DEAR FRIENDS traditional dear friends dear friends let me tell you how i feel you have given me so much pleasure i love you so
daevid allen
Dreamin' a Dream
HIGH POINTS when the rich man makes his fortune pops the best champagne when the sick man cures his illness conquerer of pain these are the high points of our lives for the warrior its the danger edge of life and death schoolboy immitate TV ranger watch him hold his breath these are the high points of our lives fashion model fame and beauty flash in the peter pan theres no body can sustain it cash in perfect hands these are the high points of our lives for the seeker its the melting in samadhi's flame for the baby its the mother callin out their name these are the high points of our lives find her in the sunset find her in the rain find her in the lake's reflection lookin for yrself again these are the high points of our lives but when the show is over and everybody's gone the sole remaining waiter slyly dons his early morning madness and begins to scree-am!
BROTHERS i'm singin a song about a lonely guy walking alone in the rain he looks at the faces as they wander by but they're all the same his friends in his hometown are far away his lovers are lost in a dream he turns and he walks into a parlour game he puts his hands out to touch what he wants O so much but its all double dutch oh oh what should he do know could this be you so teach me about emotions laugh at my devotion when god knows i've tried to walk side by side and keep my feelings inside of me oh my poor brothers my friends the women just ain't who they used to be relationship's come to an end without dignity oh what it was to be a man so proud so respected so strong so tell me where did we go wrong where the women give birth and inherit an earth where a man has no worth oh oh the game is over no pleasing her you know the pleasers are the losers the abused become the abusers maybe i'm a fool mute as a mule keepin my cool poor men the women just aint who they used to be nobody told me nothin bout that my momma she done told me SITDOWN there and EAT YR TEA boy take off yr DIRTY SOX and leave em t'ME boy you better GET yr SeLF a GAL To CaRE for YE boy but 'My GAL.. talkin bout ..MY gal ' SHE RECKONS SHE AINT MyGaL and BOY! HAS SHE GOT ANGER!!! wheeeeeeeoooow!!! ANGER BECAUSE I GOT EXPECTATIONS ANGER COS I WANT SEX-UAL RELATIONS ANGER COS SHE SAY I DONT OWN HER ANGRY COS I DONT OWN MY OWN BONER but WAIT A MINUTE MAMA! YOU JUST LED ME RIGHT UP THE GARDEN PATH and INTO THE DOGHOUSE SO FUCK YOU MAMA!!! POOR GUYS ! POOR BOYS ! WOMEN ARE NOT WHO THEY USED TO BE! NO WOMAN NO CRY BUT HEY! MAN! C'M ON!! don't be put down GET UP AGAIN! I DONT WANNA 'SEE YOU OUT-SIDE' I WANNA SEE YOU INSIDE-OUT WITH YOUR DOUBTS HANGIN OUT ! WITH YR HANG UPS HELD HIGH ! HEY MEN! LETS HANG TOGETHER and LET GO AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN
BIG DADDY i dont wanna be your big daddy baby i don't wanna be your little boy i dont wanna be some kind of revolutionary just to smash up all your latest toys i dont wanna be some kinda big boss either just to hire you and fire you and rob you of your freedom of choice i dont wanna be some kinda headmaster either tellin you what to do with my righteous voice i dont wanna be some kind of big brother watching you in control of everything around and around and around and around the ground sound brown sound i dont wanna be some kind of earth mother clutchin' you aint gonna be my gig pullin' you down down down down well you gotta do wotcha gotta do wotcha gotta do wotcha gotta do watcha gotta do but please stop tellin' me you wanna be free
WOT'S THE USE? wots the use of freedom when theres no idea of change and wots the use of money when success is out of range and wots the use of time when youre just stoned out of your mind and wots the use of working when its just a daily grind and me i'm dreamin a dream that everything i'm thinking doesnt mean what it seems to be spinoza eats his yoghurt with some rad designer dyke while k.d. laing tells sharon stone just get on your bike baby and neitze's's reading superman but who's this guy clark kent? while the daughters of the patriarchy spend themselves in tents and me i'm dreamin a dream that everything i'm dreamin about doesn't mean what it seems to mean power dressing pussycat always in control while life style therapists take oprah winfrey's soul while crystal healing dolphin jesus sends a psychic fax while a fascist boy soprano stabs madonna in the back but me i'm dreamin a dream that everything i'm seeing doesn't mean what it seems to mean well its no use baby i dont care if the moon's too fat and the sun's gone square and you can cry dry tears and you can sigh thin air but y still gotta live until y die oh yeh so wots the use of freedom when theres no idea of change and wots the use of money when success is out of range and wots the use of time when youre just stoned out of your mind and wots the use of working when its just a daily grind and me i'm dreamin a dream that everything i'm thinking doesnt mean what it seems to be
GARDEN SONG what shall we grow in your garden my dear if my seed comes to breed in your nursery? a dolphin or a deva or a true devotee that your love may never grow thirsty for a soul is so real and so whole and so free and a body is so frail and so human are we are we dreaming? is this the earth dreaming too? will we live till we die wondering why or will we learn to grow day by day by day by day by day with the fruit of yr labour asleep at yr breast will you nurture them softly and quietly? and when next thing the offspring have flown from the nest can you love them and let them go quietly? for a soul is so real and so whole and so free and a body is so frail and so human are we are we dreaming? is this the earth dreaming too? will we live till we die wondering why or will we learn to grow day by day by day by day by day and here comes the autumn when leaves turn to gold and the waning moon silvers me lightly in the afternoon sun its good fun to grow old as you hold me and lie with me quietly for yr love is so real and so whole and so free and a body is so frail and so human are we are we dreaming? is this the earth dreaming too? will we live till we die wondering why or will we learn to grow day by day by day by day by day and when old father time rings the chimes of my years and i see my life turning around me when you lay me down in your garden my dear will you kiss me and let me go lightly? for a death is so real and so whole and so free and a body is so frail and so human are we are we dreaming? is this the earth dreaming too? will we live till we die wondering why or will we learn to grow day by day by day by day by day
CAME TO FIND YOU i came to find her far across the world i came lookin for my lover lost shadow in the world game the time she left me i was burnin like a bird on fire puppet on a melting wire windup spring unwound she found love the dancing on a money box tying up the thought fox givin me the runaround gender gap tender spot she loved me she loved me not turnin on her heel she got married on the rebound but now i'm sittin here having coffee with you wondering how you feel today do you still have sugar in yr cappuccino? do yr eyes still flutter away? i'm feelin like a man that fell to earth doesnt recognise the pulse i'm startin to wonder just who we are i tried to find you now i'm tryin to convince myself that i'm not somebody else old age new age trap the bird inside the cage pleasing daddy leads to rage theatre in the round eye blazing crazy happy sad time bomb swingin on a pendulum who can calculate the sum sleepin with the outcome's easy peasy say cheese smile please bare yr teeth but not yr soul sex and hugs and shock control tryin hard pushin for yr own space fear of not enough for me left alone without a lover moving target finds its cove livin 'tween a cushion and a soft place you say you will no longer walk the path of fear step out of nintendo game warrior woman will shed no tears she will generate no blame but time is a river of deep belief head above the surface or drown to swim back upstrea tryin to grasp a past dream i tried to find you but its hard to face the fact that in this fiction i'm living on your own here i sit now in a theatre in the round watch you dance without a sound are we dead or are we in the dreamtime? fellow travellers round yr fire watch you walk the high thought wire watchin for the flyer to inspire us real time they come to see and to be seen the real dramas they play between the acts and encores 'tween the scenes read between the songlines to show yr vulnerability demands intense humility cos human fallibility knows self esteem is simply mainly ego there you go most of the time once i was a teacher in a circle of ghosts none of them believed they were dead i closed my eyes and took em to the mountain but we went down a stairway instead we dug up our bodies and many old fears shook out dusty wings to fly i began to wonder what i was doing this for but i forgot to ask them then just what its like to die
THE RAPIST the rapist is counting his sentences while his victim sits sketching his face she tries to forget but his eyes will not let her let go of his lingering trace and the wise woman sleeps by the river and she dreams she's the riverbird diving for fish and the lightning's along the horizon and the fool he sits drinking his poison and the judge he is losing his reason and the rapist re-lives and believes his belief that he fulfils her subconscious wish the woman is washing her body she is beating a path to the well she douches and showers each two or three hours but she can't get away from his smell and the old man makes love to his daughter the volcano breaks crust with its crater and the first lights of home have been sighted again but the jury is getting excited and the rapist just wants to repeat it again and the all masculine panel is a no exit tunnel and she feels violated again and again now the lady is angry with penises the lady is angry with me she burns thru my actions she lives my destruction as i temper myself till i'm free and the cat it has captured the hummingbird and the snake it has entered the tower and the rapist he dreams he is back at the scene in his moment of dangerous power the boy he makes love to his mother and his mother turns into a spider the spider stings smack as he blows off his stack and his line is plugged into the meter and the young girl she weeps in the garden and the flowers are broken and crushed the wise women are watching and waiting for the male world to crash as it must
SITTING IN A TEASHOP sitting in a teashop drinkin' cups a tea get yerself together quick before it gets too early you must be jokin! theres no more tea? you must be jokin! i'm only dreamin' sittin' in a coffee shop drinkin my coffee pardon my hysteria its the caffeine you see you must be jokin! no more coffee? you must be jokin! i'm only dreamin' o ladies! your eyes are gleaming ho gentlemen! please! no more creaming there c'mon well things aint wot they seem to be in here what is this some kinda singles bar or something? i dunno wot i'm doing here anyway i'm late for tomorrow!!! you must be jokin! theres no more tea? you must be jokin! your only dreamin' o mother! how could you forget me like this godfather?? you're out to get me you old barstard i know everytime i see a movie with james cagney, frank sinatra you could wipe my tears away! huh, i could cry like a baby !! sittin' in a coffee shop, etc.
FIRE BECOMES HER wani in the candle light turi by fire light never give up the fight see the shadows on the wall just waiting for a chance to dance with you in your dream fire becomes you
NO ONE'S SLAVE Theo Simon no one's slave i am no one's master no one's slave i am no one's master on my grave they will write this after i am gone i will be gone and my flesh will go to the earth it lived on breath will go to the air it lived from i am through with the pain of my lying had my fill of the cruelty and crying paid my dues in the land where the dying desert grows and now i know i am looking out for a new perspective listening out for a new directive going back to the land of my mothers i will walk with my sisters and brothers we will share what is good for each other in our love it is a love it is a love that brings you the invitation listen now to my invocation mother earth i was nearly the end of you please accept my desire to be friends with you now i know just how much i depend on you for life you are my life you are that life that grows in the flesh i'm weaving life that blows in the air i'm breathing i'm as strong as a tree on a mountain free and full as a fresh flowing fountain bright and clear as the stars beyond shining in the night i am that light i am the light that shines in a million people in my sight every life is equal no one's slave i am no ones master no one's slave i am no one's master on my grave they will write this after i am gone i will be gone
TOR SONG the earth is still i hold my breath beneath the holy hill the light is frail and i can barely see to light my way the moon is new no magick could explain this dream i'm in i kiss the hill we ride the tor through whirlpool seas of mist o lady of the grove i serve you still lost in an ancient world i see yr face eye of the goddess waking deep in space seed in the womb of life's eternal grace to seek and find and seek again to find the heart and hope of men the way is long and hard and then O lady maiden mother crone queen of the night there is no greater joy than lost within my lover no mystery is she the one within my other we seek the gate the keeper of the way whispers us through we walk the maze adrift in time and space we're dancing through this dream of you lost in an ancient world i see your face eye of the goddess waking deep in space seed in the womb of life's eternal grace to seek and find and seek again to find the heart and hope of men the way is long and hard and then O lady maiden mother crone Queen of the night there is no greater joy than lost within my lover no mystery is she the one within my other
DEAR FRIENDS traditional dear friends dear friends let me tell you how i feel you have given me so much pleasure i love you so