Songs from my friend Jim Ydstie
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Nobody Knows When you were a baby They took a little bit of your blood They put it in a deep dark hole. Now the want to kill you They want to watch you die But they kept your soul. We are the engine The blinded engine of the beast. The sheep are fast asleep While they prepare their feast. But nobody knows Nobody knows..... You can take the blue pill And you'll be free in virtuality You will be downloaded With everything that you think you need. But maybe you will take the red pill And you will keep your feet upon the earth. Maybe you will discover What your consciousness is worth. But nobody knows Nobody knows..... Everything you see was very consciously invented Every brick they laid. They eat your fear and anger. They want you angry and afraid. When you were a baby You held a tiny silver thread. You were 'meant' to follow it Until the day that you were dead. But nobody knows Nobody knows....
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Upside Down Half a heartbeat ahead of the total breakdown Gotta find a firmer piece of ground Never heard it in the town , never read it in the paper But the whole world is turned upside down And the sea towers like a mountain Above the cold forbidding sky Where all the stars, feign their indifference And everything, waits patiently You can leave it to the human beings if you want to fix anything They have even been known to send spaceships to the moon You will find them driving all over in their fast cars Leave it to the human beings to fix it soon. While the moon gives you her icy stare And all the fish, swim so mysteriously And the birds, they know exactly what to do And everything, waits patiently So we gave it a go, but you can't expect miracles Cause we are just a bunch of monkeys after all But there'll be plenty of time to create a new civilization There'll be lots of stuff to do after its gone When the lamb lays down with the lion And lots of people start to see angels And everything you know, returns to dust And everything, waits patiently Watch out I'm coming through, gotta get me a good seat Gotta get there before the time is up Make sure you don't miss, the greatest show ever You gotta be there on the day when the world turns ...... You gotta be there on the day when the world turns right side up.
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Sacred Gardens I'm trying remember this old feeling From when I was little and I trusted everyone I wish I could remember this old feeling Before my faith in man had come undone. And we sang Jesus loves you this I know For the bible tells me so Little ones to him belong They are weak and He is strong So the boy scout leader he had his own agenda And the pastor spent a lot of time down with widow Jones And most everybody hung out at the shopping center Where they talk about the latest music and their favorite TV shows And we sang..... It took a man to imagine inhumanity And what kind of creature could forget what to teach his child Is it any wonder that we struggle for our sanity When all the sacred gardens have run wild And we sang.....
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Afghanistan
I want to go to Afghanistan I want to sing this song until they understand That they want to take your world away They're gonna take your world away
And what became of old Saddam They set him up and gave him weapons then they knocked him down was he a pawn from the start and was he just trying to play his part
And if I went to the USA and I ask anybody there why do you treat the world this way They won't have a clue cause they don't know what they do
And anybody south of there If they've done well you know it's rare because the American dream it doesn't smell so good from there
I want to go to Bethlehem That's where the King was born. I wonder what he'd do today I wonder what he'd say today
Maybe he would go to Palestine He'd say it may not be a state but its a state of mind and maybe that's the only hope for you earthlings to find that state of mind again |
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You Became that Storm How was I to know about the ancient crime that overwhelmed you And who was gonna tell me bout your black black heart I'm going down, to where I never had to go I'm going down, cause its the only way home No light no sound, nothing's ever gonna live down there Until I fall into the fire of what befell you Every time a baby cries and no one hears that cry It grows and grows into a storm of madness You became that storm, which has crashed upon my shore Lay your burden down, you don't have to carry it no more Lay your burden down on me I will bear away your tears I will bear away your fears So far, away, from here I can hear the angels weeping thinking about you Step out from behind that veil of tears my dear You became that storm I wish that you could lay your burden down I want to bear away your tears..... To never have been loved is to be born without a heart You can't love nobody, but how can I make you start You became that storm....... |
If My Tears Were Wine Its a long long way, to north dakota I don't know how, I got so far away from home But if my tears were wine I would be drunk all the time It took a long long time, to get to know ya And only to find, I didn't want to know you at all But if my tears were wine I would be drunk all the time I've been far to long on this cold and loveless Island Just watching the sand, disappear into the sea But if my tears were wine I would be drunk all the time I gotta wonder , how much love has simply passed me by And how much tenderness will I never find But if my tears........ How many miracles, will I never witness And how many smiles, will I never smile If my tears ....... I only hope that one fine day, I will see the sunshine Sparkling out from my grandchildren's eyes But if my tears were wine I would be drunk all the time......
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I Can Hear You I see you standing there on top of the bridge Pretending to watch the ships go by Way upon the top of the bridge Where no one can see you cry, But I can hear you........ Please don't walk into those woods How you gonna leave your momma this way Please don't walk into those woods I know you'll find a brighter day But I can hear you.... Nobody knows what kind of pain you're in And nobody can tell you what to do Cause you're the only one that knows Just how much pain you can get through But I can hear you...... |
I'm So Tired I'm so tired, and I've got nothing left to prove And there's nothing you can take away from me You can't take the sunshine off the sea And you're never gonna take this song away from me. So long darling, I hope you find what you need And don't worry that you threw my love away I'll find my mind again someday And you probably would've drove me crazy anyway Some day soon, I hope I can remember who I am Like before when I was walking in the light Before you turned my day to night And I only hope, without you everything's gonna be alright, everything, everything's gonna be alright.
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Strangest Times These are the strangest times to leave behind my son. I know the answers that you need I'll never find my darling one. How does the wind and the rain know what to do If I was a hurricane could I tell you I know you'll never understand the rule Where the good guy always ends up as the fool Even little tiny mice can sing a song I wonder if I could hear them could I tell you what went wrong But then I think of you and how you came into the world like from above. You're a miracle of stardust and love. An ancient Indian prophecy proclaims That spiderwebs will cross the skies and then You will know that the end of time is near I often wonder if that time is here But then I think of you..........
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True
Love I guess I knew it had to end, there was nothing left to do, to win some love from you. And you know I tried but still our love has died, and now I'm overcome, by what I thought I'd left behind Broken hearts and broken homes So many good men all alone So many children made to grieve And wonder what made daddy leave If we're only made of flesh and bone Then where does all this pain come from And where does all the true love go when its gone But I never will believe, that true love ever dies, no it never goes away It just becomes,a kind of sadness in your eyes, and a melancholy song, that your heart will always play Broken hearts...... If the most important thing is to love and to be loved then why is it so rare to keep the one you're sposed to love And how will the children learn to give their hearts away , when you know they'll do just what they see and never what you say True love true love Where does it go when its gone. |
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Hello Jesus Hello Jesus, how's your pa? Well I'm just fine but let me tell you why I called Its the thing that really hangs me up the most I know about you and your dad but who's this holy ghost Well I go to church, I sit there and I sing the hymns I don't think about the words til there he is again And it does my head in every time I hear it Cause now this other guy's the holy spirit Is he a spirit or is he a ghost Make up your mind oh holy host Is he a ghost or is he a spirit And if he's a ghost then should I fear it Well its been nice of you to talk with me Even though you never told me bout the trinity So I'll be sitting here waiting on my butt Till you tell me all about the triumverate Toodleoo Jesus, See ya later co-creator |
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