Well, I think I leapfrogged you the other day, fair enough…
This is where heroes and cowards part ways
Light the fire, feast
Chase the ghosts, give in
Take the road less traveled by
Leave the city of fools
Turn every poet loose
We’ve got to find the keys
We’ve got to find the keys
To open up the vaults
The nights have been growing darker
So much darker now than sin
We’ll open the vaults of heaven
And the answers are there, within.
In my head the voice is waiting, waiting for me to set it free
I locked it inside my imagination
But I’m the one who’s got the combination
Some people didn’t like what the voice did say
So I took the voice and I locked it away
I got the key, I got the key
Voices, I hear voices
Voices, I hear voices
I hear the sons of the city and dispossessed
Get down, get undressed
Get ready for you and me,
We got the kingdom, we got the key
We got the empire, now as then,
We don’t doubt, we don’t take direction,
Lucretia, my reflection, dance the ghost with me
And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face, at first just ghostly,
Turned a whiter shade of pale
There is no political solution
To our troubled evolution
Have no faith in constitution
There is no bloody revolution
We are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world
[I could have gone in two completely different directions, depending on which stanza to focus on. Schrodinger’s Lyric…went with the political side…]
God save the Queen
The fascist regime,
They made you a moron
A potential H-bomb
God save the Queen
She ain’t no human being
And there is no future
And England’s dreaming
You were born with it
And now you got it
And oooh you flaunt it
And you don’t care
Cause nothin’s gonna bring you down, no
But she’s not that kind of girl
I’m tellin’ all the world
She was born the Queen of the Broken Hearts
I’m too sexy for my shirt
Too sexy for my shirt
So sexy it hurts
If you think I’m sexy
And you want my body,
Come on, sugar, let me know.
Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch
You know that I love you
I can’t help myself
I love you and nobody else
Shoo fly, don’t bother me
I belong to somebody
Fly my ravens, fly ahead
Over the mountains and endless sky
Fly my ravens, fly ahead
Over the mountains over my head
Let the wind carry you up high
Free my heart to feel again
Free my mind to understand
To run unfettered
Pull the blinders from my eyes
Let me see the endless skies
And drown here where I stand
In the beauty of the land
And all my life
It lay inside
For all my life
There are places I remember all my life
Though some have changed
Some forever, not for better
Some have gone and some remain
And a fading memory
Can’t cloud the pain
When the voice is gone, the words still remain
And the years that fall away
Can’t stop the rains
When illusion’s gone, the truth still remains
The electric lash of trees in the studio
Fills my head with light
Only the voice of the girl on the radio
Falling from a height
And I turn to leave as if in a cameo
It doesn’t feel quite right
Only one thing you ever really know
If it’s day or night
Comin’ to you live like I do every night
From the heart of your radio.
I play a little sad, and I play a lotta glad.
And a few ol’ cheatin’ songs.
Here’s hopin’ everybody out in radio land
Found a love just as true as mine
Good night angel, sleep tight darlin’
Close your pretty brown eyes.
When the show is over,
Your radio lover
Will be home by your side.
When I was young
I’d listen to the radio
Waitin’ for my favorite songs
When they played I’d sing along
It made me smile
Those were such happy times
And not so long ago
How I wondered where they’d gone
But they’re back again
Just like a long lost friend
All the songs I loved so well
Every sha-la-la-la
Every wo-o-wo-o
Still shines
I’d sit alone and watch your light
My only friend through teenage nights
And everything I had to know
I heard it on my radio
Radio.