"MIRACLES"

JEFFERSON STARSHIP 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nzzjwZGt6I

 If only you believe like I believe, baby (If only you believe like I believe)
We'd get by
If only you believe in miracles, baby (If only you believe in miracles)
So would I
If only you believe like I believe, baby (If only you believe like I believe)
We'd get by
If only you believe in miracles, baby (If only you believe in miracles)
So would I

I might have to move heaven and earth
To prove it to you, baby (Baby)
So we're makin' love
And you feel the power
And I feel the power
Then there's really nothing we can't do
(You know we could, you know we could)
If we wanted to, baby
(You know we could, you know we could)
We could exist on the stars
It'd be so easy

Now, baby
All we gotta do (Baby, baby, baby, oh, baby)
Is get a little faith in you (Baby, baby)
Oh, I've been so many places
I've seen some things (Yes, I have)
I know love is the answer (Yes, it is)
Keeps holding this world together, yeah
Ain't nothing better
Ain't nothing better (Nothing's better)
And all the answers to our prayers
Hell, it's the same everywheres, baby (Just the same now)
Nothing ever breaks up the heart (Love's a game now)
Only tears give you away (Ain't it a shame now?)

Then you're right where I found ya (Oh, baby)
With my arms around ya (Oh, baby)
O-o-o-o-o-o-oh, baby
Baby, baby
Love is a magic word, ooh, yeah (Baby)
Few ever find in a lifetime
But from that very first look in your eyes
I knew you and I had but one heart (Baby)
Only our bodies were apart (It's making me crazy)
That was so easy (Baby)
So easy (Oh, baby)
I had a taste of the real world (Didn't waste a drop of it)
When I went down on you, girl

Oh, if only you believe like I believe, baby (If only you believe like I believe)
We'd get by
If only you believe in miracles, baby (If only you believe in miracles)
So would I
If only you believe like I believe, baby (If only you believe like I believe)
We'd get by
If only you believe in miracles, baby (If only you believe in miracles)
So would I

I can hear windmills and rainbows
Whenever you're talkin' to me (Never say never)
I feel like swirling and dancin'
Whenever you're walking with me (Whenever you're walking with me)
You ripple like a river when I touch you (Let me touch you)
When I pluck your body like a string (Show you what I mean)
When I start dancin' inside ya (Oh, baby)
You make me wanna sing (I love you so)
Yeah (I love you so)
Baby (I love you so)
Baby (I love you so)
Baby (I love you so)
Baby (Oh)

Oh, yeah (Oh, yeah)
All right (All right)
Baby, we're sure doin' it tonight (Baby, we're sure doin' it)
Every time you come by, let me try (Come on by)
Pretty please with sugar on it
That's how I like it, ooh
I can't even believe it with you
It's like having every dream I ever wanted come true (Dream of a lifetime)
I picked up your vibes
You know, it opened my eyes (Dream of a lifetime)
But I'm still dreamin', yeah (Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, oh)
And you're right where I found ya (Oh, baby)
With my arms around ya (Oh, baby)

Oh, if only you believe like I believe, baby (If only you believe like I believe)
We'd get by
If only you believe in miracles, baby (If only you believe in miracles)
So would I
If only you believe like I believe, baby (If only you believe like I believe)
We'd get by
If only you believe in miracles, baby (If only you believe in miracles)
So would I
So would I
So would I

Oh, if only you believe like I believe, baby (If only you believe like I believe)
We'd get by
If only you believe in miracles, baby (If only you believe in miracles)
So would I
If only you believe like I believe, baby (If only you believe like I believe)
We'd get by
If only you believe in miracles, baby (If only you believe in miracles)
So would I

 

"WHERE'S THE PUZZLE?"

BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY (WILL OLDHAM)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phu4aB8D8hM 

 Where is the puzzle?
that bothered me so
how do I let my family know
O I'm disappearing
into the wind

I knew everything once
and now I know it all again
bliss comes with conclusion
comes with an end

hear our voices
pass it on
knowledge is born
with a singing dawn
goodbye and welcome troubled song
my body fades ... your life goes on

I knew everything once
and now I know it all again
bliss comes with conclusion
comes with an end

and I want only you
and I trust only you
and I want only to
sing you

"SO EVERYONE"

BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY (WILL OLDHAM)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6usq24SlZ8

 I know my way around the world
it's a circle and it starts and ends
and I've found my hand on mountain girl
and my efforts condoned by friends

I sit in my window looking out
and watch for boys lit by the moon
I have a little magic left in me
and how to make a one like you swoon

O take it O take me
O Take it so easy
O make it O make me
O kneel down and please me
O Lady O Boy
Show how you want me
and do it so everyone sees me

We have a new leaf to show the world
glad we do, we had to come upon it
seems we put our money down
On black and even and the new leaf
well we won it

O take it O take me
O Take it so easy
O make it O make me
O kneel down and please me
O Lady O Boy
Show how you want me
and do it so everyone sees me

Now I want the world to see
everybody look at me
I'm a good person and free
and she loves me

O take it O take me
O Take it so easy
O make it O make me
O kneel down and please me
O Lady O Boy
Show how you want me
and do it so everyone sees me

sees that she loves me
sees that you love me

"WILLOW TREES BEND"

BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY (WILL OLDHAM)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzUt-LwApbk 

 Willow trees bend
But I won't bend
I will never lay down
For every man alive
There's a fire
And for every king a crown

My world's been rocked before
And it will be rocked again
By a tremor or a howling wind
And lord if you demand
If the world at large asks of me
I will surrender to you

We have a power
All animals do
When faced with your fire
I will surrender to you

Fun to joy the aim
So we live forever
They may mock us but we do
The river carries on
Clouded with what we've done
The deeds of me and you

 We have a power
All animals do
When faced with your fire
I will surrender to you

"THE SOUTHSIDE OF THE WORLD"

BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY (WILL OLDHAM)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJznHP-G3Ss 

 Where were the rapists when I was a child?

(Southside of the world)

They were my neighbours, that's why I'm so wild

(Southside of the world)

Where were the drunkards that shot with their guns?

(Ah...)

And closed the shops early so we could have fun

(Ah...)

Where were the women who spread the disease?

(Southside of the world)

Who spread love so freely and so spread their knees

(Southside of the world)

They went to the southside to make their own laws

(Southside of the world)

Away from the gnawing of innocent jaws

(Southside of the world)

Lord, they went to the southside and we must go too

(Southside of the world)

If we want our freedom, it's what we must do

(Southside of the world)

If we want happy families, it's what we must do

(Southside of the world)

Give me donkey ears!

Give me honkey tears!

Give me black blood!

And that of queers!

To mix with my own

 Come with me to the southside where we'll make our home

(Southside of the world)

Come with me to the southside where we'll make our home

(Southside of the world)

(Southside of the world)

(Southside of the world)

"AFRAID AIN'T ME"

BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY (WILL OLDHAM)

 

https://www.laut.de/Bonnie-Prince-Billy/Songs/Afraid-Aint-Me-265020

 Scorn me not though I deserve

I've done fighting in my time

Long live the people hear me shout

And tell my enemies I'm blind now

Cold and clear, cold and clear, [Gold and clean...?]

Alone I may be

But afraid ain't me

Trust to me your little ones

Slow and sweet I teach

Woman man in blended garments

Try to block my greatest moments

Cold and clear, cold and clear

Alone I may be

But afraid ain't me

Oh the little black one comes

No one shouts out my name

Oh the little white one comes

Think love is a game?

Treat me well when wandered to your door

Bathe me please for I am dirty

Wash me hard with scalding tears

And with bath water drain my fears

Cold and clear, cold and clear

Alone I may be but

Afraid ain't me

Cold and clear, cold and clear

Alone I may be but

Afraid ain't me

"MY LIFE'S WORK"

BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY (WILL OLDHAM) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-T9dET2AKE

 You want to go
From here to there
Where is this valley?
Take me there

I will pull
Ridge to ridge
With great stone cracking
Make wondrous bridge

I take this load on
It is my life's work
To bring you to the light
Out of the dark

Our little house
Can seem so small
This morning we found
No love at all

I bust a hole
In the ceiling so
The light will flow
And show

My lack of grace
Your radiant face
They make it worth
Our time, on Earth

 I take this load on
It is my life's work
To bring you into the light
And out of the dark

The morning cry
Now a memory
The after prayer
Is all we see

So this song becomes
The melody
Of you
As you're the song of me