words and music by Dan Smolla c2005
1) Sky of My Mind
Maybe that’s why she become the sky of my mind
she takes chances you can tell it by looking at her
She thinks romance is the only worthwhile thing in the world
She told me that anger was more than just alright
outrage at injustice was the truest truth in sight
But first I needed to become aware at what made up my mind
That all my thoughts made up the stairs
I used to climb through time
And the sky was fog and fantasy
And the sky was still the sky
And I needed to forsake time
To let the present shine
Cause love was worth the fight
2) Joe Strummer
Love is not an idea
Love is an energy and we get it right here
Every time we try to be
At the dawn of a new release
Of humble pawns for a new peace
Every time we try to be
Free and free others
3) One Love
It’s as if you thought you could do no wrong
But look at all of it
Your time has come and gone
…and declare your war is Christian
but love and logic you seem to be missing
Jesus said love your brother
But your strategy is
Quite another
You invade for personal crusade
(corporate crusade)
leave thousands in their graves
when there are so many other ways
to get rid of
all the Saddam Hussein’s
you knew it—you blew it
His message is plain and easy
Love never is
Of logic and easy
But it’s the only way
(only One God)
To peace and free we
(only one Love)
Sermon on the Mount
Your time has come and gone
We don’t need no more doctrine
We don’t need no more spin
It’s time for peace
Peace unconditional to begin
One love our world
Peace
Calls to us in song
4) White Magic
Music is white magic
It’s shy when you’re shallow
Absent when you’re wrong
Don’t know you when you leave the battle
But Lord it loves you
When you’re song
Oh got you when you’re song
And it wins you
When you’re song
Tonight Love breathes against the silence
Just before you sleep
Windows never opened before
Now they open with a creek
Windows never opened before
Now they open as you sleep
and wake
and as the windows open
I rise wide awake
Creek, tune, shake of the moon
Carries me to the place
I dive into the water
Into the future present and past
What I thought was so important
Is not the thing the lasts
…but there is chance after chance after chance after chance
and you can be suspicious
of whatever is different from you
or you can just
live your own wishes
and you won’t be
so pissed off
when others live theirs:
every man your brother
every man your son
and what I do to you
I do to myself too
5) Her Horse Wandered
Her horse wandered into my yard
And I fell from my chair as I watched her
Retrieve him
And everything in the world
In the whole wide world
turned into a cup of blue
So I asked the sun what I should do
I said sun
What should I do?
Oh but the sun only passed behind the moon
And I fell and I fell and I fell
From my chair
And I fell and I fell and I fell
And I fell….
And I fell from my chair as she retrieved him
Cause she retrieved me
Maybe that’s why she become the sky of my mind
She takes chances you can tell it by looking at her
She thinks romance is
The only worthwhile thing in the world
Maybe that’s why she became the sky of my mind
Her horse wandered (she became the sky)
Into my yard
Her horse wandered (she become the sky
Into my yard
She became the sky of my mind
6) Vishnu
I got my Brahman
I got my Shiva
I got my Vishnu
I got my freedom
Don’t take it so personally
But I’d like to crash your
Two heads
Together
Don’t take it so personally
Cause you know
the world don’t want
We to know
The world don’t want
We to know
We got soul
But we got soul
And I think I see us
I think I see us
Together
Don’t take it so personally
7) See You
No I’m not an angry man
but I sure could use a fight
Cause it seems no matter how I try
I’m seeing alright but through the wrong eyes
And it almost makes me wanna try
All the more all the more
To see you to see you to see you
Out of the corner of my eye
No I’m not a frightened man
just a little scared for my life
Cause it seems no matter how I try
I’m seeing alright but through the wrong eyes
And it almost makes me wanna try
All the more all the more
To see you to see you to see you
Out of the corner of my eye
No I’m not a doubting man
but I sure could use a light
Cause it seems no matter how I try
I’m seeing alright
but through the wrong eyes
And it almost makes me wanna try
All the more all the more
To see you to see you to see you
Out of the corner of my eye
8) Mary Lou
Now there’s no denying the kind of crying you must have seen
To write a song so sighing yet still so seeped in the science of green
Mary Lou Mary Lou the devil drums up misfits and he double-dipped you
Mary Lou hell made an angel out of you
Oh hell made an angel my heart’s in tangles
I thought I was strong but I'm just strangled
By the angle of your jingle you got a voice so clear
It blows the shingles right off of my roof
Mary Lou hell made an angel out of you
Sing yeah you sing in the cave of you winter subway
for some coins in your guitar case
And for the looks on the faces of the hurt and the rich
Who would gladly trade places with you
Mary Lou the devil drums up misfits he double-dipped you
Mary Lou hell made an angel out of you
Oh hell made an angel my heart’s in tangles
I thought I was strong but I’m just strangled
By the angle of your jingle you got a voice so clear
It blows the shingles right off of my roof
Mary Lou hell made an angel out of you
And I don’t care if I win I don’t care if I lose
And every sin I sin will be a psalm for you
Mary Lou Mary Lou Mary Lou
Hell made an angel out of you
9) Black Magic
What happened to the Bill of Rights?
Time to get back
To the basic freedoms
For all
You know Martin Luther King
And all the dreams he sang
Was a target of the FBI
For forcing freedom to ring
Forty years later
Still got millions who can’t eat
Millions without decent schools
No chance to compete
In the richest land since Cesar’s hand
Shaped the world beat
We got millions without a decent chance to live with dignity
Come election time
The GOP binds
Millions of urban voters
With voter registration challenges
And computer black magic
the newsmen on tv
Talk about it with glee
They call it a legitimate election strategy
10) Down by the Road
Down by the road of my silent friend
just past the river where the city limits end
I empty my pockets of the letters I could not send
Down by the road of my silent friend
Down by the road of my silent friend just past the time
when the naked sun sets
I take my shoes off and the rain is sweet on my skin
Down by the road of my silent friend
We’re in the beginning we’re in the end
We’re in the cracks and turns
We’re in the blacks and blurs of a line
Of a line a line
A line that you can see
A line of you and me
A line of creeks and trees
A line of you and me
A line that you can see
with your heart
A line of you and me
Yeah and the seeds of freedom
And down by the road of my silent friend
I climb up the moonlight
Silver moonlight
And watch the moonlight bend
And I peer over
I peer over the edge
And I’m given a body
and all thoughts are cleared
from my head
By the road of my silent friend
Down by the road of my silent friend
11) The Flow
I don’t know why but she’s become the sky of my mind
When she moves she knows
I met her in the flow
Sorry to spoil your self-important shake up
Wake up
This song is not about a person
Without that wisdom shining down
I’m just a monkey on a merry go round
Wisdom of the earth
I gotta get me a pocketful
A pocketful of sun
The only time see ya
Is when I help ya dream the
Sky of my mind
Before I was sleeping now I feel alive
Now I find the sky of my mind
Is kind if I let it go by
Can you let it go by?
Cup of blue
Do you know what to do?
Cup of blue
Let it go right through you
Let it go right
Go right
Prayed so hard to the soul of the moon
That the moon dripped down to my cup of blue
So I drank my fill opened my eyes
I dreamed wide awake that dreamers
Often lie
In bed asleep
While they do
Dream things true
My dream is nothing
Without you
And the world goes dark
And the world goes light
And the mind go dark
And the mind go light
Sky go dark
Sky go light
And the world go dark
And the world go light
Yes also in my dream
You’re beautiful
I sail in a cup of blue
I sail to you
And the world go dark
And the world go light
…and when I go to Her
I go to Her sincerely….