Roy Harper - McGoohan's Blues lyrics
Nicky my child he stands there with the wind in his hair Wondering whether the water the wind of the where I fear that someday he might ask me if mine is the blame And I've got no reply save to tell him it's all just a game And Heather and I lay together and I was in love She weighted up the gains and the losses and gave me the shove The fear of mankind's untogetherness pounds in my heart The deceit of my friends the betrayals of which I am part And O how the sea she roars with laughter And howls with the dancing wind To see my two feet standing here questioning And I'm just a social experiment tailored to size I've tried out the national machine and the welfare surprise I'm the rich man the poor man the peace man the war man the beast The festive consumer who ends up consumed in the feast And my fife eyed promoter is clutching two birds in the bush He's a thief he's as bad as the joker they're both in the rush He's telling me Ghandi was handy and Jesus sold his ring (Dunno who to, God maybe) "And everyone knows dat dis dough's gonna make me de king" And O how the sea she roars with laughter And howls with the dancing wind To see my two feet standing here questioning Meanwhile the ticket collectors are punching their holes Into your memories your journeys and into your souls Your life sentence starts and the judge hands you down a spare wig Saying: "Get out of that and goodbye old boy have a good gig" And the town label makers stare down with their gallery eyes And point with computer stained fingers each time you arise To the rules and the codes and the system that keeps them in chains Which is where they belong with no poems no love and no brains And O how the sea she roars with laughter And howls with the dancing wind To see my two feet standing there questioning Meanwhile the TV commercials are sweeping the day Brainwashing innocent kids into thinking their way The wet politicians and clergymen have much to say Defending desires of the sheep they are leading astray And Ma's favourite pop star is forcing a grin he's a smash Obliging the soft-headed viewers to act just as flash The village TV hooks its victims on give away cash The addicts are numbers who serve to perpetuate trash And O how the sea she roars with laughter And howls with the dancing wind To see my stupid poetry shuffleing And the bankers and tycoons and hoarders of money and art Full up with baubles and bibles and full of no heart Who travel first cla** on a pleasure excursion to fame Are the eyes that are guiding society's ludicrous aim And the village is making its Sunday collection in church The church wobbles 'twixt hell and heaven's crumbling perch Unnoticed the money box loudly endorses the shame As the world that Christ fought is supported by using his name And O how the sea she roars with laughter And howls with the dancing wind To see my stupid poetry burbling And the pin-striped sardine-cum-magician is packed in his train Censoring all of the censorship filling his brain He glares through his armour-plate vision and says "Hmm, insane" The prisoner is taking his shoes off to walk in the rain And the luminous green prima donna is sniffing the sky She daren't tread the earth that she's smelling her birth was too high Her bank balance castle is built on opinion and fear Which is all she allows within three hundred miles of her ear And O how the sea she roars with laughter And howls with the dancing wind To see my stupid poetry burbling And I've seen all your pedestal values your good and your bad If you really believe them your pa**ing is going to be hard And I've thought through our thought and I know that its blind silly season Occurs when our reasoning is trying to fathom a reason And if you really know it's all a joke but you're just putting me on Well it's sure a good act that you've got 'cos you never let on But if all of that supersale overk** world is for real Well there's nowhere to go kid so you might as well start to freewheel And O how the sea she roars with laughter And howls with the dancing wind To see my two feet standing there burbling And I had this dream in here same time as standing awake These various visions rushed through as I giggled and quaked The distant guns thunder my end and I duck for a while Auntie Lily is handing me candy she chuckles I smile And our village is where I was born and it's where I will die And I'll never be able to leave it whatever I try The ebb and the flow of the forces of life pa** me by Which is all that I'll know from my birth to my last gasping sigh And O how the sea she roars with laughter And howls with the dancing wind To see the dying lying there obeying My age and my time The blood fire wine and rhyme That fills my dream reminds me of an atom in a bubble on a wave That held its breath for one sweet second then was popped and disappeared Into fruitful futilities meaningless meaning Meaningless meaning Under the toadstool lover down by the dream Everything flowing over rainbows downstream Silver the turning water flying away I'll come to see you sooner I'm on my way And there's a mirror that I'm looking straight through And I get it And there's a doorway that I'm ducking into To forget it But flashing just beyond the sky the shattering midnight gathers And reminding me behind my mind the earth quakes the sun flakes flutter Over the mountain fairground Candy flies stay Under the moonshine fountain I'm on my way Lemon tree blossom ladies Poured my tea After the blue sky breezes following me There's a river that I'm making it with And I know it And I'm floating to I don't care where I just go it But flashing just beyond the sky the shattering midnight gathers And reminding me behind my mind the earth quakes the sun flakes flutter Daffodil April petal hiding the game Forests of restless chessmen life is the same Tides in the sand sun lover watching us dream Covered in stars and clover rainbows downstream And the question in the great big underneath is forever And the fanfare that I'm forcing through my teeth answers "Never" But the flashing just beyond the sky the shattering midnight gathers And reminding me behind my mind the earth quakes the sun flakes flutter The pumpkin coach and the rags approach and the wind is devouring the ashes