Mother Gong: Magenta - She Made The World

Magenta | Water | She Made The World | The Weather | Malicious sausage | Spirit Calling | Tattered Jacket | When the Show is Over | I Am A Witch

1. Magenta

(to be posted)

2. Water

Water Water 
give me some water 
slip molecules 
flow deep and strong 
blue miracle 
permeating everything 
rising in fine tubes 
brusting surface like balloons 
the deep currents are my limbs 
flow fishlike through my feeling hands 
molecules slip glide parting streams 
around my liquid being in my skin 
so thin 
and inside more water 
water flows round endlessly, lovingly 
give me some water 
water water water 

3. She Made The World

She made the world 
She is the great goddess 
She made the world 
The life force in trees and 
the great rhythms of tides that follow her bleeding. 

Once she was everywhere 
men and women lived in her seasons 
she loved where she would 
unhindered by priests 
robbing her blessings 
What is she, mother goddess? 
She is trees and seas and 
rocks and fish and horses foaling 
dogs whelping, hens laying 
flowing into the bliss of ever leaf. 

Father God roars 
I am a jealous God, there 
is no other God dbut me. 
I will destroy my enemies 
With rockets and missiles. 
I will change the nature of birth 
So that Eve can be born from Adam. 
I will trample all female 
things under my feet. 
I will burn the witches and the forests, 
I will poison the breeding fish 
in the overflowing seas 
I father god will build a world 
made of concrete and chamicals. 
Whe does not resist me, 
Why do I hear her laughter? 
It threatens my order, my rule. 

Part II

He is a jealous god, 
Thou shalt have no other gods than he, 
And in his lonely world 
He will be strangled by his jealousy. 

Isis and Nephys have gone 
Selene sings a silent song, 
And in his lonely world, 
No life stirs...no life stirs. 

He came down from the fire 
and slew his ancient anemies 
Women and children died 
There were none left alive. 

And now he rules the earth 
Laughs at the pain of birth, 
but lately starts to see, 
the path of destiny. 

Isis and Nephys return, 
Persephone fills her sacred urn, 
Selene sings her song 
She sings us peace. 

Brother god, brother god, open your arms, 
Sister goddess loves you, 
Let us augment each other and not diminish 
each other at all, 
So that together we can flow, 
Like the river in Tao... 

4. The Weather

The weather 
why is the weather 
the weather? 
how is the weather? 
it's hot, it's hot, it's very stormy 
o it's warm, getting warmer 
getting warm! it's hot 
it's very hot...it's so hot 
I'm going to sleep in the fridge 

I'm cooll... it's so cool.. 
but getting hotter...

5. Malicious sausage

Today 
Was like wrestling 
with a huge sausage 
slippery and fat 
a confetti of intentions 
vacuumed inside its thick pink skin 
I think about the infinite 
but walk about 
in the shiny pink shoes 
of today. 

6. Spirit Calling

Hello this is your spirit speaking 
down your telephone of ancient memories... 
hello...this is your spirit calling 
though it's hard to get a line, 
it seems you're busy all the time. 
But the overview is simply stunning 
If you cared to step my way. 
Just remember I'm your lifeline, 
Through the madness of the say. 

Hello...this is your spirit calling 
though I'm sometimes named as God. 
spelt backward..."dog"...well, I like dogs, 
God for that matter is a dog as much as a priest 
and a priest is a tree and a tree is a church 
but who wants stone churches anyway? 
They are only our fears made rigid, 
Hopes fixed in brick for the eternity of 
an artificial paradise full of 
righteous headmasters-policemen priests, 
and hollow women who have never"sinned". 

Hello, hello, your spirit speaking 
The line just jammed...I wonder why? 
are policemen priests still tapping it? 
Trust your telephone of ancient memories 
it has all the info past and present 
and the truth of life's impermanence. 
More seriously we take it all 
more silly we become...especially 
those headmasters hoping for a higher job. 
They'd like to take over the job of god 
but all life is god even to the dog 
there's nowhere to go in that hierarchy 
so let's get down to some serious play...

your spirit signing off...

8. Tattered Jacket - Gilli Smyth and Daevid Allen

why does it have to be like this, he said.. 
He said, raising his voice 
Through clenched teeth the bitter syllables drop 
Remains the fiery eye... 
There is no salve, love, love is no salve 
Love is the silver mouths 
that soak the hurt 
that balance the upright tree. 
The bedclothes of the afternoon stiff ghosts 
still play dead fists between the walls 
of our extravagance. 

He walks, 
dumb bones in mumbled skin, 
he is gone. 

I sit, 
Leaden head on iron hands, 
he is gone. 

The day is a burst balloon 
and the house emply. 

You stride endlessly down the road of rubber shreds 
Kicking away the rags of the days tattered jacket. 

We have won, 
We are together, 
And yet, 
And yet...

10. When the show is over

When the show is over all the people go home 
When the people go home the lights are turned off, 
The candles blown out, the curtains drawn... 
Do our shiny images that we felt so deeply 
hang in the smoke filled silent air? 
Are passionate words forgotten as the 
audience drifts into their individual dreams? 
comfortable in their doonas, only 
half remembering what was said. 
I want to shoot words like fast arrows swift and telling 
or am I merely yet another entertainer? 
My anger, my pain, my love are not pretence 
It's my life...my life is what I say.. 
I spread my life before you like a tinted photograph. 
My life is the life of all womenl, all lovers, all mothers, 
It does not end when the lights are turned off, 
The door locked, candles put out, 
And only the shadows of words hang in the air...

11. I am a Witch

I am a witch 
I help the grass to grow 
I heal dogs 
I speak to birds, particularly owls, 
I gather herbs on the full moon, flying high, 
I help you with your pain, 
I FRIGHTEN PATRIARCHS 
I threaten those who wish to market the universe 
so they burn the competition. 
I have been burned nine million times 
AND I AM STILL ALIVE 
Now... is the time... for witches.