Magellan

Waiting for the break of day Searching for something to say Dancing lights against the sky Giving up I close my eyes Sitting cross-legged on the floor 25 or 6 to 4 Staring blindly into space Getting up to splash my face Wanting just to stay awake Wondering ho...

Remember me when I met you back in chicago? Filthy bum (twenty plus some) with an old platitude Mending fences or mending souls That was all you had to say But fate was fair my friend Now it’s your turn to walk in my place Tell me how’s the view from do...

From Madagascar to Mozambique Washington to Oman The drums of war still beat Business was booming Now your STOCKS in the can Because New York City Was the promised land Conflict of culture Open season on the free world Now it's North Korea But are...

Back in '61 to '65, their indifferences, Could never hide the buried hopes of peace That rest beneath them wearing grey or blue. Did the burning of white mansions still The fire inside their hearts to kill Each other? The memories that lie where ash remai...

When your mind stays awake and your body cries for sleep Disillusioned from the pain you're in way too deep. As the chains bind your soul and the sweat takes its toll Don't submit to addiction - can't escape the whole world. You're just looking for somethi...

I've seen enough Of this thing at work called cynicism And I'm tired of hearing twisted thoughts With bent expressions I see no reason to be brother's keeper 'cause at this point All I need is something more In fact, this could be hard for me It coul...

Overplayed and understated Maximized and underrated Overdrawn and overstated What about the truth -what about it? Minimized, overemphasized Exaggerated just to dramatize There's a whole lot more than fame here And a whole lot more to money Ok, I've m...

[Part I. "Youthful Enthusiasm"] [Instrumental] [Part II. "Psych 101"] Well a bad day fishin' is better than a good day at work But a bad day in paradise is a bad deal Let's say goodbye before we've ever met You're alone on the shore of cranium reef...

Feel free, write your scathing indictment Pick us apart with your joke of a pen Pacified poet, standing alone you know it I hear you preaching: "Do it again - won't you please do it again?" Plenty of time - hear the hypocrites whine Pathetic business -...

We're living proof of these uncertain times Lost all our money and we've done our time I've got no answers-only questions now No point in starting over Does no good anyhow. I'm not a critic and I'm not a friend Coming to terms or coming to an end? Anot...

I am your high priest of selling And I've got your sainthood COVERED - again I am a quick-change artist - at least But don't you forget I'm an instrument of good Your doctor Bullet proof alibis - I'm your doctor Social butterflies - I'm your doctor I'l...

"These are my last words, their treasonous hands have us all under siege, now do you understand?" Gossens ministers - all at hand Will take up final stations As the coup hunts a single man No offer of exile did he take in his last trial... Covert action...

Dredging the world of memory Dank and dirty as darkness descends I can not see the moon tonight There's a mist upon the land - and it doesn't feel right Hush my child, I'll give you a clue - Be careful young friend The keeper is a prisoner too Well, I...

Evangelists - praise the divine Cardinals - shift on the mainline Cause and effect - rule at the same time Absolution stopped - right at the bloodline Heretics scream - "no prophets" Zealots all walk a gauntlet Spread the word - drink from the goblet N...

Fly the flag Put your hand on your heart You can be assured That you've done your part Watch the nation bleed From the comfort of your chair And then you'll just become A lazy bum sitting there Friends of America Where are you now? Get up and do some...

There comes a moment in time Before ascent or decline You'll face your darkest hours When other see in your face The test of wills you've embraced You are your own opponent Keeping your focus in the rat race Do what you have to so you can keep pace Yo...

Ritual of mourning No praying in his faith A heathen is rejoicing No God, so there's no grace How can he understand this When war is at each hand? Rejecting all mysteries He just won't see... That saved, he can be Forgive the heathen -he's asleep no...

Caught you sleeping on the railroad track You were so tired that you took a nap Tied you up while you were on your back And they told you that your name was Jack Well, they thought you might have been the Missing link Make some big cash with those two b...

Walking on a still green sea-have you got the faith to let it be? Without falling through like an anchor tied - to your weighted memories of guilty times. Stepping on a bed of coals - does little damage to the icy souls 'Cause there's just one bridge betwee...

Swear I'm gonna break free From the grip of sin From that killer of hope... 'cause all I see is that killer of hope. Well, did I ever think to think? I didn't even try I should have listened to the wise Now its too late - I knew better There's nothi...

Tendencies that bring us To our knees See, there's no unity Just a thousand different ways Time for church Oh really, let's see Do the Jew and Gentile Really need to agree? What 'cha reading? Did you think I'd be surprised? You're the pastor's cash...

[I. Magna Carta Overture] [Instrumental] [II. Declaration] John The King of England Duke of Normandy (Count of Aquitaine) Spoke to all his subjects Declaring freedom and reform in this present charter... [III. Status Quo] In the first place it is...

I can't see you mama but I know you're always there ooh to touch and to feel you mama oh I just can't keep away it's the heat and the steam of the city oh its got me running and I just can't brake so say you'll help me mama cos its getting so hard Now I can't...

[Verse 1] I hear you laughing loudly But I'm not laughing with you Well you may be joking first But I'll be the one who has the last laugh [Verse 2] You call yourself "progressive" I say it's all regressive You think you can stand in judgment So list...

A writer like a blacksmith-forging works of iron The jagged edges tempered into solid scripts for hire Solitary craftsman at his console merging audio discrete An ever changing soundscape sets the stage; The twains shall meet in a union strong Just like...

Crossing the line of demarcation They took a passage to the west Dead reckoning they doubled back Into the north they anchored for bad weather San Martin and Magellan almost lost sight of the flagship The Santiago and Victoria led No sign of land altere...

Wish it could be prosperity That's waiting around the corner All I can see is more agony I don't believe things are better Want it for you - want it for me Let's do it and keep our sanity Always a fight - we both may be right Too stubborn to see It's...

I was only four I don't remember you I have seen your pictures my whole life Brother... in this great goodnight. A black frame still protects those two Letters from the President They start out: On this day in May 1966 For wounds received in action St...

We must search together or united we'll fall Standing at the crossroad - just the two of us. Will you travel with me? I'll take the surest path In this Hour of Restoration... 

Language and meter Tools for a task Structure and movement There's logic at last Critical rave Misanthrope hired Humans want quickness So keep it under the wire "The pit and the pendulum" "The man of the crowd" "The tell tale heart" His character...

Magic land so far away - was It worth the voyage in these days? The lives of soldiers thrown away In medieval claims to yesterday... Off the starboard bow In the heat of the night We visualize Apocalypse in the fire fight, The parliament says "it's nece...

Experience machines that know your thoughts and know your dreams A better way of seeing things you won't believe it's real Interact, you and I-there's a feeling lost we can't deny I've opened up. We never tried to simulate it all. Our love-it can be a vir...

Fear in a young one with innocence A crisis I must resolve to handle with competence He wants to know if he will be "taken" too He worried - he asked me point blank "Will I ever be as old as you?" He just afraid at a young age Don't want to leave you at...

We are the misfits with a broken horizon Like Keats or Hemingway, survive with poets defiance Christmas at the Martinique grieving for a home Three generations tough it out on the big street all alone... Rank of the privileged on the evening commute Don'...

At the end of the world, the big man came "you promised last time you wouldn't make it rain" So he picked up the earth like a basketball And threw it into hell just to watch it fall... Well the big man he don't care about the Average American - cause he...

Welcome these players to your stage Progressive, we cleverly syncopate These rhythms, in a key, in an overture Directing our experience into yours. Waiting here for a visionary Imagine living the new possibilities In a matter of time you're a WINNER S...

One man's playing piano and one man's drooling on the floor And one man's making missiles 'cause he wants to prevent a world war One man's disadvantaged just because his skin is black And one man's children starve to death but not the idiot savants No - no...