Here Not There

1. MONA LISA SMILES

Mona Lisa smiles, yes I’m fluent in both tongues
She’s got legs for miles, she could make it fun
She knows, she toys, it shows, oh boy

Moulabunda she says, Will I try a little harder?
She wants everything I’ve got,
she says she can almost taste it

She’s that kind of girl, And she’s knocking,
knocking down my front door
She could rock your world, she could take you down like never before
She knows, she toys, we’re girls

In another life, or maybe on another planet
We were loving life, we were lavender lovers, yeah

She’s that kind of girl, and she’s knocking,
banging down my front door
She could rock your world, she could take you down like never before
She knows, she toys, we’re girls

And she keeps coming back,
and she keeps coming back for more
And she keeps calling me, and she keeps calling me for more
And she keeps coming back,
and she keeps coming back for more
And Sappho’s calling me, and Sappho screams to me to come on, come on

She’s that, and she’s knocking, knocking down my front door
She could rock you, Oh, she could take you down and beg you for more
She’s that kind of girl, and she’s knocking,
kicking down my front door
She could, Oh, oh, she could shake you down and beg you for more
She knows, she toys, we’re girls, oh boy
We’re girls, we’re girls, we’re girls, we’re girls




2. DO WHATCHA DO

Baby, Baby Do Whatcha Do, what you’re doing
Baby loving you, and I do boy, Boy you move me
When the day is through, honeydew and no fooling
Ooh wee whatcha do, baby do what you’re doing

Ooh I got it bad, I got it good
Baby making love feel like it should
You came like an answer to a prayer
I’m all hung up and baby I don’t care
I’ve never been in love like this before
Every second I fall even more
Closer baby than I realize
One away from drowning in your eyes

Baby, Baby Do Whatcha Do, what you’re doing
Baby loving you, and I do boy, Boy you move me
When the day is through, honeydew and no fooling
Ooh wee whatcha do, baby do what you’re doing

Nothing else on earth could feel like this
Oh you took me prisoner with a kiss
Never wanted anything this much
I’m feeling my salvation in your touch
Ooh how did you know, how did you know
I was so afraid to let it show
Oh I want you so much I could die
Barely breathing, never so alive

I caught a feeling, I never knew before
Oh it’s good, it’s good, it’s good, it’s good, so good, so good
I’m beginning to falter, I’m only human, oh baby

Boy your love is heavy, love is deep
Oh you really knocked me off my feet
Hold me close and whisper in my ear
All those things that lovers love to hear
Baby when you look at me that way
You tell me more than words could ever say
Oh it’s so amazing, it’s so right
Making love with you all through the night




3. MONUMENT

Pasted labels on my days
Well I was wandering faster than science
Going over the greenery

Where often just a change of stance
Could have us looking like a Christ

But there is hardly any more imagination
Ambushing the habits I have lately fallen into

Well I could sit for days like a statue
Even though I’m trying not to do the same things twice

Throw a cloth around the shaking shoulders
Of the statues that you’ve built
You’ve built yourself into a monument, a monument
You’d even pray to it, while it was yawning

And just like zero in its constant emptiness
I was uttering the words of some useless, unwritten scripture

Where often just a change of words
Could have us sounding like a Christ

Throw a cloth around the shaking shoulders
Of the statues that you’ve built
You’ve built yourself into a monument, a monument
You’d even pray to it, while it was yawning

Throw a little money in the paper cups of
All those things that you forgot
You’ve built yourself into a monument, a monument
You’d even pray to it, while it was yawning




4. ALL I DO

All I do all day and all night I think of you
Every waking hour, at night I dream about you

Thoughts of you keep running through my mind
You haunt me like a song I can’t forget
I’m on a carousel

In endless circles, always coming back to you
I wonder if you ever think about me too

The more I tell myself to stop, the more I do
It’s getting to the point, I know, what can I do
I live and breathe and all I do is think of you

When I close my eyes I see your picture in my head
I feel your touch and taste a thousand kisses

Open up a book a to read, on every page I see
Your name in black and white
No matter how I try

It covers me like a blanket, wrap myself in you
I hold it close when it’s cold outside, I’m warm in you

The more I tell myself to stop, the more I do
It’s getting to the point, I know, what can I do
I live and breathe and all I do is think of you

Time stood still and I won’t be the same
I can’t go on like this, I’m calling out your name
What can I do
I live and breathe and all I do is think of you




5. SSHHH

Your lips are moving darling, I know you’re saying something
It’s revolutionary, but I’m not listening honey
Casual conversation, I’m going through the motions
Inside I’m dying baby, I think I’m going crazy

The judges nudge each other, they nod in recognition
They’re consciously responding to this Divine condition
Inside my head I hear a choir of angels screaming
Why don’tcha, what’s the matter, Why

SSHHH, I try to tell myself
No, I mustn’t let it show
SSHHH, I gotta keep control

You gaze into my eyes and I know you’re seeing something
It’s revolutionary, but you’re not listening honey
Another here and now I’m breathless in expectation
A little reassurance, don’t look my hands are shaking

They talk about me darling, their voices loud as thunder
It’s all that I can do to keep me from going under
If you could hear the voice in my upper left-hand corner
Relentless motherf***er, Why

SSHHH, I try to tell myself
No, I mustn’t let it show
SSHHH, I gotta keep control

And every second I’m awake, every second I’m alive
Every ounce that I possess
Every second that I’m here, it’s every second on the edge
Well any second I could blow

What if I fell apart and smashed to a thousand pieces
What if I gave it all up, and gave it all away
Would you say I was crazy, would you have me committed
Would you embrace me darling, or turn and walk away




6. PERFECT LOVE

Questioning the answers, looking for a passage to the light
Reaching out for something, anything to make it through the night

I don’t need tomorrow anymore, for this moment I am higher
Closer than I’ve ever been before, and I feel it for the first time

My imagination never could have dreamed a dream like this
A silent revelation, clear enough to know it’s a good thing when it is

Nothing ventured, nothing gained,
Even now it’s still the same
To the moon and back again,
Unafraid and unashamed

All my life I have waited for this
The stars align and the planets promise
And all creation united strong in our Perfect Love

Little four-leaf clover never really took me very far
I really thought it over, there’s more to this than wishing on a star

As we decorate the righteous way, as we’re praying for asylum
Sanctuary’s not so far away, as we see it for the first time

Beautiful forever, more than just a miracle to me
I want to know it better
Opened up my eyes and the truth has set me free

And we know without a sound,
Sweet as honey, love profound
Fear is lost and joy is found
Ours forever, solid ground

All my life I have waited for this
The stars align and the planets promise
And all creation united strong in our Perfect Love

In the dark and unfamiliar I will not look away
Like a junkie for the real thing, I banish yesterday
Here we are now, Oh my darling, I’m feeling something




7. I DO NOT FEEL AS YOU DO

I have no quarrel with your point of view
Just understand that I got me mine too

Beauty in sunshine and beauty in rain
All things divergent and all things the same

Don’t try to change me,
Don’t rearrange me

Oh no, I do not feel as you do
Oh no, I won’t do what you want me to
Oh no, I do not feel as you do
Oh no, never will I be you

This is my canvas, I’ll paint what I like
Who ever told you that you had a right

Beauty in pleasure and beauty in pain
See how we differ again and again

Don’t try to play me
Love me or hate me

Oh no, I do not feel as you do
Oh no, I won’t do what you want me to
Oh no, I do not feel as you do
Oh no, never will I be you

Sometime I, I try to
Be like you, just like you
The hell that I’ve been through
I’m not you, I’m not you

Oh no, I do not feel as you do
Oh no, I won’t do what you want me to
Oh no, I do not feel as you do
Oh no, never will I be you




8. HEAVY SMILE

Little china doll hovers high above
Temporary wings, manacles of love
Psychic buttercup, silently she beams
From a gorgeous rage, a progeny of dreams

Sacred need left you writhing in the golden mile
You were born to bleed
And you wear it like a Heavy Smile

Flying mental kites, cripple queen of tears
Orphan satellite, prisoner of fear
Will you go insane, twisting in the wind
Open up a vein and fly, it’s a…

Sacred need left you writhing in the golden mile
You were born to bleed
And you wear it like a Heavy Smile

Dancing a shotgun ballet, subpoenaed away
A giggling muse whispered the good news
A collar of pearls, hold on lucky girl
A violet haze, whatever you do, whatever you say

Sacred need left you writhing in the golden mile
You were born to bleed, and you wear it like a Heavy Smile

Tragic butterfly, beauty’s not immune
Doubts her gift to fly, still feels the cocoon
Do you dare to dream of a heedless day
Blissful to ignore, away, It’s a …

Sacred need left you writhing in the golden mile
You were born to bleed
And you wear it like a Heavy Smile




9. CALLING

I did not sleep a wink last night,
I kept tossing and turning for you
I tried to getcha on the line, it just kept ringing, What else could I do
Last night we just had a bad connection,
Last night boy, my heart could not get through
Let me make a long-distance correction
Baby I would never be untrue

And I’ve been Calling, Calling
And you’re more than a touch away
Calling, Calling, oh love is on the line this evening, baby

Out of sight, not out of mind,
boy this distance is killing me too
Was it once upon a time I was sharing my whole life with you
There’s just so many things I want to tell to ya,
There’s just so many things I need to say
Honey, I can’t get to nothing since I fell for ya
So pick up and sweet-talk my blues away

And I’ve been Calling, Calling
And you’re more than a touch away
Calling, Calling, oh love is on the line this evening, baby

Oh I know I should have called you
in the morning cause it’s late
But this could hardly wait
Oh, I wanted so much just to hear the one and only voice
I did not have a choice
Oh, I could have sent this message to you in a letter, boy
But this was better, boy
Oh, And what I’m hearing now
is telling me you’re not at home
Oh please pick up the phone now baby




10. STEP OUT OF TIME

Driving down the freeway in my shiny big car
Sometimes forget what the truths are
My urge is to crash, the sweet Indian music
Flowing from my overturned car

You make me feel
You are so real
You make me feel like a step out of time

Chapman has a mansion at the top of the hill
He pays young girls for a good thrill
Is pleased all day long, until one day with boredom
Decided to go out for a kill

You make me feel
You are so real
You make me feel like a step out of time

It wasted a peace man
And gave us a fleece band
When times are tough

Roll baby roll
I see you spinning in your restless grave
Roll baby roll
I see you spinning in your restless grave

Ever did you see me on ritual road
I was a king to the flat toad
Almost turned the wheel when I came to see
Wisdom in the words that you wrote

You make me feel
You are so real
You make me feel like a step out of time




11. SARASVATI

Flowing, as mighty river she is flowing
Flowing, from heaven earthbound she is flowing

Streaming, as inspiration she is streaming
Streaming, over creation she is streaming

Guru Brahma, Guru Vishnu
Guru Devo, Maheshwaraha
Guru Shakshaat, Parum Brahma
Tasmai Sri Gurave Namah

On a distant shore, Goddess I await
Bound by mortal weakness, hesitating

On the other side, Dharma beckons strong
Promising Nirvana, I am calling

Will you rain down on me Sarasvati
Pour it down on me Sarasvati
Let it rain down Sarasvati
Let it rain down on me Sarasvati

Yearning, in tortured slumbers I am yearning
Thirsting, sensuous desert I am thirsting

Yearning, nebulous, naked, I am yearning
Thirsting, an infant barren, I am thirsting

Dohaa Sri Guru Charana Saroja Raja
Nija Mana Mukari Sudharri
Baranum Raghubara Bimila Jasu
Jo Dhaayaka Fala Chaari

Alabaster moon, incandescent power, Kunda flower
She is white as snow, gleaming, pure, Divine
Ivory ascending, I am calling

Will you rain down on me Sarasvati
Will you guide me Sarasvati
Let it rain down Sarasvati




12. HERE NOT THERE

Well I’m here, I’m not there, and it feels good
To be here, and not there, watching burning wood

Floating through the air, I don’t have a care
Two past three, it can’t be any other time

It explodes in the road, and I witness it
No reply, bat an eye, cause it doesn’t fit

See you over there, sitting in my chair
Perfect world, perfect girl, perfect tourniquet

I am over here, that is not my problem
I can disappear, I can just ignore them

Go away, Go away, I don’t want to see
Go away, leave today, have a lovely trip

Only half believe what the five receive
Uncle Bob lost his job, Bob’s your uncle, mate

I am over here, that is not my problem
I can disappear, I can just ignore them

Go away, it’s OK, they’ll make more of it
Itching stop, did I cop, did I get me some

Sing my little song, life goes marching on
Cause I’m here, I’m not there
And I just don't care

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