Forever Consciousness Series -- Part -- Music

The repetition and chanting of the chorus over a trance hypnotic drum beat entrains the brain and seduces us into more readily accepting the message which is perfect for casting spells. The drum beat entrains the brain. The bass lowers the frequency. Guitars use steel strings so we are receiving the sounds of heavy metal, electric amps. The highs such as the voice grab your attention. beat rhymes and chanting the "hook" . The sweet voice of a modern day siren can send practically any message whatsoever and we still like it because of the music, the beat, the sound of the voice, the visual beauty and dancing of the artist, similar to the SONG and DANCE of the minstrel or court jester. **

Lucifer was in charge of music in heaven?

The word music can be traced back to Greek mythology. Humans often prayed to the Muses for good voices. The Muses are the goddesses of singing, art, and science and inspire (spiral in) those who excel at these pursuits. In another Greek myth the sirens who were similar to the muses (and born from the muse Terpsichore) competed with the muses in a singing contest. The sirens were known to sing a beautiful song on the rock and lure sailors to their deaths.

Greek myth of the lyre (liar?)

"According to ancient Greek mythology, Hermes was the one who invented the lyre in the first place. Hermes stole a herd of sacred cows from Apollo, slaughtered one of them and offered all but the entrails to the gods. From the entrails, he created the lyre. Apollo was furious, but after hearing the sound of the lyre, his anger faded. " The parentage of Pan, the god of chaos and sometimes associated with the devil, is unclear; generally he is the son of Hermes and a wood nymph... Pan is god of woods, chaos, played flute.

There are many musicians who say they feel possessed when they play. Some musicians even admit to selling their soul to the devil. There is the famed legend of how Robert Johnson, the father of Blues music, sold his soul at the crossroads and sang about it in songs like "Cross Road Blues" and "Hellhound on My Trail". **

Bob Dylan 60 minutes: "I made a bargain with 'It', you know, a long time ago and I'm holdin' up my end." -- Bob Dylan  "It goes back to that destiny thing. I made a bargain with it, you know, a long time ago and I'm holdin' up my end." "What was your bargain?" Ed asked. "To get where I am now." Bob replied. Ed followed up, "Should I ask who you made the bargain with?" Bob responded, "With, with with the, you know, with the chief commander." "On this earth?" "On this earth and in a world we can't see."

Katy Perry said in an interview, "I wanted to be like the Amy Grant of music, but it didn't work out, so I sold my soul to the Devil."

Katy Perry, ET, Firework, Wide Awake, Dark Horse ...

"We Sold Our Soul For rock and Roll" -- album by Black Sabbath

"I’ve sold my soul to the Devil." -- John Lennon

In The Playboy Interviews, John Lennon talked about his music:

"It's like being possessed: like a psychic or a medium".

In the August 22, 1988 issue of People Magazine on page 70, Lennon candidly discussed his spirit possession:

"I felt like a hollow temple filled with many spirits, each one passing through me, each inhabiting me for a little time and then leaving to be replaced by another."

The Playboy Interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Berkeley, 1982, p. 106:

"Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep."

Yoko Ono elaborates:

"They [The Beatles] were like mediums. They weren't conscious of all they were saying, but it was coming through them."

Yoko recounts in the book The Lives of John Lennon,

“Finally it was a time to consummate all these spells by making a living sacrifice and signing a pact with the devil. For Lena was not a “white” witch. She was the real thing – a practicioner of black magic. There was no knowing what she planned to do to seal the bond of Lucifer. All she would say was that a witch’s moon was nigh, and they had to make ready for the sacrifice.

“What sacrifice?” Yoko kept demanding. To which the old witch would reply, “Don’t be silly, girl. We’ve got to make a sacrifice with the blood of an innocent to the one who has the power.”

Jerry Lee Lewis, singer of Great Balls of Fire, told his producer repeatedly, “I’m possessed by the Devil.”

In his autobiography, Little Richard confessed,

“I was directed and commanded by another power, the power of darkness, the power you’ve heard so much about, the power that people don’t believe exists, the power of the Devil, Satan. We must realize that there is a force fighting against us in this world.”

"Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel was just a freight train coming your way" --
Metallica, No Leaf Clover

Paper Moon by Frank Sinatra

Say, it's only a paper moon
Sailing over a cardboard sea
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me
Yes, it's only a canvas sky
Hanging over a muslin tree
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me
Without your love
It's a honky tonk parade
Without your love
It's a melody played in a penny arcade
It's a Barnum and Bailey world
Just as phony as it can be
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me

Fly Me To the Moon by Frank Sinatra

Fly me to the moon
Let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On a-Jupiter and Mars

In other words: hold my hand
In other words: baby, kiss me

Fill my heart with song
And let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore

In other words: please, be true
In other words: I love you

Fill my heart with song
Let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore

In other words: please, be true
In other words, in other words: I love you

That Old Devil Moon by Frank Sinatra

I look at you and suddenly
Something in your eyes I see
Soon begins bewitching me
It's that old devil moon
That you stole from the skies
It's that old devil moon in your eyes
You and you glance
Make this romance too hot to handle
Stars in the night
Blazing their light can't hold a candle
To your razzle dazzle
You've got me flyin' high and wide
On a magic carpet ride
Full of butterflies inside
Want to cry, want to croon
Want to laugh like a loon
It's that old devil moon in your eyes
Just when I think, I'm free as a dove
Old devil moon, deep in your eyes
Blinds me with love
To your razzle dazzle
You've got me flyin' high and wide
On a magic carpet ride
Full of butterflies inside
Want to cry, want to croon
Want to laugh like a loon
It's that old devil moon in your eyes
Just when I think, I'm free as a dove
Old devil moon, deep in your eyes
Blinds me with love
Blinds me with love

"Moon River" by Frank Sinatra

Moon river wider than a mile
I'm crossing you in style someday
Old dream maker, you heartbreaker
Wherever you're going I'm going your way

Two drifters off to see the world
There's such a lot of world to see
We're after the same rainbows end
Waiting round the band
My huckleberry friend, moon river
And me
Two drifters off to see the world
There's such a lot of world to see
We're after the same rainbows end
Waiting round the band
My huckleberry friend, moon river
And me

Another standard is Blue Moon: "I heard somebody whisper 'Darling, please adore me' and when I looked to the moon, it turned to gold... Blue Moon".

Blue Moon of Kentucky, "It was on a moonlight night. The stars were shining bright when they wispered from on high Your lover said good-bye. Blue moon of Kentucky keep on shining. Shine on the one that's gone and said good-bye."

In more modern times, the tradition continues. In Can't Fight the Moonlight, Leann Rimes reveals that the moon "weaves it's spell upon your heart" and steals it. "Underneath the starlight - starlight. There's a magical feeling - so right. It'll steal your heart tonight. You can try to resist, try to hide from my kiss, but you know that you can't fight the moonlight."

Radiohead's ethereal track Sail to the Moon is from the album appropriately entitled Hail to the Thief. "I sucked the moon. I spoke too soon. And how much did it cost? I was dropped from moonbeams and sailed on shooting stars. Maybe you'll be president, but know right from wrong or in the flood you'll build an ark and sail us to the moon."

"Bad Moon Rising" by CCR

I see the bad moon a-rising
I see trouble on the way
I see earthquakes and lightning
I see bad times today

Don't go around tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise

I hear hurricanes a-blowing
I know the end is coming soon
I fear rivers overflowing
I hear the voice of rage and ruin

Don't go around tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise

All right

Hope you got your things together
Hope you are quite prepared to die
Looks like we're in for nasty weather
One eye is taken for an eye

Well, don't go around tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise

Don't go around tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise"

Cat Stevens Moonshadow : " "Oh, I'm being followed by a moonshadow, moonshadow, moonshadow. Leapin and hoppin' on a moonshadow, moonshadow, moonshadow... Did it take long to find me? I asked the faithful light. Did it take long to find me? And are you gonna stay the night?"

Elton John's Bad Side of the Moon hints that this stolen moon may be a prison. "We live our life in manacles, the main cause of our stay. Exiled here from other worlds, my sentence comes too soon. Why should I be made to pay on the bad side of the moon?" In Shoot Down the Moon, Elton sings, "I never say more than I need. The mystery runs deep. The danger's buried below -- the secrets that you keep."

Ozzy Osbourne sings in Bark at the Moon, "Screams waking from the dead of night, vengeance is boiling. He's returned to kill the light... They cursed and buried him. Along with shame and thought, his timeless had gone in empty burning hell -- unholy one. But now he's returned to prove them wrong. Howling in shadows living in a lunar spell, he finds his heaven spewing from the mouth of hell. And when he finds who he's looking for, listen and you'll hear him bark at the moon."

In Big Bad Moon, Guitar wizard/virtuoso Joe Satriani sings about the pull the moon has on him in one of only a handful of his songs with lyrics. "I see it now. The moon is high above. It's got a hold on me. I just can't get enough. Big, round, black and white, I feel the pull, I see the light... Big bad moon's looking down on me tonight... but I like it. When the moon comes, got nowhere to hide. It can turn your head around like it turns the tide..."

Echo and the Bunnymen about The Killing Moon, "Under blue moon I saw you. So soon you'll take me up in your arms, too late to beg you or cancel it, though I know it must be the killing time, unwillingly mine. Fate, up against your will... a magic world, your sky all hung with jewels. The killing moon will come too soon."

Neil Young sings about the Harvest Moon. "But there's a full moon risin'. Let's go dancin' in the light. We know where the music's playin'. Let's go out and feel the night. Because I'm still in love with you, I want to see you dance again. Because I'm still in love with you on this harvest moon."

In the Doors' Moonlight Drive, frontman Jim Morrison croons "Let's swim to the moon. Let's climb through the tide. Penetrate the evening that the city sleeps to hide. Let's swim out tonight, love. It's our time to try. Park beside the ocean on our moonlight drive.".

Jim Morrison, The Lizard King,(The Doors) song Celebration of the Lizard and a poem entitled Thank You O Lord. With all the allusions to Snakes or Lizards that Morrison makes, one has to wonder when he addresses a being as Lord, if he is not petitioning Satan, also known as the Serpent or Dragon in the Bible. The poem reads, "Thank you, O Lord, for the white blind light. Thank you, O Lord, for the white blind light. 

One notable poem was The Lords and The New Creatures which hinted at the human race being enslaved by overlords who disguise themselves and control us through entertainment:

End of the Night by The Doors

Take the highway to the end of the night
End of the night, end of the night
Take a journey to the bright midnight
End of the night, end of the night
Realms of bliss, realms of light
Some are born to sweet delight
Some are born to sweet delight
Some are born to the endless night
End of the night, end of the night
End of the night, end of the night

The End

[Intro]

[Chorus]
This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end

[Verse 1]
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes again

[Verse 2]
Can you picture what will be?
So limitless and free
Desperately in need
Of some stranger's hand
In a desperate land

[Verse 3]
Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane
All the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain, yeah

[Verse 4]
There's danger on the edge of town
Ride the King's Highway, baby
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
Ride the highway west, baby
Ride the snake, ride the snake
To the lake, the ancient lake, baby
The snake, he's long, seven miles
Ride the snake
He's old and his skin is cold
The west is the best
The west is the best
Get here and we'll do the rest
The blue bus is calling us
The blue bus is calling us
Driver, where you taking us?

[Verse 5]
The killer awoke before dawn
He put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his sister lived, and then he
Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
He walked on down the hall, and
And he came to a door
And he looked inside
"Father?" "Yes, son?" "I want to kill you"
"Mother? I want to..."

[Bridge]
Come on baby, take a chance with us
Come on baby, take a chance with us
Come on baby, take a chance with us
And meet me at the back of the blue bus
Doin' a blue rug, on a blue bus, doin' a
Come on yeah
Fuck, fuck-ah, yeah
Fuck, fuck
Fuck, fuck
Fuck, fuck, fuck yeah!
Come on baby, come on
Fuck me baby, fuck yeah
Woah
Fuck, fuck, fuck, yeah!
Fuck, yeah, come on baby
Fuck me baby, fuck fuck
Woah, woah, woah, yeah
Fuck yeah, do it, yeah
Come on!
Huh, huh, huh, huh, yeah
Alright
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill

[Chorus]
This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end

[Verse 6]
It hurts to set you free
But you'll never follow me
The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of nights we tried to die
This is the end

Celebration of the Lizard: Not to Touch the Earth by The Doors

Not to touch the earth
Not to see the sun
Nothing left to do, but
Run, run, run
Let's run
Let's run
House upon the hill
Moon is lying still
Shadows of the trees
Witnessing the wild breeze
C'mon baby run with me
Let's run
Run with me
Run with me
Run with me
Let's run
The mansion is warm, at the top of the hill
Rich are the rooms and the comforts there
Red are the arms of luxuriant chairs
And you won't know a thing 'till you get inside
Dead president's corpse in the driver's car
The engine runs on glue and tar
Come on along, not goin' very far
To the East to meet the Czar
Run with me
Run with me
Run with me
Let's run
Whoa!
Somehow outlaws lived by the side of a lake
The minister's daughter's in love with the snake
Who lives in a well by the side of the road
Wake up, girl, we're almost home
Ya, c'mon!
We should see the gates by mornin'
We should be inside the evenin'
Sun, sun, sun
Burn, burn, burn
Soon, soon, soon
Moon, moon, moon
I will get you
Soon, soon, soon!
I am the Lizard king
I can do anything

Santana -- album named Abraxas and a song named "Soul Sacrifice"... Rolling Stone interview... Rolling Stone, magazine, March 16, 2000, p. 87... praising Metatron as his inspiration and teacher

"The rest of the family likes to be in bed by ten, but Santana is a night person, so he'll come up here until two or three in the morning. A card with the word Metatron spelled out in intricately painted picture letters lies on the floor next to the fireplace. Metatron is an angel. Santana has been in regular contact with him since 1994. Carlos will sit here facing the wall, the candles lit. He has a yellow legal pad at one side, ready for the communications that will come. "It's kind of like a fax machine," he says. The largest candle, whose half-molten remnants are placed centrally, is in a charred tin that bears the logo of its previous, less spiritual use: Mermaid Butter Cookies.,,

“The energy of devils and angels is the same energy; it's how you use it. It's fuel. There is a saying: If you scare all your devils away, the angels will go away with them. You know, the halo and the horns are the same thing. I mean it's OK to be spiritually horny - that's what creative genius is all about. Geniuses don't have time to think about how it's going to be received... they don't have time to think whether people like it or not, is it morally right, will God like it?”
"My reality is that God speaks to you every day. There's an inner voice, and when you hear it, you get a little tingle in your medulla oblongata at the back of your neck, a little shiver, and at two o'clock in the morning, everything's really quiet and you meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you've been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: Write this down. It is just an inner voice, and you trust it. That voice will never take you to the desert."

He tells me more about Metatron. "Metatron is the architect of physical life. Because of him, we can French-kiss, we can hug, we can get a hot dog, wiggle our toe." He sees Metatron in his dreams and meditations. He looks a bit like Santa Claus – "white beard, and kind of this jolly fellow." Metatron, who has been mentioned in mystical disciplines through the ages, also appears as the eye inside the triangle.

Santana credits Metatron with alerting him to the recent changes in his life. In the mid-Nineties, he met some people in a spiritual bookstore near his home, and they invited him to their afternoon meditations in Santa Cruz. The last time he was there, Metatron, delivered some important messages. "You will be inside the radio frequency," Metatron told him, "for the purpose of connecting the molecules with the light." Carlos Santana understood. He would make a new album and be on the radio again. And he would connect the molecules with the light: He would connect an audience with some of the spiritual information he now had. Metatron offered a further instruction: "Be patient, gracious and grateful,"Santana was told, and he resolved to do just that." -- end of quotes

album covers: Metamorphosis, Dark Side of Moon, Magic by Justin Timberlake, The Who Tommy, Master of the Moon by Dio

one eyed symbolism, triangle of manifestation, 666 ok sign

Robert Johnson selling his soul at the Crossroads

Howard Bloom about possession

Ozzy quote "I don't know if I'm a medium for some outside source. Whatever it is, frankly, I hope it is not what I think.... Satan." -- Ozzy Osbourne

"demon alcohol" "zombie stomp"

Stairway to Heaven & Hotel California

Stairway to Heaven

There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven
When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for
Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven
There's a sign on the wall, but she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings
In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven
You know
There's a feeling I get when I look to the west
And my spirit is crying for leaving
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees
And the voices of those who stand looking
That's you
And it's whispered that soon, if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter
Remember laughter?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah...
And it makes me wonder
If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now
It's just a spring clean for the May queen
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on
Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know
The piper's calling you to join him
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind?
And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
When all is one and one is all, that's what it is
To be a rock and not to roll, oh yeah
And she's buying a stairway to heaven

Hotel California

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night
There she stood in the doorway;
I heard the mission bell
And I was thinking to myself,
"This could be Heaven or this could be Hell"
Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way
There were voices down the corridor,
I thought I heard them say...
Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place)
Such a lovely face
Plenty of room at the Hotel California
Any time of year (Any time of year)
You can find it here
Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes bends
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat.
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget
So I called up the Captain,
"Please bring me my wine"
He said, "We haven't had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine"
And still those voices are calling from far away,
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say...
Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place)
Such a lovely face
They livin' it up at the Hotel California
What a nice surprise (what a nice surprise)
Bring your alibis
Mirrors on the ceiling,
The pink champagne on ice
And she said "We are all just prisoners here, of our own device"
And in the master's chambers,
They gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can't kill the beast
Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
"Relax, " said the night man,
"We are programmed to receive.
You can check-out any time you like,
But you can never leave! "

"Goddess In The Doorway" by Mick Jagger

Demons in the bedroom
Dogs are on the roof
I am in the basement
Looking for the truth

Tired of being patient
For the voice to come
If you want the answer
There is only one - only one

Her flesh is smooth and supple
And velvet as the night
Her eyes are shot with diamonds
A mouth full of delight

There's a goddess in the doorway
Asking how much can I take
And it looks like she's heading my way
There's a goddess in the doorway

Demons in the bedroom
Dogs are on the loose
Driving in the backstreets
Looking for the truth

I'm searching for your temple
Hunting for your shrine
I'm looking for a vision
By a neon sign

There's a goddess in the doorway
Asking how much can I take
And it looks like she's heading my way
There's a goddess in the doorway

And her tears flow like a fountain
Like a river from the mountain

How much
How much can I take
How much, how much can I take

There's a goddess in the doorway
Asking how much can I take
And it looks like she's heading my way
There's a goddess in the doorway

Rolling Stones Metamorphosis cover, her majesty's satanic request cover (saturn, mick with wizards hat)"she comes in colours" , "the lantern" "veil" = isis unveiled

"Sing This All Together (See What Happens)"

Why don't we sing this song all together
Open our minds let the pictures come
And if we close all our eyes together
Then we will see where we all come from
Pictures of us in the circling sun
Pictures of the show that we're all one"

"She's A Rainbow"

"She's like a rainbow
Coming, colours in the air
Oh, everywhere
She comes in colours
Have you seen her dressed in blue?
See the sky in front of you...

Have you seen her all in gold?
Like a queen in days of old
She shoots her colours all around
Like a sunset going down
Have you seen a lady fairer?"

"The Lantern"

"We, in our present life
Knew that the stars were right.
That if you are the first to go
You'll leave a sign to let me know
Tell me so.
Please, carry the Lantern lights.
You crossed the sea of night
Free from the spell of fright
Your cloak it is a spirit shroud.
You'll wake me in my sleeping hours
Like a cloud.
So, please, carry the Lantern high.
Me, in my sorry plight
You waiting ev'ry night.
My face it turns a deathly pale
You're talking to me, through your veil
I hear you wail.
So, please carry the Lantern light.
The servants sleep
The door's are barred.
You hear the stopping of my heart-we never part.
So, please carry the Lantern high. "

AT THE GATES OF DAWN, STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN, SGT. PEPPER, JOIN TOGETHER & SONGS FROM THE WOOD

This carrier wave or tone of the sphere is a "roaring silence". Manfred Mann's Earth Band scored a huge hit with the very telling Bruce Springsteen penned song Blinded by the Light. Blinded by the Light is a song on their album, The Roaring Silence. On the same album is Starbird. "Starbird, let your cry lead us all through the night. Rising from the ashes, your light'll show us the way. Starbird, you can fly me. Take me everywhere you go. Roaring with the windsong, Burning in your fiery glow, Screaming through the darkness, Roaring with the windsong, Starbird keep your light shining for all to see. Starbird, let your cry lead us all through the night. Rising from the ashes, your light'll show us the way."

This is also reminiscent of warning of a god of false artificial neon light given in the classic Simon & Garfunkel song The Sound of Silence later covered by Disturbed: "Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again because a vision softly creeping left its seeds while I was sleeping and the vision that was planted in my brain still remains within the sound of silence. In restless dreams I walked alone, narrow streets of cobblestone 'neath the halo of a street lamp, I turned my collar to the cold and damp. When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light that split the night and touched the sound of silence. And in the naked light I saw ten thousand people, maybe more. People talking without speaking. People hearing without listening. People writing songs that voices never share. No one dared disturb the sound of silence. 'Fools' said I, 'You do not know silence like a cancer grows. Hear my words that I might teach you. Take my arms that I might reach you.' But my words like silent raindrops fell and echoed in the wells of silence. And the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made. And the sign flashed out its warning in the words that it was forming. And the sign said, 'The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls and whispered in the sounds of silence'."

Pink Floyd named their first album, The Piper At the Gates of Dawn, after the seventh chapter of the book The Wind in the Willows. The album has a song called Lucifer Sam and a DMT-inspired song called Gnomes: "Hooray! Another way for gnomes to say ' Oooooooooomray' ".

Van Morrison has a song entitled The Piper At the Gates of Dawn which includes the lyrics, "The coolness of the riverbank, and the whispering of the reeds. Daybreak is not so very far away. Enchanted and spellbound, in the silence they lingered. And rowed the boat as the light grew steadily strong. And the birds were silent, as they listened for the heavenly music. And the river played the song. The wind in the willows and the piper at the gates of dawn. The wind in the willows and the piper at the gates of dawn. The song dream happened and the cloven hoofed piper played in that holy ground where they felt the awe and wonder. And they all were unafraid of the great god Pan."

Blackmore's Night is a Celtic, pagan, wiccan based band that plays Renaissance music comprised of the legendary guitarist from both Rainbow and Deep Purple, Ritchie Blackmore, and his lovely, charming wife Candice Night. Candice writes lyrics, sings and plays woodwinds. On their CD Under A Violet Moon they have a track called Wind in the Willows. "With the wind in the willows, the birds in the sky, there's a bright sun to warm us wherever we lie... so come sit beside us and share in our wine."

Jethro Tull features one of the best flute players ever, Ian Anderson, and incorporates much symbolism of the Green Man into their songs. One of their albums is entitled Songs From the Wood and includes the song Jack-in-the-Green.

Queen's song My Fairy King inspired Freddie Mercury to change his last name to Mercury. He sings, "Mother Mercury, look what they've done to me." Mercury is Hermes, once believed to be the conductor of souls in the afterlife. The inspiration for My Fairy King comes from Robert Browning's poem The Pied Piper. The song quotes three lines from the poem and is about a fairy king. "My fairy king can see things that are not there for you and me. He rules the air and turns the tides. Ohh yeah he guides the winds."Brian May said The Queen song The White Queen was inspired by the book The White Goddess. The book is about the Wiccan goddess of the moon. "All around the air did say my Lady soon will stir this way. In sorrow known The White Queen walks and the night grows pale. Stars of lovingness in her hair... How did thee fare, what have thee seen. The mother of the willow green. I call her name And 'neath her window have I stayed. I loved the footsteps that she made. And when she came, White Queen how my heart did ache And dry my lips no word would make. So still I wait. My Goddess, hear my darkest fear. I speak too late. It's for evermore that I wait." ** Freddy Mercury wrote The Black Queen: "I'm lord of all darkness. I'm queen of the night.
I've got the power. Now do the march of the black queen... I'll be what you make me. I'll do what you like. I'll be your bad boy. I'll do the march of the black queen.... She boils, and she bakes, and she never dots her I's. She's our leader. Forget your sing-alongs and your lullabies. Surrender to the city of the fireflies. Dance with the devil, beat with the band. To hell with all of you hand-in-hand. But now it's time to be gone forever."

Led Zeppelin's nature-based song Stairway to Heaven, one of the greatest rock songs of all-time, features a flute at the beginning and also mentions wind and the piper: "It makes me wonder... And it's whispered that soon if we all call the tune, then the piper will call us to reason and a new day will dawn... The piper's calling you to join him. Dear Lady, can you hear the wind blow and did you know your stairway lies on the whispering wind?... And as we wind on down the road our shadow's taller than our soul. There walks a lady we all know who shines white light and wants to show how everything still turns to gold. And if listen very hard the tune will come to you at last."

Even The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band seems to draw inspiration from Peter Pan's band of lonely hearts, the lost boys. The piper meme is found in the lyrics where Sgt. Pepper is the leader of the band: "Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play... You're such a lovely audience, we'd like to take you home with us. We'd love to take you home." On the Sgt. Peppers' album cover, all four members of the Beatles are holding wind instruments/horns. John is holding a French horn; Ringo, a trumpet; Paul, an English horn; and George, a fife (military flute). In the Cirque Du Soleil show Love, based on the music of The Beatles, the character Sgt. Pepper carries one or more horns. A pepper is of the genus named "piper".

The Who's tune Join Together (With the Band) implores the listener, "Everybody, come on and join together with the band".

The Rolling Stones have a song Can You Hear the Music on their Goats Head Soup album. "Can you feel the magic floatin' in the air? Can you hear the magic? Oh, yeah, yeah. When you hear the music ringin' in my ear. Can you hear the music?" On the Rolling Stones album Their Satanic Majesties Secret Request the song Sing This All Together (See What Happens) reveals, "Why don't we sing this song all together. Open our minds let the pictures come and if we close all our eyes together, then we will see where we all come from. Pictures of us in the circling sun. Pictures of the show that we're all one." Also, notice the planet Saturn on the album cover below.

Is it just a coincidence that the greatest classic rock bands are paying homage to this "sympathy for the devil" theme? **

The Call by Regina Spektor

It started out as a feeling
Which then grew into a hope
Which then turned into a quiet thought
Which then turned into a quiet word
And then that word grew louder and louder
'Til it was a battle cry
I'll come back
When you call me
No need to say goodbye
Just because everything's changing
Doesn't mean it's never been this way before
All you can do is try to know who your friends are
As you head off to the war
Pick a star on the dark horizon
And follow the light
You'll come back
When it's over
No need to say goodbye
You'll come back
When it's over
No need to say goodbye...
Now we're back to the beginning
It's just a feeling and no one knows yet
But just because they can't feel it too
Doesn't mean that you have to forget
Let your memories grow stronger and stronger
'Til they're before your eyes
You'll come back
When they call you
No need to say goodbye
You'll come back
When they call you
No need to say goodbye

If you have any doubts at all that what I am saying is true, then you should check out the lyrics to these 16 songs about Pan from the DarkLyrics web site which talk about Pan being a god that pagans and wiccans worship as the horned god and devil. They mention a song in the wind or nature that is calling us. Some very provocative lyrics. Ever noticed all the celebrities with one eye open in photos? Ever wondered why they do that and where it came from? Well, how about this song Hymn to Pan by Dodsengel which uses the poem Hymn to Pan by Aleister Crowley. It features the line, "Give me the sign of the Open Eye... I am awake in the grip of the snake." Or this line from the song Io Pan by Inkubus Sukkubus: "Io Pan! God of lust and of nature. Great god of the internet, his web around the earth."

Link: 16 Songs About Pan

SIREN SONGS & SWAN SONGS

Not only do we have the tune of the piper we also have siren songs and swan songs. [Incidentally, a few years after Led Zeppelin's song about the piper's tune, Led Zeppelin released their own record company named Swan Song with the logo of a falling angel, i.e. Lucifer. The logo was made by designers Hipgnosis.]

Siren songs are the songs that mermaids or sirens sing to lure sailors to their deaths upon the rocks. A good example is the song Tales of Brave Ulysses by Cream featuring Eric Clapton. "You thought the leaden winter would bring you down forever, but you rode upon a steamer to the violence of the sun. And the colors of the sea blind your eyes with trembling mermaids. And you touch the distant beaches with tales of brave Ulysses. How his naked ears were tortured by the sirens sweetly singing for the sparkling waves are calling you to kiss their white laced lips. And you see a girl's brown body dancing through the turquoise. And her footprints make you follow where the sky loves the sea. And when your fingers find her, she drowns you in her body carving deep blue ripples in the tissues of your mind. The tiny purple fishes run laughing through your fingers and you want to take her with you to the hard land of the winter. Her name is Aphrodite and she rides a crimson shell. And you know you cannot leave her for you touched the distant sands. With tales of brave Ulysses, how his naked ears were tortured by the sirens sweetly singing."

"Tales Of Brave Ulysses" by Cream

You thought the leaden winter
Would bring you down forever
But you rode upon a steamer
To the violence of the sun
And the colours of the sea
Bind your eyes with trembling mermaids
And you touch the distant beaches
With tales of brave Ulysses
How his naked ears were tortured
By the sirens sweetly singing
For the sparkling waves are calling you
To kiss their white laced lips
And you see a girl's brown body
Dancing through the turquoise
And her footprints make you follow
Where the sky loves the sea
And when your fingers find her
She drowns you in her body
Carving deep blue ripples
In the tissues of your mind
Tiny purple fishes
Run laughing through your fingers
And you want to take her with you
To the hard land of the winter
Her name is Aphrodite
And she rides a crimson shell
And you know you cannot leave her
For you touched the distant sands
With tales of brave Ulysses
How his naked ears were tortured
By the sirens sweetly singing
Tiny purple fishes
Run laughing through your fingers
And you want to take her with you
To the hard land of the winter

"Venus" by Shocking Blue (also Bananarama)

Goddess on the mountain top
Burning like a silver flame
The summit of beauty and love
And Venus was her name
She's got it
Yeah, baby, she's got it
I'm your Venus, I'm your fire
And your desire
Well, I'm your Venus, I'm your fire
And your desire
Her weapons were her crystal eyes
Making every man a man
Black as the dark night, she was
Got what no-one else had
Woow
She's got it
Yeah, baby, she's got it
I'm your Venus, I'm your fire
And your desire
Well, I'm your Venus, I'm your fire
And your desire

VENUSBERG & HOLDA / VENUS

The fact that the castles in Disney Land are modeled after Neuschwanstein Castle is interesting because the Neuschwanstein Castle is also called Venusberg.

Here are various quotes I found online:

"Venusberg, in whose interior, according to legend, dwelt Holda, the Goddess of Spring. In time, Holda became identified with Venus, the pagan Goddess of Love, whose grotto was the home of sirens and nymphs. It was said that the Goddess would lure the Wartburg minnesinger-knights to her lair where her beauty would captivate them." Neuschwanstein was inspired, in part, by the Wartburg. According to Wikipedia, "Venusberg (German; French mont de Venus, 'mountain of Venus') is a motif of European folklore rendered in various legends and epics since the Late Middle Ages. It is a variant of the folktale topos of 'a mortal man seduced by the fairy queen visits the otherworld'. This tale was told in Robert Wagner's famous opera Tannhauser. Venusberg is the magical realm of fairies presided over by the goddess, Venus.

The opera Tannhauser so accurately depicts the dilemma for the Spirit once its soul has let go of its physical body at death. The rapturous love that Tannhauser feels for the goddess of love causes him to feel like a prisoner and eventually he longs for suffering again so he can feel the breeze and hear songbirds again so he leaves the Venusberg to return to the world again. The screenshots are from the 1978 TV movie performance of the opera. **

Act One of the opera is named The Venusberg. Perhaps the highlight of the opera is when Wolfram sings the aria, Song to the Evening Star. Wolfram sings O du Mein Holder Abendstern. The title of this aria translates to " Oh, My Gracious Evening Star":

English Translation: "Like a premonition of death, darkness covers the land, and envelops the valley in its sombre shroud; the soul that longs for the highest grounds, is fearful of the darkness before it takes flight. There you are, oh loveliest star, your soft light you send into the distance; your beam pierces the gloomy shroud and you show the way out of the valley. Oh, my gracious evening star, I always greet you like happily: with my heart that she never betrayed take to her as she drifts past you, when she soars from this earthly vale, to transform into blessed angel!"

The libretto describes scene one as "The stage represents the interior of the Venusberg" with the principal characters being "Sirens, Venus, Tannhäuser, Nymphs, Bacchantes, Amorous couples". Notice the silver mask that Venus wears. **

The opera opens with a depiction of the Venusberg. Nymphs, amorous couples and sirens accompany Venus. The sirens implore Tannhauser to come ashore: "Come to this shore! Come to the land where in glowing Love's fond embrace blessed balm shall soothe your longings!"

In the presence of the goddess of love all sense of time is lost and Tannhauser sings, "In a dream it was as if I heard what long has been unfamiliar to my ear... I cannot measure the time that I have tarried here. Days, months, exist no more for me." Venus asks him, "Are you so soon weary of the sweet wonders which my love has lavished on you? Or can it be you so regret being a god? Have you so soon forgotten how once you suffered, while now you live here lapped in delights?... Extol love, which you lauded with such rapture that you won for yourself the goddess of love!" **

TANNHÄUSER: "Let your praises resound! Glorified be the wonders your might has wrought for my bliss! Let my song in loud and joyful tones extol the sweet delights flowing from your bounty! My heart yearned, my soul thirsted for joy, ah! for divine pleasure: what once you showed only to gods your favour has bestowed upon a mortal. But alas! I have remained mortal, and your love overwhelms me. Though a god can savour joy for ever, I am subject to change; I have at heart not pleasure alone, and in my joy long for suffering. From your kingdom I must flee; O queen, o goddess, set me free!"

TANNHÄUSER: "Gratitude for your favour and praise for your love! Forever blessed is he who has dwelt here! Forever envied is he who, hot with desire, has in your arms shared the divine glow! The wonders of your realm cast a spell, here I breathe the magic of unalloyed bliss; no land in the wide world offers the like; all it holds seems in comparison of little worth. Yet from these rosy scents I long for the woodland breezes, for the clear blue of out sky, for the fresh green of out meadows, for the sweet song of out birds, for the dear sound of out bells. From your kingdom I must flee; O queen, o goddess, set me free!" **

VENUS: "Faithless one! Alas, what is this I hear? You dare to spurn my love? You praise it but seek from it to fly? Has my allure grown wearisome?" TANNHÄUSER: "Ah fair goddess! Do not be angry with me! It is your unbounded allure from which I fly!"

VENUS: "...A feast of joy shall spring from our union; let us gladly celebrate the rite of love! No timid offering shall you dedicate to it, no! revel in union with love's own goddess!"

TANNHÄUSER: "with you I can only be a slave: for freedom I am consumed with longing, for freedom I thirst; to strife and struggle will I go, even though it be to downfall and death! So from your kingdom I must flee; O queen, o goddess, set me free!" **

VENUS: "Then go, madman, go! Traitor, see, I am not holding you! I set you free! Away! What you desire shall be your doom! Fly to the cold world of men, from whose feeble, cheerless fancies we gods of joy fled"

SHEPHERD: "Dame Holda came forth from the hill to roam through fields arid meadows: surpassing sweet sounds reached my ear, my eyes craved to see her. There I dreamed many a fair dream, and scarcely had I opened my eyes than the sun was shining warm, and May had come. Now I merrily play my pipe, for May is here, lovely May!"

Notice how similar the following back and forth bantering dialogue of Tannhauser pleading to be let is to the operatic part of Queen's epic song, Bohemian Rhapsody. I imagine Freddie Mercury was heavily influenced by the operas The Magic Flute and Lohengrin. TANNHÄUSER: "I wandered in far, far distant lands, where repose or rest I never found. Do not ask! I came not here to contend with you. Let us make peace, and let me go my way!" LANDGRAVE: "Not yet! You are one of us again." WALTER: "You must not go." BITEROLF: "We will not let you go." WALTER, HEINRICH, WOLFRAM, REINMAR, LANDGRAVE: "Stay with us!" TANNHÄUSER: "Let me go! To linger is of no avail, and never can I rest in peace. My way urges me to hasten only onwards, and never may I look back." LANDGRAVE AND MINSTRFLS: "O stay! You must remain with us; we will not let you go again. Having sought us out, why hurry away after so brief a reunion?" TANNHÄUSER: "I must away from here!" LANDGRAVE, WALTER, HEINRICH, BITEROLF, REINMAR: "Stay, o stay with us!" WOLFRAM: "Stay for Elisabeth!" **

WOLFRAM: "When you contended with us for the palm in singing, sometimes you were victorious over our songs, sometimes you suffered defeat through our art: one prize there was which you alone won. Was it magic, was it a divine power, by which you wrought such a miracle, enchanting that maid of matchless virtue by your song of joy and sorrow? But ah! when in your pride you left us, she closed her heart against our song; we saw her cheeks grow pale, and she henceforth avoided our company. O come back, valiant minstrel, and do not deprive us of your song. Let her no longer be absent from our festivals, and may her star shine on us once more!"

"As I look around on this noble assembly, what a glorious sight makes my heart glow! So many heroes, valiant, upright and wise, like a proud oakwood, splendid, fresh and green; and I see ladies lovely and virtuous, a fair garland of most fragrant flowers. My gaze is dazzled by this display, my song is silenced before such beauteous lustre. Then I raise my eyes to one single star up in the heavens which shines on me: my spirit is comforted by that distant radiance and my soul devoutly sinks in prayer. And lo! I behold a fountain of delights on which my spirit gazes, filled with wonder: from it there flows blissful joy by which my heart is inexpressibly refreshed. O never may I sully that fountain or cloud its limpid waters with impure thoughts! In devotion I would sacrifice myself and gladly shed the last drop of my heart's blood. You nobles may gather from these words how I regard the purest essence of love."

WOLFRAM: "O heaven, let me now implore thee, grant my song divine approval! Let me see sin banished from this noble, pure assembly! Let my song resound inspired by thee, sacred love, that pierced my very soul in angelic beauty! Thou didst come from heaven, I follow from afar; so guide me to that land where thy star shines for ever."
TANNHÄUSER: "To you, goddess of love, shall my song be raised! Loudly let me now sing your praise! Your sweet charms are the source of all beauty, and every fair wonder springs from you. Only he who has known your ardent embrace knows what love is; poor wretches who have never tasted love, away! hasten to the hill of Venus!"

ALL: "Oh, he is wicked! Fly from him! Hark, he was in the Venusberg!"

LANDGRAVE, MINSTRELS AND KNIGHTS: "You heard it! His sinful lips have confessed his fearful crime. He has shared the joys of Hell, he has dwelt within the Venusberg! Abominable! Monstrous! Damnable! Steep your swords in his blood! Let him be condemned and banished and sent back to the bottomless pit of Hell!"

LANDGRAVE, KNIGHTS AND MINSTRELS: "An angel has descended from the realms of light to bring us God's holy message. Look up, vile traitor, and realise your sin! You gave her death, she begs for your life; who could hear an angel's plea unmoved? Though I may not forgive the sinner, I cannot oppose Heaven's word."

Wolfram Sings O du Mein Holder Abendstern. The title of this aria translates to " Oh, My Gracious Evening Star":
"Like a portent of death, twilight shrouds the earth and envelops the valley in its sable robe; the soul, that yearns for those heights, dreads to take its dark and awful flight. There you shine, o fairest of the stars, and shed your gentle light from afar; your friendly beam penetrates the twilight gloom and points the way out from the valley."

"O my fair evening star, I always gladly greeted thee: from a heart that never betrayed its faith greet her when she passes, when she soars above this mortal vale to become a blessed angel in heaven!"

TANNHÄUSER: "And he to whom I prayed replied: "If you have felt such sinful desires and warmed yourself at Hell's fires, if you have dwelt within the Venusberg, you are forever accursed! As this staff in my hand will nevermore put forth a living leaf, so from the burning brand of Hell salvation never will bloom for you! Then I sank down, crushed and in despair, my senses left me. When I awoke, night had fallen on the empty square, but from afar sounded joyful hymns of praise. The sweet songs sickened me: from the lying sounds of promise which pierced my soul with icy chill, horror drove me forth in wild flight. It drove me here, where once I so enjoyed bliss and pleasure on her warm breast! To you, fair Venus, I return, to the sweet darkness of your spell; I will come down to your court, where your charms now shall ever smile on me!"

TANNHÄUSER: "And do you not breathe sweet fragrance? Do you not hear rapturous voices?"

WOLFRAM: "My heart trembles with wild dread."

TANNHÄUSER: "That is the dancing host of nymphs! Come on! Come on to bliss and joy!"

WOLFRAM: "Alas! Black magic is abroad! Hell's wild course draws near."

TANNHÄUSER: "Rapture surges through my senses as this roseate glow I see; this is the magic realm of love. Let us away to the Venusberg!

VENUS: "Welcome, fickle man! Did earth reject and banish you? And do you nowhere find compassion, and seek for love in my arms?

TANNHÄUSER: "O Venus, generous of mercy! To you, to you I am driven!"

TANNHÄUSER: "All hope of salvation is lost to me; now let me choose the delights of Hell!"

TANNHÄUSER: "Holy Elisabeth, pray for me!"

Tannhauser dies.

PILGRIMS; "carrying in their midst a priest's staff covered in fresh, green leaves Hail! Hail! Hail to this miracle of grace! Salvation to the world is given. In this holy hour of night the Lord hath manifested himself through a miracle. The barren staff in the priest's hand he has decked with fresh green: so to the sinner in Hell's flames shall redemption bloom anew! Proclaim it through every land that through this miracle he found grace! God reigns high above the whole world, and his compassion is never sought in vain! Halleluja! Halleluja! Halleluja!

LANDGRAVE, MINSTRELs, KNIGHTS AND PILGRIMS: "The grace of God is granted to the penitent; now he enters into the bliss of heaven!"

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"Venusberg (German; French mont de Venus, "mountain of Venus") is a motif of European folklore rendered in various legends and epics since the Late Middle Ages. Venus and her girls used to lure Christian knights from their true path. Instead of keeping their eye on the Virgin Mary or the Holy Grail, they fell into a life of sin."

THE MAGIC FLUTE (MOZART) [1791]

The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte) is a 1791 singspiel, or operatic sing-play, composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto written by Emanuel Schikaneder.

Schikaneder looked around some more and found a collection of fairy tales by Christoph Wieland. It was based on an older fairy tale called Lulu or The Magic Flute (Lulu, oder der Zauberflöte), a story by Jakob August Liebeskind, included in a collection of fairy tales published in 1786 under the title Dschinnistan. In fact, The Smurfs made a cartoon called The Smurfs and the Magic Flute. It was a Little Lulu production.

Lulu is a prince and is called "one who pipes for food and drink". Lulu plays the magic flute and has a magic ring that lets him take any form -- Lulu (Lucifer?). They were given to him by Periferihme, the Queen of the Fairies, also known as "the radiant fairy" with supernatural beauty.

The opera borrowed much of the fairy tale but added all the elements of the freemasonic rituals, including Isis and Osiris.

The opera's libretto contains the words. Notice all the allusions to Isis and Osiris.

PAPAGENO: "I catch various birds for the star-blazing Queen and her ladies; every day in return I receive food and drink from her."

PAPAGENO: " See her? See the star-blazing Queen? What mortal can claim to have ever seen her? But - why are you looking at me so suspiciously?

SECOND LADY: "The Queen of the Night, our sovereign, has heard every word you have said. If this young man", she said, "is as bold and valiant as he is tender, then my daughter Pamina is saved!" TAMINO: " Saved?" THIRD LADY: " A powerful, evil demon named Sarastro has stolen her away."

[Note: The Queen of the Night sits on a throne decorated with stars.]

Sarastro: "You, servants consecrated in the temple of wisdom of the great gods Osiris and Isis, with a clear conscience I declare to you that our gathering today is one of the most important of our time. Tamino, the son of a king, has journeyed to the north gate of our temple. He wishes to tear off his veil of night and look into the sanctuary of great light. To offer him the hand of friendship should be our duty today!"

[Note: The veil of night is the veil of Isis. The goal is to become Isis Unveiled.]

No. 10 - Aria with Chorus... SARASTRO: "O Isis and Osiris, bestow the spirit of wisdom on this young couple! You who guide the wanderers' steps, strengthen them with patience in danger."

The Queen of the Night becomes angry. QUEEN OF THE NIGHT: "My heart is seething with hellish vengeance, death and despair are blazing around me!"

No. 18 - Priests' Chorus... PRIESTS: "O Isis and Osiris, what bliss! Dark night is banished by the sunlight, soon the noble youth will feel new life; soon he will be wholly devoted to our service. His spirit is bold, his heart is.... "

THE ARMOURED MEN: "Whoever walks along this path so full of troubles is purified by fire, water, air, and earth. If he can conquer the fear of death, he will soar from the earth up to heaven. Enlightened, he will then be able to devote himself wholly to the mysteries of Isis. "

PAMINA, TAMINO: "You gods, what a moment! The joy of Isis is granted to us!"

CHORUS OF PRIESTS: "from within Victory! Victory! You noble couple! You have overcome the danger, the consecration of Isis is now yours, come, enter the temple!"

THE THREE LADIES, MONOSTATOS: " To you, great Queen of the Night, we make our offering of vengeance!"

CHORUS: " Hail to you on your consecration! You have penetrated the night, thanks be given to you, Osiris, thanks to you, Isis! Strength has triumphed, rewarding beauty and wisdom with an everlasting crown! "

Heaven and Hell by Black Sabbath

Sing me a song, you're a singer
Do me a wrong, you're a bringer of evil
The devil is never a maker
The less that you give, you're a taker
So it's on and on and on, it's heaven and hell
Oh well
The lover of life's not a sinner
The ending is just a beginner
The closer you get to the meaning
The sooner you'll know that you're dreaming
So it's on and on and on, oh it's on and on and on
It goes on and on and on, Heaven and Hell
I can tell
Fool, fool
Oh uh
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Well if it seems to be real, it's illusion
For every moment of truth, there's confusion in life
Love can be seen as the answer, but nobody bleeds for the dancer
And it's on and on, on and on and on and on and on and on and on
They say that life's a carousel
Spinning fast, you've got to ride it well
The world is full of kings and queens
Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams
It's heaven and hell, oh well
And they'll tell you black is really white
The moon is just the sun at night
And when you walk in golden halls
You get to keep the gold that falls
It's heaven and hell, oh no
Fool, fool
You've got to bleed for the dancer
Fool, fool
Look for the answer
Fool, fool, fool

Blinded by the Light by Manfred Mann's Earth Band

[Intro]
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

[Verse 1]
Madman drummers bummers
Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat
In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps
His way into his hat
With a boulder on my shoulder, feelin' kinda older
I tripped the merry-go-round
With this very unpleasin', sneezin' and wheezin'
The calliope crashed to the ground
The calliope crashed to the ground!

[Chorus]
But she was blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

[Verse 2]
Some silicone sister with a manager mister
Told me I got what it takes
She said "I'll turn you on sonny to something strong
Play the song with the funky break"
And go-cart Mozart was checkin' out the weather chart
To see if it was safe outside
And little Early-Pearly came by in his curly-wurly
And asked me if I needed a ride
Asked me if I needed a ride!

[Chorus]
But she was blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light

[Breakdown]
She got down but she never got tired
She's gonna make it through the night
She's gonna make it through the night

[Instrumental Solo]

[Bridge]
But mama, that's where the fun is
But mama, that's where the fun is
Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun
But mama, that's where the fun is

[Verse 3]
Some brimstone baritone anticyclone rolling stone
Preacher from the east
Says, "Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone
That's where they expect it least"
And some new-mown chaperone was standin' in the corner
Watching the young girls dance
And some fresh-sown moonstone was messin' with his frozen zone
Reminding him of romance
The calliope crashed to the ground

[Chorus]
But she was blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

[Counter Chorus]
Blinded by the light
(Madman drummers bummers, Indians in the summer)
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
(With a teenage diplomat)
Blinded by the light
(In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps)
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
(His way into his hat)
Blinded by the light
(With a boulder on my shoulder, feelin' kinda older)
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
(I tripped the merry-go-round)
Blinded by the light
(With this very unpleasin', sneezin' and wheezin)
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
(The calliope crashed to the ground)
Blinded by the light
(Now Scott with a slingshot finally found a tender spot)
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
(And throws his lover in the sand)
Blinded by the light
(And some bloodshot forget-me-not said daddy's within earshot)
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
(Save the buckshot, turn up the band)
Blinded by the light
(Some silicone sister with a manager mister)
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
(Told me I got what it takes)
Blinded by the light
(She said, "I'll turn you on sonny to something strong")

[Outro]
She got down, but she never got tired
She's gonna make it through the night

Hells Bells Ac/dc

I'm rolling thunder, a pouring rain
I'm comin' on like a hurricane
There's lightning's flashing across the sky
You're only young, but you're gonna die
Won't take no prisoners, won't spare no lives
Nobody's putting up a fight
Took my bell, take you to hell
Satan get you, Satan get you
Hell's bells
Yeah, Hell's bells
You got me ringing, Hell's bells
My temperature's high, Hell's bells
You get the flame
I'll give you black sensations up and down your spine
If you're into evil, you're a friend of mine
See my white light flashing as I split the night
God's on the left, I'm stickin' to the right
Won't take no prisoners, won't spare no lives
Nobody's puttin' up a fight
Take my bell, take you to hell
Satan get you, Satan get you
Hell's bells
Ah, Hell's bells
You got me ringing, Hell's bells
My temperature's high, Hell's bells
You're gonna get... yeah, yeah
Yeah
Hell's bells, Satan's comin' to you
Hell's bells, the cross is dead
Hell's bells, we're takin' you under
Hell's bells, you're gonna fry
Hell's bells, they're takin' you down
Hell's bells, underground
Hell's bells, gonna split the night
Hell's bells, nowhere to hide
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah
Hell's bells, yeah

"What's Next To The Moon" from Powerage

[Verse 1]
Well, I tied my baby to the railroad track
Cannonball down the line
Givin' that woman just a one more chance
Give it to me one more time
Engineer wishin' he was home in bed
Dreamin' 'bout Casey Jones
Wide-eyed woman, half a mile ahead
Thinkin' 'bout broken bones

[Chorus]
It's your love that I want
It's your love that I need
It's your love, gotta have
It's your love

[Verse 2]
Heavenly body flyin' 'cross the sky
Superman was outta town
Come on, honey, gotta change your tune
'Cause it's a long way down
Clark Kent lookin' for a free ride
Think about Lois Lane
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a suicide
And that'd be a shame

[Chorus]
It's your love that I want
It's your love that I need
It's your love, gotta have
It's your love

But what's next to the moon?

[Solo]

[Verse 3]
Long arm lookin' for a finger print
Tryna find a mystery clue
Hittin' me with the third degree
Workin' on the thumbscrew
Alright, officer, I confess
Everything's comin' back
I didn't mean to hurt that woman of mine
It was a heart attack

[Chorus]
It's your love that I want
It's your love that I need
It's your love, gotta have
It's your love guaranteed
The love that I want
It's your love that I need
It's your love, gotta have
It's your love

What's next to the moon?

Movin' round the skies...

Oh, baby, say "bye-bye"
You're right next to the moon
And on the moon
Oh, I've been around the moon

"Twilight Zone" by Golen Earring

'Cause the sign at the end of the road it says
Next stop, twilight zone
It's two a.m. (It's two a.m.)
The fear has gone (The fear has gone)
I'm sittin' here waitin' (I'm sittin' here waitin')
The gun still warm (The gun still warm)
Maybe my connection is tired of takin' chances
Yeah there's a storm on the loose, sirens in my head
I'm wrapped up in silence, all circuits are dead
I cannot decode, my whole life spins into a frenzy
Help I'm steppin' into the twilight zone
The place is a madhouse,
Feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go, now that I've gone too far?
Help I'm steppin' into the twilight zone
The place is a madhouse,
Feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go, now that I've gone too far?
Soon you will come to know,
When the bullet hits the bone
Soon you will come to know,
When the bullet hits the bone
I'm falling down a spiral,
Destination unknown
A double-crossed messenger,
All alone
I can't get no connection,
I can't get through,
Where are you?
Well the night weighs heavy on his guilty mind
This far from the borderline
And when the hit man comes
He knows damn well he has been cheated
And he says
Help I'm steppin' into the twilight zone
The place is a madhouse,
Feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go, now that I've gone too far?
Help I'm steppin' into the twilight zone
The place is a madhouse,
Feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go, now that I've gone too far?
Soon you will come to know,
When the bullet hits the bone
Soon you will come to know,
When the bullet hits the bone
When the bullet hits the bone
Help I'm steppin' into the twilight zone
The place is a madhouse,
Feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go, now that I've gone too far?
Help I'm steppin' into the twilight zone
The place is a madhouse,
Feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go, now that I've gone too far?
Soon you will come to know,
When the bullet hits the bone
Soon you will come to know,
When the bullet hits the bone
Soon you will come to know,
When the bullet hits the bone
Soon you will come to know,
When the bullet hits the bone
When the bullet hits the bone
When the bullet hits the bone
When the bullet hits the bone
When the bullet hits the bone

"Radar Love"

I've been drivin' all night, my hands wet on the wheel
There's a voice in my head that drives my heel
It's my baby callin', sayin', "I need you here"
And it's a half past four and I'm shiftin' gear
When she is lonely and the longing gets too much
She sends a cable, coming in from above
Don't need no phone at all
We've got a thing that's called radar love
We've got a wave in the air
Radar love
The radio's playin' some forgotten song
Brenda Lee's "Coming On Strong"
The road has got me hypnotized
And I'm speedin' into a nude sunrise
When I get lonely and I'm sure I've had enough
She sends her comfort coming in from above
We don't need no letter at all
We've got a thing that's called a radar love
We've got a line in the sky
Radar love
No more speed, I'm almost there
Gotta keep cool, now gotta take care
Last car to pass, here I go
And the line of cars go down real slow, woah
And the radio played that forgotten song
Brenda Lee's "Coming On Strong"
And the newsman sang his same song
Oh, one more radar lover gone
When I get lonely and I'm sure I've had enough
She sends her comfort coming in from above
We don't need no letter at all
We've got a thing that's called radar love
We've got a line in the sky
We've got a thing that's called radar love
We've got a thing that's called
Radar love

Pink Floyd

Lucifer Sam from debut album The Piper At The Gates of Dawn

Lucifer Sam, Siam cat
Always sitting by your side
Always by your side
That cat's something I can't explain
Ginger, Ginger you're a witch
You're the left side
He's the right side
Oh, no
That cat's something I can't explain
Lucifer go to sea
Be a hip cat, be a ship's cat
Somewhere, anywhere
That cat's something I can't explain
At night prowling sifting sand
Hiding around on the ground
He'll be found when you're around
That cat's something I can't explain

Set Controls For the Heart of the Sun

Little by little the night turns around
Counting the leaves which tremble at dawn
Lotuses lean on each other in yearning
Under the eaves the swallow is resting

Set the controls for the heart of the sun

Over the mountain watching the watcher
Breaking the darkness waking the grapevine
One inch of love is one inch of shadow
Love is the shadow that ripens the wine

Set the controls for the heart of the sun

The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun

Witness the man who raves at the wall
Making the shape of his question to heaven
Whether the sun will fall in the evening
Will he remember the lesson of giving?
Set the controls for the heart of the sun

The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun

Dark Side of the Moon - cover

Speak to Me
(Mason) 1: 16

"I've been mad for fucking years, absolutely years, been over the edge for yonks, been working me buns off for bands..."

"I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the
most of us... very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad..."

Breathe
(Waters, Gilmour, Wright) 2: 44

Breathe, breathe in the air.
Don't be afraid to care.
Leave but don't leave me.
Look around and choose your own ground.

Long you live and high you fly
And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be.

Run, rabbit run.
Dig that hole, forget the sun,
And when at last the work is done
Don't sit down it's time to dig another one.

For long you live and high you fly
But only if you ride the tide
And balanced on the biggest wave
You race towards an early grave.

On The Run
(Gilmour, Waters) 3: 32

"Live for today, gone tomorrow, that's me, HaHaHaaaaaa!"

Pink Floyd

Time

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say.

Breathe (reprise)
7: 06

Home, home again.
I like to be here when I can.
When I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire.
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.

The Great Gig in the Sky
(Wright) 4: 44

"And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I
don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying?
There's no reason for it, you've gotta go sometime."

"If you can hear this whispering you are dying."

"I never said I was frightened of dying."

Money
(Waters) 6: 32

Money, get away.
Get a good job with good pay and you're okay.
Money, it's a gas.
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash.
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think I'll buy me a football team.

Money, get back.
I'm all right Jack keep your hands off of my stack.
Money, it's a hit.
Don't give me that do goody good bullshit.
I'm in the high-fidelity first class traveling set
And I think I need a Lear jet.

Money, it's a crime.
Share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie.
Money, so they say
Is the root of all evil today.
But if you ask for a raise it's no surprise that they're
giving none away.

"HuHuh! I was in the right!"
"Yes, absolutely in the right!"
"I certainly was in the right!"
"You was definitely in the right. That geezer was cruising for a
bruising!"
"Yeah!"
"Why does anyone do anything?"
"I don't know, I was really drunk at the time!"
"I was just telling him, he couldn't get into number 2. He was asking
why he wasn't coming up on freely, after I was yelling and
screaming and telling him why he wasn't coming up on freely.
It came as a heavy blow, but we sorted the matter out"

Us and Them
(Waters, Wright) 7: 40

Us, and them
And after all we're only ordinary men.
Me, and you.
God only knows it's noz what we would choose to do.
Forward he cried from the rear
and the front rank died.
And the general sat and the lines on the map
moved from side to side. By
Black and blue
And who knows which is which and who is who.
Up and down.
But in the end it's only round and round.
Haven't you heard it's a battle of words
The poster bearer cried.
Listen son, said the man with the gun
There's room for you inside.

"I mean, they're not gunna kill ya, so if you give 'em a quick short,
sharp, shock, they won't do it again. Dig it? I mean he get off
lightly, 'cos I would've given him a thrashing - I only hit him once!
It was only a difference of opinion, but really... I mean good manners
don't cost nothing do they, eh?"

Down and out
It can't be helped but there's a lot of it about.
With, without.
And who'll deny it's what the fighting's all about?
Out of the way, it's a busy day
I've got things on my mind.
For the want of the price of tea and a slice
The old man died.

Brain Damage
(Waters) 3: 50

The lunatic is on the grass.
The lunatic is on the grass.
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs.
Got to keep the loonies on the path.

The lunatic is in the hall.
The lunatics are in my hall.
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day the paper boy brings more.

And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.

The lunatic is in my head.
The lunatic is in my head
You raise the blade, you make the change
You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane.
You lock the door
And throw away the key
There's someone in my head but it's not me.

And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear.
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.

"I can't think of anything to say except...
I think it's marvelous! HaHaHa!"

Eclipse
(Waters) 2: 04

All that you touch
All that you see
All that you taste
All you feel.
All that you love
All that you hate
All you distrust
All you save.
All that you give
All that you deal
All that you buy,
beg, borrow or steal.
All you create
All you destroy
All that you do
All that you say.
All that you eat
And everyone you meet
All that you slight
And everyone you fight.
All that is now
All that is gone
All that's to come
and everything under the sun is in tune
but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.

"There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark."

Wish You Were Here - album cover man shaking hands making a deal with the devil? or the music industry

"Welcome To The Machine"

Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
Where have you been? It's alright we know where you've been.
You've been in the pipeline, filling in time,
provided with toys and Scouting for Boys.
You bought a guitar to punish your ma,
And you didn't like school, and you know you're nobody's fool,
So welcome to the machine.
Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
What did you dream? It's alright we told you what to dream.
You dreamed of a big star, he played a mean guitar,
He always ate in the Steak Bar. He loved to drive in his Jaguar.
So welcome to the machine.

"Wish You Were Here"

So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange
A walk-on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.

"Shine On You Crazy Diamond (I-V)"

Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught in the crossfire of childhood and stardom, blown on the steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter, come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!

You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision, rode on the steel breeze.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!

The Wall

"Another Brick In The Wall (Part II)"

We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teacher, leave them kids alone

Hey, teacher, leave them kids alone

All in all it's just another brick in the wall
All in all you're just another brick in the wall

We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers, leave them kids alone

Hey, teacher, leave us kids alone

All in all you're just another brick in the wall
All in all you're just another brick in the wall

"The Trial"

Good morning, Worm your honor
The crown will plainly show
The prisoner who now stands before you
Was caught red-handed showing feelings
Showing feelings of an almost human nature
This will not do
Call the schoolmaster
I always said he'd come to no good
In the end your honor
If they'd let me have my way I could
Have flayed him into shape
But my hands were tied
The bleeding hearts and artists
Let him get away with murder
Let me hammer him today?
Crazy
Toys in the attic, I am crazy
Truly gone fishing
They must have taken my marbles away
Crazy, toys in the attic he is crazy
You little shit you're in it now
I hope they throw away the key
You should have talked to me more often
Than you did, but no
You had to go
Your own way, have you broken any
Homes up lately?
Just five minutes, worm your honor
Him and me, alone
Babe
Come to mother baby, let me hold you
In my arms
M'lud I never wanted him to
Get in any trouble
Why'd he ever have to leave me?
Worm, your honor, let me take him home
Crazy
Over the rainbow, I am crazy
Bars in the window
There must have been a door there in the wall
When I came in
Crazy, over the rainbow, he is crazy
The evidence before the court is
Incontrovertible, there's no need for
The jury to retire
In all my years of judging
I have never heard before
Of someone more deserving
Of the full penalty of law
The way you made them suffer
Your exquisite wife and mother
Fills me with the urge to defecate
Since, my friend, you have revealed your
Deepest fear
I sentence you to be exposed before
Your peers
Tear down the wall

"Division Bell"

Coming Back To Life Lyrics

Where were you when I was burned and broken
While the days slipped by from my window watching
And where were you when I was hurt and I was helpless
Because the things you say and the things you do surround me
While you were hanging yourself on someone else's words
Dying to believe in what you heard
I was staring straight into the shining sun
Lost in thought and lost in time
While the seeds of life and the seeds of change were planted
Outside the rain fell dark and slow
While I pondered on this dangerous but irresistible pastime
I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the moment had arrived
For killing the past and coming back to life
I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the waiting had begun
And headed straight into the shining sun

"High Hopes"

Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young
In a world of magnets and miracles
Our thoughts strayed constantly and without boundary
The ringing of the division bell had begun

Along the Long Road and on down the Causeway
Do they still meet there by the Cut

There was a ragged band that followed in our footsteps
Running before times took our dreams away
Leaving the myriad small creatures trying to tie us to the ground
To a life consumed by slow decay

The grass was greener
The light was brighter
When friends surrounded
The nights of wonder

Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us
To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side
Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again
Dragged by the force of some inner tide
At a higher altitude with flag unfurled
We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of world

Encumbered forever by desire and ambition
There's a hunger still unsatisfied
Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon
Though down this road we've been so many times

The grass was greener
The light was brighter
The taste was sweeter
The nights of wonder
With friends surrounded
The dawn mist glowing
The water flowing
The endless river

Forever and ever

ROGER WATERS - AMUSED TO DEATH

Roger Waters is famous for being the brilliant lyricist for Pink Floyd, one of the greatest rock bands ever. He was known for coming up with relevent concept albums such as Animals, Wish You Were Here, Dark Side of the Moon, and The Wall. They were all brilliant and touched on many things I write about on this site. He spent ten years working on a solo album named Amused to Death. The album holds up to the high standards of Pink Floyd. Jeff Beck filled in on guitar in David Gilmour's absence. But it was the deep and thought provoking message which makes the album so great. There is a song which reprises throughout the album. It is called What God Wants and it occurs in three parts fittingly, perhaps as a nod to the trinity.

What God Wants, Part I

"What God wants God gets. God help us all. What God wants God gets.
The kid in the corner looked at the priest and fingered his pale blue Japanese guitar.
The priest said, "God wants goodness. God wants light. God wants mayhem. God wants a clean fight.
What God wants God gets. "Don't look so surprised. It's only dogma", The alien prophet cried.
The beetle and the springbok took the Bible from its hook. The monkey in the corner wrote the lesson in his book.
What God wants God gets God help us all.
God wants peace. God wants war. God wants famine. God wants chain stores. What God wants God gets.
God wants sedition. God wants sex. God wants freedom. God wants Semtex. What God wants God gets.
"Don't look so afraid. I'm only joking," The alien comic lied.
The jackass and hyena took the feather from its hook. The monkey in the corner wrote the joke down in his book.
What God wants God gets.
God wants boarders. God wants crack. God wants rainfall. God wants wetbacks. What God wants God gets.
God wants voodoo. God wants shrines. God wants law. God wants organised crime. God wants crusade. God wants jihad.
God wants good. God wants bad. What God wants God gets. "

"Do you believe in a better day? Do you have a faith in a golden way? If you do then we must come together this day. Come together as one, united.
Television audience... Brought together the sound of my voice. United united financially united socially. United spiritually and all possible ways.
Through the power of money and the power of your prayers. What God wants God gets God help us all.
God wants dollars. God wants cents. God wants pounds, shillings and pence. God wants guilders. God wants kroner. God wants Swiss francs.
God wants French francs. Oui il veut des francs francais. God wants escudos. God wants pesetas. Don't send lira. God don't want small potatoes.
God wants small towns. God wants pain. God wants clean up rock campaigns. God wants widows. God wants solution.
God wants TV. God wants contributions. What God wants God gets God help us all.
God wants silver. God wants gold. God wants his secret never to be told.
God wants gigolos. God wants giraffes. God wants politics. God wants a good laugh. What God wants God gets God help us all
God wants friendship. God wants fame. God wants credit. God wants blame. God wants poverty. God wants wealth.
God wants insurance. God wants to cover himself. What God wants God gets God help us all."

What God Wants, Part III

"Don't be afraid, it's only business", the alien prophet sighed. The vulture and the magpie took the cash box from its hook. The monkey in the corner wrote
the figures in his book. Crazed, the checkout lady's fingers flash across the till. And the captain posts the menu of the day. And in banks across the world
Christians, Moslems, Hindus, Jews and people of every race, creed, colour, tint, or hue get down on their knees and pray.
The racoon and the groundhog neatly make up bags of change. But the monkey in the corner... well, he's slowly drifting out of range.
"Christ is freezing inside," The veterans cries. The hyenas break cover and stream through the meadow. And the fog rolls in through his bottle of gin.
So he picks up a stone that looks like a bone. And the bullets fly. And the rivers run dry. And the fat girls sigh. And the network anchor persons lie.
And the soldier's alone in the video zone. But the monkey's not watching. He's slipped out to the kitchen to pile the dishes and answer the phone."

Amused To Death

" 'Doctor, Doctor, what is wrong with me? This supermarket life is getting long. What is the heart life of a colour TV? What is the shelf life of a teenage queen?'
Ooh, western woman. Ooh, western girl.
News hound sniffs the air when Jessica Hahn goes down. He latches on to that symbol of detachment, attracted by the peeling away of feeling. The celebrity of the abused shell the belle.
Ooh, western woman. Ooh, western girl.
And the children of Melrose strut their stuff. Is absolute zero cold enough? And out in the valley, warm and clean, the little ones sit by their TV screens.
No thoughts to think. No tears to cry. All sucked dry. Down to the very last breath.
Bartender, what is wrong with me? Why I am so out of breath?
The captain said, "Excuse me, ma'am. This species has amused itself to death."
Amused itself to death. Amused itself to death.
We watched the tragedy unfold. We did as we were told. We bought and sold. It was the greatest show on earth.
But then it was over. We oohed and aahed. We drove our racing cars. We ate our last few jars of caviar.
And somewhere out there in the stars, a keen-eyed look-out spied a flickering light: our last hurrah.
And when they found our shadows, groups 'round the TV sets.
They ran down every lead. They repeated every test. They checked out all the data in their lists. And then the alien anthropologists admitted they were still perplexed.
But on eliminating every other reason for our sad demise, they logged the only explanation left:
'This species has amused itself to death.'
No tears to cry. No feelings left.
This species has amused itself to death. Amused itself to death."

Karn Evil 9 by Emerson Lake & Palmer

[Intro]
Welcome back, my friends
To the show that never ends
We're so glad you could attend!
Come inside! Come inside!

[Verse 1]
There behind a glass
Stands a real blade of grass
Be careful as you pass
Move along! Move along!

[Pre-Chorus 1]
Come inside, the show's about to start
Guaranteed to blow your head apart
Rest assured you'll get your money's worth
The greatest show in Heaven, Hell, or Earth

[Chorus]
You've got to see the show, it's a dynamo
You've got to see the show, it's rock and roll

[Verse 2]
Right before your eyes
We'll pull laughter from the skies
And he laughs until he cries
Then he dies, then he dies

[Pre-Chorus 2]
Come inside, the show's about to start
Guaranteed to blow your head apart

[Chorus]
You've got to see the show, it's a dynamo
You've got to see the show, it's rock and roll

[Keyboard Solo]

[Verse 3]
Soon the Gypsy Queen
In a glaze of Vaseline
Will perform on guillotine
What a scene! What a scene!
Next upon the stand
Will you please extend a hand
To Alexander's Ragtime Band
Dixieland, Dixieland

[Bridge 1]
Roll up! Roll up! Roll up!
See the show!

[Verse 4]
Performing on a stool
We've a sight to make you drool
Seven virgins and a mule
Keep it cool, keep it cool
We would like it to be known
The exhibits that were shown
Were exclusively our own
All our own, all our own

[Bridge 2]
Come and see the show!
Come and see the show!
Come and see the show!
See the show!

[Outro]
See the shoooowwwwwww!

"Between The Sun And Moon" by Rush

There is a lake between sun and moon
Not too many know about
In the silence between whisper and shout
The space between wonder and doubt
This is a fine place
Shining face to face
Those bonfire lights in the mirror of sky
The space between wonder and why
Ah, yes to yes, to ah, to yes
Why the sun?
Why the sun?
Ah, yes to yes, to ah, to yes
Why the sun?
Why the sun?
There is a fine line between love and illusion
A fine place to penetrate
The gap between actor and act
The lens between wishes and fact
This is a fine place
To hesitate
Those bonfire lights in the lake of sky
The time between wonder and why
Ah, yes to yes, to ah, to yes
Why the sun?
Why the sun?
Ah, yes to yes, to ah, to yes
Why the sun?
Why the sun?
Some need to pray to the sun at high noon
Need to howl at the midwinter moon
Reborn and baptized in a moment of grace
We just need a break
From the headlong race
This is a fine place
Shining face to face (shining face to face)
Those bonfire lights in the mirrored sky
The space between wonder and why
Ah, yes to yes, to ah, to yes
Ah, yes to yes, to ah, to yes
Why the sun?
Why the sun?
Ah, yes to yes, to ah, to yes
Why the sun?
Why the sun?

The entire first side of their album Hemispheres featured an eighteen minute tale of the gods of love and reason battling it out in Armageddon, the Battle of Heart and Mind. The Prelude sets the backdrop: "When our weary world was young the struggle of the ancients first began. The gods of Love and Reason sought alone to rule the fate of man. They battled through the ages, but still neither force would yield. The people were divided, every soul a battlefield". The two respective gods -- Apollo, bringer of wisdom and Dionysys, bringer of love -- plead their cases. The song stressed the need for a balance and thus the god of balance, Cygnus, came to unite the two hemispheres into one. "‘We will call you Cygnus. The God of Balance you shall be.’ THE SPHERE A KIND OF DREAM : "We can walk our road together if our goals are all the same. We can run alone and free if we pursue a different aim. Let the truth of Love be lighted. Let the love of truth shine clear. Sensibility, armed with sense and liberty, with the Heart and Mind united in a single perfect sphere."

"Hemispheres" by Rush

I. PRELUDE
When our weary world was young
The struggle of the ancients first began
The gods of Love and Reason
Sought alone to rule the fate of Man

They battled through the ages
But still neither force would yield
The people were divided,
Every soul a battlefield…

II. APOLLO BRINGER OF WISDOM
‘I bring truth and understanding,
I bring wit and wisdom fair,
Precious gifts beyond compare.
We can build a world of wonder,
I can make you all aware’

‘I will find you food and shelter,
Show you fire to keep you warm
Through the endless winter storm.
You can live in grace and comfort
In the world that you transform’

The people were delighted
Coming forth to claim their prize
They ran to build their cities
And converse among the wise

But one day the streets fell silent
Yet they knew not what was wrong
The urge to build these fine things
Seemed not to be so strong

The wise men were consulted
And the Bridge of Death was crossed
In quest of Dionysus
To find out what they had lost…

III. DIONYSUS BRINGER OF LOVE
‘I bring love to give you solace
In the darkness of the night
In the Heart’s eternal light
You need only trust your feelings
Only Love can steer you right’

‘I bring laughter, I bring Music,
I bring joy and I bring Tears
I will soothe your primal fears
Throw off those chains of Reason
And your prison disappears’

The cities were abandoned
And the forests echoed song
They danced and lived as brothers
They knew Love could not be wrong

Food and wine they had aplenty
And they slept beneath the stars
The people were contented
And the Gods watched from afar

But the winter fell upon them
And it caught them unprepared
Bringing wolves and cold starvation
And the hearts of men despaired…

IV. ARMAGEDDON THE BATTLE OF HEART AND MIND
The Universe divided
As the Heart and Mind collided
With the people left unguided
For so many troubled years
In a cloud of doubts and fears
Their world was torn asunder into hollow hemispheres

Some fought themselves, some fought each other
Most just followed one another
Lost and aimless like their brothers
For their hearts were so unclear
And the truth could not appear
Their spirits were divided into blinded hemispheres

Some who did not fight
Brought tales of old to light
My Rocinante sailed by night
On her final flight

To the heart of Cygnus’ fearsome force
We set our course.
Spiralled through that timeless space
To this immortal place

V. CYGNUS BRINGER OF BALANCE
I have memory and awareness
But I have no shape or form
As a disembodied spirit
I am dead and yet unborn

I have passed into Olympus
As was told in tales of old
To the City of Immortals
Marble white and purest gold

I see the Gods in battle rage on high
Thunderbolts across the sky
I cannot move, I cannot hide
I feel a silent scream begin inside

Then all at once the chaos ceased
A stillness fell, a sudden peace
The Warriors felt my silent cry
And stayed their struggle, mystified

Apollo was astonished
Dionysus thought me mad
But they heard my story further
And they wondered, and were sad

Looking down from Olympus
On a world of doubt and fear
Its surface splintered into
Sorry hemispheres.

They sat a while in silence
Then they turned at last to me
‘We will call you Cygnus
The God of Balance you shall be’

VI. THE SPHERE A KIND OF DREAM
We can walk our road together
If our goals are all the same
We can run alone and free
If we pursue a different aim

Let the truth of Love be lighted
Let the love of truth shine clear
Sensibility
Armed with sense and liberty
With the Heart and Mind united
In a single perfect sphere

"Free Will" by Rush

There are those who think that life has nothing left to chance
A host of holy horrors to direct our aimless dance
A planet of playthings, we dance on the strings of powers we cannot perceive
The stars aren't aligned or the Gods are malign, blame is better to give than receive

You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose Freewill

There are those who think that they were dealt a losing hand
The cards were stacked against them they weren't born in Lotus Land
All preordained, a prisoner in chains, a victim of venomous fate
Kicked in the face, you can pray for a place, in heaven's unearthly estate

You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose Freewill

Each of us, a cell of awareness, imperfect and incomplete
Genetic blends with uncertain ends on a fortune hunt that's far too fleet

You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose Freewill

"Limelight" by Rush

Living on a lighted stage approaches the unreal
For those who think and feel
In touch with some reality beyond the gilded cage
Cast in this unlikely role, ill-equipped to act
With insufficient tact
One must put up barriers to keep oneself intact

Living in the limelight, the universal dream
For those who wish to see
Those who wish to be
Must put aside the alienation
Get on with the fascination
The real relation, the underlying theme
Living in a fish eye lens, caught in the camera eye
I have no heart to lie
I can't pretend a stranger is a long-awaited friend
All the world's indeed a stage and we are merely players
Performers and portrayers
Each anothers audience outside the gilded cage
Living in the limelight, the universal dream
For those who wish to see
Those who wish to be
Must put aside the alienation
Get on with the fascination
The real relation, the underlying theme
Living in the limelight, the universal dream
For those who wish to see
Those who wish to be
Must put aside the alienation
Get on with the fascination
The real relation, the underlying theme
The real relation, the underlying theme

Rush - 2112, Hemispheres

"2112"

'I lie awake, staring out at the bleakness of Megadon. City and sky become one, merging
into a single plane, a vast sea of unbroken grey. The Twin Moons, just two pale orbs as
they trace their way across the steely sky. I used to think I had a pretty good life here,
just plugging into my machine for the day, then watching Templevision or reading a Temple
Paper in the evening.

'My friend Jon always said it was nicer here than under the atmospheric domes of the Outer
Planets. We have had peace since 2062, when the surviving planets were banded together under
the Red Star of the Solar Federation. The less fortunate gave us a few new moons.
I believed what I was told. I thought it was a good life, I thought I was happy. Then I found
something that changed it all...'

[I. Overture]

And the meek shall inherit the earth...

[II. Temples of Syrinx]

...'The massive grey walls of the Temples rise from the heart of every Federation city. I
have always been awed by them, to think that every single facet of every life is regulated
and directed from within! Our books, our music, our work and play are all looked after by
the benevolent wisdom of the priests...'

We've taken care of everything
The words you read, the songs you sing
The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes
It's one for all and all for one
We work together, common sons
Never need to wonder how or why

We are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx
Our great computers fill the hallowed halls
We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx
All the gifts of life are held within our walls

Look around at this world we've made
Equality our stock in trade
Come and join the Brotherhood of Man
Oh, what a nice, contented world
Let the banners be unfurled
Hold the Red Star proudly high in hand

We are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx
Our great computers fill the hallowed halls
We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx
All the gifts of life are held within our walls

[III. Discovery]

'...Behind my beloved waterfall, in the little room that was hidden beneath the cave, I
found it. I brushed away the dust of the years, and picked it up, holding it reverently in
my hands. I had no idea what it might be, but it was beautiful...'

'...I learned to lay my fingers across the wires, and to turn the keys to make them sound
differently. As I struck the wires with my other hand, I produced my first harmonious sounds
and soon my own music! How different it could be from the music of the Temples! I can't wait
to tell the priests about it!...'

What can this strange device be?
When I touch it, it gives forth a sound
It's got wires that vibrate and give music
What can this thing be that I found?

See how it sings like a sad heart
And joyously screams out its pain
Sounds that build high like a mountain
Or notes that fall gently like rain

I can't wait to share this new wonder
The people will all see its light
Let them all make their own music
The Priests praise my name on this night

[IV. Presentation]

'...In the sudden silence as I finished playing, I looked up to a circle of grim,
expressionless faces. Father Brown rose to his feet, and his somnolent voice echoed
throughout the silent Temple Hall...'

'...Instead of the grateful joy that I expected, they were words of quiet rejection!
Instead of praise, sullen dismissal. I watched in shock and horror as Father Brown ground
my precious instrument to splinters beneath his feet...'

I know it's most unusual
To come before you so
But I've found an ancient miracle
I thought that you should know
Listen to my music
And hear what it can do
There's something here as strong as life
I know that it will reach you

Yes, we know, it's nothing new
It's just a waste of time
We have no need for ancient ways
The world is doing fine
Another toy that helped destroy
The elder race of man
Forget about your silly whim
It doesn't fit the plan

I can't believe you're saying
These things just can't be true
Our world could use this beauty
Just think what we might do
Listen to my music
And hear what it can do
There's something here as strong as life
I know that it will reach you

Don't annoy us further!
We have our work to do
Just think about the average
What use have they for you?
Another toy that helped destroy
The elder race of man
Forget about your silly whim
It doesn't fit the Plan!

[V. Oracle: The Dream]

'...I guess it was a dream, but even now it all seems so vivid to me. Clearly yet I see
the beckoning hand of the oracle as he stood at the summit of the staircase...'

'...I see still the incredible beauty of the sculptured cities and the pure spirit of man
revealed in the lives and works of this world. I was overwhelmed by both wonder and
understanding as I saw a completely different way to life, a way that had been crushed
by the Federation long ago. I saw now how meaningless life had become with the loss of
all these things...'

I wandered home through the silent streets
And fell into a fitful sleep
Escape to realms beyond the night
Dream can't you show me the light?

I stand atop a spiral stair
An oracle confronts me there
He leads me on light years away
Through astral nights, galactic days
I see the works of gifted hands
That grace this strange and wondrous land
I see the hand of man arise
With hungry mind and open eyes

They left our planets long ago
The elder race still learn and grow
Their power grows with purpose strong
To claim the home where they belong
Home to tear the Temples down...
Home to change!

[VI. Soliloquy]

'...I have not left this cave for days now, it has become my last refuge in my total
despair. I have only the music of the waterfall to comfort me now. I can no longer live
under the control of the Federation, but there is no other place to go. My last hope is
that with my death I may pass into the world of my dream, and know peace at last.'

The sleep is still in my eyes
The dream is still in my head
I heave a sigh and sadly smile
And lie a while in bed
I wish that it might come to pass
Not fade like all my dreams...

Just think of what my life might be
In a world like I have seen!
I don't think I can carry on
Carry on this cold and empty life

My spirits are low in the depths of despair
My lifeblood...
...Spills over...

[VII. The Grand Finale]

Attention all Planets of the Solar Federation
Attention all Planets of the Solar Federation
Attention all Planets of the Solar Federation
We have assumed control
We have assumed control
We have assumed control

My favorite band during my college years was Yes. You can't have a more positive name for a band than the very word we use for affirmation: 'Yes'!! Though they tended to be a bit new agey due to angelic singer Jon Anderson's beliefs in UFOs, many of their albums were spiritual in nature as can be seen by titles such as Going For The One, Keys to Ascension and Union. One song in particular on Union, Shock to the System, is quite revealing and begins, "Shock to the system, but you're going back inside of the light. Shock to the freedom, only one more body of love in the rolling - They're rolling back to you! Dreaming all the time; they be dreaming all the time... Shock to the rights of Mankind. And they won't even go blind, When they see what's going on. So, in answer to the prayer, The one you feel is there, The one you feel so close to, the order of the Sun. And everyone is one, And all the pieces fit together..."

Yes - Machine Messiah, Heart of the Sunrise, Big Generator?

The first song on the latest Yes album is entitled In the Presence and boldly proclaims, "If we were flowers we would worship the Sun, so why not now?" Yes is known for their smash hit Roundabout from their Fragile album, a concept album which included the songs South Side of the Sky and Heart of the Sunrise. Look at these lyrics from the album. "The sunshine in mountains sometimes lost, the river can disregard the cost and melt in the sky to warmth when you die. Were we ever warmer on that day a million miles away? We seemed for all of eternity... did we really tell lies letting in the sunshine? Did we really count to one hundred letting in the sunshine?"

" Love comes to you and you follow. Lose one on to the heart of the sunrise... dream on, on to the heart of the sunrise. SHARP -- DISTANCE. How can the sun with its arms all around me?"

In the Presence Of

Deeper than every ocean
Deeper than every river
That's what your presence brings to me
Revealing the words I listen
Seeing you in my silence
Learning I'm with you constantly
As I was before
If we were flowers
We would worship the sun
So why not now?
This high is shining brightly
Brighter than before
As the door was open wide
There inside was a diamond chair
Where I sat when I was young
I wrote down the words
Only when the young at heart
Can enter the real world
This chance I've waited for
For you to see
If I had chances I would spend them with you
To hold you close and let your love surround me
Deeper than before
And I know this love is real
(Deeper than every river)
Realize this is meant to be
That's what your eyes they say to me
You are listening to how I feel
So expectedly
(Brighter than every morning)
From the ocean to the sky
(Beautiful as the sunset)
Every river to the sea
Nature surrounds me constantly
We can hear love constantly
This is for you and me
Turn around and come deeper now
So what happens when I touch you there
You feel the words roll over you
Thinking of the better scenes
The memories
As everybody else just
Hasn't got the time
To help you anymore
'Cause if the reason for
The things that pleasure us
To please ourselves
Not pressure us
To give our ego
Some pleasure time
Can you imagine
Any reason
To know you're only fooling yourself
And then you'll understand why
You'll understand why
So if we choose to realize
All existence is a dream
This perfect resume to you
From me
Just had a tough time with magic
The death of ego
The moon
It was just coming through
Send me such a good time
In a letter form, tell me
The pleasure, no pressure
Pure imagination in a metaphoric dream
I get amazed like a true beginner
I get amazed like a true believer
I get amazed when I see you there
And I come alive
I believe I'm a true beginner
I believe I'm a true beginner
In your arms I can see it all
I can see it all
If we were flowers
We would worship the sun
So why not now?
This light is burning brightly
This light is burning brightly
Brighter than before
Brighter than before
Brighter than before
Brighter than before
Turn around and remember that
When it gets so low
As you finally hit the ground
Turn around and remember that
Now I'm standing tall
Standing on my sacred ground
Turn around and remember that
When it gets so low
As you finally hit the ground
Turn around and remember that
Now you're standing tall
Standing on sacred ground
Standing on sacred ground
Standing on sacred ground

 Going For the One, an obvious allusion to losing one's identity or soul and being assimilated into a single source.

"The truth of sport plays rings around you, Going for the one, going for to listen in time... travel twilight... taken so high... Roan shaped his heart through his working hands, work to mold his passion into clay, like the Sun, in his room, his lady, she would dance and sing so completely... in the still light of dawn she dies, helpless hands soul revealing... hearing, awaken, high vibration, go on, on to the Sun, oh let my heart dreaming, past a mortal as me where can I be, wish the Sun to stand still, reaching out to touch our own being....Master of Images, songs cast a light on you, hark through dark ties, that tunnel us out of sane existence, in challenge as direct as eyes see young stars assemble... and as we look forever closer, shall we now bid farewell, high vibration to go on to the Sun..." 

Union - 

"Shock to the system,
But you're going back inside of the light.
Shock to the freedom,
Only one more body of love, and they're rolling
They're rolling back to you!... Shock to the future; Shock to the rights of Mankind.
And they won't even go blind, When they can't see what's going on. So, in answer to the prayer,
The one you feel is there, The one you feel so close to, The order of the Sun, And everyone is one,
And all the pieces fit together. Did it all begin with someone? Did it all begin with someone? I couldn't have pictured being alive!"

Sting, the ex-lead singer and writer of the rock band The Police is one songwriter who wrote a lot about the imprisoned state of the soul and its need for freedom. Even the name of the band touches on the subject. In Spirits in the Material World from the album Ghost in the Machine, Stings sings, "Our so-called leaders speak. With words they try to jail ya. They subjugate the meek, but it's the rhetoric of failure. We are spirits in the material world."

When he went solo, he also had an album named Soul Cages.

"Soul Cages" by Sting from "Soul Cages"

The boy child is locked in the fisherman's yard
There's a bloodless moon where the oceans die
A shoal of nightstars hang fire in the nets
And the chaos of cages where the crayfish lie

Where is the fisherman where is the goat?
Where is the keeper in his carrion coat?
Eclipse on the moon when the dark bird flies
Where is the child with his father's eyes?

These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages

He's the king of the ninth world
The twisted son of the fog bells toll
In each and every lobster cage
A tortured human soul

These are the souls of the broken factories
The subject slaves of the broken crown
The dead accounting of old guilty promises
These are the souls of the broken town

These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages

'I have a wager' the brave child spoke
The fisherman laughed, though disturbed at the joke.
'You will drink what I drink but you must equal me
And if the drink leaves me standing,
A soul shall go free'

'I have here a cask of most magical wine
A vintage that blessed every ship in the line
It's wrung from the blood of the sailors who died
Young white body adrift in the tide'

'And what's in it for me my pretty young thing?
Why should I whistle, when the caged bird sings?
If you lose a wager with the king of the sea
You'll spend the rest of forever in the cage with me'

These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages

A body lies open in the fisherman's yard
Like the side of a ship where the iceberg rips
One less soul in the soul cages
One last curse on the fisherman's lips

These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages

Swim to the light
Swim to the light

He dreamed of the ship on the sea
It would carry his father and he
To a place they could never be found
To a place far away from this town
A Newcastle ship without coals
They would sail to the island of souls

"When The Angels Fall" by Sting

So high above the world tonight
The angels watch us sleeping
And underneath a bridge of stars
We dream in safety's keeping
But perhaps the dream
Is dreaming us
Soaring with the seagulls
Astride the backs of eagles
When the angels fall
Shadows on the wall
In the thunder's call
Something haunts us all
When the angels fall
When the angels fall
Take your father's cross
Gently from the wall
A shadow still remaining
See the churches fall
In mighty arcs of sound
And all that they're containing
Yet all the ragged souls
Of all the ragged men
Looking for their lost homes
Shuffle to the ruins
From the levelled plain
To search among the tombstones
When the angels fall
Shadows on the wall
In the thunder's call
Something haunts us all
When the angels fall
When the angels fall
When the angels fall
These are my feet
These are my hands
These are my children
And this is my demand
Bring down the angels
Cast them from my sight
I never want to see
A million suns at midnight
Your hands are empty
The streets are empty
You can't control us
You can't control us anymore
When the angels fall
When the angels fall
When the angels fall
When the angels fall
When the angels fall
When the angels fall

"Spirits In The Material World" by The Police

Oh!
There is no political solution
To our troubled evolution
Have no faith in constitution
There is no bloody revolution

We are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world

Our so called leaders speak
With words they try to jail ya
They subjugate the meek
But it's the rhetoric of failure

We are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world

Where does the answer lie?
Living from day to day
If it's something we can't buy
There must be another way

We are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world

Are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world

"Bullet with Butterfly Wings" by Smashing Pumpkins

[Verse 1]
The world is a vampire
Sent to drain
Secret destroyers
Hold you up to the flames
And what do I get
For my pain?
Betrayed desires
And a piece of the game

[Pre-Chorus]
Even though I know
I suppose I'll show
All my cool and cold
Like ol' Job

[Chorus 1]
Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage
Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage
Someone will say, "What is lost can never be saved."
Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage

[Verse 2]
Now I'm naked
Nothing but an animal
But can you fake it
For just one more show?
And what do you want?
I wanna change
What do you got
When you feel the same?

[Pre-Chorus]
Even though I know
I suppose I'll show
All my cool and cold
Like ol' Job

[Chorus 2]
Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage
Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage
Then someone will say, "What is lost can never be saved."
Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage

[Middle Eight]
Tell me I'm the only one
Tell me there's no other one
Jesus was an only son, yeah
Tell me I'm the chosen one
Jesus was an only son, for you

[Interlude]
Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage
Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage
And someone will say, "What is lost can never be saved."
Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage!

[Chorus 3]
Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a…
Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a…
Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage

[Bridge]
Tell me I'm the only one
Tell me there's no other one
Jesus was an only son, for you

[Outro]
And I still believe that I cannot be saved
And I still believe that I cannot be saved
And I still believe that I cannot be saved
And I still believe that I cannot be saved

"Vicarious " by Tool

Eye on the TV
'Cause tragedy thrills me
Whatever flavour
It happens to be like;
Killed by the husband
Drowned by the ocean
Shot by his own son
She used the poison in his tea
And kissed him goodbye
That's my kind of story
It's no fun 'til someone dies
Don't look at me like
I am a monster
Frown out your one face
But with the other
Stare like a junkie
Into the TV
Stare like a zombie
While the mother
Holds her child
Watches him die
Hands to the sky crying
Why, oh why?
'Cause I need to watch things die
From a distance

Vicariously I, live while the whole world dies
You all need it too, don't lie
Why can't we just admit it?
Why can't we just admit it?
We won't give pause until the blood is flowing
Neither the brave nor bold
The writers of stories sold
We won't give pause until the blood is flowing
I need to watch things die
From a good safe distance
Vicariously I, live while the whole world dies
You all feel the same so
Why can't we just admit it?
Blood like rain come down
Drawn on grave and ground
Part vampire
Part warrior
Carnivore and voyeur
Stare at the transmittal
Sing to the death rattle
La, la, la, la, la, la, la-lie
Credulous at best, your desire to believe in angels in the hearts of men.
Pull your head on out your hippy haze and give a listen.
Shouldn't have to say it all again.
The universe is hostile. so Impersonal. devour to survive.
So it is. So it's always been.
We all feed on tragedy
It's like blood to a vampire
Vicariously I, live while the whole world dies
Much better you than I

"Aerials" by System of A Down

Life is a waterfall
We're one in the river
And one again after the fall

Swimming through the void, we hear the word
We lose ourselves, but we find it all

'Cause we are the ones that want to play
Always want to go, but you never want to stay
And we are the ones that want to choose
Always want to play but you never want to lose

Aerials in the sky
When you lose small mind, you free your life

Life is a waterfall
We drink from the river
Then we turn around and put up our walls
Swimming through the void, we hear the word
We lose ourselves, but we find it all
'Cause we are the ones that want to play
Always want to go, but you never want to stay
And we are the ones that want to choose
Always want to play but you never want to lose
Oh
Aerials in the sky
When you lose small mind, you free your life
Aerials, so up high
When you free your eyes, eternal prize

Aerials in the sky
When you lose small mind, you free your life
Aerials, so up high
When you free your eyes, eternal prize

"Dreamweaver" by Gary Wright

I've just closed my eyes again
Climbed aboard the dream weaver train
Driver take away my worries of today
And leave tomorrow behind

Ooh, dream weaver
I believe you can get me through the night
Ooh, dream weaver
I believe we can reach the morning light
Fly me high through the starry skies
Maybe to an astral plane
Cross the highways of fantasy
Help me to forget today's pain

Ooh, dream weaver
I believe you can get me through the night
Ooh, dream weaver
I believe we can reach the morning light

Though the dawn may be coming soon
There still may be some time
Fly me away to the bright side of the moon
Meet me on the other side

Ooh, dream weaver
I believe you can get me through the night
Ooh, dream weaver
I believe we can reach the morning light
Dream weaver
Dream weaver

The Joker by Steve Miller Band Wall Street Journal article on Bohemian Grove says that Steve Miller attends Bohemian Grove , album cover in front of a white orb

Some people call me the space cowboy, yeah
Some call me the gangster of love
Some people call me Maurice
'Cause I speak of the pompatus of love a

People talk about me baby
Say I'm doin' you wrong, doin' you wrong
Well, don't you worry, baby, don't worry
'Cause I'm right here, right here, right here, right here at home

'Cause I'm a picker
I'm a grinner
I'm a lover
And I'm a sinner
I play my music in the sun

I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a midnight toker
I sure don't want to hurt no one

"The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam's Dice" by Jimi Hendrix

The stars up above that play with laughing Sam's dice
They make us feel the world was made for us
The zodiac glass that bleams come through the skies
It will happen soon, for you

And a way we go
Yeah
Thank you very much
Thank you very much
And now we would like to bring to you our wide lonely friendly neighbourhood
Experience me
Right now listen
The milky way express is loaded, all aboard
I promise each and every one for you you won't be bored
What I'm really concerned about
Is my grand-new pair of butterfly roller skates
Thank you, thank you

No throwing cigarette butts out the window
No throwing cigarette butts out the window
Now if you look to your right you'll see Saturn
If you look to the left you'll see Mars
I hope your brought your parachutes with you
Hey look out!
Look out for that door
Don't open that door
Don't open that door
Oh well
That's the way it goes
Hey, everything is all right now

Bob Dylan "All Along the Watchtower"

The song makes reference to a Joker and a Thief who act as wardens overseeing prisoners in a prison. The Joker is probably the Trickster God and the Thief is the Devil who is really just another aspect of the trickster god.

There must be some kind of way outta here
Said the joker to the thief
There's too much confusion
I can't get no relief

Business men, they drink my wine
Plowmen dig my earth
None will level on the line
Nobody offered his word
Hey, hey
No reason to get excited
The thief, he kindly spoke
There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke
But, uh, but you and I, we've been through that
And this is not our fate
So let us stop talkin' falsely now
The hour's getting late, hey
Hey
All along the watchtower
Princes kept the view
While all the women came and went
Barefoot servants, too
Well, uh, outside in the cold distance
A wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching
And the wind began to howl, hey
All along the watchtower
All along the watchtower

"Isis" by Bob Dylan

I married Isis on the fifth day of May
But I could not hold on to her very long
So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away
For the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong

I came to a high place of darkness and light
Dividing line ran through the center of town
I hitched up my pony to a post on the right
Went in to a laundry to wash my clothes down

A man in the corner approached me for a match
I knew right away he was not ordinary
He said, are you lookin' for somethin' easy to catch
Said, I got no money, he said, that ain't necessary

We set out that night for the cold in the North
I gave him my blanket, he gave me his word
I said, where are we goin', he said we'd be back by the fourth
I said, that's the best news that I've ever heard

I was thinkin' about turquoise, I was thinkin' about gold
I was thinkin' about diamonds and the world's biggest necklace
As we rode through the canyons, through the devilish cold
I was thinkin' about Isis, how she thought I was so reckless

How she told me that one day we would meet up again
And things would be different the next time we wed
If I only could hang on and just be her friend
I still can't remember all the best things she said

We came to the pyramids all embedded in ice
He said, there's a body I'm tryin' to find
If I carry it out it'll bring a good price
'Twas then that I knew what he had on his mind

The wind it was howlin' and the snow was outrageous
We chopped through the night and we chopped through the dawn
When he died I was hopin' that it wasn't contagious
But I made up my mind that I had to go on

I broke into the tomb, but the casket was empty
There was no jewels, no nothin', I felt I'd been had
When I saw that my partner was just bein' friendly
When I took up his offer I must-a been mad

I picked up his body and I dragged him inside
Threw him down in the hole and I put back the cover
I said a quick prayer and I felt satisfied
Then I rode back to find Isis just to tell her I love her

She was there in the meadow where the creek used to rise
Blinded by sleep and in need of a bed
I came in from the East with the sun in my eyes
I cursed her one time then I rode on ahead

She said, where ya been? I said, no place special
She said, you look different, I said, well, I guess
She said, you been gone, I said, that's only natural
She said, you gonna stay? I said, yeah, I might do

Isis, oh, Isis, you mystical child
What drives me to you is what drives me insane
I still can remember the way that you smiled
On the fifth day of May in the drizzlin' rain

"Mind Games" by John Lennon

We're playing those mind games together
Pushing the barrier, planting seed
Playing the mind guerrilla
Chanting the Mantra "peace on earth"

We all been playing those mind games forever
Some kinda druid dude lifting the veil
Doing the mind guerrilla
Some call it magic, the search for the grail

Love is the answer and you know that for sure
Love is a flower
You got to let it, you gotta let it grow
So keep on playing those mind games together

Faith in the future, out of the now
You just can't beat on those mind guerrillas
Absolute elsewhere in the stones of your mind

Yeah, we're playing those mind games forever
Projecting our images in space and in time

Yes is the answer and you know that for sure
Yes is surrender
You got to let it, you gotta let it go

So keep on playing those mind games together
Doing the ritual dance in the sun
Millions of mind guerrillas
Putting their soul power to the karmic wheel

Keep on playing those mind games forever
Raising the spirit of peace and love
Love
I want you to make love, not war
I know you've heard it before

THE MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR - THE BEATLES

Magical Mystery Tour
"Roll up! Roll up for the magical mystery tour! Step right this way!

Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour. Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour. Roll up (And that's an invitation), roll up for the mystery tour. Roll up (To make a reservation), roll up for the mystery tour. The magical mystery tour is waiting to take you away.Waiting to take you away.

Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour. Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour. Roll up (We've got everything you need.), roll up for the mystery tour. Roll up (Satisfaction guaranteed.), roll up for the mystery tour. The magical mystery tour is hoping to take you away.Hoping to take you away.

Mystery trip. Aaaah... the magical mystery tour. Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour. Roll up (And that's an invitation), roll up for the mystery tour. Roll up (To make a reservation), roll up for the mystery tour. The magical mystery tour is coming to take you away. Coming to take you away. The magical mystery tour is dying to take you away.Dying to take you away, take you today..."

Strawberry Fields Forever
"Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields. Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about. Strawberry Fields forever. Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. It doesn't matter much to me... Always know, sometimes think it's me. But you know, I know when it's a dream. I think a "No," I mean a "Yes". But it's all wrong. That is, I think I disagree. Let me take you down, cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields. Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about. Strawberry Fields forever."

DARKLYRICS

White Light Suicide by Witchcraft

Cast your stone into the water now
And watch the ripples spread like poison
Under the gun, underneath
You'll feel slaughtered and betrayed...

Walk courageously into the fire
No sense but bliss
Twisted til we'll die
Magic ritualistics in the pyre
The flames go out, but you are rising higher **

The Blinding of False Light by As I Lay Dying

... Now is our chance to breathe without tyranny,
Released from the blinding of false light.
Blinding of false light
Now is our chance to breathe without tyranny.
In weakness we are freed...

False Light by Isis

Come down on me, my sweet angel
Poison milk from that withering breast
Come down on me sweet suffocation
Poison milk from that withering breast

Your mask is drifting
See what writhes beneath

Porcelain grin is cracking, incest to uncoil
Your laugh spreads yawning, black hole formation

Drown and the first real breath takes hold
Washed in a chill so peaceful, sink further

Hold his hand and crush it

The depth of the charm is infinite
Discover bliss and serenity in drowning

Garden Of Light by Isis

I fell asleep in a world dressed in grey
Only to awake in a garden divine
There was song and dance and untarnished flesh
A feast for the body and eyes
It was you who brought me here
Yours, whose face greeted me, in the garden of light
You are the face of god
You are my breath
My life, my death

Hall of the Dead by Isis

The great stone walls
Rise above our heads,
Cold and sad
Pale light, a dusty veil

The sun makes its way in
Destitute, weak
You're at my side again
Faithful guide unfailing,
Here we stand among the others
The living among the dead

Veins still flowing full
Lungs filled with white light...

Pied Piper by Lux Occult

And you will never learn
Who’s the hunter and who’s prey in this game
And you will never learn
Who is Pied Piper and who’s Rat in the end
And you will never learn
Who is the leader and who’s been led

The White Tunnel by Need

Alone I walk through the gardens of truth
A twisted path where black water rules
I follow the light but still in the abyss I crawl
Reaching out for hands to help me with my fall

Soothing light suicide, soothing light suicide

Licking traces of borrowed light
Slowly sinking in the abyssal walls
A luminous flux is marching forth
Leaving me crumbs to help the crawl

Drifting minds of the darkest kind
Soul-o-tron narcotics set for fledgling minds
Hell whispers softly and she makes me yearn
While heaven beats me bluntly to purify my shell

And on I march

Falling, struggling, walking, yearning

The white light blinds me
All I wished for are a load of lies

Believe, believe, believe you can be saved

Lux Alba by In Loving Memory

Life denies me a breath of air
I'm alone in this immense sea

I have no age, but I'm old
My entire life has been so, so short

Since I was born I died
Every day, in silence

Mankind rejected me
All my life in the shadows

I think I was born
To die this day

Why should I wait?
Why should I live?

My existence runs to the white light
Now I'm craving for your mercy
I want anything from you except one act
So, please do not resuscitate me

The white light on the sky
Grips my soul, my mind
I'm flying through the ether
I'm reaching to Thy side

My trip is ending
The white light becomes red
The devil is at my side
Where the Hell am I?

DEMIURGE by Cult of Sorrow

"Out of the dark and into the light...

Creator of all, but master of none
the Dominus lives in his cave
The game of deception and endless redemption
To hell with our souls shall we pave

CHORUS
All bow to the Demiurge
Join the herd

Youth, so many years ago
I looked into your face
And I knew you sung the Truth
And realized it was just a mirage
Painted down for me
False redemption for the fool, yeah...

We're breaking free from its chains"

SOUL MACHINE by Aeon Zen

I am one

This machine, built to tower over
Non-entities that want to know on whose side they fight
Bringing life to legions of the former souls
Reborn to serve their purpose, now they yearn to die

You are my self
Living through me

Feeding on empathy, the soul machine creates its army
Self destructive past
No anger left
Ain't good enough
Consuming fear and greed, the soul machine creates its army
From dust to dust
They're dust no more
The ashes of the human race reborn

We are one soul
Growing stronger in ways that you cannot possibly comprehend
We are one soul
Systematic indoctrination telling you that we are one soul

I have found a waterfall
Flowing through our conscious mind and we are brought to life
We are one soul

I am one
I am one soul

RUN FROM THE LIGHT by Iron Man

As we are told, to enter heaven's divine
Repent and rapture, you must go into the light
Stray from a beaten path, remorse for all your sins
Icons at the gates, will surely let you in

[Chorus:]
Caution deception, that burns so bright
Heed thy warning, and run from the light

Cowering in darkness, when death brings us the end
Awaiting the afterlife, one's faith does pretend
Merciful and righteous, you'll reap the great rewards
Immortal in bliss, Reign eternal forever more

[Chorus:]
Caution deception, that burns so bright
Heed thy warning, and run from the light
Welcomed temptations, you now must fight
Saving your soul, run from the light

Such a surprise, when you think you've saved your soul
Such a demise, after death you realize there is no goal
Striving for the now, gleaming future glows so ever bright
Preservation of one's self, for this is the only light

If we are to suffer when choosing what is right
Then why so easy to always find the light
Living hell on Earth to gain a holy desire
Forewarned that light is also caused by fire

[Chorus:]
Run from the light ...run from the light... run from the light

"Man on the Silver Mountain" by Rainbow -- demiurge?

I'm a wheel, I'm a wheel
I can roll, I can feel
And you can't stop me turning
Cause I'm the sun, I'm the sun
I can move, I can run
But you'll never stop me burning

Come down with fire
Lift my spirit higher
Someone's screaming my name
Come and make me holy again

I'm the man on the silver mountain
I'm the man on the silver mountain

I'm the day, I'm the day
I can show you the way
And look I'm right beside you
I'm the night, I'm the night
I'm the dark and the light
With eyes that see inside you
Come down with fire
Lift my spirit higher
Someone's screaming my name
Come and make me holy again

I'm the man on the silver mountain
I'm the man on the silver mountain

Come down with fire
Lift my spirit higher
Someone's screaming my name
Come and make me holy again

I'm the man on the silver mountain
I'm the man on the silver mountain

Just look at me and listen
I'm the man, the man, give you my hand
Come down with fire
Lift your spirit higher

I'm the man on the silver mountain
I'm the man on the silver mountain

I'm the night and the light
I'm the black and the white
The man on the silver mountain

"Trick Of The Light" by The Who

Wide awake in the middle of the night
I wonder how she's feelin'
Is it just a trick of the light
Or is her ceiling peeling?

She's sitting up in bed, shakin' her head
At a copy of "True Confessions"
Ooh, it must seem like a fairy tale
To a woman of her profession

But was I all right? (was I all right?)
Did I take you to the height of ecstasy?
Was I all right? (was I all right?)
Did a shadow of emotion cross your face
Or was it just another trick of the light?

But was I all right? (was I all right?)
Did I take you to the height of ecstasy?
Was I all right? (was I all right?)
Did a shadow of emotion cross your face
Or was it just another trick of the light?

Come on, tell me
What's a nice girl like you doin' in a place like this?
They don't make girls like you no more
And I'd like to get to know you
On closer terms than this
But I guess you've heard it all before

Lady of the night
Won't you steal away with me?
Lady of the night
Won't you steal away with me?

The money's lyin' on the floor, she looks at me
Shakes her head and sighs
Out of time, out the door
Red light shinin' in my eyes

But was I all right? (was I all right?)
Did I take you to the height of ecstasy?
Was I all right? (was I all right?)
Did a shadow of emotion cross your face

All right?
But was I all right?
All right?

"Eminence Front" by The Who

The sun shines
And people forget
The spray flies as the speedboat glides
And people forget
Forget they're hiding
The girls smile
And people forget
The snow packs as the skier tracks
And people forget
Forget they're hiding

Behind an eminence front
Eminence front - It's a put on
It's an Eminence front
It's an Eminence front - It's a put on
An Eminence front
Eminence front - It's a put on
Eminence front
It's an Eminence front
It's an Eminence front - It's a put on
It's a put on
It's a put on
It's a put on

Come and join the party
Dress to kill
Won't you come and join the party
Dress to kill
Dress to kill

The drinks flow
People forget
That big wheel spins, the hair thins
People forget
Forget they're hiding
The news slows
People forget
The shares crash, hopes are dashed
People forget
Forget they're hiding

Behind an eminence front
An Eminence front - it's a put on
It's just an Eminence front
An Eminence front - It's a put on
An Eminence front
An Eminence front- It's a put on
Eminence front
It's an Eminence front - It's a put on

It's a put on
It's a put on
It's a put on

Come on join the party
Dress to
Come on join the party
Dress to
Come on join the party
Dress to
Come on join the party
Dress to kill
Dress yourself to kill

======================

"Rock" and "Roll" .... "We Will Rock You"

"For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)"
(from "Who Made Who" soundtrack) by AC/DC

We roll tonight to the guitar bite

Stand up and be counted for what you are about to receive
We are the dealers
We'll give you everything you need
Hail hail to the good times
Cos rock has got the right of way
We ain't no legends ain't no cause
We're just livin' for today
For those about to rock, we salute you
For those about to rock, we salute you

We rock at dawn on the front line
Like a bolt right outta the blue
The skies alight with a guitar bite
Heads will roll and rock tonight
For those about to rock, we salute you
For those about to rock, we salute you
For those about to rock, we salute you, yes we do
For those about to rock, we salute you
Salute

We're just a battery for hire with the guitar fire
Ready and aimed at you
Pick up your balls and load up your cannon
For a twenty one gun salute
For those about to rock
Fire
We salute you
For those about to rock
We salute you
For those about to rock
Fire
We salute you
Fire
We salute you

We salute you, c'mon
For those about to rock, we salute you
For those about to rock, we salute you
For those about to rock, we salute you
For those about to rock, we salute you
Shoot, shoot
Shoot, shoot
For those who give
For those who take
Those left high
And those on the make
We salute you
We salute you
We salute you

Fire

"Roller" by April Wine

Gonna catch a flight to Nevada
Leave her friends at home in L.A.
Seven come eleven or blackjack
Gambling night and day yeah
'Cause she's a roller now, a high roller baby
She is, she's a roller yea, a high roller baby
She likes to play for double or nothin'
She's tellin' all the boys she's hot
And everybody knows she's ready
To give it everything that she got
She's a roller yeah, a high roller baby, my, my
She's a roller yeah, a high roller baby, look out
People try to tell her she's crazy
She doesn't hear a word they say
Tellin' all the boys to get ready
'Cause she's givin' it all away
She's a roller yea (roller) a high roller baby
She's a roller yea (roller) a high roller baby (she is)
She's a roller yea (roller) a high roller baby
She's a roller yea (roller) a high roller baby
Bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye
Bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye
Bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye
Bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye
Bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye
Bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye
Bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye
Bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye

"Screaming in the Night" by Krokus

Sons of vengeance, can you rescue me
They got me tied up to an old oak tree
They had me screamin' and alone in the night
I'm beginning to see what's wrong and what is right
What is wrong and what is right
Oh, oh, what is wrong and what is right
The gates was gettin' rusty, as we sailed into the dark
The stars were out and shinin' against the moonlit hour
The wolves were out and howlin', most of the time
And I was cold and shiverin' and bleedin' in the night
Bleedin' in the night,
Oh, oh bleedin' in the night
Screaming in the night,
Fighting for my life, I'd die for you
I knew it all along, headed for the sun,
Our love was true (our love was true)
Screaming in the night
Fighting for my life, I'd die for you
I knew it all along, headed for the sun
Our love was true, ah ah ah oh oh oh
In the corner of the valley, we took him by surprise
The sound of steel rang loud, above the battle cries
I found her lying lifeless, dagger through her heart
I picked her up, and held her high
And I swore to be avenged
Swore to the best, oh swore to be avenged, oh
Screaming in the night, fighting for my life, I'd die for you
I knew it all along, headed for the sun
Our love was true (our love was true)
Screaming in the night, fighting for my life, I'd die for you
I knew it all along, headed for the sun
Our love was true, oh
Screaming in the night, fighting for my life, I'd die for you, oh
I knew it all along, headed for the sun
Our love was true (our love)
Screaming in the night, fighting for my life, I'd die for you, oh
I knew it all along, headed for the sun
(Our love was true, oh)

"
Lyrics
Sweet little babe you don't have to go
Sweet little baby tell me you won't go
Oh we'd be so good together if we had the time
'Cause being alone is a nowhere state of mind
Ooh loving ain't no crime oh no
I see your man ain't here he don't care
The way of the night has gone and we'll move on
Got to find a way to face another day
I search the world for someone I'll never find
Someone who ain't ooh the hurting kind
Ooh if you stay the night oh yeah
We'll make the wrong seem right
So come on now
Rock me, rock me
Roll me through the night
Rock me, rock me
Roll me through the night
Rock me, rock me
Roll me through the night
We'll burn in love tonight yeah
Sweet little babe oh don't you go
You ain't so innocent I know
Ooh I know your heart's like mine oh yeah
And I will find the time to make you mine
Ooh and if your love goes bad if it makes you sad
Then I'll be back for more at your door
Rock me, rock me
Roll me through the night
Rock me (Rock me) rock me (Rock me now)
Roll me through the night
Rock me, rock me
Roll me through the night
Before the morning light we'll burn with love tonight
Burn with love tonight
And when your man don't care I will be there
Still be loving real good love so baby now
Rock me (Rock me) rock me (Rock me now)
Roll me through the night
Rock me (Come on) rock me
Roll me through the night
Rock me (Rock me) rock me (Rock me now)
Roll me through the night
There's no wrong or right we'll burn with love
Rock me (Rock me) rock me (Rock me now)
Roll me through the night
Rock me (Come on) rock me
Roll me through the night
Rock me (Rock me) rock me (Rock me now)
Roll me through the night
There's nothing left to do but make sweet love to you
Come on and rock me yeah"

Pyramania
There are pyramids in my head!
There's one underneath my bed!
And my lady's getting cranky.
Every possible location
Has a simple explanation
And it isn't hanky-panky.

I have read, somewhere in a book,
They improve all your food and your wine.
It's said that everything you grow in your garden will pretty fine,
Instead, all I ever get is a pain in the neck and a
Yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap!

I've consulted all the sages,
I could find in the yellow pages,
But there aren't many of them...
And the mayan panoramas
On my pyramid pajamas
Haven't helped my little problem.

I've been told someone in the know
Can be sure that his luck is as good as gold,
Money in the bank and you don't even pay for it if you fold
A dollar in the shape of the pyramid that's printed on the back.

It's no lie.
You can keep the edge of a razor as sharp as an eagle's eye.
You can grow a hedge that is vertically straight, over ten feet high.
All you really need is a pyramid and just a little luck.

I have read, somewhere in a book,
They improve all your food and wine
And I've been told,
Someone in the know
Can be sure of his good luck and it's no lie.
All you really need is a little bit of pyramidic
Help!

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More positive or revealing songs/albums?

Dark Side of The Moon by Pink Floyd

SIMULATION THEORY - MUSE

Muse is one of the biggest bands on the planet. They wrote and sang the theme song, Survival, for the 2012 London Olympic Games. They have won two Grammy awards and have sold over 20 million albums worldwide. They have scored a number one album in both America and the U.K. They have had six number one albums (including Simulation Theory) and 22 top 40 hit singles in the U.K. alone. They have been on the cutting edge of the conspiracy movement with songs like Uprising. Their latest release is called Simulation Theory and is poised to become their fifth straight top 10 album in the U.S. Simulation Theory appears to be a concept album as all the songs deal with the same theme, that is, the theory that we are living in a simulation.

Look at the first two lines from the four opening songs. "Burn like a slave, churn like a cog. We are simulations. I have lived in darkness. For all my life, I have been pursued. I'm trapped and my back's against the wall. I see no solution or exit out. Propaganda. Floozy, you got me trapped in your dark fantasy world." And then there's their first single named Thought Contagion which sounds eerily reminiscent of what the archons are said to be, mind parasites. And what do they decide to name the final track on the album? The Void. Let's look at the lyrics of each song on the album.

Algorithm
"Burn like a slave, churn like a cog. We are caged in simulations. Algorithms evolve, push us aside and render us obsolete. [Chorus] This means war with your creator. This means war with your creator..... Reload, crash out."

The Dark Side
"I have lived in darkness. For all my life, I've been pursued. You'd be afraid if you could feel my pain. And if you could see the things I am able to see. [Chorus] Break me out. Break me out. Let me flee. Break me out, break me out. Set me free."

Pressure
"I'm trapped and my back's up against the wall. I see no solution or exit out. I'm grinding it out, no one can see. The pressure's growing exponentially. I'm trying to keep up to speed with you. Your lane changing is oscillating me. I'm hitting the ground and I'm sprinting. I'm falling behind now I'm tuning out. ​ [Pre-Chorus] Pressure building, Pressure building, Pressure building [Chorus] Don't push me (Ah-ah-ah) Don't push me (Ah-ah-ah) Let me get off the ground (Don't push me). To you I'm no longer bound (Ah-ah-ah). Don't stop me (Ah-ah-ah). Don't choke me (Ah-ah-ah). I need you out of my head (Don't push me). You've got me close to the edge (Don't push me)."

Propaganda
Pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-paganda. Floozy, You got me trapped in your dark fantasy world. Don't you know you make me woozy? You have me wrapped around your little finger. [Chorus] Baby, don't you know you can't lose. You make me offers that I can't refuse. You keep telling pretty lies. You toy with the truth. Oh you're killing me with your... [Refrain] Pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-paganda. [Verse 2] Cold chick, You ate my soul just like a Death Eater...

Break it to me
"Break it to me. Don't dress it up but don't beat around the bush. And don't cover it up but don't push it underground. And don't keep it inside and don't edit and redact. And no dumbing it down. And don’t fake it, just... [Refrain] (Break it to me) (Break it to me) (Break it to me) [Verse 2] And I can handle the truth... (Just break it to me) [Chorus] I know how to mend. I can rise high above the ashes. I'll re-invent. I will re-emerge. Reborn. [Refrain] Break it to me."

Something Human
"My circuits have blown. I know it's self-imposed. And all I have shared, and all I have loved is all I'll ever own. But something has changed. I feel so alive. My life just blew up, I'd give it all up.I'll depressurize. [Pre-Chorus] Ten thousand miles left on the road. Five-hundred hours 'til I am home. I need something human, human.Human, human. [Verse 2] Let's face all our fears. Come out of the shade. Let's burn all the money, absolve all the lies. And wake up unscathed. The big picture's gone. Replaced with visions of you. Now life can begin, I've cleansed all my sins. I'm about to break through. [Chorus] Five thousand miles left on the road Two-hundred hours 'til I am home I need something human, human Human, human... [Chorus] Less than a mile left on the road. I will be crawling through your door. I need something human, human. Human, human. [Outro] And I need your love. And something human, human."

Thought Contagion
"Strung out falling from the big time. Welcome to the infinite black skies. Brain cleansed fractured identity. Fragments and scattered debris. Thought contagion. Thought contagion. Fall down long winds are counted out. Prop me up before I black out. Withdraw before you're out of time. A clean slate and buried war crimes. You've been bitten by a true believer. You've been bitten by someone who's hungrier than you. You've been bitten by a true believer
You've been bitten by someones false beliefs. Thought contagion. Thought contagion. They'll never do what you want them to. Give it up and watch them break through. It's too late for a revolution. Brace for the final solution. Thought contagion. Thought contagion. You've been bitten by a true believer. You've been bitten by someone who's hungrier then you. You've been bitten by a true believer. You've been bitten by someone's false beliefs. Thought contagion. Thought contagion. Strung out falling from the big time. Welcome to the infinite black skies. It's too late for a revolution. Brace for the final solution.

Get up and Fight
"What we have's the only thing worth fighting for. And I, I won't let nothing keep us apart. Through these fallouts there is a truth and pain but through it all You will always have my heart. [Pre-Chorus 1] I see a change on the horizon. Reasons to be frightened. I know that we can pull through. I am here to tell you. [Chorus] Get up and fight. Get up and fight. I can't do this thing without you. I'm lost in this without you. Get up and fight. We've gotta get up and fight. I can't handle this without you. Can't do it without you. [Verse 2] In our heads, a million voices scream and shout. And no one will ever hear a sound. Oh, only you can hush it. And calm the turmoil and the noise.And help me reach the higher ground. [Pre-Chorus 2] I see a change on the horizon. Reasons to be frightened. There's nothing we can't get through.I am here to tell you. [Chorus] To get up and fight.

Blockades
"The truth is that when I am killing in order to survive, I have never felt so alive. I am always seeking to live and die on the edge. Life is a broken simulation, I'm unable to feel. I'm searching for something that's real. I am always seeking to see what's behind the veil. [Pre-Chorus] Trapped in a maze of unseen walls, These blockades must fall. [Chorus] Crush, crush. Raze and rush. Seize, fight for your life. Smash, test. Beat the best. Fight for your life. You've been summoned now."

Dig Down
"When hope and love has been lost and you fall to the ground, You must find a way. When the darkness descends and you're told it's the end. You must find a way. When God decides to look the other way and a clown takes the throne. We must find a way. Face the firing squad, against all the odds. You will find a way [Chorus] Dig down. Dig down. Dig down and find faith. When you're close to the edge. With a gun to your head. You must find a way. [Verse 2] When friends are thin on the ground and they try to divide us. We must find a way. We have entered the fray and we will not obey. We must find a way, yeah [Chorus] Dig down..."

The Void
"They'll say, no one can see us. That we're estranged and all alone. They believe nothing can reach us. And pull us out of the boundless gloom. [Chorus] They're wrong. They're wrong. They're wrong. Yeah, baby, they're wrong. They're wrong. They're wrong. [Verse 2] They'll say the sun is dying. And the fragile can't be saved. And the cold, it will devour us. And we won't rise up and slay giants. [Chorus] They're wrong. They're wrong. They're wrong. Yeah, baby, they're wrong. They're wrong. They're wrong. [Bridge] It takes a leap of faith to awake from these delusions. You are the coder and avatar. A star. [Verse 3] They'll say, no one will find us. That we're estranged and all alone. They believe nothing can reach us. And pull us out of the boundless gloom. [Chorus] They're wrong. They're wrong. They're wrong. Baby, they're wrong. They're wrong. They're wrong."

Muse deserves credit for calling attention to the simulation theory. However, I can support the message they are pushing only so far. I am not sure I agree with their "final solution". They are calling for an uprising and to fight. This is not necessarily the part I am opposed against. In their last song, The Void, Muse talks about the proverbial "Them" which they call 'They'. 'They' are our rulers and oppressors, those who are subjugating the common people. Muse claims those in charge see us, the common people, as being "estranged and all alone" in a "boundless gloom" which is "cold" and "will devour us" -- which Muse seems to be calling The Void and using it more in the metaphorical sense of emptiness rather than a more literal sense, though I'm not sure. To their credit, Muse says 'They' are wrong. And that We, the people, will "rise up and slay giants". Muse says we "are the coder and avatar". Muse may be cleverly placing The Void as the last song in a secret, coded, hidden way to show they know the Void is the ultimate "exit out", but they don't state it explicitly.

LATERALUS - TOOL

The modern alternative rock band Tool seems to have been influenced by the writings of out of body pioneer Robert Monroe and his idea of "spiraling out". Their popular song, Lateralus, speaks of this theme.

The album begins with the singer in negativity, a grudge, in a prison cell. As Saturn ascends again and again, he is ignorant to the damage done and it consumes him until he chooses to let it go. There is apocalypse. He tells himself over and over again to be patient. That's his mantra. He starts to see mathematically how the pieces of the schism fit together. He finds beauty in the dissonance. He is grateful to be in this form now and remembers that pain is an illusion and he is an eternal being. He accepts the ticks and leeches (archontic parasites?) that are sucking him dry, but he transcends them and finds balance, by going beyond reason and integrating intuition and all the divine possibilities while still being human. He rides the spiral and spirals out, letting go. He finds peace within the emptiness of life and crucifies the ego, reaching for the light, and realizing we are all one mind and capable of anything imaginable. Here are the lyrics to the album:

01 The Grudge •
Wear the grudge like a crown of negativity. Calculate what we will or will not tolerate. Desperate to control all and everything. Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen. Clutch it like a cornerstone. Otherwise it all comes down. Justify denials and grip 'em to the lonesome end. Clutch it like a cornerstone. Otherwise it all comes down. Terrified of being wrong. Ultimatum prison cell.

Saturn ascends, choose one or ten. Hang on or be humbled again. Clutch it like a cornerstone. Otherwise it all comes down. Justify denials and grip 'em to the lonesome end. Saturn ascends, comes round again. Saturn ascends, the one, the ten. Ignorant to the damage done.

Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control. Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper. Defining, confining, controlling, and we're sinking deeper.

Saturn comes back around to show you everything Let's you choose what you will not see and then Drags you down like a stone or lifts you up again Spits you out like a child, light and innocent. Saturn comes back around. Lifts you up like a child or Drags you down like a stone To consume you till you choose to let this go.

Give away the stone. Let the oceans take and transmutate this cold and fated anchor. Give away the stone. Let the waters kiss and transmutate these leaden grudges into gold. Let go.

02 eon blue apocalypse •
There are no words.

03 The Patient •
A groan of tedium escapes me, Startling the fearful. Is this a test? It has to be, Otherwise I can't go on. Draining patience, drain vitality. This paranoid, paralyzed vampire act's a little old.

But I'm still right here Giving blood, keeping faith And I'm still right here. Wait it out, Gonna wait it out, Be patient (wait it out). If there were no rewards to reap, No loving embrace to see me through This tedious path I've chosen here, I certainly would've walked away by now. Gonna wait it out.

If there were no desire to heal The damaged and broken met along This tedious path I've chosen here I certainly would've walked away by now.

And I still may ... (sigh) ... I still may. Be patient. I must keep reminding myself of this... Gonna wait it out.

04 mantra •
...

05 Schism •
I know the pieces fit cuz I watched them fall away. Mildewed and smoldering. Fundamental differing. Pure intention juxtaposed will set two lovers souls in motion. Disintegrating as it goes testing our communication. The light that fueled our fire then has burned a hole between us so we cannot see to reach an end crippling our communication.

I know the pieces fit cuz I watched them tumble down. No fault, none to blame it doesn't mean I don't desire to point the finger, blame the other, watch the temple topple over. To bring the pieces back together, rediscover communication.

The poetry that comes from the squaring off between, And the circling is worth it. Finding beauty in the dissonance.

There was a time that the pieces fit, but I watched them fall away. Mildewed and smoldering, strangled by our coveting. I've done the math enough to know the dangers of our second guessing. Doomed to crumble unless we grow, and strengthen our communication.

Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any Sense of compassion Between supposed lovers/brothers.

06 Parabol •
So familiar and overwhelmingly warm This one, this form I hold now. Embracing you, this reality here, This one, this form I hold now, so Wide eyed and hopeful. Wide eyed and hopefully wild.

We barely remember what came before this precious moment, Choosing to be here right now. Hold on, stay inside... This body holding me, reminding me that I am not alone in. This body makes me feel eternal. All this pain is an illusion.

07 Parabola •
We barely remember who or what came before this precious moment, We are choosing to be here right now. Hold on, stay inside. This holy reality, this holy experience. Choosing to be here in This body. This body holding me. Be my reminder here that I am not alone in This body, this body holding me, feeling eternal All this pain is an illusion. Alive, I... In this holy reality, in this holy experience. Choosing to be here in This body. This body holding me. Be my reminder here that I am not alone in This body, this body holding me, feeling eternal. All this pain is an illusion.

Twirling round with this familiar parable. Spinning, weaving round each new experience. Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing.

This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment. Remember. We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.

08 Ticks & Leeches •
Suck and suck. Suckin up all you can, suckin up all you can suck. Workin up under my patience like a little tick. Fat little parasite.

Suck me dry. My blood is bruised and borrowed. You thieving bastards. You have turned my blood cold and bitter, beat my compassion black and blue.

Hope this is what you wanted. Hope this is what you had in mind. Cuz this is what you're getting. I hope you're choking. I hope you choke on this.

Taken all I can, taken all I can, we(?) can take. Taken all you can, taken all you can fuckin' take. Got nothing left to give to you. Blood suckin parasitic little tick/blood suckin parasitic little tick. Take what you want and then go.

09 Lateralus
"Black then white are all I see. In my infancy. Red and yellow then came to be, Reaching out to me, Lets me see. As below, so above and beyond, I imagine drawn beyond the lines of reason. Push the envelope. Watch it bend. Over-thinking, over-analyzing separates the body from the mind. Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines. There is so much more And beckons me
To look through to these infinite possibilities. Feed my will to feel this moment urging me to cross the line. Reaching out to embrace the random. Reaching out to embrace whatever may come. I embrace my desire to. I embrace my desire to feel the rhythm, to feel connected. Enough to step aside and weep like a widow To feel inspired, to fathom the power, To witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain, To swing on the spiral, to swing on the spiral, To swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human. With my feet upon the ground, I lose myself between the sounds And open wide to suck it in. I feel it move across my skin. I'm reaching up and reaching out. I'm reaching for the random or whatever will bewilder me. Whatever will bewilder me. And following our will and wind, we may just go where no one's been. We'll ride the spiral to the end. And may just go where no one's been.

Spiral out. Keep going. Spiral out. Keep going. Spiral out. Keep going. Spiral out. Keep going. "

10 Disposition •
Mention this to me. Mention something, mention anything and watch the weather change.

11 Reflection •
I have come curiously close to the end, down beneath my self-indulgent pitiful hole, defeated, I concede and move closer. I may find comfort here. I may find peace within the emptiness. How pitiful.

It's calling me... and in my darkest moment, fetal and weeping. The moon tells me a secret - my confidant. As full and bright as I am. This light is not my own and a million light reflections pass over me. Its source is bright and endless. She resuscitates the hopeless. Without her, we are lifeless satellites drifting.

And as I pull my head out I am without one doubt. Don't wanna be down here feeding my narcissism. I must crucify the ego before it's far too late. I pray the light lifts me out before I pine away. So crucify the ego, before it's far too late to leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical, and you will come to find that we are all one mind, capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable. Just let the light touch you and let the words spill through and let them pass right through, bringing out our hope and reason before we pine away.

12 Triad •
There are no words.

This last song is a broadcast from Art Bell's Coast to Coast A.M. radio show. During open lines a frantic caller called from Area 51 in a panic warning about the agenda of the military regarding aliens and depopulation. While the call was most likely made by an actor, it was interesting and Tool found it interesting enough to include as the last track on their album.

13 Faaip de Oiad •
"I, I don't have a whole lot of time. Um, OK, I'm a former employee of Area 51. I, I was let go on a medical discharge about a week ago and, and... [chokes] I've kind of been running across the country. Damn, I don't know where to start, they're, they're gonna, um, they'll triangulate on this position really soon.

OK, um, um, OK, what we're thinking of as, as aliens, they're extradimensional beings, that, an earlier precursor of the, um, space program they made contact with. They are not what they claim to be. Uh, they've infiltrated a, a lot of aspects of, of, of the military establishment, particularly the Area 51.

The disasters that are coming, they, the military, I'm sorry, the government knows about them. And there's a lot of safe areas in this world that they could begin moving the population to now. They are not! They want those major population centers wiped out so that the few that are left will be more easily controllable."

THE TURN OF A FRIENDLY CARD - THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT

Alan Parsons helped engineer the Pink Floyd album Dark Side of the Moon and was responsoible for many of the sound effects. His group The Alan Parsons Project produced several easy listening pop hits. The Turn of a Friendly Card was one of several successful concept albums the band released in the classic rock format.

"Something's wrong in this House today. While the Master was riding the Servants decided to play. Something's wrong in this House today. Something's been going on there may be a price to pay. There's evil brewing, getting out of control. And I'm helpless I can't put it right. Something unrighteous is possessing my soul. And it's cold in the heat of the night... Might be too much Sun or too much of something in the Air. Whatever's happening nobody else is aware."

"Games people play, You take it or you leave it. Things that they say, Honor Bright. If I promise you the Moon and the Stars, Would you believe it? Games people play in the middle of the night."

Goodbye, my friend. The stars wait for me. Who knows where we shall meet again, If ever, But time Keeps flowing like a river (on and on) To the sea Till it's gone forever, forevermore."

Go back home, you damn fool. Surely you know you can't win. You should never have come near this place. You should have stayed on the outside, Lookin' in... Oh, I don't wanna go home. I'm like a washed up rag, Tattered and torn. I wish I'd never been born."

"There are unsmiling faces and bright plastic chains. And a wheel in perpetual motion. And they follow the races and pay out the gains With no show of an outward emotion. And they think it will make their lives easier For God knows up till now it's been hard But the game never ends when your whole world depends On the turn of a friendly card. There's a sign in the desert that lies to the west Where you can't tell the night from the sunrise... "

"Snake eyes, Seven eleven... But'cha gotta Gimme one minute more Then I'll walk right through that door... "

"You gave the best you had to give. You only have one life to live. You fought so hard you were a slave. After all you gave there was nothing left to save. You've got nothing left to lose. You read the book. You turn the page. You change your life in a thousand ways. The dawn of reason lights your eyes with the key you realise to the kingdom of the wise... "

There are unsmiling faces in fetters and chains on a wheel in perpetual motion who belong to all races and answer all names with no show of an outward emotion. And they think it will make their lives easier, but the doorway before them is barred. And the game never ends when your whole world depends on the turn of a friendly card. No, the game never ends when your whole world depends on the turn of a friendly card."

THE MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR - THE BEATLES

Magical Mystery Tour
"Roll up! Roll up for the magical mystery tour! Step right this way!

Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour. Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour. Roll up (And that's an invitation), roll up for the mystery tour. Roll up (To make a reservation), roll up for the mystery tour. The magical mystery tour is waiting to take you away.Waiting to take you away.

Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour. Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour. Roll up (We've got everything you need.), roll up for the mystery tour. Roll up (Satisfaction guaranteed.), roll up for the mystery tour. The magical mystery tour is hoping to take you away.Hoping to take you away.

Mystery trip. Aaaah... the magical mystery tour. Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour. Roll up (And that's an invitation), roll up for the mystery tour. Roll up (To make a reservation), roll up for the mystery tour. The magical mystery tour is coming to take you away. Coming to take you away. The magical mystery tour is dying to take you away.Dying to take you away, take you today..."

Fool on the Hill
"Day after day, alone on a hill, the man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still. But nobody wants to know him. They can see that he's just a fool. And he never gives an answer. But the fool on the hill sees the sun going down and the eyes in his head see the world spinning 'round... He never listens to them. He knows that they're the fools."

Hello, Good bye

I Am the Walrus
"I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together."

Strawberry Fields Forever
"Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields. Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about. Strawberry Fields forever. Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. It doesn't matter much to me... Always know, sometimes think it's me. But you know, I know when it's a dream. I think a "No," I mean a "Yes". But it's all wrong. That is, I think I disagree. Let me take you down, cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields. Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about. Strawberry Fields forever."

KARN EVIL 9 - ELP

Emerson, Lake and Palmer was an influential progressive rock band from the 1970s.

"Cold and misty morning, I heard a warning borne in the air about an age of power where no one had an hour to spare, where the seeds have withered, silent children shivered, in the cold... Praying for survival at the end of the day. There is no compassion for those who stay. I'll be there. I'll be there. I will be there. There must be someone who can set them free: To take their sorrow from this odyssey, to help the helpless and the refugee, to protect what's left of humanity...

"Step inside! Hello! We've a most amazing show. You'll enjoy it all we know. Step inside! Step inside! We've got thrills and shocks, supersonic fighting cocks. Leave your hammers at the box. Come inside! Come inside! Roll up! Roll up! Roll up! See the show!... Spectacular! Spectacular! If you follow me there's a speciality: Some tears for you to see, Misery, misery, Roll up! Roll up! Roll up! See the show! Next upon the bill in our House of Vaudeville We've a stripper in a till What a thrill! What a thrill! And not content with that, With our hands behind our backs, We pull Jesus from a hat, Get into that! Get into that! Roll up! Roll up! Roll up! See the show!...

"Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside. There behind a glass stands a real blade of grass. Be careful as you pass, move along, move along. Come inside, the show's about to start. Guaranteed to blow your head apart. Rest assured you'll get your money's worth. Greatest show in Heaven, Hell or Earth. You've got to see the show, it's a dynamo. You've got to see the show, it's rock and roll, oh. Right before your eyes we pull laughter from the skies and he laughs until he cries, then he dies, then he dies. Come inside, the show's about to start. Guaranteed to blow your head apart. You've got to see the show, it's a dynamo. You've got to see the show, it's rock and roll, oh. Soon the Gypsy Queen in a glaze of vaseline will perform on guillotine, what a scene, what a scene. Next upon the stand will you please extend a hand to Alexander's Ragtime Band, Dixieland, Dixieland. Roll up, roll up, roll up. See the show. Performing on a stool we've a sight to make you drool: Seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool. We would like it to be known the exhibits that were shown were exclusively our own, all our own, all our own. Come and see the show, come and see the show. Come and see the show. See the show."

"Man alone, born of stone, will stamp the dust of time. His hands strike the flame of his soul; Ties a rope to a tree and hangs the Universe until the winds of laughter blows cold. Fear that rattles in men's ears and rears its hideous head. Dread... Death... in the wind. Man of steel pray and kneel with fever's blazing torch. Thrust in the face of the night; Draws a blade of compassion, Kissed by countless Kings whose jeweled trumpet words blind his sight. Walls that no man thought would fall. The altars of the just, Crushed... Dust... in the wind. No man yields who flies in my ship. Danger! Let the bridge computer speak. Stranger! Load your program. I am yourself. No computer stands in my way. Only blood can cancel my pain. Guardians of a nuclear dawn, Let the maps of war be drawn. Rejoice! Glory is ours! Our young men have not died in vain, Their graves need no flowers. The tapes have recorded their names. I am all there is. Negative! Primitive! Limited! I let you live! But I gave you life. What else could you do? To do what was right. I'm perfect! Are you?"

MIND GAMES - JOHN LENNON

John Lennon was, of course, one of the most iconic songwriters of all-time. Along with Paul McCartney he wrote dozens of fantastic songs, including Imagine, Give Peace a Chance, Happy Xmas (War is Over), Instant Karma and All You Need is Love. Mind Games is a song on one of his solo albums. In 1973 the single peaked at #18 on the Billboard charts.

"We're playing those mind games together. Pushing the barriers, planting seeds. Playing the mind guerrilla. Chanting the Mantra 'peace on earth'. We all been playing those mind games forever. Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil. Doing the mind guerrilla. Some call it magic, the search for the grail.

Love is the answer and you know that for sure. Love is a flower you got to let it grow.

So keep on playing those mind games together. Faith in the future out of the now. You just can't beat on those mind guerrillas. Absolute elsewhere in the stones of your mind. Yeah we're playing those mind games forever. Projecting our images in space and in time.

'Yes' is the answer and you know that for sure. 'Yes' is surrender. You got to let it go.

So keep on playing those mind games together. Doing the ritual dance in the sun. Millions of mind guerrillas. Putting their soul power to the karmic wheel. Keep on playing those mind games forever. Raising the spirit of peace and love. (I want you to make love, not war. I know you've heard it before.)"

Highwayman -- about reincarnation

I was a highwayman
Along the coach roads I did ride
With sword and pistol by my side
Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade
Many a soldier shed his lifeblood on my blade
The bastards hung me in the spring of '25
But I am still alive

I was a sailor
I was born upon the tide
With the sea I did abide
I sailed a schooner 'round the Horn to Mexico
I went aloft to furl the mainsail in a blow
And when the yards broke off they said that I got killed
But I am living still

I was a dam builder
Across the river deep and wide
Where steel and water did collide
A place called Boulder on the wild Colorado
I slipped and fell into the wet concrete below
They buried me in that great tomb that knows no sound
But I am still around
I'll always be around, and around and around
And around and around and around and around

I'll fly a starship
Across the Universe divide
And when I reach the other side
I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can
Perhaps I may become a highwayman again
Or I may simply be a single drop of rain
But I will remain
And I'll come back again, and again
And again and again and again and again
And again

"Universal Soldier"

He's five foot-two and he's six feet-four
He fights with missiles and with spears
He's all of 31 and he's only 17
Been a soldier for a thousand years

He'a a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain
A Buddhist, and a Baptist, and a Jew
And he knows he shouldn't kill
And he knows he always will
Kill you for me, my friend, and me for you

And he's fighting for Canada
He's fighting for France
He's fighting for the U.S.A
And he's fighting for the Russians
And he's fighting for Japan
And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way

And he's fighting for Democracy
He's fighting for the Reds
He says it's for the peace of all
He's the one who must decide
Who's to live and who's to die
And he never sees the writing on the wall

But without him
How would Hitler have condemned them at Labau?
Without him Caesar would have stood alone
He's the one who gives his body as a weapon of the war

And without him all this killing can't go on

He's the Universal Soldier and he really is to blame
His orders come from far away no more
They come from here and there and you and me
And brothers, can't you see?
This is not the way we put the end to war

"With God On Our Side "

Oh my name it ain't nothin'
My age it means less
The country I come from
Is called the Midwest
I was taught and brought up there
The laws to abide

And that land that I live in
Has God on its side

Oh, the history books tell it
They tell it so well
The cavalries charged
The Indians fell
The cavalries charged
The Indians died

Oh, the country was young
With God on its side

The Spanish-American
War had its day
And the Civil War, too
Was soon laid away
And the names of the heroes
I was made to memorize
With guns in their hands
And God on their side

The First World War, boys
It came and it went
The reason for fighting
I never did get
But I learned to accept it
Accept it with pride

For you don't count the dead
When God's on your side

The Second World War
Came to an end
We forgave the Germans
And then we were friends
Though they murdered six million
In the ovens they fried
The Germans now, too
Have God on their side

I've learned to hate the Russians
All through my whole life
If another war comes
It's them we must fight
To hate them and fear them
To run and to hide
And accept it all bravely
With God on my side

But now we got weapons
Of chemical dust
If fire them, we're forced to
Then fire, them we must
One push of the button
And a shot the world wide

And you never ask questions
When God's on your side

Through many a dark hour
I've been thinkin' about this
That Jesus Christ was
Betrayed by a kiss

But I can't think for you
You'll have to decide
Whether Judas Iscariot
Had God on his side.

So now as I'm leavin'
I'm weary as Hell
The confusion I'm feelin'
Ain't no tongue can tell
The words fill my head
And fall to the floor
That if God's on our side
He'll stop the next war

"Silent Lucidity" by Queensryche

Hush now, don't you cry
Wipe away the teardrop from your eye
You're lying safe in bed
It was all a bad dream spinning in your head

Your mind tricked you to feel the pain
Of someone close to you leaving the game of life
So here it is, another chance
Wide awake you face the day
Your dream is over
Or has it just begun?

There's a place I like to hide
A doorway that I run through in the night
Relax child, you were there
But only didn't realize and you were scared
It's a place where you will learn
To face your fears, retrace the years
And ride the whims of your mind
Commanding in another world
Suddenly, you hear and see
This magic new dimension
Will be watching over you
(I-I-I)
Am gonna help you see it through
(I-I-I)
Will protect you in the night
(I-I-I)
Am smiling next to you, in Silent Lucidity
If you open your mind for me

You won't rely on open eyes to see
The walls you built within
Come tumbling down, and a new world will begin
Living twice at once you learn
You're safe from the pain in the dream domain
A soul set free to fly
A round trip journey in your head
Master of illusion, can you realize
Your dream's alive, you can be the guide but...
Will be watching over you
(I-I-I)
Gonna help you see it through
(I-I-I)
Will protect you in the night
(I-I-I)
Am smiling next to you

"The Spirit Carries On" by Dream Theater

Where did we come from?
Why are we here?
Where do we go when we die?
What lies beyond
And what lay before?
Is anything certain in life?

They say, life is too short
The here and the now
And you're only given one shot
But could there be more
Have I lived before
Or could this be all that we've got?

If I die tomorrow
I'd be all right
Because I believe
That after we're gone
The spirit carries on

I used to be frightened of dying
I used to think death was the end
But that was before
I'm not scared anymore
I know that my soul will transcend

I may never find all the answers
I may never understand why
I may never prove
What I know to be true
But I know that I still have to try

If I die tomorrow
I'd be alright
Because I believe
That after we're gone
The spirit carries on

Move on, be brave
Don't weep at my grave
Because I am no longer here
But please never let
Your memory of me disappear

Safe in the light that surrounds me
Free of the fear and the pain
My questioning mind
Has helped me to find
The meaning in my life again

Victoria's real
I finally feel
At peace with the girl in my dreams
And now that I'm here
It's perfectly clear
I found out what all of this means

If I die tomorrow
I'd be alright
Because I believe
That after we're gone
The spirit carries on

I Will Follow You Into the Dark by Death Cab For Cutie

Love of mine
Someday you will die
But I'll be close behind
I'll follow you into the dark

No blinding light
Or tunnels, to gates of white
Just our hands clasped so tight
Waiting for the hint of a spark

If Heaven and Hell decide that they both are satisfied
Illuminate the no's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

In Catholic school, as vicious as Roman rule
I got my knuckles bruised by a lady in black
And I held my tongue as she told me
"Son, fear is the heart of love, " so I never went back

And if Heaven and Hell decide that they both are satisfied
Illuminate the no's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

You and me have seen everything to see
From Bangkok to Calgary
And the soles of your shoes are all worn down
The time for sleep is now
But it's nothing to cry about
'Cause we'll hold each other soon
In the blackest of rooms

And if Heaven and Hell decide that they both are satisfied
Illuminate the no's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark
Then I'll follow you into the dark

The Beatles' Tomorrow Never Knows also touches on this concept of the clear light or luminous void:

Tomorrow Never Knows by The Beatles

Turn off your mind
Relax and float down stream
It is not dying
It is not dying

Lay down all thoughts
Surrender to the void
It is shining
It is shining

That you may see
The meaning of within
It is being
It is being

That love is all
That love is everyone
It is knowing
It is knowing

That ignorance and hate
May mourn the dead
It is believing
It is believing

But listen to
The colour of your dream
It is not living
It is not living

All play the game
Existence to the end
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning

The song Mother and Child Reunion by Paul Simon. It has been claimed to be about the Tibetan Buddhist teaching of recognizing the clear light of awareness at the moment of death, the reuniting the child soul back into the womb-like void of its mother : "I never been laid so low in such a mysterious way. And the course of a lifetime runs over and over again. But I would not give you false hope on this strange and mournful day when the mother and child reunion is only a motion away. Oh, the mother and child is only a moment away." I know Paul has said it was based on a menu item in a Chinese restaurant, but is he referencing reincarnation and the mournful day of death, reassuring the listener that at any moment one can recognize the clear light?

Mother and Child Reunion by Simon Garfunkel

No, I would not give you false hope
On this strange and mournful day
But the mother and child reunion
Is only a motion away

Oh, little darling of mine
I can't for the life of me
Remember a sadder day
I know they say let it be
But it just don't work out that way
And the course of a lifetime runs
Over and over again

No, I would not give you false hope (no)
On this strange and mournful day
But the mother and child reunion
Is only a motion away

Oh, little darling of mine
I just can't believe it's so
Though it seems strange to say
I never been laid so low
In such a mysterious way

And the course of a lifetime runs
Over and over again
But I would not give you false hope (no)
On this strange and mournful day
When the mother and child reunion
Is only a motion away

Oh, oh, the mother and child reunion
Is only a motion away
Oh, the mother and child reunion
Is only a moment away (oh oh)
Oh, the mother and child reunion
Is only a motion away
Oh (oh), the mother and child reunion
Is only a moment away
Oh, oh, the mother and child reunion
Oh, is only a motion away
Oh, the mother and child reunion
Is only a moment away (way, way, way)