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Mauna Kea
03:53
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Out of Oahu past Molokai two weeks in Maui
pas a porte comin up short Hilo Bay
Mauna Kea is covered with clouds today
Hapuna Beach breakers that chill blue waters not still
dusk feeding time sharks in a line Kailuna Bay
Mauna Kea is covered with clouds today
Mauna Kea is covered with clouds today - yah
refrain:
they're indoctrinated properly broken back in Georgia
the people have spoken turned my senator out
2.
Punaluu strange cold water layer turtles at swim
lava flow trail everywhere even Ka Lae
Mauna Kea is covered with clouds today
to end road cliffs receding blue banyan trees
over the abyss go stumbling the years
Mauna Kea is covered with clouds today
Mauna Kea is covered with clouds today - yah
3.
night flight Waikiki lights fading away
into the black hours four and a half hours 'Frisco Bay
Mauna Kea is covered with clouds today
so goes the story not to worry thin skin airbird
so goes the story Lapahoehoe back to Georgia
Mauna Kea is covered with clouds today
Mauna Kea is covered with clouds today - yah
credits
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2. |
Talkin Cross Equality
04:23
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I met someone in a restaurant
tellin me everything but what he wants
but which he soon got to
leavin the check with the fool
chorus:
I don't believe it's a better view
using somebody as a pedestal
and though you're looked up to some
talkin cross equality (3x)
a better deal oh oh oh deal oh oh oh
2.
were you in Dallas for the three shots
are you with the haves or the nots
were you with Stroessner in Paraguay
are you with the CIA - chorus
refrain:
the corporate profiteers reach into our purse as we sleep
leaving us sugar water leaving us sugar water
3.
are you enamored of the media
or are you inclined to resist
do you sweat buckets at the crowd cry for blood
do we sink or swim in the flood - chorus
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3. |
Up to Our Ears
04:57
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Remember the day we came over the rise
to see the sun then was astounding
we had to get forgetful to survive
coming soon now now
chorus:
there's time to excavate (educate) negotiate reevaluate
what came before what comes after twenty billion years
seems like such a long time
and us all in up to our ears
2.
remember the battle of the plain of jars
didn't cost nothin but young blood
did we learn anything I did
mothers mothers fathers fathers - chorus
3.
remember the warning of the years before
violet western blue-green skies
everything I know is a metaphor
ontology epistemology synchrony - chorus
4.
remember the raven singing to her mate
their copulation was an omen
I sing to you of green as you recreate
springtime frulung, haru, pom, kwanza,
chun-kin, printemp, prima vera - chorus
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4. |
Gotta Git Gone
03:51
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Horace said to Hazel as he opened the 'fridge
an analytic inner eye on every other lid
wouldn't it be beautiful to serve as a bridge
from the white sky to the place where we live
the White House to where we bury fish
walkin on along a long sea-stoppin wall
dawdlin in the desert 40 nights without a mall
wouldn't it be certitude to censor every call
and notice every subtle wind that stalls
and know when every brick is gonna fall
chorus:
gott git goin gotta git gone gotta git movin
on and on on and on on and on
2.
Merriweather Hunnicutt on her morning walk
an oriental inner eye on every other lot
wouldn't it be incredible to buy up every block
and sell it all at double what it cost
and turn a purty profit into stock
all across the continental United States
consumption junction frenzy don't nobody wanna wait
wouldn't it be intolerable to sacrifice a steak
so others at the table can partake
and there can be a parting of the lake - chorus
3.
Dousseldorf, Amsterdam, Paris and Calais
Puerto Rican sassafras tofu every day
wouldn't it be unbearable to breakfast on the quay
and hear the strains of spring song in the clay
and dance with every cousin on the way
television windows are shinin in the night
evangelic bookkeepers are totalin the flight
wouldn't it be unprintable to document the blight
and turn a dreary drifting to the right
and link a line of stoppage to the fight - chorus
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5. |
Joie de Vivre
03:59
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Ferngarden Hills, Mount Everest Way
Peachtree Trace,
Fox Point Bay
blue hill desert amber waves of grain
chorus:
I oscillate minute to minute
from anxiety to Joie de vivre
oh joie de vivre (3x)
2.
agricultural pesticides multiplied
industrial run-off poison
hostage to jobs
dead lake vision profits economics - chorus
3.
I have to ask in the course of my humiliation
where do I stand
in the land
of supply and demand - chorus
4.
change in the climate shift in the wind
carrying our seed to inhospital swim
life blood on fire
oil clouds rolling in
you or I can't be read or reached
without sympathy empathy
oh joie de vivre (3x)
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6. |
Button Pusher
03:34
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through half closed lids I look out my eyes
at the night time magic stars in the sky
I speak with impatience to get to my statement
about button pusher bumper sticker button pusher
2.
you leave the engine runnin as you go for cigarettes
the ash tray in the parkin lot somethin I can't forget
the business of your uncle is poisonin the stream
mean button pusher obscene button pusher
3.
a long line on the interstate American made
but everything is covered it's a military parade
the budget is classified you know it to be high
professional button pusher solid gold button pusher
4.
the aftermath of a massacre ticker tape and pop
the blindfold of justice put on the patriot
the body count is secret the real agenda hid
national button pusher political button pusher
5.
cloudy day acid rain emptying the pond
automobile emissions say it might not now be long
desertification greenery goodbye
indifferent button pusher fatal button pusher
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7. |
Reading In Bed
04:39
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1a
Reading in bed
taking a holiday
I'm longing for
lazy day ay ay ay
1b
singing songs of love
by a stream so cool
sweet summer afternoon
our friends and I and you
2a
lounging on the porch swing
overlook the sea
sunset on the bay
whispered secrets to me e e e
2b
holding the near one
fire in the hearth
rolling evening surf
fire in the heart
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8. |
A Thousand Voices
05:14
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Got up early stepped outside
sang so good to be alive
heard the start the buzz and hum
peopled streets and pollution
a thousand voices in the clouds
even if your smokestack's black
even if you vote like that
you are still the child inside of love
even as you cast your net
even as you bayonet
you are still the child inside of love
2.
I look into my pc screen
data access flickering
whirling atoms everywhere
in my toe nails in my hair
a thousand voices in the clouds
even as you tote that hoe
even as you hoe that row
you are still the child inside of love
even if you waste your life
even as you curse the light
you are still the child inside of love
3.
in every poem in every verse
all across the universe
on every head on every note
every thought and every joke
a thousand voices in the clouds
even if you hit the juice
even as you reproduce
you are still the child inside of love
as you take your babe to breast
as you close your eyes for death
you are still the child inside of love
a thousand voices in the clouds
you are still the child inside of love
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9. |
Some People Can Talk
04:20
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in a building some occasion some procedure some event
in another something other an unnerving silence kept
still another random tenant such disturbing sentiment
at the grocer from a jokester something lighter in intent
(once again without pause)
some people can talk some people can not
middle excursion:
I may not understand you can't even say your name
but the place where we are standing has arisen from the flames
resurrected from the ashes once re-born and once re-made
once in death and once in darkness now in commerce so engaged
building warehouses of folly business towers stab the sky
disenchanted yet addicted to the plastic ash tray lie
from the yacht in Boston Harbor to the Kennebunkport place
the obsequious servant pentagon vast waste
2.
in an orchard some occasion some procedure some event
in a wetland something other an unnerving silence kept
on a hilltop random tenant such a wary sentiment
at the shoreside at the high tide
some fish laughter some fish spent
(once again without pause)
some people can talk some people can not
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10. |
Avez Vous
03:57
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Walkin on the boulevard singin for my tea
opening my eyes to whatever they would see
there was nothin in the air threatenin to breathe
and the people were wealthy and contented
then came the one who stepped out from the crowd
then came the bistro and dinner
and before the night was through
we stood in the vestibule
avez vous un chambre pour deux avez vous un chambre pour deux
2.
walkin on the boulevard in the a.m. rush
breakfast at the Cafe Au Lait
there were no appointments to distract us from our play
morning turned to afternoon
just one disagreement we were parallel the Seine
arguing utopia
happened on the Hotel Chance went back for another dance
avez vous un chambre pour deux avez vous un chambre pour deux
refrain:
standing in the aftermath seven years and days
sitting in a darkened parlor
shrunken ghastly lover fading
3.
walkin on the boulevard singin for my tea
opening my eyes to whatever they would see
there was something in the air threatenin to breathe
and the people were gray undecided
then came the memory steppin from the crowd
of the long exquisite dinner
nebulous our dim ascent sweet stair we now repent
avez vous un chambre pour deux avez vous un chambre pour deux
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Thinkspeak Atlanta, Georgia
Tom Ferguson has been writing songs since 1969, all of which are collected in Songs, 1969-2018. It's coil-bound to nicely fit a music stand, available at lulu.com just search tom ferguson there.
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