daevid allen: Good Morning!

Children of the New World | Good Morning | Spirit | Song of Satisfaction | Have You Seen My Friend? | French Garden | Wise Man In Your Heart | She Doesn't She

Children of the New World - daevid allen

Tell me what's it all about
What is this funny old world that 
We can't do without
Tell me why we argue like we do.
We rob & rape & kill & still don't understand
We only rob ourselves
& then we wonder why we suffer like we do
soon we'll remember
& understand
THE CHILDREN OF THE NEW WORLD
& THE DIFFERENT GAMES THEY PLAY
cos we made love all the night time
turned out to be the right time
 
now there's children everywhere

Tell me where you're really from
What is this funny old world the human race has won
Tell me why to die fills us with fear
Its not the first its not the last time we'll be born
Our turn will come again
Pick up put down those clothes of human flesh we wear
Slowly we're learning
To understand
THE CHILDREN OF THE NEW WORLD
ARE THE CHILDREN OF TODAY
Soon they'll begin
Revolutionizing 
& reorganising
 
As the old world fades away 
Lets start today

Good Morning - daevid allen

Good morning...good morning...
Hey ho the cock will crow
An opening eye
A peeping toe
All the world is waking up & coming true now...
Ahhhhh...
I propose a buttered toast to marmalade
Instead of going back to bed
Until you hear the bell
You know the show must go on
s'what the showman said
or else the night may never come again
if the clock's on strike as well
ding dong bell
but who cares how
it's now
it's now
yesterday's tomorrow
time to follow the path
right down the straight & narrow
Ishq! Moksha!

Daevid:
But fears & tears

& how many years gone who knows where…

Anna:
look here
look there
you're everywhere

Daevid:
And the poor & the war and the jaws of death!
Who asked for more?

Anna:
It's you. It's me. We ask for more!

Daevid:
What for...?
We gonna get... it pretty soon now if we let it...
But its THEM they say
The great grey THEY!
But who are they but us & me & you too

EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK ITS YOU
ME MULTIPLIED BY YOU
ITS NOTHING NEW

So love yr lady love yr man
& asking for nothing in return...
nothing.

cuz in your face the human race
is happening in some funny place
well...no man can explain it
cuz it such a crazy old planet
maybe soon there won't be anyone left on it
Now dreamin' a dream
That everything I'm saying
Doesn't mean what it seems to mean
Doesn't seem what it seems to be
I'M GOIN CRAZY!!

Anna:
Why do you burn, oh man you should know
That everything is sure to change
If you could simply smile 
You'll end up laughing at yourself...

Chorus:
Well its only the world said the girl...

Spirit - daevid allen

Spirit of the solar light
Spirit of the sky blue sky
Spirit of the cosmic ray
I work my way to you
Inside me
You guide me
To walk with you a while

(shadowself:)
You with your god & yr mothers & yr brothers & yr fool moon powers & yr mainline station meditations
You with yr pen & yr zen & yr Om & yr lotus coitus surplus mucous
You with yr true blue zero the hero yr picturebook of pixies & Gong gone wrong
& ding dang no more sing song
You with yr new dude king guru gonna send you a miracle you believe it

know its true blue green grey black is the colour of your eyes closed...

Spirit of the solar light
Spirit of the sky blue sky
Spirit of the cosmic ray
I work my way to you
Beside me
You guide me
To sing my love for humankind

Here comes the day...

Song of Satisfaction - daevid allen

have you seen the moon tonight
it's very nearly full
so eat & drink your fill
for soon twill come to pass
the king will feed the grass
& sacrifice his personality
to the tree
to the sea
cos 'its not me...'
oh no personality
will never pass for me 
because I'm 
really the grass

sing a song of satisfaction
here turns the worm
pockets full of sperm
& seas that tilt & spill
while we go through the mill
& leave the cosmic bill for someone else
to feel the pulse
to make the choice
& waltz the night away
who pays?
Not me anyway 
not today thanks
I've other fish to fry
Now I must fly
flyyyyyy

Have You Seen My Friend? - daevid allen

Have you seen my friend
She's gone round the bend
& I'm wonderin if she's OK
Very strange...

She's a kind of witch
She can be a bitch 
But I'm wondering if she's OK
Very strange...

She's left her family her body & her mind
I'm finding her footprints are pretty hard to find
I hope you don't think I'm unkind
She reminds me of you

Have you seen my friend
She's gone round the bend
& I'm wonderin if she's OK
Very strange...

She's left her family her body & her mind
I'm finding her footprints are pretty hard to find
I hope you don't think I'm unkind
She reminds me of you

French Garden - daevid allen

In a French garden by the sea
Sittin up there in an old oak tree
Looking out over the straights of Dover
Wonderin how I can 
Get back over to

See you
Sittin in your bed
Be there

In a little café by the Zeider Zee
Sitting there dreaming of a cup of English Tea
Lying there looking for a four leaf clover
Waiting for an albatross to carry me over

You gotta prove you're a millionaire
They search you for thoughts 
& they measure your hair
They say it’s a question of all the clothes you wear
Who knows you there 
The clothes you wear...

Well I was sitting in this French garden by the sea
& I was sittin up high in this old oak tree
& I was looking out over the straights of Dover
Wonderin how I could 
Get back over to see you
But there was this strange old fashioned 
Customs service stopping me

See you...
Sittin in your bed...
Be there...

Wise Man In Your Heart - daevid allen, mike howlett, pierre moerlen

I met a man a wise old man
The day I lost my pride
He told me he belonged to me
But from me he would hide
But that I would not hear his voice
Until I learned to sing
Now every time I sing I know that I belong to him

Singing Oh why
Singing Oh why

He told me he would teach me everything I tried to know
He made me see that you & me are dreamers in a show
& when the days were darkest then
He lit them with his moon
& then we crossed the rainbow bridge
& we came back too soon

Singing Oh why
Singing Oh why

He showed me where he was Atman
That man I could not see
He pointed to the sky until
A ladder I could see
I climbed for many lives to find the secret golden flower
But then I woke & found I'd slept for less than half an hour

Where is your wise man?
How is the wise man?
Who is this wise man?
Who is this wise man?

He brought us all together then 
When I was all alone
He made me see that we could not
Be only flesh & bone

Well it makes you feel so beautiful
You can tell yourself apart
Every time you listen to
The wise man in your heart

She Doesn't She - daevid allen

she turns like a windmill
she flips like a butterfly
she turns like the water down deep in the morning
she breaks like the glass of the waterfall milky way
slowly I swim her my curds in her whey

she doesn't she doesn't she doesn't she doesn't
she doesn't she doesn't she doesn't 
she does

she smiles like a lizard &
breeds like a legend she
talks with her wizard
& he tunes her engine
she knows how to swim
so she makes herself vanish
till a true pothead pixie has learned to speak Spanish

ah sweet mystery of life at last I've found you……

she doesn't she doesn't she doesn't she doesn't
she doesn't she doesn't she doesn't 
she does...