Essential Laura Nyro

winter
turn on the night
turn on your love light
I'm a non-believer
but I believe
in your smile
well I'm gonna talk to you baby
on brandy-wine
mars in the stars
mars is arisin
mars in the stars mars is arisin
and I feel like I'm way in a deep dream baby
feel like I'm way in a deep dream
yes
lovers
light in the inn
what are they thinking?
patterns falling
down the sky
and the fire
and the kiss
of the country night
your tender strong freaky love
strangers and mountains
and blurred in a snow flight
mars in the stars
mars is arisin
the world's insane
the paper's gone mad
but our love is a peace vibe
yes

let's go down by the grapevine
drink my daddy's wine
get happy
down by the grapevine
drink my daddy's wine
get happy
happy
oh sweet blindness
a little magic
a little kindness
oh sweet blindness
all over me
four leaves on a clover
I'm just a bit of a shade hung over
come on baby do a slow float
you're a good lookin'
and aint that sweet eyed blindness good to me
down by the grapevine
drink my daddy's wine
good mornin'
down by the grapevine
drink my daddy's wine
good mornin
mornin'
oh sweet blindness
a little magic
a little kindness
oh sweet blindness
all over me
please don't tell my mother
I'm a saloon and a moonshine lover
come on baby do a slow float
you're a good lookin' riverboat
and ain't that sweet eyed blindness good to me
(don't ask me cuz I)
ain't gonna tell you what I've been drinkin'
ain't gonna tell you what I've been drinkin'
ain't gonna tell you what I've been drinkin'
wine
of wonder
wonder
(by the way)
sweet blindness
a little magic
a little kindness
oh sweet blindness
all over me
don't let daddy hear it
he don't believe in the gin mill spirit
come on baby do a slow float
you a good lookin' riverboat
and ain't that sweet eyed blindness good to me
good to me
now ain't that sweet eyed blindness good to me

Come on, people, come on, children
Come on down to the glory river.
Gonna wash you up, and wash you down,
Gonna lay the devil down, gonna lay that devil down.
I got fury in my soul,fury's gonna take me to the glory goal
In my mind I can't study war no more.
Save the people, save the children, save the country now

Come on, people come on, children
Come on down to the glory river
Gonna wash you up and wash you down
Gonna lay the devil down, gonna lay that devil down

Come on people! Sons and mothers
Keep the dream of the two young brothers
Gonna take that dream and ride that dove

We could build the dream with love, I know,
We could build the dream with love, I know,
We could build a dream with love, children,
We could build the dream with love, oh people,
We could build the dream with love, I know,
We could build the dream with love.

Come on, people! Come on, children!
There's a king at the glory river

And the precious king, he loved the people to sing;
Babes in the blinkin' sun sang
"We Shall Overcome".

Market in the cool white mornin'
Merchants sell while women buy
Milk, tobacco, soap and matches
Sweep the floor
While the dishes dry
Spring whispered in her ear
Like soft Mediterranean wailin'
Sleepy woman by the window
Dreamin' in the morning air
Of the one who takes her sweetness
By a chinese lamp upstairs
The steam of china tea
You could hear the woman sing
In the soft flames of spring
Spring has swept the scarlet side streets
Winds caress, undress, invite
Upstairs by a china lamp
They softly talk in the cool spring night

On a street corner
Where the kids boogie all night
Or where the winds sing
And the stars shine
Like holiday lights
Come a band of angels
Salvation in their might
And as for peace on earth...
Feel this love
My brothers and sisters
Feel the season turn
She is the mother of time
Wonders that take you
Rivers that give
That's where mother's spiritual lives

Talk of a ruby love
Lovers share
Find your love
Lose your love
Here and there
So you go home
Do your own thing
And the ocean sings to me
That love is always alive
And part of thee
Feel this love
My brothers and sisters
Feel the season turn
She is the mother of time
Light and darkness
Come to her kiss
'cause that's where mother's spiritual lives

Come to the lights, my sisters
And take what you need
Doesn't matter, my brothers
Your Sunday creed
'cause each one's a lover
To this winter night star
A pilgrim'a pioneer
That's who you are
Feel this love
My brothers and sisters
Feel the season turn
She is the mother of time
It's not war
It's life she gives
And that's where mother's spiritual lives

Cold jade wind
Not an angel in the sky
Just cold jade restless wind
Something's coming along
To devastate my soul.

I pricked my fingers
On the thorns
And this rain is a-raining hard
This sky's gonna beckon Mariah
To match my soul
Rain in the river
Rain in the river
Rain on the river banks
Down my neck
Beads of sweat.

Rain on the highway
Running clear across New York
A windsong through the barren trees
Wild lavender heather
By the railroad sways
Listen to the wailing
Of the rain in the river
Rain on the river banks.

Roll, roll
River, rock his soul
She's calling you
Rainclouds, rainclouds
Down his neck
Down his neck
Down his neck
Beads of, beads of, beads of
Beadso of sweat.

Five boys standing
On the baks of thr river
Waiting for the virgin snow
Searching for a miracle
A pearl in an oyster
And we all looked out to God
Although He is the colour of the wind
Listen to the wailing
Of the rain in the river
Rain on the river banks.

Oo la, la, la, oo la, la, la, la.
Emily and her love to be,
Carved in a heart on a berry tree
But it's only a little farewell love spell,
Time to design a woman.

Touch me, oh wake me, Emily
You ornament the Earth for me
Emily, you're the natural snow,
The unstudied sea, you're a cameo
And I swear you were born a weavers lover,
Born for the loom's desire.

Move me, oh sway me
Emily, the ornament, the Earth for me.
Emmie, your Momma's been calling you.
Who stole Mamma's heart and cuddled in her garden?
Darling Emmie, la, la, la, oo la, la la.

You're my friend and I loved you,
Emily, Emily, Emily, Emily.
She got the way to move me, Emmie.
She got the way to move me, yeah.
She got the way to move me, Emmie.
She got the way to move me, get up and move me...

Don't go to gibsom cross the river
The devil is hungry
The devil is sweet
If you are soft then you will shiver
They hang the alley cats on gibsom street
I wish my baby were forbidden
I wish my world be struck by sleet
I wish to keep my mirror hidden
To hide the eyes that looked on gibsom street
There is a man he knows where I'm going
Gave me a strawberry to eat
I sucked its juices never knowing
That I would sleep that night on gibsom street

"Hello?" he said,
"Hello?"

"I'd like to see you" he said
"Sweetheart look
You know what happens when we get together
I mean I've heard of liberation,
But sweetheart - you're in outer space."

Oh, Mister Blue
I've been studying the radar in the sky
I can almost run, fly
Listen like the animals do,
I'm ready to meet the crew
Yes, I'm ready for you

Earth calling you
I've been a gypsy fire, warm desire
You've seen this too
Roger and out Mr. Blue

This is the song of communications
Sending out peace vibrations,
Genuine cause to end our wars
Or is this the song of complications?
A hopeless declaration? Can we mend, transcend
The broken dishes of our love?
Our conflicts?
Can we be friends?

"Hello?" he said
"Hello?"
"This is your copilot," he said
“Yeah - look sweetheart
I've loved you - but you can be so arrogant,
And you don't know anything about being cool."

Oh Mister Blue, I've been studying the radar in the sky
Measuring earth and time
The rainbows on your pillow are new,
I'm a fucking mad scientist too
Baby, baby let the one who loves you come thru ...
Baby come thru...baby come thru...
Earth calling...you...
Baby come thru...baby come thru...
Earth calling...
This is the song of communications
(Baby come thru...) Written on a peace vibration
(Baby come thru...) Earth calling...
(Is this the song of complications?)
Earth calling, calling calling calling you
Oh Mr Blue, oh Mr Blue