SONG: Silver Wheels (4:41) (From the album "In the Falling Dark") high speed drift on a prairie road hot tires sing like a string being bowed sudden town rears up then explodes fragments resolve into white line code whirl on silver wheels (chorus) black earth energy receptor fields undulate under a grey cloud shield we outrun a river colour brick red mud that cleaves apart hills soil rich as blood highway squeeze in construction steam stop caution hard hat yellow insect machines silver steel towers stalk rolling land toward distant stacks that shout "Feed on demand" 100 miles later the sky has changed urban anticipation -- we get 4 lanes redorange furnace sphere notches down throws up silhouette skyline in brown sundogs flare on windshield glass sudden swoop skyward iron horse overpass pass a man walking like the man in the moon walking like his head's full of irish fiddle tunes the skin around every city looks the same miles of flat neon spelling well-known names USED TRUCKS DIRTY DONUTS YOU YOU'RE THE ONE fat wheeled cars squeal into the sun radio speakers gargle top 40 trash muzak soundtrack to slow collapse planet engines pulsate in sidereal time if you listen close you can hear the whine SONG: Coldest Night Of the Year (4:00) (From the album "Mummy Dust") I was up all night, socializing Trying to keep the latent depression from crystalizing Now the sun is lurking just behind the Scarborough horizon And you're not even here On the coldest night of the year. I took in Yonge Street at a glance Heard the punkers playing Watched the bikers dance Everybody wishing they could go to the south of France And you're not even here On the coldest night of the year. Hey look at me now See the shape I'm in It's taken me so long to catch on to what's going on Inside this skin When two lovers really love there's nothing there But this suddenly compact universe Skin and breath and hair I watched the all night TV show In the all night bar I drove all the people home I was the one with the car Now I'm sitting here alone and sleepless and wondering where you are And wishing you were here On the coldest night of the year. SONG: Can I Go With You (2:30) (From the album "Further Adventures Of") When you ride out of the shining sky to claim the ones who love you Can i go with you Can i go with you When the angel shouts from the heart of the sun and the living water flows down Can i go with you Can i go with you When the earth and stars melt like ice in the spring and a million voices sing praise Can i go with you Can i go with you SONG: Laughter (3:38) (From the album "Further Adventures Of") A laugh for the way my life has gone a laugh for the love of a friend a laugh for the fools in the eyes of the world the love that will never end Ha Ha Ha... Let's hear a laugh for the man of the world who thinks he can make things work tried to build the New Jerusalem and ended up with New York Ha Ha Ha... A laugh for the sun redballing through the thermal inversion haze a laugh for the nuclear good-time boys numbering all our days Ha Ha Ha... A laugh for the newsprint nightmare a world that never was where the questions are all "why" and the answers are all "because" Ha Ha Ha... A laugh for the dogs barking at our heels they don't know where we've been a laugh for the dirty window pane hiding the love within Ha Ha Ha... Tapping our feet to an ancient tune a laugh for the time gone by a laugh for me and Kitty in the delivery room waiting for the child's first cry Ha Ha Ha... SONG: Water Into Wine (5:30) (Instrumental from the album "In the Falling Dark") SONG: Mama Just Wants to Barrelhouse All Night Long (4:23) (From the album "Night Vision") i was up the road on easy street watching everybody stand around and cheat a man comes up and says "move along down to the corner where you belong" but mama just wants to barrelhouse all night long i hear the city singing like a siren choir some fool tried to set this town on fire tv preacher screams "come on along" i feel like fay wray face to face with king kong but mama just wants to barrelhouse all night long sometimes i wonder what i am i feel like i'm living in a hologram it doesn't seem to matter what's right or wrong everybody's grabbing and coming on strong but mama just wants to barrelhouse all night long SONG: Lord of the Starfields (3:22) (From the album "In the Falling Dark") Lord of the starfields Ancient of Days Universe Maker here's a song in your praise. wings of the storm cloud beginning and end you make my heart leap like a banner in the wind. O Love that fires the sun keep me burning. Lord of the starfields sower of life, heaven and earth are full of your light. Voice of the nova smile of the dew all of our yearning only comes home to you. O Love that fires the sun keep me burning. SONG: Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand (4:53) (From the album "Further Adventures Of") I've got planets in my palm -- there's a red smear on the sky a star has just exploded somewhere behind my eyes in the dead of night the city seems to break down into tribes you stare at too much concrete -- you forget the earth's alive. Young men see visions and old men dream dreams see them pluck bright pebbles out of circles in the stream life's not always like they tell you in the fashion magazines when i set eyes on wonders, i've got to wonder what they mean. Outside in the starshine you can see beyond the wall so take a look and tell me, can you hear those black holes call? everything is thunder under the celestial waterfall you get close enough to real things -- you don't need your self at all. SONG: Dialogue With the Devil (or "why don't we celebrate") (8:50) (From the album "Sunwheel Dance") standing on a rock in a river staring at the splintered sun you could drown yourself in jewels like a thousand other fools while you stand there looking down at what you've won. sitting on a mountain of ashes face to face with past regrets you could roll down to the canyon piss away this incarnation but remember that you pay for what you get. and he says "but don't you know how hard it is to hit the ground and mean it, and mean it?" walk the jangling streets of the city trying to find the buried sun you could drown yourself in jewels like a thousand other fools while you wander, waiting for it to be done. and he cries "why don't we celebrate? why don't we celebrate? love can make you sad come on, let's drive ourselves mad." and he's aware how hard it is to kiss the sun and mean it, and mean it. and he screams "why don't we celebrate? why don't we celebrate? life can make you sad come on, let's drive ourselves mad." standing on a rock in a river staring at the rain made one on the surface flashing diamonds rolling down the twilight canyon, and we shall kiss the sun in spite of him so why don't we celebrate? why don't we celebrate? why don't we celebrate? ...