I'm in Love with an Alien

She dropped to Earth on a falling star

Sirius B is very, very far

She came in the starry night to love me

And give me her interstellar space-key

I’m in love with an Alien

Like Lucy in the Sky

I’m in love with an Alien

Maybe she’s a Bi!

She talks to crows and dances at bus stops

And throws her peace sign up high for the cops

She laughs as she sings crazy wayward thoughts

Whenever she sings them I love her lots

I’m in love with an Alien

Like Lucy in the Sky

I’m in love with an Alien

Maybe she’s a Bi!

Solo

She’s an angel from the Hammered Bracelet

She said, “I wait for the golden sun-set!

For then the stars will appear in the sky,

And all my loved ones will learn how to fly!”

I’m in love with an Alien

Like Lucy in the Sky

I’m in love with an Alien

Maybe she’s a Bi!

I’m in love with an Alien

Like Lucy in the Sky

I’m in love with an Alien

Maybe she’s a Bi!

Copyright Jeffrey Merk 2012

My Sorrow

My sorrow withers like the scarlet rose

That proudly stood as queen of summers’ field

When the day should fold and finally close

The flower to the night must graceful yield    

My sorrow calls me by name in a dream

Of you upon the wild green mountain lee

In your embrace tears are a flooding stream

Dark secrets of my heart must come to be

My sorrow is the word I dare not speak

But for the agony that dwells in you

As human I am strong yet I am weak

I want to weep the tears we never knew

My sorrow grips my heart not just for me

But so the suff'ring one may be released

And every tear upon your face I see

That flow from memories that are deceased

Tread lightly; there are tomb-stones in my heart

Take the flowers you gathered; plant them there

In songs of joy and sorrow play our part

And in the summer day meet me with care

Solo

My sorrow withers like the scarlet rose

That proudly stood as queen of summers’ field

When the day should fold and finally close

The flower to the night must graceful yield

Dedicated to Mom, Christmas 2011.

Copyright Jeffrey Merk 2011

Out in The City

Key:  D Major

Introduction.  Key:  D Major

Bm       Bm       Em       Em

Verse 1.

       Bm                Em       G          A

The people all will find the Blessed Way
All laughing loud together in the day

        F#m             G        A            D  

Then crying we'll behold the star-lit sight

Of evening turned to graceful night!

Chorus.  Key:  A Major

F#m         C#m       D      D/C#   Bm

Out in the City     –     I’m on my Way

Out in the City     –     Night or day

Out in the City     –     The sheer delight

Out in the City     –     Filled with light!

Bridge.  Key:  D

A       G       F#m       Em        x2

Introduction.

Verse 2.

We hear the soothing song of musicians

Who proudly play their bold compositions

It’s a new street in every passing season

No one needs to know the rhyme or reason

Chorus.

Bridge.

Verse 3.

I am the one who knows I do not know

And standing silent in the falling snow

I am no more afraid to live or die

Because of what I’ve found within your eyes

Chorus.

Bridge.

Solo.  Key:  F# Minor.

F#m       Bm6      E       D       F#m       Bm6      C#m7     F#m      x2.      

Introduction.

Verse 4.

Feel free to trace the footprints in the snow

Or would you like to stay or gently go?

I love the faces of the passers-by

But still the homeless people make me cry.

Chorus.

Bridge.

Ending.  Key:  D Major

Bm                 Bm                 Em                 Em                 D

Spoken:

I send you out to serve the world…

Copyright Jeffrey Merk 2011

My Soul-mate is Dead (Just Like My Heart)

I looked up and saw an angel on high

An angel that taught my soul how to fly

Like Pegasus riding a beam of light

The Garden of Eden spread in our sight

I looked up and saw the sign of the times

Nailed to a crucifix for His crimes

And though I live in a black wilderness

Still I never thought it would come to this

My Soul-mate is dead!

Just like my heart

My Soul-mate is dead!

Must two as one part?     x2

Happy memories that bring only tears

Lock me shackled and chained with my fears

Gardens we walked through are twisted with thorns

The moon that blest us now proudly wears horns

How can a pure swan fly with broken wings?

How can a dancer dance when no one sings?

Now I cry beneath the sky where I flew

Lost and abandoned with phantoms like you

My Soul-mate is dead!

Just like my heart

My Soul-mate is dead!

Must two as one part?    x2

solo

The clergy is ugly beneath its cloak

Wallowing in brimstone ashes and smoke

Leaving my orphan to die in the cold

Sighing with hearts twenty centuries old

The clergy led my Bright One to the grave

They silenced her soul because she was brave

They lead me blind through the spidery dark

I too died the day God forgot His lark

My Soul-mate is dead!

Just like my heart

My soul-mate is dead!

Must two as one part?   x4

Siddhartha Marr, The Light of the World.

Copyright Jeffrey Merk 2011

From 'The Prophet'

   'Surely there is no greater gift to a man
than that which turns all his aims into
parching lips and all life into a fountain.
   And in this lies my honour and my re-
ward,-
   That whenever I come to the fountain to
drink I find the living water itself thirsty;
   And it drinks me while I drink it.'

                  - Khalil Gibran, 'The Prophet'.
  

Native North American Proverb

Of the many paths that there are in this life,
There is only one that is worthwhile-
The path of the truely human being.

Forgiveness

We rise or fall together all
And to the hight the depth may call
Naught you can do shall I offend
And nothing you cannot amend

Chorus.

     Forgiveness - I love you!
     Forgiveness - I love you!
     Forgiveness - I love you!
     Forgiveness - I love you!

I sing our song the bright day long
But cry when I encounter wrong
For in your prison of the night
I know that you are one with light

Chorus.

Remember well my friend in Hell
For tears that fall from Heaven tell
The very sickness of the Earth
Is what will bring it's own rebirth.

Chorus    x2.


Copyright Siddhartha Marr 2011.