University of Errors

IF YOU ARE CHANGING

if you are changing your life,
if you are changing your dreams,
if you are changing your life,
if you are changing your world

how do you know 
who you are?
how do you know 
where you are?
how do you know 
what you're doing here?

this is my message to you 
message to you 
message to you 
find your self in the music now
message to you 
i ask you
find your self in the music now
message to you 
dive into the music
i ask you listen with your ears
dippin' into the music, 
swim in it hey, 
and it's not in english you know 
not even slightly not at all
no es spaniola 
that's the message 
then what's the medium?
it comes to you 
it comes to you 
it comes to you 
by telepathic radio 
ladies and gentleman
what's it called?
ha! of course as if we didn't know

ra-di-o, g-n-ommmme

sing your soul
sing out your soul

	

OCEAN IN THE DISTANCE

there's a road that leads 
right out of here
back from where it came
a path goes up the mountainside
and here we are again

ocean in the distance
calling out your name
echoes through the universe
and comes back just the same

ahhhhhh yeahhhh 

i will sit for you my friend
and you will sit for me
we'll breath the pure air
and see what we can see

we look back down 
the tunnel of time
we create our histories
so we maybe quite free
to find the master 
of the mysteries

ocean in the distance
calling out your name
echoes through the universe
it comes back just the same

	

OCEAN MOTHA

o ocean motha 
o ocean motha 
i feel you lift me up and carry me
o ocean motha 
i feel you lift me up and carry me

all my life i lived 
under the shadow of abuse
everytime i'm about to act 
i wonder what's the use
i carry so much bitterness
i bleed because i hurt
ocean motha take me
wash this poison from my heart
wash this pollution from my heart
ocean motha 
i feel you lift me up and carry me
ocean motha 
i feel you lift me up and carry me

please doc i just want to die
please don't save this life of mine
you don't have to try
i'm just not worth the trouble
i'm, not worth the expense
i simply want to fade away

it don't make 
too much sense to me
it don't make 
sense anymore to anyone
keep this bag of bones 
from slipping away
i don't want to see another morning
i don't want to see another day
i'm in prison in this body
coz it's against the law
it's against the law
it's against the law to die

o ocean motha 
i feel you lift me up and carry me
o ocean motha 
i feel you lift me up and carry me

i'm a professional happy man
i know how to have a good time
and if ever i'm sad i hide my head
to cry crocodile tears 
ain't no crime
so the clown and the fool
must be great disguise you know
so nobody notices 
the tears in their eyes

o ocean motha 
i feel you lift me up and carry me
may the power that gathers 
from the love we give
be added to the love 
of the people who live
may the power that gathers 
from the love we give
be added to the love 
of all the people who live
may the power that gathers 
from the love we give
be added to the love 
of all the people who live
may the power that gathers 
from the love we give
be added to the love 
of all the people who live
may the power that gathers 
from the love we give
be added to the love 
of all the people who live
may the power that gathers 
from the love we give
be added to the love 
of all the people who live
may the power that gathers 
from the love we give
be added to the love 
of all the people who live
may the power that gathers 
from the love we give
be added to the love 
of all the people who live
o ocean motha
o ocean motha 
i feel you lift me up and carry me
o ocean motha 
i feel you lift me up and carry me

temple of the ocean, 
teach me my meaning
o temple of truth, 
teach me not to hesitate
temple of darkness, 
teach me to be humble

	

OLDE GUITAR BODY OF MINE

these strings are the spine 
of this old guitar body of mine
and these strings of my spine 
are my old guitar body
and the sound hole of my heart 
is just a start,
it's just a start, 
it's just a part of the whole.

the whole sound of my soul, 
the whole sound of my soul.
and may the hand 
that plays the strings
the guitar strings of my spine
that plays that old 
guitar body of mine.

those strings of twine 
those guitar strings of my spine
may the hand that plays the strings 
of the heartsong of my soul
come from the heartsong of my soul
or else my life don't mean a thing, 
don't mean a song
i want to sing i want to sing 
i want to sing i want sing, 
i wanna sing, i wanna sing
with the whole sound of our soul, 
the whole sound of our soul
i want sing, i wanna sing, 
i wanna sing
with the whole sound of our soul, 
with the whole sound of our soul
the strings that are the spine 
of this old guitar body of mine

	

ONE MOTHER OF PEARL

a truth for you 
is a lie for me
a lie for you 
may be a truth for me
one man's truth 
is another man's lie
a misunderstanding 
that never seems to die
and if there only was one person 
in the whole wide world
i think the truth 
would be one mother of pearl

for the aborigine 
with his roots in the earth 
like the tree you see
everything on which he stands
everything on which he stands 
is his/her tribe
and his forefathers 
and his family tree
while his roots are in the sound 
that they sing beneath the ground
and the news of the day
comes into his consciousness 
in this way
comes into his consciousness 
in this way
for the european man
with his satellite dish 
and his telephone line
they say everything comes his way 
comes by vhf or cable
bxbxbx electronically
he is cut of from the earth
she is cut off from the earth
and he travels so fast 
he is cut off from his past
and the roots of his family
he's just tv history
just tv history ladies and gentlemen

a truth for you 
is a lie for me
a lie for you 
may be just a truth for me
one man's truth 
is another man's lie
a misunderstanding 
that never looks like 
it's never gonna die
never gonna die 
and if there only was one person 
in the whole wide world
the truth, ha the truth, 
you mean to say you know the truth?
i think the truth would be 
one mother of pearl

	

PINKY'S PARTY SONG

aha, ha, ha, ha, ha 
stop the party, stop the music
start the master tape 
here comes the earthquake
pass the microphone 
it's pinky psycho
she got psychologix 
for all you weeny teeny dicks

it ain't how big the rig
it ain't how long the dong
mucho too macho
macho too mucho
ain't no logistics
vital statistics
you are incredible 
and viagra that's inedible

it's not in any lotion 
and it's not in any potion
no it's not the dimension 
it's the motion of the ocean

hey you come on my cloud
it's not the size of the surprise
it's the motion of the ocean

hey you come on my cloud
it's not the size of the surprise
it's the motion of the ocean

	

GOOD EVENING NED KELLY

good evening
dear elephants
old telephone box
fireman on top of blazing building
good morning
gentleman traveling 
by underwater shark
aluminium crocodile 
on holiday in brazil
photograph of the boudoir 
of the president of the republic
captain marvel and superman 
but particularly captain marvel
shazam!!
ned kelly wrapped in tin cans 
wandering waltzing 
through the desert
scatter fire scattergun 
kill me if you can
i'm an irish boyo 
and i drink a fine 
pint of Guinness man

but i will not arise and go down 
and go to innesfree at the moment 
i think i'll stay 
right where i am boyo

beware the fairy's bite 
on the submarine of salt
let's split 
to somewhere covered magical
they have dreams 
of tremendous waterfalls 
and zoos full of giant germs

methinks you'd love 
to lick your love/life backwards

takes me back to last monday 
when the sun resolved to a window 
and with worms of wonder 
sprinkled her eyes with lights