Save His Soul

Music: bobby sheehan
Lyrics: john popper

Hail to you my mountain climber busy at your task
I know you're in a hurry but there's something i must ask
Do you ever get lonely climbing up so high
If you don't want to answer me i can understand why
If i told you a secret, would you want to know more
I've got a challenge i hope you won't ignore

Conquer me figure me out and set me free
I've got a hundred million things to show you as many more to see
But only if you conquer me

Sometimes i get this precious view and the grand scheme shows its face
When all is in harmony it can be such a lonely place
The melody is sad and sweet, and the dance i do is fun
Yes i love this precious view but i'm staring at the sun
For as pretty the picture, i share this view alone
Will anyone stoop to grasp this gauntlet i have thrown

Conquer me figure me out and set me free
I've got a hundred million things to show you as many more to see
But only if you conquer me

Hail to all you mountain climbers all you dreamers on the run
I'm your self appointed solicitor but now i speak to only one
Whoever she is now, and whoever she'll become
I'd like to ask her to hurry please and if she's walking could she run
It's not my impatience though perhaps just there i lied
It's just i'm feeling invincible and it has me terrified

Conquer me figure me out and set me free
Conquer me figure me out and set me free

Music & lyrics: john popper

Have you ever seen an atom
Little bits of everything floating by
Take a good look at them
Collectively they compose all you see including your eye

Brilliant puzzle
A living rubix cube we think we can figure out and solve
But we're just monkeys
Scratching our heads trying to open our ears
To a chord that just won't seem to resolve

And we call it wisdom
Yes intellect in our truest sense of the word
You see for us security means a harmony
According to only what we have heard
And this along and nothing less
Will ease our heart and our mind
In the hopes that in feeling free we'll reach paradise
On that hilltop we're still trying to find

But the possibility exists no matter how scary it may seem
That paradise was once the world and it wasn't just a dream
The earth was our heaven and we didn't know there were rules for us to break
And maybe now we'll find out too late what a clever hell we can make

Whoops
Whoops

In this corner
Weighing in at almost every weight imaginable...
Life, and all that surrounds it
And in this corner
Weighing in at well, not really very much of anything;
A very sound and user friendly idea
On finally bringing that pesky mountain to mohammed
Gentlemen at the sound of the harmonica solo you may come out fighting

Take a look at the horizon
Quiet and still
You know there used to be bison
Gentlemen you may fire at will
They say this land won't go to waste
But you gotta wonder how
You know we're chopping down the air we breathe
As fodder for the cow

That's right so we can eat well
Yes and starve to death
And say there's nothing we can do
Because we really don't want to do a goddamn thing
Look i'm shrugging and so are you
We can imagine the straightest of lines
But our fingers can't control the pen
And it's this frustration that yields relief
As we say we're just mortal men
And that means we get to torture a chimpanze
And infect him with disease
Because he screams just like a human child
While we study his desperate pleas

But the possibility exists no matter how scary it may seem
That paradise was once the world and it wasn't just a dream
The earth was our heaven and we didn't know there were rules for us to break
And maybe now we'll find out too late what a clever hell we can make

Whoops
Whoops

While we're on the subject you know my conscience hurts
And it will not go away
So please concoct me some pill i can take
While i think of something clever to say
So i can look in my mirror made of polished glass
And find no need to cringe
And forget that sinking feeling i'm a dinosaur
Out on his drunken last binge

...from fossil to fossil
Dust to dust
I'll see you all in the earthy crust

Whoops
Whoops

Music: chan kinchla


(instrumental)

Music: chan kinchla
Lyrics: john popper

I can feel your pity
I can feel your pain
And they're never going to bother you again

Well i don't know how
And i ain't sure why
But i promise you i'm really gonna try
Believe me

I hate tribulation
Don't want no trial
I can conquer with my state of denial

And i want to save you
So i guess i can
When i grow up i'll be a faith healing man
Believe me

When all is said and done
We've already won
When all is said and done
We've already won

You feel like you're part of the plan
When you want to be a faith healing man
Believe me

When all is said and done
We've already won
When all is said and done
We've already won

Music & lyrics: john popper

As i
Was taught to lead
I was fed well
On what had come before
Everyone
Who had ever lived
Left a lesson
Regarding what's in store

They
Were just like you and me
Guessing their asses off
Oh yes, they tried to guess well

It's our turn now
I hope we're forgiven
Chalk it up to knowledge and change
And life itself

And as i
Shall learn to follow
I'll feed the leaders
With everything i can
They'll
Bring revolutions
That try as i may
I just won't understand

They
Will be just like you and me
Pretending they're not guessing
As if we couldn't tell

It'll be their turn then
I hope we can forgive them
Chalk it up to knowledge and change
And life itself

It seems a cycle that we all seem to share
The passing from hand to hand of our pride and despair
Both parent and child cry apathy but everybody cares
And then we vanish in thin air
And only time is there
Time and a legacy...

History holds questions for everyone
A story that's only just begun
Blind passed the goddamn horizon
Sees more than father less than son
Life and death merely pretending
We're part of the infinite ending

We
Are gonna teach and learn
We're gonna get fed well
And then we shall feed
We
We are ancient
We are brand spanking new

We shall follow and lead

Cause we

Are simply you and me
In proving our traditions
On the brink of heaven and hell

We each get a turn
And then we're forgiven
And we call it knowledge and change
And life itself
And we call it knowledge and change
And life itself
And we call it knowledge and change

And life...

Music & lyrics: john popper

I 've really got to clean up my room
You know its been so long since i've seen my floor
It's getting kind of scary in fact i suspect
That when i finally clear away i won't know her anymore
How we'll have grown so far apart
From those early days with the fresh new start
So in the end it won't matter at all
So why should i bother with the rise and the fall
So i quietly lay back down
And watch tv

But these are the things we tell ourselves
Eventual stories designed to amuse
It's a game we play and we play it well
In fact we're so damn good that we try to lose
So we can keep hiding
So we can survive
And keep on believing
Someday we'll go outside & drive
Gonna go outside & drive...

I have resolved not to leave my house
Till my floor comes back and my room is clean
So i'm really kind of glad that my tv's here
While i concoct my plan to fulfill my dream
Now won't that be wonderful when i'll finally be done
You know i just can't wait for it then i'll start to have fun
It's getting hard lately to concentrate
All my appointments cancelled cause i'm horribly late
You know i think i need a prison
In order to dream of being free

But these are the things we tell ourselves
Eventual stories designed to amuse
It's a game we play and we play it well
In fact we're so damn good that we try to lose
So we can keep hiding
So we can survive
And keep on believing
Someday we'll go outside & drive
Gonna go outside & drive...

Now weeks have gone by and my room's not done
In fact i could say that it's gotten much worse
Amongst the crumpled letters the mood's quite perverse
But i got a new tv with a remote control
Styrofoam and instructions fill the hole
Where i once cleared a path where i once blazed a trail
To the bathroom, but i fear that a nail
Is buried there no so i step very rarely
And try not to get out of bed

You know tomorrow i'll get up and i'll walk out my door
And life will return to the way that it was
But i think i'm getting sick i'd better give it a day
It mustn't get a foothold, but it usually does
So i'll sit right here till i'm old and gray
I need my rest after all i'm wasting away
And i just saw a cockroach crawl out of my sneaker
I think he's biding his time till i get somewhat weaker
Things could still turn out alright
As long as i'm not dead
As long as i'm...
I'm...i'm not...
I'm not dead, no i'm not dead

But these are the things we tell ourselves
Eventual stories designed to amuse
It's a game we play and we play it well
In fact we're so damn good that we try to lose
So we can keep hiding
So we can survive
And keep on believing
Someday we'll go outside & drive
Gonna go outside & drive
What's it like outside

Music: chan kinchla
Lyrics: r. popper & john popper

A thousand times a prophet
A new york city prophet
They lie there all forgotten
I wonder who will hear them next

Well it won't be me it won't be you
Kind of makes you wonder who
Any sympathetic ear would do
Who's gonna hear them next

Lie prophet lie
For the sky is much too high
Keep it in your eye
And memorize the moon
Dream prophet dream
Don't you listen to them scream
We know they didn't hear you yet
But you're bound to get there soon

What do you think we'd hear them say
Would they drop down on their knees and pray
Would they tell us that it's all ok
Who do you think will ease their pain

And if we dare to listen
As the tears freeze up and glisten
With the current savior risen
Who do you think will ease their pain

Lie prophet lie
For the sky is much too high
Keep it in your eye
And memorize the moon
Dream prophet dream
Don't you listen to them scream
We know they didn't hear you yet
But you're bound to get there soon

What will our mighty future be
For there ain't no prophet here to see
That narrows it down to you and me
Do you want to live or die

Well we've chosen death with its toll begun
(you know) i've always pictured life more fun
Too bad we couldn't ever act as one
Do you want to live or die

Lie prophet lie
For the sky is much too high
Keep it in your eye
And memorize the moon
Dream prophet dream
Don't you listen to them scream
We know they didn't hear you yet
But you're bound to get there soon