jimmy circa 2004.

           CLASS ARSE (SUNDERGLASS)

 move the underpass,shake the underpass, smooth the underpass, rape the
      underpass.class arse, underpass,class arse, underpass. break the limb,
      break the side, rake the whim, strip the bride.class arse, underpass,
      class arse, underpass. the sun must move, the wind must break, the city
      stream must always rave - there is no law beyond itself, nor any place for
      judas wealth.

class arse, underpass, class arse, underpass. no world is
      real without its pain, nor any face trangresses flame. class arse,
      underpass, class arse, sunderglass. time is numb, space is dead - endless
      whispers in the head - seize the summer, let it ride - no more place for
      shanty skies. class arse, underpass, class arse, underpass. class
      arse,class arse, class mask (sunderglass)...

      MYSTIC BOY
      mystic child, mystic boy,mystic wild, mystic joy. seek the sun, rave thru
      it - endless remit, endless permit. mystic child, mystic boy, mystic wild,
      mystic toy. reap the moon, choose to live -  endless love, shended crib.
      mystic child, mystic woman, mystic wild, mystic children. search the
      stars, make them fit - endless remit, shended writ. mystic child, mystic
      boy, mystic wild, mystic decoy. seek the son, rave thru it - endless
      woman, endless woman.

      THE COSMONAUT
      I am the cosmonaut - i travel thru the skies. i am the cosmonaut - i raid
      the spatial tides. i am the cosmonaut - time traveller to nowhere. i am the

      cosmonaut - the raider of the air. the distance from this world lies
      raving like a moon, nor shall the scent of love denude the summer's womb.
      i am the cosmonaut - i am the sleek avenger. i am the cosmonaut - i am the
      dark revenger. no time to live for here, no time to live for prayer. i am
      the cosmonaut - the raider of true prayer. the narrow spin of the sun can only
      cheat the moon. i am the cosmonaut - the stormer of the tomb. cosmo lover,
      indian mother, maid in the mind, searer of the spine. i am the cosmonaut -
      eyes on  empty.  i am the cosmonaut - eyes like twenty. i who dies, i who
      lives eternal - i and i -  the rended word maternal. seek, find, break on
      thru. i am the cosmonaut - all space is down to you?

      WHALE SUMMIT
      the whale summit, the whale summit - beneath the sun,the starlets groove.
      no time for men who choose to cry,no time for women in the mood. the word
      is idle morning, its spray of light, as real as dead - beneath the sun,the
      starlets groove. no time for men, just shendless red. the sigma in the
      window has eyes as furled as judas god - judas christ, mary price -
      shendless manna,bear the rod. the whale summit - the sky in the moon. the
      whale summit -the eye in the womb.the whale summit - if we seek, we shall
      not find. the whale summit - if we seek, we must go blind. behind this
      shadow's empire, the heart is tripping north - with lies as cruel as
      samphire,the rending way is jesu gorse. in the ingle comes the medium-
      each life that strips away is real - so many,all so many - each life that
      strips away shan't  feel. the whale summit, the whale summit - beneath the
      sun,the starlets groove.no time to stop the world, no time to cease the
      earth, no time for any man,just shendless birth. i have seen light
      moving,i have seen the summer die - within the shades of freezing,the
      gorgonelles fly by. if we look to the south,shall the winter rave? if the
      magma routs,shall the traitors rage? the whale summit,the whale summit -
      beneath the sun, the starlets groove. the whale summit, the whale summit -
      the grail in mind has seven hooves. to search the wards,to reap the child,
      to strip the bone in the christian wild - no life knows, no light lives -
      ice moves up from a frozen crib. there is a woman in the brain: she walks
      nine miles: there is a woman in the brain: she stalks ten smiles. whale
      summit,whale summit, this is the shendlesss whale summit.anatriptic
      mother, toxic brother - no more word for chanticleer - anatriptic father,
      toxic lover - no more whispers in the ear. the swan of god,the ledahose -
      all and all,the way is closed - the swan of christ, the deus heist - all
      and all, the way is diced. the whale summit,the whale summit - spasmoid
      sister doing time. the whale summit,the whale summit - spastic sister in
      the spine.overboard,the sirens reign, underboard, the mystics flame - eyes
      on empty,eyes like twenty -endless mistress in her shame. the whale
      summit, the whale summit - beneath the sun, the starlets groove.the whale
      summit,the whale summit - beneath the moon,the children move.no time for
      words,no time for birds, no time for neon curves.  rape the peak,live
      inside it, rape the peak,do not hide it, rape the peak, rape the peak,
      rape the peak, rape the peak. whale summit, whale summit,this is the
      endless whale summit - this is the whale summit, this is the whale
      summit.blue god, blue love, blue god,neon dove. blue god, blue god, blue
      god - whale summit.
      pale night, pale bright - i saw the witness,the reeling witness - pale
      night, pale bright - never see love live again - pale night,pale bright -
      never see love live again. the whale summit, the whale summit - lost in
      the wood, endless gain - the whale summit, the whale summit - lost in the
      wood, endless fame. at midnight,i saw the shanty men, sensed the summer
      overcome me - at midnight, at midnight, i saw the shanty men. pale
      night,pale bright - i saw the witness, the reeling witness - pale night,
      pale bright - never see love live again - pale night,pale bright -  never 
      see love live again. cowboy christ, cowgirl lover - time must lend me to
      another. all a case of the other, all a wasteland with no mother. pale
      night,pale bright - i saw the witness,the reeling witness - pale night,
      pale bright - never see love live again - pale light,palenight - endless
      whispers in the brain. the whale summit, the whale summit,the whale
      summit, the whale summit - eyes on empty,eyes like twenty - whale
      summit,whale summit. in the wood,in the yield,in the wood, in the field -
      underscore,undermind,underscore, eyes gone blind. AIDS father, take me
      further; do not serve me with your purdah - pale night,pale bright - the
      whale summit,the whale summit - pale light,pale night - the shendless
      whale summit. take me, mother, from this world;share with me your penates
      gold - i  saw the witness,i saw the witness,i saw the reeling witness; i
      saw the reeling witness. this is the whale summit, this is the whale
      summit - meet me in the hills,greet me in the rain - meet me in the
      hills,greet me in my pain. neon god,neon lover,neon god, neon other -meet
      me in the hills,meet me in the hills.this is the whale summit, this is the
      whale summit - endless remit - this is the whale summit. saw the
      witness,the reeling witness - whale summit,whale summit.blue god, blue
      rod, blue god, land of nod - no time to stop the time,no time to cease the
      world - whale summit,whale summit,endless cold. whale summit, whale
      summit, penates gold. i saw the witness,the reeling witness - whale
      summit, whale summit - i saw the reeling witness -come out tonight, come
      out tonight,come greet the endless light. come out tonight,come out
      tonight - come greet the endless night..

      SUPERHUMAN
      the superhuman, the superhuman,the ghostly superhuman. to fight the spirit
      in the night, to rage against the endless light. the superhuman,the
      superhuman,the ghostly superhuman. no time is real until it's sent from
      shendless storms of wonder - to seek the sun, to reap the moon - all is
      endless thunder. the superhuman, the superhuman, the ghostly superhuman.
      the endless ghostly superhuman.

      CANCERIAN MOON
      cancerian moon - the stars offend us, each whirl of sun, as red as jesu's
      mind. the rape of christ in fields of azure - as much as time must save
      us, the stars define. cancerian moon - the stars acclaim us - each whirl
      of sun, as red as jonah's spine. the rape of christ in fields of azure -
      as much as time must stave us, the moons decline. i have a sun in the
      archer and a moon in the blood, i have a mind full of madness and a heart
      bust  at bud, and when the world spins round and the sun moves west, all
      and all, thou't shall confess. cancerian moon - the stars offend us, each
      whirl of sun, as red as jesu's mind. i do not care for the world beyond
      us, nor wrangle for the ring on its murdered wynd. cancerian moon - sun in
      the archer. cancerian, moonless mind.
      i do indeed have a cancerian moon; moreover, i am sagittarian.
 
      LED BED DEDLY
      led bed dedly, led bed dedly; led bed dedly. dedly moon, dedly sun.  led
      bed dedly. led bed dedly, led bed dedly, led bed dedly. dedly moon, dedly
      sun, dedly womb, dedly tongue: ded within, ded without, ded within, ded as
      doubt. led ded, led ded, led ded bedly, led ded, led ded, led ded bedly.
      led ded, led ded, led ded, led ded, led ded, led ded. led ded bedly.

      THE TIME
      this is the time, this is the time -
      the time of graves in the mind.
      this is the time, this is the time - 
      i'll never save you from the wind.
      this is the time, this is the time,
                                            this is the time.
      this is the time, this is the time - 
      the moons above do not define.
      this is the time, this is the time -
      the stars of summer fail to climb -
      this is the time, this is the time -
      i'll never save u from the wind.
      this is the time,this is the time,
                                            this is the time.
      this is the time, this is the time -
      the time of madness on the grind -
      this is the time, this is the time - 
      the serpent in the sea of mind -
      this is the time, this is the time,
                                            this is the time.
      this is the day -
      the storm of sadness fails to save -
      this is the day -
      the storm of sadness flails to rage -
      this is the word -
      the shended winter on the rise -
      this is the day, this is the day....
      this is the night -
      beneath the web of thunder,
      translucence spirits worlds apart:
      no more the way it was when young,
      just abaddon's counterpart. 
      the sea of death is reigning
      over hills in galilee -
      build your ship, for u shall need it -
      build your ship of death...
      this is the time, this is the time - 
      the time of our elaborate spines - 
      this is the time, this is the time -
      i'll never save u from the wind -
      this is the time, this is the time
                                            this is the time.
      in the word, in the whirl,
      in the never-ending swirl:
      in the tide, in the rain, 
      in the never-ending brain:
      in the maw of the war
      that rages on the shore:
      as much as death divides,
      the way ahead must claw.
      this is the time -
      the time of dreams that never come -
      this is the time - 
      the rended way in orizon:
      if we seek the lunar temple,
      what for the men who do not care?
      if we seek the lunar temple, 
      what for the sirens in the air?
      this is the time, this is the time
      this is the time, this is the time -
      no more the stars, just death run blind -
      this is the time, this is the time,
                                               this is the time..
      went out to seize my woman -
      the way ahead was wealer-deal -
      went out to seize my woman -
      the way ahead was neon steel.
      the archer's skein is burning,
      is burning cancer-black:
      went out to seize my woman -
      the night behind was
                                  pearled in strap. 
      this is the time,this is the time -
      i'll never save u from the wind -
      this is the time, this is the time,
                                         this is the time.
      & out where man is living
      for eight long miles of endless spite,
      the spirit in the Northern Wind
      lies raving where there is no night -
      for loves that live forever,
      for spaces rilled with river dreams -
      for all the birds of pleasure -
      each way man lives,
                                  his woman screams. 
      this is the time,this is time:
      the sickness in its neon spin:
      this is the time, this is the time:
      the mad, the bad, the madamed kin.
      to raid the dark,to reap the blank -
      no more to seek just time to die:
      to find the iris in its clique,
      to move the stone of jesu's cry -
      this is the time, this is the time,
                                         this is the time -
      for chiliads of eastern truth,
      the day ahead must seem uncouth.
      this is the trime, this is the time -
      i'll never save u from the wind -
      & in the word, & under all,
      and in the word, & with The Fall -
      beneath the sap of christ in bud -
      the bracken spiels
                                against the blood.
      this is the time, this is the time,
                                                   this is the time.
      this is the time, this is the time,
                                                  this is the time.
      this is the end
                                 of
                                      rhyme.

 

Angels Surround Me (a song-sheet)

Angels surround me, i think the lines, they write me,
my mind is light, night shadow all around me
how i hurt and heal, these feelings, elementary
elemental as light, shine beneath my poetry.
 
pain has my all, haunted, i am man's brother
solitude is where i live, thinking like a mother,
visions petrify, i am the soul within another;
come, let me show you all
let my heart beat out and smother.
 
southern blow the winds, northerly, my mind
lips as fresh as sin, a lemonade, my spine
perception is my passion, deception's all and all
come, read my mind forever, let love's meadows roll.
 
i am a man with stains upon my heart
passion burned within me, lust, my brother spark
grown in inner city, barred, the life i lead
inventing panes of wisdom, breaking as i wreathe.
 
and i can heal, i can, i am, i sense
the king of wisdom flame as he flies;
by me, the poetry of time defines and never dies
..and i can heal, i can, i am, i sense
the king of wisdom flame as he flies;
by me, the poetry of time defines and never dies.
 
love created pain, pain is all i find
fortress for a brain, love and lust refined.
touched by mute campaign, pleasure sunders life
invented by disdain, love brings down the knife.
 
you see a poet story, this is mine, is where i live
i dream of days of peaceness, my guardians divined
to cry is my relief, to weep, my heart's glad pin
to suffer is my sanctuary, the chiliad within.
 
know me, know the love beneath the rain
know the rose, the garden, the angel in my vein
kids smile at my rainbows, pleasure fills their void
coloured are my people, painful with love's joys.
 
a woman's touch, a kiss so strong, tranquillity ordained
this is prosody's insides, a picture on a plane,
and i can heal, i can, i am, i sense
the king of wisdom flame as he flies;
by me, the poetry of time defines and never dies
..and i can heal, i can, i am, i sense
the king of wisdom flame as he flies;
by me, the poetry of time defines and never dies.

..
jdb 2001
 
 

 

      WHEN THE BLUES ARE OLDER
      when the blues r older, when the blues r older - when the blues r older -
      when the spirit streets are filled with wheat - when the blues r older.
      when the sickness summons love and the winter snarls above - when the son
      of man lies dead in the summer of the  head. when the blues r older,  when
      the blues r older -w hen the blues r older. when the blues r older, when
      the blues  r older - when the blues r older - when the sin in its spin
      denies the wind & the crack of christ denudes forever - when the live come
      out to cry and the lord of love lies weeping - when the world is furled &
      curled - when the blues r older. when the blues r older, when the blues r
      older - when the spirit raves with fire - when the blues r older, when the
      blues r older - when the spirit way is pyre - when the siege of shendless
      winter rapes the woman in the wild - when the kin & kith of mary rakes
      away her rended child - when the world is double heresay,and the heart is
      bugged with blood - when the blues, when the blues,when the blues r older.
      where the blues r always over. 

      SPATIAL WINTER
      spatial winter, this serried world is void; void of all its summertimes,
      void of all love's prisons. a leaper in the mind, the way ahead is seared,
      is seared in space behind its ever-spinning spine. the arc of christ rides
      closer, closer to the power of god: inside the mirage of the rain, the day
      inside itself denudes. each way the sickness clusters,  as a semi-comal
      state of dreams, red as ilex lightning, the source of fury screams.
      spatial winter, this serried world is void; is void of all love's
      summertimes, void of all life's rended swirls. a cryptic state of fusion,
      the ocean in the mind's surreal; surreal as time decried by the spirit on
      the wheel. the arc of christ rides closer, closer to the power of god:
      inside the mirage of the rain, the light beneath itself disproves. each
      way the sickness clusters, the grave within itself is spiel, red as ilex
      lightning, as cold as hero's field.
      spatial winter, this serried world is void; is void of all its summetimes,
      void of all life's rended swirls. to speak the words of plenty, to shend
      the dreamer in the vice: to chant the prayers of many: all is served by
      herod's heist. the arc of christ rides closer, closer to the power of god:
      inside the mirage of the rain, the day inside itself is rude. each way the
      sickness clusters, as a semi-comal eye in scheme, red as ilex lightning,
      the source of fury beams.
      spatial winter, this serried world is void; is void of all its
      lunar-scapes, is void of all its joys. a lepar in the vine of vein,
      this mind mirage is growing clear; as clear as mary's sacrifice, as clear
      as jonah's tear. the arc of christ rides closer, closer to the power of
      god: inside the ruin of the rain, the day within itself disproves. each
      way the sickness hollahs, as green as neon sun, red as ilex lightning, the
      sea inside must thrum.
      spatial winter, spatial winter, spatial winter, spatial winter. the mind
      mirage, the schizoid rite, the sea in brain, the endless night: the search
      for god that never ends, the maker of amends. spatial winter, spatial
      winter, spatial winter. to seize the grey, to make it work, to storm the
      moon inside its hurt; to make the way for red abandon: all and all, this
      love's abaddon. spatial winter, spatial winter, spatial winter: spatial,
      spatial winter.

      2 TO TOMORROW
      2 to tomorrow, 2 to tomorrow - fight the sorrow, fight the sorrow. 2 to
      tomorrow, 2 to tomorrow - rend the sorrow, shend the sorrow. the sun is
      booming eastern,i t bears no place for hero dreams - best greet the summer
      western, or else live on in herod's screams. don't tell me of your
      peacedom, nor ravel with the whores. 2 to tomorrow, 2 to tomorrow - go
      greet your child outdoors. the world is growing ancient, baby - do not
      live for none - the world is growing ancient, lady -  no time for orison.
      they hand u bags of silver, they lend u bags of gold - best greet the
      morning sun, best get out before you're old. 2 to tomorrow, 2 to tomorrow
      - fight the sorrow, fight the sorrow. 2 to tomorrow - rend the sorrow, do
      not follow. loved the end - always did - loved the end since we were kids.
      lah-lah-lah-lah-lah-lah-lah-lah-lah-lah-lah-lah-lah. get out of town, make
      things good - get out this goddamned town.

      BURNING WORLD
      thralway,hallway -  gold,gold - thralway, crawlway - burning gold. the sun
      is real, is wealer-deal - thralway, hallway - molten gold - the sun,the
      moon,the mill of love, the sun, the moon, the blasted bud - thralway,
      hallway - gold, gold, -thralway,crawl way - burning gold - old, the moon,
      cold, the way, furled, the womb, gold, the way. thralway,hallway - gold,
      gold - thralway, crawlway - burning world.

      GOODBYE
      goodbye, no thank-you, I can make it alone
      goodbye, no thank-you, sun is worn to the bone
      goodbye, no thank-you, I can make it alone
      sidewalk stone, sidewalk stone
      the moon is real and the sun behind
      I do not  care for the men in the mind
      I cannot listen and I cannot pray
      Lady, stray; do not stay
      goodbye, no thank-you, I can make alone
      goodbye, no thank-you, sun is worn to the bone
      goodbye, no thank-you, I can make it alone
      sidewalk stone, sidewalk stone
      the summer moves and the moon divides
      no time for peace that deifies
      I cannot listen and I cannot pray
      Lady, stray; stray today.
      goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye -
      no time left to ask me why -
      goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.
      this is the last goodbye.

      MYSTIC BLOOD
      sought the summer in the sun, nor any place for golden ones; sought the
      summer in the sun, sought the summer in the sun - bought it all, turned it
      over, suffered under, suffered older - sought the summer in the sun,
      sought the summer in the sun. give me light, lend me more, give me night,
      rend some more, give me none, lend me more, open up that silver door.
      sought the summer in the sun, nor any place for golden ones, sought the
      summer in the rain, nor any place for deus brain - see the  wasteland in
      the moon chant the words of deus doom - sought the summer in the sun,
      sought the summer in the sun. give me light, lend me none, give me night,
      rend me some, give me none, lend me more, open up that silver door. is
      this the world that I once held or is it more the summer's meld or is it
      more the christ of dreams, the place for summer's screams; or counting
      down, is it less a place for love than deus quest - deus quest, deus
      quest, deus quest, deus quest. give me light, lend me none, give me night,
      rend me some, give me none, lend me more, open up that silver door.

      THE GRAVEWARD DREAM
      i sensed so many people die - inside their minds, the winter raved.
      i knew the word inside the world - so many men, so many.
      i sensed the Earth about me change,  from life to death, to deity
       i sensed so many people die. so many men, so many.
      **
      loss, denial, death, reproof:
      stunning the sun, the word is real.
      beneath the rain, inside the brain, 
      dark as winter, dreams denude.
      the graveward dream, the graveward dream;
      & I must know, the graveward dream;
      must rage, where love can only
      size away the stars.
      the light that flails below the mind,
      is seven more than death behind;
      & should the witness in the cave
      console the seas, the sun would die.
      loss, denial, death, reproof:
      shended come the ides of breath.
      dark inside the deity,
      words in words are cold as theft.
      the graveward dream, the graveward dream;
      & I must know the graveward dream;
      must rage, where love can only
      size away the stars.
      the orison, without a wheel,
      can only rend away love's spiel:
      each way the winter raves aside,
      the phallic heist can only ride.
      the warden in the steeling blood,
      has nineteen eyes, all bust in bud.
      the graveward dream, the gravward dream;
      & I should know the graveward dream;
      must rage, where love can only
      size away the stars.
      I saw the woman in the wreck
      depose the moon inside its seam;
      so many man, so many girls:
      this earth of fire is bound in pearls;
      & should the sickness in the rose
      lie shended with the heart deposed,
      then man & child would live forever,
      raving where all death is pleasure.
      the graveward dream, the graveward dream;
      & I must know the graveward dream;
      must rage, where love can only
      size away the stars.
      the blackness, in the lobes of theft,
      lies riven with the arcless mind;
      so many truths must come to none,
      as rended as the mourning one;
      & should the witness in the rain,
      lie serried with the graves of pain,
      no man nor child would come on home,
      to greet the reaper in the dome.
      the graveward dream, the graveward dream;
      & I should know the graveward dream;
      must rage, where love can only
      size away the stars.
      loss, denial, death, reproof:
      the murderer is on the roof;
      the word lies railing, in a cage,
      as cruel & cold as hero's age.
      the cosmos sees no cellves ahead,
      nor rakes away the golden bed;
      nor man nor child come close to kill
      the seraph on the neon hill.
      the graveward dream, the graveward dream;
      & I should know the graveward dream;
      must rage, where love can only
      size away the stars.
      i saw so many children die,
      i saw so many peeple fly -
      the doctor in the iron kiss
      lies serried with the graves in fist.
      the graveward dream, the graveward dream;
      & I should know the graveward dream;
      must rage, where love can only
      size away the stars.
      the graveward wish, the naveward stage -
      the cellves of time can only cruise,
      away, where death must deify,
      away, where death is real.
      the graveward dream has scarlet skeins,
      as native as the scarlet brains
      of crime & cause & red macadam:
      the world inside, is duel abaddon;
      & should the day I came to see
      the winter in the casuistry
      reveal the witness in the light,
      the life inside would reap the night.
      the graveward dream, the graveward dream;
      & I should know the graveward dream;
      & I must know the face of god,
      & greet the aaron in the rod.
      the shended day, the rended way,
      the crucifix, in iron sun -
      all, the christ within the vein
      must raid the womb of everyone.
      there is a word that no-one speaks,
      nor any heart can choose to seek -
      eyes have known the heart of death,
      eyes have opened, eyes have screamed -
      the idol in the church of lies
      must reel away, or else not die!
      the graveward dream, the graveward dream;
      & I must know the graveward dream;
      & I must know my meadow-child,
      & i must seek the endless wild,
      & i must know the ligron's whirl,
      & seek the sinner in the furl,
      & man shall come, & man shall live,
      & love shall rave, forevermore,
      & where the moon is out of sight,
      the ark of dreams shall raid the bright,
      & christ shall cut & christ shall groove,
      where girl in man deprives the mood,
      & light shall live, forevermore,
      where graveward sickness knows no war.
      the  graveward dream, the graveward dream;
      & I must know the graveward dream;
      must rage, where love can only
      size away the stars.

      DISEASED MUSE
      Diseased muse, diseased muse; i seek the soul of the diseased muse. the
      world is 
      plain, is wrought in flame, is dark as red; is sick at head. diseased
      muse, diseased muse, disased muse; i seek the soul of the diseased muse.
      inside the rain, inside the flower, as endless as this evil hour, the
      world inside its narrow dream,lies riven with the mesadene. diseased muse,
      disased muse; i seek the soul of the diseased muse. no time to live, no
      time to die; no time to raid the eagle sky - the moon is turning - see it
      burn - diseased muse, diseased muse.

      MENTAL
      Mental mind,mental mind - the sun inside the moon is blind - the worth of
      christ is jackanapes; is shended as a morning rape.mental mind,mental mind
      - the sun inside the moon is blind - the worth of schemes is hari krishna;
      shended as a light that raids. the mental mind, out of bounds; coiled in
      blood,  jainite ruin. the sun, the rain, the moon run blind; mental
      mind,mental mind.

      THERE IS NO MIND.
      JOYCE BABBLE
      joyce babble, joyce babble - the word denudes all feeling. joyce babble,
      joyce babble - the mind within is spielling. no space for men who speak
      for rot; no space for children in the cot; no space for christ without a
      tongue. joyce babble, joyce babble. joyce babble - the moon needs
      changing. joyce babble - this song's deranging. to seek the linguid case
      of tongue must rape away the coining one; neither must the moon without
      wreak away his dying pout. joyce babble, joyce babble - the word denudes
      all feeling..joyce babble, joyce babble - the mind within is spielling.
      don't need no wake inside the sun to shape the day with orison. lucia,
      mad, lucia, mad; schizophonic loser. joyce babble, joyce babble - the word
      denudes all feeling. joyce babble, joyce babble - the mind within needs
      steeling. don't need no telephonic lie to prove the cellephonic cry; don't
      need the match  of judas man to sham away the coiner's clan. the world is
      best without its madness; the world is best without its sadness. joyce
      babble, joyce babble - don't give me walldron, give me light. joyce
      babble, joyce babble - the word that speaks en't deisite. joyce babble.
      all schizophrenics use portmanteaus.

      DON'T SPEAK OF THE DEVIL
      don't speak of the devil, don't speak of the devil - don't speak of the
      cloven kid.the mind defines no devil spine, nor  ravels with the Word;
      neither can the alsorans dictate the Son inside the Pan. you cook for
      none, you eat for none - go eat  the devil's horde! don't speak of the
      devil, don't speak of the devil - don't speak of the cloven kid. the mind
      defines no peace of mind, unless the devil's rid. you cook for none, you
      eat for none - go eat the devil's horde. don't speak of the devil, don't
      speak of his revel. don't preach the stickler's word.
      There is no Devil.

      LENNON EN'T LENIN
      lennon en't lenin. don't matter what u say, don't matter what u do. 
      lennon en't lenin. don't need no sister son, just need to break on thru.
      lennon en't lenin; & this i'm tellin' u way:  lennon en't lenin: he lives
      beyond the sky.don't need no brother peter, don't need no mister saul;
      don't need most anyone  - just need the writin' on the wall. lennon en't
      no lenin, & this i'm tellin' u why - lennon  en't  no lenin, for lenin
      does not die.
      Lennon knew too many people.

      THE ZERO SEED
      the zero seed, the hero deed,
      the zero seed, the xerox deed,
      the zero seed, the hero deed,
      the zero seed, the xerox weed -
      the sun inside the moon begun
      lies serried with the graves of none -
      the zero seed,the hero deed,
      the zero seed,the xerox need.
      the word within the winter slick
      is cold & old as herod god;
      no man inside the endless wide
      can rend away the jesus rod.
      the zero deed, the hero deed,
      the zero seed, the xerox deed,
      the zero seed, the hero deed,
      the zero seed, the xerox need.
      the day ahead is full of los,
      as furled in pearls as pentecost,
      the way behind, is moon in mind,
      as furled in girls as deus cross.
      the zero seed, the hero deed,
      the zero seed, the xerox deed,
      the zero seed, the hero deed,
      the zero seed, the xerox weed.
      the spuming sun is mustard grain,
      as furled in gold as judas gain;
      no man nor child come near to know
      the endless mister in the rose.
      the zero seed, the hero deed,
      the zero seed, the xerox deed,
      the zero seed, the hero deed,
      the zero seed, the xerox need.
      the zero, hero, xerox deed,
      the zero, hero, xerox deed,
      the zero, hero, xerox deed,
      the zero, hero, xerox need.
      There en't no Xerox!!!

      A SNAKE EN'T SNAPED
      a snake en't a snaped, en't no snape, en't no snape - a snake is the reel,
      is the wheel, is the sun - the snake don't live for words in cribs - the
      snake en't no snape, is always one. a snake don't rely on mystic lies,
      don't rail against the worded tongue. a snake en't a snape, a snake en't a
      snape, a snake is not a snape. u do not tell me where to go, nor where the
      people choose to rove - the sun moves right, the moon moves left - the
      snake on the run  is crippled dreft. a snake en't a snape, a snake en't a
      snape, a snake en't a snape; a snake is not a snape. snake.
      There is no 'SNAPE'.

      WALLDRON
      walldron, walldron - there is no walldron. best get inside the iron
      cauldron. walldron, walldron - there is no walldron. best get inside the
      iron sun. the word created is the word despised; best meet the moon, or
      else devise. walldron, walldron - there is no walldron. best get inside
      the iron cauldron. walldron, walldron - there is no walldron. best go meet
      the xerox skies.
      There is no 'Walldron'.

      FURLED GOLD
      furled gold,curled gold, furled gold,rolled gold. beneath the sun, inside
      the rain, endless gold shall reap the brain. furled, the winter in the
      star, curled, the witness in the bar. furled gold, curled gold, furled
      gold, rolled gold. the dream that snaps the leaf in twain, lies serried
      with the graves in vein: do not deny the way it is: furled gold is always
      on the fizz. furled gold, curled gold, furled gold, rolled gold. furled
*      gold.

 

      THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE
      SHAPES THE GRAVE
      (this lyric was not written by dylan thomas!)


      I
      The hand that rocks the cradle, shapes the grave;
      That ties lynched talons
      To the fathering trees,
      Does down all breath, as the templars rave.
      The hand that rocks the cradle shapes the seas.
      Though the tears be plain and spumed  at birth,
      Though the angels as they marry
      compose a married breeze,
      high with the hand, that runnels through the earth,
      The standard heraldic murders as she weaves;
      And where the tendant manna rises from its flirt,
      And sharpens the harp;
      Where haloed matter seethes,
      Cruel come the crones, of beast and tare and wort;
      Cruel come the farriers of the cindered seed.
      The hand that rocks the cradle, shapes the grave;
      That ties lynched talons
      To the fathering trees,
      Does down all breath, as the templars rave.
      The hand that rocks the cradle shapes the seas. 


      II
      Tendril or temple, the burrowers blow out.
      Man in manna parish, the sentinels heave.
      Plashed in the store of harvest and drought,
      Round the cross of winter, the Templars speed.
      In the bastard daisy; upon the peal of bells;
      Up where martyrs bury the mortars of a spell;
      In the bastard daisy; upon the peal of bells;
      Inside the routed Lady, the proctorates swell.
      Tendril or temple, the burrowers blow out.
      Man in manna parish, the sentinels heave.
      Plashed in the stores of harvest and drought,
      Round the cross of winter, the Templars speed.
      God is neither locum nor primal convertor.
      Christ is neither primate, nor ignoble weed.
      Gabriel is neither paragon, nor deserter.
      Time and tide alike, dwell darkly in the seed.
      Tendril or temple, the burrowers blow out.
      Man in manna parish, the sentinels heave.
      Plashed in the store of harvest and drought,
      Round the cross of winter, the Templars speed. 


      III
      Conceived in the womb, the Word unravels,
      Lighted by the spindles
      Of a sermon's troubles;
      Thread to thread, the root unfolds;
      And brazen as the man who raids the mountain,
      Creation enhearses and extols.
      This is the curtain on the coffin's signals,
      The nature of the Word
      That forces through the prism;
      Down drinking leaves, vision furls;
      And, as mortal as a martyr's mission,
      Crime is flashed into this world.
      God's image treads the trees and tunnels;
      No Lord of war is seen appeased;
      Down founted footfalls flow the runnels
      Of rectored space - the Word betrays the seas -
      And in the flames, the falcon pummels
      And brings its falconer unto the trees. 


      IV
      The halo's course is razed: the mystic tantrum
      That drives the glowering rocks
      Is here perfused:
      The rot that sires the clock; the cuss-flap ransome
      Is here destroyed, its fickle caste removed.
      The halo's course lies buried in a fountain:
      Who comes to die
      Lies split by Christ to chime:
      The anger drummed and drunk on cryptic stanchions
      Here rapes the roasting angels as they climb.
      The lips of speech do not retell their summons:
      Love's gibbet, slain,
      Hangs dryly from the trees:
      The force that makes the temples tend their sermons
      Lies dumbed and drained of all its shended seed.
      The time that ticks immortal and purportal,
      Here sifts the docks of rhyme
      Into an eye that sees:
      The rise of rhyme into a world aortal,
      Here lies staved
      And written on the trees. 


      V
      God comes! In undead waters, angels tingle;
      Come unto seastruck towers, the furies fold;
      The flight of spatial mortar girds its simples;
      The tendrils of the godhead spear and mould.
      Within the Sun God, sphered, the pointed ferrule,
      Bright and brassy, blasts apart the grave;
      Star set for multicolour, Jacob's angle,
      Strips the sex of Jonah, and is saved.
      Smoke in shippen hills, and oaken valleys,
      Where the eagle's eyrie steers and rocks,
      Strides the holy tendril and its galleys;
      Where the Lords are brazen, nature knocks.
      One by one, the slash of vision chaffers;
      In the sin green fables of the mind,
      Manstrung anthers reach for holy pastures;
      In the stoving bone, the Templars grind.
      First shipwrecked, then riven like a muscle,
      Time and tide run glissful through the tides;
      Portraits of Joseph prophesy and tussel;
      Now the tender Templars flume and ride.
      Love, like words on water, must fade gladly,
      Yet the heavens write against the tides.
      Love and death assail on seas of parity;
      Death and love shall reap the tides of time. 


      VI
      The hand that rocks the cradle shapes the grave.
      Ten skulled fingers
      Stub the humours down.
      Death is the tomb of honey and its swingers.
      The hand that rocks the cradle shapes the crown.
      In the sallow spheres of bird and angel;
      Where the parson crows,
      The holy ghost conceives;
      Death is the flume of honey as it flows.
      The hand that rocks the cradle shapes the trees.
      The hand that rocks the cradle shapes the grave.
      The hand that succours life
      Is the caul-bay in the coves;
      Death is the flume that snaps alive the knife.
      The hand that rocks the cradle rapes the rose.
      The hand, the hand that does down death
      Parries and marries
      To the pinnace in the reeds;
      Death is the rumour that tarries as it carries.
      The hand that rocks the cradle shapes the needs.
      The hand that rocks the cradle shapes the grave.
      The hand that rocks the cradle
      Shapes the angled seas.
      The hand that rocks the cradle shapes the grave.
      The sun that is young lies buried in the weed.

      FIELDS OF SCHIZOID AZURE
      meet me in the fields of schizoid azure, meet me in the fields of endless
      leisure. meet me in the fields of schizoid azure. meet me in the fields,
      meet me in the fields. the time you choose to deify lies riven in the opal
      sky: eyes of fire,eyes of gold; schizoid azure, manifold. meet me in the
      fields of schizoid azure, meet me in the fields of endless lesiure. meet
      me in the fields of schizoid azure; meet me in the schizoid fields. the
      time you choose to flail aside each moon inside the opal tide, can only
      come to shend away the neon coming of the day. meet me in the fields of
      schizoid azure, meet me in the fields of schizoid azure. meet me in the
      fields of endless leisure. meet me in the fields, meet me in the fields.
      meet me in the fields. 

      THE SHENDED WAY
      the shended way, the rended day,
      the sun run blind, the moon behind,
      the rended day, the shended way,
      the sun run blind, the moon behind.
      the seed in deed, the womb ahead,
      the endless whisper in the head,
      the shended way, the rended day,
      the rended day, the shended way.
      all and all, this summer notion,
      stage of towers, this heartless ocean,
      serried in the graves of knowing,
      warps away the moon in drum,
      zero seed, the womb in cancer
      storms away the endless dancer,
      death disproving, night aside,
      shended in its regicide.
      the shended way, the rended day,
      the sun run blind, the moon behind,
      the rended day, the shended way,
      the sun run blind, the moon behind.
      the seed in deed,the womb ahead,
      the endless whisper of the dead,
      the shended way, the rended way,
      the rended day, the shended way.
      all and all, this winter skein,
      stage of towers, thes heart in vein,
      serried in the graves of knowing,
      warps away the moon in bud,
      zero seed, the heart in cancer,
      storms away the endless answer,
      death deriding, christ aside,
      wrought in his infanticide.
      the shended way, the rended day,
      the sun run blind, the moon behind,
      the rended day, the shended way,
      the sun run blind, the moon behind.
      the seed of need, the tomb ahead,
      the endless kiss of mother dread,
      the shended way, the rended day,
      the rended day, the shended way.
      all and all, this song in scheme,
      warps aside the mesadene,
      dark as thunder in the mind,
      rended as the autumn's spine.
      zero seed, the heart in cancer,
      storms away the endless dancer,
      light depriving all that's known,
      wrought inside the summer stone.
      ride the storm, live the storm,
      live the storm, raid the dawn,
      scythe away the arc of number,
      rend away the winter's dream.
      deep in death, winter rolls
      like a sickness, dead at soul.
      ride the storm, live the storm,
      live the storm, shend all form.
      all and all, this song of loss
      warps away the pentecost,
      red as rumour in the spine,
      rended as the son of crime.
      light disproving, all the world
      shapes all wisdom in its furl,
      dark as tendrils in the rain,
      crossed as christ in pain.
      ride the storm, raid the dawn,
      raid the dawn, storm the morn.
      seize the word that lies forever,
      rend the human day of pleasure.
      all and all, this summer notion,
      stage of towers, this heartless day,
      broken as the saint of living,
      storms aside the sun of grey.
      the sun run blind, the moon behind,
      the sun run blind, the moon behind,
      the sun run blind, the moon behind,
      the sun run blind,the sun run blind.
      all and all, this graveward river
      storms away the star of death,
      time misgiven in its quiver,
      shendless as the flower of breath.
      all all and all, all all and all,
      all all and all, all all and all,
      all all and all, all all and all,
      all all and all, all all and all.

      BLAGGING
      blagging, blagging,stop your blagging: the sun is red with jokes that
      rain, the mystic madness in the mind, as endless as the conman's chain.
      blagging, blagging, stop your blagging; cease the day you chose to die.
      the sun is red with jokes that rain, the mystic madness, red at eye. you
      have two choices in this world: the first  is life, the second, death:
      best seek the way of endless soul, or else denude the breath. blagging,
      blagging, stop your blagging; cease the day you chose to lie. meet me in
      the fields of azure, meet me in the sky.

      WESTWAYS
      here today, gone tomorrow, gone westways with no-one's sorrow. here today,
      gone tomorrow,gone westways with no-one's sorrow. the sun behind, is moon
      run blind, is shadow summer on the wall: go meet the witness on the
      fall,go meet the witness on the fall. here today, gone tomorrow, gone
      westways with no-one's sorrow. here today, gone tomorrow, gone westways,
      with no-one's sorrow. we have gone shopping.

      EVERYTHING'S BUSINESS!
      THE GRAVEWARD KISS
      the graveward kiss, the graveward kiss,
      i am in touch with the graveward kiss;
      i know the ways of summer moons,
      i sense the idol in ten rooms;
      & should this earth of birthward fire
      contest the rumour in the pyre,
      no man would come to challenge christ;
      the girl i know is real as ever.
      the graveward kiss, the graveward kiss,
      i am in touch with the graveward kiss,
      the graveward kiss, the graveward kiss,
      i am in touch with the graveward kiss.
      meet me forever in the fields of pleasure,
      meet me forever in the idle sun;
      meet me where there is no care,
      where no child can care to run.
      meet me forever in the fields of pleasure,
      meet me forever in the idle sun.

      VITREOUS BLEACH
      don't need no cowl, nor iron bowel; don't need no tampon in the spine:
      don't need no best of judas breast; don't need no bleeding mind. give me
      bleach, give me bleach, give me vitreous bleach. just give me vitreous
      bleach. don't need no bug, don't need no lover; don't need the sodom in
      the vein: don't need no best of judas breast; don't need no thinking mane.
      give me bleach, give me bleach, give me vitreous bleach. just give me
      vitreous bleach.
       
      BARD UPON THE MIND
      Bard upon the mind, bard upon the mind,
      reaching unaccountable themes
      thru the furled litter of hearts, under
      lapping shadows, battling sparks,
      of a kingdomed stillness, fractured home
      beneath the weal-roll of yesterday's tomes.
      There's violence here, that shall not end;
      child, your world beholds no friends,
      neither shall the strangers sire
      seraphic rangers, from your fire:
      fear endearments now, my child,
      for love will take you thru the wild.
      it's bards upon the mind, my girl,
      that'll take you from this world.
      Bard upon the mind, bard upon the mind,
      girl, you've got to have a dream,
      girl, you've got to make some time;
      as the sun that fades must live,
      so your ways must surely give
      & the winter on the shore
      open up that silver door.
      Bard upon the mind, bard upon the mind,
      bard upon the mind, bard upon the mind.
       
       
      IN TOUCH WITH A WOMAN'S HAND
      In touch with a woman's  hand,
      in touch with a woman's hand;
      i am in touch with a woman's hand.
      she shall find me in the field,
      she shall find me in the yield,
      she shall find me seven over,
      in the meadows full of light.
      in touch with the heart of power,
      in touch with the final flower,
      in touch with the moon of gold,
      in touch with the ways of old.
      In touch with a woman's hand,
      in touch with a woman's hand;
      i am in touch with a woman's hand.
      she shall find me in the field,
      she shall find me in the yield,
      she shall find me seven over,
      in the meadows full of night. 

     
     ****

& i will lay thee down...


& i will lay thee down in a cuckoo-cage
& i will ravage sex with lumber
o i willl lay thee down
& when the slides of christs dam rage
then eyes will lay thee down in sex-age

when once an oceaned promontory slaves
after sex & ruin
then the arks of screw-ins will
dedicate dolled hearts to a stroking hill

& i will lay thee down in a cuckoo-cage
ah, i will suffer thee under
easy lips & lamping northed thunder
& ice will squeeze you
& a heady north-ship will spew you
over & always under
dark masks & dunny dilly Father....

O the hands of the sage
limb-lock lovage where a tree's stave
will sup a gold supper- & bent lays
lam us when god's tundra
shows no idle mercy.

& i will shake you under oven-burning
& we will take hay long when
snaped cradlers issue men of yearning
studying for a cuckoo cage..

this side of the dark, a rider of the dark
dons a feather & a sky
lo this city dart dazzles daddy's mark
& a cuckoo face will sear cooked sky
& ken will cage an oiled house
Ahh...

the budded brined wrists of old Mars
suck a cloth from out the moon
& sizzlers of a salt tryst
heap holdals where a starry mist
misses tar-roomies!
...
when wide of the past & stained
then timeless carriages
ravel into old times
& i will marry youth to tines
& the robin's coat will grind
away, away, away

& i will lay thee down in a cuckoo cage.
~
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Copyright Jim Bellamy 2019.