Opus 40

Well she tossed all nite like a ragin’ sea

woke up an’ climbed from th’ suicide machine

with her spanish candles an’ her persian poems

stuck on th’ rocks inside opus 40 stoned

an’ scratchin’ her wrists in th’ pourin’ rain

she collapses down upon th’ ocean floor again

Tears in waves minds on fire

Nights alone by yr side

Catskill mansions buried screams

i’m alive she cried but i don’t know what it means

somewhere out there across th’ moonlit sands

there’s a line drawn like th’ lines on her own hand

an’ slammin’ her eyes lockin’ th’ door

she collapses down upon th’ ocean floor again

Tears in waves minds on fire

Nights alone by yr side

                                       Mercury Rev

Baby Blue

Boxing shadows in my sleep
It's the company I keep
The perfect exercise
As I grow older

I can't believe what God has done
He took the heat out of the sun
And now it seems the world
Is growing colder

Between the pleasure and the pain
Wishing your life away
No more sinister than sane
Briefing your life away
Between the flicker and the flame
No one can explain
Baby Blue is born again

Keep my daughter in a jar
She can't get out she won't go far
My heart is in my mouth
But still keeps pounding

Between the pleasure and the pain
Wishing your life away
No more sinister than sane
Briefing your life away
Between the flicker and the flame
No one can explain
Baby Blue is born again

                                             Emiliana Torrini

New Star In The Sky

My Baby Blue is a new star in the sky

The world the world the world the world...

...just for you

For nobody else

Boat Or Swim

The Dark Is Rising

I dreamed of you on my farm

I dreamed of you in my arms

But dreams are always wrong

I never dreamed I'd hurt yu

I never dreamed I'd lose you

In my dreams I'm always strong

But now th' creek is rising

An' all my bridges burned

I always dreamed of big crowds 

Plumes of smoke and high clouds

But dreams don't last for long

When th' stars are in position

All will be revealed

But I know that until then

Unless th' stars surrender

All will be concelead

And now th' snow is falling

And all my fence is torn

I know you need someone

An' I can hear someone

I dreamed that I was walking

And th' two of us were talking

Of all life's mystery

Th' words that flow between friends

Winding streams without end

I wanted you to see

But it can seem surprising

When you find yourself alone

And now th' dark is rising

And a brand new moon is born

I always dreamed I'd love you

I never dreamed I'd lose you

In my dreams I'm always strong

Lincoln's Eyes

(A Cruel Black Dragon Lurks)

What explodes like a fractal

Pops like a lite bulb

Looks really awful

At four in the morning

Moves with a dead stare

Coil 'round yer ankles

Fangs long as neckties

An' strikes without warning

What implodes like a Zeppelin

Cracks like pavement

Smokes in th' basement

An' knows when yer lying

Comes to a dead stop

Forgives you like Jesus

Cold as a windchill

Pulls like a magnet

Male and female

An' covets like a dragon

Grows to a shark length

Contracts to amoeba

Lives in your soul

An' loves you like I do

What appears like an angel

Stabs like a dagger

Fills you with lite

An' bleeds you of matter

Comes to a dead stop

Forgives you like Jesus

Hands you a love only

What explodes like a fractal

Pops like a lite bulb

Strolls in like Joel Gray

At four in th' morning

Armed with a big nose

Fragile as a sea horse

Lives in yer soul

An' loves you like I do

                                          Mercury Rev

Bella Donna

You can ride high atop your pony
I know you won't fall...
'cause the whole thing's phoney.
You can fly swingin from your trapeze
Scaring all the people...
but you never scare me

Bella donna...
And we fight...for the northern star

No speed limit...this is the fast lane
It's just the way that it is here
And you say...I never thought it could

Bella donna...we fight...
for the northern star

And the lady's feeling
Like the moon that she loved
Don't you know that the stars are
A part of us
And the lady's feeling
Just like the moon that she loved

You are in love with...
And I'm ready to sail...
It's just a feeling...
Sort of captures your soul

Bella donna...

And the woman may be awestruck
And the woman may truly care
but the woman is so tired...
So the woman dissappears...

Come in out of the darkness...

Bella donna...my soul...

Don't change...baby please don't change
And you say...
and your face becomes thin
You never thought it could
Come in out of the darkness
Bella donna...

You are in love with
And I'm ready to sail
It's just a feeling

                                           Stevie Nicks

The Highwayman

Alas he was the highwayman
The one that comes and goes
And only the highway-woman
Keeps up with the likes of those
And she in all her magic
With hands as quick as light
Took him to be a challenge
And went into the night

And he in all his glory
Was far ahead of her
But she was never sorry
For wishes that would burn
Enter competition
She chases beneath the moon
Her horse is like a dragonfly
She is just a fool

And she wonders is this real
Or does she just want to be Queen
And he fights the way he feels
Is this the end of the dream

And then he sees her coming
Heartbeats on the wind
Considers slowing down
But then...he could never win
And she...out in the distance
Sees him against the sky
A pale and violent rider
A dream begun in wine

And she wonders is this real
Or does she just want to be Queen
And he fights the way he feels
Is this the end of the dream

A dream as the thunder wakes her
And her highwayman disappears
on a life already lived before
In eyes welled with tears

Today and still today they ride
Will they ever win
He the glory...
She the love...
Still they try again
He the glory...
She the love...
Still they try again
He the glory...
She the love...
And still they...try...again

                                                       Stevie Nicks

Crash! Boom! Bang!

My Papa told me to stay out of trouble

"When you've found your man, make sure he's for real!

I've learnt that nothing really lasts forever

I sleep with the scars I wear that won't heal

They won't heal.

Cos every time I seem to fall in love

Crash! Boom! Bang!

I find the heart but then I hit the wall

Crash! Boom! Bang!

That's the call, that's the game

I pass by the houses and blocks I once knew

My Mama told me not to mess with sorrow

But I always did, and Lord I still do

I'm still breaking the rules

I kick it up

I kick it down

Cos everytime I seem to fall in love

Crash! Boom! Bang!

I find the heart but then I hit the wall

Crash! Boom! Bang!

That's my real middle-name

It has always been the same

That's the call, that's the game

and the pain stays the same.

Slowly fallin' from the sky

And the taste of the kissing

Shattered by rain

Comin' tumblin' from behind

And the wild holy war

I kick it up

I kick it down

And everytime I seem to fall in love

Crash! Boom! Bang!

I find the roses dying on the floor

Crash! Boom! Bang!

That's the call, that's the game

and the pain stays the same.

That's my real middle-name

It has always been the same...

...it has always been the same.

Queen Of Rain

In that big big house there are fifty doors

and one of them leads to your heart

In the time of spring I passed your gate

and tried to make a start

All I knew was the scent of sea and dew

But I've been in love before, what about you?

There's a time for the good in life,

a time to kill the pain in life

Dream about the sun

and one of them leads to your soul

It's a bed of fear, a bed of threats,

regrets and sheets so cold

All I knew, your eyes so velvet blue

I've been in love before, how about you?

There's a time for the good in life, 

a time to kill the pain in life

Dream about the sun

you Queen of Rain

It's time to place your bets in life,

I've played the loser's game of life

Dream about the sun you Queen of Rain

Time went by as I wrote your name in the sky

Fly fly away, bye bye.

Are You A Hypnotist??

I had forgiven you for tricking me again

but I have been tricked again

into forgiving you

What is this??

Are you some kind of a hypnostist??

Wawing your powers around

the sun eclipse behind the cloud...

I thought I recognized your face 

amongst all those strangers

But I am the stranger now

amongst all the recognized

What is this??

Are you some kind of a hypnotist??

Wawing your powers around

the sun eclipse behind the cloud

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

Her name is Yoshimi

She's a black belt in karate

working for the city

she has to discipline her body

'Cause she knows that it's demanding

to defeat those evil machines

I know she can beat them

Oh Yoshimi

they don' believe me

but you won't let those robots defeat me

Oh Yoshimi

they don't believe me 

Yoshimi & Robot painted by Wayne Coyne

they're programmed to destroy us

She's gotta be strong to fight them

so she's taking lots of vitamins

'Cause she knows that it'd be tragic

if those evil robots win

I know she can beat them

One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21

Unit three thousand twenty one 

is warming makes a humming sound

when its circuits duplicates emotions

And a sense of coldness detaches

as it tries to comfort your sadness

One more robot learns to be

something more than a machine

When it tries the way it does

makes it seem like it can love

'Cause it's hard to say what's real

when you know the way you feel

Is it wrong to think it's love

when it tries the way it does...

Dreaming a sympathetic wish

As the lights blink faster and brighter

One more robot learns to be

something more than a machine

When it tries the way it does

makes it seem like it can love

'Cause it's hard to say what's real

when you know the way you feel

Is it wrong to think it's love

when it tries the way it does...

                                                      The Flaming Lips

Beauty And The Beast

You're not a stranger to me
And you are something to see
You don't even know how to please
You say a lot...but you're unaware how to leave

My darling lives in a world that is not mine
An old child misunderstood...out of time
Timeless is the creature who is wise
And timeless is the prisoner in disguise

Oh who is the beauty...who the beast
Would you die of grieving when I leave
Two children too blind to see
I would fall in your shadow...I believe

My love is a man who's not been tamed
Oh...my love lives in a world of false pleasure and pain
We come from difference worlds...we are the same (my love)
I never doubted your beauty...I've changed
I never doubted your beauty...I've changed

Changed...who is the beauty
Where is my beast (my love)
There is no beauty
Without my beast (my love)

Who is the beauty
Who... (my love)
Ahhh...
Oh...la bete...la bete
Where is my beast

My beauty...my beauty
My beautiful...beautiful...beautiful
Beautiful beast

                                         Stevie Nicks

Gypsy

So I'm back, to the velvet
underground
Back to the floor, that I love
To a room with some lace
and paper flowers
Back to the gypsy
that I was
To the gypsy...
that I was

And it all comes down to you
Well, you know that it does
Well, lightning strikes,
maybe once, maybe twice
Ah, and it lights up the night
And you see your gypsy
You see your gypsy

To the gypsy that remains
faces freedom with a little fear
I have no fear, I have only love
And if I was a child
And the child was enough
Enough for me to love
Enough to love

She is dancing away from me now
She was just a wish
She was just a wish
And a memory is all
that is left for you now
You see your gypsy
You see your gypsy

Lightning strikes,
maybe once, maybe twice
And it all comes down to you

And it all comes down to you

Lightning strikes,
maybe once, maybe twice
And it all comes down to you

I still see your bright eyes,
bright eyes
And it all comes down to you
I still see your bright eyes,
bright eyes
And it all comes down to you

I still see your bright eyes,
bright eyes
(She was just a wish)
(She was just a wish)
And it all comes down to you

Lightning strikes,
maybe once, maybe twice
And it all comes down to you

                                             Stevie Nicks

Rhiannon

Rhiannon rings like a bell thru the night
And wouldn't you love to love her
She rules her life like a bird in flight
And who will be her lover...

All your life you've never seen
A woman--taken by the wind
Would you stay if she promised you heaven
Will you ever win...

She is like a cat in the dark
And then she is the darkness
She rules her life like a fine skylark--
And when the sky is starless--

All your life you've never seen--
A woman--taken by the wind
Would you stay if she promised you heaven
Will you ever win...

Dreams unwind.
Love's a state of mind.

                                             Stevie Nicks

(Read Rhiannon's legend in "Miscellaneous" page)

(Leggete la leggenda di Rhiannon alla pagina "Miscellaneous")

Rhiannon painted by Stevie Nicks.

Central Reservation

Running down a central reservation in last nights red dress,
And I can still smell you on my fingers and taste you on my breath;
Stepping through brilliant shades,
All the color you bring,
This time, this time, this time,
Is fine just as it is.

Today is whatever I want it to mean,
Today is whatever I want it to mean.
Is this where memories are made,
Well, dreams do come true.

Everything I ever took for granted,
I want to see it through.

I step through every shade,
Any color you bring,
Cause this time, this time, this time,
Is fine just as it is.

Today is whatever I want it to mean,
Today is whatever I want it to mean.

It's like living in the middle of the ocean,
With no future, no past,
And everything that's good right now,
Well, I don't wish for it to last.

I'll step through brilliant shades,
Every color you bring,
Cause this time, this time, this time,
Is fine just as it is.

And today is whatever I want it to mean,
Today is whatever I want it to mean,
Today, today, is whatever I want it to mean,
Today is whatever I want it to me

 Beth Orton

Spaceboy

Feel it
Break your bones
Mr. jones

Taste me
As I bleed
Taste my need

And spaceboy I've missed you
Spinning round my head
And any way you choose me
You'll break instead

Watch me
Death defy
Defile my life

I don't need
I don't care
Please

I want to go home
I want to go home
I want to go home
I want to go home
'cause when a lover aches
That's when a lover breaks
I want to go home
I want to go home

And spaceboy they'll kill me
Before I'm dead and gone
And any way you choose me
It won't be wrong
And anyway you choose me
We won't belong

We won't belong
We won't belong
We won't belong
We won't belong
We won't belong

Hercules

In th' morning yr face cracks an' falls to th' sea

Th' sun follows yr step an' leads you back to me

You keep telling yerself that you're here but you're not alone

An' you get th' feeling that yr mind is not yr own

In th' evening th' sun's red gown turns to brown

Th' moon follows you to th' beach then it swallows you down

Strange how you change and end up at her feet

You keep telling yourself but you know yr not to be believed

You an' me and Hercules in between

You an' me and Hercules in between

In th' distance th' ships in th' waves cash in their load

On th' hill stands Colossus an' yr mind is freezed

Clouds from yr past now at last open to receive

You an' me and Hercules in between

You an' me and Hercules in between

Cross th' desert sand no one knows yr name

An' you wish you were somewhere else with some kind of fame

What appears as yr shadow is formless as a mist

You keep telling yr friends you know...it exists

One becomes two then before you...turns to three

Words climb your tongue...like a ladder to speak

Drifting as you go but you row...'til it seems

All is One, All is Mind, all is lost

and you find... ALL IS DREAM