The return of the Space cowboy

Nobody make a move

This kid’s got you covered

He was just seventeen

Trying to get on like his dead brother

Mama couldn’t do a thing for him

Though she hurt inside

And daddy wants his son back

While he knows he’s still alive 

Stuck up kid

Thinking you’re a glory boy

Fronting that stupid toy

But you don’t get that it’s yourself you will destroy

Running that rock on the frontline

Get to Hell before your time

If you get your face on the cover of High Times

Push in 



Now it occured to me

As I awoke from deeper dreams

All this evolution

And still I don’t know what it means

And it gets so hard for me to change

When there’s an easy way to earn

Why should I work my fingers to the bone?

Can you give more than get?

Get down with a conscious train of thought 



Light years

Can pass me by without me realising

I’m water in a stream

But you got to keep it clean

Dirty dreams, purity

How can so many people think they’re right

When everybody’s wrong?

There’s a stillness in time

Which I cannot define

Does your heart bleed like mine

For a place we can go

Where the troubles of our time are far away

And I had all my life in front of me

Now my darkness days are trouble-free

There’s no place where I would rather be

Than this journey of discovery 

I found love in that way

And I’m never sad, and I’m always glad

Anything you give me today

I will be thankful for

People find it hard to be strong

Cos they don’t know where they’re coming from

There was nothing left to do but hang on

For a stillness in time 



If you find that something’s going wrong

Look around at what you’re running from

There are so many wondrous things for you to see

If this world is turning too fast for your head

Just remember how bad times can roll instead

You can wait a thousand years in line

For that stillness in time

Yesterday I was

Half the man I used to be

Oh maybe that’s because

You’re the other half of me

Like the spring in bloom

The summer of our love is soon

Every bird will sing

The melody of our love tune 

Send down from above

Unconditionally love

Likened to a flower

Stronger love grows by the hour

Stormy weather days

Make us go our separate ways

Where our love was so at ease

Now you got me down on my knees 



Yesterday I was

Brighter than the morning sun

Now my love is lost

And lonely days have just begun

A solitary chair

For a silent love affair

A king has lost his throne

And now he sits alone

People tell me I’m no good

’Cause I’m expressing all my sentiments

Now I got to channel all my vehemence

For the benefit of my self-defence

And you can be a do-gooder

But true sincerity ain’t charity

It can take a life time to be

How you wanna be 

You can be light years

Away from serious intention

And I thought I knew it all

Someday I’d get to turn mankind this way

If you don’t know you can be light years

Away from your true destination

No conscious escalation

Until I get with good vibration

I’m never gonna get to use that earthly power

Substitutes can never take the place of peace of mind

Losing all sense of direction 



When you’re light years

Too far away to turn your back on substitution

There is no u-turn on a one way route

Going up when I learn to love the life I can bite the fruit

Now I got sunshine in my life 



Light years

Never to return to Babylon

See money don’t make a man

But if you really want you get there anyway you can

Four hundred years or more

Since you came to crucify

They were taken far from home

There were promises of paradise

But if they had been told that day

They would be told that this way

To satisfy the souls of chosen men

See I had to look carefully

At the name of my ancestry

To redefine the storyline again 

If I was taken for a day

And shown another way

Every child can learn a different thing

See I tried a million times

But I had to change my mind

Sadness was the best thing I could bring

On the inside he was dead and this is what he said

As he took away the bloom above the clouds

Superiority was clearly meant to be

So destiny will manifest in time 



So where has the love all gone?

A troubled trail of tears will tell the tale

Of how I was put down where I don’t belong

Woman, child and man for sale

For ethical slavery is just an absurdity

How can you be alive when you are dead

With these chains of hypocrisy

The same of my ancestry

Forever stained by blood in wich you trade

Now we’re getting nasty 

Everybody’s talking about the kids

The kids got funky soul and groove emotion

But if you don’t give the kids the chance to use it

They’re always more than likely to abuse it

Everybody’s talking about the kids

It’s taking time for you to realise

Now hunger turns to anger in our eyes

I say the revolution will be televised

Yes it will, Gil

Everybody’s talking about the kids

The kids need space to get their heads in place

And every day this world we have to face

I just can’t seem to find my proper place 



Kids get down, stormy weather

Fifteen years of royal pleasure

Kids get down underground

Everybody dance to the funky sound 



Everybody’s talking about the kids

It won’t be long before we get our own

And every kid can truly feel at home

I told ya you should give the dog a bone

Everybody’s talking about school

But I get more pleasure breaking all the rules

Cos lesson one begins with "Life Is Cruel"

Well I guess I’m just an educated fool

Everybody’s talking about the kids

Mom and Dad make efforts to excuse it

Government officials will confuse it

Members of the bench will try to prove it

You’re going down, sucker 



Everybody’s talking about the kids now

Everybody’s talking about the kids now

The kids got funky soul 



Kids get down, stormy weather

Fifteen years of royal pleasure

Kids get down, celebrate

Now we’re going to kick the thing we hate

Everybody’s talking about high

But kids get high to satisfy

For reaching out to touch the sky

Is all I can identify, and you know why 



Kids get down, stormy weather

Fifteen years of royal pleasure

Kids get down, celebrate

Now we’re gonna kick the thing we hate

Kids get down, pressurized

To live the life that you devised

Kids get down, celebrate

Life’s too short to complicate

Have you gone astray?

Or lost your way?

You should have seen me yesterday

Well I knew this kind of love

Was written in the stars

It’s only once or twice that you’re in line with Mr Moon

Then it was you

Took me on your cloud

Gave me flowers for my pain

But with some degree of certainty

My destiny seemed to slip away from me

Before I got to know your name



Just give me a chance

I’ll do what you want me to

Everybody wants to dance

So how come I can’t dance with you

You really turn me on

You’re the one thatmakes me smile

It’s Mr Moon who plays in tune, Mr Moon who knows

And if it’s Mr Moon who gives the sign then that’s the sign that goes

I never know what to do

Till I’m there with you.







Did you lose your mind

For a day

You don’t remember anyway

Like the waters of a dream

Encapsulate my mind

A place! haven’t seen sits at the end of space and time

So lost in time

Than I think I’m blond

To perhance upon this circumstance is something of a miracle

So spiritual

It’s verging on the physical

Searching for a love I cannot find.

You say you fight to give us freedom

But often more than not this is abused

And the faces of a tired generation

Have decided they are sick of being used

For the purpose of current declarations

Still the same, it’ll never change until the end

Is to buy appreciation of the nation

To cover the mistakes you must defend

And you say there’ll be a chance for everyone

to protest against your calculated greed

But I can see into the future

Won’t be long before the welfare

Send me letters telling me how much they need

And it’s not been in my interest to please them

For the only interest rate to fall is mine

See a brand new generation is demanding

What you’ve been doing with our money all this time 

Scam

People try living life at speed of light

Scam

Don’t know why but I have to do the things I do

Scam

Give me ten, that’s the move I give you five

Scam

People say it’s the way to stay alive 



So you see you have to be a schemer

If you wanna love the life you have to live

And it don’t matter how much I earn

’Cause I always get my fingers burned

When The Man gets down to his business

And I’ve been searching for a reason

Why I have to give it all up just when I want to get ahead

See I had to lose car, job, wife, dog and home

Debts and threats on the telephone

Maybe I should bust a move instead

Now we all know when we watch the television

Not confused between a puppet or conviction

Glued to the screen by a thousand shallow words of widsom

It ain’t what it seems when it’s a single sided system

Someone’s got a hold on my living

So I’m gonna have to do the thing that’s fair

They got to justify for what I should be giving

Should I lie, should I steal or should I care?

’Cause now I’ve got to scam

All of my visions were untrue

Till I had a vision of you

An untimely end for all

But it was only then, only then that I saw

Saw the morning glory 

Can’t you take me there

Can’t you take me there

Away from soliloquies of sadness

And prophecies of pain

For us all to see 



I had a vision in my mind

I had a vision of peace

I had a vision of you

Everything is good, and brown

I’m here again

With a sunshine smile upon my face

My friends are close at hand

And all my inhibitions

Have disappeared without a trace

I’m glad that I found

Somebody who I can rely on 

This is the return of the space cowboy

Interplanetary good vibe zone

At the speed of cheeba

You and I go deeper

Maybe I’m gonna have to get high

Just to get by 



Everything is good, and green

Say, I’m red again

And I don’t suppose I’m coming down

I can see clearly, so high in the sky

A man with psychedelic picture frames

Of happiness to shade his eyes

He’s glad that he found

Somebody who he can rely on