The Byrds

[fox69]

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"(See The Sky) About To Rain"

"(See The Sky) About To Rain"


See the sky about to rain broken clouds and rain
Locomotive pull the train whistle blowing through my brain
Signals curling on an open plain rolling down the track again
See the sky about to rain

Some are bound for happiness some are bound to glory
Some are bound to live with less who can tell your story

See the sky about to rain broken clouds and rain
Locomotive pull the train whistle blowin through my brain
Signals curlin' on an open plain rollin down the track again
See the sky about to rain

I was down in Dixie Land played a silver fiddle
Played it loud and then the man broke it down the middle
See the sky about to rain

 

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"5D (Fifth Dimension)"

"5D (Fifth Dimension)"


Oh how is it that I could come out to here and be still floating
And never hit bottom and keep falling through
Just relaxed and paying attention
All my two dimensional boundaries were gone I had lost to them badly
I saw the world crumble and thought I was dead
But I found my senses still working

And as I continued to drop thru the hole
I found all the surrounding
Who showed me the joy that innocently is
Just be quiet and feel it around you

And I opened my heart to the whole universe and I found it was loving
And I saw the great blunder my teacher's had made
Scientific delirium madness

I will keep falling as long as I live
All without ending
And I will remember the place that is now
That has ended before the beginning

Oh how is it that I could come out to here and be still floating
And never hit bottom and keep falling through
Just relaxed and paying attention

 

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"Absolute Happiness"

"Absolute Happiness"


Dressed in country cloth and sitting on the floor
Warmed by antique sun amid the green timber
Held together by uncertainty, climb the Babel tower
Looking up instead of down, we need room to gamble

Sunday morning exercises started stand alone
Filling in the vacant spaces with the dreams of truth
Intimitations slowly sinking in, see the dreams we dreamed
Looking up instead of down still a-hiding

Absolute happiness unties the ropes that bind
Greatness and unity shines within the mind
Shines within the mind

So long ago I promised to conscience and easily wrote a code
So the Lord and I'll soon be back together again
Men'll always be equal times a bad connection
Looking up instead of down only good prevails

Absolute happiness unties the ropes that bind
Greatness and unity shines within the mind
Shines within the mind

 

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"2-4-2 Fox Trot (The Lear Jet Song)"

"2-4-2 Fox Trot (The Lear Jet Song)"


Go ride the Lear Jet, baby
Go ride the Lear Jet
Go ride the Lear Jet, baby...

 

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"All I Really Want To Do"

"All I Really Want To Do"


I ain't lookin' to compete with you
Beat or cheat or mistreat you
Simplify you, classify you
Deny, defy, or crucify you
All I really want to do
Is baby be friends with you

No, I ain't lookin' to fight with you
Frighten you or tighten you
Drag you down or drain you down
Chain you down or bring you down
All I really want to do
Is baby be friends with you

I don't want to fake you out
Take or shake or forsake you out
I ain't lookin' for you to feel like me
See like me or be like me

I don't want to meet your kin
Make you spin or do you in
Or select you or disect you
Or inspect you or reject you
All I really want to do
Is baby be friends with you

 

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"All The Things"

"All The Things"


See the sun how bright it is, it never was before
See the sun it shines right through my door but noone's there
I see warm smiles I never gave reflection in the air
All the things I want today, all the things I wasted on the way

See the earth how sweet it smells, I don't know how it feels
See the earth it sleeps beneath my heels as I pass through
I see tears that I never shed in every drop of dew
All the things I want today, all the things I wasted on the way

Hear the sky singing the songs that I could have played
Too busy talking to prove that I was not afraid
See this dried up broken straw turning into rock
See this dried up broken straw forgotten and left behind
And see deeds that I never done are flowing in the wine
All the things I want today, all the things I wasted
All the things I want today, all the things I wasted
All the things I want today, all the things I wasted on the way

 

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"America's Great National Pastime"

"America's Great National Pastime"


One of America's great national pastimes is drinking a coke
Taking a smoke telling a joke
One of America's great national pastimes is playing ball
Taking it all and thinking so small
But the great taste of coke has refreshed players
The hot and tired the weary and the sore
But the great taste of coke has refreshed players
The hot and tired the weary and the sore
One of America's great national pastimes is chocolate fudge
Carrying a grudge bribing a judge
One of America's great national pastimes is poisoning rain
Acting insane inflicting pain
But the great taste of coke has refreshed players
The hot and tired the weary and the sore
But the great taste of coke has refreshed players
The hot and tired the weary and the sore
One of America's great national pastimes is the worship of speed
Planting the seeds taking more than she needs
One of America's great national pastime is cutting the grass
Grabbing some ass living too fast
But the great taste of coke has refreshed players
The hot and tired the weary and the sore
But the great taste of coke has refreshed players
The hot and tired the weary and the sore

 

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"Antique Sandy"

"Antique Sandy"


Antique Sandy lived in the woods
And she'd go to the stream when the weather was good
She'd take down the washin for her old man to wear
And she tried not to get eaten by the bear
She'd fly to the market in her worn out old balloon
That she traded with the flyer for an antique silver spoon
And when she got home she'd cook upon the wooden stove
And she'd go to sleep and listen to the whispers of the grove
At night she dreamed of places where she lived when she was young
Where the corn strip stretched for miles like a giant serpent's tongue
Electric lights and phone bells and every light insane [?]
Like a hundred thousand hungry miles meeting at her brain

I greet her in the morning when she wakes up in my arms
And I tell her that I love her and I'll keep her free from harm
I hold her close she matters she is all the world to me
Cause she's my Antique Sandy and she's in love with me

 

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"Armstrong, Aldrin And Collins"

"Armstrong, Aldrin And Collins"


Minus 20 in counting...19..18..17..16..15..14..13..12..11..
10..9..8..7..6..5.. we have ignition..3..2..1..
We have lift off

Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins were launched away in space
Millions of hearts were lifted, proud of the human race
Space control at Houston, radio command
The team below that gave the go they had God's helping hand

 

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"Artificial Energy"

"Artificial Energy"


Sittin' all alone now, I took my ticket to ride
Just a matter of time now till I'll be up in the sky

Coming up on me now, I'm king for the night
What's it gonna be now,
How hurtful things are brewing inside
Do you think it's really the truth that you see?
I've got my doubts, it's happened to me

Artificial energy is wrestling my mind
I've got a strange feeling
I'm going to die before my time
I'm coming down off amphetamine
And I'm in jail 'cause I killed a queen