Whole Of The Moon

I wish i was a fisherman
Tumblin' on the seas
Far away from dry land
And its bitter memories
Casting out my sweet line
With abandonment and love
No ceiling bearin' down on me
'cept the starry sky above
With light in my head
You in my arms
Woohoo!

I wish i was the brakeman
On a hurtlin' fevered train
Crashing a-headlong into the heartland
Like a cannon in the rain
With the beating of the sleepers
And the burnin' of the coal
Counting the towns flashing by
In a night that's full of soul
With light in my head
You in my arms
Woohoo!

Well i know i will be loosened
From bonds that hold me fast
That the chains all hung around me
Will fall away at last
And on that fine and fateful day
I will take me in my hands
I will ride on the train
I will be the fisherman
With light in my head
You in my arms

We're sailing on a strange boat
Heading for a strange shore
We're sailing on a strange boat
Heading for a strange shore
Carrying the strangest cargo
That was ever hauled aboard

We're sailing on a strange sea
Blown by a strange wind
We're sailing on a strange sea
Blown by a strange wind
Carrying the strangest crew
That ever sinned

We're riding in a strange car
We're followin' a strange star
We're climbing on the strangest ladder
That was ever there to climb

We're living in a strange time
Working for a strange goal
We're living in a strange time
Working for a strange goal
We're turning flesh and body
Into soul

There's a black wind blowing
A typhoon on the rise
Pummeling rain
Murderous skies!
I'm gonna take my books
I'm gonna wear my coat
I'm gonna find my scarf
And wrap it around my throat
And you can
Come with me
Through the driving snow
We're gonna ride on up to
Medicine bow

Well i spent too long
Just stuck on the shore
There's a man in my head
But he isn't me anymore
I'm gonna find me a ship
Stowaway on a boat
I'm gonna burn all the words
And letters and cards that i ever wrote
And you can
Sail with me
Where the current flows
We're gonna move on up to
Medicine bow

I'm gonna change my colours
Cancel my things
Stop my squawking
Grow some wings!

Well i will not sleep
And i will not rest
I will put my soul
And my will to the test
I'm gonna tug at my tether
I'm gonna tear at my lead
I'm gonna test my knowledge
In the field of deeds
And you can
Run with me
Fast as we can go
Over the hill to
Medicine bow

Now he's brought down the rain
And the indian summer is through
(in the morning you'll be following your trail again
Fair play to you
/
You'll be leaving, pretty darling, in the morning-time
If i know you)
You ain't calling me to join you
And i'm spoken for anyway
(but i will cry when ye go away
I will cry when ye go away
/
But you'll be killing my heart when ye go away
You'll be killing my heart when ye go away)

(your beauty is familiar
And your voice is like a key
/
Your beauty is a legend
And your voice is like a melody)
(that opens up my soul
/
That plays upon my soul)
And torches up a fire inside of me
(your coat is made of magic
And around your table angels play
/
Your shoes are made of magic
And your footstep is the break of day
/
I must have known you in another life
In another age)
I will cry when ye go away
I will cry when ye go away

(river road reel)

Somebody/el torro/mike rogers left their whisky
And the night is very young
I've got some/much to say and more to tell
And the words will soon be spilling from my tongue
I will rave and i will ramble
I'll do everything but make you stay
Then i will cry when ye go away
I will cry when ye go away

(river road reel)

When ye go away...
When ye go away...

Come with me
On a journey beneath the skin
Come with me
On a journey under the skin
We will look together
For the pan within

Close your eyes
Breathe slow we'll begin
Close your eyes
Breathe slow and we will begin
To look together
For the pan within

Swing your hips
Loose your head, and let it spin
Swing your hips
Loose you head, and let it spin
And we will look together
For the pan within

Close your eyes
Breathe slow and we will begin
Close your eyes
Breathe slow and we will begin
To look together
For the pan within

Put your face in my window
Breathe a night full of treasures
The wind is delicious
Sweet and wild with the promise of pleasure
The stars are alive
And nights like these
Were born to be
Sanctified by you and me
Lovers, thieves, fools and pretenders
And all we gotta do is surrender

Come with me
On a journey under the skin
Come with me
On a journey under the skin
And we will look together
For the pan within
When to be with you
Is not a sin
When to be with you, oh just to be with you
Is not a sin
We will look together
For the pan within

I dreamed myself from the sultry plains
To the old green square back in old maybole
Rode the wind up to stornaway
Paused at the peak, pacified my soul
Caught the bus at the faery fort
Made it to the mansion on the boyne
See i come around to the ancient ways
I took a tip from the buddha boy

I just found god
I just found god
I just found god where he always was

We came down from the hill of dreams
Bernadette, mother earth and you and me
Through carraroe, down the wildwood side
Blinding out eyes in the shallow seas
Drank fire with the king of the blues,
Plugged in to the medicine way
Took a long last look at crazy horse
Push now for a golden age

I just found god
I just found god
I just found god where he always was

I found myself on the roof of the world
Just waiting for to get my wings
Strange angel in the changing light
Said "brother, you forgot something!"
My heart beat from the inside out
So lucky just to be alive!
Can you tell what i'm talking about?
Any day now the sun's gonna rise

I just found god
I just found god
I just found god where he always was
I just found god where he always was


There is a green hill far away
I'm going back there one fine day

When i left my home and my family
My mother said to me
"son, it's not how many germans you kill that counts
It's how many people you set free"

So i packed my bags
Brushed my cap
Walked out into the world
Seventeen years old
Never kissed a girl

Took the train to voronezh
That was as far as it would go
Changed my sacks for a uniform
Bit my lip against the snow
I prayed for mother russia
In the summer of '43
And as we drove the germans back
I really believed
That god was listening to me

We howled into berlin
Tore the smoking buildings down
Raised the red flag high
Burnt the reichstag brown
I saw my first american
And he looked a lot like me
He had the same kinda farmer's face
Said he'd come from some place called hazzard, tennessee

Then the war was over
My discharge papers came
Me and twenty hundred others
Went to stettiner for the train
Kiev! said the commissar
From there your own way home
But i never got to kiev
We never came by home
Train went north to the taiga
We were stripped and marched in file
Up the great siberian road
For miles and miles and miles and miles
Dressed in stripes and tatters
In a gulag left to die
All because comrade stalin was scared that
We'd become too westernized!

Used to love my country
Used to be so young
Used to believe that life was
The best song ever sung
I would have died for my country
In 1945
But now only one thing remains
But now only one thing remains
But now only one thing remains
But now only one thing remains
The brute will to survive!

Cry baby boy, not tears of joy
The one you held is no longer your toy
She's got her new boots and her make up on
You can call her your friend
But not your lover again
She's made it clear as air that this affair is at an end
So what are you doing holding on?

Don't you see she's
Rare, precious and she's gone
She's rare, precious and she's gone

She was soft in your hands, now she's shattered your plans
I'm sympathetic but you've got to understand
You tried to squeeze her somewhere
She just don't belong
She was being sincere when she breathed in your ear
As long as there were stars in the night sky she'd be near
Even angels get it wrong!

Won't you see she's
Rare, precious and she's gone
She's rare, precious and she's gone

It's a subtle trap
Seeding guilt in her mind
But she ain't taking your crap
This time
Boy you're out on a line...

She's a queen among women, a child among queens
The finest thing that your lovesick eyes have ever seen
She's a rose without a thorn
She's a peach, she's a prize
A gift in disguise
She's graceful and colourful and when she grows
She'll be wise
But most of all my friend, she's gone
Gone, gone gone!

She's rare, precious and she's gone
Rare, precious and she's gone
Yes, she's rare, precious and she's gone
She's rare, precious and she's gone
Gone, gone gone...