Tangerine Dream Lyrics

Alpha Centauri
Cyclone - Bent Cold Sidewalk , Rising Runner Missed By Endless Sender
Exit- Kiev Mission
The Ones- Lady Greengrass , Love of Mine
Tyger-London , Smile , The Fly , Tyger
Legend- Loved by the Sun
Shy People- Dancing on a White Moon , Shy People

Alpha Centauri
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Bent Cold Sidewalk - Cyclone, 1978 By Steve Joliffe
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[Transcribed by Chris (Microbe Maniac), Dave Datta, and Bob Pietkivitch]
Clarifications compliments of Steve Joliffe 11-7-91

When I talk to the trees
O'great trees who have learned to speak slowly
I know that they believe that they have an answer
Then I walk in the city where I cannot hear it

When I talk to the city
I have already learned three answers
before I call the question
And slowly, I wish myself among trees
but can not hear myself wishing

When I talk to the people
who are the trees that grow in the city
they reply with a fond kindness, slowly
but there is no answer
for experience to be made by mistake

Upon this key, time will slide,
Beyond the lock, you lose your mind.
And as our door becomes open,
A rush of sound is found inside
Creating Dreams that pass you by.

You may live through your life a long long time..
But you will never know from where it came,
Yet all you've seen is what you've wanted to,
You`re walking forward as you look behind,
Still watching those old memories fade and die...

This door is heavy, and is deeply stained,
With wasted tears, that try to fight in vain,
You may be sitting, feeling quite secure,
But listen carefully - and this key is yours -
For we can lead you far beyond that door...

there are dangers hidden, trust in that language
and it is precisely this conception that which must not be changed
the epitome of our language is patterns containment of thought and sound
<shouting nonsense words>
I die to fight!!
I die to fight!!
I die to fight!!
<shouting nonsense words>

Upon this key, time will slide,
Beyond each lock, you lose your mind.
And as our door becomes open,
A rush of sound is found inside -
Creating Dreams that pass you by..

Bent cold sidewalk, open the gate,
I may be late but I can no longer wait.
Stealing the crown that stood me up,
I'm laying the table with dusty plates.
Bent cold sidewalk, open the gate,
I may be late but I can no longer wait.
Playing the god to fix your gaze,
I'm holding you firm on another day.
Bent cold sidewalk, open the gate,
I may be late but I can no longer wait.

<shouting nonsense words>

Rising Runner Missed By Endless Sender
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[Transcribed by Chris (Microbe Maniac), Dave Datta, and Bob Pietkivitch]
Clarifications compliments of Steve Joliffe 11-7-91

Rising runner missed by endless sender, never coming back,
Rising runner, never coming back, ever running over.

Rising runner, you're missed by the endless sender,
Howling winds dig in your ears,
Steely cold and never getting warm.

Hells Bells, you're alive
<shouting nonsense words>
on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on

Treading lightly, colored stones,
often losing sight of goals
embracing patterns long grown old
leaving space is hard to fold

Kiew Mission - Exit
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[Text supplied by Edgar Froese]

(Froese says "words in parenthesis are not spoken but are conducive
to elucidation")

Continent
Asia
Africa
Europe
Australia
America
(this is the)
Earth
Past
Present
Future
World
(that is)
Peace
To understand (uncompleted)
To understand (completed)
To ask
To answer
To speak
To be absorbed in thought
The thought reader knows
Message
Communicating with friends
To exchange views
Boundlessness
Man
(is a)
Rational being
Talk
conversation
(repeat)

The Ones

Lady Greengrass
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She lifts her dress
and floats to dreamland
makes love to the sky
She lets her hair hang down
as the weeds go round
lady greengrass

Puff the grass is tangerine
Puff the sky is suddenly green
her eyes breath in a state of mind
she's beginning to fly
she's beginning to fly

licking lollypops
catching moondrops
bright and beautiful

big fat love-ins
groovy free-ins
for lady greengrass

puff the trees turn tangerine
puff the sky is suddenly green
her eyes breath in a state of mind
she's beginning to fly
she's beginning to fly
she's beginning to fly
to fly... to fly.... to fly..............

Artist: Tangerine Dream
Song: London
Album: Tyger

LONDON (poem of William Blake [1757-1827])

I wander thro' each charter'd street
Near where the charter'd Thames does flow,
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

In every cry of every Man,
In every Infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forg'd manacles I hear:

How the Chimney-sweeper's cry
Every black'ning Church appalls,
And the hapless Soldier's sigh
Runs in blood down Palace walls;

But most thro' midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlot's curse
Blasts the new born Infant's tear,
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.

(Excerpt from "AMERICA")

Rise and look out; his chains are loose, his dungeon doors are
open;
And let his wife and children return from the opressor's
scourge.
They look behind at every step and believe it is a dream,
Singing: "The Sun has left his blackness, and has found a fresher
morning,
And the fair Moon rejoices in the clear and cloudless night;
For Empire is no more, and now the Lion and Wolf shall
cease."
--

Artist: Tangerine Dream
Song: The Smile
Album: Tyger

THE SMILE (poem of William Blake [1757-1827])

There is a smile of love,
And there is a smile of deceit;
And there is a smile of smiles
In which these two smiles meet.

And there is a frown of hate,
And there is a frown of disdain;
And there is a frown of frowns
Which you strive to forget in vain,

For it sticks in the heart's deep core,
And it sticks in the deep backbone;
And no smile that ever was smiled,
But only one smiles alone

That betwixt the cradle and grave
It only once smiled can be;
But when it once is smiled
There's no end to misery.
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The Ones

Love of Mine
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your skirt's so short that your thighs are showin
you move so fine that gets me going
that mole on your thumb makes me lose my mind
you're everything baby
you're so divine

up there

you're eyes so bright like the moon they're glowin
your hands so soft that I keep moanin
your hair so blonde your eyes are preyin
there's no wonder why I'm sayin
this love of mine
she's so divine
and I don't say that just too find a ?

here she comes

your skirt's so short that your thighs are showin
you move so fine it gets me going
your ? on your ? makes me lose my mind
you're everything baby
you're so divine

you're eyes so bright like the moon they're glowin
your hands so soft that I keep moanin
i keep moanin
your hair so blonde your eyes are preyin
there's no wonder why I'm sayin
this love of mine
she's so divine
and I don't say that just too find a ?

keep on pushin

Album: Legend
Song: Loved by the Sun

Music by Tangerine Dream
Lyrics by Jon Anderson

Transcribed by Dave Datta

Legends
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I have seen the mystics play there
Once or twice but I knew they had a reason
Enchantment plays it's cards oh right
Hand in hand with the working of the seasons

Legends can be now and forever
Teaching us to love for goodness sake
Legends can be now and forever
Loved by the sun
Loved by the sun
Loved

Who sings of all of loves eternity
Whose shines so bright
In all the songs of loves and ? spells

Only lightning strikes all that's evil
Teaching us to love for goodness sake
Hear the music of love eternal
Teaching us to love for goodness sake
Legends can be now and forever
Teaching us to love for goodness sake

Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom

Dancing On A White Moon - Shy People (1987)
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[Transcribed by Dave Datta, and Bob Pietkivitch]

Dancing on a white moon with a twist like a century breeze
Moving through a typhoon, feel it sticking it's a cap on a dream
brother done what we learn
God had us start to roll.
Occasionally feeling, the rust of love in my soul.

You're not in my mind, don't need you.
Whatever love I can find, I won't need you.
With my emotional life.

Aimless dreams chase in my heart,
Feeling like a loser in an unknown game.
Walking just a fool in the backyard,
Getting wounded by the timeless jealous flame.
Touching my heart like a silver knife,
As if drawn in a newsprint cartoon.
Yelling for love!
While dancing on a white moon.

You're not in my mind, don't need you.
Whatever love I can find, I won't need you.
With my emotional life.

There's a freight train running through my brain,
A restless ego is a part of it's wheels.
Silver flashes harbored in the shame,
Burning all that my soul feels.
As the sun shines bright on both evil and good,
So let the Light of your eyes shine on me!
Respecting your way, yes I would,
Tied up by the rising tide of my dark sea.

You're not in my mind, well I need you.
Whatever love I can find, I will feed you.
Through this emotional life.

Again, you're not in my mind, well I need you.
Whatever love I can find, I will feed you.
Through this emotional life.
Through this emotional life.
Through this emotional life.
Through this emotional life.

Shy People -- Shy People (1987)
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[Transcribed by Bob Pietkivitch]

<whhhooohhhooos>

down through the ages
with same structures and thoughts
living and feeling
with same troubles can keep on
how to escape
from the jungle we build
how to remain
that's a dream fulfilled

shy people lone survivors in the natural dream
shy people fearful creatures outside are insane
you will never be part of our lives
you will never be part of our lives

shy people dream through their lives

time, that reflecting ray light, a beam through the night
those minions of dreams not a week lets them by
my fathers behavior was ruining the land
sun breathes out of wide eyes people understand
shy people lone survivors in the natural dream
shy people fearful creatures outside are insane
you will never be part of our lives
you will never be part of our lives
you will never, you will never
see through their eyes

Artist: Tangerine Dream
Song: The Fly
Album: Tyger

THE FLY (poem of William Blake [1757-1827])

Little Fly,
Thy summer's play
My thoughtless hand
Has brush'd away.

Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?

For I dance
And drink and sing,
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing

If thought is life
And strength and breath,
And the want
Of thought is death,

Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live
Or if die.
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Artist: Tangerine Dream
Song: Tyger
Album: Tyger

THE TYGER (poem of William Blake [1757-1827])

Tyger, Tyger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare sieze the fire?

And what shoulder, and what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? and what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger, Tyger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?