Standing In The Light

Take a chance - and dance
It's a chance - dance

All across the world there's people high on confrontation
And they try to solve their problems burning up the nation
Turn the whole world upside down and leave it in confusion
But still we get no answers using yesterday's solutions

We are the ones, keep sight of it
Don't have to make a fight of it

Dance on heavy weather
Learn to live with modern times
You can take the pressure
It's all a state of mind - so we can
Dance on heavy weather
Raise the heartbeat of the young
If we move together
Don't you know that we are the ones

Take a chance - and dance
It's a chance - dance

You can try to hide behind a mask of contemplation
Say you want to live your life in private isolation
From the east you can't ignore the storm of disillusion
And so it falls on all our shoulders to find a new solution

You've got to make a start of it
You've got to feel a part of it

Dance on heavy weather
Learn to live with modern times
You can take the pressure
It's all a state of mind - so we can
Dance on heavy weather
Raise the heartbeat of the young
If we move together
Let the soul - take control - we are the ones

Take a chance - and dance
It's a chance - dance

Hear the sound of the heartbeat of the young
Though the rhythm is so unfamiliar
Just be sure to be there now the time has come
Hear the music that brings us together

Dance on heavy weather
Hear the sound of the heartbeat of the young
We can take the pressure
We may have a solution, we are the ones
Dance on heavy weather
Hear the sound of the heartbeat of the young
If we move together
We may have a solution, we are the ones

I'm forever struck
By the people in this town
And the way they go about their world
Have they given up
All the fun they used to have in adolescent xanadu
Everything is too much time and trouble
They must be seen as being respectable
They're too busy with their social climbing
Waiting for a rise

Chorus.

Why can't people just be people

When they were young
They would wish for the summer evenings that would never end
Now the day's too long
And the key to life is locked away in childhood memories
Some people judge a man as reasonable
If the wine he buys is seasonable
They've time for friendship if it's advantageous
And causes no pain

Chorus:

Why are people so deceitful
Why can't people just be people

There is more to the world
Than is offered by the soap and war found on the tv screen
And there is more to this life
If you would only take the time to look within and find the key
Don't believe words when they're superficial
Don't put your trust in values artificial
Let your heart do the talking for a little
And feel yourself shine

Chorus:

Why can't people trust in people
Why can't people just be people

Find the time and you'll realise
Life isn't too much time and trouble
(repeat til fade)

It's late i know but i can't sleep
Peace of mind is hard to keep
I saw it on the news today
A thousand lives just blown away

I want eyes
I want eyes

Another page in history
But the why is still a mystery
Won't you come so we can talk this through
Do you need me now like i need you

I want eyes
I want eyes

On the beach lies a boy
Thrown away like a toy
In the field lies a man
Left behind, he was calling, calling
No one saw him die

Sitting there you're telling me
That everything is meant to be
But when i say i can't go on
I know i'm not the only one
I just can't live on planet hope
And watch the world go up in smoke
I don't know how to face the facts
When i see a child respond to impact

I want eyes
I want eyes
I want eyes
I want eyes

So i wake every night
With the same dream in mind
In a field there's a man
Left behind, he was calling, calling
No one saw me cry

Call

Last night i dreamt that ra was holding up a mirror
To my heart but all was darkness so i prayed to all the gods that i might see

And as they showed me my mortality the hidden-one
Revealed himself in voice alone and spoke in condescending tones to me

"you are the pharoah you will journey through the after-life
And he-who-looks-behind will ask the questions you must answer to be free"

Osiris weigh my soul and let me pass beyond so i may
Row the boat of ra and be as one with all the gods that set me free

A summer's day in sixty-eight
Sunlight through a window falls across the page
A young boy tries to concentrate
His mind would rather fly beyond the classroom cage
He can take the teacher's voice
Turn it into music from another place
All the other kids don't have that choice
Hanging on to every word the teacher says

Day and night - we will be touched
Standing in the light - don't shadow the genius

So out of school he walks alone
Soon his thoughts are flowing like a golden stream
An empty house he calls his own
This place becomes a temple to a silent dream
Sometimes he will clap and sing
Then deep in meditation he will learn to be
And only birds upon the wing
With upward fascination claim to be so free

Day and night - we will be touched
Standing in the light - don't shadow the genius

Your smile, your freedom
Comes to you from within
Still a child with a reason
You're afraid but it's time to begin
Blow the wind of change
Though the words are strange - to hear
Say what's on your mind
Now is not the time - for fear

A summer's day in eight-one
Sunlight through a window falls across the page
A young man's fight has just begun
And rising up inside him is a burning rage
They called his dream a fantasy
A song that every child has sung since time began
But just as long as he believes
Standing in the light he'll make them understand