LOVE IS

Oh, love is real
Love is ageless like the sun
And oh, love is pure
And it’s only just begun

Don’t ask me why
Don’t sit and cry
Though words sound plain
I’ll try to explain
What love is

And oh, love is reckless
Love is reckless like the wind
And oh, love is patient
Give it time, give it time
To begin

Don’t ask me why
Don’t sit, don’t cry
Though words sound strange
I’ll try to explain
What love is

• • •

FOOL’S HEAVEN

My ceaseless imagination takes me ten feet from the ground
It’s a cold hard situation to be put below the ground
And a battle won means another has been lost

Fool’s Heaven
Heaven is for fools
Heaven is for fools
Fool’s Heaven

My careless infatuations make me become a hypocrite
I end up running slowly like a dog that’s just been bit
And a lie of love is a lie of the mind

Fool’s Heaven
Heaven is for fools
Heaven is for fools
Fool’s Heaven

Life can pass you by
Better not close your eyes
Life can pass you by

Through so many hungry people
You don’t know what you have got
I wanted so much to hold you
My darling it was hot
Til it got cool, real cool

And heaven is for fools
Heaven is for fools
Fool’s heaven
Fool’s heaven
Heaven is for fools

• • •

HERE

Here we sit and have a conversation
Wondering if the world will ever change
All it takes is a little communication
Between the stranger and the strange

I’m here, I’m here

What does it take to be forgotten?
What does it take to be known again?
How can we begin at the beginning
When we pretend to know the end?

I’m here, I’m here
Where are you?
If I’m here

This life will fly, fly right by
And one day you will see like me
That all our love has to be good enough
To change the way we see

So what’s it going to be?

I’m here, I’m here
I’m waiting for you, man.

• • •

WALKING ON WATER

I’m walking on water
I’m walking on water
On a clear blue sea
On a clear blue sea

Someone is listening
Listening to me

Try to see, try to understand
That no one is better than who you’re meant to be
Who you’re meant to be, who you’re meant to be

Try to see, try to understand
That no one is better than who you’re meant to be
Who you’re meant to be, who you’re meant to be

I fell on the sidewalk
I fell through the wall
Now I’m walking on water
Standing seven feet tall
Standing seven feet tall

Try to see, try to understand
That no one is better than who you’re meant to be
Who you’re meant to be, who you’re meant to be
Who you’re meant to be

• • •

WHO THE HELL IS PETER BROWN?

Who the Hell is Peter Brown? Who the Hell is Peter Brown?

It could be he’s nobody
But that’s always somebody
Sometimes when you’re Somebody, you’re nobody
But no one’s really nobody, you see?

So who the hell is Peter Brown?

Who the Hell is Peter Brown? Who the Hell is Peter Brown?

He could be the FBI
Or maybe the CIA
Some gun toting freak from Her Majesty’s hideaway
He could be the one looking you right in the eye

He remembers who he used to be
His positive identity
Now who the hell is Peter Brown?

Who the Hell is Peter Brown? Who the Hell is Peter Brown?

They want to alienate you, disorientate you, isolate you
They want to alienate you, disorientate you, penetrate you

But I’m not gonna hate you
No I’m not gonna hate you
Peter Brown

• • •

THOSE HAPPY DAYS

Now I’m sittin’ doin’ nothin’
Watching everyone get old
I could tell you all the stories
Seems they’ve already been told

When I could get up, and I could get down
When I was around

Those Happy Days
Those Happy Days
Those Happy Days

When I could get up, and I could get down
When I was around

Here today and gone tomorrow
That’s one thing I know is true
First you beg and then you borrow
Then they come running after you

Well I could get up, and I could get down
And I was around

Those Happy Days
Those Happy Days
Those Happy Days

When I could get up, and I could get down
When I was around
Yeah!

Well, that’s right son, just like my momma used to make

Now I’m sittin’ doin’ nothin’
Watching everyone get sold
And I could tell you all the stories
Seem they’ve already been told

When I could get up, and I could get down
When I was around

Those Happy Days
Those Happy Days
Those Happy Days

When I could get up, and I could get down
When I was around

• • •

GHOST SONG

Sometimes I think I’m just gonna lose it
Sometimes I think I’m just gonna lose it
Sometimes I think I’m just gonna lose it
Sometimes I think I’m just gonna lose it

Fall down
Hit the ground
Lord knows, I’ve been around
Pining for the one who carries on
Pining for the one who carries on

Sometimes I think I’m just gonna lose it
Sometimes I think I’m just gonna lose it
Sometimes I think I’m just gonna disappear
Waste away in thin air
Sometimes I think I’m just gonna…

Fall down
Hit the ground
Oh what the hell?
I’m at the bottom of the well.

Pining for the one who carries on
Pining for the one who carries on
Pining for the one who carries on

Heave - ho, heave -ho, heave- ho, heave-ho
Heave - ho, heave -ho, heave- ho, heave-ho

Pining for the one who carries on

• • •

WAY OF THE WORLD

Singing in a church choir
The sound of laughter
I remember it so clearly it seems like yesterday I was there
Loving peace and love
The words they ring out to me
They ring out to me
And now I see and now I see

That’s the way of the world
That’s the way of the world to me
That’s the way of the world
That’s the way of the world to me

Taking steps beyond myself
Moving with the speed of sound
Taking steps beyond myself
Moving with the speed of sound

Across another bridge I see
Another boy he looks just like me
He grows up motherless
He grows up without forgiveness

Needing something that he can’t get
He cries out to her
He cries out to her
And now I see and now I see

That’s the way of the world
That’s the way of the world to me
That’s the way of the world
That’s the way of the world to me

Happiness is momentary
Silence is a key
Happiness is momentary
Silence is a key
Happiness is momentary
Silence is a key

That’s the way of the world
That’s the way of the world to me.

• • •

GOTTA WORK IT OUT

You gotta work it out, you gotta work it out
Don’t let it be too late, don’t let it be too late

You gotta see the stars
You gotta see the sun
You gotta work it out my friend
Before it’s all gone

Don’t let it be too late!
Don’t let it be too late!

Life is short and oh, life is long
Take your time, you don’t have to rush along
But you gotta be strong
You gotta be strong

Don’t let it be too late!
Don’t let it be too late!

You gotta work on love
You gotta work your love
You gotta work it out together
You gotta trust each other

Don’t let it be too late!
Don’t let it be too late!
Don’t let it be too late!

• • •

TARGET

Don’t tell me yesterday’s news is today’s piece of paper where you sign
Your bloody name down on
And if you choose these means of destruction
You’ll find, you lose.

Like a target, a target against the wall
Like a target, a target against the wall
And I lose myself again

And in the age of fear, we try to recognize ourselves
In what we have been
And if we fear all of love’s potential well we find, we’re nothing more

Than a target!
A target against the wall
Than a target, a target against the wall
And I lose myself again

Like a target, a target against the wall
Like a target, a target against the wall
Like a target, a target against the wall
And I lose myself again

• • •

LONG DISTANCE LOVE AFFAIR

Long distance love affair
Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh
Oh yeah…
Long distance love affair

Well you look like a child when you sleep
On those dreamy white pillows we bought so cheap
Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh
Long distance love affair

Will you answer when the question’s done?
Will you walk this way when the clouds roll in?
Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh
Oh yeah…
Long distance love affair
Catch me flyin’ in the air

• • •

Lyrics by Rebecca Blasband ©2018 - 2021
Peace Flyer collage by Rebecca Blasband

Graphic illustrations by Stuart Bradford

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