Backyard of Blue - 1975
Lyrics
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Blue Sunny Sky Day
Just got word today Heard you’re in town and coming ‘round Now it’s time to see how we can get along It may be so wrong But I’m sure friendship can be Still strong and set free We’ve seen so much Together, blue sunny sky day Dawn, sunset, did we appreciate Country feeling always fade As we leave to resume another way Turn around sit me down Show me how you feel I want to know before I start again All that you’re aware is in your mind I can only try to find Now he’s been and gone Should have known all along My faith can surely be believed in Disbelief is sin But I’m sure friendship can be Still strong and set free We’ve seen so much Together, blue sunny sky day Dawn, sunset, did we appreciate As we leave to resume another way High Time First she walked down to the sea-shore Then over the sunrise And she’s gone again She’s always had more than a friendship But never a romance And it’s high time, high time she leaves High time, high time she leaves More than two of you can see Turning to stamp out the ways of another And trying her best in understanding words That mean little to the one who speaks so confused And to relate feelings which must have grown so great And it’s high time, high time she leaves High time, high time she leaves More than two of you can see And in a way I can see where she’s wrong The rights of a woman have vanished and gone She found it difficult to give anymore Relying on her judgement and remembering what she saw Love was found in another So she decided, Why should she bother But really her thoughts were much deeper She could not understand How feelings change in a man And it’s high time, high time she leaves High time, high time she leaves More than two of you can see Still she’s walking on the sea-shore Over the sunrise Now she’s gone again She’s always had more than a friendship But never a romance Oh what can it be And it’s high time, high time she leaves High time, high time she leaves More than two of you can see Striving to Stand Alone Watch out Society can break your limitations It can cut you down Dynamic changes In a wonder world make some people think That it’s time to search for something more But I just want to be me Don’t want to be told what people think I ought to be Don’t want to be psychoanalysed I can work myself out by myself alright ‘Cause I’ve got a mind And I use it Yes I’ve got a mind So don’t abuse it I’ve got a mind And I use it So don’t you lay your heavy promises on me What is it Do you think there’s no hope for the world we know So you turn inside To find peace of mind and your soul Sure, but can’t you go alone Do you really need to be shown? You are a person with the strength of man Striving to stand alone But I just want to be me Don’t want to be told what people think I ought to be Don’t want to be psychoanalysed I can work myself out by myself alright ‘Cause I’ve got a mind And I use it Yes I’ve got a mind So don’t abuse it I’ve got a mind And I use it So don’t you lay your heavy promises on me Catch a Colour Catch a colour falling Brighter than a smile Everything glowing now morning till night Warming wishful Sinking to sigh Bounded only by the one choosing to shine Now they call Show them the might and strength you hold Remember the words of November Magical laughter Lies opening forming mysteries Fantasy followed by reason Tracing each other but never discovering What really flows beneath Should it be clear One day without some fear Now they call Show them the might and strength you hold Prove to me what you may be Then we’ll see Catch a colour falling Brighter then a smile Everything glowing now morning till night Warming wishful Sinking to sigh Bounded only by the one choosing to shine Now they call Show them the might and strength you hold Summertown He left for the summertown To buy his lady a gown He lay down to weep Trying to find his liberty And the strange ordeal He could feel Would lead a man to steal A love to him Was a love which made A woman so afraid This man knew of fame And so made this his playful game Many a journey was made by man So the mind would expand He knew only of what more was wanted For his life to prosper Looking for a love to Looking for a love to Looking for a love to show Looking for a love Looking for a love Looking for a love to show And when he reached the summertown He forgot both lady and gown He swept the lady away Just as if he had finished his game Backyard of Blue Colours are changing on my backyard of blue I watch the day begin But I need you to see it through I’d like to ride a wave out and catch the sun But that’s like having you here with me now It just can’t be done I need you You’re a star in the darkness I need you To shine all your kindness On a world That needs your smile That needs your smile Colours are changing in my backyard of blue I watch the evening glowing Are you watching it too It’s been so long since somebody really cared Both sides a little shy But there’s something to share I need you You’re a star in the darkness I need you To shine all your kindness On a world That needs your smile That needs you smile So easy to turn away and forget the world When I have somebody like you And my backyard of blue |
Strong as Sunlight
Strong as sunlight shining down Upon the desert sand Never ending like the waves of the sea And the hills of the land So she’s wrapped herself with the warmth of dreams In the clouds, crying soft and loud For someone to complete within her The feeling she cannot find The one that knows no bounds So she holds her head up high And wonders why she cares But you know that really Time will bring her down now If she dares It may be winter but her mind has turned to spring Full of thoughts that will bloom To hear the seasons sing To hear the seasons sing She sees herself Always wandering always hiding But rarely finding Thought over, how long will it last Those loves of the past Now she knows only one But it keeps fading with the sun Saw a Bright New Face I’m the kind to worry That’s why I sing my song I’m the kind to worry Not knowing whether I’m right or wrong And with the fresh breeze In the morning with the dawn I will be standing Holding new dreams to be born Saw a bright new face today One smile has made it stay With me to hide away In my mind till the end of time Blue blossom, candy coloured room Fills the air With fragrance of love and good times Shall be there Childish fancy Shining from the seed of life Your mind is dancing Beaming, glowing full of light And with the fresh breeze In the morning with the dawn I will be standing Holding new dreams to be born Blue blossom, candy coloured room Fills the air With fragrance of love and good times Shall be there Saw a bright new face today Thanking You I never knew it could be so hard It’s a complicated life Gonna take a while To see where I am And how I feel Ideas have changed, that’s strange I’ve chosen very different ways to most my friends I thought I was not quite the same Only made it that way My mind went astray Now I know I’ve got The feelings of a woman Can’t escape the way I am Tried to find it Live without it I was wrong Often I wish I was as strong as the tree That stands outside my window Breathing in the sunshine But never weeping like a willow Friends have told me People have shown me I’m thanking you For making me see I’ve got The feelings of a woman Can’t escape the way I am Tried to fight it Live without it I was wrong Find it very hard to say what I mean Come to think of it I’ve never ever tried But I think and think about you ‘Cause you’ve made me see I’ve got The feelings of a woman Can’t escape the way I am Tried to fight it Live without it I was wrong“ Any Day Now Took my daily questions down to the sea In hope to draw conclusions Set me free ‘Cause I’m watching the flying coloured movement of my mind Peaceful boats drift and wind Any day now I will know where it is for me That life should see more than the man I was hiding, hiding my ideas Now I’m finding, finding over the years Shielding selfish desires Shameful I should feel But I’m hiding the fear of a break in the circle Of which I am part of the curve Knowing that all I have done is much like the bird Who has flown down with the sun Any day now I will know where it is for me That life should see more than the man I was hiding, hiding my ideas Now I’m finding, finding over the years I was hiding, hiding my ideas Whoever Heard Circles running round Coming in and rolling down My mind is full of music And the notes that sound Music has the magic Of making every word he says A sweet melody for me yes for me But you really don’t know how I miss Gentle ways, gentle words The silent understanding as you learn Running from return Flying further than far apart I know I can’t Tell time to hurry on But maybe we will see Some stranger force in me So hard to explain But there are no words That account for the space of wilderness within A vacuum of vague feeling But whoever heard Of one holding back from love For fear of losing love You really don’t know how I miss Gentle ways, gentle words The silent understanding as you learn Whoever heard Of one holding back from love For fear of losing love |
