SONG LYRICS
Bring Flowers
She said, “Bring, bring me flowers.”
She said, “Bring flowers when you give.
Stones and dresses are nice
But flowers help me live.”
“Call it home, it could be anything—
Just a shack or barren as the moon.
With a treasure from nature's trove
There's life in the room.”
“Men go cranking their industry—
We are so far from Eden's grace.
Doesn't seem much to me at all
That the woman lost the place.”
“It's as if I remember—
It's as if the Garden is in me.
I can't live disconnectedly,
I don't know what I'd be.”
“So you should bring, bring me flowers.
Bring flowers for your love—
All that beauty just bursting out
Like a gift from above.”
All Those Golden Lies
All those golden lies,
All them fancy dreams,
Got you into phony ways
And living beyond your means.
Are they too clever for you to see
The exploitative psychology?
Somebody's telling you what to be,
Still you think you are free.
All those golden lies
Make you wonder if you rate.
Pictures of the good life
Make you imitate.
Manipulation all the time,
The silky fingers upon your mind.
Look inside—you can find
The images that bind.
All those golden lies—
Big money shines like truth.
Put your soul in the noose—
You're so easy to seduce.
Can't you see them planting seed—
What you want and what you need,
What it means to succeed,
Trade humanity for greed.
The Indomitable Song
In the early light
It's right.
The blossom unfolds
And the sparkle holds.
Then come the sold
With the hard, hard mold—
Pervasive control,
The trimming of the soul.
But we keep on trying,
Trying, trying, trying, trying.
Yes we keep on trying,
Trying, trying, trying, trying,
How can we, how can we be,
How can we, how can we be,
How can we be what we are?
How can we?
We enter the cage
Of a living wage
We need to be growing
But there's money owing
So we dig our holes
And we play our roles
Saying, “What's it all for?”
And, “Is there anything more?”
But we keep on trying,
Trying, trying, trying, trying.
Yes we keep on trying,
Trying, trying, trying, trying,
How can we, how can we be,
How can we, how can we be,
How can we be what we are?
How can we?
Is there anything here
But fear?
Do we only go on
To go on?
Or is there light
Behind our lives,
Is the reason deep
In a spirit we keep?
'Cause we keep on trying,
Trying, trying, trying, trying.
Yes we keep on trying,
Trying, trying, trying, trying,
Oh, I'm trying.
Yes, I'm trying…
The Move
I'm going, I'm gone.
I've dwelt in this dream too long,
Weaving those veils,
Telling those tales.
The drama was fun,
Thinking I might have won,
Wailing and flailing,
Recognizing none.
Little whisper—were you laughing all
the while?
Blissful sister—slipping me that smile,
Watching me wake,
Telling me, know what I make.
I'll say good-bye
To the practical eye,
Folding the game,
Singing our name.
The ruler of change
Now is within my range,
Harvesting light,
Opening sight.
Winter Rounds
It was just the next thing I tried,
Door to door, old shovel at my side.
Froze, I can't feel my toes,
Folks's faces set, got no dollars yet.
Oo, the body's mean—
I been a mama since I'm fifteen.
Oh, got to lay this burden down any way I
can,
And don't you know it's worth these winter rounds,
To have it in my hand, and
Oh it's calling—oh, it's calling,
And I, I'm falling...
Some old bitch, she got to nail my hide—
Here it come, old trouble at my side;
Cuffed, 'cause I talk too rough,
Now the tears flow hot-this damn sorry lot.
All these years are all wasted.
The lucky ones wish we were dead.
Oh, got to lay this burden down any way I
can,
And don't you know I'd crawl through this whole town,
To get it in my hand, and
Oh it's calling—oh, it's calling,
And I, I'm falling...
It must be Sunday when I die,
Then the Lord will forgive all my lies.
Home to a place I own
Where the food is light and love is sight.
Mm, if I could see
That big shining face smiling back at me.
Oh, got to lay this burden down any way I
can,
Don't you know I'll float off and I'll drown
In a sea of candy, and
Oh it's calling—oh, it's calling,
And I, I'm falling...
Mea Culpa
It was bad—I made it worse.
Would that I had been straight from the first
Time I knew my heart had quit.
But how I shrank from saying it.
I was mean; I was low—
Made you suffer so you would go.
Cowardice, that's the name
For hiding truth and dealing pain.
Mea culpa, mea culpa…
Gone is gone—why can't you see?
Why must it come from me?
You don't deserve such company—
Don't make me act so wretchedly.
We can't split apart—we tear.
It's part of what we have to bear
When in search of
Good long love.
I was hard; I was cold—
Couldn't bear what the story told.
I just sought a way away,
The anodyne of a different play.
Mea culpa, mea culpa…
Love and Learn
Nothing's ever wasted.
Nothing's wrong.
Nothing's outside the way—
It's all one.
Oh, if I felt my faith
Every time
There was a challenge to
My comfort and my ease.
Reflex--alter my reflex…
I know, I know, I know!
I know the light's shining
Behind the dark, churning
Debris that clings to me.
To get free—I'm here, earning…
There's one answer to the “why”—
Love and learn…love and learn…