Rites of Passage

EVERY TRICK IN THE BOOK

Well every trick in the book
that you want to play
You'd better have a good answer
to get your way
'Cause all the tricks that you pulled
And all the people you fooled,
well you you started something

Well all the people that liked you
just went on home
And when they could of stood by you,
you stood alone
'Cause all the people you fooled
And all the people you took
well you started something

And all the signs in your head
call out you're dead
But all the preachers went home
and left you alone

And all the women that liked you,
you fooled around
And when you got them inside you,
you turned them down
'Cause all the women you fooled
And all the women you took
well you started something

And all the lines in your head
call out you're dead
And all the teachers went home
and left you alone

Monkeys to the left,
monkeys feeling right at home
Too many people,
too many walking alone
And though they say
they don't like it
You know they really don't mind
if you started something

But all the signs in your head
call out you're dead
And all the teachers went home
and left you alone

Roger Hodgson - 12 String Guitar, Lead Vocal
Andrew Hodgson - Drums
John Helliwell - Saxophone
Mikail Graham - Guitar, Vocal
Rich Stanmyre - Bass, Vocal
Jeff Daniel - Hammond, Keyboards, Vocal
Biggles - Feedback
Shapeshifter Music


IN JEOPARDY

In jeopardy, in jeopardy, I feel I'm about to cry
In jeopardy, in jeopardy, oh tell me the reason why
In jeopardy, in jeopardy, I'm watching the feeling grow
In jeopardy, in jeopardy, oh tell me I want to know
In jeopardy, in jeopardy, the writing is on the wall
In jeopardy, in jeopardy, I can't seem to sleep at all
In jeopardy, in jeopardy, we utter a lonely cry
In jeopardy, in jeopardy, who cares if we live or die

Who's in your mind
Who's in your conscience
Part of the crime
Part of the nonsense
Do what we can
Pray for tomorrow
Living our lives
Watching, waiting, feeling as much as we can

In jeopardy, in jeopardy, so where is the golden age
In jeopardy, in jeopardy, we're ready to turn the page
In jeopardy, in jeopardy, it's getting so out of hand
In jeopardy, in jeopardy, I wish I could understand

Who's in your mind
Who's in your conscience
Part of the crime
Part of the nonsense
Do what we can
Pray for tomorrow
Living our lives
Watching, waiting, feeling as much we can

Who's in your mind
Who's in your conscience
Part of the crime
Part of the nonsense
Do what we can
Sing for tomorrow
Living our lives
Watching, waiting, working, playing, singing, dancing, running as fast as we can.

Roger Hodgson - Piano, Lead Vocal
Andrew Hodgson - Drums
John Helliwell - Saxophone, Vocal
Rich Stanmyre - Bass, Vocal
Jeff Daniel - Hammond, Keyboards, Vocal
Unichord Music


SHOWDOWN

Well there's crying in the kitchen
and there's fighting on the street
And there's cocaine in the schoolyard
yet my heart don't miss a beat
I can't let go, no he can't let go

And the preacher's on the telly
and he's handing me the phone
Got an ulcer in his belly and a torment in his soul
He can't let go, no he can't let go

Everybody wants a contribution
Telling me they've got the best solution
No one wants the carousel to slowdown
Seems to me we're heading for a showdown

And there's poison in the water
And there's holes up in the sky
And the children keep on asking
"Is the planet going to die?"
We must let go, we must let go

Got to get fired - it's going to get hot
We've got to take it higher,
give it everything we got
oh - oh, you never know, oh way to go

Everybody's talking revolution
Politicians offer no solution
No one seems to want to face the lowdown
Seems to me we're heading for a showdown

Roger Hodgson - Piano, Lead Vocal
Andrew Hodgson - Drums
John Helliwell - Percussion, Vocal
Mikail Graham - Guitar, Vocal
Rich Stanmyre - Bass, Vocal
Jeff Daniel - Hammond, Keyboards, Percussion, Vocal
Shapeshifter Music


DON'T YOU WANT TO GET HIGH?

When will you walk through my door?
When will the clouds disappear?
When will the story unfold?
When will there be no more tears?

But it's okay, you say
Don't you want to get
don't you want to get high?
Sing Lord knows, let go
Don't you want to get,
don't you want to get high?


Smile though the world feels so cold
Sing though there's no one to hear
Dream so the story unfolds
Laugh so there'll be no more fear

Cause it's okay, you say
Don't you want to get,
don't you want to get high?
Sing Lord knows, let go
Don't you want to get,
don't you want to get high?

gold'Cause you're on your way-
you know I'll say today
Hey - don't you want to get -
don't you want to get high?
Sing Lord there's a way -
your love will save the day
Hey - don't you want to get -
don't you want to get high?

Roger Hodgson - 12 String Guitar, Lead Vocal
Andrew Hodgson - Drums
John Helliwell - Backing Vocal
Mikail Graham - Guitar, Vocal
Rich Stanmyre - Bass, Vocal
Jeff Daniel - Hammond, Keyboards, Vocal
Shapeshifter

TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME - R.O.P.

So you think you're a Romeo
Playing a part in a picture show
Take the long way home
take the long way home

'Cause you're the joke
of the neighbourhood
Why should you care

if you're feeling good
Take the long way home,
take the long way home

But there are times that you feel
you're part of the scenery
All the greenery is coming down boy
And then your wife seems to think
you're part of the furniture
Oh it's peculiar, she used to be so nice

When lonely days turn to lonely nights
You take a trip to the city lights
And take the long way home
take the long way home

You never see what you want to see
Forever playing to the gallery
You take the long way home,
take the long way home

And when you're up on stage,
it's so unbelievable
Unforgettable - how they adore you
But then your wife seems to think
you're losing your sanity
Oh, calamity, is there no way out

Well does it feel that your life's
become a catastrophe
Oh it has to be for you to grow boy
And when you look through the years
and see what you could have been
Oh what you might have been -
if you'd had more time

So when the day comes
to settle down
Well who's to blame
if you're not around
You took the long way home
Took the long way home.....

Roger Hodgson - Piano, Lead Vocal
Andrew Hodgson - Drums
John Helliwell - Saxophone, Vocal
Mikail Graham - Keyboard, Percussion, Vocal
Rich Stanmyre - Bass, Vocal
Jeff Daniel - Hammond, Keyboards, Vocal
Delicate music


 

RED LAKE

Red Lake, hear my words
Where the eagles cry
And the spirits fly o'er sacred land
Red lake, hear my prayers
They're a feeble cry
To an angry sky that bleeds for Man

"So get up and shut up
and don't let us use you
Oh get up and shut up
and let us abuse you"

It's a crazy world
And my spirit cries against the wind -
can you send to me
I've been this way before
I've danced on distant shores
I've watched the minds of men
Go south - come back again

I've walked a million miles
I've seen my little child
I've knocked on every door
And still I'm wanting more - To be home -
To be home -
yeah yeah to be home -
To be home -
yeah yeah to be home

Roger Hodgson - 12 String Guitar, Lead Vocal
Andrew Hodgson - Drums
John Helliwell - Saxophone, Vocal
Mikail Graham - Vocal
Rich Stanmyre - Bass, Vocal
Jeff Daniel - Hammond, Keyboards, Percussion, Vocal
Shapeshifter Music


MELANCHOLIC
A. Hodgson

Many things I've asked for
are sitting next to me
Lifeless as can be -
always sound asleep
Many times I drift away
and somehow join their sleep
And when I wake I find myself
with nothing left to be....

Andrew Hodgson - Piano, Vocal
Josh Newman - Cello
Sissy Boy Music


TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE

Time waits for no one
Old as the sun
Lying here beside you
Life's just begun

Time stays for no one
Old once was young
Life's grand illusion
Two hearts make one

Time waits for no one
Old as the sun
Lying here beside you
Life's just begun

Roger Hodgson - 12 String Guitar
Andrew Hodgson - Digeridoo, Percussion
John Helliwell - Saxophone
Mikail Graham - Guitar, Keyboard
Rich Stanmyre - Bass
Jeff Daniel - Keyboard, Percussion
Terry Riley - Tamboura, Vocal,
Shapeshifter Music

NO COLOURS
M. Graham

I saw you walking on the street
I wondered if we'd ever meet
You turned to look and then I turned away
I wonder why it has to be that way

Oh I wanna know your name

Sometimes I wonder if everyone's like me
So many wishes - so many dreams
I want to stop I want to talk with you
I'm just not sure if you would want me to
So many faces - so many lives
Sometimes they touch me and I feel so shy
They're all like mirrors that I'm looking through
The more I see the more I think of you

Oh I wanna know your name

I saw you walking on the street today
I wondered if we'd ever meet
I held my breath, I closed my eyes
I stopped and listened as you passed me by
I never saw your face, I never saw your colour
I want to know you but I don't know how
It's such a place of wonder

Oh I wanna know your name

Mikail Graham - Guitar, Lead Vocal
Roger Hodgson - Guitar
Andrew Hodgson - Drums, Harmonica
Rich Stanmyre - Bass
Jeff Daniel - Keyboards, Percussion
Fringe Surfer L.T.D

THE LOGICAL SONG

When I was young it seemed
that life was so wonderful
a miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical
And all the birds in the trees
well they'd be singing so happily
joyfully, oh playfully watching me

But then they sent me away
to teach me how to be sensible,
logical, oh responsible, practical
And they showed me a world
where I could be so dependable
clinical, oh intellectual, cynical.

There are times when all the world's asleep
The questions run too deep
for such a simple man
Won't you please,
please tell me what we've learned
I know it sounds absurd
but please tell me who I am

Oh watch what you say
or they'll be calling you a radical,
a liberal, oh fanatical, criminal
Oh won't you sign up your name
we'd like to feel you're acceptable
respectable, presentable - & vegetable!

But at night when all the world's asleep
The questions run too deep
for such a simple man
Won't you please,
please tell me what we've learned
I know it sounds absurd
but please tell me who I am

Roger Hodgson - Piano, Lead Vocal
Andrew Hodgson - Drums
John Helliwell - Saxophone, Vocal
Mikail Graham - Guitar, Vocal
Rich Stanmyre - Bass
Jeff Daniel - Hammond, Keyboard, Percussion, Vocal
Delicate music

SMELLY FEAT
M. Graham

You don't have to know what it is I know
You don't have to wonder where it is I go
I just want to find out what it is I fear
You can take me or leave me -
just tell me why it is we're all here

Oh I just wanna know - can you tell me please?
Don't you ever wonder why it is we're here?
Don't you ever listen to what we all fear?

I just wonder why,
I want to know what it is
There's just got to be something
more than what we think this all is

Oh come on and tell me
if you think you know why
Oh come on tell me what it is
if you think you know
Oh come on tell me
I really want to know

You don't have to wonder
but I know you do
You don't have to worry
but you know you will
There's got to be something more
than what we can see
just tell me if you think you know
the way to set us all free

Oh come on and tell me
what it is we all fear
Oh come on tell me -
I really wanna know
Oh come on say -
you know I wanna hear
Oh come on and tell me

Mikail Graham - Guitar, Lead Vocal
Roger Hodgson - Guitar
Andrew Hodgson - Drums
John Helliwell - Saxophone
Rich Stanmyre - Bass, Vocal
Jeff Daniel - Hammond, Percussion
Fringe Surfer L.T.D


GIVE A LITTLE BIT - R.O.P.

Give a little bit -
give a little bit of your love to me
I'll give a little bit -
give a little bit of my love to you

There's so much that we need to share
So send a smile and show you care

Gave a little bit -
I gave a little bit of my life to you
So give a little bit -
give a little bit of your time to me
See the man with the lonely eyes
Oh take his hand you'll be so surprised

Give a little bit -
give a little bit of your love to me
I'll give a little bit -
give a little bit of my life to you
Now's the time that we need to share
So find yourself -
we're on our way back home

Roger Hodgson - 12 String Guitar, Lead Vocal
Andrew Hodgson - Drums
John Helliwell - Saxophone
Mikail Graham - Guitar, Vocal
Rich Stanmyre - Bass, Vocal
Jeff Daniel - Hammond, Keyboard, Vocal
Delicate Music

John Helliwell - Saxaphone
Rich Stanmyre - Bass, Vocal
Jeff Daniel - Hammond.

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