Ants Marching
                          He wakes up in the morning
                      Does his teeth bite to eat and he's rolling
                             Never changes a thing
                         The week ends the week begins
                         She thinks, we look at each other
                       Wondering what the other is thinking
                            But we never say a thing
                      These crimes between us grow deeper 

                            Goes to visit his mommy
                         She feeds him well his concerns
                               He forgets them
                           And remembers being small
                       Playing under the table and dreaming 

                              Take these chances
                      Place them in a box until a quieter time
                          Lights down, you up and die 

                           Driving in on this highway
                       All these cars and upon the sidewalk
                            People in every direction
                             No words exchanged
                             No time to exchange 

                        And all the little ants are marching
                         Red and black antenea waving
                             They all do it the same
                           They all do it the same way 

                        Candyman teasing the thoughts of a
                      Sweet tooth tortured by the weight loss
                          Programs cutting the corners
                          Loose end, loose end, cut, cut
                        On the fence, could not to offend
                               Cut, cut, cut, cut 

                              Take these chances
                      Place them in a box until a quieter time
                           Lights down, you up and die

Tripping Billies


                               We were above
                           You standing underneath us
                            We were not yet lovers
                             Dragons were smoked
                          Bumblebees were stinging us
                            I was soon to be crazy 

                            Eat, drink and be merry
                             For tomorrow we die
                          'Cause we're tripping billies 

                             We're wearing nothing
                            Nothing but out shadows
                      Shadows falling down on the beach sand
                              Remembering once,
                          Out on the beaches we wore
                           Pineapple grass bracelets 

                            So why would you care
                            To get out of this place
                         You and me and all our freinds
                            Such a happy human race
                          'Cause we're tripping billies 

                               We are all sitting
                           Legs crossed round a fire
                           My yellow flame she dances
                            Tequila drinking oh our
                              Minds will wonder
                             To wonderous places 

                            So why would you care
                            To get out of this place
                         You and me and all our friends
                           Such a happy human race 

                            Eat, drink and be merry
                             For tomorrow we die

Recently
                              Recently I've been
                      All of content and dreaming I have been
                           'Cause I been lately seeing
                     Quite a bit of this woman live on my street 

                     People stare and we just ignore everything
                       People stare and we just ignore them
                           And they go away, go away 

                               She comes to me
                              I watch her drink
                           I watch her comb her hair
                        Both say that we never before have
                               Felt as recently 

                         People stare and we just ignore
                           What's the use in hiding out
                             She says all the time
                       Let their eyes do the worrying about 

                          She and me go to places quiet
                           Where we are quite alone
                           Kiss and we hold together
                            We will be until we done 

                         People stare and we just ignore
                           What's the use in hiding out
                             She says all the time
                        Let their eyes do the worring about 

                          Both say the we never before
                        Never before have felt as recently
                     People stare and we just ignore everything
                       People stare and we just ignore them
                           And they go away, go away 

Satellite


                              Satellite in my eyes
                            Like a diamond in the sky
                                How I wonder.
                          Satellite strung from the moon
                           And the world your balloon
                        Peeping tom for the mother station 

                           Winter's cold spring erases
                     And the calm away by the storm is chasing
                         Everything good needs replacing
                     Look up, look down all around, hey satellite 

                            Satellite, headlines read
                          Someone's secrets you've seen
                            Eyes and ears have been
                            Satellite dish in my yard
                           Tell me more, tell me more
                      Who's the king of your satellite castle? 

                           Winter's cold spring erases
                     And the calm away by the storm is chasing
                         Everything good needs replacing
                     Look up, look down all around, hey satellite
                      Rest high above the clouds no resrictions
                      Television we bounce 'round the world
                          And while I spend these hours
                              Five senses reeling,
                    I laugh about the weatherman's satellite eyes. 

                              Satellite in my eyes
                            Like a diamond in the sky
                                How i wonder.
                          Satellite strung from the moon
                           And the world your balloon
                        Peeping tom for the mother station 

                           Winter's cold spring erases
                     And the calm away by the storm is chasing
                         Everything good needs replacing
                     Look up, look down all around, hey satellite 

                     Rest high above the clouds no restrictions
                       Television you bounce from the world
                          And while I spend these hours
                              Five senses reeling
                    I laugh about this world in my satellite eyes. 



One Sweet World


                           Nine planets round the sun
                         Only one does the sun embrace
                             Upon this watered one
                          So much we take for granted 

                          So let us sleep outside tonight
                          Lay down in our mother's arms
                          For here we can rest safely 

                           If green should slip to grey
                          But our hearts still bloody be
                         And if mountains crumble away
                  And the river dry Would it stop the stepping feet 

                            Take all that we can get
                               When it's done
                            Nobody left to bury here
                          Nobody left to dig the holes
                          And here we can rest safely 

                               One sweet world
                            Around a star is spinning
                               One sweet world
                         And in her breath I'm swimming
                         And here we will rest in peace 


The Song That Jane Likes

                         And in plays to write the wire in
                             I'll come back again
                         Torching time talking rhymes in
                             I'll come back again 

                             Would you like to play
                          With the thought of a friend
                           In a distant passing stage
                             While you lie around
                            With hands up and down
                         So resigned you will fall down 

                           While you around here play
                         Wild on the warm and far away
                           While you around here play
                        The days keep scrbbling themselves
                                In tidy lines 

                              Would like to play
                           With a fool holding hands
                         With a one-eyed jack of spades
                           While on the deck they sing
                        All of the captain's cards are kings
                       Still he and the queen are lost at sea
                           I hope it isn't you and me 

                          And I'll be back 'round again
                      Yes I'll walk in time with you old friend
                            And we'll find that place
                         That we had danced so long ago 

                         And in plays to write the wire in
                             I'll come back again
                         Torching time talking rhymes in
                             I'll come back again
                              With this resigned
                               The letter I sign   

Minarets


                        Santa Maria choose your children
                            Santa Maria virgin child
                       all our wars over you we are fighting
                         and all our time faith justifying 

                         Brother caged Babylon will fall
                   Sister chained and bound, beaten and bleeding
                         The tv's on, to me this explains it
                        Wearing a tie like daddy speaks it
                          Screaming from the minarets
                          Later on we'll all be dancing
                          Screaming from the minarets
                          Yes indeed i'm making faces
                          Rain on the ground in a space
                                God has grown
                      Alone till a man looking glass in his hand
                             He is holding up to you
                                What you see
                                What you see
                                What you see
                             What you see is human
                          Screaming from the minarets      

Seek Up


                         Sometimes I feel like I'm falling
                         Fall back again, fall back again,
                         Fall back again, fall back again 

                        Oh, life it seems a struggle between
                           What we think what we see
                         I'm not going to change my ways
                        Just to please you or appease you
                        Inside a crowd, five billion proud
                             Willing to punch it out
                           Right, wrong, weak, strong
                           Ashes to ashes all fall down
                          Look around about this round
                        About this merry-go-round around
                         If at afll God's gaze upon us fall
                         His mischievous grin, look at him 

                          Forget about the reasons and
                          The treasons we are seeking
                           Forget about the notion that
                         Our emtions can be swept away
                           Forget about being guilty,
                            We are innocent instead
                    For soon we will all find our lives swept away 

                         Sit awhile with TV's hungry child
                               Big belly swelled
                       Oh, for a price of a coke or a smoke
                           Keep alive those hungy eyes
                       Take a look at me, what you see in me,
                               Mirror look at me
                           Face it all, face it all again 

                          Forget about the reasons and
                          The treasons we are seeking
                   Forget about the notion that your emtions can be
                            Wwept away, kept at bay
                   Forget about being guilty, i am innocent instead
                    For soon we will all find our lives swept away 

                            You seek up an emotion
                           And our cup is overflowing
                            You seek up an emotion,
                           Sometimes your well is dry
                           You seek up a big monster
                        For him to fight your wars for you
                   But when he finds his way to you, the devil's not
                                Going--ha, ha 

                                  Say, say 

                           Look at me in my fancy car
                             And my bank account
                      Oh, how I wish I could take it all down
                            Into my grave, I'd save
                       Take a look again, take a look again,
                               Take a look again
                      Everyday things change,...stay the same 

                          Forget about the reasons and
                          The treasons we are seeking
                           Forget about the notion that
                         Your emtions can be swept away
                           Intentions are not wicked,
                         Don't be tricked into thinking so
                     Soon we will all find our lives swept away 

                            You seek up an emotion
                           And our cup is overflowing
                            You seek up an emotion,
                           Sometimes your well is dry
                           You seek up a big monster
                        For him to fight your wars for you
                        But when he finds his way to you,
                          The devil's not going--ha, ha
                  Fall back again, fall back again, fall back again... 

I'll Back You Up


                              I remember thinking
                         I'll go on forever only knowing
                               I'll see you again
                                 But I know
                      The touch of you is so hard to remember
                        But like that touch I know no other 

                          And for sure we have danced
                            In the risk of each other
                              Would like to dance
                           Around the world with me 

                       I'll be falling all about my own thing
                       And I know your the heaviest weight
                         When your not here that's hung
                               Around my head 

                            And your lips burn wild
                         Thrown from the face of a child
                               And in your eyes
                         The seeing of the greatest few
                            Do what you will, always
                         Walk where you like, your steps
                        Do as you please, I'll back you up 

                              I remember thinking
                              Sometimes we walk
                            Sometimes we run away
                                 But I know
                        No matter how fast we are running
                              Somehow we keep
                       Somehow we keep up with each other 

                       I'll be falling all about my own thing
                        And i know your the heaviest weight
                         When your not here that's hung
                               Around my head 

                            And your lips burn wild
                         Thrown from the face of a child
                               And in your eyes
                         The seeing of the greatest few
                            Do what you will, always
                         Walk where you like, your steps
                        Do as you please, I'll back you up                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Christmas Song

 

                       She was his girl; he was her boyfriend
                      She be his wife; take him as her husband
                      A surprise on the way, any day, any day
                    One healthy little giggling dribbling baby boy
                      The wise men came three made their way
                            To shower him with love
                             While he lay in the hay
                          Shower him with love love love
                                Love love love
                             Love love is all around 

                     Not very much of his childhood was known
                          Kept his mother Mary worried
                             Always out on his own
                 He met another Mary for a reasonable fee, less than
                           Reputable as known to be 

                        His heart was full of love love love
                                Love love love
                             Love love is all around
                    When Jesus Christ was nailed to the his tree
                  Said "oh, Daddy-o I can see how it all soon will be
                  I came to shed a little light on this darkening scene
               Instead I fear I spill the blood of my children all around" 

                       The blood of our children all around
                       The blood of our children all around
                       The blood of our children all around
                          So the story goes, so I'm told
                            The people he knew were
                            Less than golden hearted
                             Gamblers and robbers
                       Drinkers and jokers, all soul searchers
                               Like you and me 

                        Rumors insisited he soon would be
                              For his deviations
                       Taken into custody by the authorities
                             Less informed than he.
                       Drinkers and jokers. all soul searchers
                           Searching for love love love
                                Love love love
                             Love love is all around 

                            Preparations were made
                            For his celebration day
                    He said "eat this bread and think of it as me
                        Drink this wine and dream it will be
                       The blood of our children all around
                       The blood of our children all around"
                       The blood of our children all around 

                  Father up above, why in all this anger have you fill
                               Me up with love
                             Fill me love love love
                                Love love love
                                  Love love
                      And the blood of our children all aroun