Mermaid

 I saw a mermaid in the sea

But she could not come up to me

I said the sea went way over my head

And she was in it and the sea was red

Come walk on water Jesus boy she said

I knew you were living, but I didn't know you were dead

She said I'm half fish don't you know

Not fully grown, not

Ready to bear human child

Come fisherman

She said,

Fisherman

Search for the souls

Fisherman,

I am half fish

But I'm not whole.

Fisherman greet me catch me 

And toll,

Toll the rocking ship's bell for me

By the time the clock's struck twelve

I will be free,

I will have grown

And be full woman not a girl

I'll leave behind my scales 

Keep my pearl

But it all was just as it had been

The fisherman unfurled the net

And set the mermaid free

Be my bird

 Don't be a turkey

Be a goose

But if you're gonna goosy gander

I'm gonna cut you loose

Don't be a chicken

Let me count on you

Darling just be my bird

You could be a little robin

You could be a blackbird bobbin

You be a Hawk in the sky

You could have an eagle eye

You could hear that chorus sing

You could even sleep on the wing

All you need to do is hear my word

You just need to be my bird

Don't you be dead as a dodo

Just nod your head while saying no, no

Don't you be an Albatross round my neck

Just climb my rigging til you reach my deck

And even if you fly hell for leather

I know that we'll still be birds of a feather

So darling just be my bird

If you want to catch the worm

You better feather your nest so we stay warm

You can be my night owl

Don't be a cuckoo on the prowl

You might walk proud like a peacock

Or Fly from the cloud as a thunder bolt shock

Out of the blue unseen

Be my bluebird Queen

Darling just be my bird

Be my kingfisher on the pond

Cast your fishhook eyes and I'll catch on

You can be my duck and I'll wash your back

It would be my luck if you washed me back

Be my lark and sing me song

When it gets dark I'll love you so long

As you just be my bird

Back on the farm

 Oh yes, I'm back on the farm                                      

Oh yes, I'm, back on the farm

It can't do me any harm

the animals are a balm

The river's quite calm

And I'm back on the farm

 

Well, they sold the world

And they sold the soil

But for all I heard

It never got spoiled

Oh yes, I'm back on the farm

 

Bring me a shot gun

I'm gonna shoot some rats

They better get running

Before they goes splat

Oh yes, I'm back on the farm

 

The dogs are howling 

It's a silver moon

And the fox is prowling

He'll be round here soon

Oh yes, I'm back on the farm

 

Well with every songbird

There comes the spring

And in the morning

 I hear the nightingales sing

Oh yes, I'm back on the farm

Human Shit, love grew out of it

 Was it love at first sight?

She wasn't my type.

But on the next date we had Korean BBQ

On our way home I stepped in some human shit. I stepped on it in the station. Dogs don't use the trains.

I was disappointed that I stood in it.

She burst out laughing at me

and so we worked together to remove human shit from my shoes.

Disposable chopsticks and I got to like her.

My ex-girlfriend would not do that

We celebrated our one year anniversary

Love grew out 

first light

first night

line of sight

not be a pretty sight

like a thief in the night

You can also search for:

love

at

first

sight

When we grew out of love

 We grew out of love

I guess that things have changed

The purse was not enough

And your lips were strained

The colours of the dove

All this whiteness turns to grey

When we grew out of love

On the Christmas day

The murmurings were stuffed

The Turkey paved the way

I craved for oven gloves

You said that I would pay

But it was not enough

It was trodden in the clay

When we grew out of love

On that Christmas day

We shot stars above 

With our arrows' aim

And the lord he did cough

When his light was hidden away

Shine on, shine though it's tough

When things don't go your way

But we grew out of love

On that Christmas day

Torched ground

 Every piece of magic lies dead in the wasteland

And what is that I hear

The sound of a blackbird sing?

The great war machine is rolling

Over the skulls of my friends

And the choas has come without warning

But there will be no end

You must live young fighter of virtue

Young or just old enough to die

These lies like crisps lie broken

On the path beneath the sky

Some foreign beast is howling

I can hear but don't understand

Why he is whining and calling

What hurt has done him such harm?

The fox is there in the graveyard sniffing 

Around the gravestones

And the tombs are full of embalming

But we are living, in a jeopardy time

The colours they stay on the beach

Miami is a miasma of sound

And yet the foreign beast he is calling

And I am on his home hunting ground

Take me back to when times were holy

And frozen as the eyelashes of care

The butterfly steps in the butter

And there is a fly which is buzzing somewhere

I saw her face in the mirror

I knew she was within and without

But crossed in the cross hairs of becoming

Some telegraph poles looking stout

The countryside dies in its marshes

Its willows are blowing in the wind

The streams are sold down the river

And on them our animal skins

I see a frogman is calling

Underwater trying to get out

We are strange in our ways without meaning

Without earth the sky would fall down

Some people know yet they don't speak

They move in the tide of their days

And a rise in the spirits of the marshland

I still need it in so many ways