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