all lyrics ©Jack Shields

FOOD CHAIN

Living at the top of the food chain/ Bragging about the size of our own brain
See the earth, photographed from space / Family tree, tribe, human race
We waste the wealth, we recklessly consume /Mammal man, born of mother’s womb
Born of the Earth, mortal as we / We destroy the rare diversity
To accumulate money power / Greed the creed it will soon devour
Need to slow the pace, for sake of survival / Face the arrival of an age
Moving fast, fast, fast & faster / Aggressive science, science for profit
A dance with disaster /

Our own and only rival for survival/ Heavy footin' it on the eggshell edge /Death of all dreams and dramas / Fitness to survive, just staying alive
Live in an era of hair trigger terror / Where human error
Some fluke, some nuke / Gene turns mean / Bug outsmarts the drug
Fool mistake is all it would take / All the kings horses all the kings men
Never get it back together again
We don't know what nature knows, we don't know
We don't know what we don't know, we don't know
We don’t know what we can’t see, what’s hidden in mystery

We this seasons seed / Must serve the need / Of every child’s trust
Preserve the diversity diversity / One root, one tree, one family
One earth, one tribe, humanity / Diversity, for our tribe to survive
As far to the future as we see to the past/ To last as long as say the dinosaur, dinosaur
Can't afford to ignore / Genetically altered food at the store / Ever-deadlier weapons of war / And what’s going down / What’s going down behind / Dr. Frankenstein’s door

Gotta be cool preserve the gene pool / No jacking the genes, no improving the product / Human beings born, ancient mammalian genius / Mans sperm woman’s womb / No designer babies / Custom DNA / Human genes in a petri dish
Shooting star make a wish / Some fluke, some nuke / Gene turns mean
Fool mistake is all it would take / All the kings horses all the kings men
Never get it back together again

We don't know what nature knows, we don't know We don't know what we don't know, we don’t know
We don’t know what we can't see, what's hidden in mystery
Living at the top of the food chain / Bragging about the size of our own brain
See the earth photographed from space / Family tree, tribe, human race
One root, one tree, one family / One earth, one tribe, humanity

OLD RIVER OF MYSTERY

no fear in the valley of the shadows / of the towers and the powers of Babylon
keep on moving on, leave behind the babbling throng, lift our voice in song /
we will flower we will flower in the shadows of the towers and powers of Babylon
will keep on keeping on, right were we belong, lift our voice in song

we flower and grow / watered by an ancient flow...
Old river of mystery....Flowing to an ancient sea..
On a journey that sets us free / Old river of mystery

For root and fruit and soil to grow / For sake of seed and food we grow
For sake of the earth her seven seas / For sake of the mountains
And deep breathing trees / For secrets sealed in living soul
For an open heart let them flow / It’s one living planet, where we gonna go
Just think about the children /Don’t you want to see them grow & grow

Chorus We flower and grow...

We serve the mystery we / We serve diversity / For sake of wilderness yes
Every heart is blessed / Sacred wilderness yes / Milk of mothers breast
We serve the mystery we / We serve diversity

I can’t really tell you / What is right and what is wrong / How can I tell you
In the words to a song / How to live in the belly of Babylon / Where the heart of the beast be beating strong / We will flower we will flower in the shadows of the towers and powers of Babylon / Will keep on keeping on, right were we belong, lift our voice in song

We will flower and grow / Watered by an ancient flow / Old River of mystery
Flowing to an ancient sea / On a journey that sets us free / Old river of mystery

DAILY FICTION

frail our daily fiction/ sleepwalking, talking, between the ears/ all held inside by fears/ till suddenly the bygone years/ rear up wild and it appears theres no way out/ mind movies continually direct/ got to get it on the screen/ rewriting old memories, rearranging every scene/ membranes of memory, tissue of time/ fistfuls of future, jumpstart you mind/ got to connect your in to your out/ that’s what its all about

lay down your mass media mask/ lay down your working world, daily task
turn off the media spin/ tune in to the voice within/ it’s your chance for the taking/ it’s your movie for the making/ it’s your chance for the taking/ time for making your move

LAST CARAVAN

all aboard the last caravan / on the lost highway/ to the promised land / cross every line ever drawn in the sand / on the lost highway to the promised land/ on the front line between I and I / fine drawn line, all in the mind / every line in the sand / you see & understand / every border divides everyman/ We are not strangers,all born of this land, all aboard the last caravan

open road, new day highway, and it’s a good day,/ Roads open wide all my relatives on every side/ And it’s a good day out under the sun/ The children they play, hey the children they run/ And it’s a good day, a new day highway/ all aboard the last caravan / on the lost highway to the promised land / cross every line ever drawn in the sand / on the lost highway to the promised land



TELEVISION

Don't believe in original sin / Please part the waters I'm wading in / One door opens another one closes / And waters start to part in the heart of Moses / Promises, promises, politician / Lunatic logic of men on a mission / Postures, poses, the bullshit & roses / Men come rushing with fire hoses /

Television in your living room / Tell your vision, do it soon / Tell a vision in your living room / Step outside and shout / Television in your living room / You're the one to get it out / Tell a vision gotta do it soon / Tell a vision, it’s your living room

Primal scream, tv screen / Bile you swill more obscene / Than any pornagraphic petroglyphs / Scrawled on the wall, on the wall / Of the stall at the justice hall
Call all the fossil apostles known for no vision / Run the spin machine on the television / Stickin' pins in voodoo dolls / Readin' out loud from their crystal balls

Chorus Television ..

I love Lucy, think sex is juicy, like drama & comedy / Know ya deny it, but I don't buy it, you're really a lot like me / CNN or ABC D everywhere you look see violence on tv / I think its clear something gone wrong here, but please don't blame it on me / / Talking heads, opinion makers / Pundits, posers, movers and shakers / A swarm of flies, a pack of lies / No surprise, ya get big snake eyes / Hoo doo vodoo bite ya off enough to chew, it all comes down to you / Hoo doo vodoo bite ya off enough to chew /

Chorus...Television

PRIMITIVE ANGELS

Nightfall fire & a pine needle bed / Angels with antlers hover overhead
Primitive angels bringing manna bread / Nightfall fire, pine neddle bed
High up in the mountain / Touch the womb domed sky / Wings of passion we fly so high / Height of heart, no fear of fall / No fear at all

And love has led and shown the way / And now we're here and we're gonna stay in this place of grace where angels never fear to tread / In this place of grace where angels never fear to tread

Primitive angels hover overhead / Angels out of heaven bringing manna bread
When two souls merge one angel make / Alchemy, mystery, loves give and take
Milky moon, anointed night / Pleasure, power, deep dark delight / Stay right here with the moon hung low / Stay right here and let it flow

Where love has led and shown the way / And now we're here and we're gonna stay
In this place of grace where angels never fear to fall / In this place of grace where angels never fear to fall / In this place of grace where angels never fear at all

KISS THE ABYSS

Soul flight in the heat of the night , heart of darkness to keep out the light
Wild fire burning out of control in the deep damp dark of you soul
Desire a burning fire you set me free Love it’s the frenzy of love you got a hold on me ecstasy

Kiss the abyss, embrace the bliss, and now I find
You’re the only one who satisfies both my body and my mind
Ride your lovin where wild currents flow, sudden ceremonies, seizures of the soul
Consume me, consume me whole

Walk with me darlin thru the dark of the night
You take my hand everythings all right
Ride the pale pony, deep dark heat of the moon,
Bring your love, make it bloom
Primal urge inside of you, the way it is when love comes true
Crackling fire animal desire, this dance that we two do

HAPPINESS ALL

Have happiness all, let the stone birds fall / Weight of the world fly away
Where hearts are weighed against the love we made
Unafraid we face the world, weight of the world fly away
Fly away, weight of the world fly away, fly away

(spoken)

out of the long house home pitchfork loam, flowering pistil & stamen
pollen of sun, shadow & shade unafraid the children singing / Of an archaic ordeal, revealed in the unseeded soul / Tarantula and rain in the candlelight & chronic pain
Crumbled in a corner, black & white & grey & run for the water.
Waves. Run for the ruin & rave, some understand completely (wild)
Connected to tides like doves in the sky, galloping stars, leaping light & alive
The pain is only the pain of fleeting joy / Flirting with quirky chaos is more interesting than / Laying low & acting dumb, all stars beat the drum, compete for control,
While I dream you, multi-dimensional, old friend
Revealing the mystical concrete body of chronic pain in high-rise animal laughter
Sitting on granite leaning on oak loving everyday pain won’t go away
Still laughing at the cosmic joke, waking the God that sleeps in the wracked body
In soothing dark light sight unseen between the labrynith and the ladder
Wait for the animal that chooses you / Love the body you’re living in

Have happiness all, let the stone birds fall / Weight of the world fly away
Where hearts are weighed against the love we made
Unafraid we face the world, weight of the world fly away
Fly away, weight of the world fly away, fly away--

(spoken)
mammal machinery, muscle and meat, keeping the beat, fanning the heat in the blood
feet of clay make mask of mud, make feast of famine, make fast of sackcloth and ash
the actual flimsy flesh, time makes fine wine, makes grapes for the grail
yellow eyed owl, screeching tires, crawling in sewers grateful for reality in cavernous dark the light, dreamtime, painted caves, bedtime stories,
bare arms raised in praise, naked feet dancing, mimes, music, magic
mind-movies, little cinemas, language to bring the inner world out
to connect us in knots of knowing, beast of burden, bag of bones
face streaked with tears, tingling flesh & shivering spine the body has a mind of it’s own


ONE LOVE

Oh my lover, oh my friend love won’t break it’s got to bend
Love will bend it won’t break, I’ll take love for loves sake
Love will mend, mend and heal, you’ll know it’s love by the way you feel
Love won’t break, it’s got to bend

One love, two hearts, one love, two hearts

I can still remember love that we confessed,
Over and over again the answers always yes
You know it’s love when first you meet, work your love, make it sweet
Sometimes it’s cool, sometimes it’s hot, I got love, love’s all I got

One love, two hearts, one love, two hearts

Oh my lover, oh my friend love won’t break it’s got to bend
Love will mend, mend and heal, you know it’s love by the way you feel
You know it’s love when first you meet, work your love, make it sweet
Sometimes it’s cool, sometimes it’s hot, I got love, love’s all I got

BOMB BUSINESS

You build the gun, you build the bomb,
You build the gun for every one
Every war, knock at your door
Every war you keep the store
Big and small, big and small, you supply them all
Banquet hall thousand bucks a seat
Your not hungry yet you eat
Do your business wherever you can, businessman, businessman

Pentagon Pandora, giant corporational horror
Your plan man is a dinosaur, raging greed
Greed and war, too wide a load another dead end road
You sell the weapons of war, too wide a load
Another dead end road, you sell the weapons of war

Victory, seeds of defeat, too much pride, some crow to eat
Every life some rain will fall, it falls on you it’s cool to call
Any time at all
Day by day, can’t understand, role you play, day by day
You caravan land to land, you caravan
You speak in tongues can’t understand, businessman

You build the gun you build the bomb
You build the gun for everyone
Every war, knock at your door, every war you keep the store
How many lives slip through your hands, businessman
Every side every land, you make a profit wherever you can
Every side, in every land, businessman

(spoken)
See the tears of the mothers flow, see the faces of war
How many more children must die, so just a few can live high
Nations of the earth swagger like bullies, ploughshares into swords
The hungry suffer cruelly, how many more must die so just a few can live high

TWILIGHT ZONE

Please help me I've got to get home / I'm coming back from the twilight zone
Being followed by a clone / Please help me I've got to get home

Thunder in my throat, lightning in my veins / Body contorted in agony and pain
Blown thrown into the unknown / I'm coming back from the twilight zone

Chorus

Outer limits of the human mind / Dark recesses where its hard to find
Got some knowledge that I've never known / Coming from the twilight zone

Chorus—

Maniac attack it knocked me on my back /Climbed to my feet and I head for the door
Stood in my way, he said, Stay for some more
A light was shining in his face, from the deepest regions of inner space
His face it shone most eerily and then he spoke, he says to me
Nothing is hidden its plan to see, the lock itself contains the key
The cosmic omelet, how was it made? And what came first the hen or the egg?
Tell me what difference its ever made. Just to be and be unafraid

Please help me I've got to get home / I'm coming back from the twilight zone
Being followed by a clone / Please help me I've got to get home

Lost in a dreamscape of mangled masks, trying to escape my daily task
Lost in the land where the laughing lady laughs hysterical with canned laughter
Deju vu I’ve been here before, but I look all around and can’t find the door
Look for an exit, can’t find the sign, look for exit, melts in the mind
Einstein, space time, it’s all relative, can’t be defined,
Put out the dog, cat wags the bone, just stepped into the Twilight Zone.

SECOND SIGHT

She wishes for wild horses, rides the drums / Sings in mystery languages, speaks in tongues / Her horses hooves make thunder / Siren song awe and wonder
Soulflight, moonlight, seeks the second sight / Soulflight moonlight, see with second sight / Drunk on drums and wild dreams / Trance traveler rides a tamborine

She knows the words of crossing birds / The patterns in their flight
Knows the stories of the stars / Shining in the night
She rides the spirit pony / Shooting star through the night

(spoken)

Her drum hung with tinkling bell voiced gods / Beaded feathers and braided horse hair
Trance traveler, soul scout /Spirit pony, prancing dancing / Whirls, spins, begins to hum, to sing / In twilight languages, in mystery tongues / For a few moments I understand the words / Of birds and animals, catch thoughts as they fly by
Now devote I to healing
Make any ally of my pain
Welcome my wound
Center in the pain
Enter the wound
Within the wound
The world whirls or comes to a stop
I might be able to heal you / Doing so might heal me
Wounded healer sets me free
She lends me her eyes / She rides her drums keeping time, keeping time
Sings oh my kindred, oh my kindred are you kind


Contact at jbshields@goldrush.com