[Verse 1] Stand on a bridge before the cavern of night Darkness alive with possibilities Nose to this wind full of twinkling lights Trying to catch the scent of what's coming to be [Chorus] In this world of wonders World of wonders World of wonders World of wonders [Verse 2] Somewhere a saxophone slides through changes Like a wet pipe dripping...Learn More

[Verse 1] Maybe the poet is gay But he'll be heard anyway Maybe the poet is drugged But he won't stay under the rug Maybe the voice of the spirit In which case you'd better hear it Maybe he's a woman Who can touch you where you're human [Chorus] Male female slave or free Peaceful or disorderly Maybe you and he will not agree But you need him to...Learn More

[Intro] I'm gonna do a couple things by myself. It's a union break for those guys.  [Verse 1] After the rain in the streets light flows like blood I can just taste salt on the humid wind Here comes that gasoline Spreading hungry rainbow over shiny black tar I'm blown like smoke and blind as wind Except for when your love breaks in [Chorus] Maybe...Learn More

[Verse 1] I was up the road on easy street Watching everybody stand around and cheat Man comes up, says "Move along Back to the corner where you belong" [Refrain] But mama just wants to barrelhouse all night long [Verse 2] Hear the city singing like a siren choir Some fool tried to set this town on fire TV preacher screams "Come on along" I feel...Learn More

[Verse 1] Orion's high in the southwest sky You're bound to move on and so am I On this world we've had time to burn How come nobody ever seems to learn? See how the starwheel turns [Verse 2] Crystal drift on the whistling wind Constant change is the space we're in You may use a slide rule or a golden crown But nothing's worth it that you can pin...Learn More

[Verse 1] Padded with power here they come International loan sharks backed by the guns Of market hungry military profiteers Whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared With the blood of the poor [Verse 2] Who rob life of its quality Who render rage a necessity By turning countries into labour camps Modern slavers in drag as champions of...Learn More

[Verse 1] Rain forest Mist and mystery Teeming green Green brain facing lobotomy Climate control centre for the world Ancient cord of coexistence Hacked by parasitic greedhead scam— From Sarawak to Amazonas Costa Rica to mangy B.C. hills— Cortege rhythm of falling timber What kind of currency grows in these new deserts These brand new flood...Learn More

[Verse 1] Breakfast woodsmoke on the breeze On the cliff the U.S. Embassy Frowns out over Managua like Dracula's tower The kid who guards Fonseca's tomb Cradles a beat-up submachine gun At age fifteen he's a veteran of four years of war Proud to pay his dues He knows who turns the screws Baby face and old man's eyes [Verse 2] Blue lagoon and...Learn More

[Intro] Good evening.  [Verse 1] High speed drift on a prairie road Hot tires sing like a string being bowed Sudden town rears up then explodes Fragments resolve into white line code [Refrain] Whirl on silver wheels [Verse 2] Black earth energy receptor fields Undulate under a grey cloud shield We outrun a river colour brick red mud That cleaves...Learn More

[Verse 1] Here comes the helicopter—second time today Everybody scatters and hopes it goes away How many kids they've murdered only God can say [Chorus] If I had a rocket launcher If I had a rocket launcher If I had a rocket launcher I'd make somebody pay [Verse 2] I don't believe in guarded borders and I don't believe in hate I don't believe in...Learn More

[Verse 1] Rising like lightspill from this sleeping town Like the light in a lover's eyes Rising from the hearts of the sleepers all around All those dreamers trying to light the sky [Chorus] Burning—all night long Burning—at the gates of dawn Singing—near and far Singing—to raise the morning star [Verse 2] Rising like lightning in the pregnant...Learn More

[Verse 1] Night comes The mask of the world Resolves into round bits of silver on the table Round arrow nocked against the bow Round fruit devoured by time While the moon climbs [Verse 2] Sea swells Illusion is queen In the shallow graves of experience time-centred Grave silence reigns over the stars Graven image hanging in time While the earth...Learn More