1966-1967 The GLADD band with Christa Ruth Bond

Wake up

• Wake up
• look at the sun
• Touch your eyes to the beautiful one
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• Tell me
• just how you feel
• Do you feel that it's real?
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• Maybe you're feeling the sky
• Maybe you want to cry
• Maybe you're ahead of your time just a little

Within Our Mind

• Momentary weakness 
• leads to 
• solitary sleepless
• nights of fear fire
• within our mind
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• Destiny returning 
• brings us 
• shattered nerves burning
• tense and angry 
• within our mind
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• Complicated
• as we want life to be
• We react 
• to what we really want to see
• unity, harmony, eternally
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• We can see it be
• in spite of our eyes searching
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• As the love to fear turns 
• we paint many colored patterns
• within our mind
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• The fool up on the hill
• knows the many colored patterns
• the games we play 
• within our mind

1971-1974 The California House San Francisco 

Wildflower In The Stone

• Wildflower in the stone
• I know what you are reaching down for
• mother earth to meet you in the ground
• bringing water all around
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• Wildflower in the stone
• I know what you are reaching up for
• mountain air to meet you in the sky
• bringing fire all around
•  
• for what you do
• is forever
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• a stone cracks
• all broken
•  
• a red bud blooms
• in the ruins
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• a stone is nothing more
• than a place for you to grow in
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• Air demon in the war
• roll the curtains for an encore
• you're an actor in an old play
• there's a new script 
• and there's a new way
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• Air demon in the war
• you can fight now for a new shore
• crack ego with your new role
• we've gone all beyond this 
• sweet, sweet soul
•  
• for the finest
• is the honest
•  
• the highest
• is the simplest
•  
• the sweetest
• is  the wondrous
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• oh, ego you're a crashing bore
• oh, ego you're a crashing bore
• oh, ego you're a crashing bore

Spanish Wine

• We've come here together
• to sing a lover's song
• to dance, oh beloved
• to be with you ever more
• to be with you ever more
•  
• oh heart
• you've been through it
• so many times before
• oh soul
• rise through it
• rise in the light and
• spread your wings and fly free
•  
• we can love someone, yes?
• who is this someone, yes? yes?
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• oh thorn
• you're a rose
• a heart flower
• in repose
• oh thorn
• feel the beauty growing
• inside of you
•  
• bursting into flower
• filling the air with love
• oh
• such a beautiful love it is
•  
• oh space
• quickly filling
• a cup of Spanish wine
•  
• drink me up
• in your sweetness
• to be with you ever more
• to be with you ever more

A Way To Love You

• I tripped on a moonbeam
• and then I fell
• right to the bottom
• of a wishing well
• the rest of the story
• I can't remember so well
• it's strange being here
• in a wishing well
•  
• I remember a love
• that filled you and me
• brothers and sisters
• from eternity
• we've drifted apart
• just like seeds on the wind
• it's time we reach up
• it's time we begin
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• when I get low
• I can't see very clear
• the garden's a jungle
• with danger so near
• I make so much of nothing
• it's for nothing I live
• with nothing to lose
• and nothing to give
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• life without love
• is just you and me
• in circles unbroken
• waiting to be
• but each loving moment
• lives eternally
• we can share that moment
• together we can be
•  
• I carry no answers
• I bring you no news
• we talked it down forever
• and got caught in the blues
• but blue is the color
• of a sky so clear
• when pain is all around
• joy is so near
•  
• so won't you lift up your heart
• help me lifting up mine
• together we can be
• all the love we can find
• I think about tomorrow
• but I breathe today
• I'm looking to find you
• please light up the way
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• I'm gonna find a way to love you
• I'm gonna find a way to love you
• and when I find
• a way to love you
• I'm gonna give you all the loving

High As We Can Stand

• In the singing 
• there lives a feeling
• words are the breathing 
• in flavors for tasting
•  
• turning to glance
• you come through
• you fill me completely
• oh so sweetly
• it can be so fine
• this song with you
•  
• oh darlin'
• let there be no confusion
• we're already
• in the promised land
•  
• feel your head fill with heaven
• and your feet on the ground
• we can love
• just as high as we can stand
•  
• high as we can stand
• high woman high man
• rested all the time
• strong, firm, and feeling fine
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• in dancing
• the feeling is living
• stillness as the world
• turns round and round
•  
• turning to glance
• you come through
• you reach me completely
• oh so sweetly
• It can be so fine
• this dance with you
•  
• oh darlin'
• let there be no confusion
• we're already
• in the promised land
•  
• feel your head fill with heaven
• and your feet on the ground
• we can love
• just as high as we can stand
•  
• high as we can stand
• high woman high man
• rested all the time
• strong, firm, and feeling fine
•  
• in loving oh feeling
• roll me over
• pain and pleasure
• give my breath away
•  
• turning to glance
• you come through
• you touch me completely
• oh so sweetly
• it can be so fine
• this love with you
•  
• oh darlin'
• let there be no confusion
• we're already
• in the promised land
•  
• feel your head fill with heaven
• as your feet touch down
• on the ground
• we can love
• just as high as we can stand
•  
• high as we can stand
• high woman high man
• rested all the time
• strong, firm, and feeling fine

When You're Loving 

• It's something you do 
• more
• than when you say
• 'I love you'
• (but it's that, too)
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• It's something you give
• more
• when it's least
• expected of you
• (it comes through)
•  
• from the stars
• to your smallest toe
• the world turns all aglow
• when you're loving
• YES when you're loving
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• It's something you are
• more
• than whatever 
• you would wish to be you
• (in your heart)
•  
• It's something you feel
• more
• when you let 
• the song sing you
• (in your heart)
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• As the harmonies unroll
• the heart uplifts the soul
• when you're loving
• YES when you're loving
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• The world belongs to those
• with no possessions
• and time belongs to those
• who keep no clocks
• just sigh, let you troubles
• be breathed away
• and let Life find your rhythm
• in its song
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• It's something inside
• more
• it's your outside, too
• (it comes through)
•  
• It's something you breathe
• more
• it's all breathing you
• (it comes through) 
•  
• Your every atom 
• spins in dance
• as all beauty
• fills your glance
• when you're loving
• YES when you're loving

The Unseen Driver 

• I'm listening to ambition now
• before it gets the best of me.
• It's the driver of this train I'm riding
• and just as mean as it can be.
• Always just up around the next corner asking
• "How much closer do you want to be?"
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• I got some money in my pocket, but then,
• ambition tells me to get some more bread.
• I've got a friend and we get together, but then
• ambition tells me to keep moving ahead.
• And when I get the chance to give love away
• it's saying keep yourself inside and keep me fed.
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• I've listened to ambition calling.
• I'm going to find out who's calling to me.
• Through the coaches and round to the engine cab
• there's no one here, just a mirror to see.
• I see my reflection in the mirror, asking 
• "How much closer do you want to be?"

Castle Walls 

• She's a lonely woman
• her face reflects the wounds of vacant lovers.
• As she lies
• now tired on her broken castle floor
• she's beaten all the rows
• of broken prides that tried to show her
• how to stabilize her realm
• to reason is to sin
• you can't start what doesn't begin
• without loving
• to satisfy the mind
• leaving emptiness behind
• for the weary.
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• Inside of the castle
• the lady swept the bread crumbs from the table.
• In her mind
• The castle walls had now become her prison
• and the warden's in her mind.
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• The good time bubble
• welcomes new faces aboard
• taking them spinning and sailing away
• loving to laugh love all day
• with nothing important to say
• worry ways all gone away
• from a timeless mindless array
• of colored lights plastic display.
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• The machines of fortune
• are humming to the tune of confusion.
• The two halves
• are parted by a sense of lost illusion
• They can't reach each other now
• even their minds will not allow them
• to see each other straight
• deceptive games to hate
• in emptiness
• He'll walk out past the door
• leaving the life they loved
• before the words came.

Love's Projections 

• Living in love's projections
• leaving forgotten impressions
• with some care and some understanding
• we will love the demon projections
• and be free.
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• Living free isn't easy
• Do you know what I mean?
• Feelings are going wild
• in breath taking intensity.
• With heart fire, wolves are tamed
• and then the leopards are next set free
• and so it goes
• on and on
• some call it mastery.
• And what it's all for
• is what you will
• carefully.
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• Oh, you already know
• how the love flows on and on
• Rising and falling tide
• Wash my footprints from the shoreline.

2002-2003 Petaluma 

Vision of Peace

• Suddenly
• in the midst of fierce battle
• sworn enemies lay down their arms
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• Recognizing each other
• brothers and sisters embrace
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• The others
• long lost friends and lovers
• rejoice
•  
• Great vats of metal boil
• as weapons are melted down
• and tools are cast
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• Music
• unheard for centuries
• fills the streets
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• Dancers emerge 
• from all corners
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• The whole world erupts
• in sweet song