Am D
The antique people are down in the dungeons
Am D
Run by machines and afraid of the tax
Am D
Their heads in the grave and their hands on their eyes
Am G
Hauling their hearts around circular tracks
F C
Pretending forever their masquerade towers
G Gsus4
Are not really riddled with widening cracks
G
And I wave goodbye to iron
F Gm
And smile hello to the air
Gm F Eb
O the new children dance I am young
D Gm F
All around the balloons I will live
Eb D Gm
Swaying by chance I am strong
F Eb D
To the breeze from the moon I can give
Gm F Eb
Painting the sky You the strange
D Gm F
With the colors of sun Seed of day
Eb D Gm
Freely they fly Feel the change
F Eb D Gm / F / E D G
As all become one Know the Way, know the Way
G / / / (x2)
G C
The velocity addicts explode on the highway
G C
Ignoring the journey and moving so fast
G C
Their nerves fall apart and they gasp but can't breathe
G C
They run from the cops of the skeleton past
F C
Petrified by tradition in a nightmare they stagger
G Bb Am F G
Into nowhere at all and then look up aghast
G
And I wave goodbye to speed
F Gm
And smile hello to a rose
O the new children play I am young
Under juniper trees I will live
Sky blue or grey I am strong
They continue at ease I can give
Moving so slow You the strange
That serenely they can Seed of day
Gracefully grow Feel the change
And yes still understand Know the Way
G Bb Am Gm F
The king and the queen in their castle of billboards
G Bb Am Gm F
Sleepwalk down the hallways dragging behind
Gm Bb Am Gm F
All their possessions and transient treasures
Gm Bb Am Gm F
As they go to worship the electronic shrine
C Eb
On which is playing the late late commercial
F C G
In that hollowest house of the opulent blind
G
And I wave goodbye to Mammon
F Gm
And smile hello to a stream
O the new children buy I am young
All the world for a song I will live
Without a dime I am strong
To which they belong I can give
Nobody owns You the strange
Anything anywhere Seed of day
Everyone's grown Feel the change
Up so big they can share Know the Way
C Bb C
The vaudeville generals cavort on the stage
Bb C
And shatter their audience with submachine guns
Bb C
And Freedom and Violence the acrobat clowns
Bb C
Do a balancing act on the graves of our sons
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While the tapdancing Emperor sings "War is peace"
(N.C.)
And Love the Magician disappears in the fun
G
And I wave goodbye to murder
F Gm
And smile hello to the rain
O the new children can't I am young
Tell a foe from a friend I will live
Quick to enchant I am strong
And so glad to extend I can give
Handfuls of dawn You the strange
To kaleidoscope men Seed of day
Come from beyond Feel the change
The Great Wall of Skin Know the Way
D C
The bloodless husbands are jesters who listen
D C
Like sheep to the shrieks and commands of their wives
D C
And the men who aren't men leave the women alone
D G F
See them all faking love on a bed made of knives
D C
Afraid to discover or trust in their bodies
D G F
And in secret divorce they will never survive
G
And I wave goodbye to ashes
F Gm
And smile hello to a girl
O the new children kiss I am young
They are so proud to learn I will live
Womanwood bliss I am strong
And the manfire that burns I can give
Knowing no fear You the strange
They take off their clothes Seed of day
Honest and clear Feel the change
As a river that flows Know the Way
Am D
The antique people are fading out slowly
Am D
Like newspapers flaming in mind's suicide
Am D
Godless and sexless directionless loons
Am G
Their sham sandcastles dissolve in the tide
F C
They put on their deathmasks and compromise daily
G Bb Am F G
The new children will live for the elders have died
G
And I wave goodbye to America
F Gm
And smile hello to the world
