Footsteps in the Dark

The Wind

 

I listen to the wind

to the wind of my soul

Where I'll end up well I think,

only God really knows

I've sat upon the setting sun

But never, never never never

I never wanted water once

No, never, never, never

 

I listen to my words but

they fall far below

I let my music take me where

my heart wants to go

I swam upon the devil's lake

But never, never never never

I'll never make the same mistake

No, never, never, never

 

(I Never Wanted) To Be A Star

 

I was seventeen, ou were working for

Matthew and Son,

(The) Beatles me the Queen, and I wrote

I'm gonna get me a gun, yeah, yeah

It was like a dream in the star machine,

oh, no, izitso, izitso?

I never wanted to be a star, I never wanted

to travel far

I only wanted a little bit of love

So I could put a little love in my heart

I never wanted to be la-de-da, go to parties

'avec le bourgeois'

I only wanted to sing my song well,

So I could ring a small bell in your heart

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

 

I was on the road, sleeping between lorry

lights, oh no

Stone-drunk and cold, heading into a bad

night, yeah, yeah

Just another bean in the star machine, hi ho,

here I go, here I go

 

I never wanted to be a star buy my mum a

Ferrari car

I only wanted to run my own race,

So I could win a small place in your heart

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

 

Nature found a way, it picked me up off the

dark side, yeah, yeah

Showed me another day, it made me sing

'I think I see the light'

Not another bean in the star machine, oh no,

this time I won't go

I never wanted to be a star, I never wanted to travel far

I only wanted a little bit of love

So I could put a little love in my heart.

 

Katmandu

 

I sit beside the dark

Beneath the mire

Cold grey dusty day

The morning lake

Drinks up the sky

 

Katmandu I'll soon be seeing you

And your strange bewildering time

Will hold me down

 

Chop me some broken wood

We'll start a fire

White warm light the dawn

And help me see

Old satan's tree

 

Katmandu I'll soon be touching you

And your strange bewildering time

Will hold me down

 

Pass me my hat and coat

Lock up the cabin

Slow night treat me right

until I go

Be nice to know

 

Katmandu I'll soon be seeing you

And your strange bewildering time

Will keep me home

 

 

I Want to Live in a Wigwam

 

I'd like to live in a wigwam

Yes I'd like to live in a wigwam

I'd like to live in a wigwam and

Dance round the totem pole

 

I'd like to live in an igloo

Yes, I'd like to live in an igloo

I'd like to live in an igloo and

Fish from an icehole

 

I'd like to ride on a caravan

I'd like to take a ride on a caravan

Yes, I'd like to ride on a caravan and

Sing with the gypsies

 

I'd like to live on a commune

Yes, I'd like to live on a commune

I'd like to live on a commune and

People can call me a hippie

 

I don't want to live in a palace

No, I don't want to live in no palace

Oh I don't want to live in no palace

There's too many empty rooms

 

I don't want to live in a barracks

I don't want to live in a barracks

Oh I don't want to live in a barracks

And wake up to the bugle tune

 

I'd just like to live in a treehut

Yes, I'd like to live in a treehut

Yes, I'd like to live in a treehut and

Listen to the sound of the birds

 

I don't want to live in a jailhouse

Don't wanna bide my time in no jailhouse

No I don't want to live in no jailhouse and

Be fed bread through the bars

 

I'm glad I'm alive am I

I'm glad I'm alive am I

I'm glad I'm alive

I'm glad I'm alive

I'm glad I'm alive am I

 

We gotta get our heads up in the sky

We gotta get our heads up in the sky

We gotta get our heads up

Gotta give it time

We gotta get our heads up in the sky

 

Gotta get to heaven get a guide

We gotta get to heaven get a guide

Gotta get to heaven, gotta have a guide

We gotta get to heaven get a guide

 

 

Trouble

 

Trouble

Oh trouble set me free

I have seen your face

And it's too much too much for me

 

Trouble

Oh trouble can't you see

You're eating my heart away

And there's nothing much left of me

 

I've drunk your wine

You have made your world mine

So won't you be fair

So won't you be fair

 

I don't want no more of you

So won't you be kind to me

Just let me go where

I'll have to go there

 

Trouble

Oh trouble move away

I have seen your face

and it's too much for me today

 

Trouble

Oh trouble can't you see

You have made me a wreck

Now won't you leave me in my misery

 

I've seen your eyes

and I can see death's disguise

Hangin' on me

Hangin' on me

 

I'm beat, I'm torn

Shattered and tossed and worn

Too shocking to see

Too shocking to see

 

Trouble

Oh trouble move from me

I have paid my debt

Now won't you leave me in my misery

 

Trouble

Oh trouble please be kind

I don't want no fight

And I haven't got a lot of time

 

 

On The Road To Find Out

 

Well I left my happy home to see what I could find out

I left my folk and friends when they came to clear my mind out

Well I hit the rowdy road and many kinds I met there

Many stories told me of the way to get there

 

So on and on I go, the seconds tick the time out

There's so much left to know, and I'm on the road to findout

 

Well in the end I'll know, but on the way I wonder

Through descending snow, and through the frost and thunder

 

I listen to the wind come howl, telling me I have to hurry

I listen to the robin's song saying not to worry

 

So on and on I go, the seconds tick the time out

There's so much left to know, and I'm on the road to findout

 

Then I found myself alone, hopin' someone would miss me

Thinking about my home, and the last woman to kiss me, kiss me

 

But sometimes you have to moan when nothing seems to suit ya

But nevertheless you know you're locked towards the future

 

So on and on you go, the seconds tick the time out

There's so much left to know, and I'm on the road to findout

 

Then I found my head one day when I wasn't even trying

And here I have to say, 'cause there is no use in lying, lying

 

Yes the answer lies within, so why not take a look now?

Kick out the devil's sin, pick up, pick up a good book now

 

 

If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out

 

Well, if you want to sing out, sing out

And if you want to be free, be free

'Cause there's a million things to be

You know that there are

 

And if you want to live high, live high

And if you want to live low, live low

'Cause there's a million ways to go

You know that there are

 

Chorus:

You can do what you want

The opportunity's on

And if you can find a new way

You can do it today

You can make it all true

And you can make it undo

you see ah ah ah

its easy ah ah ah

You only need to know

 

Well if you want to say yes, say yes

And if you want to say no, say no

'Cause there's a million ways to go

You know that there are

 

And if you want to be me, be me

And if you want to be you, be you

'Cause there's a million things to do

You know that there are

 

Chorus

 

Well, if you want to sing out, sing out

And if you want to be free, be free

'Cause there's a million things to be

You know that there are

You know that there are

You know that there are

You know that there are

You know that there are

 

 

Where Do The Children Play?

 

Well I think it's fine, building jumbo planes.

Or taking a ride on a cosmic train.

Switch on summer from a slot machine.

Get what you want to if you want, 'cause you can get anything.

 

I know we've come a long way,

We're changing day to day,

But tell me, where do the children play?

 

Well you roll on roads over fresh green grass.

For your lorryloads pumping petrol gas.

And you make them long, and you make them tough.

But they just go on and on, and it seems you can't get off.

 

Oh, I know we've come a long way,

We're changing day to day,

But tell me, where do the children play?

 

When you crack the sky, scrapers fill the air.

Will you keep on building higher

'til there's no more room up there?

Will you make us laugh, will you make us cry?

Will you tell us when to live, will you tell us when to die?

 

I know we've come a long way,

We're changing day to day,

But tell me, where do the children play?

 

 

Daytime

 

In the daytime time for celebration

No use looking down if it's over here

It's a world a new creation

And the golden light of the morning

Makes it easy to comb your hair

And the love of a child

It's the time of the year

 

In the daytime you can move a mountain

With a blink of your eye

Now it's over here now it's over there

It's a world with no complications

And the curtains on the window

Start blowing like your hair

And the love that i feel

'Cause it's the time of the year

 

Mysterious moon found me crying in the dark

Heard my footsteps on the stairs

Mysterious moon found me crying

But the sun dried my tears

Showed he cares

 

In the daytime time for celebration

No use looking down children open your eyes

It's a world a whole nation

Now the white boats have landed

And the innocent are here

So dream for the child

'Cause it's the time of the year

 

 

Don't Be Shy

 

Don't be shy just let your feelings roll on by

Don't wear fear or nobody will know you're there

Just lift your head, and let your feelings out instead

And don't be shy, just let your feeling roll on by

On by (x9)

 

You know love is better than a song

Love is where all of us belong

So don't be shy just let your feelings roll on by

Don't wear fear or nobody will know you're there

You're there (x9)

 

Don't be shy just let your feelings roll on by

Don't wear fear or nobody will know you're there

Just lift your head, and let your feelings out instead

And don't be shy, just let your feeling roll on by

On by (x9)

 

 

How Can I Tell You

 

How can I tell you that I love you, I love you

but I can't think of right words to say

I long to tell you that I'm always thinking of you

I'm always thinking of you, but my words

just blow away, just blow away

It always ends up to one thing, honey

and I can't think of right words to say

Wherever I am girl, I'm always walking with you

I'm always walking with you, but I look and you're not there

Whoever I'm with, I'm always, always talking to you

I'm always talking to you, and I'm sad that

you can't hear, sad that you can't hear

It always ends up to one thing, honey,

when I look and you're not there

I need to know you, need to feel my arms around you

feel my arms surround you, like a sea around a shore

and -- each night and day I pray, in hope

that I might find you, in hope that I might

find you, because heart's can do no more

It always ends up to one thing honey, still I kneel upon the floor

How can I tell you that I love you, I love you

but I can't think of right words to say

I long to tell you that I'm always thinking of you

I'm always thinking of you....

It always ends up to one thing honey

and I can't think of right words to say

 

 

Father and Son

 

Father

It's not time to make a change,

Just relax, take it easy.

You're still young, that's your fault,

There's so much you have to know.

Find a girl, settle down,

If you want you can marry.

Look at me, I am old, but I'm happy.

I was once like you are now, and I know that it's not easy,

To be calm when you've found something going on.

But take your time, think a lot,

Why, think of everything you've got.

For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not.

 

Son

How can I try to explain, when I do he turns away again.

It's always been the same, same old story.

>From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen.

Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away.

I know I have to go.

 

Father

It's not time to make a change,

Just sit down, take it slowly.

You're still young, that's your fault,

There's so much you have to go through.

Find a girl, settle down,

if you want you can marry.

Look at me, I am old, but I'm happy.

Son

(Away away away, I know I have to

make this decision alone--no)

 

Son

All the times that I cried, keeping all the things I knew inside,

It's hard, but it's harder to ignore it.

If they were right, I'd agree, but it's them you know not me.

Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away.

I know I have to go.

Father

(Stay stay stay, why must you

go make this decision alone?)

 

 

The Hurt

 

You say you want to seek the truth, but it's hard to find

No one to help you, your friends don't have the time

So you ride around in your car, switch on the radio

You want to relate to something you once read in a book

What kind of a way to try to take a look

 

Until I got hurt I was looking, I was on my way

Until I got hurt, until I got hurt, darling I painted my face grey

Until I got hurt, 'till got hurt, why didn't I

I didn't think of this until I got hurt

'Till I got hurt. baby. I didn't know' what love is

 

You say you want to learn to laugh 'cause music makes you cry

But the tears you shed are only in your eye

So you turn to any phoney mouth with a tale to tell

But he's just a hoaxer don't you know, selling peace and religion

Between his jokes and his karma chewing gum

 

Until I got hurt, I was looking, I was the same as you

Until I got hurt, until I got hurt, I did not know what to do

Until I got hurt, 'till I got hurt, why didn't I

I didn't think of this until I got hurt

'Till I got hurt, baby, I didn't know what love is

 

Young son, don't let me down, young son

I'm trusting you to keep on, never turn away now

Hold on, never let go, now hold on

Turn your heart to the bright sun

Love will come your way

Cos 'till you make that final show

You'll never know what love you've been missing

Missing

 

You say you want to seek the truth but you work alone

No one to help you and nobody to push you on

So you sit at home drinking your wine, television on

You wait for a miracle, 'cause you say one day one'll come along

(But wishful thinking, boy) any minute now You might be gone

I'd like to help you brother but that would be wrong

 

Until I got hurt, I was looking, I was on my way

Until I got hurt, until I got hurt, darling I didn't know which way

Until I got hurt, 'till I got hurt, why didn't I

I didn't think of this until I got hurt

'Till I got hurt, baby, I didn't know what love is

 

Until I got hurt, oh I didn't know what love is

 

 

Silent Sunlight

 

Silent sunlight, welcome in

There is work I must now begin

All my dreams have blown away

And the children want to play

They'll soon remember things to do

When the heart is young

And the night is done

And the sky is blue

 

Morning songbird, sing away

Lend a tune to another day

Bring your wings and choose a roof

Sing a song of love and truth

We'll soon remember if you do

When all things were tall

And our friends were small

And the world was new

 

Sleepy horses, heave away

Put your backs to the golden hay

Don't ever look behind at the work you've done

For your work has just begun

There'll be the evening in the end

but till that time arrives

You can rest your eyes

And begin again