Songs from the mirror

Why do we never get an answer

When we're knocking at the door

With a thousand million questions

About hate and death and war?

'Cuz when we stop and look around us

There is nothing that we need

In a world of persecution

That is parting in its greed



Why do we never get an answer

When we're knocking at the door?

Because the truth is hard to swallow

It's like a wall of blood before



It's not the way that you say it when you do those things to me

It's more the way that you mean it when you tell me what will be

And when you stop and think about it

You won't believe it's true

That all the love you've been giving

Has all been meant for you





I'm looking for someone to change my life

I'm looking for a miracle in my life

But if you could see what it's done to me

To lose the love I knew

That safely leads me through 



Between the silence of the mountains and the crashing of the sea

There lies a land I once lived in

And she's waiting there for me

But in the grey of the morning

My mind becomes confused

Between the dead, and the sleeping

And the road that I must choose



I'm looking for someone to change my life

I'm looking for a miracle in my life

And if you could see what it's done to me

To lose the love I knew

Could safely lead me to

The land that I once knew

The land as we grow old

The secrets of our soul



It's not the way that you say it when you do those things to me

it's more the way you really mean it when you tell me what will be



Why do we never get an answer

When we're knocking at the door?

With a thousand million questions

About hate and death and war

But when we stop and look around us

There is nothing that we need

In a world of persecution

That is parting in its greed

Are you going to the party?

Are you going to the Boston Tea Party?



Redcoats in the village

There's fighting in the streets

The Indians and the mountain men, well

They are talking when they meet

The king has said he's gonna put a tax on tea

And that's the reason you all Americans drink coffee



Are you going to the party?

Are you going to the Boston Tea Party?



Fire in the mountains, flames upon the heath

And the president spits out the news

He's biting on wooden teeth

The children of the colonies

Got a different tale to tell

I'm going down to the city

Tell my folks I'm doing well



Are you going to the party?

Are you going to the Boston Tea Party?



Bringing back the buffalo to the long prairie

Bringing back the fishes swimming in the sea

The children of the colonies

Got a different tale to tell

I'm going down to the city

Tell my folks I'm doing well



Are you going to the party?

Are you going to the Boston Tea Party?

You say the hill's too steep to climb

Climb it

You say you'd like to see me try

Climb it

You pick the place and I'll choose the time

And I'll climb

The hill in my own way

Just wait a while, for the right day

And as I rise above the treeline and the clouds

I look down hear the sound of the things you said today



Fearlessly the idiot faced the crowd, smiling

Nothing waits, the magistrate turns 'round, frowning

I know the fool who wears the crown

Go down in your own way

And everyday is the right day

And as you rise above the fearlines in the frown

You look down

Hear the sound of the faces in the crowd

I think I'm sophisticated 'cause I'm living my life

Like a good homo sapien

But all around me everybody's multiplying and

They're walking round like flies man

So I'm no better than the animals sitting

In the cages in the zoo

Cause compared to the flowers and the birds and the trees 

I am an apeman



I think I'm so educated and I'm so civilized

Cause I'm a strict vegetarian

But with the over-population and inflation and starvation

And the crazy politicians

I don't feel safe in this world no more

I don't want to die in a nuclear war

I want to sail away to a distant shore and make like an apeman



I'm an apeman, I'm an ape, apeman, oh I'm an apeman

I'm a King Kong man, I'm a voodo man, oh I'm an apeman

Cause compared to the sun that sits in the sky

Compared to the clouds as they roll by

Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies I am an apeman



In man's evolution he's created the city

And the motor traffic rumble.

But give me half a chance and I'd be taking off my clothes

And living in the jungle

Cause the only time that I feel at ease

Is swinging up and down in the coconut trees

Oh what a life of luxury to be like an apeman



I'm an apeman, I'm an ape, apeman, oh I'm an apeman

I'm a King Kong man, I'm a voodo man, oh I'm an apeman

I look out the window but I can't see the sky

The air pollution is a -------- up my eyes

I want to get out of this city alive and make like an apeman



Oh come on and love me, be my apeman girl

And we'll be so happy in my apeman world



I'm an apeman, I'm an ape, apeman, oh I'm an apeman

I'm a King Kong man, I'm a voodo man, oh I'm an apeman

I'll be your Tarzan, you'll be my Jane

I'll keep you warm and you'll keep me sane

We'll sit in the trees and eat bananas all day, just like an apeman



I'm an apeman, I'm an ape, apeman, oh I'm an apeman

I'm a King Kong man, I'm a voodoo man, oh I'm an apeman

I don't feel safe in this world no more

I don't want to die in a nuclear war

I want to sail away to a distant shore and make like an apeman

And if it's bad

Don't let it get you down, you can take it

And if it hurts

Don't let them see you cry, you can take it



Hold your head up, hold your head up

Hold your head up, hold your head high



And if they stare

Just let them burn their eyes on you moving

And if they shout

Don't let them change a thing what you're doing



Hold your head up, hold your head up

Hold your head up, hold your head high

Good morning, good afternoon

And what have you got to say?

Well, I'm waiting, but I can't stay long

It's such a lovely day

There's a time to be talking

And there's a time when it's no use

Right now I think the things you say

Are liable to confuse



I've just gone solo

Do you play solo

Ain't life a solo?



What a wonderful way to live

She's travelling all over the world

Why, the flame and all the golden

Opportunities unfurled

No time for the gent with the Mulliner Bently

And heaven knows what else

Why, he wouldn't even stand a chance

With all his oilwells



She just went solo

Do you play solo

Ain't life a solo



I've always lived in a maison

On the other side of the moon

I've always kept a unicorn

And I never sing out of tune

I could tell you that the grass

Is really greener on the other side of the hill

But I can't communicate with you

And I guess I never will



We've all gone solo

We all play solo

Ain't life a solo

It's one o'clock and time for lunch

Dum-dee-dum-dee-dum-dum

When the sun beats down and I lie on the bench

I can always hear them talk



There's always been Ethel

"Jacob, wake up! You've got to tidy your room now"

And then Mister Lewis

"Isn't it time that he was out on his own?"

Over the garden wall, two little lovebirds - cuckoo to you

Keep them mowing blades sharp



I know what I like, and I like what I know

Getting better in your wardrobe, stepping one beyond your show

Sunday night, Mr Farmer called, said

"Listen son, you're wasting your time

There's a future for you in the fire escape trade

Come up to town"

But I remembered a voice from the past

"Gambling only pays when you're winning"

I had to thank old Miss Mort for schooling a failure

Keep them mowing blades sharp



I know what I like, and I like what I know

Getting better in your wardrobe, stepping one beyond your show



When the sun beats down and I lie on the bench

I can always hear them talk

Me, I'm just a lawnmower - you can tell me by the way I walk

You're so sweet, you're so fine

I want you all and everything just to be mine

Cuz you're my babe, yes you're my love

Girl I'm just a jeepster for your love



You slide so good, with bones so fair

You've got the universe reclining in your hair

Cuz your my babe, coz your my love

Oh girl I'm just a jeepster for your love



Just like a car, your pleasing to behold

I'll call you Jaguar if I may be so bold

Cuz your my babe, yes yes yes you are my love

Oh girl I'm just a jeepster for your love



The wild winds blow, upon your frozon cheeks

The way you flip your hip, well it always makes me weak

Cuz your my babe, yes you are my love

Oh girl I'm just a jeepster for your love



Your motivation, is so sweet

Your vibrations, well there burning up my feet

Cuz your my babe, yes you are my love

Oh girl I'm just a jeepster for your love



Oh girl, I'm just a vampire for your love

And I'm gonna suck ya

Pushing through the market square

So many mothers sighing

News had just come over

We had five years left to cry in



News guy wept and told us

Earth was really dying

Cried so much his face was wet

Then I knew he was not lying



I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies

Saw boys and toys, electric irons, TVs

My brain hurt like a warehouse

It had no room to spare

I had to cram so many things to store

Everything in there



And all the fat-skinny people

And all the tall-short people

And all the nobody people

And all the somebody people

I never thought I'd need so many people



A girl my age went off her head

Hit some tin