Gazelle Twin … otherwise twins
By magicman
( Short people are just the same as you and I)
(A fool such as I)
*
If the story feels exactly like a dream
Don’t know what it means
Things ain’t what they seem
And you can’t just turn the page and let it go
Things that you’ve been told
Are deep down in your soul
*
But Pancho met his match you know in the deserts down in Mexico
Nobody heard his dying words, that’s the way it goes
And all the federales say ‘ they could have had him any day’
They only let him hang around out of kindness I suppose
*
So ever drifting down the stream
Lingering in the golden gleam
Life, what is it but a dream?
What is a dream?
*
Sailing away on the crest of a wave it’s like magic…
Taking a dive cause you can’t halt the slide floating downstream
(Oh so let her go don’t start spoiling the show it’s a bad dream)
*
I move, because
Each time there's some more
Wet to dry, eye to eye
Yin to Yang, pleasure or pain
Good to bad, crazy or sane
You make the rules, then you play the game
Fist to glove, lose or win
You live a life of sin, then you're born again
Trash to art, heart to heart
Big or small, we're all a part
*
And in seeing is believing
But I can't believe my eyes
Everything is lovely
In a misty paradise
*
My love, at dawn.
The children we did not have
They hide in the sewers,
They eat the last flowers,
It seems that they guessed
May the coming day
It comes hungry late.
I feel that after the night
Thousands of silent vultures
They are spreading their wings
*
What Mama saw it was against the law
*
Now you see me
Now you don’t
*
But Karen lied, she lied, she lay down and died,
All day, every day, she died
*
Blown there by a windbeam
Who searches for the moonbeam
Who was last seen
Looking at the tracks
Of the careless windbeam
Or moving to the tracks
Of the tireless freight train
And lighting up the sides
Of the weathervane
And the bits of rain
And the windowpane
And the eyes of those
Who think they saw what happened
*
Mountains of pain, valleys of love
Death without life and life without meaning
To the promise kept and broken
To the love that's never spoken
Just as surely as I'm in your ears
A dark figure slips from out of the shadow
*
You know that I'll always listen
But sometimes I'm wondering why
You don't lie to me
*
Sitting in the waiting-room
Of the patient mind...
But there isn't any answer
The consciousness can quote
When the loaded dice of chance are there
Rattling in the throat
*
In our vain pursuit
Of life for one's own end
Will this crooked path
Ever cease to end?
*
The gloves are off the wisdom teeth are out
What you on about?
The Ambiguous A-List Playlist:
Tedeschi Trucks Band – Don’t Know What It Means
Townes Van Zandt – Pancho & Lefty
Boeing Duveen & The Beautiful Soup – Which Dreamed It?
Electric Light Orchestra – Livin’ Thing
Nona Hendryx – Transformation
The Kinks – Misty Water
Rosa Leon – Al Alba
Paul Simon – Me & Julio Down By The Schoolyard
Gazelle Twin – When I Was Otherwise
Dana & Karen Kletter – We Died In August
Harry Nilsson – The Moonbeam Song
Todd Rundgren – Zen Archer
The Blurred Meaning B-List Playlist:
Chris Bell – I Don’t Know
Yola – Faraway Look
Adrian Belew – Big Electric Cat
Steely Dan – Throw Back The Little Ones
Wire – The 15th
The Beatles – Revolution 1
Peter Hammill – Patient
Aldous Harding – The Barrel
Sam Sham & The Pharoahs – Ring Dang Doo
R.E.M. – Lotus
Fairport Convention – I Don’t Know Where I Stand
Dead Can Dance – Anywhere Out Of The World
Frank Zappa – It Must Be A Camel
Guru’s Wildcard Choice G-List
Vampire Weekend – Step
Laurie Anderson - Born, Never Asked
These playlists were inspired by readers' song nominations from last week's topic: What does this mean? Songs about ambiguity. The next topic will launch on Thursday at 1pm UK time.
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