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    The Dream Of Just One Eye: Songs & Poems By Kent welton
    The Dream Of Just One Eye: Songs & Poems By Kent welton
    The Dream Of Just One Eye: Songs & Poems By Kent welton
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    The Dream Of Just One Eye: Songs & Poems By Kent welton

    By Kent Welton

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    The songs lyrics and unsung poems of Kent Welton - See KentWelton.com
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateNov 19, 2014
    ISBN9781483545769
    The Dream Of Just One Eye: Songs & Poems By Kent welton

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      The Dream Of Just One Eye - Kent Welton

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      SongBook I

      Search For Certainty

      Towers above the shrouding mist

      Spires in the sky

      Rainbows at my fingertips

      The dream of just one eye

      I ask you why

      I must leave it

      But the certainty that’s the truth of fools

      Caught in fantasy

      is wrapped around my world today

      Like a straightjacket on the sea

      Tell me why

      You don’t hear me

      Goin’ down our separate paths

      Black an’ white realities

      Dogma for the faint of heart

      It’s your truth that’s strangling me

      Now I see

      Just leave me be

      The search for certainty

      Remains without a doubt

      Warring for the Holy Grail

      And the truth that you can tout

      Well let me out

      Its you I fear

      Old Friends

      The old friends of my day

      Come to visit but they don’t stay

      There’s a space in between

      Where we used to be

      What’s the reason they’ve changed

      Did their dreams disappear

      But what’s a lifetime or two

      To our feeling here

      The things that we used to do

      The way we used to be

      They’re only gone if you let it go

      Yesterday we were young

      We lived all over this world

      Now our eyes see the pain

      That we’re livin’ thru

      It’s So Wrong

      (see AntiWarsong.com)

      We are marching

      We are marching

      We are marching to war

      It’s so wrong

      It’s so wrong

      It’s so wrong,

      The way we carry on

      I see the burned and charcoal-ed bodies

      On the nightly news

      And with our missiles so precise

      We are nothing short of dead

      We are tokens of the state

      And we are captured

      The moment we are born

      It’s so wrong

      It’s so wrong

      It’s so wrong

      The way we carry on

      There’s no trigger on our hearts

      But there’s a weapon to open up our minds

      It’s the mind

      It’s the mind

      It’s the mind

      That’s in our way

      It’s the mind

      It’s the mind

      It’s the mind

      We have to drop

      I hear excuses

      I hear regrets

      But I still hear screams in the night

      It’s so wrong

      It’s so wrong

      It’s so wrong

      The way we carry on

      We are marching

      We are marching

      We are marching off to war

      There’s no living

      There’s no loving

      And there’s no peace in our lives

      We are tokens of the state

      We are captured the moment we are born

      Yes, its so wrong

      It’s so wrong

      It’s so wrong

      The way we carry on

      China Lady

      On a moonlit night in old Hong Kong

      I saw my China doll

      I recognized her alabaster face

      As the wind blew thru her hair

      She stepped aboard my junk

      And I felt her silky hand

      The night was young

      And she gave me that inscrutable eye

      China Lady, you are the mystery of the night

      China Lady, I’ve come runnin’ back to you

      China Lady, you are the vision in my mind

      She walked me to the bow

      And looked me in the eye

      The city lights just disappeared

      As her shoulder straps began to fall

      How did she know that I’d come back

      When we were world’s apart

      How did we know

      Our hearts were together all the time

      China Lady, China Lady, China Lady

      You are the vision in my mind

      She rubbed her finger on my cheek

      I could see the years of tears

      I touched her hair

      And the vision turned to flesh

      We hear the cry of the gull

      Flying thru the night

      My mind was gone

      And I was on the Orient Express

      (Repeat chorus)

      John David

      John David he died for you

      He’s a comin’ home

      John David went to war for you

      But he was meant to roam

      Is it true what they’re sayin’ now

      In the streets back home

      Is it true what they’re sayin’ now

      Has the time really come

      Yes, he’s on his way

      John David he cried for you

      Never feelin’ his pain

      John David he was lied to

      He knew he died in vain

      Can ya tell me there’s a reason why

      He was filled with fears

      Can ya give me a reason why

      That’s worth all of our tears

      Yes, he’s on his way

      His family’s standin’ on the train platform

      With their heads hung down

      They couldn’t watch as they lowered that box

      In which they brought Johnny home

      John David was a son of yours

      He was a friend of mine

      John didn’t have the heart to kill

      He was friendly and kind

      Is it true what they’re sayin’ now

      In the streets back home

      Is it true what they’re sayin’ now

      Has the time really come

      Yes, he’s on his way

      Think Free

      Hot on my trail

      They’re comin’ for me

      High on the road

      They’re waitin’ for me

      And all I did was to think free

      And that’s a crime

      The Sheriff he’s ridin’

      Some political slate

      Manufacturing trouble

      And twistin’ my fate

      And all I did was to think free

      And that’s a crime

      Refrain:

      Uniforms for the mind are here

      They might have one for you

      come and step into yours

      Only one thing you need to do

      You need only go along

      Some laws are written

      To keep people down

      Its no wonder we’re fightin’

      And never gain any ground

      And all I did was to think free

      All I did was to think free

      Now leave me be

      I never touched anyone

      I just let ‘em be

      I can’t understand

      What they see in me

      All I did was to think free

      All I did was to think free

      And that’s a crime

      Traveler

      I’m just a traveler

      born to see this world

      I’m just a traveler

      bound to see this world

      Bold and brave I wandered

      thru the cities of despair

      Not believing all the hardship

      And the chaos everywhere

      Riding old trails of glory

      Thru the valleys of stone men

      Praised for bein’ the killers

      Of the saints who turned to dust

      The wheel they say is turnin’

      Doesn’t have a place to go

      Progress is a fool’s delight

      A lost man’s movie show

      Now talk of peace is murmured

      Thru doors of misconception

      And tales of heaven are shouted

      by agents in the crowd

      Love and peace lay slaughtered

      By a lonely ego’s fright

      Love and peace lay shadowed

      Thru this hot and windy night

      I’m just a traveler

      Born to see this world

      I’m just a traveler

      bound to see this world

      Crazy World

      It’s a Crazy World

      But it keeps me comin’ back

      One-eyed blind men

      Mindless twits

      Deaf radios

      Bent straight people

      Square crooks

      Legitimate bastards

      Kind vigilantes

      Cruel missionaries

      Saved failed people

      Angelic devils

      Felonious monks

      Its a crazy world

      But it keeps me comin’ back

      Human gods

      Left righteousness

      Born again dead people

      Wild accountants

      Mild mannered killers

      Good mistakes

      Bad salvations

      Idle workaholics

      Lazy fanatics

      Girly weight lifters

      Manly debutantes

      Oh, it’s a crazy world

      But it keeps me comin’ back

      In The Night

      When the day is done

      And the sun goes down

      We can feel the peace

      And sense a great release

      When the work is thru

      Then everything is new

      And when the day is done

      We can feel like one

      In The Night, In the night

      In the night, there is light

      When the moon is high

      And all your questions die

      There is more to life

      Then

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