Hothouse Flowers/Dave Stewart
You've been disturbed from your sleep You've been laid down on the floor You've been looking around for your family Now your body's tired and sore Well there's rest that's in the water And there's an answer on the streets And if you take the time to listen There's a chance you will meet Your soul This is it This is your soul This is it When your world falls down around you Not the most comfortable place You've been looking into a room full of strangers But now you recognise one face It's a reflection on the water It's the word that's in the street Say it now is the time to listen Take the time to meet Your soul This is it This is your soul This is it And they're talking at you not with you And you're bored with what's around And you've tried all the quacks, all the doctors and all you really need And all you really need is a healing sound But just listen to the waters Find the answer on the street Because now it's time to listen, now it's time to meet Your soul, now this is it It's time to meet your soul Your crying soul This is your soul Set free your soul This is it, set it free, let the light inside Shine from the inside out Oh let the light inside shine From the inside out Let the light inside
Hothouse Flowers
What in the world caused this distance? And what in the world hurt our hearts? And what are we to do about it? And what are we to start? We have an answer and it is language It might be silence it might be words It includes some understanding And it includes the will to learn To be talking, talking, talking one tongue Talking, talking one tongue And give us the strength to look straight at you Let doubt be the furthest from our minds So we can continue to be and know that we should be here And we can see the light inside And as it gets more complicated, simplicity must arise So we can follow in this feeling And we can keep this song alive To be talking, talking, talking one tongue Talking, talking, talking one tongue Yes there are many many questions Yes there is red tape on the ground Yes the simple truth can cut through anything Just touch base and make this sound I said yes there are too many questions Yes there is red tape on the ground Yes the simple truth can cut through anything Talking, talking, talking one tongue
Hothouse Flowers/Dave Stewart
It came in a dream you and I were there You found me while I was frightened You said Change should not be difficult You said change should lead us home To an emotional time Songs from the rain Falling on our faces And lifting the pain To see us home Is there a voice To soothe the storm I'm still learning And you're still there Forever beautiful There to lead us home to an emotional time Songs from the rain Falling on our faces And healing the pain An emotional time Songs from the rain Calling on listeners to listen again To see us home An emotional time Songs from the rain Falling on our faces And healing the pain It's an emotional time Songs from the rain Calling on listeners To listen again To see us home
Hothouse Flowers
Well we went out past the city limits trying to get a better point of view You were staring hard at me, I was staring back at you And you said I was being secretive, said yes may be you're right But if there is logic in any of this madness you'll find it in my eyes And be good, be kind, be truthful and feel free And keep your wholly loving eyes on me I've got a history of questions, the truth I can only feel What matters to me the most is what is there and what is real We could start by shaking each other and talk about something else And I know in the end we can get to the point and we can go and get some rest And be good, be kind, be truthful and feel free And keep your wholly loving eyes on me Is it not written in the music, is it not painted in the skies It's time we stopped talking about soft drinks started talking about our lives There are answers in the music and there are answers in the words And if we stopped talking in circles we might get closer to the earth And be good, be kind, be truthful and feel free And keep your wholly loving eyes on me
Hothouse Flowers
I've spent my life watching sky and sea change colour hypnotised by The beauty of it all And you ask me why I'm singing Well it is good for me, it can be good for you I've hoarded all experiences I've had Written down all memories on a train And you ask me where I'm headed It can be good for you And it's been good for me I've seen a face in a thousand nights of dreaming It's been calling me to take up on the road And I'll go I will I'll keep on believing 'Cos it is good for me It can be good for you I've begged my family to take me Asked them to see my point of view And I will, I will stand my ground and face you 'Cos you are good for me I can be good for you I've seen a thousand nights of ardour Got frozen by the winter of my soul But I'm not afraid of sorrow 'Cos it's been good for me It can be good for you And I've woken to the sound of sweet dawn music Where a hundred thousand songs are sung While the earth and ocean changes Four thousand million into one
Hothouse Flowers
Isn't it amazing (2) We follow a winding path Through towns of tears in laughter Moved by the one spirit And the spirit's moving faster Closer as the great eagle soars And we follow...steady Steady as she goes And every cry is a song And every song is a prayer And our prayer must be heard Fill the air (repeat) Got to find the right note How to make the right tone How to keep it true to ourselves Where we are coming from What matters most is us What matters most is now What matters is this How it comes and where and how Every cry is a song Every song is a prayer And our prayers must be heard To fill the air Help us make peace Amazing grace, Morning has broken, Imagine, Trumpets, Knocking on heaven's door, In the garden, Forever young, No woman no cry, Ag criost an siol, Open up, open up the doors to your heart, You might need somebody, you might need somebody, Thank you for letting me be myself again
The closing lyrics are references to the following songs:
Help Us Make Our Peace (Hothouse Flowers); Amazing Grace (by John Newton);
Morning Has Broken (Cat Stevens); Imagine (John Lennon); Trumpets (Waterboys);
Knocking On Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan); In The Garden (Van Morrison; also the
title of a hymn); Forever Young (Bob Dylan); No Woman No Cry (Bob Marley and the
Wailers); Ag criost an siol (The Seed Is Christ's - traditional Irish/Gaelic);
Open Up The Door To Your Heart (Freddie Scott), You Might Need Somebody
(written by Will Jennings); Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) (Sly and The
Family Stone). Thanks to the HF mailing list for these.
Thing Of Beauty
Hothouse Flowers
Look out your window on a winters morning Your breath is steam and there's frost falling And the sun casts a spell upon the road A thing of beauty is not a thing to ignore Great song of beauty Stand by the river on a moonlight evening Lovers are loving and grievers are grieving And the water does a dance upon the stones I sit and listen, I will not ignore A thing of beauty is not to be ignored Can't you see, (can't you see) It in the secrets of the dawn (thing of beauty) Can't you feel (can't you feel) Can't you feel it in the place that you come from (thing of beauty) Face up to morning Face up to day Face up to reality And face up to your ways There is so much to breathe, see, know, understand and do And I believe in things of beauty Do you, do you? Can't you see Can't you see it in the secrets of the night (thing of beauty) Can't you feel Can't you feel it in the wonder of a birds first flight Thing of beauty Can't you see, can't you see it See it in the gentle falling of the snow Can't you feel, can't you feel Like a mother feels when she knows her child has grown Come to conclusions I believe we all do To look around us and the taste of the fruit Set free your morals It should be written on every door A thing of beauty is not a thing to ignore Can't you see (can't you see) It in the magic when a boy meets a girl (thing of beauty) Can't you feel it, can't you feel it In the wonders of the changes of the world (thing of beauty) Can't you see (can't you see) It when right comes out of wrong (thing of beauty) Can't you feel (can't you feel) It as it goes on and on (thing of beauty) Can't you see (can't you see) It in what's left beneath the ground (thing of beauty) Can't you feel (can't you feel) It in the mystery of sound (of sound, thing of beauty) Can't you see Can't you see it in the glory of the sun (thing of beauty) Can't you feel, can't you feel it in the wonder of the one... One Can't you feel one and only One and only Can't you feel it, can't you feel it, feel it Thing of beauty
Hothouse Flowers
You sang so softly I closed my eyes Like snowfall on the water I the only child You had been walking And your skin was cold You took the night with you And I was enthralled By the power of the light And the sound of the changing tide of your nature And it was evening I saw my breath And I was needing to hear your tenderness I was blinded by the sight, the power of the changing tide of your nature And it was evening I saw my breath And I was needing to hear your tenderness I was blinded by the sight, the power of the changing tide of Your nature Stay singing softly You take me home Like a slow boat on the water Like an old stone I was blinded by the sight and the power of the changing tide Blinded by the night The sweet sound of the changing tide of your nature
Hothouse Flowers
Have you been touched by the spirit of the land From a far away call into the palm of your hand It's inside every woman, it's inside every man It's time to look and listen to know and understand The news is getting further and the word is getting round We will end another people if we keep taking from the ground You'll see it in the symbols and the songs with ancient sounds You'll find it all connected if you take the time to look around Look around There's a gathering of races and a gathering of soul There'll be a choosing of direction and a distribution of roles Earth is turtle island And air is isle of green Water is in Indian, fire is aborigine
O'Maonlai/O'Toole/O'Braonain/Will Jennings
Blazing eyes bareback horses and a redhead smile I'm tempted strongly, strongly tempted by the call of the wild Going to the gypsy fair I'm going to find some freedom there I want to dance 'til I don't care At the gypsy fair, at the gypsy fair Are coffee stains the total colour of my mind I see a plane I look up and wonder if it should be flying Going to the gypsy fair I'm going to find some freedom there I want to dance 'til I don't care At the gypsy fair, at the gypsy fair Legend written not written only passed on through time Of a people walking, walking people and they're dreaming Dreaming of flying Going to the gypsy fair I'm going to find some freedom there I want to dance 'til I don't care At the gypsy fair At the gypsy fair
Hothouse Flowers
He has been living through the pages of our time Known as a true man Pure and sublime Comes from the earth And out of the skies From the four corners of the compass And into our lives He is followed He who is true To what there is to be believed in To the spirit of you Comes from the day And out of the night It's in all things natural It's in all things right Oh Sometimes it's just not that easy Oh Sometimes I go to call you, call you Stand beside me God Stand beside me Stand before me And behind me So I can follow in love And it all sails so smoothly with a prayer at each hand We all carry our stones, our good books On the Holy ground, we stand True to the day, true to the night It's got to be natural, it's got to be right Oh Sometimes it's still not that easy No Sometimes I'm not the man I think I am Feel I am Hope I am Know I am Stand beside me Stand beside me Stand before me And behind me So I can be true, so I can be true to my word Stand beside me Stand beside me Stand before me Stand beside me