Dwight Lyrics
Hard Times For The Revolution
Things have changed since I was....young....when being angry at the world was much more fun.....the establishment, the bougeoise, and the government were up against me, Leary, Hoffman, Che Guevara, kicking pigs, stuffin guns with flowers. Things are getting strange again....I started looking up old friends...they say they ain’t got time to fight the fight, got a nice straight job and a nice safe life.....now that the world is grey (not black n white), don’t rock the boat baby everything’s alright!
(ch) HARD TIMES FOR THE REVOLUTION
HARD TIMES FINDING NEW RECRUITS
YOU THINK YOU WANNA START A REVOLUTION?
THE REVOLUTION’S GONNA COME TO YOU
Unemployed and nervous wreck, my gun show buddies they just laugh and cash the checks.....come on downstairs, the stuff you’ll find will blow much more than just your mind: the bombs and firepower combined, enough for my own Palestine! You’d think I’d get some help from friends, but they’re all letting me down again.....they say the NASDAQ’s good, not working too hard, getting updates every hour on the hour, got food in the fridge, gassed up the car, can’t get off the couch and Fight The Power!
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It’s a hard time for the revolution when all of your philosophies end in confusion ....if you don’t wanna make a contribution....if you don’t wanna be part of the solution...
THE REVOLUTION’S GONNA COME TO YOU!
Mr. Anti-Sunshine
Hey Mr. Anti-Sunshine, see all eclipses follow you around the garden....i see you clearer now in blue. I can’t ignore you coz I know you better now you’re gone, the empty glasses, the sad stagger in at dawn.....you said you loved me, before you even started.....
Hey Mr. Way Above It All, where is all your talent now, but just a seedling, a spark, half forgotten up til now?.....lights out, it’s over before you even started out.....too cool to quit, man you got messed up like it was something to believe in....
Oh no, this is not my road! It’s not the way back home......this is not my road...
I started over the day that you departed. Still, in my eye I see you: messed up like it was something to believe in....
Where Love And Madness Reign
Philosophers can not agree about the world the mind was never meant to see, where all the wise have gone insane, where Love and Madness reign.....cartographers can’t find it on the charts, but we all know the directions there by heart....sometimes we find the path has changed, sometimes we find ourselves from there estranged...
The weather there can not make up it’ s mind, and the island is divided by an imaginary line, so you never know which side of it you’re on....one moment you’ve everything you want, the next it’ s gone...
Me? Yeah, I lived there for awhile, and the sun shone long as I could make her smile. One day, I couldn’t stop the rain.....together we would nevermore remain, where Love and Madness reign....
Out loud I’d swear it wasn’t real, and I don’t feel what I don’t wanna feel.....but inside I know I’d chance the pain to cross the ever altering terrain.....to where Love and Madness reign....
Blindman
You feed me breakfast underwater. You melt the ice around my eyes. You treat the moon just like a daughter. You bring me down when I’m getting too......high. So why am I a study in blue? I’m like a blindman looking at heaven. That’s the way that I’m looking at you.....like a blindman looking at heaven.....can’t seem to see how good we got together...
You plot the course, avoiding danger. You bribe the wind to fill my sails. You treat the Devil like a stranger. You pull me up when I’m hangin in........hell. So why am I a study in blue? I’m like a blindman looking at heaven. Thats the way that I’m looking at you.....like a blindman looking at heaven.....can’t seem to see the end, can’t seem to find my friend, can’t seem to see how good we got together...
Happy?
A child, without trying, could make it look easy.....look at both of us! We’re just ghosts of us, dying to be, trying to remember: how did it feel before it died? Rolling in the clover.....wasn’t the field a mile wide?
A child, not even trying, death-defying, free....
How did we come so far so unhappy? How did it get so hard to be (happy)?
Merry-go-round again, spin it faster. Bigger games to play, bigger bills to pay, none of this lasts......trying to flip it over, trying to feel so good, it hurts. Remedies and potions....I seem to need to make it.......worse...
A child, not even trying, death-defying, free.....
How did we come so far so unhappy? How did it get so hard to be happy? I wanna be happy. I’ ll never be happy......
Beautiful Ghost
Beautiful ghost, all alone......I’m kissing the wind. Is it true that I’m the only one you come to at the setting sun? In my life, there’s no impossible......tonight, I’m not responsible. You might hear me calling you at the other end of the sky....
Beautiful ghost, moon in your ear.....I’m dreaming your eyes, was I mistaken when I saw a tear? Awake, I hear you soft and clear......do you cry for all the time that passed you by? Am I a fool, the last to try to call and comfort you at the other end of the sky?
In another lifetime you and I are lovers.....now were reaching across the timeline, rediscovering each other, and I’m tossed into your atmosphere.....I’m lost each time you disappear.....I’m lost, only to find myself at the other end of the sky, beautiful ghost....
Words Fail Me
With words, I have my way.....I know which ones to say in most any situation that I’m found in. Line em up in little rows of pretty poetry and prose....the flowery phrases flow like from a fountain...
Then you walk into my view, all alone, and unexpected......they mutter their apologies and leave me unprotected. I stammer things I don’t intend, nothing sounds the way it’s meant. They’ve let me down again! Words fail me....
Everytime I get back home, they won’t leave me alone! Every clever word I’ve thrown comes back to haunt me.....so I seargent them into a line, so perfectly combined....I go over it 1000 times, why she must want me....
But you suddenly appear, and I could really use a hand there.....the smart ones all step backwards while the stupid ones just stand there! I’m stuttering a dumb reply, then it’s well, OK, goodbye....I’m perplexed, I don’t know why words fail me....
I captured all the right ones, the reasons why I can’t forget her. If I can’t deliver with my mouth I’ ll do it with a letter!
But, it’s scary coming from my pen.....it’s too fast. “Let’s just be friends....if you’ve more of these to send now, please don’t mail me...”. Now all the words I SHOULD have said harass and trail me! I think I’ ll stick to music when words fail me....
Over Arizona
I’ m suspended here, somewhere between two rocky shores. The world just disappeared, nothing but blue outside my door.....and I guess I surpised myself, crossing this emotional line, and I knew it was time that I was getting over my fear of flying, so I’ m kissing the old goodbye over Arizona.
In spite of the gravity, we hurtle above this moonlike land. You’d laugh to see me here, trying to cradle my drink in a shaking hand......and I guess I surpised myself, crossing this emotional line, and I knew it was time that I was getting over my fear of flying, so I’ m kissing the old goodbye over Arizona.
Golden sun and sand, leading up to the Great Divide, seat belt light is on....maybe she’s worth the rocky ride......
I Feel Much Better Now
Me and the Moon were having one of our conversations:
I said “You’re lookin good”....
The moon said “Where the hell have you been hiding? Who ya been howling to at night, baby?”
I said “Didja see the big cloud that was darkening my doorstep? Foggin me out, making me a hostage to the thunder and lightning? Went back to bed, didn’t feel like fighting it”...
”But I woke up in sunshine, and I feel much better now. Still rains on me sometimes....but I feel much better now”.....
Me and the Sun were having one of our disagreements:
I said “You don’t love me!”
The Sun said “Don’t know why you think I ignore you. You know, it ain’t my job just to shine for you!”
I said “Everytime I see you, you’re in someone elses backyard!”
The Sun said “Wake up! Get over it! Bout time you got your shit together! Stop blaming everything on the weather!”
And I woke up in sunshine! I feel much better now.....still rains on me sometimes, but I feel much better now.
....and After All
......and after all the spells are broken, the curtains drawn, the words unspoken....after all these sad affairs we survived but didn’t share, I hoped you’d find me here, the open door, the light behind you....doubt the eyes, the wounds repair.....half alive when you’re not there, it’ s you running through my head, it’ s you coming true again. I knew I’d find you again...
This dirty street, this desert island (some things never change), the masks we made all blank and silent....eye to eye they come undone, darkness fades to rising sun.....I want us to be One, up on the wire, no net below us (feeling very strange...)...jump the line and clear the air, drop the lie to find you there.....it’ s you running through my head, it’ s you coming true again...
I knew that I’d find you again....it’ s you.
(I Just Wanna) Hang With My Baby
Told my friends tonight I ain’t got time
I just wanna hang with my baby
Just took my shoes off and I poured the wine
I just wanna hang with my baby
The sky could be falling, the world could be ending
But it really wouldn’t matter right now
We listened to Marvin, she said she was starving
For something only I could endow
The way she’s kissin me is freakin me out
So I just wanna hang with my baby
I’ve been workin hard! I’ve been doin without!
And I just wanna hang with my baby
Dont wanna discuss it, dont wanna say nothing
Just put a pillow over the phone
Later I’ ll fix some breakfast, maybe we’ ll split the paper
Never even get dressed
Gonna leave the bed in a great big mess
But right now it’ s curtains and candlelight
And I just wanna hang with my baby
Dontcha know theres nowhere else I wanna be in the world tonight
Than right here hangin out with my baby
Sho nuff makin love with my baby
Wanna get it on til dawn with my baby....
Ahhhhh
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