Lemming Lyrics

Disc 1

3. GRATEFUL HEART

Here’s a song so sweet and gentle, maybe even

sentimental, if you feel the melody holds the sway?

Better dig a little deeper. Circumstances argumental,

understanding seems essential, if we hope to find our

way back to love?

That’s why I wrote this song to tell you that I love you…

Not so much with words because they get so misunderstood.

That’s why I started with a melody that tells the truth and

lets you see the way I really feel about you. Wanna’ put my

arms around you and dance into the warmth of a grateful heart.

Many times I’ve contemplated why love seems so complicated,

even when it’s clear to me that there’s no one else that my heart

could ever cherish. You and you alone forever, we can work this

out together, through the twists and turns in the road ahead.

4. PRIVILEGE BLUES

I got the privilege blue.

I got more than I can use:

A Maserati car, and a house

with 20 rooms. I got everything

I need and more. Got those

Privilege blues for sure.

I got a plastic card that’s like

Santa in July, and there ain’t no

end to all the things I can buy...

yet the more that I possess,

the more dead I feel inside.

I got the privilege blues du jour.

Yes, I know, seems like I’m crying

in my beer, when I’m sure, some

don’t have water for a tear. In this life,

I might well be the one percent, but then

why do I feel so much inner discontent?

Yes, I know, I got it better than

the rest; Ironic twist for one who’s

manically depressed. In this world,

I play the blues most every night.

To lose myself in music lifts the vail

that holds the light.

You know the good lord said that wealth’s a

game you’ll never win, until a camel walks

Through the eye of a little pin. And all the

world’s riches can’t pull me from this hole I’m in.

I got those privilege blues, my friend. I got those

privilege blues to the end. Yes, it’s those privilege

blues that I’m drowning in.

6. RASA FOR RADHA

Mahal, the key to a heart is the door to the soul.

Your eyes remind me of places I’ve dreamed beyond time,

like a quiet lake.

Love comes, flowers grow. A sad thought breeds a mosquito.

So let the flowers grow.

Mahal Ko, you should know that I’ll love you as long as the

breath in this body remains, and beyond.

Love comes, flowers bloom, while mad men lead the world

towards Dune,.

Well, whose to say just where we came from, who we are,

or where we’re going? I can’t say just where it will lead,

but oh this love will never fail you.

Now it’s clear where we’ll go. Burn the bridge behind us.

Straight ahead, blue and red colors they do blind me.

We’re going out to meet the sun (x3).

Oh, my soul (x5), lift us higher living light

Oh, launch us higher, beyond sight.

Oh, one desire, living light.

Please know that I will not forget that sacred place where we met.

9. SEEING IS BELIZING

I’m gonna’ fly away to Belize,

Dive the coral reef, taste the ocean breeze.

The Mayan pyramids call to me with an ancient voice

through forest canopy.

The fragrant mango flowers, intoxicate the hours,

and beauty of that land will make your feel so glad

that you are in Belize.

Gonna’ give my heart to Belize,

where many cultures blend in harmony and peace.

Where Punta is the beat, Soca will dance your feet,

and reggae speaks to us of freedom’s messages.

The fragrant mango flowers, intoxicate the hours,

and people of that land will make you feel so glad

that you came to Belize.

10. RayGun AmBush

Reagan: My fellow Americans, I’ve just signed legislation

that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.

Did you hear that I’ve foreclosed on my Academy Award, for bringing

to real life the novel 1984? Please tell the army doctor that his elixir

cleared my head. One tablespoon of Agent Orange just before I go to bed.

Reagan: Well, I ah, think that they’ve been drinking something.

Those commie pinkos say I’m Ronald McDonald in disguise, just because

I painted smiles on all those youthful counter spies.

Reagan: I’m here to announce my candidacy for the the presidency of the

whole enchilada. Stick that in your pocket.

Now, every nature lover knows that trees pollute the air. My whole cabinet

agrees with me. That’s why they’re sitting there. So I propose we hire the

blacks at well below the going wage, and give them all dull axes to help

them vent their rage.

Reagan: Where we’re going we don’t need roads.

And after all the trees are down we’ll grind them into pulp, and mix it up

with dog pound flesh and call it the McGulp.

FDR: Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is…

Ford: A full free and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon.

Nixon: Well. I’m not a crook. I welcome this kind of an examination, because

people have got to know that.

Bush 1: I’m president of the United States and I’m not going to eat any

more broccoli.

Bush 2: I don’t have an adviser on my staff trying to convert me into some

kind of alpha male. I come from Texas. I don’t think we have to be sub-limitable

about our views.

Bush 1: This conflict started August 2nd, when the dictator of Iraq invaded a

small and helpless.

Clinton: Miss Lewinsky.

Well, I don’t really care if I can’t get it up no more, ‘cause we’re sending every

man that can to that mid-east desert war. And last of all about that nuke plant

going up in your backyard... just give it water twice a week and it might not melt

down.

Bush 2 : We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.

And if you need me, I’ll be digging out on the White House lawn, since we decided to rebuild the place ten miles underground.

Bush 1: Read my lips.

Bush 2: Our nation is at war. Our economy is in recession and the civilized world faces unprecedented dangers. Too bad! If I want to sit by myself and watch football with the dogs, I’m going to.

Bush 1: Read my lips....

Bush 2: Loo...eh...look...ah... here’s the thing: Um,,I... ah... it aah... I don’t know the right way to say it... I…ah... I REALLY like being the president!

13. IN AN OYSTER BED

When night arrives and we join our hands and

walk to the sea, we feel the surging of the tides

that flow between you and me, in our oyster bed.

Mermaid it’s al been said. Nothing could convey

the way we’re feeling tonight.

On the beach, looking at stars, what a mystery.

Just imagine more stars than there are grains of

sand in the sea, And yet, we somehow found us,

or do you feel it’s all just chance? Whatever the

case, it’s sailors’s grace that led me to you.

Sure as the tide will ebb and flow, we’ll remember

this wherever we go: ‘Life was meant to be lived

in ecstasy’. Here with my mermaid all things can be.

15. LAST WRITES FOR BROTHER JOHN

J. L.: Well, I don’t know what to say. It’s hard to think of things to say.

He was just a beautiful fellow and it's terrible.

We read the news today John and it struck us deep inside.

Just goes to show that everyone of us will surely die.

But while memories lived on in aging children, you left a new beginning.

Your life was just like starting over.

Oh, my god, dear brother John, son of the Madonna, prince of peace

to our despair, it’s just like lonely here without you, still if the price of

love is losing, then there’s nothing we can do, because we love you

Brother John.

We looked in vain through the bent back tulips.

Glass onion crystal balls somehow seem cloudier now.

But if strawberry fields are forever, imagine if we could still be there

with you somehow?

Dear god, we pray for Brother John. May he rest in peaceful knowing

that the living carry on. And where there’s life there’s hope, because

he pointed the way to the dawn of human freedom, and now as one

the world does pray for the soul of Brother John.

J.L.: He told not to get overwhelmed by grief, but that any thoughts we

have of him keep them happy, because any thoughts we have of him will

travel to him wherever he is.

Disc 2

1. LOVE GARDEN

Looking back through the time tunnel, I never would have guessed

that after all these years together we would still be blessed.

Longtime love is a rare flowering, it’s petals are the years...

A perennial that glows golden, watered by our laughter and our tears.

On a stroll through a love garden we have grown: Two lives, one heart,

one soul, on and on we go.

Seasons bring their own changes revealing many forms, and every line

on each of our faces reflects the many storms.

But here on the inside we have built a home of love, and in turn we wake

to find love has built a home in us.

On a stroll through a love garden we have grown,: two lives, one heart,

one soul, on and on we go.

And the years pass like a whirl before our eyes, children grown and off

to find there way. I don’t want to miss the chance to tell you now,

that I love you more with every passing day.

Looking through that time tunnel to where our love began. Passion

flamed like wildfire that soon got out of hand. We had a choice to make,

would it be our heads or hearts? We chose our hearts though we may

never get ahead.

On a stroll through a love garden we have grown. Two lives, one heart,

one soul, on and on we go. On a stroll through a love garden we have

grown. Two live, one heart, one soul, hand and hand we go.

3. BOX OF TEN

If your mind goes wandering

and it leaves you in the lurch,

I’ve got something that will lead

you back again (and give you

smoother skin).

A little pill that represents a

Hundred years research and

comes safely sealed within

this box of ten

The side effects are minimal

and cannot harm you...

once you know your troubles

are not real.

The images that you perceive

of suffering in the land are

mostly fictional, and anyway

they don’t concern us.

So take a tip from someone

who was once a lot like you.

There’s a remedy for all

that Roger Ailes (the Foxy

kith and kin).

A candy coated cure will soon

become your best of friends.

and comes safely sealed

within this box of ten.

4. BLUE SWING BLUES

Fire the cook but just don’t get shook, can you dig it? Oh, eat some crow

under mistletoe if you don’t want the kiss?

Even though you wish it wasn’t this way, and hope to wake as the dreamer,

buckle up for one big dose of reality.

You might think you’ve got it figured out, but some things just don’t make sense, so you'd better improvise it like those cats that play jazz and smoke those funny cigarettes. Don’t believe that fortune teller. Step away from the ledge now. The sandbags that are tied up to your heart, better use as flood control.

Close the door and don’t ask for more. Can you leave it? Ah, check the source,

love has run its’ course, it was beautiful when. But time turned the page, inverted the stage, and now you’re running for cover, much too late as you watch your castle come tumbling down.

5. INNER SUN

Here we are.

We can watch it happen.

Go within… Inner Sun,

dawning on this new day.

6. TIME OUT OF MIND

After the clouds have flown.

After the tears have all run dry.

Your smile awakens flowers

from their slumber.

Spring is here.

After the wind has stilled and

Even tide surrounds us...

A silent spell is cast and even

time itself surrenders.

How long have we been waiting

for this moment to appear, to

celebrate the love that we have

always known was near?

This is that moment,

full of perfect wonder:

Time out of mind.

The evening sun sets low.

It’s neither day nor night now;

and in the glow that lingers in

the fading mystic light. As Gaia

holds her breath, there is no ebb

or flow now, and in that perfect

silence such a wonder is revealed.

How long have we been waiting

for this moment to appear, to

celebrate the love that we have

always known was near?

This is that moment, full of perfect

wonder: Time out of mind.

8. NEW GNUONE

The world is spinning on its’ axis,

so I’m content to sit on mine.

The Sun, the stars above light up the stage.

The play unfolds in space and time,

The sky above is blue or cloudy.

Sometimes it changes day to day.

The mind is like a weather vane that flits about

like sand out on Sahara way.

The universe itself is full of galaxies. They dazzle

As they mystify. And though our neighbors in far

places await our, telepathy is the only way to fly.

The earth’s still turning on its’ axis,

so I’m content to turn on mine.

With gratitude, less attitude, let love abound,

as if we need a reason why.

(Ours is not to reason why…)

10. KOBAYASHI DEVOURS GODZILLA

Everybody wants peace of mind, but nobody don’t

want no truth. We all wanna’ leave trouble behind,

but not enough to let those old ways die.

Day after day and all through the long dark night of

the soul food for thought, just has to do with something

we all bought into.

Well, I’m here just to help me say: It really doesn’t have to

be this way. Though every pearl seems to have its’ price,

only love will buy paradise. And with those dice you can

holy roll a seven, see you up in Seventh Heaven Restaurant.

Soul food for thought… Seventh Heaven Restaurant.

Seventh Heaven is hard to find, but it’s worth it for the

homemade pie. And this world like a spinning top… just

hang on ’til you come to a stop called the Seventh Heaven

Restaurant. Fast food no more. Time ends when you walk

through the door. Soul food, no thought. Checking out of

something we all bought into.

12. YOU PLANTED FLOWERS IN OUR HEARTS

You planted flowers in our hearts. It started with your

radiant rainbow smile. And though away from us you’ll soon

depart, we remember all the loveliness you showered upon us.

Some say your leaving leaves us less, but that’s just because

they know how much your spirit blessed us. In countless ways

you gave us nothing but your best. You planted flowers in our hearts.

Now the sunshine daffodil is your song of love divine, and the

purple lavenders the fragrance of your loving kindness.

So much of beauty that we feel in life, goes unspoken. So let

this little song be just a token. For how could mere words describe

the sacred love we’ve shared? You planted flowers in our hearts.

13. LOVE IS THERE

Close your eyes and rest awhile.

Make your guardian angels smile.

Soft white clouds in velvet sky, smile

and wave as they float by

Like a feather soft and light,

Moonbeams guide your way tonight.

Let your heart be free of care.

Love is there

Love is there

Gently flows the evening breeze,

singing love songs through the leaves

of trees, where sleeping birds reside.

dreaming of the joy of flying.

Like the birds our dream take flight,

illuminating hearts delight. Stars like

diamonds everywhere.

Love is there

Love is there your text here...