Patti Smith : Easter

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Raise the sky, we got to fly

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Over the land, over the sea Fate unwinds and if we die Souls arise, God do not seize me

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Please, till victory Take arms, take aim, be without shame No one to bow to, to vow to, to blame Legions of light, virtuous flight Ignite, excite, and you will

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See us coming, V formation, through the sky

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Film survives, eyes cry

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On the hill, hear us call through a realm of sound

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Oh, oh-oh, down and down

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Down and round, oh, down and round

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Round and round, oh, round and round Rend the veil and we shall sail The nail, the grail: that's all behind thee In deed, in creed, the curve of our speed And we believe that we will

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Raise the sky, we got to fly

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Over the land, over the sea Fate unwinds and if we die Souls arise, God, do not seize me

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Please, till victory Victory, till victory

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| Blood on the TV, ten o'clock news Souls are invaded, heart in a groove Beating and beating, so out of time What's the mad matter with the church chimes? Here comes a stranger up on Ninth Avenue Leaning green tower, indiscreet view Over the cloud, over the bridge Sensitive muscle, sensitive ridge

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Of my space monkey, sign of the time, time

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Space monkey, so out of line, line

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Space monkey, sort of divine

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And he's mine, mine, all mine Pierre Clemente, snorts some cocaine The sexual street, why it's all so insane Humans are running, lavender room Hovering liquid, move over moon For my space monkey sign of the time, time Space monkey sort of divine Space monkey so out of line And he's mine mine oh he's mine Stranger comes up to him Hands him an old rusty Polaroid It starts crumbling in his hands He says, oh man, I don't get the picture This is no picture this is just this just a this just a... Just my jack-knife just my jack-knife just my jack... Rude excavation, landing site Boy hesitating jack-knife He rips his leg open so out of time Blood and light running It's all like a dream Light of my life he's dressed in flame It's all so predestined it's all such a game For my space monkey sign of the time, time Space monkey sort of divine space monkey So out of line and it's all just space just space There he is, up in a tree Oh, I hear him calling down to me That banana-shaped object is no banana It's a bright yellow UFO And he's coming to get me, here I go

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... Up up up up up up up up up Oh, goodbye mama I'll never do dishes again Here I go from my body Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Help

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Take me now, baby, here as I am Pull me close try and understand Desire is hunger, is the fire I breathe Love is a banquet on which we feed

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Come on now, try and understand

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The way I feel when I'm in your hand

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Take my hand, come under cover

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They can't hurt you now, can't hurt you now, can't hurt you now

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Em/g

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Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to lust Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to us

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Have I doubt when I'm alone? Love is a ring on the telephone Love is an angel disguised as lust Here in our bed until the morning comes

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Come on now, try and understand

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The way I feel under your command

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Take my hand as the sun descends

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They can't touch you now, can't touch you now, can't touch you now

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Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to lust Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to us

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With love we sleep, with doubt the vicious circle turn and turns

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Without you I cannot live, forgive the yearning, burning

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I believe in time, too real to feel

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So touch me now, touch me now, touch me now

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Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to lust Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to us

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We shall live again

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We shall live

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What is it, children, that falls from the sky?

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Tye-ee, tye-ah, tye-eye-eye

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Manna from heaven, from the most high

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Food from the father, tye-ee tye-eye

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We shall live again

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We shall live.... again

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Shake out the ghost dance

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Peace to your brother, give and take, eat

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Tye-ee, tye-ah, dance little feet

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One foot extended, snake to the ground

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Wave up the earth, worm turn around We shall live again We shall live.... again Shake out the ghost dance

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Stretch out your arms, now tip and sway

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Bird up thy birth, tye-ee, tye-ay

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Go up the shoe, over the soul

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Dust off the words that shake from the tail We shall live again We shall live.... again Shake out the ghost dance

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Here we are father, your holy host

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Bread of your bread, ghost of your host

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We are the tears that fall from your eyes

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Word of your word, cry of your cry We shall live again We shall live.... again Shake out the ghost dance What is it father, in your eye? What is this grace that I supply That makes me feel, just what I need You supply me, with some speed What is it father, bullet in light What is it father, that moves to the right What is it father, that takes when you take What is it father, that shakes from your tail What is it father, that makes you spin round What is it father, that brings me round

I haven't fucked much with the past But I've fucked plenty with the future Over the skin of silk are scars From the splinters of stations and walls I've caressed A stage is like each bolt of wood Like a log of Helen, is my pleasure I would measure the success of a night By the way... by the way... By the amount of piss and seed I could exude Over the columns that nestled the PA Some nights I'd surprise everybody By skipping off with a skirt of green net Sewed over with flat metallic circles which dazzled and flashed The lights were violet and white I had an ornamental veil, but I couldn't bear to use it When my hair was cropped, I craved covering But now my hair itself is a veil And the scalp inside is a scalp of a crazy and sleepy Comanche Lies beneath this netting of the skin I wake up I am lying peacefully I am lying peacefully And my knees are open to the sun I desire him, and he is absolutely ready to seize me In heart I am a Muslim In heart I am an American In heart I am Muslim In heart I'm an American artist And I have no guilt I seek pleasure I seek the nerves under your skin The narrow archway, the layers, the scroll of ancient lettuce We worship the flaw, the belly, the belly The mole on the belly of an exquisite whore He spared the child and spoiled the rod I have not sold myself to God

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Baby was a black sheep, baby was a whore

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Baby got big and baby get bigger

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Baby get something, baby get more

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Baby, baby, baby was a rock and roll nigger Oh, look around you, all around you Riding on a copper wave Do you like the world around you? Are you ready to behave? Outside of society They're waitin' for me! Outside of society That's where I want to be! (Lenny!) Baby was a black sheep, baby was a whore You know she got big, well, she's gonna get bigger Baby got a hand, got a finger on the trigger Baby, baby, baby is a rock and roll nigger Outside of society That's where I want to be! Outside of society They're waitin' for me! Those who have suffered, understand suffering And thereby extend their hand The storm that brings harm Also makes fertile Blessed is the grass And herb and the true thorn and light

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I was lost in a valley of pleasure I was lost in the infinite sea I was lost, and measure for measure Love spewed from the heart of me I was lost, and the cost And the cost didn't matter to me I was lost, and the cost Was to be outside society Jimi Hendrix was a nigger Jesus Christ and Grandma, too Jackson Pollock was a nigger Nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger Outside of society They're waitin' for me! Outside of society If you're looking, that's where you'll find me Outside of society They're waitin' for me! Outside of society

I see it all before me The days of love and torment The nights of rock and roll I see it all before me Sometimes my spirit's empty Don't have the will to go on I wish someone would send me energy

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Give me something Give me something to give Oh, God, give me something A reason to live My body is aching Don't want sympathy Come on, come and love me Come on, set me free Set me free The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want He maketh me to lie down in green pastures He leadeth me beside the still waters He restoreth my soul He leadeth me through the path of righteousness for His name's sake Yeah, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me Hey, Lord, I'm waitin' for you Oh, God, I'm waitin' for you Waitin' to open Your ninety-eight wounds And be Thee, be Thee Lead me, oh, lead me Leave me something Leave me something to live Oh, God, give me something A reason to live I don't want no handout No, not sympathy Come on, come and love me Come on, set me free Set me free Come on, set me free Set me free... Oh, I'm so young, so goddamn young Oh, I'm so young, so goddamn young Oh, I'm so young, so goddamn Set me free In the presence of my enemies Thou anointest my head with oil My cup runneth over Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me All the days of my life And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever Ah, damn, goddamn, goddamn, goddamn Here I am

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You say you want me, I want another

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Say you dream of me, dream of your brother

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Oh, the stars shine so suspiciously

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For we three

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You said when you were with me

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That nothing made you high

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We drank all night together

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And you began to cry so recklessly

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Baby, please, don't take my hope away from me

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You say you want me, I want another, baby

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You say you wish for me, wish for your brother

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Oh, the dice roll so deceptively

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For we three

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It was just another Saturday

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And everything was in the key of A

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And I lit a cigarette for your brother

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And he turned and heard me say so desperately

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"Baby, please, don't take my hope away from me"

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You say you want me, I want another

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You say you pray for me, pray for your brother

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Oh, the way that I see him is the way I see myself

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D/a

So please stand back now and let time tell you

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Oh, can't you see that time is the key that will unlock the destiny

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Of we three?

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Every night on separate stars, before we go to sleep

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We pray so breathlessly

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Baby, please, don't take my hope away from me

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We explore the men's room We don't give a shit Ladies lost electricity Take vows inside of it

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Desire to dance, too startled to try

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Wrap my legs round you, starting to fly

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Let's explore Up there, up there, up there, on the 25th floor Circle all around me Coming for the kill, kill, kill (oh kill me baby) Like a kamikaze Heading for a spill (oh but it's all spilt milk to me) Desire to dance, too startled to try Wrap my legs round you, starting to fly Let's soar Up there, up there, up there, on the 25th floor We do not eat, flower of creation We do not eat, eat anything at all Love is, love was, love is a manifestation I'm waiting for a contact to call Love's war, love's cruel Love's pretty, love's pretty cruel tonight I'm waiting here to refuel I'm gonna make contact tonight Love in my heart, the night to exploit Twenty-five stories over Detroit And there's more Up there, up there, up there Stoned in space, Zeus, Christ It has always been rock and so it is and so it shall be Within the context of neo rock we must open up our eyes And seize and rend the veil of smoke which man calls order Pollution is a necessary result Of the inability of man to reform and transform waste The transformation of waste The transformation of waste The transformation of waste The transformation of waste Is perhaps the oldest preoccupation of man Man being the chosen alloy He must be reconnected, via shit, at all cost Inherent with(in) us is the dream of the task of the alchemist To create from the clay of man And to recreate from excretion of man Pure and then soft and then solid gold All must not be art Some art we must disintegrate Positive (anarchy must exist)

In background:

(I feel it swirling around me I feel it feeling no pain I'm waiting above for you baby I know that I'll see you up there I'm floating in a door backward On boundaries over this world I'm waiting above in the sky, dear Upon another ...)

What I feel when I'm playing guitar is completely cold and crazy Like I don't owe nobody nothing And it's just a test just to see how far I can relax Into the cold wave of a note When everything hits just right (just and right) The note of nobility can go on forever I never tire of the solitary E And I trust my guitar And I don't care about anything Sometimes I feel like I've broken through And I'm free and I could dig into eternity into eternity Riding the wave and realm of the E Sometimes it's useless Here I am struggling and filled with dread Afraid that I'll never squeeze enough graphite from my damaged cranium To inspire or asphyxiate any eyes grazing like hungry cows Across the stage or page Inside of me I'm crazy I'm just crazy Inside I must continue I see her, my stiff muse Jutting around round round round like a broken speeding statue The colonial year is dead and the Greeks too are finished The face of Alexander remains not only solely due to sculpture But through the power and foresight and magnetism of Alexander himself The artist must maintain his swagger He must he must he must be intoxicated by ritual as well as result Look at me I am laughing I am laughing I am lapping cocaine from the hard brown palm of the bouncer And I trust my guitar Therefore we black out together Therefore I would run through scum And scum is just ahead, ah we see it, but we just laugh We're ascending through the hollow mountain We are peeking We are laughing We are kneeling We are laughing We are radiating at last This rebellion is just a gas our gas a gas that we pass

Easter Sunday, we were walking Easter Sunday, we were talking Isabelle, my little one Take my hand, time has come Isabella, all is glowing Isabella, all is knowing And my heart, Isabella And my head, Isabella Frederic and Vitalie Savior dwells inside of thee Oh, the path leads to the sun Brother, sister, time has come Isabella, all is glowing Isabella, all is knowing Isabella, we are dying Isabella, we are rising I am the spring the holy ground I am the seed of mystery The thorn the veil the face of grace The brazen image the thief of sleep The ambassador of dreams The prince of peace I am the sword the wound the stain Scorned transfigured child of Cain I rend I end I return again I am the salt the bitter laugh I am the gas in a womb of light The evening star the ball of sight That bleeds that sheds the tears of Christ Dying and drying as I rise tonight Isabella, we are rising Isabella, we are rising

Patti Smith : Easter
1978

Till Victory

Space Monkey

Because The Night

Ghost Dance

Babelogue

Rock N Roll Nigger

Privilege (Set Me Free)

We Three

25th Floor

High On Rebellion

Easter

Patti Smith : Easter 1978

Till Victory

Space Monkey

Because The Night

Ghost Dance

Babelogue

Rock N Roll Nigger

Privilege (Set Me Free)

We Three

25th Floor

High On Rebellion

Easter

Patti Smith : Easter
1978