musician
Richard Ebbs
WIND SONG some times, I just let the wind, blow, through me through me like my body's got no bone weeping willow tree keep bending, in the driving rain let the winds blow cold, come steal it all away take my hand she said, come on down boy it's cold outside leave those wild horses at the door well it's crazy, I know, I said these thoughts inside my head run so wild, can't hold them anymore run so wild, can't hold them, any more blue sky sunny days she said, when you're happy as the grass is green are here today and gone like tomorrow's child take it easy, she said, don't worry, the die is cast do what you can, just make this moment last thundlerclaps that roll and rumble storm clouds twist and turn and tumble whether it's wicked weather or it's fine she said I'm yours, and you are mine, come the rain, come the sweet sunshine in the high times, and the low times, you'll be mine the high times and low times you'll be mine
SHORES OF SUPERIOR here on the shores of Superior caught between green and the blue grey clouds fly, in a tangled sky and I am so glad to be here with you out on the shores of Superior on the edge of a desolate sea down through the door that's always open a cold wind blows thoughtlessly how many miles as the crow flies did we come to be here in this place? how many days 'til a snow-cold blanket of silence lies over the space? out on the shores of Superior empty and wider than sleep the white-crested water, laid out before us endlessly frigid and deep salmon they run to the spawning shadows of clouds give chase quick fox barks at the gates of the dusk lark floating in space out on the shores of Superior to be living this wonderful life riding the blacktop highway further ever onwards and up to the light
NORTH WIND IN SOUTH ONTARIO there's a wind that blows down from the northland across horizons just as wide as wide can be over the whistling wasteland and the cold cold Arctic sea the miles of trackless woodland the rivers running down to the Bay a beckoning siren calling, in a song on the wind a song of the northland a song of the stones a song of the wide land that dreams me she will sing if you listen whispers of whistling bones, white cedar, and ice she'll sing of the shimmering surges of spectral bright light at the top of the world how I love the wind that blows down from north Ontario under the milky bird-path way's ten million tiny stars the branches dance and wave at the water side there's a wind that blows down from the northland 'cross horizons just as wide as wide as can be she'll sing of the wide land the wide wide land that dreams me
GREEN AND BLACK green and black discolored sky, the dark of a gathering storm to find release, I'm trying to breathe trying to feel like this is normal it's not normal, no way down to my toes, I can feel it I have touched it, seen it all so many times before, bring it on, the trouble I can't refuse, bring it on, it's trouble if I win, if I lose, it's trouble, the life that I choo-oose no siren warning sound alarm the violence of silence, I'm dancing in the dark once again, under streetlights in the rain only halfway sane, in pain, again, at the end of the dream, I can feel it I have touched it, seen it all too many times before, bring it on, the trouble I can't refuse, bring it on, it's trouble if I win, if I lose, it's trouble, the life that I choo-oose way down to my toes, I can feel it I have touched it, seen it all too many times before, bring it on, the trouble I can't refuse, bring it on, it's trouble if I win, if I lose, it's trouble, the life that I choo-oose
HOW MUCH RAIN MUST FALL I'm tired and confused, aching breaking can't shake it off or take you from my mind torch the bridges, close the doors, bury dreams you shared before cut the knots and stumble running blind how much rain must fall before the green grass grows on this side of the hill how wide these tides of shifting sands, on which we stand I walk along the beach, watch the questions rise and fall it's all a game, you know I'll break before you bend keep the jokers up your sleeve, keep the talk to make believe keep me hanging on until the end how much rain must fall before the green grass grows on this side of the hill how wide these tides of shifting sands, on which we stand I'm tired and confused, aching breaking can't shake it off or take you from my mind torch the bridges, close the doors, bury dreams you shared before cut the knots and stumble running blind how much rain must fall before the green grass grows on this side of the hill how wide these tides of shifting sands, on which we stand
IT ALL COMES DOWN TO LOVE it all comes down to love all comes down to love, like a bird in the tree, singin' valiantly, I'll sing in my chains like the sea, 'til I'm free, cus it all comes down to love it all comes down to love tell me what were we thinking of, were we dreaming? ... too bad we forgot this pale blue dot the only home that we've got, how things fall apart, the head and the heart stop caring, for anyone it all comes down to love all comes down to love when all of your castles have crumbled to sand, and time's cold river just slips through your hands well it all comes down to love it all comes down to love a door that you can never close, just as sure, as the wind blows, how can you be free, if eyes only see what you want them to see, the truth may be cru-el but only a foo-el will hold on tight to illusion it all comes down to love it all comes down to love it all comes down to love it all comes down to love
LIMEY SHORES OF HURON, THE by the limey shores of Huron, where the sleepy white clouds sail by missing you on an old escarpment clifftop, where the rattlesnakes sleep all day picturing you these times when we're apart, weigh heavy, on my heart in love you're either in or out, but I can't scream or call out I can't let the demons out in a rainforest cathedral, 3,000 miles from home pining for you by a cedar fire on Long Beach, where the Japanese surf rolls in picturing you it's a perfect Clayoquot dusk, with a beauty, that's almost too much but still I miss you and your touch the truth of your fingers, your fingers and your perfect touch all the bittersweet shadows and light, I want to share with you I want to share my life we'll watch the seasons change together, and when now becomes forever then I'll be by your side by the limey shores of Huron, where the sleepy white clouds sail by missing you on an old escarpment clifftop, where the rattlesnakes sleep all day picturing you out on that lonesome highway, that road of no return like wooden lambs into the dreaming transformation seeming always, only one short step away
LUCKY SONG brilliant child, you make your world smile love and laughter, the light that you shine magical child at, home in the bright sun a gold stuffy lion and a white woolly lamb threads of the future, running through your hands you lucky, little man when the dark fox barks and the soft grass is green and the yellow amber sunflakes fall like leaves from the trees star child, heart of the new day, you're the bean burrito, the strawberries and cream love child oh so happy as the heart's long song to the beauty and the harmony of things one lucky star, you are, yes you are a lucky star you are you'll be nice and warm, in the storm you'll wrapped up tight in the night you'll be safe and snug as a bug, in a rug and tomorrow you'll be dancing, in the rain, again brilliant child, you make your world smile love and laughter, the light that you shine magical child at, home in the bright sun a gold stuffy lion and a white woolly lamb threads of the future, running through your hands you lucky, little man when the dark fox barks and the soft grass is green and the yellow amber sunflakes fall like leaves from the trees
MAPLE LEAF MONOLOGUE you watched the waters rise all round your feet - did the gas light that you burned so bright make you blind, too blind to see it's up to you, it's down to me singing glorious and free a rain of maple leaves falls to the ground - true-blue trolls way down in the rabbit-hole never know what's up or down talk to me, I'll talk to you tell me how you know it's true? look around, it's Paradise, from far and wide, we see thee rise stand on guard, by my side only we can free our minds cold north wind blows all through your dreams - oh so grand your home on this native land still you feel like a refugee ancient creeds, like withered reeds sad old world memories you watched the waters rise all round your feet - did the gas light that you burned so bright make you blind, too blind to see it's up to you, it's down to me singing glorious and free look around, this Paradise, from far and wide, we see thee rise stand on guard, by my side only we can free our minds
NORTH FORK MOUNTAIN in Smoke Hole West Virginia on the North Fork Mountain side the preacher's daughter and I like moths to the flame like salamanders thrashing like Thomas and Lady Jane 'til the firefly angels flickered out like candles in the rain it's a long way down the mountain to the hard old world below it's a long road back to heaven when you fall ah... tell me was the world much simpler then? or is that just in my mind? I see smoke rise through the trees blue eyes that say 'follow' in the wildwood the spring buds swell once again in the greenwood where once we lay West Virginia Smoke Hole Canyon on the North Fork Mountain side West Virginia Smoke Hole Canyon preacher's daughter and I
FALLING I wake up and lie close beside you watch sunbeams falling on white silently breathing in rapt up in musk you rise from the deep of the night oh my heart aches to be touched by such grace on the swell of an ocean tide we fall up to the light so many brilliant pictures born in the moment of each caress home from the hills to a deep deep sea of love more than words could express a hot summer's morning all filled up and charmed blue flowers dance behind my eyes I rise in your arms falling falling it seemed that I heard a voice whisper my name, she said "you're a wave of the sea - a wind on the water, a flood on a plain" she said "I'll set you free" like a child on tiptoe turning the golden key in power and glory we ride let the tide carry me
ROAD TO PARADISE, THE take away the colour, leave them black and white teach them 50 shades of guilt, and, tell them day is night stop the children smiling, dethrone the pagan gods humiliate the healers, this path no saviour trod, tell me is this the road to Paradise is this the road, is this the road to Paradise is this the road, to Paradise con them from their gnosis, in hands put rusty nails fictions of a crucial kind, and, Plain Truth through the mail Pharisees who lost the keys, to the locks upon your gates have forgotten that they had them once, the hour's getting late, tell me is this the road to Paradise is this the road, is this the road to Paradise is this the road, to Paradise a dragon looks through your eyes, and it always will a million years of passion, too strong for you to kill still you would deny her, smother up her fire until scapegoating the innocent, is the fruit of your desire, tell me is this the road to Paradise is this the road, is this the road to Paradise is this the road, to Paradise you who gave it up for Jihad, rapture rich reward: fourteen houris at your feet, all, hanging on your every word! protectors at the pearly gates, keep infidels from there so look down on this ashen earth, with eyes that shed no tears, tell me is this the road to Paradise is this the road, is this the road to Paradise is this the road, to Paradise
BEAUTIFUL DAY
sunlight shakes the morning streets
birds are singing in the trees, again
it's a beautiful day
it's a beautiful day
with blue sky, to melt my cares away
such a beautiful day
new life grows everywhere
it won't be denied
thrushes singing for their new romances
blue jays flashing through the branches
and I, I feel alive
robin's back from Mexico, such a
long way to Etobicoke, saying
mother nature, wake up
let's get this show on the road
it seems like we've been sleeping
like we've been gone too long
sunlight shakes the morning streets
birds are singing in the trees, again
it's a beautiful day
SOME SWEET MORNING see the moon on the water - shimmering stars laid out before me - wide and so far dark clouds may gather - the way may be steep father and mother - got promises to keep so long the stranger - no more to roam over the water - on my way home some sweet morning, leave trouble behind down by the water, I'll ease my mind the water's wide, and I, have no wings to fly there's no trouble in the water, the water's wide I'm gonna wade in the water, to the other side the other side take my watch and my chain I won't be coming home again no trouble, in the water take me to the water, rock my soul leaves are falling, the time has come birds are leaving, and I must be gone to the water side, river deep, so dark and so wide there's no trouble in the water, the water's wide I'm gonna wade in the water... there is a river, runs down from the mountain sings in it's chains, all the way down to the sea this river is wide, and I can't cross over but one day soon, I shall be, free all the king's horses and all the king's men can't make me a young man, again there's no trouble, in the water take me to the water, and rock my soul
ALL THAT A BOY COULD DESIRE there goes my lover, my soulmate and clown the match made in heaven that burns everything down, she was safe as the weather, tame as the tide so soft when she lay by my side they say that when love calls you should follow they say follow the track even if it runs steep let it take you to joy and to sorrow let it take you so high, and deep she got what she wanted, well in demand oh so persuasive, so hard to withstand, she was strongest in water, with a wild steak of fire all that a boy could desire oh you spin closer in to each other then you turn in your strongest and tightest embrace 'til you find at the source there's a nuclear force pushing you back into space now the pages turn fast in the book of my days like snow on the garden, memories fade but it's time to look forward, to be traveling light my star in the east, shines bright and yes when she calls, I will follow I'll follow the track, even if it runs steep let it take you to joy and to sorrow let it take you so high, and deep