Opal:
Release date: Oct., 1988
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Opal (Barrett)
Clowns and jugglers
(Barrett)
Rats (Barrett)
Golden hair (Barrett)
Dolly rocker (Barrett)
Word song (Barrett)
Wined and dined (Barrett)
Swan lee (Barrett)
Birdie hop (Barrett)
Let's split (Barrett)
Wouldn't you miss
me (dark globe) (Barrett)
Milky way (Barrett)
LYRICS:
On a distant shore, miles from land
stands the ebony totem in ebony
sand
a dream in a mist of gray...
on a far distant shore...
The pebble that stood alone
and driftwood lies half buried
warm shallow waters sweep shells
so the cockles shine...
A bare winding carcass, stark
shimmers as flies scoop up meat,
an empty way...
dry tears...
crisp flax squeaks tall reeds
make a circle of gray in a summer
way, around man
stood on ground...
I'm trying
I'm trying to find you!
To find you
I'm living, I'm giving,
To find you, To find you,
I'm living, I'm living,
I'm trying, I'm giving
Trip to heave and ho, up down, to
and fro'
you have no word
trip, trip to a dream dragon
hide your wings in a ghost tower
sails cackling at every plate we
break
was cracked by scattered needles
the little minute gong
coughs and clears his throat
madam you see before you stand
hey ho, never be still
the old original favorite grand
grasshoppers green Herbarian band
and the tune they play is "In Us
Confide"
so trip to heave and ho, up down,
to and fro'
you have no word
Please leave us here
close our eyes to the octopus ride!
Isn't it good to be lost in the
wood
isn't it bad so quiet there, in
the wood
meant even less to me than I thought
with a honey plough of yellow prickly
seeds
clover honey pots and mystic shining
feed...
the madcap laughed at the man on
the border
hey ho, huff the Talbot
the winds they blew and the leaves
did wag
they'll never put me in their bag
the raging seas will always seep
so high you go, so low you creep
the wind it blows in tropical heat
the drones they throng on mossy
seats
the squeaking door will always
squeak
two up, two down we'll never meet
Please leave us here
close our eyes to the octopus ride!
Sit up, touching hips
to a madcap galloping chase
"Cheat" he cried shouting kangaroo
it's true in their tree they cried
Please leave us here
close our eyes to the octopus ride!
The madcap laughed at the man on
the border
hey ho, huff the Talbot
Got it hit down
spot knock inside a spider
says: "That's love yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!"
"That's love yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah!"
says: "That's love - All know it
TV, teeth, feet, peace, feel it...
"That's love yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah!"
"That's love yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah!"
like the fall that brings me to
I like the fall that brings me
to
I like the cord around sinew
I make a cord around sinew
Duck, the way to least is less
Tea craving of the metal west
'ell tomorrow's rain and test
'ell tomorrow's rain and test
Love an empty son and guess
Love an empty son and guess
pimples dangerous and blessed
Heaving, arriving, tinkling
mingling jets and statuettes
seething wet we meeting fleck
seething wet we meeting fleck
lines and winds and crib and half
each fair day I give you half
of each fair day I give you half
I look into your eyes and you,
flathe in the sun for you...
Bam, spastic, tactile engine
heaving, crackle, slinky, dormy,
roofy, wham
I'll have them, fried bloke
broken jardy, cardy, smoocho, moocho,
paki, pufftle
sploshette moxy, very smelly,
cable, gable, splintra, channel
top the seam he's taken off
rats, rats lay down flat
we don't need you, we act like
that
and if you think you're un-loved
then we know about that...
rats, rats, lay down flat!
yes, yes, yes, yes, lay down flat!
(These lyrics are originally from "Chamber Music" by James Joyce (1907)
Lean out your window, golden hair
I heard you singing in the midnight
air
my book is closed, I read no more
watching the fire dance, on the
floor
I've left my book, I've left my
room
For I heard you singing through
the gloom
singing and singing, a merry air
lean out the window, golden hair...
(Dolly Rocker... It's called Dolly
Rocker... It's an old make of dress...
Well, months old, you know.. that
sort of thing)
I know a sweet girl
she done went out and paid for
me
was a sweet girl
after five we went for tea
She seen a Dolly Rocker
She want a girl, she got her
I wanna see her, I know I do
I love you darling, all for you.
You want to meet Pearl?
she's as cute as a squirrel's nut.
She done seen me
said she thought she got the lot.
She's a Dolly Rocker
want to wait 'till I got her
said she knew I know we know I
do
said she gotta see me lonely with
you.
Oceans may travel, away too long
senses in the gravel, to see yourself
at home
nice to be at home
all I'll ever do forever
all my life, you see, when you
got her
all I know, you know, I show you,
baby
through your head push to you,
baby
is a Dolly Rocker.
She know what she got her
She seen a Dolly Rocker
She seen a Dolly Rocker
(We're running)
Stained, glaucous, glycerin, gold,
goat, clover
gold, local stocks, type, food,
wild, national, lake, flag,
valve, gyroscope, sect
heat, helium, lead, bare, state,
invention, medieval
refraction, faction, ultra action,
hunter, interest, bullet, market...
Loads, liquids, neon, heater, jaws,
jungle
mains, signal, knives, kitchen
ingot, lovely, mirror, mold
Mycenaean, moat, poppy, rubber,
radar, rags, sugar, teak
silver, poke, tin, beet root,
carrot, ebony, fruit, copper, silk...
Carpet, distant, pigmy, hid, pack,
timber, pudding, straw
raindrops, spattering, ramps
chameleon, prairie, pods, trigger
museum, scales, square, ultra,
out of map, vent
volcano, vain, wreck, tactic
tidal, arches, valley, hand
inflect, impression, loom, last,
molten
you gamma, meeting
lighting, signal, island, coral
cold
Wined and dined, oh it seemed just
like a dream!
Girl was so kind.
kind of love I'd never seen
only last summer, it's not so long
ago...
just last summer, now musk winds
blow...
Wined and dined, oh it seemed just
like a dream!
Girl was so kind.
kind of love I'd never seen
only last summer, it's not so long
ago...
just last summer, now musk winds
blow...
Chalk underfoot, life I should prove
dancing in heat, our love and you...
Wined and dined, oh it seemed just
like a dream!
Girl was so kind.
kind of love I'd never seen
only last summer, it's not so long
ago...
just last summer, now musk winds
blow...
Swan Lee (Silas Lang) (Barrett)
Swan Lee got up at the Running Foot
pow-wow,
heading from the fire to his waiting
canoe.
Chattering Squaw untied the wigwam
door,
the chief blew smoke rings two
by two!
The land in silence stands...
Swan Lee, his boat by the bank in
the darkness,
loosened the rope in the creek
is entwined.
A feather from the wing of a wild
young eagle,
pointed to the land where his fortune
he'd find
The land in silence stands
Swan Lee paddled on from the land
of his fathers,
his eyes scanned the undergrowth
on either side.
From the shore hung a hot, heavy,
creature infested
tropic, Swan Lee had a bow by his
side
The land in silence stands
Swan Lee kept time, half on land,
half on water,
Grizzly bear and raccoon his fare.
He followed his ears to the great
water fall,
Swan Lee knew deep down that his
squaw was there!
The land in silence stands....
Suddenly the rush of the mighty
great thunder,
confronted Swan Lee as his song
he sang,
In the dawn, with his squaw, he
was battling homewards
It was all written down by Long
Silas Lang.
The land in silence stands...
The land in silence stands...
The land in silence stands.
Birdie Hop - he do, he hop along
a lonely bird upon a window there
he, he, there he blow
a windy snow, he knew the snow,
I know the snow, a hoppy bird
The antelope ride around the parasol
just to see if he's a man
enough to meet you in the sandpit
on a flying kind of sign in a meddlesome
way
you know the way - I see the flies
she's a little kite the sort
you think you might like to fly
and like a kite you get to see
her
every night, you know the way
she's only paving her way -
hectochrome plane - I see the flies.
Birdie Hop - he do, he hop along
a lonely bird upon a window there
he, he, there he blow
a windy snow, he knew the snow,
I know the snow, a hoppy bird
A camel woke up to a polish dawn
wouldn't look to see his feet had
gone
he wouldn't like it
wouldn't have the strength to fight
it,
I see the flies
I'm the only bird, a little third,
I lost a quarter
had a yearning to be earning just
a dollar a day
in a way you shouldn't like it,
hectochrome plane
I see the flies.
Everything about,
about to go out,
me out, you out,
yes and everything is out
about, out...
out, out, out, out, out, out,
Let's split!
I'm telling you this is it!
Everything is down,
and hound, hound, hound
back down, down, down
even everything is down
abound and down,
down, down, down, down, down, down
Let's split!
Tellin' you this is it!
Nobody
is right tonight,
night, height, right, tight,
it isn't right
Me out, you out
And everything is out
out, out, out, out, out, out
Let's split!
Hold it, can you?
That's all - just.
Wouldn't You Miss Me (Dark Globe) (Barrett)
Oh where are you now
pussy willow that smiled on this
leaf?
When I was alone you promised the
stone from your heart
my head kissed the ground
I was half the way down, treading
the sand
please, please, lift a hand
I'm only a person whose armbands
beat
on his hands, hang tall
won't you miss me?
Wouldn't you miss me at all?
The poppy birds way
swing twigs coffee brands around
brandish her wand with a feathery
tongue
my head kissed the ground
I was half the way down, treading
the sand
please, please, please lift the
hand
I'm only a person with Eskimo chain
I tattooed my brain all the way...
Won't you miss me?
Wouldn't you miss me at all?
What'd you ever say today when you're in the milky way
oh tell me please
if I met you - I told you what
to do
seems a while
since I could smile the way you
do...
how many times, if I try, if I may,
when you're in the milky way
half of your time -beside me only
atmosphere
since I could smile the way you
do...
What can anyone mean to you
standing in the milky way
take life easy
Why so empty...?
I told you - I can tell you
what to do - when I hold you
and I tell you "I love you"
I feel that I'm way you do...
Give a grasp of life today
when you're in the milky way
oh, try to please! Knock on wood
of the trees
glad you, mold you, mold you and
hold you
means five miles
and every way for you...
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