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Blue Opera Rock

by
Bob J. Zehmer
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Lyrics extracted from the novel Blue Opera Rock

Bob J. Zehmer, © 2009, all rights reserved
The book was published by
Eloquent Books, USA, ISBN: 978-1-60860-976-5

The author may be reached at

www.bobjzehmer.com
Rockaway
If I’d come with strengthless arms one day
My broken face by old age and no one on my way
With my sun setting and limbs shaking ‘cos of running life
Please, don’t you take me inside your houses painted of white
She seems to know where I’ve been
Will you smile on me?
The thunder, the rainbow, the sun and the rain
And rock and rock and rockaway…
I happened to hear a father saying, son your brain
is drawing back eating itself,
Don’t flog yourself to death
The poacher’s got bright wings of ice
I don’t wanna be caught in the last scenes of a crystal night
Don’t run too fast lest you should get to a dark station
To meet a cold, cold train hamstringing your elation
Along with beggars and tramps I’ve been kicking around
And now I’m gonna dig up a spell which blues every sound
Send me across, we’re doing right today
And rock, and rock, and rockaway…

Thank you people, thank you very much

You are great tonight, I’d say weird
Do you know that we appear to this world nice as it can be?
And we got a plenty of luck?
Born with sight but put it off too soon
Billions of stars give room to the heart and light to the mind
A soil so colored and rich of generous emotions
Still we spend our time to build shells we use to hem in
And got us cut off and so what else we have to do but again
Rock, and rock and rockaway
Slow, slow and soft, ok, this way, gently…
Rock, and rock and rockaway...
Fear is kind friend to any good slaver
We need angles to hide and edges to fight back
We’ve been told what to do but we forgot pretty soon
We keep plundering on, trusting Mother Nature’s patience
would be enduring

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We master illusions and we are easy to deceive

Slaves without love we’ll never get through our greed
We build safe fences and get army corps around
the abodes of the fat tyrants
One gesture from them and we’ll end up all smashed
together with the laws we believe to shield our easy living...

So rock, more rock, and rock and rock and rockaway

More rock, more rock, more rock…

Turn me again so that this wave would be chillier and fresher

Still I wonder what the hell you are after
And what you keep so tight while sliding away
And rock, and rock, and rockaway

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Drunk birds land

I just want to tell you a thing that I remember so well
First time I went to the light I was as amazed
It was all a shining and I was so high
I was so high, I was so high
Yes, I was so high
And I looked at myself in a dark bright water
Water was cold and I was so high
And the birds came from everywhere to take a taste of it
And I was so high, I was so high,
Yes, I was so high
Oh love, tell me if you can when I dreamed about you
Oh love, tell me if you can where I met you
‘Cos I have to know why your hair changed its color.
Now the birds are just drunk and I’m gonna be left all alone.

The earth and a new sea

And the sea kissed the earth
It did enfold her and get down into her depths
And the earth cried to the sky
And the sun did disclose her dream
When your eyes will behold the shining of love
And your ears will listen to the old sweet songs
Then the rain will be pouring down
And you’ll be the earth
And I’ll be a new sea.

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London babe
I see you at morning run and fly
Sparkling in all your electricity
I loved you since I have learned your name
London babe
Upon the waters of the river I had been rocking
Thinking up a melody that I could only dream by
I bathed myself in the sunshine that toys with you
Like a lavish and fleeting lover
That makes you cry and gets you shady
When leaves you for long, long days
Oh London babe
Let me caress your face
Furrowed by the black from your eyes
that scratches your snow-white skin
I shall be here over again
London babe
Still at night when you bar your doors
I can make you out as you stir alone in a bed too big
Falling into a sleep
Sometimes of troubles, sometimes of bliss
And I keep singing my love to you, my belle
London babe
I had been roaming up and down the time
Letting you be my guide
Splendor, sure
Yet pain as much, and destruction and seclusion
Visions of flogged domains and peoples
Madness of power
And when in the green of your gardens,
In the silent and invading billow
In the pied of the throng that you join and blend in harmony
You skim over me with your glance of glass and stone, yeah
Here I go again London babe
To get rocking with you
My London babe

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The buffalo race

Down, down, down what to touch for?
Up, up, up where to drive to?
When the words cause strange emotions then something
of their meaning has gone out of our brain control!
The golden janitor accommodated extraterrestrial
customers at the coral hotel.
Which way the wooden man must walk thru?
At last the writer didn’t know the end of his novel.
In a real mess the name of the thief was hanging around.
The hearts can’t find houses of peace to rest,
just like shapeless faces don’t.
Throw away all the wasted time.
When the water gets to the hips then the mouth
screams and the thought shuts.
The speed-less woman counts the letters
written thru the bars of the wind and flies away.
She can’t stand another rain and she thinks her life is quite tough.
She knocks and says: “I can’t go round with you forever,
because my way has got no numbers and seasons.
But I love you, that’s much to say!”
A winged child is running to the other side of the sunset
Every end is to be continued and wilderness
has got just one face but millions of disguises.
Running breathless along long miles, the red singer
has let his life slide into glass grasslands.
The eastern boy lost his pearls while trading.
Tired friends died. Children dream no more!
There’s a river around and the man sick and worn
can’t swim anymore.
A misfortune fell down the crown of a king and
she fell sick heart and her yellow face is not pale again.
In a moment of rest the soul of the countryman
saw the miracle of his own salvation in the everlasting shining.
Where the buffalo race must be continued?

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Yalta
The iron stair was a burning monster
Dead soldiers everywhere on the attic
Downstairs the hall was a torn up victim of the bomb
Lifeless officers under the ruins
The winning armies went on up the iron stair.
Maybe I just was an invisible watcher
Down on the ballroom
They put together a table and some chairs
Sitting down with Churchill and Stalin
She too was on the discuss...
She was Yalta
I can’t be wrong
She was just Yalta
Roosevelt was not there, yeah, Roosevelt not there
Otherwise boys, make you sure that I’d have had my strike
Yalta...
She told about times she was unsheltered
And she was afraid to be assaulted
And they came to an agreement
Then they laughed, laughed, laughed
To the sound of their laughter
A grimace on the faces of the bodies
reassembled on the attic
Shame upon their wives and sons
Trials were a sea of poison where weak men drowned
Then the winners after the show for human grace
Let their hungry eyes cry, if though it was for a moment,
She fell down and they came to rise her up
All they wanted her to love them
Oh, it was just not the time
daddy and I would get shelter in a gallery
and the train nearly touched us
Then my uniform was dirty and torn
And though I wasn’t the enemy I was a criminal for ‘em
Oh no, now I was just an invisible watcher
She was Yalta I can’t be wrong
She was Yalta I can’t be wrong

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She was just Yalta

Roosevelt was not there, yeah, Roosevelt not there
Otherwise boys, make you sure that I’d have had my strike…
Yalta...

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Hush & Rush

All the things I’ve seen return back to me
I thought as much! I’ve spotted your knot, I’m not a fool!
All the lights and the flares of the evening have gone
There are one thousand doors, which one have you got through?
Hush / Rush
Give me just one moment of your precious life
Down in L.A. a friend of mine would want to save all the whores
I never knew why
Tell me where our plans end, had they ever really got a start…
Have I ever forced you to a zone you never meant to go?
How many reasons do you want to get up at morning?
Too many questions, so girl, go for your way,
never mind about me!
Back to L.A., a rude boy in a corner
Hey man, I wanna fight you, what you gonna do about it?
I won’t ever understand why they would like to frame my dreams
The crowd, we may investigate the crowd, maybe
we’ll find any reason why
Down to the dawn, down to the dawn
We’ve got to move on, we’ve got to move on
All the dogs in the neighborhood were howling last night
I felt a presence all around
Don’t be afraid, I’m not scared
I’m thinking about a friend of mine
I wonder why I’m talking to you like that
Babe, babe, you get yours, I’ll get mine
Many miles, many miles divide us

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The clouds of trouble

Centuries are running fast here in west even if there’s
the strength of the fans
A king can beat the cancer, over the stars he will be a light dancer
The men walking along that path they still don’t know
who’ll kill the death
They still don’t know, they still don’t know, and they won’t...
So you open the light before you at morning
hoping your fortune be without a moaning
A life, a troubles well, a blossom that got no smell.
And they want you to live a suchlike life,
so that you can’t hope, you cannot find.
See a song flying onto a cloud, it makes dawn rattle for it is aloud
If it’ll get into another land it can’t escape
If it can break and flee, it’s guest of an illusion,
illusion that kills....
Centuries are running fast here in west even if there’s
the strength of the fans.
Some trust in the great big chiefs, sleeping so glad
in a bed of leaves
Waiting for the news to be free
But, who will tell them of their defeat?

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Frail as a drop
He lies still and tiny frail as a drop
Soft color in the clearness of a dream
The cold of a place never reached for you
He has got it in his move
A town lays down the flags for the fight time is over
Once, that flare is getting back to play an hour for those
who ain’t calling anymore…
And I’d been running before you in your time lack of memories
And I’d been listening to you while your saying
got into my heart.
I’d been reading your same prayer not sensing my voice
It was a song to me…
A cure chant for the one who fought one’s pride
Get me rid of everything… Forever…
Let me soar along this smoky tune
Meet me smiling and you will see me…

Rising Moon
Scatter my bones around
You can count them all
They made my days end up into the maze
Torture and infamy holding the man as a hostage
Have the wicked starving with cruelty, the needy slain
Get me to see how many crosses upon your flag
Will be burning for freedom, crying their disdain
Got the halls of palaces filled with kind civility
Got all 4 corners taken by vile deeds against mankind
Let’s mark still more lives with this fake defense
I pray because my oppressed brothers will see
the rising of the moon

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Wayfarers & Priests

Help the blues to get heavy tonight
Push the wave that won’t break
Get dipped down the blinding neon,
burning the hours on the blazing sign
Then showing surprised go where you know.
Fighting over a fish, the fisher lost his way in the sea
to get back home
No man’s heart forgave his defeat
Priests were celebrating in the temple of the cave
in a few men’s land
Praying so hard a blindfold and nameless god
As wayfarers were greeting along the streets…
But don’t lose your way in useless details
lest you should run to the last take in

Bliss befall within your life

Night broadened over the earth
We were the mirror of our history
How many times did we long for
And how many times did we die?
Chase the way to nowhere
And come back and tell us everything
Can you remember the crumbling walls
And songs rising up to the sky?
We did it
But we got lost now!
Bliss befall within your life
And what the latest words were?
The last whispered words
In the mist they ran
Riding the storm
And they turned away too soon
Bliss befall within your life

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Silent road
Well, we’re always alone me and you waiting for being called
We came for you but make us no questions
Read the answers among the things you’ve been told
‘Cos this is the only way and where it takes you know
Stay a little bit again, you’ve lost the key
But you’re just so tired to look for
Like when you hated the stars waiting for
someone you didn’t know
who it was
But night got over and never an answer,
And now don’t you close your eyes
Blood rains still
Three men are gonna come and open a door
So much time in front of you and you’re afraid to waste it all
Let these leaves fall down, they’re the price of the past
And the wind is like a song that calls
in this silent road.

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Little Rose
Little Rose, you’ve bloomed too soon
I know you’re gonna dream your deepest dreams
That the wings of the sweetest night enfold you
to take you to vaster valleys and bluer skies
I know the waves of sorrow had been washing up your shore
But don’t be sad, for even as the grief grasps your hips
So gives you back your freedom that she may fly unto the sun
Yeah, she’ll fly, she’ll fly…
And yet shall there be days to sow and days to reap
And seeds to die ere your joy might unfold her wings forever
But then she’ll run, yeah, she’ll run
Shall your love be brighter than the light of the deceit
No doubt, the Spring will dress your fields
And shan’t your soul be afraid to watch all her old memories,
Be sure, the dreams of your longing will be the food to your eyes
And when your love comes running from east
You’ll see your soul kissing the wings of your freedom
Yeah, she’ll run, she’ll run,
She’ll fly, she’ll get, she’ll get to her sky

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Thrice Dead Queen

I’ve been out in the desert, down there
Where the hours spend by slow ‘n’ countless
Been walking thru the wilderness never meeting anyone
When the sky joins the earth enfolding her in the night hug
I’ve been feeling my soul shake,
Deeper and deeper on my own
I’ve longed and I’ve hoped for you to be near
If you feel alone I can stand by you
‘Til the icy night gets thru
And you thrice dead queen,
No question on your lips,
Did you know the wind can win your pride
and spread your tears away?
Walkin’ the way that winnows truth from falsehood
The day is done and you’ve found something more...
Are you sure that you know...
How come you hide out as your life’s running
thru your hands just like the sand?
You’ve been kissed from the sunbeams
But now, put together your broken dreams
And get back to the start line
It will hurt you some more if you should deny
Yes, I‘ve been dreaming too long
Night was not so good ‘n’ kind to me
Yes, I’ve been yearning too long I could get back home.
We chanced to say that a prince is gonna come thru the night
and one and all will receive their due

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Memories
I think 'bout those evenings
When we dressed of our dreams
And walked on paths that we had framed
Behind the footsteps of the time that ran
We looked for mysteries through the shades of secrets
Talking with words that we didn't know before.

In memories that the spirit lives

I keep calling on your name
In life that fades to its whiter tones
I still love you like it was today.

Out of this wordless vision

I hope this rain would keep until tomorrow
So that no-one might feel pain freedom-less.

You'll close a door not saying goodbye

You'll take a road never crying by
You'll never tell that name
'Cos it doesn't live in time
It was a whirlwind that came to take us
We would have stayed but we couldn't detain it

In memories that the spirit lives

I keep calling on your name
In life that fades to its whiter tones
I still love you like it was today.

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Evenings of a little winter

I lived all my sorrow alone in a winter freeze
I saw all my dreams at once along with a sad whisper of the wind
I heard the night messages and I saw their meaning
unfolding into mirrors of ice.
I watched the flight of your eyes...
Into evenings of a little winter this blow pushes me away
Feel my soul shake, catch a wave that whips my face
Into evenings of a little winter
Stories that start, stories that end
Into evenings of a little winter
The icy water into my fist stops my thoughts
on to silver reflexes of old memories
When I sat before the wings of darkness,
asking the light to glimmer for me
The flare of the stars kissed the sand and my ship ran away
from the hands of the rain that grasped the thunderbolts
of the storm
So I looked for a shelter sailing the rivers and watching the towns
Into evenings of a little winter this blow pushes me away
Feel my soul shake, catch a wave that whips my face
Into evenings of a little winter
Stories that start, stories that end
Into evenings of a little winter
From the white stair on the sky
Came the messenger to bring
her song ...

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Eyes to fly, Wings to see

Night come and take my love
Light bring it into her hands
Her hair wet ground scented
Fly away where nobody can hear our words
A stir in the air
I’ve never been feeling my soul so strong
Call me with the name you know
I'd like to be such as the sea for the river for you
Catch your face in my hands
And paint the days with the colors you will
And give you eyes to fly and wings to see
Come and give me wings to fly away
Where nobody can see our love
I just want to hear a music play for you
I just want to see your eyes dreaming
Day come and warm our spirits
Music sing her words
We'll fly where love never gets an end...

Sandy Dreams.
As I walk on moments pass by
On this gray ground my step falls dry
Into these walls since long days I live
I don’t know other home than the one I’m in
The sky outside is so vast and far
Drop here and rescue me my sweet beloved star
The knight and the sword will go slaying even more
Crossing the history forged by strength and gore
Mercy will lie in scoundrels and tyrants hands
To give alms and dreams built on the sands
We stood watching the sun never knowing what to choose
Moans of little men arise from everything they do

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Crazy’s bus
Hey, hey, driver stop, open the door, soon
A piece of my mind has blown away
Gotta get it and give it shelter
It’s gonna run the towns
it’s gonna hide thru crowds
it’s crazy and it’s gonna crash down
Gotta get down, it’s crazy this race
Gotta get down it’s crazy this bus
crossing the world ‘round, spreading colors out
All of us are crazy!
Hey, hey, girl, come onto me pretty soon!
Your body is just a place to sin
And we could be wasting easily
and don’t know if we’d be so right to find out
that we had just lost once more.
Gettin’ up we’ll burn out, still in the fright!
Gotta get down, it’s crazy this race
Gotta get down it’s crazy this bus
crossing the world ‘round, spreading colors out
All of us are crazy!
Hey, hey, who screams?
No haste to run
There’s a man riding, he’ll be here pretty soon
Got a gun in his hand and gonna shoot!

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There was
There was the sun and the sun watched
We were cold but we used to smile
And everyone had got a door waiting for
There was the summer and the summer ran
We had no land but we weren’t crying
And everyone had got someone waiting for
And she was waiting for me and I had to drop by
To walk where life would like to take us
And now I recall a flare, then I see the evening
A beach and an open book written with tears
If nobody can read now they’d better walk on before
turn and wait
Life has written different pages
Everyone knows more, but could they have fun?

Along the river

Down there along the river where all the colors mix up
Lives slither at daybreak with crystal sounds
Recover your very own genesis and the language that
got you shaped
Everything you never heard of, displays
so that you share the show itself
I wish you would run free under the vastness of the sky
I wish you would discover the spring of each of your fears
But keep the balance on, let your step be light
Watch inside your mind but let your eyes see the way
And keep yourself in touch

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Don’t forget
You cast yourself away beyond the light
Rising up the sun behind you
In the night only cold and no love
You see your child dream asking to grow
Thru these long white paths
Inside our bones and into our own hearts
Nothing and all has been said and done
As time is over and another new day’s come
Have you ever heard about the glory?
On the other side of the story
Nobody can cry your own weep
Try so hard to be only what you should be
Fault and guilt can be with you ‘til the end
Out of bounds of your reason ‘til it’s dead
Reigns of sand sinking thru ancient moans
Getting down over any rules and laws
Ever after what it looked like a right fight
Took just loneliness, mischief and fright
Now, can you see all their liar faces?
Ends here the way of our races
Very truth was all we wanted to
Easy joys come and die pretty soon
Ring the bell for the one who waits
For all those years tears were wasted
Only darkness can keep you apart
Remind how much your love can be proud
Get to trust is the blow of lives
Elder souls we got and tired eyes
Till the day we shall be wondering one more time...
Oh tell me now
Does your soul fly away?
On and on
Never let your freedom make you frail
To the earth and sky you can try only for truth

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Try to find thru the night

Come on baby, pitch a yarn tasting of yore
Dressed by your finest words, colored like your eyes do
As strong as your soul can be
Making me dream and making me fly
Just to take me back and bring me to stay

Yester night I saw you shivering

You were taking to flight once more
Unaware of where your running would stop
Your heart brimful of empty
And your eyes weary to cry
What are you asking for anymore?

A picture of us yellowed with age

it’s what the war had left behind
And all the past is just as a far and foreign soil to us
Wherever you may be the sober truth
might knock upon your door
Soft slumbers and kindness when you awoke

Never grope your way in the dark

But try to find thru the night
Try to find thru the night
You gotta try to find thru the night
Try to find thru the night...

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People of Fasad
No one can buy a winged wolf
Unless they sit upon a metal book
No one can get a castle without bells
Unless they get in a paper hall
Many sail in rudderless vessels
As others stand still and wait
Under a leafless tree shadow
Flames raging out iron doors
Locked up over centuries into a water sphere
Along words stolen to a dream known by everyone
Though they never made any place to be
out of it
Blood arms stretched out to velvet
rooms
Screams of peace spreading inside the
bear’s building
The ones who don’t know the tales of
Jewr
Never see their boat move on in the seas
of Lehr
And no one will sit in their place upon
the hope mount
Then a wild creature will bow
upon the altar of collection
Asking salvation for the people of Fasad
Expecting nothing in reward

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Little Song
No more rain in this side of the town
The law warriors drop by
Get up and get rocking on the road
Beat the time of this little song
Come in because your life weakens
You are not allowed to play with stickers
Yet the sky looks shaking on
And children left the lake lone
Maybe your love’s gone forever
You feel you won’t see it ever
Make your stand and think about
How much it’s running all that blood
Before this little foolish song
Be gone.

The Silence
I may leave now, mayn’t I?
I find no place in the May of your life
You see, I’d rather stay here than go away
But it wouldn’t do justice to this pain
So, let’s be fair and trust again
We’ll take the hint when comes the day
Oh, that I knew the truth
Not to be so far away from you
I’ve been waiting since a long time
to know the very meaning of the sign
And if I can see now what our eyes could only dream
It’s just because I let the silence get in
I let the silence get in, I let the silence get in...

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Feelings of doubt
I’m tryin’ to break this
door down
I’m tryin’ to tear this wall
down
I placed the dark out of
bounds
We have to cross over the
veil of these clouds
Both you and I know the
danger
For we’d been thru sorrow
and anger
But if the same dream
have me and you
Yeah the dream’s gonna
come true
And feelings of doubt
They sound all around
What should we look for
And what have we found
We’ve not still got to the
dark side
But some day we could
awake blind-eyed
Well I’d been running too
fast and speed
Before the madness of
your own wish
We’d been walkin’ thru too
many ways
Too many times doing just
the same
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As you can see the sun
shines today too
So we can meet and keep
on trustin’ in the greatest
good
And feelings of doubt
They sound all around
What should we look for
And what have we found
We’ve not still got to the
dark side
But some day we could
awake blind-eyed
I know that I’ll see you on
a day
But I know it won’t be as
the olden way
What have I won and what
have I lost
And all I could do it was
just the most
And in the end I find out
that I got only you
And I miss you tonight
more than I usually do
And feelings of doubt
They sound all around
What should we look for
And what have we found
We’ve not still got to the
dark side
But some day we could
awake blind-eyed
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Nomad Sound
Down the black Chicago there was a world
and a brand new sound
So he tried to see inside
He had to fight for just one time
Although he fought he didn’t despise
He saw his face mirrorin’ on the empty hands of the people
around a space of hate
It’s just a way beyond the moon...
He was shook-up all day long
So the woman on the run,
As the rest of the soul had come,
Could spot once more the path to walk on
There was no plan of love
So she was framing it on that day
So that when strangers had to pass by
standing on the edge of the town she would be saying
This is the water of hate, this is the land of hate
Walk on another way if you’re looking
for the land of love....
There’s a different way to the land of love
It’s just a way beyond the moon…

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Blue
And now tell me
Do you think you’ll be translated into heaven?
Do you think that it is different?
Can you feel as a new air now you can breathe
gives you wings and makes you fly higher?
And what do you remember of me,
when I used to feast my eyes on your beauty?
And how many questions do you think I’ve got for you?

The old man said that my lot would have been a hard one
but the clothes they drew lots were not mine
And as you were dragging yourself out of the dark
Words for you to live
And now that we’ve cried our eyes out
what’s left behind among the two of us
but just a memory of a dream out of everybody’s keen
and promises for keeps bloody dead twice or maybe more

And everything is in keeping with our past old days

And everything can be bluer than our olden days
And everything can be bluer
Blue..

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I wish your love may win

It turns over a new leaf, what ‘bout we used to be?

The night that came was too insane making us both little and
faint
I felt as if it were a long way and we would cry
divided in the rain
And we waited for so long and we were scared for the reply
Did we learn to love or we could only repine?
Till our dreams were blown to the wind and our souls had to
fight
just to be rid

I never let on our dreams

In the light and in the shade
I was by your side
The New World will need angels with unclipped wings
It will take no tricks and keep away the thieves
And the weakest won’t go to the wall anymore
Because everything has an end, you know…
Everything has an end
And as we thought we were thoroughly masters of our lives
We were split into a lot of little stripes
And to cross the threshold just to thrash out the truth
It was the mission we had to outdo.
If we do see only ourselves we can’t go over our pain
And everything has an end, you know… Everything has an end
And we were so full of questions and we were so full of doubts
and we were yearning for the dawn but we liked to die
in the night
And before us doors are shut and doors are wide
Streets are uneven and streets are upright
So many voices and so much din a lot of lights but too much dim
And we have to move on and stand
‘Cos everything has an end, you know…Everything has an end
But never forget that life is a feast
It is not a war, not even a penalty,
Never fail to play with it, so that you be free

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I, I that I met your loneliness and your gloom

I, I that I’ve been walking thru the night of my doom
I wish your love may win
and when you feel to give in
I wish your love may win
and if forsaking and fire you’d meet
I wish your love may win
and if you’d deny to walk in
I wish your love may win
and if you’d lose the way you’re in
I wish your love may win
and should you let the lie get in
I wish love may win
and when it’ll go winning
you won’t go losing

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Absinthe
Passing through the years
You had been thru so many things
Sometimes tough and hard looking alike
But only to conceal your bleeding heart
Been spending together a few times
I’d always seen how deep your glance was
Lucubration of a people born again from an ancient thought
Dark figures on the end of a sunset crowded
with white thin voices
Clear shapes stranger one another now speak the way
Sisters of an eternal family do
Start to fill up tired days of sloth
Another land, another country to live in
Don’t you lose your wings
For in the night and dark
In the evil and pain
You will fly again
And it won’t be like falling down
‘Cause there are seas you can’t cross
And rains you can’t find shelter from
And the sun smiles on the horizon
To the brave and the coward ones
But mockery and shame are only for the men

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A stir in the air

Soft white cloth

Alights between the face and the glass
Twisted mystical light of the night
Floating smoke caressing the nice silk
On a longing wish
Instant blasts
Objects that dissolve while rolling
Shedding deep beams of light
Fake blinks and shades
Deceive the driven mad eye
Which is breaking against the gleam
A king invited colors and scraps to dance
Mighty waves, who did call for legions of herons
in the ashen dusk and then chase the trip?
Was the pale baby child to summon ghosts in this ancient abode?
A stir in the air…

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The light shines at midnight

And there was a time when we learned

How to overcome the fear
Upon the wet sand we lay
And the wet sand kissed our sleep’s wings
We talked together the ambassadress waves
And the gentle air’s angel forged the key for us
And tonight, far from some season
Even tonight the light shines at midnight
The eyes of the night are after us
The light shines at midnight

Shouting unto your home

In this world of figures
Watching you in this place of shades
Under the rain…
Turn your glance to the altar on the mountain
It is a painless witness under the rain…
We are trying to uncover her face
Under the rain…

And tonight, far from some season

Even tonight the light shines at midnight
The eyes of the night are after us
The light shines at midnight

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She’s living in the well

Friend, I gotta tell you that
She left your tent
A dark drama fell
on her messy head
She couldn’t ring the bell
So she’s living in the well,
She’s living in the well...
The arrow fell short
and he don’t know the worth
The worth of a man
who’s falling to plan
the see-saw of his life
tryin’ to get out the knives
And when you’ll see trees that fall
He’d rob Peter to pay Paul

Turkish March
Lonely trees beholders of the tide
Smudge that gently will arise
Water that goes running back
Driving us in a dream of lack
We are sailing with good mind
Rocking on the ship so kind
Into this sea through miles and miles
As children tales that are fragile
More room over these marble clouds
We’re not afraid of stranger clouts
Feelings crying, asking for the sky
It is not fairly wide this night
To keep in all of what I miss
Waiting for your loving kiss
If we are alone in the earthlight
Just break these chains and give us sight

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Ten years after

What is new which begins on?
Is it a turn in the age?
Maybe something isn’t clear
or everything is over
and all the memories are just going away
Would you speak or would you rather be told
What have you sold by a penny
and what have you bought
paying the price of your life
We’ve been counting till dawn
Numbers upon numbers
One or two nothing will ever be clear
Keep this disguise on
Ten years have spent
and our faces have grown older.

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The child with the dog on the edge of the electric town
If I were a painter
could my picture be crazier
than our life?
And for even I’m not a poet
can I make your deeds shine
by words and tell about your work?

Well I don’t think so

Even I hope so
If though I would so
I don’t know, I don’t know
Where my wandering had started from
and where should I make my stop?
What’s left darkened behind
and what else exposed to light?
May I be as the sun beams crossing the earth
never violating the shade?

Well I don’t think so

Even I hope so
If though I would so
I don’t know, I don’t know
The wary gait of the flow of life
Against our weird race

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Trust in life
To be good is the essence of life
I want to see how many ways I ride
Without hearing men that moan
I wish it would last that long
Here in my arms I got a child
That I gonna rock whole through the night
Freedom smells of air fresh and clean
Sure, no day to come can get mean
Run onto the sun with all your gird
Ooh my smiling wonderful girl
Rise up cheer and bold with no dread
But do not shadow each other yet
And when, when all looks to go waste
There is still a new flavor to taste
Never forget the poor and the wretch
Are waiting to get out of the trench
Ooh baby, sweet baby of mine
Grow strong and trust in life

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Wake Up!
Hey people wake up!
Buy and sell is dead.
Scream up kids, gather your grown-ups
Jump into the net
We want all of you into the foamy web
New rules to share the spoils
Habits change, still the same game
You can hear them shout
We are going to fleece you down
The road to the wreck
It’s just the course we marked out for you
Carl, you never got old
Who gets connected and who doesn’t
That’s the new principle
Beware sirs,
We could get through this source
To rise again and nail you down
Aul Wan, I did all arseways...
Cop on to yourself
I don’t wanna be git so I won’t shut my gob
Wake up babby! If they called you sap, ye scream ‘em back
Scram!
Wake up!

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Let the past be bygone

Sometimes I behold the memories of bygone days
but I never look behind
I muse over choices I made and when I think of you
my sweet baby it seems ages to me
You know that I never really gained an insight into your mind
and it’s a long lane that has no turning, far you see,
and I couldn’t stand anymore in your town innocent of soul
So innocent of heart

You carried the day but now haul down your flag
I wouldn’t have you meet the defeat
Will you have another chance to die?

Truth will be your very only friend

As someone has it
Overcome your fear
What you’re gonna find is more and more than
You’ve left behind.

Look ahead and go on

Let the past be bygone

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Words are but wind

Words are but wind my sweet, sweet child
Words are but wind, don’t sink into the ocean of oblivion
Open your eyes to the light
Hold on and try to realize
The wish is father to the thought, you know
Waiting out
Learn to read between the lines of age
Let no lie steal your life
Pass the tricks of this world by
Don’t get dirty when you feel sad ‘n’ have been had
‘Cos two wrongs don’t make a right
Words are but wind
My sweet honey baby
Words are but wind
And out of sight, out of mind
No one knows what happens
and no one suffers
And walk for a mile, walk for two
Listen to and watch around
You can reach to the top if you will
and fly high ‘til there’s sky over you still
Words are but wind
My little wee baby child
Words are but wind
Even when they are kind
Don’t let the time sweep you away
So if you enjoy the way you are
And if you find you are still willing
Love, and turn your life into a work of art.

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© all rights reserved, and they were all written by the author.