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I don't like this song, or the way it was sung. But it does have good words.

You talk like Marlene Dietrich

And you dance like Zizi Jeanmaire

Your clothes are all made by Balmain

And there's diamonds and pearls in your hair, yes there are

You live in a fancy apartment

Off the Boulevard Saint-Michel

Where you keep your Rolling Stones records

And a friend of Sacha Distel, yes you do

But where do you go to my lovely

When you're alone in your bed

Tell me the thoughts that surround you

I want to look inside your head, yes I do

I've seen all your qualifications

You got from the Sorbonne

And the painting you stole from Picasso

Your loveliness goes on and on, yes it does

When you go on your summer vacation

You go to Juan-les-Pins

With your carefully designed topless swimsuit

You get an even suntan on your back and on your legs

And when the snow falls you're found in Saint Moritz

With the others of the jet-set

And you sip your Napoleon brandy

But you never get your lips wet, no you don't

But where do you go to my lovely

When you're alone in your bed

Won't you tell me the thoughts that surround you

I want to look inside your head, yes I do

Your name, it is heard in high places

You know the Aga Khan

He sent you a racehorse for Christmas

And you keep it just for fun, for a laugh, a-ha-ha-ha

They say that when you get married

It'll be to a millionaire

But they don't realize where you came from

And I wonder if they really care, or give a damn

Where do you go to my lovely

When you're alone in your bed

Tell me the thoughts that surround you

I want to look inside your head, yes I do

I remember the back streets of Naples

Two children begging in rags

Both touched with a burning ambition

To shake off their lowly-born tags, so they try

So look into my face Marie-Claire

And remember just who you are

Then go and forget me forever

But I know you still bear the scar, deep inside, yes you do

I know where you go to my lovely

When you're alone in your bed

I know the thoughts that surround you

'Cause I can look inside your head

(na na-na-na na na-na-na na-na na na na na)

(na na-na-na na na-na-na na-na na na na na)

The last two lines are gems!

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Come down off your throne and leave your body alone - somebody must change

You are the reason Ive been waiting so long - somebody holds the key

Well, Im near the end and I just aint got the time

And Im wasted and I cant find my way home

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Come down off your throne and leave your body alone - somebody must change

You are the reason Ive been waiting so long - somebody holds the key

Well, Im near the end and I just aint got the time

And Im wasted and I cant find my way home

This was often cited by the radio announcers at Radio Free Madison as the theme song of the student body at the University of Wisconsin in 1974. "Wasted and can't find my way home" described a great many of the 45,000 students.

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When I look up to the skies

I see your eyes a funny kind of yellow

I rush home to bed I soak my head

I see your face underneath my pillow

I wake next morning, tired, still yawning

See your face come peeping through my window

Pictures of matchstick men and you

Mirages of matchstick men and you

All I ever see is them and you

Windows echo your reflection

When I look in their direction now

When will this haunting stop?

Your face it just wont leave me alone

Pictures of matchstick men and you

Mirages of matchstick men and you

All I ever see is them and you

Youre in the sky and with the sky

You make men cry, you lie

Youre in the sky and with the sky

You make men cry, you lie

Pictures of matchstick men and

Pictures of matchstick men and you

Pictures of matchstick men ....

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Saint Stephen with a rose, in and out of the garden he goes,

Country garden in the wind and the rain,

Wherever he goes the people all complain.

Stephen prospered in his time, well he may and he may decline.

Did it matter, does it now? Stephen would answer if he only knew how.

Wishing well with a golden bell, bucket hanging clear to hell,

Hell halfway twixt now and then,

Stephen fill it up and lower down and lower down again.

Lady finger, dipped in moonlight, writing "What for?" across the morning sky.

Sunlight splatters, dawn with answer, darkness shrugs and bids the day goodbye.

Speeding arrow, sharp and narrow,

What a lot of fleeting matters you have spurned.

Several seasons with their treasons,

Wrap the babe in scarlet colors, call it your own.

Did he doubt or did he try? Answers aplenty in the bye and bye,

Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills,

One man gathers what another man spills.

Saint Stephen will remain, all he's lost he shall regain,

Seashore washed by the suds and foam,

Been here so long, he's got to calling it home.

Fortune comes a crawlin', calliope woman, spinnin' that curious sense of your own.

Can you answer? Yes I can. But what would be the answer to the answer man?

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This following program is dedicated to the city and people of

San Francisco, who may not know it but they are beautiful and so

Is their city this is a very personal song, so if the viewer

Cannot understand it particularly those of you who are European

Residents save up all your bread and fly trans love airways to

San Francisco U.S.A., then maybe you'll understand the song, it

Will be worth it, if not for the sake of this song but for the

Sake of your own peace of mind.

Strobe lights beam create dreams

Walls move minds to do

On a warm San Francisco night

Old child young child feel alright

On a warm San Francisco night

Angels sing leather win

Jeans of blue Harley Davisons too

On a warm San Francisco night

Old angels young angels feel alright

On a warm San Francisco night.

I wasn't born there perhaps I'll die there

There's no place left to go, San Francisco.

Cop's face is filled with hate

Heavens above he's on a street called love

When will they even learn

Old cop young cop feel alright

On a warm San Francisco night

The children are cool

They don't raise fools

It's an american dream

Includes indians too.

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Little by little the night turns around.

Counting the leaves which tremble at dawn.

Lotuses lean on each other in yearning.

Under the eaves the swallow is resting.

Set the controls for the heart of the sun.

Over the mountain watching the watcher.

Breaking the darkness

Waking the grapevine.

One inch of love is one inch of shadow

Love is the shadow that ripens the wine.

Set the controls for the heart of the sun.

The heart of the sun, the heart of the sun.

Witness the man who raves at the wall

Making the shape of his questions to Heaven.

Whether the sun will fall in the evening

Will he remember the lesson of giving?

Set the controls for the heart of the sun.

The heart of the sun, the heart of the sun.

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I notice "Hippie" lyrics are apparently defined as the same as "stoner" lyrics...

Not that I'm one to argue, mind you. :)

Yep, they kinda go together.

"Almost, cut my hair...."

Some are - some aren't. "Where do you go to, my lovely" isn't - it's straightforward satire. So are "Taxman" and "Alice's restaurant".

The stoned ones don't get through to me :)

MG

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I notice "Hippie" lyrics are apparently defined as the same as "stoner" lyrics...

Not that I'm one to argue, mind you. :)

Yep, they kinda go together.

"Almost, cut my hair...."

Some are - some aren't. "Where do you go to, my lovely" isn't - it's straightforward satire. So are "Taxman" and "Alice's restaurant".

The stoned ones don't get through to me :)

MG

I think that those of us posting the stoned ones are doing it with an air of bemusement. I know that I am.

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I notice "Hippie" lyrics are apparently defined as the same as "stoner" lyrics...

Not that I'm one to argue, mind you. :)

Yep, they kinda go together.

"Almost, cut my hair...."

Some are - some aren't. "Where do you go to, my lovely" isn't - it's straightforward satire. So are "Taxman" and "Alice's restaurant".

The stoned ones don't get through to me :)

MG

I think that those of us posting the stoned ones are doing it with an air of bemusement. I know that I am.

With me it's just amusement. :)

"Taxman" a 'hippie' song? I never saw it that way, though it's certainly satire. But you don't have to be a hippie to write satire.

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This is the first verse

The first verse

The first

First verse

I should have known that we could count on Bev for some Robert Wyatt!

Here's my vote:

Come on all of you big strong men

Uncle Sam needs your help again

he's got himself in a terrible jam

way down yonder in Viet Nam so

put down your books and pick up a gun we're

gonna have a whole lotta fun

  • (CHORUS)
    And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for
    don't ask me I don't give a damn, next stop is Viet Nam
    And it's five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates
    ain't no time to wonder why, whoopee we're all gonna die

Come on generals, let's move fast

your big chance has come at last

now you can go out and get those reds

cos the only good commie is the one that's dead and

you know that peace can only be won when we've

blown 'em all to kingdom come

Come on wall street don't be slow

why man this war is a go-go

there's plenty good money to be made by

supplying the army with the tools of its trade

let's hope and pray that if they drop the bomb,

they drop it on the Viet Cong

Come on mothers throughout the land

pack your boys off to Viet Nam

come on fathers don't hesitate

send your sons off before it's too late

and you can be the first ones on your block

to have your boy come home in a box

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Good sense, innocence, cripplin' mankind

Dead kings, many things I can't define

Occasions, persuasions clutter your mind

Incense and peppermints, the color of time.

Who cares what games we choose?

Little to win, but nothing to lose.

I remember seeing Incense and Peppermints as a Rate-a-Record on American Bandstand!

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I notice "Hippie" lyrics are apparently defined as the same as "stoner" lyrics...

Not that I'm one to argue, mind you. :)

Yep, they kinda go together.

"Almost, cut my hair...."

Some are - some aren't. "Where do you go to, my lovely" isn't - it's straightforward satire. So are "Taxman" and "Alice's restaurant".

The stoned ones don't get through to me :)

MG

I think that those of us posting the stoned ones are doing it with an air of bemusement. I know that I am.

With me it's just amusement. :)

"Taxman" a 'hippie' song? I never saw it that way, though it's certainly satire. But you don't have to be a hippie to write satire.

Indeed! But, in that period, to satirise what we now call "suits" is definitely hippie stuff.

MG

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This is the first verse

The first verse

The first

First verse

I should have known that we could count on Bev for some Robert Wyatt!

Here's my vote:

Come on all of you big strong men

Uncle Sam needs your help again

he's got himself in a terrible jam

way down yonder in Viet Nam so

put down your books and pick up a gun we're

gonna have a whole lotta fun

  • (CHORUS)
    And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for
    don't ask me I don't give a damn, next stop is Viet Nam
    And it's five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates
    ain't no time to wonder why, whoopee we're all gonna die

Come on generals, let's move fast

your big chance has come at last

now you can go out and get those reds

cos the only good commie is the one that's dead and

you know that peace can only be won when we've

blown 'em all to kingdom come

Come on wall street don't be slow

why man this war is a go-go

there's plenty good money to be made by

supplying the army with the tools of its trade

let's hope and pray that if they drop the bomb,

they drop it on the Viet Cong

Come on mothers throughout the land

pack your boys off to Viet Nam

come on fathers don't hesitate

send your sons off before it's too late

and you can be the first ones on your block

to have your boy come home in a box

I've seen parts of that used as a source on a history exam paper! I use the clip from Woodstock when doing the anti-war movement...with a prior apology for the fish (!) cheer!

Here's some more Wyatt. I could never make out all the words - they appear to be much naughtier than I thought!

On a dilemma between what I need and what I just want

Between your thighs I feel a sensation

How long can I resist the temptation ?

I've got my bird, you've got your man

So who else do we need, really ?

Now I'm here, I may as well put my other hand in yours

While we decide how far to go and if we've got time to do it now

And if it's half as good for you as it is for me

Then you won't mind if we lie down for a while, just for a while

Till all the thing I want is need

Till all the thing I want is need

I want you more than ever now

We're on the floor, and you want more, and I feel almost sure

That cause now we've agreed, that we got what we need

Then all the thing us needs is wanting

I realized when I saw you last

We've been together now and then

From time to time - just here and there

Now I know how it feels from my hair to my heels

To have you on the horns of my dilemma

- Oh ! Wait a minute ! -

Over - Up - Over - Up - ... Down

Down - Over - Up - Over - ... Up

Living can be lovely, here in New York State

Ah, but I wish that I were home

And I wish I were home again - back home again, home again

There are places and people that I'm so glad to have seen

Ah, but I miss the trees, and I wish that I were home again

Back home again

The sun shines here all summer

Its nice cause you can get quite brown

Ah, but I miss the rain - ticky tacky ticky

And I wish that I were home again - home again, home again...

Living is easy here in New York State

Ah, but I wish that I were home again

Just before we go on to the next part of our song

Let's all make sure we've got the time

Music-making still performs the normal functions -

background noise for people scheming, seducing, revolting and teaching

That's all right by me, don't think that I'm complaining

After all, it's only leisure time, isn't it ?

Now I love your eyes - see how the time flies

She's learning to hate, but it's just too late for me

It was the same with her love

It just wasn't enough for me

But before this feeling dies

Remember how distance can tell lies !

You can almost see her eyes, is it me she despises or you ?

You're awfully nice to me and I'm sure you can see what her game is

She sees you in her place, just as if it's a race

And you're winning, and you're winning

She just can't undertsand that for me everything's just beginning

Until I get more homesick

So before this feeling dies, remember how distance tells us lies.

Singing a song in the morning

Singing it again at night

Don't really know what I'm singing about

But it makes me feel all right

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I looked in the sky

Where an elephant's eye

Was looking at me

From a bubblegum tree

And all that I knew was

The hole in my shoe that

Was letting in water (letting in water)

I walked through a field

That just wasnt real

With 100 tin soldiers

Would shoot at my shoulder

And all that I knew was

The hole in my shoe which

Was letting in water (letting in water)

(I climbed on the back of a giant albatross

Which flew through a crack in the cloud

To a place where happiness reigned all year round

And music played ever so loudly)

I started to fall

And suddenly woke

And the dew on the grass

Had stuck to my coat

And all that I knew was

The hole in my shoe which

Was letting in water (letting in water)

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Leave your cares behind come with us and find

The pleasures of a journey to the center of the mind

Come along if you care

Come along if you dare

Take a ride to the land inside of your mind

Beyond the seas of thought beyond the realm of what

Across the streams of hopes and dreams where things are really not

Come along if you care...

But please realise you'll probably be surprised

For it's the land unknown to man

Where fantasy is fact

So if you can, please understand

You might not come back

Come along if you care

Come along if you dare

Take a ride to the land inside and you'll see

How happy life could be if all of mankind

Would take the time to journey to the center of the mind

Would take the time to journey to the center of the mind

Center of the mind

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I've got a bike

You can ride it if you like

It's got a basket

A bell that rings

And things to make it look good

I'd give it to you if I could

But I borrowed it

You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world

I'll give you anything

Everything if you want things

I've got a cloak

It's a bit of a joke

There's a tear up the front

It's red and black

I've had it for months

If you think it could look good

Then I guess it should

You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world

I'll give you anything

Everything if you want things

I know a mouse

And he hasn't got a house

I don't know why

I call him Gerald

He's getting rather old

But he's a good mouse

You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world

I'll give you anything

Everything if you want things

I've got a clan of gingerbread men

Here a man

There a man

Lots of gingerbread men

Take a couple if you wish

They're on the dish

You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world

I'll give you anything

Everything if you want things

I know a room full of musical tunes

Some rhyme

Some ching

Most of them are clockwork

Let's go into the other room and make them work

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Guinnevere had green eyes

Like yours, mi'lady like yours

When she'd walk down

Through the garden

In the morning after it rained

Peacocks wandered aimlessly

Underneath an orange tree

Why can't she see me?

Guinnevere

Drew pentagrams

Like yours, mi'lady like yours

Late at night

When she thought

that no one was watching at all

She shall be free

As she turns her gaze

Down the slope

to the harbor where I lay

Anchored for a day

Guinnevere

Had golden hair

Like yours, mi'lady like yours

Streaming out when we'd ride

Through the warm wind down by the bay

Yesterday

Seagulls circle endlessly

I sing in silent harmony

We shall be free

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sorry, but this is the best song ever written:

happy mothers day

happy mothers day

I am your son

I am a runaway

livin' on the East Side

always gettin' stoned -

living on the East Side

glad I'm not home -

happy mothers day

happy mothers day

I am your son

I am a runaway

call me a bastard

call me a bitch

you are made of plastic

you are filthy rich

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