Enlightened ROCK lyrics

The Balance

After he had journeyed,
And his feet were sore,
And he was tired,
He came upon an orange grove
And he rested
And he lay in the cool,
And while he rested, he took to himself an orange and tasted it,
And it was good.
And he felt the earth to his spine,
And he asked, and he saw the tree above him, and the stars,
And the veins in the leaf,
And the light, and the balance.
And he saw magnificent perfection,
Whereon he thought of himself in balance,
And he knew he was.

Just open your eyes,
And realize, the way its always been.
Just open your mind
And you will find
The way its always been.
Just open your heart
And that’s a start.

And he thought of those he angered,
For he was not a violent man,
And he thought of those he hurt
For he was not a cruel man
And he thought of those he frightened
For he was not an evil man,
And he understood.
He understood himself.

Upon this he saw that when he was of anger or knew hurt or felt fear,
It was because he was not understanding,
And he learned, compassion.

And with his eye of compassion.
He saw his enemies like unto himself,
And he learned love.
Then, he was answered.

Just open your eyes,
And realize, the way its always been.
Just open your mind
And you will find
The way its always been.
Just open your heart
And that’s a start.

- Moody Blues​

 

There Is An Ocean lyrics​

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[FONT=&quot]There is an ocean of vast proportion[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] And she flows within ourselves.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] To take dips daily we dive in gaily,[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] He knows who goes within himself.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot] The abode of Angels, the mystical Promised Land,[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] The one and only Heaven, the God of man[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] Is but the closing of an eyelid away.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] There is a silence of pure excellence[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] And she flows within ourselves.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] To appreciate, re-deactivate,[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] He knows who goes within himself.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] The domain of Devils, the Fearful Land,[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] The only and only Hades, the Satan of man[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] Is but the closing of an eyelid away.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] All is as it was and ever more shall be,[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] Though they try to tell us it's not so.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] Over all the earth there's nothing new to see,[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Excepting every seed will newly grow.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot] Innocence in childhood false men misconstrue[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] To be years of darkness spent in shade,[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] Denying childhood's vision of the God of Love,[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] So that Truth be turned about and untruth made,[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] And untruth made.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] There is a reason for every season[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] Of change within ourselves.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] To navigate, re-appreciate[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] And know the flow within ourselves.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] The deliverance from Deluge, the good dry land,[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] The one and only Haven, the rock of Man[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] Is but the closing of an eyelid away.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]

There is a season, ooh,[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] There is an ocean, ooh,[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] There is a silence, ooh.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] [/FONT][FONT=&quot]- Donovon[/FONT]​

 

Late Lament
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Breathe deep the gathering gloom
Watch lights fade from every room
Bedsitter people look back and lament
Another day's useless energy spent.
Impassioned lovers wrestle as one,
Lonely man cries for love and has none.
New mother picks up and suckles her son,
Senior citizens wish they were young.
Cold hearted orb that rules the night,
Removes the colors from our sight.
Red is grey and yellow white,
But we decide which is right.
And which is an illusion???


- Graeme Edge
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Watching the river flow

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What's the matter with me,
I don't have much to say,
Daylight sneakin' through the window
And I'm still in this all-night cafe.
Walkin' to and fro beneath the moon
Out to where the trucks are rollin' slow,
To sit down on this bank of sand
And watch the river flow.

Wish I was back in the city
Instead of this old bank of sand,
With the sun beating down over the chimney tops
And the one I love so close at hand.
If I had wings and I could fly,
I know where I would go.
But right now I'll just sit here so contentedly
And watch the river flow.

People disagreeing on all just about everything, yeah,
Makes you stop and all wonder why.
Why only yesterday I saw somebody on the street
Who just couldn't help but cry.
Oh, this ol' river keeps on rollin', though,
No matter what gets in the way and which way the wind does blow,
And as long as it does I'll just sit here
And watch the river flow.

People disagreeing everywhere you look,
Makes you wanna stop and read a book.
Why only yesterday I saw somebody on the street
That was really shook.
But this ol' river keeps on rollin', though,
No matter what gets in the way and which way the wind does blow,
And as long as it does I'll just sit here
And watch the river flow.

Watch the river flow,
Watchin' the river flow,
Watchin' the river flow,
But I'll sit down on this bank of sand
And watch the river flow.


- Bob Dylan
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Eyes Of A Child
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Listen hear the sound
The child awakes
Wonder all around
The child awakes
Now in his life
He never must be lost
No thoughts must deceive him
in life he must trust

With the eyes of a child
You must come out and see
That your world's spinning round
And through life you will be
A small part of a hope of a love that exists
In the eyes of a child you will see

Earth falls far away
New life awaits
Time it has no day
New life awaits
Here is your dream
And now how does it feel
No words will go with you
And now what is real?

With the eyes of a child
You must come out and see
That your world's spinning round
And through life you will be
A small part of a hope of a love that exists
In the eyes of a child you will see


- Moody Blues
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Eyes Of A Child Part 2
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I'm gonna' sit and watch the web
That you will build this day
Will be a thread of love you weave
It's yours to show the way
Then everything will be as you will see
In the light

With the eyes of a child
You must come out and see
That your world's spinning round
And through life you will be
A small part of a hope of a love that exists
In the eyes of a child you will see

With the eyes of a child
You must come out and see
That your world's spinning round
And through life you will be
A small part of a hope of a love that exists ...


- Moody Blues
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Ball and Chain

I don't understand how come you're gone, man. I don't understand why half the world is still crying, man, when the other half of the world is still crying too, man, I can't get it together. I mean, if you got a cat for one day, man — I mean, if you, say, say, if you want a cat for 365 days, right — You ain't got him for 365 days, you got him for one day, man. Well I tell you that one day, man, better be your life, man. Because, you know, you can say, oh man, you can cry about the other 364, man, but you're gonna lose that one day, man, and that's all you've got. You gotta call that love, man. That's what it is, man. If you got it today you don't want it tomorrow, man, 'cause you don't need it, 'cause as a matter of fact, as we discovered in the train,

tomorrow never happens, man.
It's all the same f**king day, man.*

- Janis Joplin

*These lyrics are taken from the "Joplin in Concert" album and this part is different than the "Cheap Thrills" version. The train ride refers to the 1970 "Festive Express" train tour across Canada taken by EricAndersen, The Band, Buddy Guy Blues Band, Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Grateful Dead, Ian and Sylvia, Great Speckled Bird, Janis Joplin, Mashmakhan, Mountain, Tom Rush, and Seatrain. Traffic, Ten Years After, and Sha Na Na performed in towns along the way but didn't ride the train. All that for $14.00!​

 

Out And In
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Gazing past the planets, looking for total view
I've been lying here for hours,
You've got to make the journey out and in

Wonders of a lifetime, right there before your eyes
Searching with this life of ours
You've got to make the journey out and in
Out and in, out and in.

If you think it's a joke, that's all right
Do what you want to do.
I've said my piece and I'll leave it all up to you

Wonders of a lifetime, right there before your eyes
Searching with this life of ours
You've got to make the journey out and in
Out and in, out and in.

If you think it's a joke, that's all right
Do what you want to do.
I've said my piece and I'll leave it all up to you

Gazing past the planets, looking for total view
I've been lying here for hours,
You've got to make the journey out and in
Out and in, out and in
Out and in, out and in
Out and in


- Moody Blues
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The Fool On The Hill


Day after day alone on a hill
The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still,
But nobody wants to know him,
They can see that he's just a fool
And he never gives an answer.


But the fool on the hill sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head see the world spinning 'round.


Well on the way, head in a cloud,
The man of a thousand voices talking perfectly loud,
But nobody ever hears him,
Or the sound he appears to make
And he never seems to notice.


But the fool on the hill sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head see the world spinning 'round.

And nobody seems to like him,
They can tell what he wants to do
And he never shows his feelings.

But the fool on the hill sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head see the world spinning 'round.

He never listens to them,
He knows that they're the fools.
They don't like him.

But the fool on the hill sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head see the world spinning 'round.

- J. Lennon, P. McCartney
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On Hyndford Street
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Take me back, take me way, way, way back
On Hyndford Street
Where you could feel the silence at half past eleven
On long summer nights
As the wireless played Radio Luxembourg
And the voices whispered across Beechie River
In the quietness as we sank into restful slumber in the silence
And carried on dreaming, in God
And walks up Cherry Valley from North Road Bridge, railway line
On sunny summer afternoons
Picking apples from the side of the tracks
That spilled over from the gardens of the houses on Cyprus Avenue
Watching the moth catcher working the floodlights in the evenings
And meeting down by the pylons
Playing round Mrs. Kelly's lamp
Going out to Holywood on the bus
And walking from the end of the lines to the seaside
Stopping at Fusco's for ice cream
In the days before rock 'n' roll
Hyndford Street, Abetta Parade
Orangefield, St. Donard's Church
Sunday six-bells, and in between the silence there was conversation
And laughter, and music and singing, and shivers up the back of the neck
And tuning in to Luxembourg late at night
And jazz and blues records during the day
Also Debussy on the third programme
Early mornings when contemplation was best
Going up the Castlereagh hills
And the cregagh glens in summer and coming back
To Hyndford Street, feeling wondrous and lit up inside
With a sense of everlasting life
And reading Mr. Jelly Roll and Big Bill Broonzy
And "Really The Blues" by "Mezz" Mezzrow
And "Dharma Bums" by Jack Kerouac
Over and over again
And voices echoing late at night over Beechie River
And it's always being now, and it's always being now
It's always now
Can you feel the silence?
On Hyndford Street where you could feel the silence
At half past eleven on long summer nights
As the wireless played Radio Luxembourg
And the voices whispered across Beechie River
And in the quietness we sank into restful slumber in silence
And carried on dreaming in God.

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- Van Morrison
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You Can Never Go Home
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I don't know what I'm searching for
I never have opened the door
Tomorrow may find me at last,
Turning my back on the past,
But, time will tell, of stars that fell,
A million years ago.
Memories can never take you back, home, sweet, home.
You can never go home any more.

All my life I never really knew me till today.
Now I know why, I'm just another step along the way.

I lie awake for hours, I'm just waiting for the sun.
When the journey we are making has begun,
Don't deny the feeling that is stealing through your heart.
Every happy ending needs to have a start.

All my life I never really knew me till today.
Now I know why I am just another step along the way.
Weep no more for treasures you've been searching for in vain,
'Cos the truth is gently falling with the rain,
High above the forest lie the pastures of the sun,
Where the two that learned the secret now are one.


- Justin Hayward
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