Songs 1972-4, 2021-4
MO : Prose 2001-4 | Prose 2021+ | Songs 1972-4, 2021-3 |
Lyrics for songs, and ideas that have come and gone, from 1972 thru to now. Truth? No. Simply dreams and words. Personal? Sure .....
- Fog bound 2024
- The Awakening 2024
- I don't want it 2024
- TR-3C 2024
- Mother 2024
- Just wait... 2024
- The Day Will Come 2023
- Three Koalas 2023
- Purple Flowers 2023
- GU2IT 2023
- Love song 2023
- Shadow in the bushes 2023
- No, No, No 2023
- Diversity 2023
- Black Panther - 2023
- Earth garden?guardian - 2023
- Faerie Realm - 2023
- Highway No.1 - 2023
- Outta My Head / Love That Woman - 2023
- Bloody Cut - 2023
- Black Cricket - 2023
- AIR - 2022
- Drivin' - 2022
- Dark - 2021
- Dusted - 2021
- Lady Joanna #1 - 1976
- Lady Joanna #2 - 1976
- Song For Barbra - 1975
- Drops - 1974
- Down in Hell - 1974
- Winter - 1973
- Point Street - 1972
- Apollo - 1972
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Fog bound
[Am] The morning comes and [C] I look around, [Am] the mist is thick, [C] I'm fog bound
Cold, grey, another new day, waiting for the sun to come my way
[Em] The brightness is [Dm] above me now, [Em] the cows are in the [Dm] field
work to do, mend a fence and fix a broken wheel
[Am] I think about the days to come, and times long past
When children ran around our feet, there was no time to breathe
[Em] The day is done, dinner's set, I look towards the stars
[Am] Sit beside you by moon light, feel the cool, clear breeze
Hold you tight, one more night, feel your breath upon my cheek
[Em] Fog will come, mist will rise, day turn into night
My mind racing over time, my soul in full flight
[Am] The more alone, the more I feel, the need to be with you
To lay again, underneath the stars, feel my life anew
[Em] I'm fog bound, my mind's a mist, tears is in my eyes
Death is calling in the dark, just beyond my sight
Fog bound, fog bound ....
30.4.24
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The Awakening
I've searched inside all my life / for something called connection
I've fallen in and out of love / seeking that direction
But now it's time to look beyond / laying by your side
For the world is wider than I thought / we can no longer hide.
So I turn my eyes up to the sky / the stars at night they sparkle
A cosmic consciousness appears / beyond all that matters
I see that I am just a child / a fractal of the great Creator
An endless incarnation then / where life goes on forever.
Should I fight for peace & light / or stay at home and wonder?
Nataru V Nabu, Sol by Sekar / and Draco no longer
Jupiter's hub awaits me now / a vortex to the future
I understand that karma comes / it's just my nature.
Awake, Awake, disclose the truth / to life beyond Terra
Friends and foes, above below / have been there forever
For balance only comes to us / when we love each other
And light meets dark yet again / to protect my brother.
So Awake, I say Awake / a call to arms don't hesitate
We cannot fight amongst ourselves / that war is over
Stand together in light and love / as we turn to sky
For in that fight so just and wise / I know I never die.
14.2.24
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I don't want it
I don't want you anymore
My hands are shakin', my eyes are sore
That love that burns is in the bin
My mind is black and full of sin
From all the cussin' and all the fighting
The hatred and the lyin'
I don't want you anymore
Cause you kicked me out the door
.....
6.2.24
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TR-3C
With Southern Cross above me, I look into the sky
Waiting for some Aliens, just to drop on by
Cosmic consciousness alerts me, to CE5
Coverup concerns me, that Gaia stay alive.
I know the sky is infinite, with Milky Way and life
But time is running out, as we weaponise the night
Flying saucers, anti-grav, fill my dreams
TR-3C and spacetime warp, they are the things I need.
I want to hop upon that ship, and sail galactic seas
Slip through time in a flash, and feel God on my knees
That black triangle makes no sound, as I slip away
A bubble of light surrounds me, as my thoughts alone hold sway.
From point to point it takes no time, perhaps a single day
To leave my love behind me now, and reach the Milky Way
To Aldebaran and back again, I tell my blue-skinned friends
Down on Earth there's peace at last, and Gaia's on the mend.
30.1.24
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Mother
Love yourself, and love your mother
Don't you know, there is no other
From seed to womb, she bears that pain
Life is given, or taken away
Do not regret, for we have one chance
To share a love, to hold a hand
Mother.
28.1.24
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* Just wait ....
||: C#m Bbm :|| ||: G#m Bbm :|| add fill with chord boxes
When I look into your eyes / like a bird I fly
When I see that tender smile / I know that it is why
I take a walk along that path / that brings me back to you
By ocean's softest sandy shore / where our two souls run true.
I feel that we can work it out / If only day by day
We'll find a place, slow down the pace / And let love have its way
To be once more in step and time / Down that rocky road
Hand in hand, with lover's trust / To bear a lightened load.
Well you know sometimes life is tough / and we loose our connection
Is it worth the while, you ask / or find a new direction
But then I know, I love you so / No matter what our fate
I stand beside you every time / For love it says, "Just wait..."
And so I sit and wonder if / our love it is eternal
Or as we end another life / will this kiss be our final?
But if it's true, I say to you / there'll never be another
To steal my heart, win my love / and tear my world asunder
So just wait, yes just wait / for life to come full circle
Yes I wait, I just wait / for that love eternal
But I know, I love you so / No matter what our fate
I stand beside you every time / For love it says, "Just wait..."
7.1.24
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* The Day Will Come
intro lead ||: e d e :|| -> a
A 1234 C 123 D A
(1) The day will come when we will be / when we will be in love again
A C G A
The day will come when we will see / beyond those chains of helpless pain
The day will come, yes the day will come / when we are friends, until the end
The day will come, yes the day will come / when we will be in love again.
A G C D
I'm sorry for those things I said
Sorry for those things I did [no D]
Sorry that I lost my head
E
Seeking someone just like you.
(2) The day will come when we are one / just like we were way back when
The dark is gone and the day is done / we'll walk together, hand in hand
Along a path open wide / for wisdom's journey never ends
The day will come, yes the day will come / when we will be in love again.
I'm sorry for those things I said
Sorry for those things I did [no D]
Sorry that I lost my head
Chasing love with someone new.
(3) But now I wake within my dream / and life's not what I want, it seems
There is no love, I stand alone / the time has come to head back home
And realise that day's not near / when we will be in love again
To be with you in blissful peace / in love again, in love again .....
MO & LD 8.12.2023
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* Three Koalas
I see those three koalas sitting in the trees
No money in my pockets, on my bending knees
The bush is burning down, misery all around
What am I to do? Man up and see it through.
For on that tree they must remain, if they are to live again....
21.11.2023
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* Purple Flowers
Lady with a gun / She just knows /
8.11.2023
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* GetUzed2IT
Cars n trucks n planes n boats / Peace n quiet? There ain’t no hope
Get used to it! Get used to it!
Yeah, all that shit, get used to it!
It’s no use complaining / about a fait accompli
Cause everything they do / is good for you and me
So, get used to it!
Going for a swim / with water and a whale
I look and see the turbines / a thousand spinning sails
Get used to it!
Lush green of the mountain / a beauty to behold
But in amongst the blanket / a white house sitting bold
A blott upon the landscape / a sign we’ve lost our way
Just get used to it.
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* Love Song .... "a sweet little song, I hope you enjoy it" .....
A face, a smile, a presence felt / a love to shine, a heart to melt
I love her so, yes I love her so / and if she doubts me, I let her know
I love her so, I love her so ......
The path is long, the path is wide / when 2 are 1, you cannot hide
Different souls, different minds / sharing thoughts and passing time
She's in my head, and I'm in hers / we look, we know, there are no words
[Chorus]
I ask, are we ok? / sometimes we're not, but that's the way
Other times, life is fun / we do our thing, we know we're 1
[Chorus]
Love is kind, love is blind / but there's no doubt, it fucks with your mind
Sex is sex, that physical bit / a drug, a hit, 2 bodies fit
Touch and smell, liquids kiss / we hold each other, in restful bliss
[Chorus]
How true is love, is it real? / the good, the bad, the eternal?
We'll never know, there is no proof / it can't be touched, a simple truth
[Chorus]
This I feel, day in, day out / darkness comes, light kills all doubt
In my eyes, they cannot lie / without this love, my heart will die ....
[Chorus]
1.11.23 [NB: turn on subtitles to see the lyrics as the song plays in the following video]
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* Shadow in the bushes
Eyes burning red like fire / Is this still a dream?
The moon shone through my window / The black turned dark to gray
My nightmare's with the living / Pain in the light of day.
The birds they sing so sweetly / The cars just drive on by
I tried my best to love her / My eyes well up and cry.
As one we're not together / As two we can but try
Hanging on for dear life / As the days just roll on by.
I see a shadow in the bushes / A spirit free to fly
She stands behind me wondering / My love will never die.
24.10.23
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* No, No, No
'Cause I don't know, so I say NO!
(2) They ask me to choose, tho' I have no views / My mind is a blank, my car just a tank.
(3) My heart it is black, my head like a trap
I don't want to know, so I simply say NO.
(4) This is the day, where no means neigh
Suck it up sir, and I'll have MY way.
(5) Deny them their rights, 'cause black is just white
Lacking compassion, ain't no reason.
(6) Your my blood is red, and spine jelly yellow
Perhaps I'll say Yes, when I lay on the pillow.
(7) Yes, Yes, Yes is the only way
If not tomorrow, then today.
(Chorus) 61 man, 61 man
No, No, No is the end.
No, No, No is the end. I'm a 61 man.
(8) Assimilate, assimilate, it ain't too late, assimilate.
(9) Here's some cash. Here's a house. Fibro walls - let me out!
(10) Dream of then. Dream of now. Dreamtime folds my universe.
(11) Into one. Into one. Just me, and you, and everyone. Everyone. Everyone.....
(12) I am not one. I am not you. We're different man. A different view. So yes to that, yes to that, yes to that.
[High D riff, high D chord, ||: C A :|| A C D repeat]
16.10.23
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* Black Panther
C D riff / G F riff / A G [Open with muted G bar and heavy E bass]
(1) Black Panther, come to me / Only seen running
Running free.
(2) Spirit animal, but you're not there / Black Panther
Where oh where?
(3H) They see a track, a body black / It passes by
But there is no attack.
(Chorus) Cause it's not there, not anywhere
Black Panther, Black Panther.
How can that be, when we look and see
Black Panther, Black Panther.
(4) Your eyes observe, without any words / Into my soul
My world becomes whole.
(5) Your mind can see, right through me / Black becomes white
& sets me free.
(6H) Black Panther, how can that be? / No one can catch you
Just running free.
(Chorus) Cause you’ re not there, not anywhere
Black Panther, Black Panther.
How can that be, when we look and see
Black Panther, Black Panther.
22.9.23
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* Earth garden?guardian
(A C D Em, slow and heavy, single strokes, crying lead in A and D and C and E)
The earth below is all we have
But whose in charge, who really cares?
For Gaia in her deep despair.
A lonely child, abused by us
Guardians of the galaxy
Woeful parents, misplaced trust
That we would be in harmony.
With sky and air and bush and bay
All life around we push away
Cutting, dicing, slice and burn
Live our life and never learn.
Earth guardians, earth garden.
An Eden given, by unknown hand
Garden grown with no beginning
Used, abuse, never refused
We lay in wait and forget the clues.
But where's our spirit; where's our soul?
Were is the meaning of it all?
Etheric body out of touch
Dollar sighs, we ask "How much?"
But time now speaks, the sands run low
No turning back, and we all know
No more defending, no more pretending
Time runs out, there is an ending.....
Earth garden, earth garden
No more guardian
Earth garden, earth garden.
12.8,23
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* Faerie Realm
(G, A. Bb slide with 2 note chord 3, 5, 6, pick, heavy cord and arpeggio. Pink Floydish...)
Well I woke inside my dream / I asked my friend "What does it mean?"
She just said, "Open your mind / Take your time, it'll be fine."
I walked down that track / into the darkness, moonlight black
I met a faerie there / eyes of green, gold of hair.
She whispered, "Follow me / into the light, and you'll be free."
She took me by the hand / we stepped into that foreign land.
Faerie realm, faerie realm / take me to that faerie realm.
Trees so green, colours all / creatures fair, short and tall.
Beauty reigned. "I will stay." / Open my eyes to this new day.
I never woke, from that dream. / I speak to you, from where I am.
Another time, another place. / A faerie realm, a different space.
Where time stands still, time it slips / black is white, upon this trip.
A leap of faith, so much to learn / I know this truth, there's no return.
A changeling now lies in my bed. / they'll never know where I've been led.
Hair of gold, clad in white / from the dark, into the light.
Faerie realm, faerie realm ...
Take me to that faerie realm....
28.7.23
Michael Organ, Faerie Realm, YouTube, 28 July 2023, duration: 2.30 minutes.
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* Highway no.1 / Goin' down the coast
(slide to E triangle / D triangle / A triangle )
A
[1] Well I'm headin' down the coast / The road I like the most
D A
By the Pacific / Ain't being too specific
E D
Looking for to reach / a mountain and a beach
A
Yeah I'm headin' down the coast.
[lead break]
[2] Well I'm headin' down the coast / chasin' some old ghost
Straight as a die / round the corners I will fly
Highway number One / it's trippy and its fun
Drivin down the coast / ridin' down the coast
............. [A boogie jam]
[3] Sleepin' down at Tilba / in a big brass bed
White sheets and memories / streaming through my head
Get back on the road / forget about that load
Head on down the coast / yeah, the one I like the most ......
27.6.23
Michael Organ, Drivin' down the coast, YouTube, 27 June 2023, duration: 2.59 minutes.
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* Outta My Head / Love That Woman
Well I love that woman / But it drives me mad.
I can't get enough / It kinda makes me sad.
When I get down on my knees / You know I aim to please.
Rubbin' and a scrubbin' / Just to get inside her head.
You know I love that woman / Yet the light is turning red.
I just can't get her outta my head.
Well we sit, and we talk. / Make some dinner and we walk.
I look into her eyes / for the love I need.
She sits all alone / says she wants to read.
Well I'm outta my mind / Just need to bide my time.
Turn myself around
And see within her eyes / The love I hope to find.
17.6.23
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* Bloody cut
I cut myself
and bleed
the blood of beetroot
Deep purple
Black no more
Streaming down my leg
Quick then slow
On the water
A fire in my eye
I do not cry
This child, this time
11.3.23
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* Black Cricket
Black cricket
comin' after me
Otto Dix said so
Dreams of spirits panting
Sending out a warning
Black Cricket
1.3.23
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* Drivin'
[A boogie in A, inspired by Lobby Lloyd and the Coloured Balls' Working Man's Boogie from 1972.]
A
Starring out the window / Watching all the trucks / Trapped inside these four walls / You know your life is fucked.
Gotta get out and play / Down the road I'll find my way / Drivin' / Drivin' / Ridin' / Ridin'
Dust 'n dirt 'n blinding sun / Stinking road kill ain't no fun / Potholes shake me to the bone / Keep on going, so close to home / Drivin' / Drivin' / Ridin' / Ridin'
B-double up my arse / Black clouds approaching fast / Ain't got nowhere to go / 'Cept down the road I know / Drivin' / Drivin' / Ridin' / Ridin'
10.11.22
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* AIR
[Inspired by the punk classic Blitzkrieg Bop by The Ramones, circa 1976.]
A D
Workin' all nite long / Sweaty like a thong / Pumpin' out the bags / Dust 'til dawn then gone
E D A
I don't wanna get dusted. / No, I don't wanna get dusted.
Drivin' in my car / 'Ain't going down too far / Hit the magic ton / Flashing lights, now on the run /
Looks like I've been busted. / Yeah, you know I've been busted.
B A
Bag 'n drop / Bag n' drop / 1,000 times / Never stop
Thinkin' in my dreams / I ain't no machine / My brain it might be dead / My fingers turnin' red / But my mind is just a restin' / Yeah, it's just a restin.'
Suckin' up the dust / For the dollars and the dash / Black 'n yellow V8 / Never, never late / No one's gunna catch me. / Never gunna catch me.
Dinner at the pub / Beer 'n pie 'n porn / Sweatin' like a pig / Jump in bed at dawn / But where's my baby gone? / Done left me with the sun.
Dusted and disgusted / Bossed around and wasted / Clockin off can wait / As I head on out the gate / AIR it sucks no more. / The air it sucks no more....
E B A
10.11.22
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* 2 B Alone
I don't want to be alone / In this world of sun and rain /
Wake up on my own / In a place of joy and pain.
I just want to be with you / So we are one again.
I've walked an empty mile / Made for one and one alone.
Traveled that darkened road / A place I call my own.
No trimmings, ego fraying / No escape from truth / No lying.
Yesterday I was so young / Another day, without no past.
Then I woke so old and frail / Growing up it could not last.
Climb up now / Getting to the top / Laying down and feeling lost.
I don't want to be alone / I don't want to be alone.
5.4.21
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* Dark
Well I don't know why / And I don't know how / But that dark just came / Down upon me now.
You turned on me / Said I was to blame / For doing everything / Just the same.
Why, why, why? / From stay to go / I love to despise / That darkness in your eyes.
So bring back the light / Take control of life / Let that power rise / & show those eyes that shine.
31.1.21
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* Dusted
Working all night long / Sweating like a thong / Pumping out the bags / From dusk til dawn.
I don't want to get dusted.
Thinking in my dream / I ain't no machine.
My brain is so arrested.
Bag n' drop / Bag n' drop / 1000 times / Never stop.
Sucking up the dust / For the dollars and the dash / Jump in my Torana / Have to spend some cash
'Cause I don't want to get busted.
11.1.21
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From long ago ......
* Lady Joanna #1
[Acoustic], D F C G D
You used to be known years ago / Known by one and all / At least that's the way it seemed / But now I'm not so sure / You see, I just can't recall.
One day we all grew up, and drifted away / Do you still remember the good times we had / Back in those school days? / Nothing good ever stays.
Am G D A
Lady Joanna you know you had it made/ Strutting and flirting all night, til the break of day / Throwing your cares away / Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Did anyone see through you / past those penciled eyes / around those good time thighs / Did you take them high?
Remember now, when you dressed in blue jeans / And your long flowing hair there / Your smile used to do it all / Or was it just your stare? / I don't know, cause I was not really there.
You cast your spell, again and again / And everyone would fall / While we all had a ball / Growing up is what it was called.
Am G D A
Hey Joanna, oh Joanna / you thought you had it made / Everyone would gather round / But you never stayed / Walking home alone at night / Without getting laid / Tell me, tell, were you just afraid?
Oh Joanna, you were so friendly / Now you're just another memory / The times we had were times so good / And life was passing as it should / I didn't realise that it could.
But those good times have not gone / Can't you see they're still carryin' on? / Can't you see they never end?
Well I saw you just the other night / With someone by your side / Then you happened to walk by / We both looked up, said Hi.
Then and there it seemed to me / That you wanted to stay / Just to sit and talk a while / Or go back to those days / But there was nothing to say / So you just walked away.
Lady Joanna, sweet Joanna / You're there right in my past / Don't remind me of that time / I want the dream to last / Move on if you must / The dream to last ....
4 May 1976
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* Lady Joanna #2
[Acoustic] D F C G D
Lady Joanna, so you think you've got it made / Strutting and a flirting, til the break of day / But I can see through you / I see all your lies / Though I still feel the warmth / and loving in your eyes.
I used to know you years ago / I used to know you well / At least that's what I thought / But now I just can't tell / For it seems we all grew up / and drifted far away / That's how it's got to be / That's how it's gonna stay.
Dressed in denim and razor tongue / You dropped in on us all / Your smile so deceptive / I was the first to fall / Under your spell right then / and we all had a ball / laughing and a joking / trying to show it all.
Now I've been through some changes / and know the smell of pain / I tried to turn you on / but you brought me down again / You bitched and called me names / though I loved you just the same / The memories keep hanging / though I'll never see you again.
Oh Joanna, you thought you had it made / Everybody gathered round / but no one stayed / So you went home alone that night / you should have stayed / Woke up the next morning / told me you were afraid.
Lady Joanna, you thought you made the grade / Strutting and a flirting, all the night away / But you didn't come up to scratch / and I could see through that.
Don't worry Jo, you're here with friends / and we all feel the same / we'll love you til the end .....
4 August 1976
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* Song for Barbra
He fell in love with her that night
but didn't even know what it was
A star was born inside his soul
and it grew out of nothing more than a picture
And a couple of songs which made him feel whole.
Now he believes in her above all
When he saw what she had - how she could fail
But you know that even though he'll try
He'll never reach that same high
That she gave him that day.
She sang to him so warm and true
That he became lost inside of her
And the memories would not die
Thinking about what she gave him there
It took him on a trip
Into everything that he had ever dreamt
To have the love of a woman and the stream of his music.
She showed us all how the dream is there
In us all
Where everyone gave up hope and turned to despair
Before that time I never knew you at all
Now you've shown enough that I'd give you my soul
Now I realise what I need
Love, music - then I'll be free.
Barbra you gave it all to me
and to the people you gave your joy
Thought our love is nothing more than mist
(there will never be a kiss)
Ageless and evergreen
Eternal love - sight unseen.
1975
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* a Dying Generation
This is a song for a dying generation
That hasn't yet been born
Its sarcastic and cynical, selfish and spiteful
Just like us all.
Its the story of a people living in a land
Rich and free of war
Of a people without fathers
Looking everywhere for an answer to it all
Living life in a hole waiting for some help
Hoping that things will change and liven up
Going to the nearest pub, drowning in it all
Sitting, looking, the same old faces
Wondering if they're really there
Living in the new world but looking for something better.
How can you care about all the others
When you don't even care about yourself
We're only children - we can't all be mothers
Texman, policeman - come and suck me dry
Pump me till I die.
1974
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* Drops
Little lady, she just sits at the bar
Looking into her glass, stirring it slowly and letting time pass
All around her the lights are dim
Those people mean nothing as she waits for him.
She orders a Southern Comfort and sips it slow
She may be in a crowded room out but her mind is closed
As she looks with sad eyes into a bottomless glass.
She's been waiting for an hour, watching time drag
Trying to hide, feeling all alone
Waiting for her man to come and take her home.
She tried the lot and now she's ready for a drop
you know you've been stood up - love is on the rocks
Take a sip of that drink, so cook and so smooth
Then her mind it comes alive, and she's on her way
If you haven't tried it, your missing out.
Try for the most and leave no doubt
Let if flow, let it grow
That golden touch will make you glow
And when the time finally comes, you know you've gotta go breakout.
So she orders another drop, "Bartender, on the rocks."
The room begins to move and her memory fades with the man.
circa 1974
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* Down in Hell
E D A E
Come on down, into the garden of coal / Where the Black man's bones are buried / Before you were even known / Now it's a valley of cows / Full of suburban souls / and dark brown bulls / Why don't you come down?
D A E
Step in the cow dung / Or climb up a hill / There ain't nothing to find there / So don't shed a tear / Though your momma died there / killed by the beer. / If you want to enter the valley / Don't show no fear / Don't shed a tear.
E
Open up your blackened soul / to the man you find in there / Forget the fucking, the drinking, the laughing / Leave your mind in his care / Let the black coal suck your brains / Show a sewer rat down the drain.
E A
If you go down there / I don't care, I won't stare / If he rapes you, tries to masturbate you / Encourage him and say you care / You'll come out of there, with no fear / You've been in the devil's lair.
I went down, I was not scared / Down into the devil's lair.
I had no religion, on my side / "Fuck the devil!" I cried / The sky was blood red, the ground it was blue / The air was sick, it smelt of spew / Rotten bodies all around / Maggot farms growing out of the ground / A woman roving with an old old man / They had no shame, this was just a game / For I was in hell, when I took that pill.
I saw a boy with a lover / Could see no faces, under cover / In the end, I was just one other....
2 February 1974
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* Winter
Em Am C
Frustrated man, does the best he can / To live in this world of friction / Rubbing against his fellow man / Trying to escape all restriction / Fear of life and dread of death / But who cares / when you're one among the millions?
A C D F
For half the year he lives through winter / His soul as dead as the weather / Saving grace for sun and summer / When life is good and cares don't matter.
Frustrated woman, lives in a prison / Of fibro, bricks, tin and aluminum / Going on 40, she lives in a dream / Still waiting for that first taste of passion / Isn't it cruel, how she lives to the rules / With her soul buried deep in a chasm / Of suburban life, of being a wife / Of being 40, and barren.
For half the year she lives through winter / Her soul as dead as the weather / Saving grace for sun and summer / When life is good and cares don't matter.
Frustrated people, frustrated people / Running, jumping, hitting the steeple / Trying to laugh, forgetting to cry / When no one loves them, they just ask Why? / But they've gotta go on / Gotta drag on / So far in debt, up to their necks / God knows why.
For half their lives they live through winter / Their souls as dead as the weather / Saving thoughts for growing old / When life is cruel and the world is cold.
Living their lives in fibro cages / Crying rape in tantrum rages / Glassy eyes and fuzzy brains / Drenched in alcohol, matured in pain / 9 to 5 livin' / but don't forget the women / Workin' their asses off / just like the men.
For their lives are one big winter / Their souls dead forever / Suburban neurosis / Drug psychosis / Try to get it on, but no one notices / Got to go on / It's got to be done.
6 July 1973
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* Point Street
[Acoustic]
A man was killed / a woman raped / I met a girl / who couldn't wait / On Friday night / A date / And I found out that it all happened / On Point Street. / She lived and loved on Point Street / It was the world for that girl.
You turn off the highway / towards the sea / For half a mile of brick and green / People live there for all their lives / The drunken men, the lonely wives / Can't help but feel their pain / as they cry each night / Cry for their home / on Point Street.
Down the road the heavies you'll hit / They live their lives for a wave / and score some shit / You see this life / They know no other / Run from cops / hope to recover / Their livelihood / Their roots they lay / On Point Street / Among the neat / in Point Street / They just meet / in Point Street.
Sometimes there's a king / among the men / He rides the waves / and rules the land / He takes the lady of his choice / And leaves the others / for all the boys / He's part of the clan / 'Cause he lives just off of / Point Street / The first one to put on the heat / To spread the name / of Point Street.
6 June 1972
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* Apollo
I saw a man on the moon the other day
Can you believe it?
I looked at the TV screen and saw an American step out onto that grey dusty world
It could have been me or you.
No longer was this moon trip some scientist's fantasy
From that time the man in the moon became a reality
For any man who was alive
Apollo belonged to the whole world.
I sat in a classroom with 40 other kids
And looked at a black and white TV screen
One Wednesday afternoon
In 1969.
Someone shouted, "Hey, there's a fire on the moon."
So we all turned the TV on to have a look
Sure enough, the flame of man's perpetual endeavour
Sat on the moon like some aluminum bonfire.
Really it was just another TV show to us kids
While some prick told us it was all a big hoak
Who cares if it was or wasn't
It was still the best TV show we'd ever seen
Maybe a bit boring
But even THE MAN ON THE MOON SHOW had ads.......
Did it really happen?
You see, now it's all a memory
Its as though it never was
For apart from a couple of geological toys
And some NASA junk
The moon is the same as it has been since before the time of man.
Did it really happen?
Or was it the greatest movie since Gone With the Wind?
Please Mr America show us a sign
That our childhood fantasies of Apollo
Are still alive.
1972
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MO : Prose 2001-4 | Prose 2021+ | Songs 1972-4, 2021-3 |
Last updated: 1 May 2024
Michael Organ, Australia
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