LYRICS - WHEN THE SERPENT FLIES
Future Blues
Got off the job today
Took off a different way
Got home and knew
What we were no longer buying into
Yesterday evening there
Caught in the tv glare
We saw ourselves
Changing our point of view
Turn around the things we do
Telling no secrets and believing their lies
How are you gonna run
How will you hide
How are you gonna feel when worlds collide
Future
Past
Who will be the first
Who the last...to know
Those vessels in the sky
Earth populations fly
Will they go bearing gifts
Of cynanide or silver
“Bred in the bone,” they say
“Light of a future day.”
We call them wise
Do we change our point of view
Turn around the things we do
Telling their secrets and believing no lies
How are we gonna run
How will we hide
How are we gonna feel
When worlds collide
Future
Past
Who will be the first
Who the last...to go.........
©1989 Dawn Thompson
Beauty/Beast
In the early morning
Just before the light comes in
Its the nature of the Beast
To prowl his Manor’s forest land
Beauty, who’s asleep now
And passes her time slumbering
Finds this prince of shadows
Agitates her land of dreams
Only in the forest
Only in the ancient days
Could a spell like this be cast
At least that’s what I’ve heard them say
Beauty is asleep now
Passing it’s time slumbering
And a prince of shadows
Agitates your land of dreams
Traded for a flower
Housed behind a bower
Now her would-be lover
Hesitates and hovers
How long must he long for her
Until she hears his song for her
Until his mantle falls away
Her reticence in disaray
This Beast has come and gone today
And has revealed his beauty ...
In the early morning
Just before the light comes in...
© 2003 Dawn Thompson
Winged Serpent
Turn your clocks around
This is the real time
And while we steal time
Let the show begin
Every now and then
In some chosen generation
Everything begins to turn around - even upside down
Depending on your view of it
Won’t you listen me
Won’t you turn that phone in
Will it make or break you
To ignore the new spin
You can take my keys
And my two tvs
But I won’t confess to anything
If it doesn’t make my heart sing
Flying with eyes on fire
Singing a song that some can hear
We could find each other in suspended hours
Couldn’t we escape to find suspended hours
When the serpent flies -he doesn’t creep along
Everybody who’s asleep - with their cell phones on With who to call - and who to tell
But what you hear when you can chill is ...
Let me tell a story I heard when I was small
Then I heard it in the hall the other day
“The lion and the lamb reclined”
“The lion and the lamb reclined”
Flying with eyes on fire
Singing a song that some can hear
We could find each other in suspended hours
Couldn’t we escape to find suspended hours...
Underminers...sycophants...
Everybody’s got to rant.
Tell the meteor to ride
Everything is flying crazy
And just wheen you’ve been feeling hazy...
Recklessly you climb...
Recklessly you climb...
Recklessly you climb...
© 2005 Dawn Thompson
Smoke and Mirrors
Through the alley down the stairs
Slipping into some sweet lair.......
When the lights blur through a scrim
Shadows hide a glistening......
In a hallway lit by sparks
Find a dazzling in the dark......
What is clear, now in mist
Smoke and mirrors bind their tryst......
Mystery and magic
Haunt you through the day
In the night’s illusion
Is a passion play
Smoke and mirrors
Open up the proper door
There are conjurers in store......
What you get is what you see
Better make your wish a blessing......
Here a vision, there a masque
Now we’re in the magic act......
What is not and what is true
Whisper paradox to you......
Like the world of legend
Like the world of song
Bathe me in your footlights
Leave me there too long
Smoke and mirrors
© 2003 Dawn Thompson
LYRICS - MERCURY
Mercury Man
The night is a silver hue
The time is a quarter to two
I gaze through the dim at figures that swim into my view .....
Crowds at the avenue's bend
Now float in a mercury blend
The shutter, the lens, make their light and their shadows dance again .....
Well, I'll be madder than a hatter but it won't stop me
The mercury is in my veins
The light and shadow are the nature of my ecstacy
And are the reason for my pain
Now, rise in your mercury haze
You faces from previous days
In spirits you live, in vapors you give me what I crave .....
Well, I'll be madder than a hatter but it won't stop me
The mercury is in my veins
The light and shadow are the nature of my ecstacy
And are the reason for my pain
Oh. Quicksilver, sing to me
The song that we know has to be
Release me from sin ..... I see that the light and shadow win
Parallel Lines
I am a capsule in a sea-like home
You are a blossom in a wall of stone
You give the answers, I give you endless dreams
Come back tomorrow and wake me from my sleep.....
I never noticed how we'd run in place
Until the time I met you face to face
You turn the corner and the dance of life begins
Ulterior motives shed their weary skins .....
You give the answers, I give you dreams
We won't try again to rely on some outmoded schemes
Called by the ripples at the water's edge
Called by the cyrus and the nimbus ledge
We were the refugees who fled the carbon grid
Mystified and breathless, there we stood .....
LYRICS - THURSDAY NIGHT @ MILLERS
Willowland
In the Willowland
People live up high
Stars go tumbling by
You can catch them in your hand
But only if you try .....
You can only reach the shores of this land
In a boat with half a sail
Other modes will fail
You can ask the water folk who tell this tale.........
of the Willowland .....
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