MONA BONE JAKON

This is probably one of Cat Stevens' best albums. If you haven't heard it yet, I PITY YOU!

 

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LADY D'ARBANVILLE

My Lady d'Arbanville, why do you sleep so still?

I'll wake you tomorrow

and you will be my fill, yes, you will be my fill.

 

My Lady d'Arbanville why does it grieve me so?

But your heart seems so silent.

Why do you breathe so low, why do you breathe so low,

 

My Lady d'Arbanville why do you sleep so still?

I'll wake you tomorrow

and you will be my fill, yes, you will be my fill.

 

My Lady d'Arbanville, you look so cold tonight.

Your lips feel like winter,

your skin has turned to white, your skin has turned to white.

 

My Lady d'Arbanville, why do you sleep so still?

I'll wake you tomorrow

and you will be my fill, yes, you will be my fill.

 

La la la la la....

 

My Lady d'Arbanville why does it grieve me so?

But your heart seems so silent.

Why do you breathe so low, why do you breathe so low,

 

I loved you my lady, though in your grave you lie,

I'll always be with you

This rose will never die, this rose will never die.

 

I loved you my lady, though in your grave you lie,

I'll always be with you

This rose will never die, this rose will never die.

 

 

MAYBE YOU'RE RIGHT

 

Now maybe you're right and maybe you're wrong

But I ain't gonna argue with you no more

I've done it for too long.

It was getting so good why then, where did it go?

I can't think about it no more tell me if you know.

You were loving me, I was loving you

But now there aint nothing but regretting

nothing, nothing but regretting everything we do.

 

I put up with your lies like you put up with mine,

But God knows we should have stopped somewhere,

we could have taken the time,

But time has turned, yes, some call it the end.

So tell me, tell me did you really love me like a friend?

You know you don't have to pretend,

It's all over now It'll never happen again, no no no,

it'll never happen again , it won't happen again

Never, never, never, it'll never happen again

No, no, no, no.....

 

So maybe you're right, and maybe you're wrong

But I ain't gonna argue with you no more

I've done it for too long.

It was getting so good why then, where did it go?

I can't think about it no more tell me if you know.

You were loving me, I was loving you

But now there aint nothing but regretting

nothing, nothing but regretting everything we do.

 

 

POP STAR

 

Yes I'm going to be a pop star.

Yes I'm going to be a pop star, now.

Yes I'm going to be a pop star.

Oh mama, mama see me, mama, mama see me

I'm a pop star.

 

Yes, I'm going on the T.V. now.

Yes, I'm going on the T.V. now.

Yes, I'm going on the T.V. now.

Oh mama, mama see me, mama, mama see me

on the T.V.

 

Yes, I'm going on my first gig.

Yes, I'm going on my first gig.

Yes, I'm going on my first gig.

Oh mama, mama see me, mama, mama see me

on my first gig.

 

Now listen to me,

La da na la, na da la...

 

Well, I'm going to the cold bank, cold bank.

Yes, I'm going to the cold bank.

Yes, I'm going to the cold bank.

Oh mama, mama see me, mama, mama see me

at the cold bank.

 

Mama see me!

La da na la, na da la...

 

Well, I'm coming, coming, coming home now.

Yes, I'm coming, coming, coming home now.

Yes, I'm coming, coming, coming home now.

Oh mama, mama see me, mama, mama see me

I'm home.

 

 

I THINK I SEE THE LIGHT

 

I used to trust nobody, trusting even less their words,

until I found somebody, there was no one I preferred,

my heart was made of stone, my eyes saw only misty grey,

Until you came into my life girl, I saw everyone that way.

Until I found the one I needed at my side,

I think I would have been a sad man all my life.

 

I think I see the light coming to me,

coming through me giving me a second sight.

So shine, shine, shine,

shine, shine, shine,

shine, shine, shine.

 

I used to walk alone, every step seemed the same.

This world was not my home, so there was nothing much to gain.

Look up and see the clouds, look down and see the cold floor.

Until you came into my life girl, I saw nothing, nothing more.

Until I found the one I needed at my side,

I think I would have been a sad man all my life.

 

I think I see the light coming to me,

coming through me giving me a second sight.

So shine, shine, shine,

shine, shine, shine,

shine, shine, shine.

 

 

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

 

 

MONA BONE JAKON

 

Yes, I've got a Mona Bone Jakon

But it won't be lonely for long.

Yes, I've got a Mona Bone Jakon

But it won't be lonely for long.

 

Yes, I've got my reasons and to me they're all true,

and I wouldn't change them, not even for you.

 

Yes, I've got a Mona Bone Jakon

But it won't be lonely for long.

 

Yeah!...

 

 

I WISH, I WISH

 

I wish I knew, I wish I knew

what makes me, me, and what makes you, you.

It's just another point of view, ooo.

A state of mind I'm going through, yes.

So what I see is never true, ahhh.

 

I wish I could tell, I wish I could tell

what makes a heaven what makes a hell.

And do I get to ring my bell, ooo.

Or land up in some dusty cell, no.

While others reach the big hotel, yeah.

 

I wish I had, I wish I had

the secret of good, and the secret of bad.

Why does this question drive me mad? ahhh.

'Cause I was taught when but a lad, yes,

That bad was good and good was bad, ahhh.

 

I wish I knew the mystery of

that thing called hate, and that thing called love.

What makes the in-between so rough? ahhh.

Why is it always push and shove? ahhh

I guess I just don't know enough, yes.

 

 

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

 

 

TIME

 

Time rise

Time fall

Time leaves you nothing,

nothing at all

 

Words, just words don't know

Words take you nowhere,

nowhere to go, to go.

 

Back....

I'm going back.

Ooo, going back.

 

 

FILL MY EYES

 

And in the morning when you fill my eyes

I knew that day I couldn't do,

Ahh, no wrong, I couldn't do.

 

And so my mind begins to memorize

'Cause time will never seem the same,

Ahh, no more, never again.

 

I'm just a coaster but my wheels won't go,

My legs are weak my heels are low.

I'm just a coaster but my wheels won't roll.

Can't make no headway on this road.

 

There's an empty space inside me now,

A wasteland deep beneath the snow,

So cold, nothing'll grow.

 

I'm just a coaster but my wheels won't go,

My legs are weak my heels are low.

I'm just a coaster but my wheels won't roll.

Can't make no headway on this road. What road?

 

And in the morning when you fill my eyes

I knew that day I couldn't do,

Ahh, no wrong, I couldn't do.

 

 

LILYWHITE

 

Back up on the mended road

I pause

taking time to check the dial

 

And the Lilywhite

I never knew her name

But she'll be passing my way sometime again.

 

I raise my hand and touch the wheel

of change

taking time to check the dial

 

Thank the Lilywhite

I never knew her name

But she'll be passing my way sometime again.

But she'll be passing my way sometime again.