LYRICS

BEFORE THE SCREAM

WE SURRENDER NOTHING

Revolution

Revel in

No reason and no rhythm

from each lion to each den

You alone have climbed up to your throne

You crazy little diamond

How the cutters eye your stone

We the people

Surrender nothing

We the people

Retain everything

Changing stations

A color to them all

You were the favored angel

Now all you do is fall

Changing nations

The fall before the pride

You pay the weak to stray behind

'till all their dreams have died

We the people

Surrender Nothing

We the people

Retain everything

I KNOW WHAT'S REAL

I met a little girl

On this tilt-o-whirl

Born on Sunday

One heel on the runway

what makes some flags unfurl

When I was a little boy

The world was made of toys

Some get older

Some move to the shoulder

And some fail to deploy

I know it's hard for you

But I know this much is true

I know what's real tonight

Who knew that we the free

Were as seen on TV

Born on the fourth

But saved by the fifth

In the Great Society

Who needs you or me

I saw a burning tree

It told me I was free

"Your mind is your own"

Said the man with the stone

and to doubt is blasphemy

I know it's hard for you

But I know this much is true

I know what's real tonight

Tonight

No wing and no prayer

Tonight

It's here and not there

I know what's real tonight

BARREN STONE

It wasn't you

Behind all the shit you said

If you could see yourself

The one I painted red

If you are an animal

You'd prob'ly end up dead

Coiled up in the pool you bled

My brother left

I sent him on his way

I have no clue

If he'll see another day

If I had a pet

I'd have to pay him to obey

If I had a thought it would turn grey

When you look up you're seeing all the stars

Left from countless cuts down to the bone

Were I to teach you all my lines tonight

You could take it on the barren stone

When you look up your seeing all the scars

Left from countless ruts along the road

Were I to teach you all my lines tonight

You could take it on

The barren stone

FTP

You are the one

Beyond the son

One cat set to stun

has your work become undone

you dared the great

you shocked the state

Now you lay wait

As the weak design your fate

Never would have dreamed your name would fade

You got my number

met through a friend

you are heaven sent

I kept your letter

Your common sense

All in evidence

What lonely night

Conceals this flight

Just know you're right

Just know you're right

One lonely lie

Lights up the sky

Just know you're right

Just know you're right

You are the one

You face the sun

Caste with pen and gun

All the kings have had their fun

Bread and gold for everyone

You braved the sea

Brought liberty

Now our enemies

take a seat in new DC

Never would have dreamed I'd live to see

Wore out your calling

Undid your time

Your life, a white line

No time for beauty

No sense of style

Driven all the while

What lonely night

conceals this flight

Just know you're right

One lonely lie

lit up the sky

This land of rights

This land of rights

One lonely lie

The dead can't deny

It's a long long line

I join the fight

One lonely life

Dies for your right

It's a long long line

I join the fight

One lonely life

would take your side

I'm on the line

I join the fight

NEPTUNE

Never heard your point of view

There's a world inside it's true

But the cops and the robbers steal you

The keepers have turned out the zoo

And little thoughts die all the time

Diamonds for lovers

And you on the cover

though so much is never what it seems

You drag yourself back to the womb

I'll take this rocket to the moon

Never seen this side of you

There's a war inside it's true

They said you were tied to the pyre

A falcon alight on on the wire

But eagles are screaming tonight

Mao is for mothers

To hell with the others

Though so much is never what it seems

You drag yourself back to the womb

I'll take this rocket to the moon

You drag yourself back to the womb

We'll take this rocket to Neptune

You drug yourself back to the womb

We'll take this rocket to M2

MY TRANSCEIVER

This ends another day

Probe transmission fades

Test patterns and folded flags

A friend has gone away

I'm alive

An empirical world

Said this is the place I was born

You're with me when all alone

Your pathways are well worn

You lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie

And then you lie

You caste a statue to the king you fell

cast a shadow on his words

I want to tell you why I believe her

I can see her

My Transceiver

All my life and I believe her

A miraculous sign from above

Reads "this is the place for your love"

You catch them when they're in the queue

Six seconds,and you're through

I can see her

My Transceiver

All my life and I believe her

A MIND FOR ANYONE

Would it hurt anybody

If I told you a little story?

It's not like all the other stories

They are lies but this one's on the money

Would it hurt you to listen?

It's always in one ear but out the other

But I am not like those who swear they want the best for you

You and I were meant for brighter stages

You always belonged to me

Like the burning of the sun

When you are young

A mind for anyone

And all the time in the world

Would it kill you to sit still?

A moving picture's worth a thousand faces

Approving eyes like fireflies they chase tomorrow's light

A neon "Welcome" guards the door to the maze of mazes

You always belonged to me

Like the burning of the sun

When you are young

A mind for anyone

And all the time in the world

WILL THE CAMERAS ROLL

The stars shine on the sidewalk

The stars shine for the sky

The stars sift through the silver screen

The gold is left behind

Will the cameras roll to capture your surprise?

When you feel this constitution

When you realize the mask was no disguise

When you find this revolution is won between the I's

The stars are seldom silent

The stars are full of fire

The stars spark as they fade away

Today they would expire

Will the cameras roll to capture your surprise

When you feel this constitution

When your realize your mask was no disguise

When you find this revolution

Is one between the eyes

APOLLONIA

Apollonia

Citizen gold

You know that never gets old

Pay caesar

Pay the sky

Pay on an eye for no eye

We ride the train

Of Thomas Paine

The Age of Reason is sweet

For the sane

You want my soul

Don't say you don't

You'll feed my faith

You don't say

You found my fear

You're tearin' up the rear

Here ye your majesties

Piss off now the flock is free

Fill the fountains with their tea

Kill the crown but spare the king

We rider the train of Thomas Paine

The Age of Reason is sweet

For the sane

You want my soul

Don't say you dont

You'll feed my faith

You don't say

You found my fear

You're tearin' up the rear

You'll live my life

Pray toward the knife

I don't believe in anything but you (2001 Lyrics by KS Music Tarot )

You're an American

You come from anywhere

You paid the pirates on the China sea

And now you slave to sell securities

Who could know what sets you free

Who would know what sets you free

But if you want to find, baby find another you in your disconnection

If you want to find that other heart

Find that other mind, make another start

Choose your own waste of time

Sing with me

I'm not here to be your receiver

This is just a mirror, I'm no believer in anything

In anything but you

If you are just a dream

And ours is just another life for the fire

And this is just another nation under god

And all the rights and wrongs were wrong

Then this is just a song

You're an American

You come from Bel Aire

You hail a taxi to TV-Tel Aviv

You wear your star around your sleeve

But I'm not here to be your receiver

This is just a mirror, I'm no believer in anything

In anything but you

But if you want to find, baby find another you in your disconnection

If you want to find that other heart

Find that other mind, make another start

Choose your own waste of time

Feels Like Destiny For the Vets of WWII (2001 Lyrics by KS Music Tarot )

I have intercepted

All the satellite feeds

All the spin between the live

I have discovered

The source of the Nile

Feeds a river of swirling lies

And I try

You know I try

To give the secret away

And I try

Because you died

To dig the Hitlers a grave

But who can see you in the Sun

When Life's O.K. for us

Behind your gun

I've been to Paris

Snapped a shot on the Seine

The occupation has started again

And I try

Well you know I try

To give the secret away

And I try

To show the power of I

To every color of slave

But who can see you in the sun

That takes looking in

And that's no fun

I try

You know I try

To give the secret away

And I try

Because I'm high

And I'm as free as the day

But who will free you when they're free

If you haven't fought for it

It feels like destiny

The Space Invaders (2001 Lyrics by KS Music Tarot )

I'm gonna' love you 'till you learn

I'm gonna' love you 'till you learn

It is the world that for you alone I turn

For you, the one, I burn

Take a hit before the curtain rises

See my life in finite disguises

Behold the magic floats away

Like Houdini on his dying day

I'm gonna' seek you in the fall

I'm gonna' drive you to the ball

It is the sea of you the shore to which I crawl

All is All is All

Tap a vein for the Space Invaders

Gaudy bookends for the caped crusaders

before you know it, they're teenagers

Going through that set of stagers

I trade my life for another test

You'd teach a bird how to build a nest

A window closes on your very best

A setting sun over Taliesen West

It was nothing (2001 Lyrics by KS Music Tarot )

I was rolling a joint when it all went wrong

The law came along and started singing that same old

"somebody done somebody wrong song"

You'd make a nice Nazi

You teach the mothers how to drum that drone

If I find you not at home

I'll leave a message on the megaphone

You love your royalty

You love "it can't be me"

You love a mega-manufactured multi-majesty

You need a faint philosophy

You pay the paparazzi

You race the tunnel below the bridge

You fly the bars and stars atop your fridge

You trade the future for your heritage

Come on all you brothers

All their sisters

Did you feel what I feel on this day?

It was nothing

Against the mono backdrop of some

queue-card yesterday

You play the miracles

And the slot machines

You dial 1-900 can you help me read my scenes

You deem the devil's in the genes

You sign the Kamikaze

To an international, long-term deal

You check the polls for what you really feel

You study stars for what they can't reveal

Come on all you brothers

All their sisters

Did you feel what I feel on this day

Come on all you brothers

All their sisters

Did you feel what I feel on this day

It was nothing

Against the gobo sunset of some clockwork second take

Was this USA

Just another place where crime finds ways to pay

Never Kill the Fools (2001 )

You were my soul

I was your fire

You wrote the book

I stripped the wire

I watched you skirt the rules

and blow the schools

that spill the pools

that kill the fools

You were my thoughts

I was desire

You wrote the hook

I played the lyre

And now you rule the skirts

And teach the flirts

until it hurts them as you hurt

Never kill the fools

you're just a fucked up kid

In a teleplay

don't know who to blame

never be the same

Don't ever kill the fools

until you do

They're just like you

No never kill the fools

because if you do

it's only you

Where are you Davinci (2001 lyrics ks in progress)

All my life I've been a painter

But all my life I've known "I ain't one"

All of my life

All my life I've been to school

But all my life I've been a fool to someone

There's not a damned thing you can do

But find the god in you

Where are you Davinci?
Thought I saw you in the moonlight
And Van Gogh I think I know you too
Something was but was not right

It seems you've gone and left us nameless
Though I recognize your drive
While your expression is a prism
Mine is only still alive

All my life I've been a sinner

And all my life I've been a winner

All of my life

The old book says "Thou Shalt Not Lie"

You turn the page it's faith or fry

There's not a damned thing you can do

You choose to die or choose to choose

Where are you Davinci
Thought I saw you in the twilight
And Ayn Rand lord knows you took your stand
did you win or lose that fight

Beethoven was the rockstar

But Bach was made a frame

Mozart owes it all to the blues

I hope he makes the Hall of Fame

It seems I know we've lost the focus
But I won't trivialize
The ghost of life is still alive
And you are its disguise

Fermat scratches in the margin
He left something to prove
Galileo's place is in the home
And I'm locked outside the Louvre

I Need You In Real Time (ks In progress 2000)

I don't want to see you in a photograph
and I don't want the leaves to bring to mind our past
and don't want to save you in the new format
I need you in real time

I won't find your autograph
along my wall
and I won't feed the echo in this empty hall
but I'll demand the encores when you've played them all
I need you in the big time

I won't search the ashes for the place I'm from
And I won't hold you up as if you're everyone
And I won't lay the fathers blame upon the son
Maybe I'll see you in the free time

I can't screen the liars from the the TV screens
they connect the lines between you and your dreams
And every day I have to live with what it means
To be in the right place at the wrong time

The Prime Believer (1996 lyrics ks music TH, KS, GD)
In the presence of the prime believer

A thousand dreams on the cantilever

Suspended by the laws in God we trust

Faith is fate is fault is flame is dust

Divinity

Watch over our society

Free is freer when it's free for me

If I could show you what it means

You'd see

In the prison of the sacred forces

this was chosen over other courses

Suspension of the law from god we thrust

In the minds in the hearts in the children's trust

security

I can deal with mortality

The truth has never been this kind of threat to me

I can believe what I can see

I just can't believe my eyes

In the court of the prime deceiver

Don't be alarmed by the dead receiver

We're interpreting the law in god we trust

Faith is fame is framed in lace and lust

Have some sense of community

I've read it better than the way it reads

On behalf of my constituency

sanity

I'm on the bridge of reality

It's just a simple trick of ability

I can accept the lot I draw for me

I just have to close my eyes

It's no Mystery (lyrics ks music tarot)

Mystery

It's no mystery

And the superworld

Has a physical fee

The crystal sphere is in precession

A duty on your prized possession

Telepathy, come to me

on line three

I feel as though I've been forsaken

Left out near Aldeberon

Held upon pretend offenses

Nature's law and God defenseless

Oh come to me

Telepathy

line three

In the air

I'll pick you up tonight

I'll tune to you, you'll amplify my sight

If it's just the same

I'll wave the silence

If you feel alright

I'll wake you with the blame

But I won't pass upon your dare

With pen and ink and gravity

I wrote you from my room

In red and black

The curtain drawn to the back

I learned some steps from the ENIAC

If you feel alright

In light of things

Best we be getting back

Oh love me now like the sign on that show

Touch my heart with a glint of your special gold

Drown my distaste for a spot of "who told"

Drown my distaste for a spot of fools gold

Hold my attention Hold my attention Hold my . . .

The Universe you show me (lyrics ks music tarot)

Oh Nancy Class

Don't you know

I'd love to have your ass

My needs, you always have in mind

For me, the cleanest dirt you will find

The Universe you show me

Your main events, they really blow me

smooth off the map

And here you lay them in my lap

Oh what a world

Oh what a world

Oh what a wonderful world

Out of this wonderful world

There's no denying this

The Universe you show me

Get out of this wonderful world

Out of this beautiful world

There's no escaping it

The Universe you show me

Get out of our wonderful world

With grace your class

Place the pellet and you pass

A vow to take the highest peak

Not 'till the edge of the earth will we sleep

I'm spooked the way you know me

Like you've been there all along to show me

Oh what a world

Oh what a world

Oh what a wonderful world

Out of this wonderful world

There's no denying this

The Universe you show me

Get out of our wonderful world

You just can't get around

The Universe you show me

Get out of our beautiful world

Gift of the Magistate (lyrics ks music GD, TH, KS)

courtesy- I'm in your debt

Heresy- I turned and wept

If I cast my faith for you

It's what you said not what you do

Remedy- I'm in your debt

Heresy the safety net

Gift of the magistrate

If you're too late then it's too late

If I cast my faith for you

It's what you said not what you do

What you do

All the progress on the reigns you kept

Held them in your grip to you heart

We were born to possess

If this breath is the final possession

We were born to address

The depth of our impression

Of our impression

All the progress on the reigns you kept

held them in your paper grip to your pixel heart

Courtesy I'm in your debt

Heresy I turned and wept

Gift of the magistrate

If you're too late then it's too late

Your Time to Grow (1994 Lyrics by Kenny Shipman)

You may leave

And you may run

But you can never beat

The starting gun

You can wash the image

Or conceal the brand

You can call a spade

But its been in your hand

You could seek your peace

In a man of Glory

But I had mine

The pictures and the oratory

So dream your dreams

and choose your heroes

Just know what's real

When it's your time to grow

So make your games

and build your stories

Just so you know

It'll soon be time to grow

You can trace

The silhouettes of

Founding fathers

But I brought you up

to see just how you measure

You could retrace

If there were time to bother

But I've hired the best

To show you what's

Your pleasure

What's your pleasure?

No One (1994 lyrics by Kenny Shipman)

No one

No one but no one

No one

No one but you

Can find the right frame to feature the fine things

To cast the soft white to pinpoint the true view

No time

No time for down time

No time for crime

None for thinking of you

I've got a good mind to start a new chapter

I've seen the future and it's coming soon

I've seen a new place for a rendezvous

I've kept a blank space

Because we need what you do

I've seen the future and it's

Safe behind glass

I've seen it written and signed

This first, to last

I've seen a picture, edges yellowed with age

I've felt the fibers, worn with the wars it would wage

I've seen the future and it's matter of fact

I've seen it written and signed

This first, this pact

I've seen a photo, the shape of the words on the page

I feel the fibers, worn with the wars that we wage

In this new place a man builds his castle or cage

No One

No one but someone

No one

No one but you

Would choose the freeze frame to feature the right fear

To cast the back light

to pinpoint the blue view

No time

No time for air time

No time for crime

None for thinking of you

I've got a good mind to change

All the answers

I've seen the future and it's coming soon

I've seen a new place for a rendezvous

I've kept a blank space

Because we need what you do

Laugh With Me (1994 lyrics by Kenny Shipman)

Christians

Drivers

Nine-to-fivers

Have to feel your flame to feed your fires

Unwed mothers and secret lovers

It's overtime just to keep this stories covered

The blues and the blades and the dirty trades

I've got boys in the field just to tell you who got paid

A fact's a fact- the fools and the flak

I've prepared a schedule of the ones within your grasp

So walk with me

Through the valleys and the shadows

and watch me tell you of a few good books I know

Don't give your consciousness

To just any other fellow

Oh let yourself laugh with me

And watch our spirit grow

So speak to me

With wisdom, wit and patience

Allow a moment's silence,

Another minute please

Again I have to tell you

How I always hope to meet you

If you'll just laugh along in time

In time I'll let you go

I'll take a side with the wind or the tide

But it hardly matters it's the footage when she cried

There's something for you and the ones you love

I've run the numbers and you just can't seem to get enough

You wanted trust?

I trust you more and more each day

A Good Constitution (1994 lyrics by Kenny Shipman)

Everybody needs one good audition

We all, once, should play the lead

Some people need to feel they have permission

But everybody bleeds

Everyone feeds and falls on his confidence

And everybody needs a seductive audience

Everybody needs, and we all have seen the need

And who loves to lose?

Everybody needs just a few thousand watts

With hard work and patience you can rise above

With a pastor's pride and a parent's love

You pay your dues boy when push comes to shove

And just one day maybe one day

The dogs will have their day

On an autumn night

Maybe at second sight

I could play to win your golden heart

But how was I to know you were the only one?

When I couldn't shake the feeling

Of whom I didn't know you from

Everybody needs, and we all have seen the need

And who loves to lose?

I have the will

But you have to choose

You know we're meant to feel like we're so polarized

When every trial and freedom of this life is blind

You know we're meant to act like it's a sexual thing

As if this human instinct is a novelty

I don't want to be your everything anymore

"I got ten dollars and a world of lies

I learned to dance under Broadway lights

Ain't a lot of difference in the times to die

In my mind of minds, in my soul of souls

In the ghetto

I didn't grow up looking for a gang to lead

But there's just a lot of promise

In the words I have to read

And I've no time to read them now

The future looks too much like yesterday

And when momentum is conserved

Someone, simply, has to pay"

I used to dream of spending all the worth in me

"From sea, let freedom ring and death or liberty"

I used to reach and ask and tug at every door

But I don't want to be your Superstar anymore

Touchdown Blue for KVJ (1992 Lyrics by Kenny Shipman- only on Live@Earth)

A look through your window

with eyes of a sparrow

sang "poteeweet"

The arid ground

Or open faces all around

Lying where I've seen them stand

Holding out their hand to one another

Lah Lah Low

So they now go

They- like mustardgas and roses

So we now go

We- like mustard grass and roses

So we now go

All like houses in a row

Could I see this in indigo?

So we now go

We look through shattered blood-stained reading glasses

We see through peaceful moving masses

We learn shell-shocked passing glances

We- like greetings, time and pristine poses

We- like greetings, time and bookmark roses

Snapshot Freeway (1992 Lyrics by Kenny Shipman)

Benny was a man

Not a future plan

Had to see the hidden faces

Hiding in this green and desert

Free and frozen land

Got to soak up all you can

Would-be Walter

Said he came from Ireland

And he worked, like his father

for what he was

He shuffled along in his coveralls

And briefly met my startled eyes

But he wildly waved his wrinkled hands

He dreamed he was the president of US Steel

'till they came in here looking for a free ride

Old, proud, tired and so far away

At that Greyhound station, that day, by God

We would finally hear his side

One in a million in America

He learned to speak out in the rugged west

He knews ears were free in America

Liberty, in his Sunday best

Thought out loud about the day

He hauled his sweet Texas crop out west

To the caverns, where black clouds of bats

So many miles wide

Turned his day into screeching dreamy night

Said "father died" and he moved to Illinois

But he never stopped exploring 'till he heard

About that poor old boy

Held calmly by an avalanche

So far down inside

They had to turn away in helpless '39

We take our chances in America

We know we can be what we want to be

We fight to be free in America

The Pursuit (1992 Lyrics by Kenny Shipman)

I'm demographic

And you know I'd see you clearly

With a few more lines of resolution

How to love you

Just not quite so freely

How we differ

How not to need poorly

How to file with pride

This new clip of emotion

How to live with these new insecurities

I am reactive

I'm recording your advice

I'm gonna' set aside some time

And a place where I can rearrange it

I'm gonna' finally point the finger down

I'm gonna finally point it down

We have an interest in learning

But what you need to show is need

We have the instinct

To build our own freedoms

But you're building on our greed

I must defend this

Pursuit of happiness

And I have to say I can see

You depend on our losing

I'm systematic

And you're gonna' have to learn

To live with it

How to live in the light

Where the color leaves shadows

A palette of chemical points of view

I'm gonna' set aside some time

and a place where I can scream about it

I'm gonna' finally point the finger down

I'm gonna' finally point it down

We have an interest in learning

But what you need to show is need

We have the instinct

We want to live together

But you know we have the fear

To watch you bleed

I must defend this

P:pursuit of happiness

And I have to say I can see

You depend on our losing

One Way Streets (1990 lyrics by Kenny Shipman and Gary Dunn)

Just call me . . . mother

If we're still we could meet each other

Mark a red line through the number

Indicating you were there

Remembering, no - reliving

I'm going back to Christmas eve

Celebrate

No traffic delay

On the streets that feed you heart

Through the tubes that meet in middle city

Down the lines, they reach

No red light compromises

One way, One way

One way streets they feed the heart

And the arms that close around you

Did you want to end up speechless

Your words go down the line

So listen, no listening

A tight waxed string for nothing

Hands under the sand at recess

Remembering, no - reliving

I'm feeling

That now we need the words

But words go down the line

And few are private lines

In middle city

So red is red

And green is what you know

Do you remember when you first knew

That red is tried and true?

She said "Son the poet wants to live on buriable ground"

No evergreen, no artifacts of jade

He wants to know you now

'cause he feels that you might wear away

He's always searching for a right that's time

But every time he writes

The words begin to rhyme

THE WORLD 1986- The 30 minute epic in four movements

I. Rainbow Chairs (lyrics by Gary Dunn)

I'd once been seen alone someday

Sitting on a stool

Rendering the fool

Watching the flowers lie their heads down to sleep

To them a good night

Upon returning to the town

I saw an old man sitting there

On a paper chair

Expecting a crumple anyday, anyday

Son, let the sand lie down on the glass

As the night, it outweighs the day

It comes and it goes in its own special way

Look all around you skyscrapers built from the

Bottom up 'till they reach the sky

Destroying a beauty that used to be trees

As Problems arise

You compromise

Your feelings are none still strong

Son, this is the world

The moments that always pass me by

No heed to clock hands cry

And knowing the day is endless

Only a fairytale told by the old running stream

Sitting on a stool

II. Questions of the Setting Sun (Lyrics by Kenny Shipman)

How can there be an eye blind to see through the wind in the trees?

And who is to blame if our thoughts are the same set apart by a name?

And what do we know if the pathway we chose seems to fade as it goes?

And why does the pain of killing our time serve us well for the crime?

III. A Sad Life (Lyrics by Gary Dunn and *Kenny Shipman*)

Making a comfortable world for ourselves

Overlooking the neighbors of living things

A selfish pride

*the painted sky alive to die and I know it will return inside to fade into the night

The river flows with all it knows reflecting waves of history to lose within the sea

And autumn breeze, the memories- One stands alone among the leaves and equal to the trees

And equal to the trees, to the trees*

Extravagant move hurting us all

Destroying the good wildlife bears for you

While extinction's on the rise

And cares are far and few

Extinguishing a world

Food to keep us full, fur secures our warmth

Nothing short of a feather in our cap

Water in my mouth, oil in my car

Nature pays the price, robbed of its return

Oh how sit here wondering

How we can misdeal a world impossible to live without

A disappearing love

Mother once knew

Mother, why did you change?

Did they stop loving you?

IV. Dawn: Observer of All (lyrics by kenny shipman)

I always thought it mattered

The center of the world

And behind my eyes I watched it spin by

But please don't look so puzzled

You're scattered to the sphere

And all are lost to find the missing peace

***

The times we've shared

With smiles we've known

But now they are gone

And it's time to move on

From a world we've outgrown

We're aiming so high

But still in my mind

I'll treasure the years

The hopes and the fears

Of a world left behind

Remember days of foreign ways

Sheltered from the moving cold

I played and did not know of growing old

And when contained by gates of rain

I built my cities to the clouds

And then, like thoughtless men, I tore them down

I tore them down

The wise man saw the error of his way

A young man once who questioned yesterdays

The mind that felt alone upon the world

At one with all that he'd been searching for

Me for the taking (1987 lyrics by Gary Dunn)

Moondance cries

Upon my summer shoulder

The nature within my sight could never quite grow old to me

Could never, quite grow old to me

See myself as one among the crowd

Whose views could never match my stride

But no one would ever know or learn

To fit a common mode

Alike to one another

Feelings Feelings

May I get to my point of view

Whose methods tell me not

To fluctuate is to fall

Likes of another free you

How noticeable are you he sings to the tune that life's reason

Gives us to sing

Drifting away

The softness touching my ear

This can be my only peace

And while stars brighten the sky

Let this peace be music to my ears

....Peace be music

Moondance cries upon my summer shoulder

Moondance cries upon my summer shoulder

Skyline (1986 lyrics by Kenny Shipman)

Somewhere someone hears a sound unheard to me

Faces line a busy street

Each a separate worry, and each a separate smile

And all unknown to me

They're in my thoughts

Do they think of me?

Somewhere as the sun sets

The towers scrape the sky

Demanding my attention

They glow against the night

The sight seen in new light

The feelings I can't describe

Provoke my thoughts of beauty beyond me

Somewhere structures stand eluding time

Enormous windows to the past

Somehow they seem unreal

But surfaces that feel

As they've been felt before

Prove existence

Of pyramids to the eye

Skyline

Lifeline

Question why line

Are you too wrapped up to marvel at the mystery

Too cold to feel the movement of a melody

Too busy to appreciate the honesty

Too trapped in one dimension of reality

To Castles Kings And I (1986 Lyrics by Kenny Shipman)

To castles, kings and I

Your kingdom awaits you

The ruler of self

and the ruler of all

And I will see your eyes

And we will see their eyes

And we see their eyes

We will see it through

We stand between our lives

From freedom, a voice

Nor the song of the siren

To lead us astray

I will see your eyes

And we will see their eyes

We will see their eyes

We will see it through

At times I feel the tide of my true need recede from view

Washing fears upon defenseless shores

But if I fail attempting movements made to reach for you

The failures link to lead me to your door

But if I fail attempting movements made to reach for you

The failures link to lead me to your door

The failures link to lead me to your door

Perspectives (1986 Lyrics by Kenny Shipman)

A note for those who flew so high

do they look down upon that day

their dreams seemed so far away

Do they look into our eyes

Are they giving us the sky?

Were they ever so alone

What power pulls them through the pain

The sunshine through the rain

Did they feel

like giving in

And was it worth it in the end

They say men have their price

But gold won't pave the path to paradise

No matter where we stand

There lies the need to find the promised land

Forever as the Rain (1986 Lyrics by Kenny Shipman)
I remember pacing back and forth

I said I would be happy

Just to feel the rain again

Now the showers wash the fields of war

And offer little comfort from the horrors of the world

And I can't see the light at the end of the tunnel

though I know it's there

Spiraling down through a hole in a funnel

but I don't know where

Feelings guide me when I hear a voice

If I could mold the future with my two hands I'd see you there

(I forgot the rest, and I don't have a turntable)

One Today (1986 lyrics by Kenny Shipman)

There existed one today

Among a world of life

A power with intention to destroy it

A disease was quickly spreading where

Once beauty stood unthreatened

But not a soul could recognize

The plague concealed in the disguise

its plan depended on

There existed one today

Among a world of strife

The people with the honesty to save it

The felt that if together

They could overcome the terror

But differences that blinded from their eyes

The love that bound them got in their way

They realized together was the only way

If they put aside their differences for just One day

They could act as one against their common enemy

They did away with fear and hate

As they prepared to separate from them

Their unidentified disease

A light burned brightly everywhere

The joy of life was theirs to share

For they had just destroyed their enemies

One today love was born of love

One man stood among all men

That every soul the right to rise is given

To those who feel it in their hearts

As equal for their counterparts

No man has seen the light before enlightened

A battle old as good and bad

One's end is life the other's ends it

All important choices for our choosing

In some of you these thoughts will stay

Some will turn and walk away

But one today the choice is up to you

Our enemies now stand known to you

A good look around the faces here share them

Don't let them distort this view

Our Good Side (1985 lyrics by Gary Dunn)

There's an old man lying, just dying

There's a nun in the bar somewhere

The weeping willow weeps the same old song

In this day we all show our good side

There's two young kinds- look at one another

This friendship just has to last forever

The faces we know- tends to grow

It's going to last a lifetime isn't it?

A mold of life

For you and I

A shape we cannot change

The eyes grow bright but Still stands real

A wind that never blows

A true blue flew overhead one today

As a child I gunned it down

Growing old, a memory as fresh as that day

On that day I showed my good side

Is there a soul not to forgive

If I were the man above

A hurt heart awaits beside the bridge

Is it going to fall?

Is it all true do we sing to the stars

And do we sing with this melody

Or does this tune just pass you by

Let the tears all come to thee

Because now I'm crying now

Because now you know that

Good neighbors always break down

Good fences

It has been said and done once again

And to think that . . . . .

In Memory 1985 (This is the first Tarot Song written by Tarot, lyrics by Kenny Shipman and Mark Albert)

Daydream a vision

A scene's recollection

And smile at a smile

Contained within ending

As the feeling of warmth

with the dream disappears

The light of the smile

shines again through a tear

A glimpse of the innocent eyes of the careless

To belong was escaping the youth that she knew

As time changes us it does that we cherish

but years won't deny us our memories of you

And though we're cast

Into a countless crowd

Of those left over from a loss

Together in their company

So empty and alone

No one could ever understand

The thoughts that spin inside my head

A million words I would have said

If only I had known

The person in you that I knew so well

that was so hard to define

The quietness in you that had so much to hide

The reflection I saw resembled me

But I'll never understand what was meant to be

And though you're cast into a timeless crowd

Now you're away from all you've known

At least I know you're not alone

Until we meet again

I guess I never understood

The Thoughts that spun inside your head

Was there something that you could have said

to save us from some pain?