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The morning after Oh you can't unmake your decisions You can only look back in regret One lifetime to grow up, one lifetime to screw up That's everything you can expect And you can't cancel the morning after It'll last for a year or two yet. And you can't explode like a fungus When you're growing too big for your skin You can only pretend that there's some sort of end that You're heading for when you're so clever and splendid But you can't cancel the morning after Shuts you down, shuts you up, shuts you in. You can't sit there licking your finger To determine which way the shit flies And you can't take for granted the things that you've wanted Will ever materialize And you can't cancel the morning after With its infinite room for surprise. And you can't do it over and over When it doesn't turn out how you planned As soon as you do it you'll know that you blew it Don't try to unscrew it, just go on and rue it 'Cause you can't cancel the morning after 100% out of hand. And you can't make the hurt any better It sticks with you whatever you do Now you've just made it worse and you're stuck with the mess And you're stuck with the clean up too 'Cause you can't cancel the morning after It's something you've got to live through. And you can't help but think it's suspicious When you're born your first move is to cry You may say you're not next to be facing your destiny Bragging it's best to be dragged out protesting But you can't cancel the morning after Except for the day that you die.

A Japanese fan My mind wouldn't work - my legs wouldn't walk - as if something were holding onto me I looked around and soon I found the reason for my infirmity There in the swoon of the afternoon you turned and you smiled the old way And now I know each place I go you'll be there to turn and smile at me You held in your hand a Japanese fan and it shook like the leaves of the ginkgo And the faster it trembled the more it resembled the evanescent rainbow All I could do was call out to you but the fluttering blew my wishes away Come home I said - you turned your head - you smiled and you closed the window Your song still floats thin from the shadows within - in the lap of my hearth I perceive you Though the story never stop nor the shadows give you up I shall not deny nor deceive you Warm in the arms of my fading dreams - come home - come home - you know the way I'm all your own - you're warm - I'm home - how could I desire to leave you

Young before my time Over the upland brow I came to you alone Yes I'm a poor and downy girl young before my time I was only a child that day I found the door and I climbed the tower Then I told you no goodbye And then I flew In the ruin of all you knew Still you wove the world your song This is here to let you know I'll carry on When I finally make it to you Through the long and woeful day When you're safely by my side I'll rest on you This was the song of the robin the day Oh oh the day The very day she danced back down and around and around to her nest and found Oh oh they were gone

More than you know Underneath the photograph Message from your childhood All you need is love you say As well you should Sitting on the fallen tree Moss is soft and feels good Learning how to take the air Cutting all the dead wood down And I know that you have more to go And I know that you have more to show And I know that you have more than you know Everyone's in no man's land There isn't any garden Sometimes when you play the fool It hits you hard Sometimes when you turn your head The path behind is frozen Sawdust running through your hands Brings you back to heart and home And I know ... Somewhere on the spinning globe Love is freshly woken Why not catch a floating spark While growing old Half the world is always dark Half your life was stolen Too much says the wide eyed owl Mend us cry your broken dreams And I know ...

What the man in the mirror said to me Who's that making faces at me in the mirror Acting like I'm all you can see of the world? You know I've never met you before, and you know I'd never want to if it wasn't for one fact There's something in your gestures that's more like a parody of me than you would use if you had tact You're tempting me to show you the door: did your mother or another tell you opposites attract? Why are you determined to say that you know me? Can't you tell that you're in the way of my dreams? You're dancing to the beat of my heart, but if you're the big magician, what am I, the talking drum? There's nothing that can tear us apart like the evident desire you have to be there when I come Of all the awkward moments to start it's today you're making eyes at me as if I'd struck you dumb And that's what the man in the mirror said to me on the first day That's what the man in the mirror said to me No one has the right to agree with illusion Might as well be learning to pee in the wind Your dirty little secrets are far from the mysteries of life as they're revealed in every glance The message was to come as you are but the dose of harsh reality is pomp and circumstance Be careful how you prop up the bar: there's a lesson to be learned from finding lobsters in your pants And that's what the man in the mirror said to me on the next day ... Always looking at me, wondering how to get me If you try to hit me than you'll only break the glass When you're hot I'm freezing, when you're cold I'm steaming When you're mad I'm easy, when you're soft I'm hard as brass Take a break from cursing, take a break from flirting I can show no mercy 'cause I haven't got the class Baby, I'll be catching your eye forever Even on the day that you die I'll be there You're doomed to be a lifelong voyeur, always lurking in a netherworld where nothing gets achieved Where nothing good or bad can occur without checking with headquarters to make sure that it's perceived I tell you things are not what they were: in an age of video you must be seen to be believed And that's what the man in the mirror said to me on the last day ...

Sam Sparrow Up flew Sam Sparrow to his only nest Never mind how - he didn't know Bringing a crumb to his only love Turning to go - feeling a pull Stay home and tell me what you saw along the way Under the ginkgo a silent man Fed me a crust from a foreign land And here where we live I bring you his gift Oh more bring me more was there more along the way Down flew Sam Sparrow and he took no rest Strong in the will - strong on the wing Oh where is the sailor with the open hand? Oh where's the sailor with the rough and open hand? He's safe in the shadows of the butterfly tree Look how he sways - wet on the face Oh where's my lover oh and where's my friend How long before I can no longer stand The breeze from the sea it reminds me of my home The salt you may lick from my hand I'm feeling light as a little fluff of down Oh home bring me home the sun has nearly gone So Sam Sparrow settled on the sailor's head Pecked at his hat - plucked off a thread Carried it back to his waiting love Oh love I've brought you what I found along the way

Flora arise Flora arise Waking and stretching Go for the sun Making and fetching Take care my love Hard times are coming I will hold on I am your cousin Flora arise What of the time When the troubles of life they come crowding How to stay true to the vision inside Everything grows Everything changes, reacts and remembers Everything dies Flora arise ... And as you strive For the light of content and fulfillment And as you struggle to make it alive Hold out your hand Know that I'm with you in step and in feeling Here by your side Flora arise...

What she said She said the dust of the whirlwind of my seventh mother cut deep wedges in my cheekbones here and here I prefer to sleep half drowned in soft blankets but now I lie wakeful under a heavy quilt of clay and rubble broken broken my dream of another world broken my skull broken the cage around my heart my headdress of gold and lapis lazuli will outlive me forever but my silver comb will succumb to the acid secretions of my decomposing body I walked into the burial vault with my seven stoned sisters at my side and though I too had drunk the sickly draught my head was clear as we sang closer closer to our dream of another world closely we follow you our husband our guide the oxen clumsily backed their heavy cart down the ramp the creaking and bellowing ringing around and around our underground chamber the slaves guarding the sealed door stood impassively by their spears never speaking a word of their strange language she said I'll be silent and still for sixty times sixty years then a probing pick will find me and I'll tell my story slowly and silently I thought my king would lead me through the darkness to a shining world but he's left me frozen in the hot clay my journey's unfinished and I'm unfulfilled broken broken my dream of the gods and their world broken my eyes or has the world gone dark

You are the Moon The walk through the day is a long lonely journey The world has no room for the needs of the heart But the Moon comes to say there's a reason for living You and I face to face and my dreams can start And you are the Moon and the moon is my lover The world's full of joy whenever you're here You call out my name and we fly through the heavens Then the dark takes command and you disappear Fly on through the night - I'll be waiting and watching I'm sure of the promise in the crescent of your smile And while you are gone on your own lonely journey You'll stay on in the glow of my moonstruck eyes There's a sound like a sigh - it's my memories waking Long ago far away you first cast your spell Through the mist shone a face that I've never lost sight of I'm caught up in your tides and you're shining still And you are the Moon ... Fly on through the night - I'll be waiting and watching I'm sure of the promise in the crescent of your smile And though you are gone on your own lonely journey In the heart of my heart you're deep inside

The 7 deadly plastics These are the 7 deadly plastics Let each one take a bow. This is number 1 and it's PET And it's bad for you and it's bad for me It leaches many poisons such as acetaldehyde They fed it to their rats 'til half of them died They shot it in the mouse's gut and in the dog's vein Made 'em sick in the liver and blood and eyes and kidney and bladder and brain. These are the 7 deadly plastics Let each one take a bow. This is number 2, HDPE, And it's bad for you and it's bad for me Like all the other plastics, they make it using toxics It generates a flood of hazardous waste And the people in the factories get headaches, numb extremities, Emphysema, tumours, liver damage in the workplace. ... And this is number 3 and it's PVC And it's bad for you and it's bad for me Hormone disruptor, liver and testicle cancer, Birth defects and learning disabilities It's in Barbie dolls and teething rings, mother's milk and food wrappings It fills the air with dioxins and PCBs. ... And this is number 4, LDPE, And it's bad for you and it's bad for me And they make it using benzene, which causes leukemia, Fatigue, headaches, nausea, nervousness, insomnia And they make it using several other nasty things besides Including hexane and carcinogenic hydroperoxides. ... This is number 5 and it's polypropylene And it's bad for you and it's bad for me And they dope it up with chromium and colour it with lead So it messes up your body while it messes up your head. ... This is number 6 and it's polystyrene And it's bad for you and it's bad for me Menstrual and neurotoxic dislocation Spreading through the food and drink of every nation It makes your fat cells its long term home And it reaches in your ovary and tweaks a chromosome. ... And this is number 7 and it's polycarbonate And it's bad for you and it's bad for me It gets you in the endocrine, hits babies much the worst So we make sure that they drink it in with every baby thirst Yes it's used to make their baby bottles - oh what joy Pretty polycarbonate for every girl and boy. These are the 7 deadly plastics You know them all by now But before you start to wonder why they're here and what they're for You'll be pleased to know that there are 90,000 more.

Each leaf has a story My lover he left me and not of my choosing He heard the drum and went off to war And oh did he think then of all he was losing And I've lost more oh darling come home Chorus: Each leaf has a story, grows gold, knows glory And falls back to the common ground They gave me the bullet that shattered his body Upon my breast I'm wearing it still And so he stays with me through good days and bad days The long day's toil the weary night's rest It's forty years gone since we up and got married How proud we stood my lover and I And the music was sweet but the whole thing was hurried He made his vow and marched off for good And I see him now yes he's standing before me With head held high my lover he stands In the form of his grandson and mine here before me The same fine hands and wandering eye

Old lady elephant and young lady mouse Old lady elephant lies on the ground Blind and lame, tired and dazed, Shorn of both her tusks She doesn't know how long gone Not long now to go Young lady mouse soon ventures out Oh how her nose is atwitch So small so brave - she's the elephant's friend Old lady elephant, why lie you down? You are our crown and our joy Without you all the world will be bare Old lady elephant breathes through the dusk Young lady mouse, please help me out You are my only hope now I have nobody else to show me home I'm so far from home - here comes night All is calm and cool Truly says the mouse I know your pain and I empathize with you But when I try to lift you up, you're more than I can bear - I know what to do Let me go for now and I'll fetch my friends and you'll soon be home again Here come the mice, rabbits and rats, Squirrels and butterflies too Each to their place, sharing their strength Lift her an inch from the ground Staggering once, steadying twice Now they're beginning to move And as they heave and hump and huff Wafted by a thousand wings Young lady mouse she sweetly sings We'll carry together the old lady elephant We'll carry together the old lady elephant We'll carry the old lady elephant back home And so they strive and never bow They do their best and do it now And all the while they sing their song We'll carry ... And so we'll strive and never bow We'll do our best and do it now And it helps to sing along We'll carry ...

Jaiya I don't know whence nor how you arrived With your coat full of seeds of barley I brushed them all away and I blew them to the wind And I saw you were sleek and hardy So I fed you cream and I fed you crust And I set you to dig my garden Jaiya At the waning of the day you declared I want no pay Though I've only the coat I'm wearing But I crave one night in a real feather bed For the winter is surely nearing Jaiya So I warmed my bed with you and your coat Unaware of the first snow falling But the night grew long as the winter itself You arose with the spring, still yawning Jaiya And the way you left was the way you came No word, no where, no warning And who knows whether or when you'll be back In day, night, dusk or morning Jaiya

The old man and you An old man lived all alone inside a nutshell floating up and down on the sea didn't have much but knew how to be you know that everywhere he moved those fish were laughing you were standing on the stony shore and he called out to you from afar so you say you be good so you say you be free so you say you believe in we and along the stony shore you found a seashell dragged it through the foam to the sea and you set sail most gracefully and you sailed beyond the islands of contentment to the land of the roving swan and a voice from afar drew you on so you say you be good ... when you found that aged man inside his nutshell all he did was show you an egg and he said that's for you when you're big all the silver and the gold inside this eggshell where's the spoon you need to scoop them out? however else will you stay afloat? So you say you be good so you say you be free so you say you believe in we so we say we be good so we say we be free so we say we believe in we

To a Barred Owl Once upon a tranquil afternoon Underneath a carnival of clouds Through the summer haze I briefly saw you Sitting on a chestnut oak Now I'm in a dark and lonely room Living out the winter's icy heart Every time I close my eyes I'm with you Sleeping in your hidden lair I want you to know that you're still on my mind The days come and go, and you're still on my mind I'm high and I'm low, but you're still on my mind All the tales of glory are newly told Yes they're newly told I wonder if you have a place to go Now that we're disturbing your repose Bringing our machines to clear the forest Cutting down your chestnut oak I want you to know that I'm still on your side The days come and go, and I'm still on your side I'm high and I'm low, but I'm still on your side All our crooked pathways are overgrown Yes they're overgrown I want you to know that I'm fine on my own The days come and go, and I'm fine on my own I'm high and I'm low, but I'm fine on my own The chestnut oak has fallen and I'm fallen too Yes I'm fallen too Once upon a tranquil afternoon Underneath a carnival of clouds Through the summer haze I briefly saw you Sitting on a chestnut oak

All you have When I was a young spark no one showed me how to make a flame and how not to how not to burn to ash now every time I strike a match I know I'll set the house to shame I'm so sorry I'm so sorry my child so here's the sun and here's the glass I'll help you earn your middle name I love playing I love playing with you and when I'm just a glimmer you'll feel me burning just the same as you mumble as you mumble this song Stop at the door pause before you're gone at last you're on your own at last hoping for more all you have is all you're going to get All you have is yours you know you'll never have it twice it burns through you it burns through you there's nothing you can do nor can I resist your happy face I've no muscle I've no muscle for that because of you I'm here because of you I know my place you're my precious you're my precious Why did I do that and that and that and that (glum glum glum) echoes through the whispering gallery (glum glum glum) choppy surface wet sweet depths all in your own sweet stony voice (glum glum glum) (glum glum glum) we spat a twisted span of dribble the ropewalk split the skull for sure but one day my true will come dream one day the curfew on laughter will be lifted the lonely heron will reclaim her lonely nest Stop at the door tell me how I let you down how I put you down hoping for more all you get is all you have in the world you're waiting for the moment when every doubt has left your mind and you'll never you'll never be there I'm giving you no answers nothing to seek is what you find there's no heaven there's no heaven and when you see me trying to be okay to be around you'll know better you'll know better what I mean Stop at the door no one had to pull you here or had to call you here hoping for more nowhere to go and that's where you are Now my blood has cooled into rock (glum glum glum) run your fingers through my gravel everything everywhere's bursting with passion crashing and cracking simplest pebbles flow the fastest the iron age is almost over only a billion or so years to run swelling your cheeks living on tiptoes sing when you're almost almost asleep when you're almost almost asleep (glum glum glum)

Miranda When Miranda caught me hiding in the cupboard on the landing She was tender and confiding - didn't worry or scold It was soon she had me telling all the troubles I was feeling I found myself forgetting I was young she was old Older than old but now I'm older still Older than old but still I know her well And I told her of the morning when my world was just beginning How my memory of talking it just slipped away I was huffing I was humming but the words they were not coming Till at last I took to shrugging for what could I say So in time she left me nodding in my nest among the bedding And the morning found me waking without my young fears And as once more the Sun was climbing and the air itself was shining She still sang in the offing that I was in hers

Plutonium POPs In a million years when they drill underground and they find A radioactive and poisonous stratum of slime They'll scratch on whatever they scratch on when thinking and say Plutonium POPs for breakfast and lunch and dinner every day Let's dig up the nastiest muck we can find underground If there isn't enough then we'll just have to dig further down When we've cooked it up good it's a thousand times worse than before So have some more here's some more help us to spread it around More - spread it some more Plutonium POPs for breakfast and lunch and dinner more and more Though it's wrong and we know it we don't want to know what we know We've killed everything else but our bank accounts prosper and grow Our children are all born malformed that is those who are born And it's you that can change it it's you that we're trying to warn You - yes I mean you You spread it yourself and there's others that spread it on you Plutonium pops for breakfast and lunch and dinner ...