SONGS FOR ACT 2.
Abductee
Ordinary stars
On the beach
Cowboy song
Old dog
Free will
Kurtsong
One in you
Hippy song
Mother ship
Rupture rapture
Aint no religion
ABDUCTEE Field/Heathcote Williams
I was walking - on the beach
- in the middle of the night,
Picking my way through the rocks and silvery light.
I wanted a U.F.O. to take me away,
To take me away for a thousand year day.
I want to be an abductee,
To be free - super naturally.
Starlight - in my brain,
Starlight in my vein.
Like a bubble in a bottle
- I'm trapped on Earth with its restless lies,
I'm cracking up - I wanna fizz, I wanna vaporise - dematerialise.
Strange tendrils sink in
my brain,
Water me with cosmic rain.
Fling me into the sky,
Fly like I don't have to try.
As the Earth's heart begins
to break - I am seduced by the shimmering stars,
Milky Way signals hypnotise - Sirius, Saturn, moons of mars.
The Tragic blue light of
Earth fades, a cold cell dying cold and alone.
This is reason to leave immediately through the frail veil of ozone.
Weird force - force field
around my face - stolen away from all that pain,
A voice said "Never look back again, if you do your sure to loose pace."
All shook up from the quantum dance,
I raved a rainbow trance.
Me the soul was floating free,
Home at last in Zero gravity.
Astral surfing on solar
winds - Earth angel sailing through the void.
Buzzing like a pinball in the heavenly mind.
Human electron - living asteroid
Sucked to the centre of an imploded star.
You weigh a billion tons, no matter who you are.
A sudden vortex makes you
lighter than light,
Flashing like a firework in the everlasting night.
Re-tuned by golden laser beams,
That radiate from crystal streams.
I could go back and forth in time,
Relativity - is just a nursery rhyme
Turning to a minima streak
of spectral dust and gas,
The light of my head fused with all the light of space.
My body dissolved and disappeared
without a trace.
Stars fire like nerves in a mega brain.
I hear music, ecstatic music,
Music of the spheres.
Why read your stars, when you've got stars in your face,
Whispering of the future in your ears.
I see the specks of light,
with which I see,
To be the specks of light from unborn galaxies.
When you're lit up with
the inner fire,
The universe itself is the messiah.
You're so ordinary,
You're so plain
But you have the power to bring the sun out in the rain
You might have a mission
That is incomplete
But you can bring the best out in the people that you meet
You need to get out more
And make some proper friends
You can't know all you want to know
Until your story ends!
Everything's in easy reach
Now we're sitting here on this beach
Got marooned a while ago
Since then things have travelled kind of slow
See them palm trees that
sway around
That's where you'll find us here on the ground
See the vast and shining sea
All we got to wonder is what's for tea
There are fruit and nuts
and fish
See them here on a palm-leaf dish
Sometimes in a night of storm
We've got our monkeys to keep us warm
We haven't ventured far
inland
There might be things to understand
Everything's in easy reach
When we're sitting here on the beach.
I Wanna Hear those Cowboy Songs
I wanna hear those cowboy
songs
About the lonesome trail
And think about the girl who's left behind
And how we're bound for glory
And the lone coyotes's wail
Come sit down beside me - I don't mind
Let's listen to Hank Williams
As I'm drinking here alone
Singin you can never count the cost
And sometimes desperate measures
Can get down to the bone
Reminding you you're never really lost
Good old country tune
Beneath this paper moon
Give me hope and give me one more beer
Maybe she'll come along
Just like in the song
But if she don't, I will not shed a tear.
Keys in my pocket
And I don't give a fuck
I went out like a rocket
And came back like a duck.
There seems to be a pattern
Maybe I need a clue
I'm going to roll another fat 'un
And sink another brew.
I went to the doctor
I should've gone to the vet
Because the doctor told me,
There's life in my old dog yet.
I'm going to have to watch
him
I got a feeling soon
We're both going to be howling
At that old full moon.
(Girls)
Come on out old dog
Bring the Beastie out
We want to see the Beast!
Show us how you bring that Beastie out!
Show us the Beastie!
Keys in my pocket
And I don't give a fuck
I went out like a rocket
But I came back with a duck!
Howooooooolll!
Quack
Exercising my free will
Sniff that powder, drop that pill
Destroy myself for one more thrill
Exercising my free will
I've been drinking here
for years
Deep in debt and rent arrears
I left my wife in floods of tears
Exercising my free will
Got two kids I never see
They stole my car 'n my TV
I'm happy that they're just like me
Exercising their free will
Don't you touch my cowboy
hat
Last guy did, I knocked him flat
Then shot his dog and maimed his cat
Exercising my free will
I like it here, don't need
work
Leave that to some other jerk
But there's one thing I will not shirk
Exercising my free will.
Kurtsong (Gm Dm D D# C F) [3/4] 104 bpm
There comes a certain time of night
When we forget the rules
When worthy thoughts and self-restraint
Are the ways of fools.
When we forget together
And mayhem does ensue
We see through our disguises,
And know what we should do.
Drink Vodka, beer, mescal and gin,
To strip us to the skin.
Are you prepared to give
it a spin
And leave the skin you think you're in?
There comes a certain time
of night
When we bite through the chain
When we proceed with all due haste
To where there is no pain.
And when we all go together
Behind this old green door.
Things get loose and easy,
And we all cry for more.
Vodka rum tequila and gin,
Saves us from the grim.
So don't stay outside, come
on back in
And leave that certain place your in.
Cause we don't think you've fixed it round here.
No we don't think you've fixed it 'round here.
The one in me
Is the one in you
The one in you
Is the one in me
The one in me
Is the one in you
The one in you
Is the one in me
The Spirit tells us that it's true
That the one in me is like the one in you
The squid and the mollusc in the great green sea
Know the one in them is like the one in me
The one in me
Is the one in you
The one in you
Is the one in me
The one in me
Is the one in you
The one in you
Is the one in me
The eagle in the sky and the moth know too
That the one in them is like the one in you
The frog, the beetle and
the honeybee
Know the one in them is like the one in me
Only humans play the game
That they're all different when we're just the same
Other creatures know from
birth
That they are children of Mother Earth
We are Earthling! Earthling! Earthling!
I've been waiting for this day since back in '67
From the vision that I had when they raised us up to heaven
To the ship that fills the sky full of whole new ways of being
In that vision that we had I believed, you believed,
We believed what we were seeing.
So sign me up and tell me where to wait for their arrival
I guess I should qualify as a tribute to survival
Cos I've been hanging on for this despite defeats and sorrow
A way to give some peace a chance, give it some, give it some
Love is all you need so see you there tomorrow.
I know we're gonna be there when the Mother Ship comes in
And we won't be paying no fare, when the Mother Ship comes in
We're gonna open that door and step outside,
Beam on up and then we'll ride!
We'll all get high and never die
When the Mother Ship comes in.
There's no need to rush
or hurry when the Mother Ship comes in.
There's an end to strife and worry when the Mother Ship comes in.
There's room for all in tens and twelves
We'll step on board and be our a-leen selves
We'll all get high and never die
When the Mother Ship comes in.
We won't need no map or
bearing when the Mother Ship comes in
Cos now we're all past caring when the Mother Ship comes in
Wherever we are it'll do just fine
We'll be right in place and right on time
We'll all get high and never die
When the Mother Ship comes in.
There's a rupture in my
rapture
I'm still on the ground
Jesus said he'd take me up on high
My faith is fundamental
And my beliefs are sound
So why are all them freaks up in the sky?
I saw them all get taken up
The deviant and weird
Beamed on up to join the angel band
And though we sang and prayed
And though we wept and cheered
They left us with our bibles in our hands.
Now you can shout it out
You can stand or kneel
Clap your hands
Do what you feel
But listen up brother , cos here's the deal
There ain't no , No No No!
Ain't no, No No No!
There ain't no religion when you're gone
You can talk real loud
Or be meek and mild
Act old and wise
Or be like a child
But the Master Plan is really wild
Cos there ain't no , No No No!
Ain't no, No No No!
There ain't no religion when you're gone
What is religion?
Who is it for?
Is it good for you?
Or does it lead to war?
Here's an answer to even the score
Ain't no religion when you're gone, gone, gone!
Live in a house
Or live in a field
You can com-pro-mise
Or refuse to yield
Freedom! Now that the truth is revealed
That there ain't no , No No No!
Ain't no, No No No!
There ain't no religion when you're gone
Jesus he says, No Religion!
Mohamed he says, No Religion!
The Buddha he says, No Religion!
Guru Nanak he says, No Religion!
Krishna he says, No Religion!
Zoroaster he says, No Religion!
Moses he says, No Religion!
Ezekiel he says, No Religion!
Confucius he says, No Religion!
No religion when you're gone.