SWEET FACE (rock version) (lyrics)
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Sweet face smiling out across space
Comfort to my low station soon.
Sweet light shining like my white knight
Guiding from your great height, my moon
Always turn your sweet face to me
Moon smile from your faraway mile
I’ll be gone a long while, moon
Sweet hope pull me with your long rope
Make the path to home open soon.
Always turn your sweet face to me.
There’s something new under the moon
Singing a homecoming tune
Sweet face smiling out across space
Comfort to my low station soon.
Sweet light shining on my homesite
Guiding from your great height, my moon
Always turn your sweet face to me
Moon smile from your faraway mile
She’s been gone a long while, moon
Sweet hope pull her with your long rope
Make the path to home open soon.
Always turn your sweet face to me.
SKY (lyrics)
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I’m careworn cause I’m not airborne
I wish I could take to the skies
If I could just take to the skies
I’d be forty parts wonder and sixty parts wise
If I could just take to the skies
I wish I could take to the air
If I could just take to the air
I’d be forty parts panic and sixty parts dare
If I could just take to the air
Up in the breeze
Higher than trees
Where they wake the melodies
Higher than houses
Sailing with ease
Where they rouse the rhapsodies
I wish I could take to the clouds
If I could just take to the clouds
I’d be forty parts modest and sixty parts proud
If I could just take to the can’t get a break here If I could just take to the clouds
SAFE PASSAGE (lyrics) -1st Duet
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I hoped you’d develop a fondness
For everything moisture and pondness
Instead you are going away
And so I’ll just sit here and say
I wish you safe passage and smooth sailing
Clear skies right up to the end
I’ll hope for safe passage and smooth sailing
It’s the least I can do to help a friend
We who love wetness and rain
Find it hard to explain
A sudden desire to be dry
But if you come back to me
When you find your pedigree
We'll see it's self expanatory why
I wish you safe passage a clear corridor
Up and down the coast and back again
I hope for safe passage and clear horizons
It’s the least that I can do to help a friend
You’ve no time for anything swamplish
With all that you seek to accomplish
You’ll find me here cheering you on
As long as I stay in my pond
I wish you safe passage a smooth corridor
Weather even drier than dry land
I’ll hope for safe passage and
Smooth sailing
I’ll be here doing everything I can
CODA
I think I can help you the best
If I can get plenty of rest
I think I can help you the most
By staying right here at my post
I can help you the best I do say
By staying out of your way
But I wish you safe passage
And clear skylines
Every minute of the day
I’ll work for safe passage
A clear corridor
By staying here at home
Out of your way
There’s no advice I can give her
That’s better than lights on the river
DUET (lyrics)
I don’t want to stay home
Please don’t make me stay home
You can come too
You can hop on a bike
Take a train if you like
It’s very helpful of you
Come with us
Ride the school bus
Take a boat
You could float
Or you might rather fly
If you want to stay dry
I’ll be over dry land
But I always forget
You prefer to get wet
You’ll be at my right hand
Very helpful
No one like you
Just don’t ask me
To stay with you
I can’t stay
Not one day
Is the distance too far
You can hop in a car
You will know where we are
Just don’t make me stay home
I don’t want to stay home
Please don’t make me stay home
BUG-EYED (Jeanfrancois) (lyrics)
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Consider this life I knew
This exquisite point of view
They’re all over-shadowed by you
I’m bug-eyed for you
Toujours and beaucoup
I find you so beautiful
My heart skips a beat
Its hopping complete
It falls at the feet of you
Because I am bug-eyed for you
Maybe the sky is blue
With sighs concerning you
I hope it’s returning you
I’m bug-eyed for you
So quiet so few
I hope to take care of you
I’ll gaze at the skies
With big bulging eyes
And dream of our rendez-vous
Because I am bug-eyed for you
BUG-EYED (Safari Ciel)(lyrics)
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Consider this life I knew
My exquisite point of view
They’re all overshadowed by you
I’m bug-eyed for you
Toujours and beaucoup
I find you so beautiful
My heart skips a beat
Its travel complete
It lights at the feet of you
Because I am bug-eyed for you
Now my safari’s through
Homecoming overdue
Only the sky is blue
I’m bug-eyed for you
So quiet so true
I hope to return to you
I’ll fly through the skies
With stars in my eyes
Our dream is our rendez-vous
Because I am bug-eyed for you
WATER AND AIR (lyrics)
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I have always loved water and air
I find them beyond all compare
I love water and air
They make me light and debonair
I love water and air and you
I love the sky and the sea
Everything else doesn’t matter to me
I love the sky and the sea and you
To get to your next destination
You’re going to need oxygenation
Once there when you’re taking a drink
Without all this water you’d sink
I love the waves and the fog
They’ve turned me into an exceptional frog
I love the waves and the fog and you
In all of my frogitization
I’ve never been on a migration
But elements basic to me
Will be there you surely will see
O2 and H2O
The more I have the better I go
I love the H and the O’s and you
COURTS AND THE LAW (lyrics)
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The courts will bury you my friend
You’ll pay the fine but it won’t end
The courts will lock you up you’ll see
And then they’ll throw away the key
And what is your recourse
Their job is to enforce
They say a corpeous so habeous
Will never try to baby us
Not after having analyzed your sheet
The panel of elite
Will bury you six feet
And when you finally put a dent in
All the time you owe San Quentin
You’ll find Alcatraz is lining up for more
You’ll find it’s even worse than you foresaw
The courts will bury you my pal
With legalistic rationale
However merciless the ruling
It will leave the jury drooling
The thing they love the best
Is making the arrest
When you’ve been meted so much justice
That you can no longer trust us
And you don’t look good in prison stripes at all
They’ll hang you out to dry
And never tell you why
When you’ve been found so compos mentis
That you can’t escape your sentence
No not even with your trusty old hacksaw
You’ll find it’s worse than anyone foresaw
And when you think you’ve done your time
Then someone else will drop the dime
Despite your outraged cries across the universe
You’re wondering can this get any worse
You thought you were completely risk averse
You could be liberated right into a hearse
The courts will bury you my man
They have an undisputed plan
And they don’t like it when their rulings are reversed
It only makes the situation worse
The courts are only what is happening to you first
When you emerge all gray and wizened
From eternity in prison
And you think you’ve finally settled up the score
Instead you see the worst is at your door
You see the face of justice opening its jaw
The hand of justice sharpening its claw
That’s when the courts are going to throw you
Cause they’re ready to heave ho you
Yes the courts are going to throw you to the law
BEARS (lyrics)
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We’re barely bearable bears.
We’re large despairable, unrepairable, quite
deplorable, unadorable bears.
You can say it in church we’ve researched it.
You can say it in court we’ve reported.
It’s a four letter word you can say anywhere…
Ba ba ba ba ba bear
B is for our bellies full of fat
Ba ba ba ba ba bear
E’s for eating we do a lot of that
Ba ba ba ba ba bear
A is for anything you toss us
B is for bear and bears are the bosses
Ba ba ba ba ba bear
B’s for bearable we think that we are
Though just barely ba bear
R is for we want to be a star-ar-ar-ar
Ba ba ba ba ba bear
S is for the songs that we sing
We can’t really spell it isn’t our thing
Ba ba ba ba ba bear
B is for you’d better stay back
Ba ba ba ba ba bear
Before you know it we’ll have you for a snack
Ba ba ba ba ba bear
A is for you already guessed
B is for bear and bears are the best
Ba ba ba ba ba bear
B is for because you inquired
Ba ba ba ba ba bear
E is for our contract expired
Ba ba ba ba ba bear
A is for you already know
B is for bear and this is our show
It’s a four letter word you can say anywhere
Bear
ROYALTIES (lyrics)
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If our contract were stronger, our song would be longer
Bears don’t get royalties but they should
An area of law misunderstood
The pitiable pittance that is our livelihood
Bears don’t get royalties but they should
Bears don’t get royalties but they could
Some of our commercial work is good
Ask any garbage can in any neighborhood
Bears don’t get royalties but they could
Your typical song and dance bear
Dancing an all-bear review
Hasn’t a share in medicare
What’s a poor bear to do?
Ask any bear can he be bought?
The price is cheap or so we always thought
Ask any honey bee that wants to see us caught
Bears don’t get royalties but they ought
A tricycle bear, did I mention,
Or dancing the old soft shoe
Though fully deserving a pension
Can barely get served at the zoo
Bears don’t get royalties as we’d like
If we had a job we’d go on strike
We sing this very sadly as we step up to the mike
Bears don’t get royalties as we’d like
Whenever we do a commercial
With labor-intensified toil
It’s difficult work and exertial
We only get cod liver oil
Bears don’t get royalties but they should
We want to increase the likelihood
Ask any bird feeder we knocked down where it stood
Bears don’t get royalties
Hence the disloyalties
Bears don’t get royalties but we should
We think they’d taste really really really really good
Please give us royalties as you should
INTERNET MILLIONAIRE (lyrics) 1st verses
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I want to be an internet millionaire
Fill me up with ill begotten gain
I want to be a senator or president
As soon as I can finance my campaign
I’m selling everything that can be bought
And for deniability if I’m caught
I’ve practiced these expressions on my face
Of innocence to cover my disgrace
I want to be an internet criminal
Load me up with crime that really pays
I’d do it openly or I can be subliminal
I’ve been waiting for this day for days
INTERNET MILLIONAIRE (lyrics) 2nd verses
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I want to be an internet millionaire
Senator, president and king
Once I become an internet millionaire
Voters will elect me everything
Don’t need an alibi
When I am done
They’ve never made an officer I can’t outrun
But if the law arrives
I’ll fabricate
Another time another swamp another state
I’ll move some decimal points from right here in my rocking chair
Keep the easy money rolling in
An instant millionaire and criminal extraordinaire
Just doing what I have to do to win
VOODOO CHICKEN (lyrics)
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He said how can you make it in this life if everything is free
I said I have to turn my back on you and strongly disagree
So he cooked me a voodoo chicken
Yes he cooked me a voodoo chicken
And what got into him got into me
I said how can I even eat this stuff, it’s not part of my diet
He said how do you know that if you didn’t even try it
So he cooked me a voodoo chicken
Yes he cooked me a voodoo chicken
And what got into him got into me
The thing I was becoming is not what I became
With shadows calling after me that shouldn’t know my name
The thing I was consuming brought nightfall over day
With shadows passing over me that shouldn’t know my way
He cooked me a voodoo chicken
He made me eat my fill
He cooked me a voodoo chicken
And took away my will
The sleepy steam of chicken all savory and spiceness
Overcame my honest name and took away my niceness
He cooked me a voodoo chicken
Yes he cooked me a voodoo chicken
And what got into him got into me
SAFE PASSAGE (lyrics)- 2nd duet
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You hoped I’d develop a fondness
For everything moisture and pondness
Instead I have traveled afar
I don’t even know how you are
So I wish for safe passage and smooth sailing
Clear skies right up to the end
I’ll hope for safe passage and smooth sailing
It’s the quickest way to get back to my friend
I who hate wetness and rain
Found it hard to contain
My migratory impulse to be dry
But when I get back to you
This much is true
I’ll vehemently rehumidify
Please wish me safe passage a clear corridor
Up and down the coast and back again
I’ll hope for safe passage and clear horizons
It’s the quickest way to get back to my friend
I’d no time for anything swamplish
With all that I sought to accomplish
I hope you are cheering me on
While safely immersed in your pond
Please wish me safe passage a smooth corridor
Weather even drier than dry land
I’ll hope for safe passage and smooth sailing
I believe you’re doing everything you can
CODA
You said you could help me the best
If you could get plenty of rest
You promised to help me the most
By staying right there at your post
You could help me the best you did say
By staying out of my way
But you wished me safe passage
And clear skylines
Every highway that I roam
You’d work for safe passage
A clear corridor
But now I just can’t wait to get back home
DUET lyrics
I’m a really blue frog
All alone in the fog
I’m a frog but I’m blue
Separated from you
I’m as blue as the deep
And I’m falling asleep
You’re a pal and a buddy
When I’m not even muddy
You’re a really good friend
Could you hurry right back
Please don’t bother to pack
Blue could turn green again
When you’re near
And home here
No longer blue
Green as new
While you’re off on your quest
I’ve had plenty of rest
But it got out of hand
I can help I did say
By staying out of your way
I can just barely stand
It’s catastrophic
We’re getting off topic
Details are blurry
Shouldn’t you hurry
I remember
Which I did
I’ve been bluer than sadness
Feel it’s time for some gladness
When’d you say you’d be back?
I can handle some dryness
Just can’t take the goodbye-ness
I’m a really blue frog
SWEET FACE (lyrics)
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There’s something new under the moon
Singing a homecoming tune
Sweet face smiling out across space
Comfort to my low station soon.
Sweet light shining like my white knight
Guiding from your great height, my moon
Always turn your sweet face to me
Moon smile from your faraway mile
I’ll be gone a long while, moon
Sweet hope pull me with your long rope
Make the path to home open soon.
Always turn your sweet face to me.
There’s something new under the moon
Singing a homecoming tune
Sweet face smiling out across space
Comfort to my low station soon.
Sweet light shining on my homesite
Guiding from your great height, my moon
Always turn your sweet face to me
Moon smile from your faraway mile
She’s been gone a long while, moon
Sweet hope pull her with your long rope
Make the path to home open soon.
Always turn your sweet face to me.
BUCKET BRIGADE (lyrics)
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Come join the bucket brigade
The bucket brigade the bucket brigade
You’ll love to join our parade
The bucket brigade is here
March in our bucket brigade
Our bucket brigade our bucket brigade
Lined up to come to your aid
The bucket brigade is here
Heave high heave low heave heave ho
Proudly the bucket brigade
Will lead the parade to come to your aid
Our pledge is already made
The bucket brigade is here
IT HELPS TO HAVE A DREAM (lyrics)
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The French have a saying
Say it in French
Not just one word but every
Their proclamation firmly entrenched
Until they heard my reverie
It helps to have a dream
My universal theme
Something to cling to, tie off your wing to,
Balancing the extremes
It helps to have a plan
Hold tightly in your hand
Not to be soaring over the boring
Only to sink in sand
When will you understand
I’d trade them all for you
Bid all my dreams adieux
Your sunsmile streaming over my dreaming
Finally breaking through
I’ll trade them all for you because
It helps to have a dream and mine is you
It helps to have a dream and mine is you.
Say you love me say you do
And I’ll always dream of you
The French had the franchise, everything French
Everyone parlez-vous
Til their translators ran up against
All of my dreams of you
It helps to hold a wish
Facing the night abyss
Hold in your fist if you are realistic
Never relinquish this
Sure as a fantasy
Forges a guarantee
Go through the motions chasing the oceans
Just to be lost at sea
When will you dream of me?
I’d trade them all for you
Bid all my dreams adieux
Your sunsmile streaming over my dreaming
Finally breaking through
I’ll trade them all for you because
It helps to have a dream and mine is you
Someone to cling to
And give a ring to
It helps to have a dream and mine is you.
Say you love me say you do
And I’ll always dream of you
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