Roy Harper - Hats Off (2001) by Roy Harper (보컬) on maniadb.com

I thought I heard the sound of my name and I looked back down behind me
And with hair like the ripened wheat she came, sure as the west wind to find me
And just for a moment I wished my life to see our friends all around us
And I turned to her but I held my breath in the far Norwegian mountains.

For there we stood two children of spring as everything seemed to be gleaming
Her looking breathless clean out of my mind and me with my crazy dreaming
To think of my friends underneath the same roof in one common destination
When all we do is remain aloof like we have no close relation.

And love is my torment and I'll take when I can
But I'll give in the moment when you are my woman and I am your man.

And I watched her makin' her first daisy chain as her nipples hung hard in suggestion
And naked, gnat-bitten we drifted fain in the hazy deserved sensation
And we dreamt of all the loves we'd known and we never never thought of the sorrow
With forelocks wound over primrose down in the wood by the emptin long barrow

Two silver greenflies to flicker the backdropping, lush of the emerald springtime
To lust for a moment in love of another is dust on a dragonfly's wing.

And love is no torment for we'll give when we can
And we'll live in the moment when you are my woman and I am your man.

And the blackcap sings and the forest rings, the nettles tall around me
With shafts of sun and moving things and poems fast and slowly
And fantasies of luscious thirst for new lust and fresh waters to seek it
Like diamonds set in realities of skies drawn back in secret

But somewhere out there with my heart in her care and her prayers in the breezes that caught them
She sits like the earth as I fly to her arms like the showering yellows of autumn

And love is no torment for we'll give when we can
And we'll live in the moment when she is my woman and I am her man.

I never know what kind of day it is on my battlefield of ideals
But the way she touches and the way it feels, must be just how it heals
Ah but it's got a little better since I let her sundance

I never know what time of year it is living on top of the fire
But the robin outside has to hunt and hide in the cold frosty shire
Ah but he knows just what goes in between his cold toes and his warm ears
And he's got no disguise in his eyes for his love as she nears

He spreads her a shelter
She takes the tall skies
As they helter skelter
Along the same sighs

And she wakes my days with a glad face
She fakes and says I'm a hard case
She makes and plays like a bad ace
Carrying my ways into scarred space
And she knows me well
Ah but what the hell
Only time can tell, where we're going to

Me and my woman
Me and my little woman

And the Lord speaks out and the pigpens fawn
The sword slides out and the nations mourn
The hoard strides out and the chosen spawn
The devil rides out and the heavens yawn
And he knows me well
Ah but what the hell
Only time can tell, where we're going to

Me and my woman
Me and my woman
Me and my little woman

What a lovely day
What a day to play at living
What a mess we make
What a trust we break
Not giving our wings to our children
O how we fail them
O how we nail them

Sunset my colour
And king is my name
Darkness she's my lover
And we live in shame

Too far away
From the light of the day
And so near, and so near, near
Can i break through the silence that has taken my place
On the plains of the morning that i just could not face

Asking you these questions
telling you these lies
Enveloping directions
Developing disguise
Open to suggestions
But closed to all my eyes

Dead on arrival, right where I stand
Dead on arrival, right where I stand
Dead on arrival, right where I stand

Space is just an ashtray
Flesh is my best wheel
The atmosphere's my highway
And the landscape's my next meal
I need my own Good Friday
And I'm trying my best to fix the deal

Dead on arrival, right where I stand
Dead on arrival, right where I stand
Dead on arrival, right where I stand
Dead on arrival, right where I stand

I am the new crowned landlord
Of all beneath my star
Queuing up for doomsday
In my homesick motor car
Born before my mother
Died before my Pa

Dead on arrival, right where I stand
Dead on arrival, right where I stand
Dead on arrival, right where I stand
Dead on arrival, right where I stand

The cuckoo, she moves through the dawn fanfare
The dew leaves the rooves in the magic air
Feel a finger running through my nightmares lair
Feel most together with my nowhere stare
and you know me well
Ah but what the hell
Only time can tell, where am I going to

Me and my woman
Me and my little woman
Me and my woman
Me and my little woman

Take a look down your highway
Tell me what d'you see
Well if you're down my way
It could well be me
Stood on your corner
I'm nearly down on one knee
Can you hear me calling for you
So damn easy to see
And it can't be forever
And it won't be for long
So don't you think that it's better
We speak the same tongue
Out here in this weather
We must surely belong
Birds of a feather
Whatever the song:
Please give me a lift man
It can't be for far
The way that you shift man
In your empty car,
I've got the highway blues
In my holy (holey, wholly) shoes
And I cannot choose
What I look like
And I got here from yesterday
On porridge and bait
Swallowing sorrow
Following fate
Poaching tomorrow
From God and the state
Of homo his shadow
The well known long haired straight
But I've got a good reason
For being this way
I'm happy for certain
And hoping to stay
Travelling trust
Across the new day
Gathering dust
Down your highway
Please give me a lift man...
It can't be for far
The way that you shift man
In your empty car
I've got the highway blues
In my holy shoes
And I cannot choose
What I look like
Out on the streets
Or where my drum beats
In between the clean sheets
Of my love life
And I need little Margaret
Out here again
Screwing some traffic
From the shaven insane
With thumbs like a dragnet
She pulls like a train
And she looks like a magnet;
And she comes like a warm rain
Please give me a lift man, etc

The kettle's on, the sun has gone, another day
She offers me Tibetan tea on a flower tray
She's at the door, she wants to score
She dearly needs to say

I loved you a long time ago, you know
Where the wind's own 'Forget me nots' blow
But I just couldn't let myself go
Not knowing what on earth, there was to know

But I wish that I had 'cause I'm feeling so sad
That I never had one of your children
Then across the room, inside the tomb, a chance has waxed and waned
The night is young, why are we so hung up in each other's chains?

I must take her and I must make her while the dove domains
And feel the juice run as she flies
Run my wings under her sighs as the flames of eternity rise
To lick us with the first born lash of dawn

Oh, really, my dear, I can't see what we fear
Sat here with ourselves in between us
And at the door, we can't say more than just another day
And without a sound I turn around and I walk away

I was the master's best friend
He was the only man I knew
It's been a tall harvest
And he turned us all on two
but my lips are sealed by history
And my tale I cannot tell
My name is Judas Iscariot
My home address is Hell

So baby don't you grieve after me
No no no, don't you grieve after me
So baby don't you grieve after me
No no no, don't you grieve after me

Baby you don't grieve for me when I'm here
Don't grieve for me when I'm gone.

It was two hours gone midnight
When he called me to his side
He said, hey Jude, I need you boy,
I need you to take a ride.
I want you to tell those guys down town
My time's almost due But wait a minute
Jude don't stick around
'Cos no body's gonna love you

Now you've got all the silver
But no forgiveness in your heart
And I've got 20 feet of rope
To end just where?
Your guessing game starts.
I've got endless books to write you
But my tale I cannot tell
The only way you're living is
If you're living in the same Hell.

Well the generations come
Hoy-polloy or chewing gum
Bad manners in style
And a very low profile
As the new wave rebel hoards
Scribble balls on notice boards
And the old wave hierarchy
Try to take 'em seriously
Because they have to
Ten years ago we were dreaming
Upstart youth and rebels all
Who have faded to the wall
Counting points of social scale
While our water brother whale
Meets extinction on the seas
On a million wounded knees
While the taxman robs the poor
Like he's always done before
Whatever system
Ten years ago we were dreaming
Dreams
There are men employing men
Employing men employing men
Employing men employing men
Who fill in forms employing men
That forms a queue of paperwork
Clear stretching out into the mirk
So that nine-tenths don't produce
Holding ransom calling truce
And looking dangerous
Ten years ago we were dreaming
No change

One of those days in England that you said could never end
As I was crashed out, livin' every chance
One of those days in England we've been saving up to spend
Buying rides on Mother Nature's funny belly dance

My love, it seems, so long away
Since when we both, together, lay
And yet it's only yesterday
Dreamin' of tomorrow,
My love, there's no today
My love, my love

One of those days in England with the country goin' broke
And Sunday's joint is cooking in my tree
One of those days in England chompin' baked beans in my coat
Tell me when it matters, love, I might just wanna get out of bed to see

The lentil in my garland, let's get down and make some fun
There's really nothin' better we can do
One of those days in England and our love has just begun
Half the fun in fallin' is you don't care where it's to

My love, it seems, so long away
Since when we both, together, lay
And yet it's only yesterday
Dreamin' of tomorrow,
My love, there's no today
My love, my love
Today, my love
Today
You make my love to you
My love, to you
My love, to you
My love, to you
Make my love to you
To you, to you, to you