Buddha and the Chocolate Box

This is not one of my favorites as far as lyrics go... but the more I listen to it the more I like it. The harmonies and music are as good as ever.

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Music

 

Yesterday I was on the edge

hoping everything was going to work itself out

A good honest man doing the work of God

Trying to make things better for Him

A lover of life in a school for fools

Trying to find another way to survive

 

New Music, Music, New Music

Sweet Music can lighten us

Can brighten the world, can save us

 

My friend said well, I think I found a way

To help make myself richer

I said dont you know , well, it wont be too long before

The bad ol devil will get you back

Back.. I said put back your heart and sing , sing while

you know youre still living

Sing, sing, sing , while you know theres still

 

Chorus

 

Take a look at the world

Think about how it will end

There'd be no wars in the world

If everybody joined the band

Think about the light in your eyes

Think about what you should know

Thered be no wars in the world

If everybody joined in the show Oh Oh

 

Think about the light in your eyes

Think about what you should know

Thered be no wars in the world

If everybody joined in the show

In the show

 

Chorus

 

 

Oh Very Young

 

Oh very young

What will you leave us this time

You're only dancing on this earth for a short while

And though your dreams may toss and turn you now

They will vanish away like your daddy's best jeans

Denim Blue fading up to the sky

And though you want them to last forever

You know they never will

You know they never will

And the patches make the goodbye harder still

 

Oh very young

What will you leave us this time

There'll never be a better chance to change your mind

And if you want this world to see a better day

Will you carry the words of love with you

Will you ride the great white bird into heaven

And though you want to last forever

You know you never will

You know you never will

And the goodbye makes the journey harder still

 

Oh very young

What will you leave us this time

You're only dancing on this earth for a short while

Oh very young

What will you leave us this time

 

 

Sun C/79

 

Sun is the reason

And the world it will bloom

Cause sun lights the sky

And the sun lights the moon

 

Sun is the reason

All the happy trees are green

Then who can explain

The light in your dream

 

Sit you down

Sit you down young gentleman

There's something I want you to know

You keep on asking me

You keep on asking me why

Why are we here?

It started a long time ago

Me and your mum on the night

Yeh Yeh Yeh ..we met

 

I was on the road again

She was in C79

Ill never never forget

Ill never forget that night no..

 

We met in a back road

Behind the stage

She had the best figure by far

Huh a thousand hours I've looked at her eyes but I

Still dont know what color they are

Me & your mum on the night

Oh Lord. We met

 

I was on the road again

She was in C79

She was a junkie then

And I was having a good time

Back on the road again

 

Oh momma I was on the road again

Back in suite 79

Ill never never forget

Ill never forget that time

Back on the road again

Oh Im travelling that line

I was a pop star then

Im still having a good time

 

Ghost Town

 

Come on lets go down

Everybody's waiting for us

Down at the ghost town

Bill Bailey said he'd be around

If Mrs. G. Robinson would just put

That bad Havana down

 

Lovely Queen Anne Boleyn

Learning new tricks from the Great Houdini. Wo Wo

Now thats the way shes gonna make it Wo Wo

 

Come on

Come on lets go down

Everybodys waiting for us

Down at the boom town

O. Redding & Washington

Chico & Harpo & Karl are

In the Kitchen with mum

 

Buster Keaton & King Tut

Are waiting for Disney to wake up Wo Wo

Now thats the way

No that aint the way hes gonna make it

 

 

Jesus

 

They used to call him Jesus

Long time ago

They're still calling him Jesus

Don't you know

They crossed the wood and hanged him

A long time ago

They still misunderstand him

Those who don't know

And in the evening his love will lead the blind

In every secret corner there in your mind

 

They called him Gautama Buddha

Oh long time ago

He turned the world to order

Don't you know

He used to sit knowing

Oh long time ago

Where you and me were going

And in the evening his love will lead the blind

 

 

Ready

 

I love I love I'm ready to love yes

I love I love I'm ready to love yeah

I love I love I'm ready

to ready to ready to love

I love I love Im ready to love yeah

 

You keep me awake with your white lily smile

Dont keep me watching your charms all the while

Cause as all the wise men say

Grab it if it comes your way

Im ready Oh

 

I love I love Im ready to love yeah

ready to love

I love I love Im ready to love yeah

 

You make me feel things I've never felt before

Help my baby eyes and open up the door

You make me real to everyone and everyday I

I thank the Lord that you came along this way

Its no more an illusion than I can say

 

I love I love Im ready to love yes

I love I love Im ready to love yeah

I love I love Im ready

Ready Ready Ready to love

 

 

King Of Trees

 

He was the King of trees

Keeper of the leaves

A deep green god of young

Love stained memory

We used to meet by him

Far from the hustling town

I loved you

Now they've come to cut you down

..Down

 

He was the guardian of days

We held the same

Beneath the shade he gave

Shelter from the rain

Oh Lord how its empty now

With nothing save the breeze

Now they've come to burn the leaves

Don't burn the leaves

 

And if my mind breaks up

In all so many ways

I know the meaning of

The words I love you

And if my body falls inside

An early grave

The forest and the evergreens

Are coming to take me back

So slowly as I roll

Down the track

 

The forest and the evergreens

Are coming to take me back

The forest and the evergreens

Are coming to take me back

Please take me back

 

He was the King of trees

Keeper of the glades

The way he enchanted my life

Makes me so amazed

We used to meet by him

Many years ago

I love you

Now they've come to lay the road

Don't lay the road

 

 

A Bad Penny

 

Oh dont say those same idle lies

I've heard them before

This fool who left his heart on an early train

Won't buy no more

 

Oh no don't use

those same weeping eyes

I'll wipe them no more

I didnt want to have to be cruel

But the truth must be said

And you ain't heard enough

 

Oh it was not so long ago

Since you wandered out of here

To become a silver model

Of a city on the air

So don't choke me with your lies

Because this man has open eyes

And I can see

I can see I can tell

 

I had it enough

All those sneaky bars and smart parties

Had enough

All those sweet friends and lovers

I've I've had enough

All those lonely rooms

And blank faces

Had enough

And I want you I want you no more

I want you I want you no more

 

Oh dont say those same idle lies

I've heard them before

This fool who left his heart on an early train

Won't buy no more

 

 

Home In The Sky

 

Come the morning Ill be far from here

Slowly rising in another sphere

 

Old world goodbye cause I'll be

Home in the sky in the morning bye bye

 

Stars are crying over my old house

But Im still breathing happy above the clouds

 

Home

Home at last because

All of the bad times are past

 

Music is a lady that I still love

Cause she gives me the air that I breathe

 

Music is a lady that I still need

Cause she brings me the food that I eat

 

Come the morning Ill be far from here

Slowly rising in another sphere

Home, world goodbye

Cause Ill be home in the sky in the morning

ByeBye