrowed or hired Chorus: Oh what a shame, nothing can stay the same (Shame ! Shame !) Young enough to have some fun old enough to hold a gun I can remember playing games with pistols not so long ago Many times I reminisce about this solitude and bliss we enjoyed as children O did we really have to grow ? Chorus: Oh what a shame, nothing can stay the same (Shame ! Shame !) She came to me soft, asunder showed me the distant thunder blue told me the clouds could help us all told me the Prophet says the Man is deep in you I took a sonic pill and slept begged her never tell then wept any friend or enemy of me could only lend you a clue.... Chorus: Oh what a shame, nothing can stay the same (Shame ! Shame !) ************************************************************************ Nothing Is Sacred (It's Everything Else) As the sun was coming up on the Danube, the hotel room was alive it's heart was beating hard as thunder, there were three of us there for the night and we were talking about the magnificent River of Strauss we were saying that nothing is sacred, it's everything else We put a match to a candle and watched it flicker and spark we just stared at ourselves until we couldn't keep our tired eyelids apart then someone (I think it was me) said: ";Somehow this is rich, ";we're sitting here on thr Danube and nobody noticed the Blue Water Bitch"; Ohh la la, it's fun to be so kitsch We went out to the balcony, the Danube a glorius flame we tookpolaroid pictures and swore that we're never again going to be the same It was a moment when nothing was stirring save these two and me and the clouds were beginning to gather and crash overhead from the glorius sea We swayed to and fro and talked of Michaelangelo and of how there was too much beauty here to take it in one go then from a corner a tap on the door put the room in a flood there was God in my mind but the problem was water - not blood ! Ohh la la , it's fun to drink of blood They ran around me, demented, white lightning flashed in their heads i was getting bewildered, put on my armour, I was scared of attack from the reds and with a pound lodged in mu nose I felt kind of rich and serene i yelled: "; Lenny, come quick, get the other boy, take him out of this scene !"; When he disappeared, there was only Lenny and me and we hit on a thousand subjects at once in spite of the dusky beat then Lenny opened his eye for a second and pulled down the blind saying: ";Go if you must but you know you'll always be easy to find"; Ohh la la, it's fun to make it blind We heard Phaedre speak of the Philistines of Paris but she talked to herself like a Parasite so we both struggled free I said: ";Zizi Jeanmaire wouldn't take this and neither will we ";If they call me Napoleon again I'll be forced to let the lion free ";I'll tear down all the paper walls they hide behind ";I'll be damned if I'll take much more of this, I'm beginning to see the signs"; then I glanced at Lenny and saw that my confidante was beginning to jest well, he came out of my subconscious and that's where i put him away to rest Ohh la la, it's so fun to be depressed I can't get over my beginnings, I can't imagine my end I want to escape this wilderness I'm living in, I want to be somebody's friend I could do with a little peace, O Lord, and my heart cries out for love but to realise all of one's fantasies hasgot to be too much ************************************************************************ Don't Go, Don't Cry I was a drifter in a rock 'n' roll safari took a fancy to an ape in Malawi who kissed my head and my eyes went all starry and so I ran and was screaming ";Where the hell are we ?" " Don't go, don't cry !" There was a tiger I fought for the glory the bloody battle was fierce and was gawry was like a scene from a Kipling story he sucked my blood like he's eating Tandoori " Don't go, don't cry !" I took a plane and was greeted in England by many people and my spine started tingling they stole my time and they all started mingling i ran so hard that my feet started stinging " Don't go, don't cry !" ************************************************************************ The Mad, Mad Moonlight It was just like a dream, yeah, a surreal scene, like a blue orange I thought my senses had gone, like i was writing a song about a foot-long syringe And she said, ";Hello, dear, it's my party ";So i hope you'll be smart, hee hee And i said,";I don't know, but i think I'll go fix me a stiff drink" Well, I sat there and stared, because at first i was scared of this female Tarzan And while she talked with the apes about champagne and grapes, i approached her garden And she said,";Now, now, don't try to leave me, ";It's unfair to deceive me ";I could kill if you try to escape me, come upstairs my friend" Now i knew, i knew, i couldn't be that mean, so i tried, yeah i really tried to leave her but she was a big, big, big, big girl, big girl Hurled out the door, it was becoming more of a test of honour Would i go, would i stay, could i do it all day and be a certain gonnor And she said,";Now you're so young and tender, ";And don't be concerned with my gender It was hard but i managed to send her away up to those fluffy white clouds It was hard on the brain but I would do it again for the satisfaction She weighed 203 but that was OK by me, there was lots of action And she said,";Shall we dance in the moonlight ";It would be so nice on a June night But i said,";If it's OK by you, I'll just sit here a take me a rest"