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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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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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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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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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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.
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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?
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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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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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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
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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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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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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?
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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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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?
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This lyrics appear on Blue Opera Rock, a novel by Bob J. Zehmer, 2009
© all rights reserved, and they were all written by the author.