Patti Smith : Gung Ho

In the garden of consciousness In fertile mind there lies the dormant seed When blooming as charity Conscience breathes a sigh of relief The confessions of sleep The awakening seed Moved by love to serve We celebrate all Merit in life Ah, the confessions of sleep Unfolding peace As we extend According to need And you will hear the call All action great and small Received joyfully Heaven abounds Let love resound If he be mute Give him a bell If he be blind, an eye It he be down, a hand Lift up your voice Lift up your voice Lift up your voice Give of your mind one mind Give of your heart one heart Give of your voice One voice

Lo And Beholden

I was alone and content in my world Dancing on air You sent to me a message that said I like your style Will you come to the temple tonight And dance for me there I pledge to you all that you wish The moon and the stars Lo and beholden Why don't you give it up Lo and beholden Come on you know it's true Lo and beholden Oh I'm beholden to you In the palace there was wild reverie And the look in your eyes As I dropped veil after veil Was drunken desire The dove calls and God notes it all The naked truth Here is my veil the seventh and last It will cost you Lo and beholden Why don't you give it up Lo and beholden Come on you know it's true Lo and beholden Oh I'm beholden to you The royal word has passed The prophet's head is all I ask For beauty and the naked truth It will cost you Lo and beholden Why don't you give it up Lo and beholden Come on you know it's true Lo and beholden Oh I'm beholden to you

Boy Cried Wolf

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Oh the story's told, been told, retold

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From the sacred scriptures to the tabloids

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All the fuss and fight, none above a whisper

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The soul of gold to the belly of a boy Well they drew him from the forest like they draw blood Tied him to a tree like St. Sebastian And he turned his head and let the arrows fly Through the trees, the trees, the ornamental leaves

Boy cried wolf Wolf don't come Wolf within Boy cried wolf In the ancient mold they're dancing down Calling to the moon but it don't answer And they fell on their knees, passed the bowl around And the blood, the blood, the sacramental blood Boy cried wolf Wolf don't come Wolf within Boy cried wolf

I am the body, I am the stream I am the wake of everything They bring me flowers that are myself Garlands of blood that are myself Slain the lamb that is myself I pray for the lamb that is himself Well they drew him from the forest like they draw blood Tied him to a tree like St. Sebastian And he turned his head and let the arrows fly Through the trees, the trees, the ornamental leaves Boy cried wolf Wolf don't come Wolf within Boy cried wolf I don't care I don't mind I don't know I don't know

Torn, reborn, the cries of our dismay Are nothing to the wind but whose to mind Kings are lifted up and kings are thrown Lost, received, retrieved, the human tide

Innocence had its day Innocence had its day Innocence, innocence

Persuasion

What is the system that gets around Recruits hearts with its timeless rhythm The young glow but old men know It's all a part of some crazy schism Coming on like the dawn unrelenting light Streets thick with its radiating It's all aglow but we all know True love is so complicated Feeling funny don't know why On a plane circling high Equation persuasion It's just persuasion What is the body that has nobody Go through life with nobody at all It come and go where the wind blow When persuasion come to call Got me reeling don't know why I'm on a plane circling high Equation persuasion Got the feeling I'm running in place Caught in the orbit of the human race Equation persuasion It's just persuasion It's jut persuasion It's just persuasion What is the body that has nobody What is the rise without the fall What is illusion without beauty What is the system that's no system at all Hey scout there's no equation You can't prepare for the heart's invasion You can't prepare for the heart's invasion Love is its own

Gone Pie

Hey there Come and take a walk with me Stroll into infinity We'll stroll along Until the dawn is gone Midnight take it to the twilight Just a little slice of light Let's turn it off and on off and on Strolling ain't it wonderful Into a light that lingers On and on, on and on Strolling ain't it wonderful Stars fall for we two Bathed in a light of our own Oh life Much too great to sacrifice Come and have another slice Ah life goes on and on Oh life May you live a long life May you live a long life May you live a long life

China Bird

One fine day these words I pray Will breathe a truth Within yourself upon a shelf A life anew So many roads It's hard to know what to do All your dreams All it seems Is as you choose For destiny my china bird Is calling for you The world turns The flame burns Bright and true Near and far Where you are Guiding you china bird The open skies Are yearning for you If they say it's not that way Hold your view With my love fly above A light anew Oh spread your wings The open sky Is calling to you china bird My heart is yearning for you If you fly away I'll be waiting come what may All my love a fragile ray For you for you

Glitter In Their Eyes

It's been a while since I've seen your face It's been a while since I've walked this place I see the monkeys riding on their bikes Racing through the impossible night You say you're feeling like a new tree Man they'll cut you from limb to limb Pick your pocket with such delight Shake it to the right Shake it in the light Oh can't you see the glitter The glitter in their eyes Oh can't you see the glitter The glitter in their eyes Genius stalking in new shoes Have you got WTO blues Dust of diamonds Making you sneeze Kids on rollers ready for Running through the junkyards Breezing through the halls Racing through the malls Walking through the walls They'll strip your mind Just for fun Quoth the raven Yum yum yum Children children everywhere Selling souls for souvenirs They've been sold out like as not Just for chunks of Ankgor Vat They'll trade you up Trade you down Your body a commodity Our sacred stage Has been defaced Replaced to grace The marketplace Dow is Jonesing at the bit 42nd Disney Street Ragged hearts unravelling Look out kids The gleam the gleam All that glitters Is not all that glitters Is not all that glitters

Strange Messengers

I looked upon the book of life Tracing the lines of face after face Looking down at their naked feet Bound in chains bound in chains Chains of leather chains of gold We knew it was wrong but we looked away And paraded them down the colonial streets And that's how they became enslaved They came across on the great ships Mothers separated from their babes Husbands stood on the auction block Bound in chains bound in chains Chains of leather chains of gold Men knew it was wrong but they looked away And led them to toil in fields of white As they turned their necks to a bitter landscape Oh the people I hear them calling Am I not a man and a brother Am I not a woman and a sister History sends us such strange messengers They come down through time To embrace to enrage And in their arms even stranger fruit And they swing from the trees With their vision in flames Ropes of leather ropes of gold Men knew it was wrong but they looked away Messengers swinging from twisted rope As they turned their necks to a bitter landscape Oh the people I hear them calling Am I not a man and a brother Am I not a woman and a sister We will be heard we will be heard

Grateful

Ours is just another skin That simply slips away You can rise above it It will shed easily It all will come out fine I've learned it line by line One common wire One silver thread All that you desire Rolls on ahead Like a ship in a bottle Held up to the sun Sails ain't going nowhere You can count every one Until it crashes unto the earth And simply slips away You can hide in the open Or just disappear Ours is just a craving And a twist of the wrist Will undo the stopper With abrupt tenderness Die little sparrow And awake Singing It all will come out fine I've learned it line by line One common wire One silver thread All that you desire Rolls on ahead

Upright Come

Hail brother The distant thunder Is nothing but hearts Beating as one Dance of a million On God's pavilion Come come Beat on your drum Awake people arise Awake upright come Fortune is falling like Tears from the skies Open your eyes Hail sister Come on over To shape reshape Things to come Bow your head Raise your lantern Come come Beat on your drum Awake people arise Awake upright come Fortune is falling like Tears from the skies Open your eyes United action is what we need Time to say that everything is going to be Wasted icons wasted lives Like war obsolete Awake people arise Awake upright come Fortune is falling like Tears from the skies Open your eyes These are the times The times of our own These are the shapes The world we formed Swift is the arrow Dark is the thorn The slate is clean The future awaits Awake

New Party

You say hey The state of the union Is fine fine fine I got the feeling that you're lying Lying lying lying I think we need Think we're gonna need A new party They say to me They say what's the word I say it's thunderbird I say it's thunderbird Why don't you Fly fly fly Fly away hey And while you're at it Why don't you Fertilize my lawn Why don't you Fertilize my lawn With what's running from your mouth Running from your mouth Hey listen here We got to get off Our ass or get burned The world's troubles Are a global concern Does your child have Fresh water to drink Wherever you are Wherever you are you're invited To think about this When in the course Of human events It becomes necessary To take things into your own hands To take the water from the well And declare it tainted by greed We got to surely clean it up Clean our house Our inner house Our outer house Left right And hey by the way The human event Is the party of the century And you're all invited It's where you are Wherever you are 'Cause this party Is for everyone And the price of admission Is love one another Love brother

Libbie's Song

If it wasn't for your golden hair

I would not be be lonely

If it wasn't for your golden hair

I would not be alone If it wasn't for your piercing stare I would not be be lonely If it wasn't for your piercing stare I would not be alone

I would not waltz in widow's time

Dressed in black by God's design

What was yours would not be mine

If it wasn't for your golden hair

I would not be alone You courted me with princely airs Said you'd love me only Kiss the ribbons in my hair Said darling fly away

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Flower of the Calvary You swept me off my saddle Lifted me into your life A soldier's wife was I You proudly marched to the horn I waited for your swift return I stood my ground so forlorn 'Ere to be alone I longed for you, I longed to die I was so be lonely The pillow's bare by my side And yet I shall abide For heaven has set for me Companion for eternity So kiss the ribbons in my hair Say darling come and fly If it wasn't for your golden hair I would not be lonely If it wasn't for your golden hair I would not be alone

Gung Ho

On a field of red one gold star Raised above his head Raised above his head He was not like any other He was just like any other And the song they bled Was a hymn to him Awake my little one The seed of revolution Sewn in the sleeve Of cloth humbly worn Where others are adorned Above the northern plain The great birds fly With great wings Over the paddy fields And the people kneel And the men they toil Yet not for their own And the children are hungry And the wheel groans There before a grass hut A young boy stood His mother lay dead His sisters cried for bread And within his young heart The seed of revolution sewn In cloth humbly worn While others are adorned And he grew into a man Not like any other Just like any other One small man A beard the color of rice A face the color of tea Who shared the misery Of other men in chains With shackles on his feet Escaped the guillotine Who fought against Colonialism imperialism Who remained awake While others slept Who penned like Jefferson Let independence ring And the cart of justice turns Slow and bitterly And the people were crying Plant that seed that seed And they crawled on their bellies Beneath the giant beast And filled the carts with bodies Where once had been their crops And the great birds swarm Spread their wings overhead And his mother dead And the typhoons and the rain The jungles in flames And the orange sun None could be more beautiful Than Vietnam Nothing was more beautiful Than Vietnam And his heart stopped beating And the wheel kept turning And the words he bled Were a hymn to them I have served the whole people I have served my whole country And as I leave this world May you suffer union And my great affection Limitless as sky Filled with golden stars The question is raised Raised above his head Was he of his word Was he a good man For his image fills the southern heart With none but bitterness And the people keep crying And the men keep dying And it's so beautiful So beautiful Give me one more turn Give me one more turn One more turn of the wheel One more revolution One more turn of the wheel