Dreamin' a Dream

1. Dear Friends | 2. High Points | 3. Brothers | 4. Big Daddy | 5. Wot's The Use | 6. Garden Song | 7. Came To Find You | 8. The Rapist | 9. Sittin in a Teashop | 10. Fire Becomes Her | 11. No One's Slave | 12. Tor Song | 13. Dear Friends

1. Dear Friends - traditional

dear friends dear friends 
let me tell you how i feel 
you have given me so much pleasure 
i love you so  

2. High Points

when the rich man makes his fortune 
pops the best champagne 
when the sick man cures his illness 
conquerer of pain 
these are the high points of our lives 

for the warrior its the danger 
edge of life and death 
schoolboy immitate TV ranger 
watch him hold his breath 
these are the high points of our lives 

fashion model fame and beauty 
flash in the peter pan 
theres no body can sustain it 
cash in perfect hands 
these are the high points of our lives 

for the seeker its the melting 
in samadhi's flame 
for the baby its the mother 
callin out their name 
these are the high points of our lives 

find her in the sunset 
find her in the rain 
find her in the lake's reflection 
lookin for yrself again 
these are the high points of our lives 

but when the show is over 
and everybody's gone 
the sole remaining waiter 
slyly dons his early morning madness 
and begins to scree-am! 

3. Brothers

i'm singin a song about a lonely guy 
walking alone in the rain 
he looks at the faces as they wander by 
but they're all the same 

his friends in his hometown are far away 
his lovers are lost in a dream 
he turns and he walks into a parlour game 
he puts his hands out to touch 
what he wants O so much 
but its all double dutch 
oh oh 
what should he do know 
could this be you 

so teach me about emotions oo oo ooh 
laugh at my devotion oo oo ooh 
when god knows i've tried 
to walk side by side 
and keep my feelings inside of me 

oh my poor brothers my friends 
the women just ain't who they used to be 
relationship's come to an end 
without dignity 

oh what it was to be a man 
so proud so respected so strong 
so tell me where did we go wrong 
where the women give birth 
and inherit an earth 
where a man has no worth 
oh oh 
the game is over 
no pleasing her 
you know 
the pleasers are the losers oo oo ooh 
the abused become the abusers oo oo ooh 

maybe i'm a fool 
mute as a mule 
keepin my cool 

poor men 
the women just aint who they used to be 
nobody told me nothin bout that 

my momma she done told me 
SITDOWN there & EAT YR TEA boy 
take off yr DIRTY SOX & leave em t'ME boy 
you better GET yr SeLF a GAL To CaRE for 
YE boy 

but 

"My GAL.. 
talkin bout ..MY gal..." 
SHE RECKONS SHE 
AINT 
MyGaL... 
& BOY!... 
HAS SHE GOT 
ANGER!!! 
wheeeeeeeoooow!!! 
ANGER BECAUSE I GOT EXPECTATIONS 
ANGER COS I WANT SEX-UAL RELATIONS 
ANGER COS SHE SAY I DONT OWN HER 
ANGRY COS I DONT OWN MY OWN BONER 
but 

WAIT A MINUTE MAMA! 
YOU JUST LED ME 
RIGHT UP THE GARDEN PATH 
& INTO THE DOGHOUSE... 

SO FUCK YOU MAMA!!! 

POOR GUYS ! 
POOR BOYS ! 

WOMEN ARE NOT WHO THEY USED TO BE! 

NO WOMAN NO CRY... 

BUT HEY! MAN! C'M ON!! 
don't 
be 
put 
down 
GET UP AGAIN! 
I DONT WANNA 
'SEE YOU OUT-SIDE' 
I WANNA 
SEE YOU INSIDE-OUT 
WITH YOUR 
DOUBTS HANGIN OUT ! 
WITH YR HANG UPS HELD HIGH ! 
HEY MEN! 
LETS 
HANG TOGETHER 
& 
LET GO 
AGAIN 
& 
AGAIN 
& 
AGAIN 
& 
AGAIN 

4. Big Daddy

i dont wanna be your big daddy baby 
i don't wanna be yr little boy 
i dont wanna be some kind of revolutionary 
just to smash up all yr latest toys 
i dont wanna be some kinda big boss either 
just to hire you and fire you and 
rob you of your freedom of choice 
i dont wanna be some kinda headmaster either 
tellin you what to do with my righteous voice 
i dont wanna be some kind of big brother watching you 
in control of everything 
around and around and around and around the ground sound 
brown sound 
i dont wanna be some kind of earth mother clutchin you 
aint gonna be my gig pullin you 
down down down down 
well 
you gotta do 
wotcha gotta do 
wotcha gotta do 
wotcha gotta do 
watcha gotta do 
but please stop tellin me 
you wanna be freeeeeee 

5. Wot's The Use

wots the use of freedom 
when theres no idea of change 
& wots the use of money 
when success is out of range 
& wots the use of time 
when youre just stoned out of your mind 
& wots the use of working 
when its just a daily grin 
and me i'm dreamin a dream 
that everything i'm thinking 
doesnt mean what it seems to be 

spinoza eats his yoghurt with 
some rad designer dyke 
while k d laing tells sharon stone 
just get on your bike baby 
& neitze's's reading superman 
but who's this guy clark kent? 
while the daughters of the patriarchy 
spend themselves in tents 
and me i'm dreamin a dream 
that everything i'm dreamin about 
doesn't mean what it seems to mean 

power dressing pussycat 
always in control 
while life style therapists 
take oprah winfrey's soul 
while crystal healing dolphin jesus 
sends a psychic fax 
while a fascist boy soprano 
stabs madonna in the back 
but me i'm dreamin a dream 
that everything i'm seeing 
doesn't mean what it seems to mean 

well its no use baby i dont care 
if the moon's too fat 
& the sun's gone square 
& you can cry dry tears 
& you can sigh thin air 
but y still gotta live until y die oh yeh 

so wots the use of freedom 
when theres no idea of change 
& wots the use of money 
when success is out of range 
& wots the use of time 
when youre just stoned out of your mind 
& wots the use of working 
when its just a daily grind 
and me i'm dreamin a dream 
that everything i'm thinking 
doesnt mean what it seems to be 

6. Garden Song

what shall we grow in your garden my dear 
if my seed comes to breed in your nursery? 
a dolphin or a deva or a true devotee 
that your love may never grow thirsty 

for a soul is so real and so whole and so free 
and a body is so frail 
and so human are we 
are we dreaming? 
is this the earth dreaming too? 
will we live till we die 
wondering why 
or will we learn to grow 
day by day by day by day by day 

with the fruit of yr labour asleep at yr breast 
will you nurture them softly and quietly? 
and when next thing 
the offspring have flown from the nest 
can you love them and let them go quietly? 

for a soul is so real and so whole and so free 
and a body is so frail 
and so human are we 
are we dreaming? 
is this the earth dreaming too? 
will we live till we die 
wondering why 
or will we learn to grow 
day by day by day by day by day 

and here comes the autumn when leaves turn to gold 
and the waning moon silvers me lightly 
in the afternoon sun its good fun to grow old 
as you hold me and lie with me quietly 
for yr love is so real and so whole and so free 

and a body is so frail 
and so human are we 
are we dreaming? 
is this the earth dreaming too? 
will we live till we die 
wondering why 
or will we learn to grow 
day by day by day by day by day 

and when old father time rings the chimes of my years 
and i see my life turning around me 
when you lay me down in your garden my dear 
will you kiss me and let me go lightly? 

for a death is so real and so whole and so free 
and a body is so frail 
and so human are we 
are we dreaming? 
is this the earth dreaming too? 
will we live till we die 
wondering why 
or will we learn to grow 
day by day by day by day by day 

7. Came To Find You

i came to find her 
far across the world i came 
lookin for my lover 
lost shadow in the world game 

the time she left me i was 
burnin like a bird on fire 
puppet on a melting wire 
windup spring unwound 

she found love the 
dancing on a money box 
tying up the thought fox 
givin me the runaround 

gender gap tender spot 
she loved me she loved me not 
turnin on her heel she got 
married on the rebound 

but now i'm sittin here having coffee with you 
wondering how you feel today 
do you still have sugar in yr cappuccino? 
do yr eyes still flutter away? 
i'm feelin like a man that fell to earth 
doesnt recognise the pulse 
i'm startin to wonder just who we are 
i tried to find you 
now i'm tryin to convince myself 
that i'm not somebody else 

old age new age 
trap the bird inside the cage 
pleasing daddy leads to rage 
theatre in the round eye 
blazing crazy 

happy sad time bomb 
swingin on a pendulum 
who can calculate the sum 
sleepin with the outcome's 
easy peasy 

say cheese smile please 
bare yr teeth but not yr soul 
sex & hugs & shock control 
tryin hard pushin for yr own space 

fear of not enough for me 
left alone without a lover 
moving target finds its cove 
livin 'tween a cushion and a soft place 

you say you will no longer walk the path of fear 
step out of nintendo game 
warrior woman will shed no tears 
she will generate no blame 
but time is a river of deep belief 
head above the surface or drown 
to swim back upstrea 
tryin to grasp a past dream 
i tried to find you but 
its hard to face the fact 
that in this fiction 
i'm living on your own 

here i sit now 
in a theatre in the round 
watch you dance without a sound 
are we dead or are we in the dreamtime? 

fellow travellers round yr fire 
watch you walk the high thought wire 
watchin for the flyer to inspire us real time 

they come to see and to be seen 
the real dramas they play between 
the acts and encores 'tween the scenes 
read between the songlines 

to show yr vulnerability 
demands intense humility 
cos human fallibility 
knows self esteem is simply mainly 
ego there you go 
most of the time 

once i was a teacher in a circle of ghosts 
none of them believed they were dead 
i closed my eyes and took em to the mountain but 
we went down a stairway instead 
we dug up our bodies and many old fears 
shook out dusty wings to fly 
i began to wonder what i was doing this for 
but i forgot to ask them then 
just what its like to die 

8. The Rapist

the rapist is counting his sentences 
while his victim sits sketching his face 
she tries to forget 
but his eyes will not let her 
let go of his lingering trace 

& the wise woman sleeps by the river 
& she dreams she's the riverbird diving for fish 
& the lightning's along the horizon 
& the fool he sits drinking his poison 
& the judge he is losing his reason 
& the rapist re-lives and believes his belief 
that he fulfils her subconscious wish 

the woman is washing her body 
she is beating a path to the well 
she douches and showers 
each two or three hours 
but she can't get away from his smell 

& the old man makes love to his daughter 
the volcano breaks crust with its crater 
& the first lights of home have been sighted again 
but the jury is getting excited 
& the rapist just wants to repeat it again 
& the all masculine panel is a no exit tunnel 
& she feels violated again and again 

now the lady is angry with penises 
the lady is angry with me 
she burns thru my actions 
she lives my destruction 
as i temper myself till i'm free 

& the cat it has captured the hummingbird 
& the snake it has entered the tower 
& the rapist he dreams he is back at the scene 
in his moment of dangerous power 
the boy he makes love to his mother 
& his mother turns into a spider 
the spider stings smack 
as he blows off his stack 
& his line is plugged into the meter 

& the young girl she weeps in the garden 
& the flowers are broken and crushed 
the wise women are watching and waiting 
for the male world to crash 
as it must 

9. Sittin in a Teashop

sitting in a teashop drinkin' cups a tea 
get yerself together quick before it gets too early 
you must be jokin! 
theres no more tea? 
you must be jokin! 
i'm only dreamin 

sittin in a coffee shop 
drinkin my coffee 
pardon my hysteria 
its the caffein you see 

you must be jokin! 
no more coffee? 
you must be jokin! 
i'm only dreamin... 

o ladies! your eyes are gleaming 
ho gentlemen! please! no more creaming there c'mon 
well things aint wot they seem to be in here 
what is this some kinda singles bar or something? 
i dunno wot i'm doing here anyway 
i'm late for tomorrow!!! 

you must be jokin! 
theres no more tea? 
you must be jokin! your only dreamin... 

o mother! 
how could you forget me like this 
godfather?? 
you're out to get me you old barstard i know 
everytime i see a movie with james cagney, frank sinatra... 
you could wipe my tears away! 
..huh.. i could cry like a baby...!! 

sittin in a coffee shop etc 

10. Fire Becomes Her

wani in the candle light 
turi by fire light 
never give up the fight 
see the shadows on the wall 
just waiting for a chance 
to dance with you in your dream 
fire 
becomes 
you 

11. No One's Slave - theo simon

no one's slave i am 
no one's master 
no one's slave i am 
no one's master 
on my grave they will 
write this after i am gone 
i will be gone 
and my flesh will go to the earth it lived on 
breath will go to the air it lived from 
i am through with the pain of my lying 
had my fill of the cruelty and crying 
paid my dues 
in the land where the dying desert grows 
& now i know 
i am looking out for a new perspective 
listening out for a new directive 
going back to the land of my mothers 
i will walk with my sisters and brothers 
we will share what is good for each other in our love 
it is a love 
it is a love that brings you the invitation 
listen now to my invocation 
mother earth i was nearly the end of you 
please accept my desire to be friends with you 
now i know just how much i depend on you for life 
you are my life 
you are that life that grows in the flesh i'm weaving 
life that blows in the air i'm breathing 
i'm as strong as a tree on a mountain 
free and full as a fresh flowing fountain 
bright and clear as the stars beyond 
shining in the night 
i am that light 
i am the light that shines in a million people 
in my sight every life is equal 
no one's slave i am no ones master 
no one's slave i am no one's master 
on my grave 
they will write this 
after i am gone 
i will be gone 

12. Tor Song

the earth is still 
i hold my breath beneath the holy hill 
the light is frail 
and i can barely see to light my way 
the moon is new 
no magick could explain this dream i'm in 
i kiss the hill 
we ride the tor through whirlpool seas of mist 
o lady of the grove i serve you still 

lost in an ancient world 
i see yr face 
eye of the goddess 
waking deep in space 
seed in the womb of life's eternal grace 

to seek and find and seek again 
to find the heart and hope of men 
the way is long and hard and then 
O lady maiden mother crone 
queen of the night 

there is no greater joy 
than lost within my lover 
no mystery is she 
the one within my other 

we seek the gate 
the keeper of the way whispers us through 
we walk the maze 
adrift in time and space we're dancing through 
this dream of you 

lost in an ancient world i see your face 
eye of the goddess 
waking deep in space 
seed in the womb of life's eternal grace 

to seek and find and seek again 
to find the heart and hope of men 
the way is long and hard and then 
O lady maiden mother crone 
Queen of the night 

there is no greater joy 
than lost within my lover 
no mystery is she 
the one within my other 

13. Dear Friends - traditional

dear friends dear friends 
let me tell you how i feel 
you have given me so much pleasure 
i love you so