1. |
You Them Me Us
03:52
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I've got friends you wouldn't like wouldn't like you
different books even no books
diversity I like you them me us
2.
finery chandelier dinner sharp and cruel contrast
poverty and starvation
refrain:
we have a notion of family greater than blood
and the needs of the family are risin like a flood
3.
our planet turns to and from the heat
irreligious barbecue unknowing lamb
diversity I like you them me us
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2. |
Wild Winter
04:38
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Certain as sarsaparilla soft as the ace of clubs
sad as a wink in the soap in my sink
the last day in December
all that I can conceive of all that I drink with beer
has still gotten old so long as it's sold
as the tree top I can't hear
2.
I went north to Michigan Lake Superior shore
the beach is fine in summer time
but I prefer wild winter
whenever I go to Savannah whenever I see the sea
it curls my toes it stirs my soul
the sunrise in the east
3.
I want to have been here long before I go
eternal sleep is something deep that I am willing to wait for
laughter is a meditation reflected on the other side
the glowing health a shining self
a life worthy of praise
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3. |
Dean
03:57
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Dean was out it was only 11 p.m.
some son of evil with a gun cut'em down
2.
I was reading in bed when I heard two awful shots
didn't see nothin out the window
3.
back to my book 90 more minutes
Dean on the street bleedin his life away
4.
some late night kids came upon the fact
it ain't nice to see or say his brains blown away
5.
this morning I saw the horror still wet on the walk
everyone stopped to look some even found a joke there
6.
saturday morning raking his yard
saturday evening walkin his dog in the rain
7.
wherever you are my vengeance screams
down on your head fire and the worst terror I can dream
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4. |
Everything Changes
04:07
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I feel like the boarded up bank over in downtown
just too far away from the highway skirtin the town
there's nothin to do since nobody comes through but some train
it doesn't even slow it just flies with the flowin refrain
chorus:
everything's changing that is
nothin forever can live
2.
I feel like the matter in a broken down ladder just a stage prop
so tired of leanin in a scene without meaning on the backdrop
it's true that the walls and the windows are false it's a shame
yet the soloist is showing a transparent flowing refrain - chorus
3.
I feel like the bottom of an ancient Greek column on Mythos
for all of my history there's no one to miss me on the east coast
there's nothin so sad as a grave in the land with no name
it's a daily unfolding a terminal flowing refrain - chorus
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5. |
Another Notion
03:32
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Venus in the east 5a.m.
feelin like I can get mine
condo out in Malibu weekend flights to Greek Corfu
fortifications thick and high
chorus:
I intuite another way entertain another notion (story)
roots deep in herstory tentative arrival
2.
hunger in our home homeless in our house
illiteracy and neglect
to sleep without a meal to bed without a blanket
horizon of deep hopelessness - chorus
3.
future in the morning strike out for the new place
rising to the steepest incline
fasting for the family feasting on the wonder
dance in twin circles of light - chorus
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6. |
Dark and Light
03:57
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How'm I ever goin to make that trip
San Diego
San Francisco ol' Seattle
How'm I ever goin to take that ship
south to Rio
chorus:
comin through the window dark and light and dark and light
comin from a long time ago dark and light and dark and light
2.
how'm I ever goin to put it down
what's before me
before it's behind me
how'm I ever goin to speak it
what's before me - chorus
3.
once again I hear that siren sound
in the deep wood
the deep place in the city
downstream raging roaring waterfall
one clear warning - chorus
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7. |
The Kind of Eyes
03:59
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My business appointment was no disappointment
but business wise it was a bust
whatever I was selling was far less compelling
than insidious stirring of lust
I noticed that face and that confident grace
I forgot what I knew and I said
chorus:
those are the kind of eyes I dream about having on me
2.
I stepped on the carpet at the fresh seafood market
just my daily gathering bread
the fish on the shelf struck a chord in myself
why are you alive and why am I dead
the lobster in the tank just like money in the bank
like a cow turned to beef I could say - chorus
3.
the mountains in the north offer a steep craggy course
flatlands in the south dust and heat
the river that winds to the ocean sublime
to return like the cycle of sleep
the moon phase in crescent against the black essence
a jewel in the night of the day - chorus twice
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8. |
Loose
03:46
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Israel is always terrorizin Israel is just retaliatin
PLO is always terrorizin PLO is just retaliating
USA is all beneficent USA is all beneficent
chorus:
does that sound a little loose to you
does that sound like truth to you
2.
we most must endure dysentery so few can live in luxury
malnutrition with or without shelter malnutrition with or without shelter
education at the school of rocks
the rich have our best interests at heart
the rich have our best interests at heart - chorus
3.
El Salvador elite a mirror of here balcony towers over slums there
oligarchy death squad visit oligarchy death squad visit
be polite to landlord's body guard
opposition must be Marxist-Leninist
opposition must be Marxist-Leninist - chorus
4.
International law it don't apply here military power makes the law here
lawyers of the double-speak are busy
lawyers of the double-speak are busy
put patriotic filters on the editor
commoners can't be trusted commoners can't be trusted - chorus
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9. |
Must Have Been a Movie
04:13
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Have you ever seen in the sky a yellow crane
must have been a movie there ain't any yellow cranes left
have you ever seen an ivory elephant
hey you'd better hurry there ain't many elephants left
gettin so we can hardly breath gettin so I can hardly read
without gettin depressed thinkin 'bout the future which seems shot
2.
have you ever seen in the trees a mountain ape
must have been a movie there ain't any mountain apes left
have you ever seen in the south a rainforest
hey you'd better hurry there ain't many rainforests left
gettin so we can hardly drink gettin so I can hardly think
without gettin depressed thinkin 'bout the future which seems lost
gettin so we can hardly weep gettin so I can hardly sleep
without gettin depressed thinkin 'bout the future which seems gone
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10. |
The Kids/Red Truck
03:41
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Melanie sat on the window sill and her brother Nathaniel
traveled south with Nicolas took a flat in New Orleans
chorus: and they sure looked good in the window (after each verse)
2.
they took their tea in the mornin their chess in the afternoon
they read by the fire in the evening and they passed the winter that way
3.
Cole and Carl came for breakfast they watched the morning news
they wandered the streets 'till the sun went down
and they played their music all night
4.
Kallio joined them for Mardi Gras and she sang her tuesday song
she danced with her cousins on the balcony of the hotel Viva la France
Red Truck
Red truck in the driveway blue horse in the grass
green ducks in the skyway hippopotamus in the path
mama says to baby let's go to the ocean
we'll sit by the seashore watch the white cap motion
watch the purple cap motion, watch the red cap motion,
watch the yellow cap motion
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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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