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LOVE IS THE MAIN FLAME
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LOVE IS THE MAIN FLAME They say love is the main thing Love is the main thing Never know when it come up Never know how it happen Say love makes more happen Makes more than itself Never know what it bring up Never know where it take you Love may be demon Love may be jinn Arises--you pursue Burns and it soothes And love 's like a pool Where thirsts may be found And love is a current Like lightning or river Love leaps wild 'cross lines Like anthrax or tonic Makes you crazy and noble For one and for all Love can do anything And it always changes names It always changes names It always changes names I say love is the main flame Deeper than brain Love is the main flame Deeper than brain Fever and tonic Burns and it soothes Current and pool And it Always changes names Love is the main flame. WHEN I WANT TO HOLD YOU When that ev'ning sun goes down And there's no one else around That's when I want to hold you When I want to hold you All through the day I pause as my thoughts stray I see your shining hair I catch your sly, quick smile And I want to hold you That's when I want to hold you You know that I get tired Down here with the rest Business of tests Like we're lashed by wires Then I think about you That's when I think about you See your face Lovely like Garbo's See your face Pretty as Ali's See your face Live like peonies In my blood you fuse Like a rising tower That's when I want to hold you When I want to hold you. YOUR BODY RICH AS NIGHT / STRUNG OUT TO L.A. Your body is a nurturing I ride into night Your body is of spirit things To bring souls delight Hi-dee-hi--Hi-dee-hi Hi-dee-hi-dee-hi-dee-hi Dee-hi--dee--Hi--dee-hi Your body is replenishing Source gives back to thirst Your body is a healing thing From it wants are burst New cars and power lines Are strung out to L. A. How we use the time we have Is our means to light Birds are mired in the oil Palms and firs shrink by Bays How we meet the calls of life Is our play with paradise Damages is a constant As cars run 'round the clock Dying can't be accident If we boil in our own pots Politicians banning art Scum-bags wash to shores No shame in Nature's gifts Naked 's where It starts Your body is a nurturing I ride into night Your body is of spirit things To bring souls delight It goes Hi-dee-hi--Hi-dee-hi Hi-dee-hi-dee-hi-dee-hi Dee-hi--dee--Hi--dee-hi Your body is replenishing Source gives back to thirst Your body is a healing thing From it wants are burst An-other world--An-other world Another world is there for us-- Starry, fleshly night EV'RY BODY Cheek’a--Cheek’a--Cheek’a Cheek’a--Choo--Chosh-Chosh Stick people stick people--flat and trim Stick people stick people--how we want 'em Stick people stick people--they're not to think Stick people stick people--learn as taught Stick people stick people--cars are clean Stick people stick people--safe on a Beach Stick people stick people--naked is threat Stick people stick people--watch your butts Ev'ry body Born with no fear Ev'ry body When they come here Children no see Wrong in Nature When they come here Born with no fear Censors set to clamp on Freedom of expression They are placed on high With their knots in ties T' tell what we should know But I say what I see My eyes belong to me Bloody reality People dyin' on the streets Slicks try to kill the beats Reachin' to ev'ry seat They try to ignore Anyone not a whore My eyes belong to me They attack bodies bare For an order based on fear Build up more prisons Over tears in their curtains Shake their clubs at making love To distract from States' neglect Homes they're leaving wrecked Oil-and-gold their God above Want to keep us split So we won't hit on it 'Cause art must expose Official stories' holes Their past our future The real obscenity And Jesus never said What's wrong with any body Buddha never said What's wrong with any body Shango never said What's wrong with any body Ev'ry ba-ba--ba-ba ... Ev'ry body Born with no fear ... Ev'rybody got a body Pope and Queens got their bodies You and me got a body Ain't no shame in any body Ev'ry body use their body IF I WAS SOMEBODY If I was some--some--somebody Maybe somebody Could love--love--love me My name is Oscar I grew up in this Desert I don't speak good English Sometimes I drink too much But I'm a good worker Boss gave me keys to the Shop In bars I get called a Wetback I try to be a good person But when someone don't respect me I'll stick this knife in his neck I want to sing with my uncle's band I want to write the songs in my head I want t' see my kids and the wife who left me Maybe ev'rybody got something to express I don't want to die-- I don't want to live-- I don't want to live like a dog on this land I want to sing with my uncle's band My name is Andrew I left school in Kentucky To make it somewhere I drove cab in New York City Before I fell for this Desert Now I work out of my trailer Mechanicin’ from Grapevine to Fresno Sometimes I thank Lord Jesus But no man had better wrong me I'll kick his motherfuckin' ass I used to sing with an R-and-B band I still got a lot 'a songs in my head I don't mind workin' for my kids and ex-wife Maybe that is something I got to express I don't want to die-- I don't want to live-- I don't want to live like a dog on this land I 'd like to sing with an R-and-B band I don't want to die--I don't want to live-- I don't want to die in nobody's War I don't want to live for no goddamn Bank I want to sing with my uncle's band I'd like to sing in an R-and-B band LIKE A HAMMER BLOWN Aow, like a hammer blown Sky won't let us alone Can't get out 'a these Zones Nowhere we can call home Their Bridges span like white jewels Skyscrapers where we once grew Plow more ancestors' bones To knock a white ball around At the gas-and-guns onslaught Warriors there for worship fought Smashed cars to make barricades Found power in the arms raised To be human means to defend The land and children And no man can watch a rape end No man can watch a rape end Bridges span like white jewels Skyscrapers where we once grew Concrete covers our home Sky won't let us alone Blues 've turned to brown Can't get out 'a the Zones Aow, like a hammer blown Man works for everything he owns My trucks brought in these grounds Now I wake up and groan Dust on dew of the lawn Wife can't find a new place t' go Kids' eyes are set like TVs Crews got to clear-cut for debts I'm like Boss of the Mess Some Power not of our own Paved over my mama's home Man asks work for whose sake Blood for oil in powerboat's wake Missiles on sand for gold Corpses on the wrong road Sky won't let us alone Blues 'r turning to brown Aow, like a hammer blown DON'T YA KNOW, MISTER Don't ya know, mister Don't ya know, mister Don't ya know, mister Don't ya know, mister Who brought you the guitar Don't ya know, mister Same people river-blind afar Don't ya know, mister We could all shine to stars Don't ya know, mister We'd be nothin' without the zero Don't ya know, mister Allah says to help the poor Don't ya know, mister Woman human as you are Don't ya know, mister All things sentient got to breathe Don't ya know, mister That includes earth and trees Don't ya know, mister Buddha don't dig people on their knees Don't ya know, mister What brings most to yourself Don't ya know, mister That's for others to develop Don't ya know, mister Better wake up to that wealth IN THIS TOWN They don't know They don't know They don't know In this town They're gonna put you down Wear your hair Blue or brown Square or round They don't know In this town Made for cash Full of guilt Wear colors Like a sash or quilt They don't know In this State Fear turns hate At the free Scorn envy Re-mem-ber Gal-i-le-o Madame Curie And George Sand In their times Beyond their place Outside this town And you know And you know And you know LET THE CHILDREN COME And the children came And the children came ... After bombs' rain The War was done With the Bomb's reign The War was done Treaties were complete Plains greened with wheat Steel pressed into fins Northern empires still king And the children came Many different names Born on Southern lands Outside the steel Outside the wheat Drawn to cities' glow Not enough to eat Open sewers' pains And the children came ... And the Plants they burned Profits to be turned Products to be sold Sprays and warheads old Soon more of bombs Than people could be killed And many stood and fought For lands they lived on And the children came And the children came And so did the cars And so did the cars Five billion now Five more to come Five hundred million cars And four times that soon And more children come As more bombs are built More children come As more bombs are built More have no homes Not enough to eat More have no homes Not enough to eat And the Deserts spread And the Forests shrink And the Oceans rise Blood on sand is blown As holes warm through ozone Let the children come ... We must leave the car We must leave the Banks We can leave our fears And be rid of vampires We must take our lands We can use our hands We can use our minds We can use our--our--our "im-ag-in-a-tions" Five billion now Five more to come Five hundred million cars Four times that soon Let the children eat Let the children breathe Let the children grow Let the children come. MY OLD MAN My old man Wears a white crown My old man He gets around Says drill this hole Bring up that gold Cut down that tree You work for me My--old--man Calls the Earth his town My old man--my old man This old man With year-round tan This old man Gives guns to hands Wants back Iran Plus Afghanistan Sucks from Timbuctu And me and you This--old--mister Mouth pursed pistol Piranha smile Looks like his kin Points at Sin Then sneaks it in This--old --man Bites all Earth like bone Our old man--our old man Our old man Stands up for oil Our old man Sends Blacks to sand Says save liberty Defend the Emir A Kingdom pure Ain't Exxon grand Our--old--man Gives us corner gas Our old man Gives us gas--gives us gas |
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