Libramoon

"The Druid's Opera"

A joyous encounter with life

A joyous encounter called my life

I've swung from trees in tropical times

And swum the seas of paradise

And learned to breathe upon the earth

You've got to see me; you've got to listen

To these wonders that I've learned

Traveling, traveling a hard-stoned road

Working my legs, my mind, carrying my load

Journeying for countless years

Seeking out the sea of tears

Eyes blinded by a black lace veil

I break my trail

(As in my mind my thoughts unwind my tale)

A marvelous secret, a hidden treasure trove

While unicorns play harpsichord

Within a blossomed grove

A newborn child with something wild that

plays in rainbowed eyes

Has been declared of druid laird

born to hypnotize

Been borne to hypnotize

Sing lullabies

Reward all the heathen with sleep

And dreaming dreams as such who waken

Find their very core earthshaken

And made to believe in possibilities

They set their sites, reshaping all reality

And of them they've begotten me.

Sound the magic pipes of Pan

All who hear may understand

The fluid waif who walks the land

Spawn of Diana's fling

With the clove-foot forest king

Vibrate to music, music, music

In every cell of living fluid

'Tis alright to be a druid

Of forest borne to roam through future lands

Touch me, touch me, touch me, touch me

Become my hands.

Floating, wandering, restless dreams

Call me to respond.

I rode a mountain faire

Picked daisies for my hair

Learned to know the name of every weed

I dwelt the night alone

In a crevice made of stone

And never thought of what I next would need

I dreamt of castles bold

And the language of the Olde

And struggled to bring my dreams alive

And whistled as I rode

The songs I'd oft been told

At parties seen

In waking dream

Another place and time

Another tune, another rhyme

And I'd sit beside my campfire

And gaze into the flames

And yearn of learning other places,

Atune to other names

Traveling over other lands,

Seeking secrets, other plans

Or just remembering another song

For the secret of each soul is in its song.

Blazing all around

Miles from bare ground

Twisting twig upon an aery sea.

Luminescent way

Whatcha gonna say

Songbird, whistle your wisdom to me.

A maid of golden wings

In lullabying sings

Of white sails racing in the wind.

No two are e're the same

Of the tales she can name

Oh, nightingale -- take me in!

Blazing all around

Miles from bare ground

Journeying upon a vessel rare

Silently I sing

To hold remembering

Magic castles in the air.

Getch yer gimme

Pull that file! Collapse that case!

You are obsolete -- unexistent

And ain't no one gonna hire you in this industry.

Whatcha holding on to?

Whatcha going on to?

Whatcha gonna live for?

Got a score to settle while the dying's cheap

Gonna find a rooftop and fire.

Gonna tap a neural gap and get higher.

Gonna hold a seance and retire.

Become a log a'rotting in the wood

Enter eternity a nonfunctioning robot

Captured in celluloid, electronic impulses

Air tremors and interruptions in space.

We make no difference to a meteor --

Any blind force that destroys without design --

We make no difference to our own kind.

Blind orgiastic miasma

Pressing, moaning, sucking in life.

Entropy.

Elegy.

Ontogeny.

Images of innocence float by in my mind

I'm looking for a pot of gold

I never hope to find

And wonder in the dark of night

What if I should go blind.

Today is made of yesterdays,

Tonight of yestereves.

The spoken words I say to you

I hope you won't believe.

We've but so little time my friend,

Too little time to grieve.

And I wonder in my heart of hearts

Just where all will lead.

Will I once more take an oath of pain

And watch my body bleed

Or will I learn that living's

When you take all that you need?

Busy work, busy talk, trying to make time

Talk of energy, talk of war,

Talk of who you're out to score

Learn to love and disremember

Trying to make time; dying to make time.

Try to run and they've got you busted.

Try to hide, try to hide, try to hide.

Everyone's there to be mistrusted.

Try to hide, try to hide, try to hide.

What's left of you inside?

You are of me.

You are one of me.

You see what I see.

You do what I see.

You do what I command.

I've got you in my hand.

I've got you underhand.

Touch me. Touch me. Touch me. Touch me.

You are far away.

You are very far away.

You don't do what I say.

You don't hear what I say.

I'm screaming "go away"

Go away. Go away. Go away. Go away.

I'm sitting in my room.

I've got you in my room.

I see you in my womb.

You got away too soon.

You haven't got a chance.

No, not a bloody chance.

I circle in my dance.

I've got you in my dance.

In a trance, in a trance, in a trance, in a trance

Come on -- DANCE!

Touch me. Touch me. Touch me. Touch me.

DANCE!

Quietly, quickly, without a trace

Annihilate an entire race

Stealthily, silently my poison kills

To cleanse this land of a people's ills.

The key's been cast, so lock the door

On lies and poverty; greed and war.

Purify in red hot fire

Deify the symbol of desire

And when all desire's turned to dust

Etch in fire: "IN GOD WE TRUST."

A sacred trust.

Sound the bell

Sound the bell

Sound the bell slowly

O'er all we've made holy.

Ring bright pure-toned peals

O'er gold flaming fields

In music now seal'd

The end of our fate.

Sound the bell.

Sound the bell.

And now I sail from the sea of Lethe

A phoenix, risen from my death

To journey on through time and space

Progenitor to the human race.