I am in a vast black sea, the spaces reach in front of me As far as I could ever see, as far again behind And each new world I land upon, with seas and hills an...

You only know my music And liked the things it told you I had no like advantage I had to etch and mold you Out of sketchy bits of data And random brief encounte...

Somebody's barbie is a vaporous cloud One of the barbies of a very freaky crowd Someone's prize hibachi will never cook again It's impossible to charbroil on a ...

She searched for a Basilisk all through the seasons She hunted him down but for all the wrong reasons She'd thought up a plan that she felt was quite clever A w...

As in the tribal ritual passed down from ancient days Take all your newborn children out beyond the city blaze And raise your children overhead to sable skies a...

1982 Kathy Mar Tides of mountains crash on the shores of grain And in this city of ash I tremble in my private pain Will the winds of time blow my heart to me ...

These are the steps that Ruth built Loving kindness in each nail Planks that never trip the feet Lead you from the shady street Or the winter's gale Behind the ...

I am in a box I am locked inside Someone owns the locks Nowhere left to hide Nothing left but hell No one left to be No one here to tell No one here to free Not...

Boy genius with the big sad eyes All of the mamas want to take you home Get what you can, do what you must, be what you have to be And take that weary highway o...

Chorus: Where are the Brownies when you need them How come the kitchen's still a sight Where are the Brownies when you need them I hope they change their minds...

1984 Kathy Mar Call him Lord Call him Lord Hide his title and his glory Teach him Earth's forgotten story Call him Lord Watch his ways and dog his heels Learn ...

The Techies have invaded they're everywhere you look And every conversation is a dull computer book They rant about assembly and rave of memories I'd love to fi...

The filkers are attacking our beautiful Technese Complaining 'cause we talk out software anywhere we please They're drowning in their filkzines so they've got a...

I went down to the Cathedral of War As the generals' service was ending And I asked a general "What is the point?" "Cause it looked like a game of pretending An...

Chorus: Charlie's gone where there is no touch And none of the crew will miss him much Charlie's gone to where he was grown Living with others yet always alone...

It was the regular Tuesday luncheon The ladies had raised a glass or two And the talk was a little louder And the gossip fairly flew When a tall and beautiful B...

Chorus: I'll look upon the face of God And through a billion eyes And take the planet of my birth Beyond the endless skies And sing the universal song Above the...

?© 1988 Kathy Mar Reference: 'Crystal Singer', Anne McCaffrey Crystal Singer, do you hear the crystal cry Does it cut your soul; each small goodbye? Waiting fo...

Chorus: And honey I feed you when you're hungry Love you when you're mean Stand by every up and down And every old in-between And baby I've been there through ...

All my deepest feelings are naked to your eyes You do not answer All my song and bluster can never quite disguise The timid dancer Chorus: Dancing on a clock, ...

So congratulations, you look to the stars A collective pat on your backs But thousands of you will sit there and dream For every good dreamer who acts Watching ...

Out in the silent desert Under the hunter's moon The road was a ribbon of silver Winding away in the gloom A glimpse of motion behind me And loping behind my va...

Who comes to me wearing my own face As dull as ache with eyes of empty space What is it's name, why this restless haunt What do you want? Doppelganger (whispere...

Who comes to me wearing my own face As dull as ache with eyes of empty space What is its name, why this restless haunt What do you want? Doppelganger (whispered...

I stood in the spaceport, my hands full of papers And the wind tying macrame knots in my hair Awaiting my moment to climb the chrome staircase And enter a ship ...

?© 1988 Kathy Mar I was sitting by a river when the thought occurred to me There are a hundred thousand rivers that we never even see They are the boundaries o...

(based on the movie Edward Scissorhands) Cthing D7sus4 Dm Chorus: Edward, I am dancing in your snow G Am Even though you ca...

The music has been sweet and fine but no matter how together we seem Tomorrow morning some of you people will be saying this was only a dream But before I put m...

Some of us make the music 'cause we hate to waste the lessons E D Some of us make the musing 'cause it eases all our pains A G Some of us make ...

Chorus: If you remember put some flowers on his grave He was my little friend for all the comfort that he gave He never called me Dummy he was always on my sid...

Nick was a golden child Loved by a Muse With many more talents Than one man could use But perched on his shoulder With talons in bone Was a raven of sorrow As h...

Mother falls on the mountain stair Wild marauders footsteps fill the air Fox appears drawn by moans and sighs Reaching in despair the mother cries Chorus: Fox-...

Give my children wings, but not the ghosts of wings I have found in the words of the dreamers Let them fly away to a world so far away From the fools and the cr...

I've been to the rim and the galaxy's core And planets unnumbered I've seen in my questing At times I was sure I would never be resting And all of that time I w...

Lyrics ?© 1988 Kathy Mar Melody ?© 1988 Leslie Fish Reference: 'Beowulf' Dumb as dirt and twice as mean, such a son makes Mother crazy Foul as sewers I have se...

I'm sorry to disturb you but you look a kindly sort I'm looking for a friend of mine he's white and not what you'd call short Six feet if he's an inch, pink-eye...

1984 Kathy Mar I'm falling in love with all of you a little more every day I'm learning to see a special me in every sweet thing you say I have come to believe...

There's a Hilton in the sky For all the good fen when they die The elevators never stick The banquets don't serve plastic chicken Only grade A prime And you're ...

Up on Howling Mountain Underneath the sky They are forging magic metal As the torn clouds scream and fly Chorus: For Fenris must be chained Or Chaos will be ki...

Lyrics ?© 19?? Gwen Zak Melody ?© 19?? Leslie Fish I'm the beat of your heart In the guise that you wear I'm the spark in your eye For the love that you dare I...

I am the locust and I tell the quiet lies To ageless gentle children with sparkle in their eyes And all the while She watches and waits her monstrous chance To ...

I drink your eyes; They drown me as I drink My catch-breath heart Begins to twirl and sink The blood-fire dance begins, In tempest-touch we mesh Your flaming fi...

I see you everywhere I feel your touch upon my hand You are my breath you are my singing I see you everywhere It wasn't quite what I had planned But still I fin...

Oh, my friend, I must admit I understand too well How you can write such tender songs and wear that diamond shell I see it happen far too much in this bleak wor...

?© 19?? Kathy Mar Chorus: Ivory Rose, I see your eyes in the petals of my bed They teach me more than all the highs that dance around my head Ivory Rose, oh Iv...

I'm not afraid to share you with the world I know I am a rhythm to your rhyme I'm not jealous of the love you have for anybody else I'm only jealous of your tim...

This little trunk holds Jonathan's love letters Bound so neatly in ribbons of silk Jonathan had such beautiful penmanship Written on parchment as white as milk ...

The unicorn to the dragon said, "Our time is nearly done, And we shall follow the breath of the dead To a world with a crimson sun" "The maids shall mourn your ...

Chorus: Look away, look away, I can't bear To be watching the love they are sharing There are too many years I must stay Every touch, every kiss is a knife in ...

I went looking for a winter Meant to match my splintered heart But all the world was hot as passion Fashionably fevered art I came drunk and wildly reeling Blam...

I was living in a dream That I mostly still believe in And the love I chose to give And the love I got were even Then my balance was upset By an unexpected harm...

On a gentle summer afternoon We were walking through the aspen by a quiet stream All at once I saw a rainbow curling over you And I felt as if I'd wandered into...

I am of starfleet and my heart is sick with dread They issued me my tunic and the color is blood red Everytime I close my eyes I see an open tom They told me to...

I am a Dorsai and I've learned a grisly skill They've taught me how to win a war 10,000 ways to kill And all the vicious weapons to be used each time I fight No...

Grissom, White and Chaffee were the first to pay the price But others now have felt the fatal falling of the dice And seven more have lost their lives that we m...

Salt freezes in my hair Sand gliding on the breeze Life answering my dare Mother Ocean oh Mother Ocean Sweet Mother Ocean I am on my knees Sea water in my bloo...

1982 Kathy Mar When the conversation turns, always has the right remark Eyes that pierce into your soul and teeth that glisten in the dark Every touch a warm c...

?© 19?? Kathy Mar Chorus: We are not the heroes, all the words we say can never change it We are not the heroes, rewrite history or rearrange it We are not 'th...

1982 Eric Bogle Somebody's Moggy by the side of the road Somebody's kitty who forgot his highway code Someone's favourite feline who ran clean out of luck When...

Your roads have all been easy And your days have all been warm And you've been blessed with common sense And beauty in your form You thought that this was just ...

I saw a falling star come down It flashed across Orion And in less time than it took to fade I found that I was cryin? I was travelling to a last goodbye Unsure...

Chorus: Insidiously they stand In rows of color and light Incredibly they demand And get our precious quarters And all the while, addicting us, We hardly even ...

I sit in a darkness more deep than my cave And curse the bold hero who gave me my grave For no one will fear when they see this blind fool To leave me alive was...

Time Winds Tavern (1985) Quetzalcoatl had a skin all green and mottled And it stayed that way through all the skins he shed And though he had a silver tongue N...

C F G Em Am If I had a razor sharp enough F G Em I'd cut myself clear C Dm G Am Of all the pieces of pain in my pas...

We gather in a quiet room To sing our hopeful tunes And all of us have something to be sharing We speak the stars or summon tears Or make each other smile And e...

?© 1988 Kathy Mar And the very saddest part is that I chose it on my own I let him run my thoughts around to streets I'd never known He drove me to distraction...

1982 Kathy Mar You stared into the ocean as I stared at you one day And I felt much more than saw the yearning rising with the tide You turned it in your mind ...

?© 19?? Kathy Mar Reference: 'Dune', Frank Herbert Chorus: Shai Hulud, send me a great worm, send me the courage to ride it well Shai Hulud, send me way to cha...

?© 1983 Don Simpson Once there was a Ship of Stone That orbited a mighty Star And from it flew the First Ship's crew Whose children we all are And no matter how...

I should have been poor white trash, But I had too much education I would have been a long-hair, But it just refused to grow I could have been president, But I ...

Sister-wife, you turn away And close your eyes to all my speaking Though you've come to love our way You think there's something else you're seeking Though you'...

I grew up in a ghetto That was only one house wide With smiling suburbs all around And poverty inside The oldest of an army That the church was proud to claim A...

Old companion I know you are dying I feel the dark moment rise up through your core All your leaves die and your branches are bare And I fear if I sleep I'll aw...

1982 Kathy Mar Chorus: I dwell in the Songhouse And song is my breath I will sing my life long And in shrouds made of song I will sleep at my death I was born ...

I sent you a sonnet I stole from a woman Who shared all my fears You'll never imagine the courage it cost me To wait out the years Knowing that time was against...

A cover for your back, a hand across your heart A warm and gentle breath across your spine A tingle in the touch, the fires begin to start And love becomes into...

I am Starhearken and lost Learning only now the quiet cost Drowned in star-song wild and deep Whispers from the corners of my sleep Foundling heart with haunted...

I am the flaw in the tea-bowl I will not dance death I will not lie down here in peace And release my last breath All of our hopes have been cast on the reefs a...

Starsinger sat on a streetcorner singing Thinking no further than bills paid and dinner Met with a starry-eyed tall-tale spinner Who gave her a message that sen...

1984 Kathy Mar Television lovers never cry When the scene is over they just wipe the pain away When they make you weary you can turn the volume down When it's ...

Well it's years since [Tallow?] died and I continued on alone With the sassiest computer that this galaxy has known It critiques my words and music, and rewrite...

Once the world was a wind-up toy, we watched it spin and dance We watch it now from the other side of our last remaining chance And the world falls down like so...

Chorus: The wild geese are flying out on a bright wind And never again will their songs fill our skies They've taken their magic and grace from our seeing And ...

This is my traveling song The end of this journey is almost in sight An island-of-exile coffeehouse is my weary stop tonight My friends are dying or getting mar...

I am the one who is different My body's distorted and ugly to see My voice is a croak, not the trill it should be They bend over backwards in kindness to me Bec...

1985 Kathy Mar You and I see derelicts and winos passing by But he sees vapor angels, and it makes him want to cry And he's learned to find forgetfulness insid...

Reference: If you don't figure this one out, you're hopeless! :-) C FMaj7 G E7 When I was born and taken home all snuggle...

The intimate unspoken ways We touch each others lives Is a pledge of the tomorrows we will share And our battle with these darkening days Will pass as each one ...

Chorus: Oh, take me in a dream or real To that old time the earth once knew When all the lands alive with legend Shared a future bright and new When all the an...

White-water star currents ride me wild from sun to sorrow White-water star journey dance me to a new tomorrow Sun-tide sweet-water touch me to my core Sun-tide ...

Chorus: The wild geese are flying out on a bright wind And never again will their songs fill our skies They've taken their magic and grace from our seeing And f...

Chorus: I am the rose The rose I am the rose The rose with no flowers I am the rose The rose all thorns The mind he made The hand he touched The winter rose I ...

?© 1985 Steve Savitsky Am C Beside the world we live in G C Em Apart from day and night Am Is a world ablaze with wonder Em ...

I bring my broken birds to him He gazes lovingly at all he sees He takes them gently in his healing hands And breathes new hope into them and hearts-ease He giv...

You are my dreamer You are my candle in the dark You are the holder of such a warm and precious Spark of love within you You make my seagull heart just fly You ...

1 Forgive me if I'm forward if I reach for you too quickly Believe me I don't do this all the time I know it's unexpected, but I really could not help it You j...