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North Meadow

The breeze makes the trees wave and chant
Goes better for willow trees through
When the red eyed sun comes yawning
Wakes the meadow makes the morning
There starts another day  

Nature lends her shuttle bounty
Seasoning this rustic county
Cares are all rolled away  

The breeze makes the trees wave and chant
Goes better for willow trees through
One small meadow for tall willows
Murmur as the autumn wind blows
Summer was everything

Hanging by the minnow river
Winter makes the willow shiver
Suddenly there is spring

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Newly-weds
Newly-weds playing at husbands and wives
Don't they know it's their lives they are gambling
They dive in the deep end of life
With a week-end of nights just what i've always wanted

But on the other hand
She's got a ring
Love conquers everything
Giving and taking a living and making it work

He worries all day about fools at his door
It's for sure,there's no law against trying

But on the other hand
She's got a ring
Love conquers everything
Giving and taking a living and making it work

Newly-weds playing at husbands and wives
Don't they know it's their lives they are gambling

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One in a million
He runs a little shop with a room at the top
And a mortgage all around it
His little lady will be fifty-three on monday
And his only son's in the Navy

But he doesn't shout abut it
No, he doesn't shout about it
He's a one in a million
He's a one in a million

He runs a little shop with a room at the top
The advertisements surround it
He's very content with the things at the moment
Except the yellow line by the pavement

He's lucky and happy
Just because the battle's not for him to fight
He doesn't have a cause
Perhaps he's wrong
Perhaps he's right

He runs a little shop with a room at the top
And he parks his car behind it
He's insured for a couple of thousand
And he's almost due for a pension

But he doesn't shout abut it
No, he doesn't shout about it

He's a one in a million
He's a one in a million

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Call tomorrow
Call tomorrow
Call tomorrow
Not today

Judy the vicar's daughter
Is go'na have a baby
Maybe, if it's true what people say
She's gone astray
And fallen by the wayside
I lied

Sunday-minded people in the parish
Say a prayer Judy isn't there

Judy the vicar's daughter
Didn't like my sense of humor
Rumor, now the fading smile has gone
To right the wrong
I'll never be the same me
Shame me

Call tomorrow
Not today

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Digging my lawn
Early one Sunday, well anyway, early for me
As I slid from my double bed, what could I see

Standing outside as the night turned to dawn
There was a man who I didn't know digging my lawn

Was it her husband, I pondered, or was he a a crook
Why was he taking car numbers down in a book

I started to ring and rung 99
"Nein(9), you must not" she said
She was half German
Half out of bed
Which half was which doesn't have to be said
Turning her head
Her face was red

"He is my husband" she whisperd, I started to sweat
Just my luck, when I'd only done miss for a bet

Standing outside as the night turned to dawn
There was a man who I didn't know digging my lawn

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Little children
The innocence of little boys
The taste of love they don't enjoy
But when they look and they see
To where their loving will be
Live love and then they'll learn to play

The innocence of little girls
Their life, a world of long tied curls
But when they look and they see
To where their loving will be
Live love and then they'll learn to play

Taste of love with which they toy
Taste of life which never cloy
Children will learn and enjoy

Where in this world would they find
Truth and peace of mind
Except at down shire hill
And will they see liberty
Or feel love and charity
Not at down shire hill

Taste of love with which they toy
Taste of life which never cloy
Children will learn and enjoy

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The cruster
You're even in doubt about this world
With eyes cast in deep frown
Wheels of turbulence abound after sweet innocence
But no, not sweet innocence
Just a bright color

A color so purposefully painted
Yet will not cover the stain
Nor stop the pounding rain
There is no shelter

There is no shelter for eyes that see
Troubled stumbling to be
But condemned

For to realize and suffer
That is the penalty for you and me
No sound can open their eyes
Nor vision bring reality
To gloom and darkness

But don't sit at ease
Though the day is cold
The shearing gap may weld
And once again while dew is wet
A bright color will cover the paint
Till silence is set
And then once again you can hear hell's heat

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Thursday morning
Thursday morning ends another dream
Yesterday goes away
Leaving only half a memory
Yesterday goes away

Thursday morning and the sun is early
Thursday morning and the trees are singing
Thursday morning's here

Thursday morning, seven days ago
Like today, every way
Windows on the dawn were very new
Like today, every way

Thursday morning has no sense of time
Seventeen, ever green
Hoping every day will always rhyme
Seventeen, ever green

Thursday morning and the sun is early
Thursday morning and the trees are singing
Thursday morning's here

Thursday morning ends another dream
Seventeen, ever green
Leaving only half a memory
Yesterday goes away

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How do they know
When you stop and ask which way do we go
And they all say follow me
How do they know

So you follow one and stumble and fall
And a voice says, ah who 's he
How do they know
How do they know

Now you're beginning to realize
The first will not be the last
Ask them please not to so go fast
'Cause the dust is sucking your eyes
Dust is sucking your eyes

Tear yourself away and sit for a while
And the band goes marching on
How do they know
How do they know

Now you're beginning to realize
The first will not be the last
Ask them please not to so go fast
'Cause the dust is sucking your eyes
Dust is sucking your eyes

When you stop and ask which way do we go
And they all say follow me
How do they know

So you follow one and stumble and fall
And the voice says, ah who 's he
How do they know
How do they know

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Elephant song
(この曲に関しては不確かな推定です)
Very, very nice said a man in the crowd
As the elephant jumped through a hoop
Who asked you the elephant cried
As he stooped and took a bow
Well it's not everyday you see something like that
And I thought it was jolly good
How do you know
The elephant said
You're a man and a fat one at that

Very, very nice said a man in the crowd
When the golden voice appeared
She was gold alright but then she is rust
Such a shame about her beard
How dare you say things like that it said
You ought to be ashamed
He was
But I thought your voice was pretty good
And the beard is good for a goat

Very, very nice said the same man in the crowd
Whom an elefant said as fat
He was all nyet, someone said with words
And I looked around with eyes
Hello,it's the peanut bride gooseing the aisle
Her leather back towards the orchestra
What you'd want, love
She said to a man
A four penny please and a six penny back

Very, very nice said a man in the crowd
As I smelt his peanut teeth
Would you like some? I said, yes please
We all had one tooth each
By now, of course, the second half had started
Let all warm our hands said around
My feet aren't cold as in sheep skin gloves
Ah but we're burning on the artist

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The sun is shining
The sun is shining but it's raining in my heart
So please come back dear
And we'll make a brand new start

Because of you the flowers will not bloom
Because of you the clouds obscure the moon
The day will come I hope it's very soon
The day that brings the sun light into June

The sun is shining but it's raining in my heart
So please come back dear
And we'll make a brand new start

I want to hear your voice so tenderly
The voice that says you'll love no one but me
My love is stronger than the raging sea
So tell me now you'll hear this urgent plea

The sun is shining but it's raining in my heart
So please come back dear
And we'll make a brand new start

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Suit No.1

Erudite eyes
You whisper by with your mind in your eyes
Seeing nothing that's there but the bones on the bed
Dying thoughts that would stare in your eyes

I know nice men who have nothing to say
Except "What a nice day May I say that today's a nice day
'Cause I have nothing to say"

But the peace of mind is peace of mind
And eyes a gift to all
But the things I see I see with mind
And don't observe with eyes

Erudite eyes always bore me to cry
And the raining that flows in the pure salty drain
On the peace which I hold in my mind

But the peace of mind is peace of mind
And eyes a gift to all
But the things I see I see with mind
And don't observe with eyes

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She is Loaded(bonus track)
She's got so much of that decimal stuff
I'll fall in love if I try hard enough

Her kisses never get better
They just get wetter and wetter
I curse the day that I met her
But she is loaded

She says that I'm daft and I know
I threw her food on the lino
She hit me, felt like a rhino
But she is loaded

There was a time when she did ray me content
Oh, she used to keep it cool
She used to give me anything I wanted
'Til she won a football pool
Now she gives me hell

I'll sue her, try to make this stick
The fact that she is sadistic
My nose was straight 'til she kissed it
But she is loaded

There was a time when she did ray me content
Oh, she used to keep it cool
She used to give me anything I wanted
'Til she won a football pool
Now she gives me Hell

Her kisses never get better
They just get wetter and wetter
I curse the day that I met her
But she is loaded

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Passages Of Time (the brondesbury tapes)
I can see into passages of time
I can see through the facade of our time
Can I, can I see?
Can I, can I see?

I will peer into corridors in time
In the passages of mind
In the passages of mind

Seek, seek with me
Pacing slowly in your life with me
Then we will find
Honesty and purity of mind

We can see into passages of mind
We can see into history of mind
I can, I can see
I can, I can see

We can fly into passages of mind
We can fly into passages of mind

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Murder (the brondesbury tapes)
Murder, murder, murder, murder
Murder, murder, murder, murder

Pass another pin
Fasten down the coffin lid
Here lies Fergin Hudd
Someone shot him in cold blood
Here lies Fergin Hudd

He was blinder than a bat
He who killed him must know that
See his white stick red with blood
Who would murder Fergin Hudd?

Murder, murder, murder, murder
Murder, murder, murder, murder


Last Update 2015.10.4 by K.T

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