Lyrical Response

[Greg S]

I have a mansion but forget the price
Ain't never been there, they tell me it's nice
I live in hotels, tear out the walls
I have accountants, pay for it all

[Gray Beard]

Saw my picture in the paper
Read the news around my face
And now some people
Don't want to treat me the same

When the walls
Come tumblin' down
When the walls
Come crumblin', crumblin'
When the walls
Come tumblin', tumblin'
Down

[PastaJoe]

Gold and diamonds cast a spell, it's not for me to know it well
The treasures that I seek are waiting on the other side
There's more that I can measure in the treasure of the love that I can find
And though it's always been with me
I must tear down the wall let it be
All I am, and all that I was ever meant to be, in harmony
Shining true and smiling back at all who wait to cross
There is no loss

[Bill from NYC]

Pour my life into a paper cup

The ashtray's full and I'm spilling my guts

She wants to know am I still a slut

I've got to take it on the other side

 

[Gray Beard]

You know the day destroys the night
Night divides the day
Tried to run
Tried to hide
Break on through to the other side

[WhoTom]

High on a hillside, the trucks are loading,
Everything's ready to roll
I sleep in the daytime, I work in the nighttime,
I might not ever get home

 

[Gugny]

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

[Gray Beard]

If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break
If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break
When the levee breaks I'll have no place to stay
Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan
Lord mean old levee taught me to weep and moan
It's got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home

[WhoTom]

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

 

[Bill from NYC]

Your love, lifting me higher
Than I've ever been lifted before
So keep it it up
Quench my desire
And I'll be at your side, forever more

You know your love (your love keeps lifting me)
Keep on lifting (love keeps lifting me)
Higher (lifting me)
Higher and higher (higher)
I said your love (your love keeps lifting me)
Keep on (love keeps lifting me)
Lifting me (lifting me)
Higher and higher (higher)

[PastaJoe]

Things look so bad everywhere
In this whole world, what is fair?
We walk blind and we try to see
Falling behind in what could be

 

Bring me a higher love
Bring me a higher love (oh oh)
Bring me a higher love
Where's that higher love I keep thinking of?

[WhoTom]

Feeling's gettin' stronger
Music's gettin' longer too
Music is flashin' me
I want to, I want to, I want to take you higher
I want to take you higher
Baby, baby, baby, light my fire
I want to take you higher

 

Boom shaka-laka-laka
Boom shaka-laka-laka

 

[KD in CA]

While the music played, you worked by candlelight
Those San Francisco nights
You were the best in town
Just by chance you crossed the diamond with the pearl

 

You turned it on the world
That's when you turned the world around
(Did you feel like Jesus?)
Did you realize
That you were a champion in their eyes?

 

On the hill the stuff was laced with kerosene
But yours was kitchen-clean
Everyone stopped to stare at your technicolor motor home

 

Every A-Frame had your number on the wall
You must have had it all
You'd go to L.A. on a dare and you'd go it alone
(Could you live forever?)
Could you see the day?
Could you feel your whole world fall apart and fade away?

 

Now your patrons have all left you in the red
Your low-rent friends are dead
This life can be very strange
All those day-glo freaks who used to paint the face

 

They've joined the human race
Some things will never change
(Son, you were mistaken)
You are obsolete
Look at all the white men on the street

 

Clean this mess up else we'll all end up in jail
Those test-tubes and the scale
Just get it all out of here

 

Is there gas in the car?
Yes, there's gas in the car
I think the people down the hall know who you are

'Cause the man is wise
You are still an outlaw in their eyes

[WhoTom]

Put the sugar in the tank of the sheriff's car
And slash the deputy's tires
They won't get very far
When they finally get the word that there's been a hold-up
Uh huh

Well, give your ID card to the border guard
Now your alias says you're Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Of the United Federation Of Planets
'Cause he won't speak English anyway

 

 

Edited July 8, 2020 by WhoTom

[Bill from NYC]

Been so long since, I belong here

Ever since I left my way

Still I like to, be beside you

So tell me, can I stay? Beside you

 

I want you so much

I want your smile

When you smile at me in the morning

And it's been so long, since I felt at home with your love.

[SinceThe70s]

Low country blushing bride, blind to the ways of time
Clear crystal burning mind, (she flies)
Falling through liquid air with music everywhere
Stone faces silent stare, (she flies)
The old guard on the hill can feel the chill
Deep into the freeze of those who don't believe

 

Been a long time (Waiting on love)
Been a long time (Waiting on love)
Been a long time (Waiting on love)
Been a long time (Waiting on love)

[KD in CA]

I've been a long time that I'm waiting
Been a long that I'm blown
I've been a long time that I've wandered
Through the people I have known
Oh, if you would and you could
Straighten my new mind's eye.

[Bill from NYC]

It's been a long time
Now I'm, coming back home
I've been away now
Oh how, I've been alone
Wait, 'til I come back to your side
We'll forget the tears we've cried

[WhoTom]

It's been a long time comin'
It's goin' to be a long time gone
And it appears to be a long night
Before the dawn

 

[PastaJoe]

It's been such a long time
I think I should be goin', yeah
And time doesn't wait for me, it keeps on rollin'
Sail on, on a distant highway
I've got to keep on chasin' a dream, yeah
I've gotta be on my way
Wish there was something I could say