Sittin' all alone now, I took my ticket to ride
Just a matter of time now till I'll be up in the sky

Coming up on me now, I'm king for the night
What's it gonna be now,
how hurtful things are brewing inside
Do you think it's really the truth that you see?
I?ve got my doubts, it's happened to me

Artificial energy is wrestling my mind
I've got a strange feeling
I'm going to die before my time
I'm coming down off amphetamine
and I'm in jail `cause I killed a queen

I think I'm going back to the things that I learned so well in my youth
I think I'm returning to those days when I was young enough to know the truth
Now there are no games to only pass the time
No more electric trains, no more trees to climb
But thinking young and growing older is no sin
And I can play the game of life to win

I can recall the time when I wasn't ashamed to reach out to a friend
Now I think I've got a lot more than just my toys to lend
Now there's more to do than watch my sailboat glide
And every day can be a magic carpet ride
A little bit of courage is all we lack
So catch me if you can, I?m goin? back

Now there's more to do than watch my sailboat glide
But every day can be a magic carpet ride
A little bit of courage is all we lack
So catch me if you can, I'm goin' back

Fallin' free, me and you
Happenin' so graciously
You can?t hurry natural harmony

Feel so free, wider than me
Seems just like the day of birth
Our first awakening to this earth

Dancing through the streets side by side
Head thrown back, arms open wide

Going home, almost gone
Merging with a grain of sand
Try hard to catch us if you can

Dancing through the streets side by side
Head thrown back, arms open wide

Sun warm on my face, I hear you
down below movin' slow
and it's morning

Take my time this morning, no hurry
to learn to kill and take the will
from unknown faces

Today was the day for action
Leave my bed to kill instead
Why should it happen?

Oh I'd rather go and journey where the diamond crest is flowing and
Run across the valley beneath the sacred mountain and
Wander through the forest
Where the the trees have leaves of prisms and break the light in colors
That no one knows the names of

And when it's time I'll go and wait beside a legendary fountain
Till I see your form reflected in it's clear and jewelled waters
And if you think I'm ready
You may lead me to the chasm where the rivers of our vision
Flow into one another

I will want to die beneath the white cascading waters
She may beg, she may plead, she may argue with her logic
And then she'll know the things I learned
That really have no value in the end she will surely know
I wasn't born to follow

Standing in the airport I am waiting for a plane
Goin? east to London, want to be back there again
It?s the right time of year, all the trees are autumn brown
but I really only want to get to you

Sitting by the window, watching ocean going by
Seems I should be with you but how fast can this thing fly
Hey how it seems like an eternity
All the time it took me trying to get to you

Oh, that's a little better
Oh, that's a little better
Oh, that's a little better
Oh, that's a little better

Standing in the airport I am getting off the plane
Glad to be in London even though it?s pouring rain
It?s a bright sunny day when I see you run my way
but it took me twenty years to get to you
It?s a bright sunny day when I see you run my way
but it took me twenty years to get to you

Oh, that's a little better
Oh, that's a little better
Oh, that's a little better
Oh, that's a little better

Change is now, change is now
Things that seemed to be solid are not
All is now, all is now
The time that we have to live

Gather all that we can
Keep in harmony with love?s sweet plan

Truth is real, truth is real
That which is not real does not exist
In and out roundabout
Dance to the day when fear it is gone

Gather all that we can
Keep in harmony with love?s sweet plan

Change is now, change is now
Things that seemed to be solid are not
In and out roundabout
Dance to the day when fear it is gone
Fear it is gone
Fear it is gone

Old John Robertson he wore a Stetson hat
People everywhere would laugh behind his back
No one cared to take any time to find out
What he was all about, fear kept them out

Children laughed and played and didn't know his name
They could tell when he was coming just the same
Walking slow with old John's crippled wife by his side
Then she sighed, then she died

Magic words from him would charm some children's ears
But they laughed at him when he hid behind his tears
All in vain was no game for he'd lost an old friend
in the end, in the end

Old John Robertson he wore a Stetson hat
People everywhere would laugh behind his back
No one cared to take any time to find out
What he was all about, fear kept them out

She'll hand to you a stick of sandalwood
A little smile and then she'll disappear
Back into a crowd of happy people
Looking like they never came from here
Strange thing, gathering of tribes
Strange thing, gathering of tribes

A Macedonian and a pilot comes
A' laughing at a German jest or joke
A friendly motorcycle angel comes
To sit and talk awhile and share a smoke
Strange thing, gathering of tribes
Strange thing, gathering of tribes

Pretty little whirling butterfly
All the prettiest girls go dancing by
Caught up in the sound of talking drums
Lost herself out in the wheel of sound
Strange thing, gathering of tribes
Strange thing, gathering of tribes

Out at sea for a year
floating free from all fear
Every day blowin' spray,
in a dolphin's smile

Wind-taut line split the sky,
curlin'crest rollin' by
Floating free aimlessly,
in a dolphin's smile

Rainbow's end everywhere,
full of light, free as air
Childhood's dream,
have you ever seen a dolphin's smile

In nineteen and ninety-six we ventured to the moon
Onto the the Sea Of Crisis like children from the womb
We journeyed cross the great wall plain beneath the mountain range
and there we saw the pyramid, it looked so very strange

This beacon had a field of force, that circled all around
And not a man could get inside, no way could be found
It was here for thousands of years before our life began
Waiting very patiently for evolving man

When the galaxy was young they looked upon the earth
and saw that its position was promising for birth
They searched for life but finding none they left a beacon bright
Its signal had not been disturbed in the eternal light

How wise they were to choose this place, they knew when we arrived
That our atomic energy, we'd harnessed and survived
I look out on the milky way for people of the dawn
I know that they will come some day but will our wait be long?

In nineteen and ninety-six we ventured to the moon
Onto the the Sea Of Crisis like children from the womb
We journeyed cross the great wall plain beneath the mountain range
and there we saw the pyramid, it looked so very strange

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You want to know how it will be
Me and her or you and me
You both stand there, your long hair flowing
Your eyes alive, your minds are still growing
Saying to me what can we do now that we
Both love you, I love you too
I don?t really see why can?t we go on as three

You are afraid, embarrased too
No one has ever said such a thing to you
Your mother?s ghost stands at your shoulder
A face like ice, a little bit colder
Saying to you
You can not do that it breaks all the rules
You learned in school
But I don?t really see, why can?t we go on as three

We love each other it?s plain to see
There?s just one answer that comes to me
Sister lovers, water brothers
and in time maybe others
So you see what we can do
If we try something new, if you?re crazy too
I don?t really see why can?t we go on as three

I think I?m going back to the things that I learned so well in my youth
I think I?m returning to those days when I was young enough to know the truth
Now there are no games to only pass the time
No more electric trains, no more trees to climb
But thinking young and growing older is no sin
And I can play the game of life to win

I can recall the time when I wasn?t ashamed to reach out to a friend
Now I think I?ve got a lot more than just my toys to lend
Now there?s more to do than watch my sailboat glide
And every day can be a magic carpet ride
A little bit of courage is all we lack
So catch me if you can, I?m goin? back

Now there?s more to do than watch my sailboat glide
But every day can be a magic carpet ride
A little bit of courage is all we lack
So catch me if you can, I?m goin? back

Sun warm on my face, I hear you
down below movin' slow
and it?s morning

Take my time this morning, no hurry
to learn to kill and take the will
from unknown faces

Today was the day for action
Leave my bed to kill instead
Why should it happen?

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