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Gypsy Girl
03:51
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When I met her on the city block
She said pack up your life and follow me
We've got promenades to walk, we've got people to talk to
We've got places to go you've never been
I said, "look here girl I cannot come with you
"I've got my roots and boots here in this town"
She smiled at me and said, "boots are made for walking but
"Please stay if what you're looking for you've found"
At those words I got right up and followed
Left everything I used to have behind
Now I'm on the road, and everything I've got I borrowed
Gypsy God won't you show me a sign
Gypsy girl, don't hide your eyes
Gypsy girl, show me your eyes
I want to feel you, I want to find you
Gypsy girl, teach me how to fly
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In deserts of the travelling man, the highway is covered soft with sand
They're listening for the sounds of true religion
Where the preacher plays the songs of silent sacrifice for soul asylum seekers
With the message of the season
Beneath the crucifying the traitors on the cracking ground
The painters blindly throw the colors of the sun
When I met a mother maiden out on the backstreet pavement
She said, "have you no call to reason"?
For the Educator's lesson he has taught them all to listen
Do not speak until I've spoken once to you
Though that silence is a virtue it is answered with a curfew
You must be careful that your children follow you
When they've finished asking questions they'll be ready for ascension
To the swirls of stars and light, where dark is gone
When I met a mother maiden out on the backstreet pavement
She said, "have you no call to reason"?
In light of the Laws of Nature, the superstitious creature
Has conjured more than melodies unkind
The cognizant call to end it has come up empty-handed
Romantics claimed the motion of the mind
Their fallacies forsaking, their blessings in the making
Have lived and died a life as fit for none
When I met a mother maiden out on the backstreet pavement
She said, "have you no call to reason"?
At the end of time's temptation, on a blank page of creation
We built factories to play at God's own hand
We fed pills to all the dying just to keep their life prolonging
For fear that what we'd find we would not understand
And in the closing of our journey we will call for our attorney
With no answer, go up on trial all alone
Where I had met a mother maiden out on the backstreet pavement
She'd said, "have you no call to reason"?
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3. |
We're All Doing Time
04:30
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Let go of my hand
You don't understand
The people I've been facing
Their faces I've been tracing
Go to the bar
Get yourself another drink
Try not to blink before they serve you
They've got way to make you pay
They've got vibes to make you stay
They've got a trigger on your brain
They say it keeps you sane
But you know better keep your head
And heed the words that I've said
We will all end up dead
If you keep going
I did my time trying to make sense of the world
With this pocket full of words
And this jacket full of lies
We're all creatures in disguise
I did my time trying to find the good and bad
In this maze, it makes me mad
With a blindfold on my eyes
We're all creatures in disguise
Chase that feeling
Looks like somebody here is dealing
Healing up the broken socialites
They can't survive without emotions
Fueled by poison party potions
And their everyday commotions spilling out
Take to the street
Get on your feet and dance
With every girl in France
Let's all get lost in romance
We've got no blood on our hands
If we meet all their demands
We'll just be part of the crowd in the stands
I did my time trying to make sense of the world
With this pocket full of words
And this jacket full of lies
We're all creatures in disguise
I did my time trying to find the good and bad
In this maze, it makes me mad
With a blindfold on my eyes
We're all creatures in disguise
The stretched out singer trying to rhyme
The pretty lady on the sign
The loaded junkie feeling fine
The thinker in his thoughts sublime
The teenage waster in his prime
Every body of man kind
Every soul without a mind
It might be yours it might be mine
We're all doing time.
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4. |
Mariella Blues
04:14
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I'm sailing, sailing your way
I'm sailing, sailing your way
And wherever I find you that's forever where I'm gonna stay
We're falling, like tears from the sky
We're falling, like tears from the sky
Whenever I find you that's the last day the clouds will cry
You're drifting into my arms
You're drifting into my arms
I know it's stormy now just drift on into the beautiful calm
We're taking the long way home
We're taking the long way home
It's a tough walk back but you know you won't be alone
I'm sailing, sailing your way
I'm sailing, sailing your way
And wherever I find you that's forever where I'm gonna stay
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You've Lost Your Mind
04:51
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The chorus of clarinets is crying out good day
But the saxophones sound like they've got something to say
As the masquerading anarchist is making for the door
He's got sixteen hundred dollars that he swept up from the floor
His screams are heard now word for word as he's shot down by the guards
He says mama see me now look how they've put me behind bars
And in the corner of the cell he finds a lonely queen of hearts
You hear the church bells chime for the thirteenth time
They let you know that you've lost your mind
You'd been at work that day you dragged yourself from bed
You said you'd make the most of it, be happy you're not dead
But then as four o'clock it rolls around you feel a little bleak
You've got Hennessy as your medicine and the sidewalk for your sleep
You stop into a nearby zoo, where the preacher is taking bets
You think you're having a good time until you lose your cigarettes
So you close your eyes, the music dies, from the movie set
You hear the church bells chime for the thirteenth time
They let you know that you've lost you're mind
You don't know why you made that face
When the suits shined moonlight in your eyes
You could not stop crying when they asked you
What the medicine would do, so I said it'll turn you blue
Then they locked us up for waging war
And threw away the key, ruling by decree
I said please police man don't make me take
A job that I don't need, but he never set me free
The lights up on the skyline
Like the ripple on the shoreline
They get you lost inside your own mind
It was a first, it was the worst
But you never heard them burst
You hear the church bells chime for the thirteenth time
They let you know that you've lost your mind
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I've got a five dollar bill
Gonna put it in my will
Gonna give it to my son
He'll see what his daddy's done
I'm gonna make him proud
Die with more than you
He's gonna be rich yes honey
Because money don't come with blues
I've got a big jet plane
A castle in Spain
I've got sixteen cars
And a ride to Mars
And baby I'm happy
I know just what to do
It might seem funny
But money don't come with blues
I keep asking myself
Do I want to be forgotten?
I keep telling myself
That I'll never hit rock bottom
I keep my thoughts to myself
Inside my safe behind the curtain
Can't tell you where babe
But I'll give you just one clue,
Money don't come with blues
I've got a five dollar bill
Gonna put it in my will
Gonna give it to my son
He'll see what his daddy's done
I'm gonna make him proud
Die with more than you
He's gonna be rich yes honey
Because money don't come with
It might seem funny,
But money don't come with
Rich yes honey
Because money don't come with blues
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7. |
My Innocent Saviour
04:30
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I hope you've waited up for me this evening
I know it's late but I'm heading home
At the bakery there's thirteen other pirates
Every one of them is going back alone
I miss you from early this morning
When we laid in bed and whispered the truth
Hidden from the winter time raindrops
That were knocking on my galvanized roof
When you sing I feel the whole world leave me
When you smile I know it's gone for good
If I find out you're my innocent saviour
Might not be fair but it's understood
If you're going to the Harbour
If you're heading across the sea
If you vanish from this island
I don't think I can live
If you leave and don't bring me
The shadows of the trees are on the ceiling
Making friends with roaches and rats
The ripped up flag is lying on the floor now
The patriots are lost without their hats
I want to take you out to see the sunset
I know that we can make it if we run
We're missing sixteen pieces of the puzzle
We'll find them in the rivers of the sun
I will meet you on the shores of Barcelona
We will kiss as if we've never kissed before
I will know that you're my innocent saviour
And we will live and love and laugh and nothing more
If you're going to the Harbour
If you're heading across the sea
If you vanish from this island
I don't think I can live
If you leave and don't bring me
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8. |
The Dream Junkie
05:07
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Your eyelids feeling heavy, and your bones about to break
You think you're in a hurry, but you're not thinking straight
You turn on the television, you're looking for someone
There’s people talking to you, you don’t know where they're from
It’s all too familiar
Yes, it’s all too familiar
You recognise his face, and you know this place don’t you?
But you just stare off into space, and you say:
Is this heaven, or reality?
Now I feel like I’ve been set free
It’s this perfect world you made for me
It makes me feel like a dream junkie
But who doesn’t?
You would kill your cousin, for money, wealth and fame
We go from place to place, everyone looks the same
Destroying make believe worlds, but that’s the price you pay
To live in broken harmony, a million miles away
From this world so beautiful
It’s a world so beautiful
You realise your fate, and you're feeling hatred, aren’t you?
So you just laugh away the pain, and you say:
Is this heaven, or reality?
Now I feel like I’ve been set free
It’s this perfect world you made for me
It makes me feel like a dream junkie
But who doesn’t?
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9. |
The Traveller
03:38
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There was a traveller I knew
He said to me, "boy you look blue"
And with that we parted ways
He drifted off into the haze
Didn't once look back
He carried on down through the mist
Out to the ocean's edge, a cliff
Where everything is made of colours
And the people are all followers of what they see
Creators of things that be
Paradise comes only twice
You thought you had it nice
But you've never been alive
You ain't never seen the sun rise
You're an infant in disguise
You're a teller of lost lies
And when you find the traveller
He would prefer to say nothing at all
But he would look you in the eyes
And say son don't you realise you gotta
Live for living, die for death
Live for living, just don't hold your breath
And when the traveller is through with you
He'll walk us to the moon
We'll be dancing all the way
We'll be children for the day
Skipping with the stars
He'll lead us on through galaxies
Under the oceans passed the trees
Where everything is made of colours
And then maybe we'll find others
Who would like to be
People who are already
Happy with reality
I thought we'd never see
That somehow we can be alive
Oh yeah we can watch the sun rise
We'll get ride of our disguise
And we'll destroy all the lies
And when we say goodbye we'll go get high
We'll dance and sing in the moonlight
We'll remember what
The traveller would say tonight
Live for living, die for death
Live for living, just don't hold your breath
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10. |
Julia
04:36
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Julia, what has become of your sea blue smile and your eyes of the sun?
Julia, I knew you once in a faded dream, what have you become?
You're a messenger, sentenced to the street
You washed up on a tidal wave but you never found your feet
I'm lost for words, but my words got lost
In a town not too far from here with the morning frost
Where I met a blind man, he looked at me and said,
"Where will I sleep tonight? Oh, where is my bed?"
Julia, what has become of your sea blue smile and your eyes of the sun?
Julia, I knew you once in a faded dream, what have you become?
Do you know the water boy, do you know the clown?
Do you know happiness, or do you now frown?
Because I've found the water boy and I know the clown
I may not know happiness but I sure as hell don't frown
Take me to riverside, show me the war
I've been missing you, Julia, the girl I never saw
Julia, what has become of your sea blue smile and your eyes of the sun?
Julia, I knew you once in a faded dream, what have you become?
Have you been a prisoner, have you seen the stars?
I drew them on the sky for you and all that you are
Are you still beautiful, Are you still sane?
Where is that smile if yours I remember in vein?
Is this the end of it, will I see you again?
My blue eyed Julia, my lover, my friend
My blue eyed Julia, my lover, my friend
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Josh Winfield Antigua and Barbuda
Josh Winfield
Antigua & Barbuda
Music for the mindless maître d'
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