The Return of the Space Cowboy
Album - 3 novembre 1994 - Debaser id 11767

Hey-hey-yeah
Now it occured to me,
As I awoke from deeper dreams,
All this evolution,
Still I don't know what it means.
And it gets so hard for me to change,
When there's an easy way to earn,
Why should I work my fingers to the bone?
Is this what I truly deserve?

This is not another trilogy.
(Just another story - just another story - just another story - just
another story)

Nobody make a move, this kid's got you covered.
He was just seventeen, trying to get on like his dead brother.
Momma couldn't do a thing about him, though she hurt inside.
And Daddy wants his son back, while he knows he's still alive.

Stick up kid, thinking you're a glory boy,
Sick of fronting that stupid toy,
But you don't get that it's yourself you will destroy
Still running those rocks on the front line,
Like a speed-freak kind of amphetamine.
Get uptight when it's your turn,
A bullet in the head is a lesson learned.
One of these days you're gonna say goodbye,
Telling everyone you never been so high
Born the same time that you die
Pushing those drugs like a super-fly,
Heaven help all with no way out,
That's what this is all about.
This is not another trilogy,
It's just another story baby...

Hit 'em with it now,
Come on now hit 'em with it now,
Aaaah, stick up kid.
Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha, I gotcha where I want ya now.
Nobody make a fucking move.
All these gangsta kids are gettin' uptight,
All these gangsta kids are gettin' uptight!
I gotcha, I gotcha where I wantcha now,
Nobody make a fucking move!

Nobody make a move, this kid's got you covered,
He was just seventeen, trying to get on like his dead brother, yeah.
Momma couldn't do a thing about him, though she hurt inside,
And daddy wants his son back, while he knows he's still alive.

Stick up kid, ah thinking you're a glory boy,
Sick of fronting that stupid toy,
But you just don't get that it's yourself you will destroy.
Still running those rocks on the frontline,
Like a speed-freak king of amphetamine.
Get uptight when it's your turn,
A bullet in the head is a lesson learned,
One of these days you're gonna say goodbye,
Telling everyone you never been so high,
Born the same time that you die,
Pushing those drugs like a super-fly.
Heaven help all with no way out,
That's what this is all about,
This is not another trilogy,
It's just another story...

Ah, unhand me! Huh!

every bird will sing
the melody of our love tune

yesterday i was half the man i used to be
maybe that's because you're the other half of me
like the spring in bloom
the summer of our love is soon
every bird will sing
the melody of our love tune

sent down from above
unconditionally love
likened to a flower
stronger love grows by the hour
stormy weather days
make us go our separate ways
where our love was so at ease
now you got me down on my knees

yesterday i was
brighter than the morning sun
now my love is lost
and lonely days have just begun
a solitary chair
for a silent love affair
a king has lost his throne
and now he sits alone

every bird will sing
oh now every bird will sing
every bird will sing
the melody of our love tune
I wanna tell you

yesterday i was half the man i used to be
maybe that's because you're the other half of me
like the spring in bloom
the summer of our love is soon
every bird will sing
the melody of our love tune

People tell me I'm no good
Cos I'm expressin' all my sentiments
Now I got to channel all my vehemence
For the benefit of my self defence
And you can be a do gooder
But true sincerity ain't charity
It can take a life time to be
How you wanna be.

You can be light years
Away from serious intention
And I thought I knew it all
Someday
I'd get to turn mankind
This way
If you don't know you can be light years
Away from your true destination. No conscious escalation
Until I get with good vibration
I'm never gonna get to use that
use that earthly power
Substitutes
Can never take the place of peace of mind
Losing all sense of direction.

When you're light years.
Too far away to turn you back on substitution
There is no u-turn on a one way route
Goin' up when I learn to love the life I can bite the fruit
Now I got sunshine in my life.

Light years
Never to return to Babylon
See money don't make a man
But if you really want you get there anyway you can.

Four hundred years or more
Since you came to crucify
They were taken far away from home
There were promises of paradise
But if they have been told that day
They would be told that this way
To satisfy the souls of chosen men
See I had to look carefully
At the shame of my ancestry
To re-define the story line again

If I was taken for a day
And shown another way
Every child can learn a different thing
See i tried a million times
but i had to change my mind
Sadness was the best thing I could bring
On the inside he was dead and this is what he said
As he took away the blue above the clouds
Superiority was clearly meant to be
So destiny will manifest in time

So where was the love all gone
A troubled trail of tears will tell the tale
Of how I was put down where I don't belong
Woman, child and man for sale
For ethnical slavery is just an absurdity
How can you be alive when you are dead
With these chains of hypocrisy
The shame of my ancestry
Forever stained by blood in which you tread

(repeat chorus)

Now we're getting nasty.
Everybody's talking about the kids
The kids got funky soul and groove emotion
But if you don't give the kids the chance to use it
They're always morethan likely to abuse it
Everybody's talking about the kids
It's taking time for you to realise
Now hunger turns to anger in our eyes
I say the revolution will be televised
Yes it will, Gil
Everybody's talking about the kids
The kids needs space to get their heads in place
And every day this world we have to face
I just can't seem to find my proper place.
Kids get down
Stormy weather
Fifteen years of royal pleasure
Kids get down underground
Everybody dance to the funky sound.
Everybody's talking about the kids
It won't be long before we get our own
And every kid can truly feel at home
I told ya you should give the dog a bone
Everybody's talking about school
But I get more pleasure breakin' all the rules
Cos lesson one begins with "Life Is Cruel"
Well I guess I'm just an educated fool
Everybody's talking about the kids
Mom and Dad make efforts to excuse it
Government officials will confuse it
Members of the bench will try to prove it
You're going down sucker.
Everybody's talking about the kids now
Everybody's talking about the kids now
The kids got funky soul.
Kids get down
Stormy weather
Fifteen years of royal pleasure
Kids get down, celebrate
Now we're going to kick the thing we hate
Everybody's talking about high
But kids get high to satisfy
For reaching out to touch the sky
Is all I can identify, and you know why.
Kids get down
Stormy weather
Fifteen years of royal pleasure
Kids get down, celebrate
Now we're gonna kick the thing we hate
Kids get down, pressurized
To live the life that you devised
Kids get, celebrate
Life's too short to complicate.

Have you gone astray ?
Or lost your way ?
You should have seen me yesterday
Well I knew this kind of love
Was written in the stars
It's only once or twice that you're in line with Mr Moon
Then it was you
Took me on your cloud
Give me flowers for my pain
But with some degree of certainty
My destiny
Seemed to slip away from me
Before I got to know your name.

Just give me a chance
I'll do what you want me to
Everybody wants to dance
So how come I can't dance with you
You really turn me on
You're the one that makes me smile
It's Mr Moon who plays in tune, Mr Moon who knows
And if it's Mr Moon who gives the sign then that's the sign that goes
I never know what to do
Till I'm there with you.

Did you lose your mind
For a day
You don't remember anyway
Like the waters of a dream
Encapsulate my mind
A place I haven't seen sits at the end of space and time
So lost in time
Then I think I'm blind
To perchance upon this circumstance is something of a miracle
So spiritual
It's verging on the physical
Searching for a love I cannot find.

Written by Jay Kay, Stuart Zender and Toby Smith

You say you fight to give us freedom
But often more than not this is abused
And the faces of a tired generation
Have decided they are sick of being used
For the purpose of current declarations
Still the same, it will never change until the end
Is to buy the appreciation of the nation
To cover the mistakes you must defend
And you say there will be a chance for eveyone
To protest against your calculated greed
But I can see into the future
Won't be long before the welfare
Send me letters telling me how much they need
And it's not been in my interest to please them
For the only interest rate to fall is mine
See a brand new generation is demanding
What you've been doing with our money all this time

Scam, people try to live at the speed of light
Scam, don't know why but I've got to do the things I do
Scam, give me ten, that's the move I give you five
Scam, people say it's the way to stay alive

So you see you have to be a schemer
If you wanna love the life you have to live
And I don't matter how much I earn
Cos I always get my fingers burned
When the man gets down to his business
And I've been searching for a reason
Why I have to give it all up just I want to get ahead
See I had to lose car, job, wife, dog and home
Debts and threats on the phone
Maybe I should bust a move instead
Now we all know when we watch television
Not confused between a puppet or conviction
Glued to the screen by a thousand shallow words of wisdom
It ain't what it seems when it's a single sided system
Someone's got to hold on my living
So I'm gonna have to do the thing that's fair
They got to justify for what I should be giving
Should I lie, should I steal or should I care
Cos now I've got to scam!

Written by jay kay, wallis buchanan and toby smith



Personnaly I like a lot this song. they get to fusion the didgeridoo vibes with the song very smoothly, so this is a cool tune where you dont feel the didgeridoo like an uncomfortable sound beh

Here. and when you listen to it you can imagine yourself travelling, travelling in a journey to arnhemland. two thumbs up.

All of my visions were untrue
Till I had a vision of you
An untimely end for all
But it was only then, only then that I saw
Saw the morning glory
Can't you take me there
Can't you take me there
Away from soliloquies of sadness
And prophecies of pain
For us all to see

I had a vision in my mind
I had a vision of peace
I had a vision of you

Everything is good and brown
Oh I'm here again
With a sunshine smile upon my face
My friends are close at hand
And all my inhibitions
Have disappeared without a trace
I'm glad, oh I found
Somebody who I can rely on

This is the return of the space cowboy
Inter-planetary good vibe zone
Say at the speed of Cheeba, oh you and I go deeper
Maybe I'll have to get high to get by, hey

Everything is good oh and green
Say I'm red again
And I don't suppose I'm comin' down
I can see clearly, so high in sky
A man with psychedelic picture frames
Of happiness to shade his eyes
He's glad, oh that he found
Somebody who he can rely on

This is the return of the space cowboy
Inter-planetary good vibe zone
Say at the speed of Cheeba, oh you and I go deeper
Maybe I'll have to get high to get by, hey
Maybe I'm gonna have to get high

Now he's here again
Now he's here again
And I don't know what I'd do without him next to me
Everything, everything is good and brown
Now that, now that he's around

This is the return of the space cowboy
Inter-planetary good vibe zone

Say at the speed of Cheeba
Oh, you and I go deeper
Maybe I'll have to get high to get by

This is the return of the space cowboy
Inter-planetary good vibe zone

Say at the speed of Cheeba, oh you and I go deeper
Hey now we'll go deeper, oh now we'll go deeper
You and I, you and I, you and I, you and I
You and I, you and I, you and I, you and I
Now we'll go deeper yeah