So you want to be a rock 'n' roll star?
Then listen now to what I say
Just get an electric guitar
Then take some time
and learn how to play
And with your hair swung right
And your pants too tight
It's gonna be all right
Then it's time to go downtown
Where the agent man won't let you down
Sell your soul to the company
Who are waiting there to sell plastic ware
And in a week or two
If you make the charts
The girls'll tear you apart

The price you paid for your riches and fame
Was it all a strange game?
You're a little insane
The money, the fame, the public acclaim
Don't forget what you are
You're a rock 'n' roll star!

Have you seen her face?
Her eyes reflect the colors in the sky
A warm familiar place
To be swept into whenever she's close by
Makes me wonder why

Run by, don't turn back
Can't hide from the look in her eye

Must be the way she walks
A style made up to capture all she needs
No time to spend on loose talk
If your luck runs right she might see you tonight
Everything in sight

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Repeat chorus

You'll find you're locked in her spell
All the sights and sounds and senses will be found
And only time will tell
How much love can be, to wait so patiently
Wait and see

Repeat chorus

C.T.A.102 year over year receiving you
Signals tell us that youґre there
We can hear them loud and clear

We just want to let you know
that weґre ready for to go
Out into the universe, we donґt care whoґs been there first

On a radio telescope
science tells us that thereґs hope
Life on other planets might exist

I think that maybe I'm dreaming
I smell cinnamon and spices
I hear music everywhere
All around kaleidoscope of color
I think that maybe I'm dreaming

Maids pass gracefully in laughter
Wine coloured flowers in their hair
Last call from lands I've never been to
I think that maybe I'm dreaming

Some flash on a soda of prism
Bright jewels on the ladies flashing
Eyes catch on a shiny prism

Hear ye the crying of the vendors
Fruit for sale wax candles for to burn
Fires flare soon it will be night fall
I think that maybe I'm dreaming

Don't say you love me, don't say you care
You're so far away
Telephone communication, only a three minute elation
When I hear your voice
Through love and trust it's gonna work out fine
The only pain I feel is all this time between
You and me, you and me

All the days have turned to years, only emphasize my fears
Since you said goodbye
I can hear your voice at night, I can read the words you write
It's only love
Through love and trust it's gonna work out fine
The only pain I feel is all this time between
You and me, you and me

Now don't say you love me, don't say you care
You're so far away
I can hear your voice at night, I can read the words you write
It's only love
Through love and trust it's gonna work out fine
The only pain I feel is all this time between
You and me, you and me

Through love and trust it's gonna work out fine
The only pain I feel is all this time between
You and me, you and me
You and me

Everybody's been burned before
Everybody knows the pain
Anyone in this place
Can tell you to your face
Why you shouldn't try to love someone

Everybody knows it never works
Everybody knows and me
I know that door that shuts
Just before you get to the dream
You see...

I know all too well
How to turn, how to run
How to hide behind
A bitter wall of blue
But you die inside
If you choose to hide
So I guess instead, I'll love you

One day you came into my mind
and everything looked as though it was all mine
Loveliness to gaze upon
To feel your magic pulling me away

I thought I was on top of it all
Everyone else was so small
Then I knew what you wanted to do
I knew what you wanted to do

Often think of times when all your thoughts and words
come close to making me lose my mind
Moment now recalling all the time involving minutes
that we spent alone

I thought I was on top of it all
Everyone else was so small
Then I knew what you wanted to do
I knew what you wanted to do

One day you came into my mind
and everything looked as though it was all mine
Loveliness to gaze upon
To feel your magic pulling me away

I thought I was on top of it all
Everyone else was so small
Then I knew what you wanted to do
I knew what you wanted to do

Once upon a time there was a garden on a high hill
green and blossomin` round against the sea
and there the sun came and the rain pourinґ down
garden grew and flourished and splattered bits of color on the ground
and it took shape and symmetry and all of life around
but there came winds driven and howling
there came snow and I feared for the garden
so I built a wall and I built another and roofed it over thick and strong
and kept it from the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
the killing cold could not get in
but when the sun came and the gentle rain of spring
they could not reach the garden behind those walls
it would have died, safely, securely, died
but as I longed and as I learned I tore the walls all down
the garden still lives

Crimson flames tied through my years
Rollin high and mighty trapped
Countless violent flaming roads
Using ideas as my map
"We'll meet on edges soon" said I
Proud 'neath heated brow
Ah but I was so much older then
I'm younger than that now

Half wracked prejudice leaped forth
"Rip down all hate" I screamed
Lies that life is black and white
Spoke from my skull. I dreamed
Romantic flanks of musketeers
Foundationed deep, somehow
Ah but I was so much older then
I'm younger than that now

In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not I'd become my enemy
In the instant that I preach
Sisters led by confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow
Ah but I was so much older then
I'm younger than that now

My guard stood hard when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow
Ah but I was so much older then
I'm younger than that now

One day she came along; I didn't know her name
My friends said to me watch out for the game
I didn't want to believe all the things they said
It seemed to be the right time a love affair instead

Walking down the beach, kicking up the sand
Not so far away wondering where they'll land
We talked of things to do and places that we'd tame
A one with a love to share with a girl who had no name
Who had no name

Then it came the time they said when all the good went bad
She walked into the night, it didn't make me sad
I felt my friends' advice echo through my soul
A one with a love to share with a girl who had no name
who had no name

Keep sayin' no to her since she was a baby
Keep sayin' no to her not even maybe
Why? Why?

You say there's a limit there, she can't go past that
She don't believe you, she don't think that's where it's at
Why? Why?

You say she can't change that, it's the way you've always done it
She don't care about that, she thinks youґve just begun it
Why? Why?

You say it's a dead old world, dull and unforgiving
I donґt know where you live, but youґre not living
Why? Why?

Keep sayin' no to her since she was a baby
Keep sayin' no to her not even maybe
Why? Why?

Like a silent ray of sunlight catching in my eye
Like a bird sea-goin' coasting on my sky
It happens each day you're away from here

A bunch of friends are missing from this tapestry
I remember kissing do you remember me
It happens each day you're away from here

Like a disembodied spirit watching over me
Like a sister sailing ship dead against the sea
It happens each day you're away from here

If you're looking to get a good thing going for yourself
House and pool a new Rolls Royce and some degree of wealth
Don't make waves don't make waves don't make waves
Take a ride out West to find that freedom that you crave
Kick that nine to five Dont let them make you a slave
Don't make waves don't make waves don't makes waves
And when the toys that you dreamed of have finally come
They all will break and you're back where you started from

Malibou is calling you
With days and nights so warm
You can find excitement any size shape or form
Don't make waves don't make waves waves don't make waves

Crimson flames tied through my ears
Throwin' high and mighty traps
Countless fire and flaming road
Using ideas as my maps
"We'll meet on edges, soon," said I
Proud 'neath heated brow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
"Rip down all hate," I screamed
Lies that life is black and white
Spoke from my skull. I dreamed
Romantic flanks of musketeers
Foundation deep, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not I'd become my enemy
In the instant that I preach
My pathway led by confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now

My guard stood hard when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

Once upon a time there was a garden on a high hill
standing green and blossoming against the sea
and there the sun came and the rain pourinґ down
the garden grew and splattered bits of color on the ground
and it took shape and symmetry of life around
there came wind driven and howling
there came snow and I feared for the garden
so I built a wall and another and roofed it over thick and strong
kept it from the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
but when the sun came and the gentle rain of spring
they could not find the garden behind those walls
it would have died, safely, securely, died
but as I watched and as I learned I tore the walls down
the garden still lives

Here it comes again, it's going to happen to me
Here it comes, I should have learned to duck
She's going to say, she's going away
And I will have to live without her and survive

Here it comes, it looks just like the last wave I drowned in
Here it comes, and I'm so far from shore
She's going to go, and take her trinkets
And I will have to live without her and survive

Here it comes again, the night is going to fall
Here it comes, she's going to say good-bye
She's going to go, and leave only me
And I will have to live without her and survive.

Old John Robertson he wore a Stetson hat
People everywhere would laugh behind his back
No one cared to take any time to find out
What he was all about, fear kept them out

Children laughed and played and didnґt know his name
They could tell when he was coming just the same
Walking slow with old John's crippled wife by his side
Then she sighed, then she died

Magic words from him would charm some childrenґs ears
But they laughed at him when he hid behind his tears
All in vain was no game for he'd lost an old friend
in the end, in the end

Old John Robertson he wore a Stetson hat
People everywhere would laugh behind his back
No one cared to take any time to find out
What he was all about, fear kept them out