BABYON
Babyon, come home to me
Don’t fall around the pain you know too well
The knave and his golden company, they rearranged the sky, but never set us free
Chorus:
When I come alive, don’t know if it’s for you
I called you my everything, “my little Alice,”
You were my own
Darling I see through, now I know you’ve
Been following me
Still won’t you come on home to me
But home was up to you and now you’ve gone away
Leaving all the lights up in the rain
Oh if I ever do belong it won’t be here
(Chorus)
STARS CLIMB UP THE VINE
High and insane, I walked out
I thought it all out:
No one is listening to you,
Or to me
We could just go together
And find the darkest roof/room
And the light too
Watch stars as they climb up the vine
They climb up the vine
I know that I am strange
But we could go, hand in hand
Away from this clang clang land
Watch stars as they climb up the vine
They climb up the vine
They climb up the vine
SHARE
Go and mock my ways
And go and mock my ways again
Your future blues, ah your future blooms!
Your light, we just could not get it right
We just heard the world
If every hungry fool grew wise in Wilderland
Grew wise and, grew wise
Then where would that leave you?
To find a whole new way again,
To sail above the gray and
changeless sway of all your filthy brothers
And all your swearing sisters
And all those pretty…
And did your tears make you holy?
Oh, we just can’t keep up with you
What made you think we wanted to?
Signed with love from,
All your filthy brothers
And all your swearing sisters
EVEN RAIN
One day, when we’re false and vague and nervous
It’s all coming back when you're closing in
I’ll come by when you know
How you plant them high
Little favorite flowers in my mind
At night, when the clouds and maidens go down
The fool and the fool come face to face
I feel it all from the main
We’re all the same
Beaten by the sun and rain
Even rain fills each cup the same
And when you see this fire burning again
It’s only all remainders here
And so the game?
It’s only mine to say and keep safe
FRIENDS (words and music by Jon Mark)
So good to watch my friends dreaming their lives away
So good to watch my friends dreaming all the day
If I could take them all with me, you know I would
If I could show them all the things that I’ve seen, I wish I could
So sad to watch my friends growing older
So sad to watch my friends growing colder
If I could give them all some sunshine, you know I would
If I could take them all to Monterey, I wish I could
So sad to watch my friends as they watch me
So sad to hear them talking about the things that used to be
One day perhaps I will buy myself a big boat
And take all my friends away
Maybe one day I will buy myself and island
And there with my friends you know I’d stay
So long! I am going away!
So long! I am leaving today!
And don’t forget all the things that we would do
And I know you’ll spare a thought for me,
I’ll save a prayer for you
BEATLES AND THE STONES (Songs and lyrics G. Chadwick)
Look at him shouting out, loud as thunder at the sea
He wants a bomb and so do we
A bomb from the sky is the perfect crime
Shoulder on shoulder and heat
The Beatles and the Stones suck the marrow out of bones
Put the “V” in “Vietnam”
The Beatles and the Stones made it good to be alone
Look at me, look at me proud of being seventeen
Locking in the pocket a smile
Soft from the school and cut by the rule
Oh I’m dazed, and I’m dazed, and I’m dazed
The Beatles and the Stones suck the marrow out of bones
Put the “V” in “Vietnam”
The Beatles and the Stones made it good to be alone
THE FINDER
On and on and over the way this came from
Your talking to your friends behind your hands
Never thought the finder would be the one to lose
Never thought the finder couldn’t choose
Walked beside in the evening and into dawn
And left me to daybreak, over and gone
Cast me out just to see how the current played
You never called me back to your side
Never called me back to the sunshine
Saying darkness should always be my home
Oh but it’s not light or dark it’s only borders
Deciding right from wrong gets you nowhere
Unless you are a jailor, a thief without a home
THE LAND TURNED OVER
Towards the great divide you slept inside
Your parents’ house, “blue ghosts all around you”
But were you lonely?
So you learned that secret too
You learned it far before me
The land turned over and bore her jewels to you
Steal this night from my sleep
And I’ll lie in this stream that flows
For ten more drops of stillness I’d tell you anything
STREAM
Poured my feet in this stream and I feel poison
I want to take it up and hold it, hold it all
So that no one would ever feel poison again
If dreams can blow away
If we can lose our dearest days
Will I ever know why you should want to hold…
Poured my feet in this stream and I feel goodness, gladness all around
And I want it to go, cuz out of this ground something good must come
If a beast can trample lovers down
Must I pick up every broken bough
If each season looks to its last
Drifts beneath these lazy laughs
Oh but I still love everything I’ve ever loved
SONG FOR NEXT SUMMER
Once holding gold summer’s happy landing,
We land back on your side.
This coming-all-to-get so undone again
The day it spilled, do you know what day that was?
So lead the way, Mare I can’t take this wheel
It’s wild and turns on back
To where you call, where you
Call your own (you know, the ones that do return)
The days get lost, but the sound gets stuck in here
The notes we left, they were bright enough
They hung in the tree tops!
They will call us back in August
The words that come first are the best to offer up
