- Khan : Space Shanty
- Space Shanty | Stranded Effervescent Psychonovelty no.5 | Mixed-Up Man Of The Mountains | Driving To Amsterdam | Stargazers | Hollow Stone / Escape of the Space Pirates
SPACE SHANTY
including The Cobalt Sequence
and March Of The Sine Squadrons
lyrics by Steve Hillage
I need you
and you need me
Also I need
to be free
Free as the word
free can mean
To stand secure
outside this dream
Starstruck moon man
looks so blind
You're still a slave
within your mind
And all this time
you have not guessed
Where you are bound
Which way you're heading
How you can stop feeling confused
Follow the star
that is moving so slowly
Flow in its river
of light and you'll see
That you have found
What you've been searching
Come back and help us to regain
STRANDED EFFERVESCENT
PSYCHONOVELTY, NO.5
lyrics: Steve Hillage
We escaped from the city
Miles and miles we did flee
Through the endless forest
To the edge of the sea
It was as though
the world was ours
Lying on a deserted beach
Out of reach,
out of their reach
I could see you much clearer
As we strode by the shore
All the peace all around us
Seemed impossibly pure
And then the sun
shone through the clouds
Touched us with its
magnificent beam
Made us clean,
made us feel so clean
On our island of safety
From the alien crowd
Of the city of madness
Could we really be sure
That the peace
would still remain
Sealed away from insanity
We shall see,
we shall see
MIXED-UP MAN OF THE MOUNTAINS
- Steve Hillage/Nick Greenwood
Looking at the ground
I'm crying for the sky
I know I can't hope to go
Where I can't be found
But when I close my eyes
I start to fly
The sun burns down on me
I'm praying he'll take me away
So very much higher
Than the peaks above me
I open myself,
my spirit is free
And I start to fly
As a lead upon the breeze
Higher than the chains
of mortal man
Surrounded by the wonders of a life
I saw but never knew
Revealed the hazy secrets
of the mountain man
But soon as I am here
I have to go
DRIVING TO AMSTERDAM
Steve Hillage
We look ahead for miles
Down our avenue of lights
We motor past the airport
In the flatness of the night
Its fairy beads reflected
In the shining of your eye
Can it be that there's so many
That have been through
this whole scene before?
Staring at the ground
For I knew not what to do
I turned full around
And found myself, in you
The water looks so placid
To deny that it's a threat
Our weary faces smiling
With the energy that's left
Your flowing now has reached me
And I feel I want to stay
There's no need for a reason
We switched off our thinking hours ago
Still we're driving onward
Moving steady as a plane
Moonbug cars flash past us
As we head the other way
Across the dyke of worry
To a Nederlander dream
Now the morning opens slowly
On what seems a very special day
STARGAZERS
- Steve Hillage
Open your eyes if you dare
Future comes,
all you know is that you'll share
Suns and moons,
many cycles, miles of days
Your love shines like a beacon
through the haze
Your twin lives twined together
Jigsaw, fit, snap together
Your twin heads crowned together
King and Queen, an extra gene
Can your words cope with infinity?
You must communicate it perfectly
Don't you think
you can surely make it now?
You don't need anyone
to show you how
Your twin lives
twined together
Jigsaw, fit,
snap together
Your twin heads
crowned together
King and Queen,
an extra gene
HOLLOW STONE
/ ESCAPE OF THE SPACE PIRATES
lyrics: Steve Hillage
Hollow stone
Early morning
you slip out the window
And glide through the dew
All alone Back a thousand years
And you know there is no answer
They can give you,
they can give you
For the words are not there
for them to choose
After all
You are only a molecule drifting
An atom afloat As you fall
Into space from your
lonely shell of fear
You raise your hands
and gaze in wonder
At a word you have
seen somewhere before
Only you can see the men of wisdom
Moving slowly on together
Sun shines through the stone
but once a year
Ceremony now will start anew
And so you sit
beneath the linden tree
Staring ghostly at the altar
And all the problems
that perplex you so
Dissolve and vanish
deep into the water
No use asking what you are
Or what you'll be
a millisecond after
As you plunge back into laughter now
Dancing and calling out your name
And still you sit
beneath the linden tree
Staring ghostly at the altar
And all the problems
that perplex you so
Dissolve and vanish
deep into the water
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