some lyrIcs, reprInted exactly as they appear from the "i" sleeve, follow as:

and some other lyrIcs, as Jason has decIphered them from dIfferent releases, are:

and, finally, some SufI lyrIcs, reprInted exactly as they appear from the "Life's Rising" sleeve, are:

What's All This Then?
With your eyes open, doors open
you see what I mean?
but you're still dreaming, you're sleeping
you can't do a thing
can't do a thing now, you're in now
in over your head
reach for the stars boy, not fast Ka's boy!

What's all this then: why are you running around?
What's all this then: you know you're sure to be found
What's all this then: I told you once before
the postman may ring twice but fate comes knocking at your door.

They say love lasts forever but I'm sure it lasts much longer than the time it takes for planets and stars to tear asunder, I can't live on my own for 45 more years, the sea became a lake, a lake a pool, a pool my tears.
What's all this then?

Sweet tear, sun ah, say o, sonno wo ho

Don't bluff it suck it then chuck it
quit hanging around
sweet music's playing, you're deaf now
you don't hear the sound
you're just a machine, so come clean
there's rust in your heart
stop, look and listen, before you start.

In A Circle
What else can I do?
under hand and over my head

It might be good for you
to me it's poison and I won't last long

You're not wrong
it last long then goes on and on
but we're not like that!

Dressed in tears, happy tears
we can smile awhile
until we wake up!

Spook
My head in the clouds just as the silver trip is bending
I'm watching the dolphin and the way that it is wending
don't try to come up too fast just as your heart is mending
but then the dream is shattered and the spiral's ending

Building little tombs, bashing flies with spoons
squashing spiders too, let's go to the zoo
daddy's coming soon, he just left the moon
thunder's sonic boom, gave to me this tune

Making love with a spermwhale but it's time to go now
going deeper that Asia up to Navajo now
my head's full of mischief like Pandora's box now
if you want to get in you'll have to cut my locks now

My desire takes me higher,
electricity makes you look so pretty
please don't get upset, I like getting wet
zooming like a jet is a marmoset

So take me by the hand and tell me that you love me
take me by the hand and tell me that you love me
take me by the hand and tell me that you love me
take me by the hand and tell me that you love me

Down
down
stay down
oh stay down
just stay down
little fingers pushing
little fingers push me over
little fingers push me
little fingers push me over
I can see the skinny trees singing
I can hear the church bells ringing
I can see the skinny trees singing
I can hear the church bells ringing
oh stay down
just stay down
oh stay down
just stay down
I'm gonna take you down
I'm gonna take you down
down
stay down
oh stay down
just stay down
down.

Crazy Blue
blue, everything goes crazy
blue, everything goes crazy

when I think of you, everything goes crazy
when I think of you, everything goes crazy

Suicide Kiss
what's happening, she's not there
just silence, the writing's on the wall

this is not another sad story
this is just another heart in tears
this is not another sad story
this is just another heart in tears

what's been going on, the (?) before the fall
what came clear, and then i lost it all

this is not another sad love song
this is just another sad love crossed
this is not another sad love song
this is just another sad love crossed

i never like to turn it off
i never lied, so turn it off
just turn it off

what's happening, there goes one more day
obscene, erased for one more day

this is not another poor excuse
this is just another poor lost child
this is not another poor excuse
this is just another poor lost child

i never lied, just turn it off
no place to be, just turn it off

this is not another poor excuse
this is just another poor lost child
this is just a body without use
this is just another soul gone wild

Baby Milk Snatcher
you just unfold
it's just a tumble
with a little (caress), oh

baby suck seed, slow slow slow

you just unfold
it's just a tumble
with a little (caress), oh

baby suck seed, slow slow slow
baby suck seed, oh
oh....
baby suck my seed

Scab
inside my belly, there's scars made of jelly
they (dance) on a teddy, on aging faces friendly
her sweet smile's getting dusty

just trust for love
don't eat for taste

vile juice, swallow spit reason
angry scab crack split
let them all stay out me
came (moan-a-moan) from a dubway
(let them all stay out of me)
don't turn 'em on, it's not (?)
our glass fur's riding today

just trust for love
don't eat for taste, don't go away

fresh still limbed blue love toy
painting slimmed away
don't dance, dust dance, dancing
don't fuck that slow one
save yourself for me

just trust for love, save yourself for me
don't eat for taste, save yourself for me

Sulliday
just as an opening door makes the specks of dust fly
oh do you know them?
do you know they can bring you down?
in disguise...
in disguise...
doesn't, look at those flowers
oh oh
do what you know
every time i love you
i see angels crossing over
i see angels passing by
(?)
tell when we make love like rain
and i couldn't save you (fishing)
can't say
(?)
i told my heart today
that i love you
i tell my heart today
that i love you
(?)
listening angels passing by
pass me by

Spermwhale Trip Over
here in my LSdream
things are always what they seem
here in my LSdream, in my LSdreaming

and all the shifting shapes
all changing to grapes
never making mistakes
in my LSdream

and all the peoples, and all the fingers
and all the peoples, and all the fingers
in my LSdream

and circles buzzing with life
tip toe, tip toe, tip toe, tip toe
across my head

in my LSdreaming, oh yeah
LSdream, in my LSdream, LS, LS...
LSdreaming

The Sun Falls Into The Sea
insane

cast your shadows like dreams and whispers

and i can see your breath

the sun is on the sea, oh

The Madonna Is With Child
in the big rain
in the big rain

before we sleep, child
before we sleep, child

let your arms down, cover my head
before the big rain comes

we go to sleep forever
there, there he comes, the beginning, child

mother, cover my chest with your pretty breast
you said we're gonna live together
sleep forever

before the big rain comes

this is not the end

W.O.G.S.
you sold me, sold me down the river
you sold me, sold me down the river
when you told me, you make no (?) sugar
you sold me, sold me down the river

i'm floating, i'm just here, i'm floating, i'm floating
floating down the river

you sold me, sold me down the river
you sold me, sold me down the river
when you told me, you make (no little bit of my sugar)
you sold me, sold me down the river

i'm floating, i'm just here, i'm floating, i'm floating
floating down the river

One Way Mirror
check over, dry grey face
move over, push, displace
in trying, i'm lying, still crying, just like diving

waist of her moves, of drip-dried skin
her face that's too hard to be suffered with

ladies never, never touch me
(i just don't wanna dance)
(?) to speak my peace
luscious love to (?)
it's on the other side from you

incomplete courses from unstable horses
such my like, feel
this brittle glass won't take no more

what can you lose when your everything
i'm holding on 'til i lose my skin
i'm holding on 'til i lose my skin

ladies never, never touch me
(i just don't wanna dance)
(?) to speak my peace
luscious love to see their (teeth?)
it's on the other side from you

it's on the other side from you

Up
forward ever ascending on a stairway to heaven
me and the children and mama make seven
my senses take over as we start to float
higher and higher on a huge starbound boat

forward ever ascending, our head in the clouds
i watch as the dolphins tear off all their shrouds
your head is a halo, it catches the light
as i enter the gates what a glorious sight

over and over and over and over, over and over and over we go
over and over and over and over
higher and higher and higher and higher
higher and higher on a big black starliner

A Love From Outer Space
she loves me she loves me she loves me
a love from outer space

it's true

i know where she's coming from
space is where we both belong
got to tell her in this song
this time, love, we can't go wrong

she comes arriving via space express
meet the girl who (?)
(?) guest
just can't wait for her caress
she comes from milky way
she's come to earth on my birthday
(?)
(?)

shalalalalalala hey

she loves me she loves me she loves me
a love from outer space

Snow Joke
last night seen in the sky
silver's (?) bright we be flying high
it's just a dream it's just a dream
it's just a dream and we're all dreaming

'snow joke

a little boy fell to the ground
spilled his little seed he was gonna fall
it's just a dream it's just a dream
it's just a dream and we're all dreaming

'snow joke

"He taught me to sing a song. If you want to hear it, I can sing it for you." (a sample from Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke's film 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY)

from on the ground to overhead
no space between nothing to fear
don't take a chance just come with me
we'll hold hands and you will see

it's no joke

Miles Apart
and it really doesn't matter if you break my heart
just as long as we're together i will fall apart

in my heart we're miles apart

and it really doesn't matter what you say to me
just as long as we're speaking (?)

in my heart we're miles apart
and the sad sad song goes on and on
the sad sad song goes on and on
in my heart we're miles apart
and the sad sad song goes on and on
the sad sad song goes on and on and on...

just because we won't start over doesn't make it so
(?)

in my heart we're miles apart
and the sad sad song goes on and on
the sad sad song goes on and on
in my heart we're miles apart
and the sad sad song goes on and on
the sad sad song goes on and on and on

and it really doesn't matter if you're mad at me
and it really doesn't matter how you fall apart
and it really doesn't matter if you break my heart

Green Hazed Daze
oh she loves me
oh she loves me not
oh she loves me
oh she loves me not
oh she loves me not

oh she want me
oh she want me not
oh she want me
oh she want me not
oh she want me not

release me

oh she needs me
oh she needs me not
oh she needs me
oh she needs me not

release me
release me

oh she loves me
oh she loves me not
oh she want me
oh she wants me not
oh she wants me not

release me

oh she want me
oh she want me not
she forget me, don't forget me
oh forget me not
release me....

Crack Up
oooh
things all over, things start up again
gotta have a (?)
mmm, gotta get flexible
sometimes you got to change
else you're gonna crack up again

crack up crack up crack up
crack up again

when dealing with a crackdown
the healing doesn't matter
you kinda have to sway with the wind (?)
one little choice
you've got to rearrange
else you're gonna crack up again

crack up crack up crack up
crack up again

things all over, start it up again
crack up and blow away like i know you would
gotta be counted
it's much to late to change
else you're gonna crack up again

crack up crack up crack up
crack up again

cracking up as things all start over
crack up and blew away like i knew you would
crack me up again
you crack me up again
we're cracking up again
cracking up again

And I Say
and i say
don't go away
you want me
you need me

and i say
don't go away

Sugarwings
there she goes
running off and leaving me behind
there she goes
running off and leaving her own kind

i guess it's good for me
she can see things i can't see
ooh, but it hurts
ooh, but it hurts me

there she goes
i guess i'll have to put this down to fate
there she goes
why do you always love them when it's too late?

i guess it's good for me
she can see things i can't see
ooh, but it hurts
oooh, but its hurting me

if you can find the time, you could change your mind
and we could start anew
i'll change my life for you to make it all come true
i can't believe we didn't try to get much closer
this boy would be joy if you could tell me it's not over

we fly away on sugarwings
tell me it's not over.....

Anitina (The First Time I See She Dance)
(the b-side to the M/A/R/R/S collaboration "Pump Up The Volume" with A.R.Kane and Colourbox)
little dolly
follow
i'll feed you sugarcane
keep me close, hold me tight
keep me close, hold me tight
oh my little dolly, follow
follow, holler
follow, hollering
oooh, sweet, oooh sweet
you can touch me where it's forbidden
follow
follow, holler
follow, hollering
little dolly's paper heart is wafer thin
oh, dolly
little dolly's paper heart is wafer thin
oh, dolly....
come and see
sick

Into The Blue
I see and I hear
I realize
there is nothing to fear
and
something so new
I arrive out of the darkness
into the blue

I know and I understand
seen face to face
and hand to hand
something so strange
into the blue

what can I say
after all is said and done
I ought to go away
we've had our fun

Lostaday
and it seems like I'll stay
and it seems like I'm going to stay, yes
yes it seems like I'll stay
but it feels like I lostaday, yeah

Found me a new love fresh like a running stream
all but "here today" seems like a hazy dream
this moment holds it all and holds me in between
now I'm feeling
inside, feeling inside
escaping time

I'm going to love you
like nobody ever did before
like a breeze through an open door
on a sunny sunny day
this love is cool
gonna blow your tears away
blow your tears away
that's all I have to say

sunday into monday, lost another day
tuesday held me close and watched me swoon and sway
I remember wednesday like a shakespear play
we could be R' & J'
a very tragic way
thursday you're a siren deep inside the week
friday like a shipwreck lying at your feet
saturday we met now I can hardly speak of
how I'm feeling
inside, feeling inside
dissolve my mind
inside, feeling inside
say "lovers blind"
but I don't mind.

Lover
You're so rare
a unique boy
so sad yet full of joy
so limitless
caress
caressing me

you could take me home with you
or I could take you home with me
let me, let me
love you too
it's like a miracle
a loving cure-for-all
I feel the dust around my hollow heart
just slip away

you're so rare
for you I've sworn
a rose without a thorn
pure tenderness
possess
possessing me

I only ever cried for you
when will you try to sigh for me
let me, let me
love you too
my tears flow long and cool
a fool beside a pool
I feel beside a pool
I feel the hurt inside my hollow heart
just wash away

Beloved
yes I want you
and I need you
the angel just passed me by, oh!
I feel like I could change inside
I feel like I can change inside
breeze flicker through my mind
feel your body close on mine
inside you:
looking down below
see the love flow
then the love go
what is love's time
can we ever know?

electricity blossoms
sparks in my mind
then I glow for a while
and I'm gone!
I feel like I could love tonite
I feel like I can love tonite
wings flutter moon bright
close my eyes real tight
and find you:

looking down below
see the life grow
then the life blow
in a lifetime
can we really know?

my head in the clouds an my
feet on the ground
spinning out of the dream
and I'm gone!

A Desert Flower
how do I love you
as much as I do

like a prisoner
inside a shell
send me a sunrise
bring me a bell

a desert flower
rise with the moon
unfurl your petals
and kiss the dune

we wept on the sea
sung blues on the land
found swing in the cities
and the crack in our hand

but I still love you

weep another sea
and be free
my sweet baby

a single blossom
upon the sand
drink up your sunrise
just like we planned.

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