ARMCHAIR INSOMNIACS II
REVOLUTION
The sound of violence
Falls into silence
Can’t afford to speak
Living week to week
There are times we want to shout
But we need to talk and talk things out
We’ve got to learn to live
We’ve so much love to give
You feel the world in pain
You know it’s time for a change
Listen and you will find
A revolution of the mind
Whatever it will take
Something has got to break
Listen and you will find
A revolution of the mind
Don’t try to deny it
Don’t even try to hide it
They say the dream will come
And it’s for everyone
Easier to be quiet
Feeling like an island
The person you want to be
Is no one that you can see
You feel the world in pain
You know it’s time for a change
Listen and you will find
A revolution of the mind
Whatever it will take
Something has got to break
Listen and you will find
A revolution of the mind
Blue Sky
Forever searching for a heart to defend
My dreams are broken, the road has no end
No strength to stay on, no strength to survive
Nothing behind me, this is my life
Finding some time to kill, bye bye
Watching the aeroplanes fly by, bye bye
Blue sky
Winter sets in, my hands are held out
I’m on my knees and lost in doubt
No reason to ask, no reason to give
Nothing before me, this my life
Finding some time to kill, bye bye
Watching the aeroplanes fly by, bye bye
Blue sky
NEXT WEEK GIRL
Many times I’ve lain awake hoping
To see your face again
I toss and turn at night
Can’t make sleep feel right
Strange how time slows down
When you keep on watching
I try anything, any way
Just to make it to the morning
It’ll be so nice when I see you tomorrow
It’ll be so nice when I see you tomorrow
It'll feel so nice when I see you tomorrow
Next week girl
Next week girl
Like a ghost you were never there
I closed my eyes, you disappeared
Into the loudness of the crowd
The day grew dark, and I wandered around
How I missed you
Yeah, I missed you
Next week girl
It’ll be so nice when I see you tomorrow
It’ll be so nice when I see you tomorrow
It'll feel so nice when I see you tomorrow
Next week girl
Next week girl
MAKING CIRCLES
Making circles inside your brain
Holding on to all your gains
Do you remember?
All the things that make you feel alive
Alive, alive
It takes a lot, it takes a lot of nerve
To try and say you’re thinking of this Earth
You take it, you eat it, you hold it tight
If only what you saw made you feel all right
There’s guilt between the eyes of gods
Who like to try and tell you what you’re thinking of
They’re a beast in a mire under sheets of snow
And whether you believe
It’s not a one man show
Do you remember?
All the things that make you feel alive
Alive, alive
Guilt trip, guilt trap, trips you up
Your eyes and ears are blended in a paper-like cup
It’s hard to walk towards a light you can’t afford
A home that’s cold, a brain that’s bored
You can make it, or break it
You can fake it or forsake it
A thought you made a long time ago
A feeling you can’t shake that it’s waiting to go
And whether you believe
It’s ready to blow
Do you remember
All the things that make you feel alive
Alive, alive
"Step right up, step right up. Come see it for yourselves. The fun is real. The only limit... your imagination!"
APNAAPUN
A painted circle
It stains the colours into my hand
Then a broken wheel
That turns to shape and disappear
Drifting on an ocean of the darkest blue
Meditate on memories of something new
Reminding me always
That in everything there's you
Standing before nothing but a wasteland
I knew the path just like the skin upon my hand
A chance to learn to love again
A chance to be with you
And to find you again
LET IT GO
Thoughts are like whispers
Moving in dreams
Drift between spaces
Morph into meme
Drops in the ocean
Each one a soul
I can see angels
Now sink like a stone
And let it go
Let it go
Let it go
Let it go
A future is calling
Of broken machines
Minds are a mountain
Of industrial screams
Higher and higher
Set the heart free
Time is a moment in understanding
To let it go
Let it go
Let it go
Let it go
SO BAD
I want you so bad
Can’t find peace in nothin’
I’m restless and wanderin’
‘Cause I want you so bad
I want you so bad
I moved my whole world for you
I changed the way I am for you
‘Cause I want you so bad
And I, sometimes wish I wasn’t livin’
‘Cause the love that you ain’t givin’
Has got this aching heart so sad
I want you so bad
I want you so bad
NO SUCH THING AS REAL (PART 1)
I got no money but they’re pulling my strings
Saying I need more stuff, more things
Tell me I’m nothing if I don’t have the latest
Then I’m great but I got to be the greatest
Oh, you can be what you want to be
Oh, you’ll believe what you want to believe
Now this sadness that has followed
Isn’t going away, it’s hanging around, oh no
But the madness that is swallowing
Everything, is in all of us inside our heads
Oh, you’ll see what you want to see
Oh, you’ll believe what you want to believe
Try, the next one is guaranteed
Buy, the next one you get for free
It’s in black, it’s in white
It comes in any other colour that you like
It’s flexible, it’s light
It’s everything you didn’t know you needed tonight, oh
NO SUCH THING AS REAL (PART 2)
Out across the valley
Felt so inspired
Couldn’t see the mountains
I was already climbing, high
Flew around the world
I got excited
Tasted more than I should
I kind of liked it high
So high, so high
There’s no such thing as real anymore
There’s no such thing as real anymore
Party of a lifetime
Blew it all by Sunday
You got gold, oh you got credit
If you want it, we can get it
Burning down the house
While we’re still inside it
Don’t be so emotional
I can still deny it
My world’s ok… it’s not ok
There’s no such thing as real anymore
There’s no such thing as real anymore
If it’s said enough, it gets inside
But it’s warm and comfortable and keeps me satisfied
All songs © 2021, AI Productions/Ellamy Records/Earth Monkey Music, except Let It Go © 2017, AI Productions/Ellamy Records/Earth Monkey Music
ARMCHAIR INSOMNIACS
Frequency
Consume in me my need for more
Bodies of lies lie silent
The feelings stay with you for life
Empty shore, spring tide is high
I feel it waiting at my door
Sowing the seed within the seed
The seas are growing restless
Winds are change, intensity
Love will come in frequency
From the outside looking in
Looking in
With your secret safe in sound
Looking in
ConVerSation
If we're talking past each other
Can we call it conversation?
Take about this and that
Anything that's ordinary
Laughing with each other like we're in the know
If we call it conversation
Then we better think again
But we go forwards and backwards again
We go 'round again
We go forwards and backwards again
There and back again
If it's causing confrontation
Then we better stop and think again
There must be some other way to go about it
There's always more than two ways you can go
If it's causing consternation
Then we'd better think again, but we don't
Forwards and backwards we go
'Round again
We go forwards and backwards again
There and back again
Broken
In the space between the trees
You can still see the sunshine
I don’t know how I can say
You’re Wrong
In the space between your thoughts
You never say the things that matter
Now I find that I can say
You’re wrong, you’re wrong
Because it’s broken
Broken, broken, broken
Even though you’re out of sight
You’re still holding on too tightly
To the things that help you feel
Alright (how do I make you feel)
Alright
You can’t see me, I can feel its broken
Broken, broken, broken
Because its broken
Broken, broken, broken
Because its broken
Broken, broken, broken
Because its broken
Even when you’re out of sight
You’re still holding on too tight
To the things that help you feel
Help you feel alright
Sail On
Money talks and so does silence
People don't so I'm surprised at the violence
I try to listen ‘cause your talking to me
Whatever I say, you’d see right through me, yeah
Sail on a midnight ocean
You know that’s too much
You're out of reach
You're out of touch
And there you go again
I want to find you but you’re too far away
My eyes are blind from the light of the day
I need to see you so I call your name
I'm in the picture but not in the frame
Sail on a midnight ocean
You know that’s too much
You're out of reach
You're out of touch
And there you go again
With people watching like I’m some kind of show
No understanding that I'm pointing too low
I'm moving quickly but your wind speed’s too fast
It's my destiny to always be last
Sail on a midnight ocean
You know that’s too much
You're out of reach
You're out of touch
And there you go again
Wide Awake In Wonderland
Appalled at the state of the world we all live in
More about taking and hating not giving
More sinning, you're best believing
There's no reprieving in sight, hard to see insight in the mess
It is hopeless, lack focus
Misinformed life chokers?
Institutes educated just to clone us?
Much like the others becoming each other
You get along with the brothers and sisters and fathers and mothers, life's twisted
How some can thrive and some struggle
Flash things for rich while poor need to huddle
To share warmth with times is hard
Empathise with those been dealt the lowest card
Harsh moments filled up with broken glass
Piercing mental shards of misuse, hysterics
Alcoholic physical abuse that's inherent in those impoverished
Now that's a whole other topic...
I've been dreaming because I can
I've been thinking because I am
I've been waiting 'til I can see
Now I see
See into the soul of man
I'm wide awake in wonderland
Life is all to short to hold a grudge
Need to move on past the ones who don't show love
Corruption crackers, enemy of the ransackers
Both sides of the same faction
Isn't it fashion to show what's happening? Operate and listen
We make fact of their fiction, those politicians
Us poverty stricken, this system's sole victim
What is it's goal? Slave trade of the soul...?
I've been dreaming because I can
I've been thinking because I am
I've been waiting 'til I can see
Now I see
See into the soul of man
I'm wide awake in wonderland
It's easier to sympathise with suffering and pain
Than all the thoughts that man could have
And all that we could gain
It's easier to entertain and pander to the fool
Than break it down
Break it down and start again
I'm wide awake in wonderland
See into the soul of man
I'm wide awake in wonderland
Sun
She slips from the night into the light of the bar
With the streetwise, the low in life
Familiar faces all going nowhere
She's been there her whole life
She hides, she hides away from the sun
She hides
She hides
Dark are the feelings that colour her heart
They're a heavy load, in a heavy world
Wonders what it feels like to feel right, to feel light
She's dreamed of a life there
She hides, she hides away from the sun
She hides
She hides
Tears in her eyes as she tries to disguise she's alone
So many lies now she's hurting inside
She hides, she hides away from the sun
She hides
She hides
She hides, she hides away from the sun
Free Love
There isn't much we haven't seen
There isn't much we haven't done
There's so much more we could have been
And so much more we could've dreamed
Free life, free love
We are running from this moment now in time
We are running from ourselves to get in line
So get in line
There are so many ways to fall
So far as I can tell
Free life, free love
We are running from this moment now in time
We are running from ourselves to get in line
We run from being seen
Hope that they won't ever find us
Only love can free us from this life
There are many things that we don't know
So many secrets to be shown
Free life, free love
We are running from this moment now in time
We are running from ourselves to get in line
We run from being seen
Hope that they won't ever find us
Only love can free us from this life
Free life, free love
Free life, free love
Stoned
Promises made when we were young
Hard words spoken, truths undone
If you just say nothing you can disappear
'Cause nothing really matters when you don't care
Taste a little then drink some more
Try a bit of that 'cause you're not sure
Help me down I've climbed too high
But I need a little more to just get by
I'm stoned
Stoned
Throw in more than money and your life's a mess
Don't matter what you wear just get undressed
Mmm, you look fine when you let down your hair
Everything is easier when you learn to share
Build it up, now tear it down
Roll another quick now pass it around
All mixed up now we're ready to go
A bittersweet taste that looks like snow
I'm stoned
Stoned
On your shoulder now don't look back
The monkey's climbing all dressed in black
Gonna lay back and enjoy the show
Gonna sit back and watch her go
Dance for me
Dance for me
Oh, dance for me
Ah... I'm stoned
Gonna crash down I'm not ready to land
I'm stoned
Big Country Dream
As the desert flies on the wings of doves we try
To change the world from what it might become
How could we do this
We knew the consequences
Of our own hearts
In a big country dream
We can sleep while the world turns
In a big country dream
We can fly
In a big country dream
We can love 'til the morning comes
In a big country dream
We can fly
In a big country dream
Wheels will turn underneath our heavy hearts
Painful days when memory was part
All the waterline are people looking for a sign
A lonely man, a broken heart
He will travel far
n a big country dream
We can sleep while the world turns
In a big country dream
We can fly
In a big country dream
We can love 'til the morning comes
In a big country dream
We can fly
In a big country dream
Speech: Mario Savio
"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels... upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!"
2 December 1964
All songs © 2017, AI Productions/Ellamy Records/Earth Monkey Music