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Desolation Theme Lyrics
Here we are—some years after
You and me and funny laughter
Don’t be scared
It’s only dark
Soon you’ll hear a meadowlark
Don’t give up—just one more try
Rainbows soon will fill the sky
See us in our upper limbos
Peeking through the blinds—on windows
Down below and far as wide is
Slick—is kissing old King Midas
Silly birds, who should know better
Tell each hero—go and get her
Lady luck’s the one we’re after
Now and also—ever after
Gosh, oh golly—gee, she’s crying
Fortune teller—are you lying?
Do you see the noses growing
Wonder where—the truth is going?
You and me and funny laughter
Don’t be scared
It’s only dark
Soon you’ll hear a meadowlark
Rainbows soon will fill the sky
See us in our upper limbos
Peeking through the blinds—on windows
Slick—is kissing old King Midas
Silly birds, who should know better
Tell each hero—go and get her
Now and also—ever after
Gosh, oh golly—gee, she’s crying
Fortune teller—are you lying?
Wonder where—the truth is going?
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Tue Apr 29 07:23:13 CDT 1997vikter (mail@email.net) says: ken nordine is like a diamond bullet shot into my forehead. and i thought, my god....
Bill Frisell and Wayne Horwitz also contributed to this cool and slightly eerie intro to "When You Wish Upon a Star" by Ringo Starr on "Stay Awake", a collection of Disney tunes by contemporary artists compiled by Hal Wilner.
Michael G. Breece has dedicated a website to “the one and only Ken Nordine”
“This is a site (one in which that was, at the time, desperately lacking from the Internet) devoted to the brilliant spoken word master of recording, radio, television and sports casting. Many place Ken into the Beat category (which is appropriate), but his writings and readings can't be limited to such a category. His writings are more akin to Franz Kafka or Edgar Allan Poe than that of Jack Kerouac or Allen Ginsberg (seeing as Ken's writings are dark and tinged in paranoia). However, the jazz soundscapes backing his wonderful readings and his free-form jazz rants truly are Beat.”
from Laurie Anderson's "green room"... Friday, March 17 Chicago Theater) Ken Nordine came to the show. One of the all time great Amrerican voices. I've always wanted to do an opera with him playing God. Don't know what my own role would be. Check out "Word Jazz" and all his classics - especially "The Stranger."
and here I be, some years after you, me, and good ole funny laughter when's that meadowlark coming?
you be the meadowlark, silly ... you're here. surely you know where you are ...
most of the time ...