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I know where the bees have gone
They’ve all come to my yard
I stopped cutting the grass you know
I stopped being so hard
Stopped trying to control the world, and learned to steer myself
And now the bees and butterflies became a source of wealth
They’re making honey butter now, they ship it ‘cross the sea
They’re rakin’ in a lot of dough and they share it all with me
I know where the bees have gone
(Where all the birds and bees have gone)
I know where the bees have gone
(Where all the birds and bees have gone)
I know why the birds all sing, I understand each song
The birds and bees are telling me we got the whole thing wrong
Re-teaching me the facts of life and as I get it right
My lovely wife is courting me most every day and night
They’re making honey butter now, enough to feed us all
They dose it with enlightenment for creatures great and small
I know where the bees have gone
(Where all the birds and bees have gone)
I know where the bees have gone
(Where all the birds and bees have gone)
I know where the bees have gone
(Where all the birds and bees have gone)
Where the bees have gone
(Where all the birds and bees have gone)
We bought some little bee chairs where we sit and shoot the breeze
Encouraging the flowers and the animals and trees
And all the sad creation that eagerly awaits
for the yang dang doodle human race to finally get it straight
‘Cuz I know where the bees have gone
(Where all the birds and bees have gone)
I know where the bees have gone
(Where all the birds and bees have gone)
I know where the bees have gone
(Where all the birds and bees have gone)
Where the bees have gone
(Where all the birds and bees have gone)
(Where all the birds and bees have gone)
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2. |
Look Around
03:42
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The things prepared the way, the way was never found
The things filled up the day, the way went underground
Cuz there was so much noise, you couldn’t hear a sound
Look around, Look around, Look around round round
Look around, Look around, Look around
The Queen was misinformed about the style of suit
They said that all the clouds would beneath the boots
So when it came to town, they thought it was a hoot
They turned around, turned around, turned around round round
They turned around, turned around, they turned around
I’m dreamin’ of a day, I’m dreamin’ of a time
‘Cause there’s this better world keeps screwing with my mind
I tried to shake it loose, you know it causes so much pain
The thought that it might come if we just try again
Whoa, Whoa, etc
I’m dreamin’ of a day, I’m dreamin’ of a time
‘Cause there’s this better world keep screwing up my mind
I tried to shake it loose, you know it causes so much pain
The thought that it might come if we just try again
The things prepared the way, the way was never found
We built a flying ship that got stuck on the ground
Let’s start it up again, who knows what might be found
We’ll look around, look around, look around round round
We’ll look around, look around, look around (We’ll look around yeah)
Look around, look around, look around
Round round round, etc
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3. |
Fi
03:52
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‘Fi were anymore high
I would cease to see and start to be the sky
I’d be home to everything that’s learned to fly
Oh if I were anymore high
‘Fi were anymore high
I’d be true and blue and never have to lie
I’d absorb your stormy oceans and I’d cry over you
if I were any more high
And I’d extend thru space into the ends of everything
Yeah ever outward I would travel towards your home
Beyond the waves and endless rings
of where our crossing paths all sing
and echo to the void we’re not alone...
Oh
And you’d travel ever inward
Into me in joyous hope of what might be
Created by our hearts and minds
In this holy dance that causes everything
We’re awed by what our love can bring
By pure desire, not design
‘Fi were anymore high
I would cease to see and start to be the sky
I’d be home to everything that’s learned to fly
Oh if I
Were anymore high eeeee
Were anymore high eeeee
Were anymore high eeeeeeeeeee!
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4. |
Step Outta Time
04:28
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Babies are grownups, children are old
Future is present, past still untold
Hearts scream for love in a world that’s gone cold
We gotta step outta time
Our bodies like Chevys, they’re stronger than steel
Storms break the levees, truths are revealed
What should we save now, what should be healed
We gotta step outta time
Yeah he walked the road ‘til we called him the man
We flew like the dove and we slept in the sand
But we’re still building cannons and making war plans
We gotta step outta time
Step outta time, step outta time
Let’s get our bodies aligned with our minds
Let’s get our minds aligned with our hearts
Maybe it’s there we can start
Families in China, families at home
They get the jobs and we just get the phones
But who gets the money, throw the workers a bone
We gotta step outta time
Step outta politics, we’re all being played
Skits to distract while the real deals are made
Behind the curtain, who’s pulling the reins
We gotta step outta time
We’re all from one mother, that’s what they say
People of science and not just those who pray
So let’s live for each other and become the way
We gotta step outta time
Step outta time, step outta time
Let’s get our bodies aligned with our minds
Let’s get our minds aligned with our hearts
Maybe it’s there we can start
Step outta time, start it again
Love not religion, enemies friends
All of these ‘isms and vanities end
We gotta make the world rhyme
Yeah we know enough to know what’s really cool
To know what is mean and what’s just outright cruel
They say religion but they’re just evil’s tools
They just can’t fake it no more
Step outta countries, step outta pride
Step outta worlds where the love has all died
Let’s live for each other and ride the new tide
We gotta step outta time
Step outta time, step outta time
Let’s get our bodies aligned with our minds
Let’s get our minds aligned with our hearts
Maybe it’s there we can start
Step outta time, step outta time
Step outta time, step outta time
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All the brilliant works of man
Maybe weren’t in the plan
All our great theologies
Training wheels ‘til we were free
To love the many and the One
And be brilliantly, brilliantly dumb
Ooh la la la la la, la la la la laaaa
Ooh la la la la la, la la
All my lovely friends and me, forgetting our means and our ends
Everything that we should be, the lies and the stupid pretends
All sophistication lost, intelligence is on the bum
Getting high without the costs
We’re the brilliantly, brilliantly dumb
Ooh la la la la la, la la la la laaaa
Ooh la la la la la, la la
All the finite comes undone - the letters, the limits, the laws
Everything can move as one, we look at each other in awe
Differences so beautiful, a pallette of infinite hues
Dancing through each other’s lives
Our thoughts and our glorious views
All sophistication lost, intelligence is on the bum
Getting high without the costs
We’re the brilliantly, brilliantly dumb
Ooh la la la la la, la la la la laaaa
Ooh la la la la la, la la
All our music all our words, our pictures our colours our dreams
Flow into each others lives, a fabric without any seams
For at last we’re not afraid, we’ll keep all the good we can share
Let the rest all fade away, just keep things that show that we care
All sophistication lost, intelligence is on the bum
Getting high without the costs
We’re the brilliantly, brilliantly dumb
Ooh la la la la la, la la la la laaaa
Ooh la la la la la, la la
Then when everything is free and moves like a big symphony
Maybe then we’ll get to see this One we’ve been longing to see
Dancing round with you and me, dancing like we were all one
Dancing round with you and me.........
The brilliantly, brilliantly dumb
Ooh la la la la la, la la la la laaaa
Ooh la la la la la, la la
The brilliantly, brilliantly dumb
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Little Stephen Hawking
He’s always on a roll
He’s always in a brain storm
His mind full of black holes
They’re sucking in his body
But I’m betting on his soul
Comin’ back through
He’s a force of nature
But not forcier than you
Well maybe just in scale love
But in density not true
Yeah you can singularly
Turn the whole world blue
Baby it’s true
You walk among us with your rainy lightnin’
You walk among us and dark clouds swirl round you
You walk among us, you’re a little frightning
And then you smile, and clouds are gone
You’re the force of nature, we are hooked on you
We study all your dances and everything you do
We try to be objective but the love keeps breaking through
Baby it’s true
You’re all around us raging storms of beauty
Magnetic forces swirl the tides that bind us
We long to know you, our objective duty
But you’re the drug that we are on
Have mercy on us, calm these waves around us
Have mercy on us, walk upon these waters
Your ways astound us, spark our dreams and wonder
And reason dies if you are gone
Little Stephen Hawking
He’s always on a roll
He’s always in a brain storm
His mind full of black holes
They’re sucking in his body
But his radiating soul
Keeps comin’ back through
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Halo
04:15
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I want a halo
To wear upon my headbone
So that I can find my way when dark consumes my soul
Stylish enhancement
Spherical advancement
Tuning all my frequencies right to God’s radio
Hey!
Yeah I want a halo
To wear upon my headbone
So that I can live with great compassionary flair
Yeah I want a halo
To wear upon my headbone
Maybe you will start to think that I’m quite debonair
Light all around me
Will shine like the stars above
It will astound me
To think that we are love
We are love
Light will shine
From our minds
And from our lonely little hearts
I’ll be yours
You’ll be mine
And as the old world falls apart
We’ll have our halos
Shining from our headbones
Radiating light for all the world to find it’s way
We’ll have our halos
Shining from our headbones
Leading everything into that better brighter day
Yeah we’ll have our halos
Shining from our headbones
We’ll have our halos
Shining from our headbones
Yeah we’ll have our halos
Shining from our headbones
We’ll have our halos
We’ll have our halos
Light all around us
Will shine like the stars above
It will astound us
To know that we are love
We are love
We are love
We are love
(Light will shine
From our minds
Light will shine
From our minds)
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8. |
Stand Under / Understand
05:32
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Stand
Under
Understand
Standing under gray skies
I want to understand it all
Stand
Under
Understand
Listening to clouds cry
Waiting for their tears to fall
They’re crying for the colors
They’re crying for the rain
For sisters and for brothers
To feel each other’s pain
Stand
Under
Understand
Standing under gray skies
I want to understand it all
Stand
Under
Understand
Listening to clouds cry
Waiting for their tears to fall
They’re crying for the colors
They’re crying for the rain
For sisters and for brothers
To heal each other’s pain
Did I hear a voice
Was it just my own
Something made me cry
Something so alone
Did you see that light
It almost made me blind
Something broke the night
Or was it just my mind
Stand
Under
Understand
Standing under gray skies
Can you hear the voices call
They’re calling to the colors
They’re calling for the rain
For sisters and for brothers
To end each other’s pain
Stand
Under
Understand
Understand
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9. |
Solve It All Dālí
05:05
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Well who stretched the elephant's legs
I’ll bet it was you, Solve It All Daily
Taught them to walk through the streets
on stilted gray limbs like Barnum and Bailey
Yeah you pulled a trick with the tigers too
Now no one can keep them in the zoo
Why do you do what you do when you do what you do
Solve It All Daily
Well who turned Narcissus to stone
Fishes to phones that always call me
Who melted all the town clocks, and hung them on rocks and limbs by the blue sea
Who put those drawers in your sister’s chest
Had to re-tailor her favorite dress
Why do you make normal such a mess
What are you up to
Solve It All Daily
Solve It All Daily
Well maybe behind that mustachioed mask a black hole
Sucking everything in, making rules, lose control
Deconstructing dogmatic distractions that rule our reason
Back to molecular dances and music of spheres
That our ears used to hear before fig leaves and fear
Made us deaf dumb and blind to the beauty that really matters
Oh
Ohhhhhhhhh
Well who turned Mae West to a living room
Who elongated Mom's favorite spoon
Why are your paintings so out of tune or is that the Wang Chung?
Geopolitical child out by the wild globe on the prairie
Watching the birth of new man in the new land, oh it's pretty scary
He’s in a world trapped by its points of view
And you always said true may not be true
Yeah we read it all in the Dali News monarch of dailies
Solve it all
Solve it all..daily
Yeah what great adventures will future hold
Once we have all learned to break the mold
Teach us your passionate whiskery whimsical ways
To solve it all daily
Solve It All Daily
Solve It All Daily
Solve it all....
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It’s an absolutely beautiful freakin’ day
But I wish the sun would go away
And leave me here with all my blues again
An absolutely beautiful freakin’ day
The birds have got so much to say,
I wish they’d fly so I could choose again
To be alone
It’s an absolutely beautiful freakin’ day
Dark clouds have all been rolled away
The sun is shining, I got hope again
The birds are singing magical little tunes
But I’m just prayin’ for the moon
To bring the night so I can hide away
And none too soon
Ok ok ok, yeah fine
Why are you messing with my mind?
Where are you goin’ with my pain?
What kind of game you tryin’ to play?
You’re chasin’ all my blues away
Why don’t you go and let it rain?
Yeah
Yeah it’s an absolutely beautiful freakin' day
But I wish the sun would go away
Hey
And let it rain
Yeah let it rain
Yeah let it rain
Yeah let it rain
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11. |
The Neverwas
06:11
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Somebody told me they’re makin’ up lies
Somebody told me with tears in their eyes
Somebody told me it’s not like it ever was
Somebody told me they build out of fear
The lies and the habits, the straight and the queer
Somebody told me it’s not like it ever was
And we all build this world together
And tell our tales and sing our songs
Search for a now that’s worth forever
But it takes so long
Zeroes to heroes let’s even the score
Let’s strike a blow that can end all the wars
You’d give your lives for it, we know, we’ve seen it
We’ll find a truth that can end war, we mean it.
And then we’ll build our world together
And tell our tales and sing our songs
Search for a now that’s worth forever
Peaceful and strong
What are these patterns, these prisons, these games
Will they lose power if we give them names
We’re getting tired of all of the same o, same o
Our hearts are aching for signs of the Everwas
Woman oh woman, the source of us all
You carried the burden and cure since the fall
Used in a game by a posturing predator
Pit in a struggle – a spiraling gender war
We’ve gotta find out what we’re really fighting for
And then we’ll build our world together
And tell our tales and sing our songs
And find a now that’s worth forever
Well it took so long
Somebody told me they’re makin’ up lies
Somebody told me with tears in their eyes
Somebody told me it’s not like it ever was
Somebody told me it’s not like it ever was
Somebody told me it’s not like the Everwas
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Pluto's Plight
04:06
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Jupiter, Jupiter and Mars
Mercury and Earth agree
It’s not what it used to be
Venus told Neptune and the stars
She’s been crying every night
Since she learned poor Plutos’ plight
She said:
We’ve all been friends forever
We’ll never change the way we feel
So strange to hear the clever
Tell Pluto that he wasn’t real
How’d that feel?
He may be a little stupider
But surely you could see
He always tried his best to be
Dignified and heavenly
He’s just a simple planet
Maybe he wasn’t quite as deep
But don’t take our hearts for granted
Don’t let ‘em put our dog to sleep
Little creeps
Saturn told all his little moons
Say a little prayer tonight
They don’t turn out Pluto’s light
Hey!
No no no no no, oh no
What would it lose or gain us
Science is filled with fact and flaw
But your heads are up Uranus
When love’s not greater than the law
Fatal flaw
Yeah
Venetia wished upon a star
Someone would still want to play
And not just chase her dog away
Hey!
No no no no no, oh no
No no no no no no etc, oh no
Jupiter, Jupiter and Mars
Mercury and Earth agree, it’s not what it used to be
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13. |
A Very Unusual Head
04:12
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‘Got a very unusual head
‘Got a very unusual head
They will take him apart when he’s dead
And his very unusual head
Cuz he’s soaring through boring predictable games that they play
With the glorious noise that can steal all our sad hearts away
Up through the atmosphere
Very unusual head
‘Got a very unusual head
They will take him apart when he’s dead
And his very unusual head
Yeah they’re following, swallowing everything he’s got to say
But he’s wallowing, hollow and barely can get through the day
But he’s coming back again
Yeah he’s rambling, scrambling, getting his ducks in a row
He’s preambling, gambling this time the whole thing will go
Up through the atmosphere
Got a very unusual head
Got a very unusual head
They will take him apart when he’s dead
And his very unusual head
(Play trumpets here)
Everyone sing along
Very unusual head
Got a very unusual head
They will take him apart when he’s dead
And his very unusual head
Surely take him apart when he’s dead
And his very unusual head
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Alligators
08:13
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See ya later alligators
Think it’s time to end this show
We’d like to stay a little later but I
Think it’s time to go
But it sure has been sublime
To spend a little time with you
And it always blows our minds
To see the things that we can do
When we put our heads together
See ya later alligators
Yeah it’s gettin’ time to run
We’d like to stay a little later
We sure have a lot of fun
And it sure has been sublime
To spend a little time with you
And it always blows our minds
To see the things that we can do
When we put our hearts together
See ya later alligators
Think it’s time to hit the road
Get these treasures off to bed before our
Crazy heads explode
But it sure has been sublime
To spend a little time with you
And it always blows our minds
To see the things that we can do
When we put our dreams together
Goodnight, sleep tight, climb the stairs
Don’t forget to say your prayers
We’ll come see you in your dreams
Help you push them to extremes
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
We represent the lullaby league
the lullaby league
the lullaby league
And in the name of the lullaby league
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Na na na, na na na na
Na na na na
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Na na na, na na na na
Na na na na
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
After ’while now, crocodile!
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