over the slow slide of continents over the salt pans pipelines masts and pavilions shimmering crescent moon recedes into working dawn-- lone crow against pallid...

It's not the laughter of rain in the drain It's not the laughter of a man in pain It's not the laughter you can hide behind It's not the laughter of a frightene...

Little seahorse Swimming in a primal sea Heartbeat like a Leaf quaking in the breeze I feel magic as coyote In the middle of the moon-wild night In the forge-f...

See you standing in the door against the dark Fireflies around you like a crown of sparks You blow me a kiss that blurs my vision Blurs the human condition You...

Down at the bus station Shark grins and sandpaper conversation Men's faces women's bodies on the magazine stand And a headline about Sarajevo and Tehran They a...

On this rooftop where we're sitting In the rays of the setting sun Glasses of wine on a crate between us Catch the light -- seem to glow from within And there'...

Lord of the starfields Ancient of Days Universe Maker Here's a song in your praise Wings of the storm cloud Beginning and end You make my heart leap Like a ban...

Some people get to make the news Some people get to say what's true Everybody's got to find their own way through But if you love love, then love loves you too ...

In the place my wonder comes from There I find you Your face shines in my sky In your heart where the world comes from There you will find me Your eyes dance i...

It's not the laughter of rain in the drain It's not the laughter of a man in pain It's not the laughter you can hide behind It's not the laughter of a frightene...

step outside -- take a look at the stars catch a glimpse of the way things are -- making contact smell of sweet fresh oil on skin when you move on me like the ...

i was up the road on easy street watching everybody stand around and cheat a man comes up and says "move along down to the corner where you belong" but mama jus...

I'm looking to be by a window That looks out on the sea Anybody here know Where such a place is? Surf of golden sunlight Breaking over me Man of a thousand fac...

She's got a mango in the garden - sweet as can be She's got a mango in the garden - full of mystery She's got a mango in the garden - from the original tree She...

Mary had a baby (My Lord) Mary had a baby (Oh My Lord) Mary had a baby (My Lord) The people keep coming but the train has gone Where did she lay him (My Lord) W...

Maybe the poet is gay But he'll be heard anyway Maybe the poet is drugged But he won't stay under the rug Maybe the voice of the spirit In which case you'd be...

In a horse-powered sleigh at the top of the town sun coming up paints the snow all around with rose light In front of the house where Im supposed to be born I d...

Used to have a town but the factory moved away Down to Mexico where they work for hardly any pay Used to have a country but they sold it down the river Like a r...

I turned on the TV war news just to look and wonder why Thunder crashed and red flash-flowers bloomed a nightmare in the sky So i went down to the cafe just to...

I don't mean to cling to you my friends It's just I hate the day to have to end Never enough time to spend I haven't done enough for this to be the end There m...

Musical friends are keeping me happy They know what I need Now I can sleep on anyone's floor without Feeling cold Inside or outside me The closer we get the ea...

Past the derelict mattress and the overgrown pavement over the tracks and through the hole in the fence Past graffiti-bright buildings and the junkyard alarm be...

Up above my shoulder the ragged rooftops rise Casting shadows over streets they seem to despise Come on, come on, wind and rain I know the sun will shine again ...

Nanzen Ji Cooling wind Mind swept clean like arctic sand White stone lake Crystal clear I walk on the voices of nightingales Pine-framed space Tiger leaps Eme...

Wind across the quay-side Grit in my eyes and fish in my nose White as whalebone, wheeling seagulls cry Outside the bar in the high street Blind fingers spin an...

Breakfast woodsmoke on the breeze -- On the cliff the US Embassy Frowns out over Managua like Dracula's tower The kid who guards Fonseca's tom Cradles a beat-up...

Not a knife throw from here you can hear the night train passing That's the sound somebody makes when they're getting away Leaving next week's hanging jury far ...

Mist hangs above hills Above mist hangs stone face of mountain Above mountain face hangs a net of sky -- Crack! there are wings and they rip the net! And the d...

Sunday night and it's half past nine Sunday night and it's half past nine Sunday night and it's half past nine I'm leaving one more town behind Mirrors are sho...

O little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee lie Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by Yet in thy dark streets shineth The everlasting l...

Oh I have been a beggar And shall be one again And few the ones with help to lend Within the world of men One day I walk in flowers one day I walk on stones To...

Guess I'd get along without you If I had no choice It's taken me this long to find you Done a lot of getting ready for this Some things we learn so slow But lo...

I never lived with balance I always wake up nervous Light comes at me sideways I hold my breath forever I never lived with balance Though Ive always liked the ...

I've got planets in my palm -- there's a red smear on the sky a star has just exploded somewhere behind my eyes in the dead of night the city seems to break dow...

Sunset is an angel weeping Holding out a bloody sword No matter how I squint I cannot Make out what it's pointing toward Sometimes you feel like you live too lo...

Listen to the rain on this mountain town Listen to the night bird's lonesome cry listen to the scratch of pen on paper That's the sound of sleep denied Hear th...

Crashing in the kitchen, noises in the hall Roll over and go back to sleep -- it's just a dream, that's all So how come the window's broken? What caused the gl...

you've got covert action prejudice to extremes you've got primitive cunning and high tech means you've got eyes everywhere but people see through you you've go...

Stare into the moonlight Silver fingers press my eyes Probing in my heart with longing These footprints by the sea's edge Disappearing grain by grain Lose their...

Abe Lincoln once turned to somebody and said: Do you ever find yourself talking with the dead? There are three tiny deaths heads carved out of mammoth tusk on ...

Smoky afternoon light Got the sun stuck in my eye It's shouting from the river Then it leaps back in the sky Prenons la mer Sur les vagues solaires -- Toi et m...

As I Stare into the flame filled up with feelings I cant name Images of life appear regret and anger, love and fear Dark things drift across the screen of mind ...

Don't need the everlasting trade expansion Don't need the cold white heroin breath Don't need Pizzarro or the Inquisition No berserk worship of a hero's death D...

they're hosing down trucks at the border under a rainbow sign the raindrops falling on my head burn into my mind on a hillside in the distance there's a patch o...

Rainfall on rolling green Wavy lines and peacock sheen Rainfall on rolling green Prettiest world I've ever seen Faces and places in a highway land Beads strung...

Went to the museum, red brother Saw your ancient bloom cut, pressed and dried A sign said wasn't it clever what they used to do But it never did say how they di...

Riu, riu, chiu La guarda ribera Dios guarde el lobo De nuestra cordera El lobo rabioso La quiso morder Mas Dios poderoso La supo defender Quizole hazer que No p...

Above the dark town After the sun's gone down Two vapour trails cross the sky Catching the day's last slow goodbye Black skyline looks rich as velvet Something ...

Dance music from the corner bar Over dogs barking at a passing car And your hair tumbles down like sahara gold Hot night -- streets are full of life Carnival fa...

Something moves in the still dark hours Sunday in a shanty town Wyelids open two by two But not a single light goes on Tension builds as the only sound Is the q...

I was half asleep in the washroom when they came in Eyes like moonlight on barbed wire and veins showing under the skin The uniforms made me nervous, I got read...

rays of the moon make magic in the streets of the city all the people get strange but their faces look so pretty the walking graffiti, survivalist bums; even th...

Met a mercenary once Pushing lethal steel Wanted me to watch his back While he did his deal He must have been a loser Or he wouldn't have looked to me But I ha...

They wake up suddenly in the night There is light And figures dancing in the sky Clothed in more colours than the world can contain And all the silences of the ...

I went up on the mountain side To see what I could see To see what I could be On the shining mountain I watched the day go down in fire And sink in the valley ...

The man who twirled with rose in teeth Has his tongue tied up in thorns His once expanded sense of time and Space all shot and torn See him wander hat in hand -...

Silent night Holy night All is calm All is bright Round yon virgin mother and child Holy infant, so tender and mild Sleep in heavenly peace Sleep in heavenly pe...

High speed drift on a prairie road Hot tires sing like a string being bowed Sudden town rears up then explodes Fragments resolve into white line code Whirl on s...

L ron N ron every kind of ron con Neocon old con got to put the brakes on Slow down fast Lights out veins plugged zap it with another drug Genejacker pharma th...

Somebody touched me Making everything new Somebody touched me I didn't know what to do Burned through my life Like a bolt from the blue Somebody touched me I kn...

All the days we've been together All the days we've been apart Add up to a bunch of nothing If I'm not still in your heart I never want you to be Just a page in...

Somebody touched me Making everything new Somebody touched me I didn't know what to do Burned through my life Like a bolt from the blue Somebody touched me I kn...

I'm going to ask the question Please answer if you can Is there anybody's children can tell me What is the soul of a man? (CHORUS:) Won't somebody tell me Ans...

When the wild-eyed dogs of day to day Come snapping at your heels And there's so much coming at you That you don't know how to feel When they've taken all your ...

When we come When we come again To celebrate renewal At the heart At the heart of us Our eyes will touch life Though we may be hard to find Where we stand in t...

Small windows Looking outward Show me a sequined sky Rubies shine in my glass of wine Dusk breezes On oiled water Paint a pointillist facade It's ceaselessly sh...

Orion's high in the south-west sky -- You're bound to move on and so am I On this world we've had time to burn -- how come nobody ever seems to learn? See how t...

From Tierra del Fuego to Ungava Bay The history of betrayal continues to today The spirit of Almighty Voice, the ghost of Anna Mae Call like thunder from the mo...

I've seen a high cairn kissed by holy wind Seen a mirror pool cut by golden fins Seen alleys where they hide the truth of cities The mad whose blessing you must...

Drift along Hear the gravel crackle Butterflies Shades of the eternal dancer God has buttered the land with sunlight Sunlight Corn grows high Like a tall watus...

i've been down to parliament, i've been in school i've been in jail to learn the golden rule i've been to the workhouse -- served my time in those hallowed hall...

Big city Europa - July of 64 - It's 5AM Weather blowing bitter off the Baltic Car slows beside him as he walks Hubcaps slow revolution Jaundiced-looking pockma...

I was up all night, socializing Trying to keep the latent depression from crystalizing Now the sun is lurking just behind the Scarborough horizon And you're no...

All day the mountains rose behind the veil of smoke from burning fields And road dust dyeing black skin bronze and the road rolling like a rough sea It's quiet...

You knelt on the carpet, crimson and stained Light trickled over your black dress like rain Your lips were hot and my shocked heart screamed And I can't scrape ...

these shoes have walked some strange streets, stranger yet to come sometimes the prayers of strangers are all that keeps them from trying to stay static, someth...

There's a broad river winding Through this African lowland The moon is held up orange and big See it raise its hands And the last ferry's pulling out With no pl...

Something jewelled slips away Round the next bend with a splash Laughing at the hands I hold out Only air within their grasp All you can do is praise the razor ...

Isn't it hard To be the one who has to give advice? Isn't it hard To be the strong one? I see the skyline blurred through the plastic on your back screen door ...

Sable sky anoints the earth with crystal 'neath my foot Wide-eyed, white-plumed owl plays upon his magic flute Silver-circled moonlight cresting waves of shadow...

Strikes across the frontier and strikes for higher wage Planet lurches to the right as ideologies engage Suddenly it's repression, moratorium on rights What did...

They turned their backs I made it too hard Every place they touched me Is a laceration now Sometimes a wind comes out of nowhere And knocks you off your feet A...

Rain rings trash can bells And what do you know My alley becomes a cathedral Eyes can be archways To enter or leave by Vacuums replaced by a crystal Jesus don...

Through rutted winding streets of Kathmandu Dodging crowded humans cows dogs rickshaws - Storefronts constellated pools of bluewhite Bright against darkening wa...

Tie me at the crossroads when I die Hang me in the wind 'til I get good and dry And the kids that pass can scratch their heads And say "who was that guy?" Tie m...

Endless silver Wave forms crash in Sea's too big to fit in my heart Nothings too big to fit in my heart Seas come, seas go Where they stood deserts flow Time's...

Rising like lightspill from this sleeping town Like the light in a lover's eyes Rising from the hearts of the sleepers all around All those dreamers trying to l...

So many things to see in this old world But all I can see is you In a crowded subway train Or walking in the country rain You're there with me too Of all the s...

They're getting prepared to haul a car out of the river Noise and smoke and concrete seem to be going on forever Grinding gears and drivers getting high on exha...

Picture on magazine boardroom pop star Pinstripe prophet of peckerhead greed You say Trust me with the money -- the keys to the universe Trickle down will give ...

Tried and tested Tried and tested By the cries of birds By the lies Ive heard By my own loose talk By the way I walk By the claws of beasts By the laws of prie...

Away from the river Away from the smoke of the burning Fearful survivors Subject of government directives One sad guitar note Echoes of the wall of the jungle S...

high above valley above deep shade coloured with the calls of cuckoos the ring of coppersmith's hammer high in the hiss of the wind wind filled with spirits and...

Up on the hillside you can see the cross shine Out in the alley hear the hungry dog whine You and I, friend, sit waiting for a sign See how the sunset makes the...

There's a black and white crow on the back of a two-toned sheep in a field of broken yellow stalks below looming cliffs High above the plains little grey house...

Vagabondage La danse du paysage Et dans les nuages Le decoupage D'un tour billon avec des naufrages Vagabondage Toujours en route Nous sommes encore en route O...

Wild things are prowling storm winds are howling tonight Everythings transforming into pure crystals of light The heart is a mirror; it throws back the blaze o...

Look at them working in the hot sun The pilloried saints and the fallen ones Working and waiting for the night to come And waiting for a miracle Somewhere out ...

Neon flame on the window of an upstairs room Helicopter beats across the face of the moon Got a hunger that sprawls like this galaxy Want to wrap my arms around...

Disharmony gives way To mute helplessness Not enough communication Too much not expressed It's all to easy To let go of hope To think there's nothing worth sav...