No Good Trying 

IIt's no good trying to place your hand 
where I can't see because I understand 
that you're different from me 
yes I can tell 
that you can't be what you pretend 
and you're rocking me backwards 
and you're rocking towards the 
red and yellow mane of a stallion horse. 

It's no good trying to hold your love 
where I can't see because I understand 
that you're different from me 
yes I can tell 
that you can't be what you pretend 
the caterpillar hood won't cover the head of you 
know you should be home in bed. 

It's no good holding your sequin fan 
where I can't see because I understand 
that you're different from me 
yes I can tell 
that you can't be what you pretend 
yes you're spinning around and around in a car 
with electric lights flashing very fast... 

Love You 

Honey love you, honey little, 
honey funny sunny morning 
love you more funny love in the skyline baby 
ice-cream 'scuse me, 
I've seen you looking good the other evening 

Oh, you dig it, had to smile just an hour or so 
(are) we in love like I think we be? 
It Ain't a long rhyme. 
It took ages to think 
I think I'll hurl it in the water, baby... 

Honey love you, honey little, 
honey funny sunny morning 
love you more funny love in the skyline baby 
ice-cream 'scuse me, 
I've seen you looking good the other evening 

Flaking you are an nice little one 
to put it all around, its just good 
I like it, hey hey hey 
S'pose some time that day 
whoopee! swinging along over across to me 

Honey love you, honey little, 
honey funny sunny morning 
love you more funny love in the skyline baby 
ice-cream 'scuse me, 
I've seen you looking good the other evening 

Goodtime rocker woman we'll stray our pieces 
little creepy we shine so sleepy, 
so whoopee! 
That's how you look... 

Honey love you, honey little, 
honey funny sunny morning 
love you more funny love in the skyline baby 
ice-cream 'scuse me, 
I've seen you looking good the other evening 

Dark Globe 

Oh where are you now 
pussy willow that smiled on this leaf? 
When I was alone you promised the stone from your heart 
my head kissed the ground 
I was half the way down, treading the sand 
please, please, lift a hand 
I'm only a person whose armbands beat 
on his hands, hang tall 
won't you miss me? 
Wouldn't you miss me at all? 

The poppy birds way 
swing twigs coffee brands around 
brandish her wand with a feathery tongue 
my head kissed the ground 
I was half the way down, treading the sand 
please, please, please lift the hand 
I'm only a person with Eskimo chain 
I tattooed my brain all the way... 
Won't you miss me? 
Wouldn't you miss me at all? 

Here I Go 

This is a story 'bout a girl that I knew 
she didn't like my songs 
and that made me feel blue 
she said: "a big band is far better than you"... 

She don't rock 'n' roll, she don't like it 
she don't do the stroll, well she don't do it right 
well, ev'rythings wrong and my patience was gone 
when I woke one morning 
and remembered this song 
O-oh-oh, kinda catchy, I hoped 
that she would talk to me now 
and even allow me to hold her hand 
and forget that old band. 

I strolled around to her pad 
her light was off and that's bad 
her sister said that my girl was gone 
"But come inside, boy, and play, play, play me a song!" 
I said "Yeah! Here I go" 
She's kinda cute; don't you know, 
That after a while of seeing her smile 
I knew we could make it, make it in style!? 

So now I've got all I need 
She and I are in love, we've agreed 
she likes this song and my others too 
so now you see my world is... 
because of this tune! 
What a boon this tune! 
I tell you soon 
We'll be lying in bed, happily wed, 
and I won't think of that girl 
or what she said... 

Octopus (Song)

Trip to heave and ho, up down, to and fro' 
you have no word 
trip, trip to a dream dragon 
hide your wings in a ghost tower 
sails cackling at every plate we break 
cracked by scattered needles 
the little minute gong 
coughs and clears his throat 
madam you see before you stand 
hey ho, never be still 
the old original favorite grand 
grasshoppers green Herbarian band 
and the tune they play is "In Us Confide" 
so trip to heave and ho, up down, to and fro' 
you have no word 
Please leave us here 
close our eyes to the octopus ride! 
Isn't it good to be lost in the wood 
isn't it bad so quiet there, in the wood 
meant even less to me than I thought 
with a honey plough of yellow prickly seeds 
clover honey pots and mystic shining feed... 
well, the madcap laughed at the man on the border 
hey ho, huff the Talbot 
"Cheat" he cried shouting kangaroo 
it's true in their tree they cried 
Please leave us here 
close our eyes to the octopus ride! 
The madcap laughed at the man on the border 
hey ho, huff the Talbot 
the winds they blew and the leaves did wag 
they'll never put me in their bag 
the seas will reach and always seep 
so high you go, so low you creep 
the wind it blows in tropical heat 
the drones they throng on mossy seats 
the squeaking door will always squeak 
two up, two down we'll never meet 
so merrily trip forgo my side 
Please leave us here 
close our eyes to the octopus ride! 

Golden Hair 

(These lyrics are originally from "Chamber Music" by James Joyce (1907)

Lean out your window, golden hair
I heard you singing in the midnight air
my book is closed, I read no more
watching the fire dance, on the floor
I've left my book, I've left my room

For I heard you singing through the gloom
singing and singing, a merry air
lean out the window, golden hair...

Long Gone 

She was long gone, long, long gone 
she was gone, gone, the bigger they come 
the larger her hand 'till no one understands 
why for so long she'd been gone. 

And I stood very still by the window sill 
and I wondered for those I love still 
I cried in my mind where I stand behind 
the beauty of love's in her eyes... 

She was long gone, long, long gone 
she was gone, gone, the bigger they come 
the larger her hand 'till no one understands 
why for so long she'd been gone. 

And I borrowed the page 
from a leopard's cage 
and I prowled in the evening sun's glaze 
her head lifted high to the light in the sky 
the opening dawn on her face... 

She was long gone long, long gone 
she was gone, gone, the bigger they come 
the larger her hand 'till no one understands 
why for so long she'd been gone. 

And I stood very still by the window sill 
and I wondered for those I love still 
I cried in my mind where I stand behind 
the beauty of love's in her eyes... 

She was long gone, long, long gone 
she was gone, gone, the bigger they come 
the larger her hand 'till no one understands 
why for so long she'd been gone. 

She was long gone long, long gone. 

She Took A Long Cold Look 

She took a long cold look at me 
and smiled and gazed all over my arm 
she loves to see me get down to ground 
she hasn't time just to be with me 
her face between all she means to be 
to be extreme, just to be extreme 
a broken pier on the wavy sea 
she wonders why for all she wants to see... 
But I got up and I stomped around 
and hid the piece where the trees touch the ground... 

The end of truth that lay out the time 
spent lazing here on a painting dream 
a mile or more in a foreign clime 
to see farther inside of me. 

And looking high up into the sky 
I breathe as the water streams over me... 

Feel 

You feel me 
away far too empty, oh so alone! 
I want to go home 
Oh find me inside of a nocturne - the blonde 
how I love you to be by my side 
they wail... 
the crowd on her side 
she straggled the bridge by the water... 

She misses her crawl 
far ley grew 
heady aside in a dell 
inside an eye be the lonely one, my bride 
how I leave on the waddling wheel 
they flail... 
a gasp shringing 
a bad bell's ringing 
the angel - the daughter... 

You feel me... 

If It's In You 

Yes I'm thinking of this, yes I am 
puddle town, Tom was the underground 
hold you tighter so close, yes you are 
please hold on to the steel rail 

colonel with gloves 
he isn't loved on 'Sundays Mail' 
all the fives crock Henrietta 
she's mean go-getter 
gotta write her a letter. 

Did I wink of this, I am 
yum, yummy, yum, don't, yummy, yum, yom, yom... 
Yes, I'm thinking of this, in steam 
skeleton kissed to the steel rail 

fleas in Pamela 
chugging along with a funnel of steam 
all the fives crock Henrietta 
she's mean go-getter 
gotta write her a letter... 

Late Night 

When I woke up today 
and you weren't there to play 
then I wanted to be with you 
when you showed me your eyes 
whispered love at the skies 
then I wanted to stay with you 
inside me I feel alone and unreal 
and the way you kiss will always be 
a very special thing to me... 

When I lay still at night seeing 
stars high and light 
then I wanted to be with you 
when the rooftops shone dark 
all alone (I) saw a spark 
spark of love just to stay with you 
inside me I feel alone and unreal 
and the way you kiss will always be 
a very special thing to me... 

If I mention your name 
turn around on a chain 
then the sky opens for you 
when we grew very tall 
when I saw you so small 
then I wanted to stay with you 
inside me I feel alone and unreal 
and the way you kiss will always be 
a very special thing to me...