Unit X first show at Zig-Zag Building Glastonbury, Anti Fracking Benefit.

 Unit X Zig Zag Building 27.11.18

Jessica

Jessica,
D'ya get the message yeah?
I call you up
On the phone
You're answering
Then I'm not alone
Oh Jessica, Jessica

You told me all about the Stag
About the King and how he stood
You got so near
You felt the fear
But still he stood
And let you near
Oh Jessica, Jessica , Jessica, Jessica

Kindly Kiss The Dawn To Wake

KINDLY KISS THE DAWN TO WAKE

Kindly kiss the dawn to wake

Upon an open mind of late

Given to translate your words

From foam that normal thought discards

Will the story please unfold

 I feel, awake, upon a sea 

Of consequence

Actions taken stir the devil

That I love

It's the only way to see, sometimes

In the darkness

And this sea is deep and rich in me -

A theatre seen through seaweed

Holds a light to better scenes and fantasies

And bubbles of a forlorn race

Run rings to rise, as seen anew

For we can inform each other

A life to lead of nurturance

Please wake this dream of circus rings

We know it brings

Our yearning asks, our asking yearns

The wind for rain

You are my People

YOU ARE MY PEOPLE  (after Compton Dumdon Hill Nov 1995)

Thank you to my friends 

That I met here in the wood

I've tasted your wine 

And I think that it's good

My feet are so weary

My mind is so sore

I'm thinking that my Mother

Will soon settle her score

I've travelled on land

And I've travelled in mind

Folks can be distrusting

Folks can be kind

But you don't live in houses

Don't put up no walls

You harmonise a loving song

And live by Nature's Laws

No words can describe

The visions that you see

The land, the stone, the river run

The branches of a tree

You are my people 

A home that is to roam

Let us join to ride the time

A long low wholesome road

Deep in my bones

I can feel her unease

Though my mind is sore

It knows the reason

Oh mankind have we gone 

Too far to go back

So friends it's survival

To find that wholesome track

This is what we are my friends

Beneath the starry sky

This is what we is my loves

And never wonder why

What goes around (early version)

WHAT GOES AROUND (early version)

Standing at the edge of time

Hanging out my washing line

Spiral wizard make your spell

At bottom of a wishing well

Time is not one big straight line

It's much harder to define

In the end, it's not at all

F'rever spinning spiral ball

Spinning circle 

Seasons spin

There is no end

Does not begin

Tell me why

It is we die

Spiral Maker

Cosmic Eye

Cities rise

Cities fall

Crumble concrete

Fall down wall

Tell me true

A thousand dreams

Washed up

In a turning screen

Oracle of None

A thousand days

Choose us One

In many ways

What spreads apart

Shall gather to

Freedom found 

And love to you

We have never parted

We have never parted

Cursed with a clear view of reality

To have words of another language

Another planet

And to see a spade for a spade

And a Self for a Self

Who are you?

I know you

I remember you through lifetimes veil

Can you remember me?

Do you comprehend my language?

I will try new words

Impossible feats I will perform without ease

For you to remember me

We have never parted

Travelling in the company of Elves

TRAVELLING IN THE COMPANY OF ELVES

I had a dream good people

I had a dream so clear

Of the end of everything we had held dear

Laid waste by the ravages of senseless graceless creed

Forty million bloodsuckers a ravenous craving greed

It could be politicians, it could be you or me

That built a machine that has been a soul-grieving misery

And through the ages one can see the action of the mind

That fenced the land and forced the man to make a world less kind

And in my dream a voice it spoke, it was the voice of All

It cried out to the everyone it made a wonderous call

It called into the hearts of every man, woman and child

And woke the star of who we are that has been so long defiled 

And that star it touched the shining and it shone brightly too

And Elves of all descriptions appeared I surely tell you true

It sailed on through the torrents a great and timely Ark

And through the transformations embarked it was our craft

To beyond the Western oceans where Kronos, wide awake

Was splashing in the water and in a loud voice spake

Then the sea swelled up and then it broke over the land

Whereopon the shining boat appeared at our command

Here comes the one who slumbers, here comes the one who wakes

It is returning Arthur Futurus, the King reborn from crystal caves

Awakening at the hour, at our hour of peril

To sort a messed up World, polluted and well meddled

History turns now on it's head and then I woke myself

I'm making plans for travelling in the company of Elves

Trancing through the Fields / Oil pipes

Trancing through the fields

Causality yields it's rose

Joking with the busy rats

Naked beneath their clothes

I took my love to the sacred tree

All on a Summer's day

And what it was that we found there

Brought us some dismay

A tear had wrenched the tree apart

Torn up the forest through the heart

A scar of midnight's black replaced

Our wood by strip tarmac grimace 

Oil pipes in Afghanistan

Were laid by force of war

By corporation pirates

Who work all round the World

Some prefer not to think

Others to take action

I will sing this song outloud

Tempting some reaction

Tomorrow

TOMORROW

Tomorrow

Tomorrow

Is our friend

It never ends

Dreamtime

Dreamtime

Warriors

Fly into tomorrow

Tomorrow

Tomorrow

Tomorrow

It is our friend

It never ends

Through the Grail

THROUGH THE GRAIL

Tell your tale, Oh Story-Worm

Tell your tale right now!

Tell it 'fore the Sun comes round

Tell before the Moon goes down (in the sky)

We all sat down before the Worm

To hear the fabled Tale

And what we heard, oh all we heard

Was dancing through the Grail

What was before, what was before 

What was before this Time

What do you mean? What have you seen?

We all sang the Rhyme

I tell of times of different chimes

I tell of times before

Before the waste, before the bombs

Before the blasting Wars

Ahh, do you recall?

We must go skipping lightly 

Through the Grail

And we must go right soon

To play the game, to rearrange

Return to Natural Law again

Tell your Tale....

There is a Time Beyond Time

There is a time beyond time

Through which we go now

Through flaming rings

Into this centre of Now

Where is need of healing

Cosmic fire coiled

Called serpent by some

Kundalina shudder

Us with the nessicery

Exstacy

To travel all this from within

Where we can see

The lines and lives in the landscape

Speaking words, voices that sing out

From invisible fountains

Of nodes

That are upon the land

In circles of stones

Silent, that hold the knowing

These are mounds on ground

Full with old grown bone

Which is where we have

Made birth to our Temple-home

Through time, also through

Rings of ice we have come

Through crimson and azure

Circles that engulf poets

And all matter

This is the healing we need

And into this starry filled cauldron

We are all being sucked

Now Rhiannon reminds us

Do we remember the rain?

When will it come again?

It used to fall so much

Now we're blue all year

The days are so bright

Jewel stars cling fast in the night

Is this not portentious?

I remember rain

How it fell and cleansed

But now there is a hole

In the sky

With no sun or sea hue

I'm asking where and why

Where the rain goes

Oh rain, where have you gone?

And She stirs and murmers

Has done for aeons

the Battle of Bahumet's Egg

THE BATTLE OF BAHUMET'S EGG

Dread and fell 

Fell and dread

Were the creatures 

At the Battle of Bahuhet's Egg

Fell and dread were the Orcs

Of the Needle Mountains

Fell and dread

Were the Trolls of Terror Gorge

Fell and dread

Were the Dragons that 

Fought above the ground

Dread and fell

Fell and dread

Was the clack of the jaws 

Of the Manticore

That fought a Wizard's spells

Fell and dread 

Dread and fell

Were the Harpies of Hell

Singing their termination song

To trap a Man's Soul

Fell and dread

Fell and dread

Were the Monsters 

That came for Bahumet's Egg

Thank You (Marc)

THANK YOU

Marc you did us proud

Built us a castle on a cloud

Gathering stones for Avalon

Sing of love that goes on and on

Tell a tale of many lives

Poet mild you warrior wild

Mystics speak your prophesy

Turn us on bard, set us free

Do you remember where you come from?

Do you care where your going?

Rainbow Raven Sorcerors

Casting Rainbow Serpent Spells

Open up our magic eye

Lightning flash across the sky

Opening up the heart of time

Blazing bells across the sky

Sounding out the mystery

Shining love for all to see

Wheel of ancient karma turn

Stones will CRACK when fire does burn

|Children of Rarn commence your reign

Dance the Law of Life again

La la la

Marc you did us proud

Built us a castle on a cloud

Gathering stones for Avalon

Sing of love that goes on and on 

La la la

Stay

STAY   (1^st Nov 2009)

If you want to come down here

I'll take you in my arms

And open up the door to our love

And if we can then enter in

I'll show you what I mean

Though I don't know 

The reason for your crying

Their way, they moan about nothing

No way, it's mental decay to me

Today, let's try again, I'm willing

Ok, let's make a break and stay

(Chorus:)

Stay, because it's better

Than departure and the end

Stay, though we don't always want to

Stay because I know I love you/

(Last time:)

Stay because I know you love me too

In the pit of sorrows and distortions running wild

You'll also find the jewel of your soul

Crushed beneath the compress of the actions that you've made

Forged inside your crucible of gold

Go a little deeper, don't you worry

You know it's not easy but it ain't wrong

Open, just like you said we ought to

Letting in the clear crystal water

Starlight Lady Singing

STARLIGHT LADY SINGING

It came to me about a year ago

That we might know where rivers flow

So I sat on a stone and called out your name

And from over the sea, your voice it came

The river it is our life, our art

Flow, flow, flow though lives are apart

I want to hear you sing your dream

Come through the dew with your voice to me

Lady, sing your sorrows sing to be glad

Lady sing of starlight, in stars you are clad

The wren has flown, the goshawk flies

Upon their wing your song resides

It is the charm, it is the way

To make our dreams come true today

Come Muse, loose free this veil

Speak from this cloud for all to hear

Your litany, your plain-chant morning Sun-praise

Sly Weasel / Play together

SLY WEASEL

Sly weasel

Cob in the hay

Bishop's Tower!

Neither is ney.

PLAY TOGETHER

And sat down to consider

Before action

What choice of direction

To take

And

Out of the many

People

Who will play this timeless game?

And how can this be achieved;

That we all play together.

Quarter Time

Quarter Time

The year has turned

The plough has churned

Summer has kissed

Avalon's crest

Revealed from mists

Not to be missed

Now Autumn leaves

Give colours to please

Minstrels mark with chimes

And make balanced rhymes

So we note 

This quarter time

Pomes for Croughton

MANDOLIN AND I

I am stood here hitch-hiking beneath 

This Chiswick Motorway bridge

Dreaming of a World Peace to be

And my mandolin plays this timely tune

To hope we won't be lonesome soon

Shiny clean cars won't stop

Not for the likes of me

World Peace moves into another gear

Soon we've got to move on from here

How many ways, how many ways

The subtle lives intwine

Mandolin sing to me our song of tomorrow

How can we weave beyond these lines?

How to heal a hurt that's deep

In psyche of many-mannered man

New philosophy of old Earth

Mandolin sing to me

Proclaim to the sky such reasons 

Things could move on from here

A love that's spoke is love to stoke

The dreams of this theme we dare.

40 ATOM BOMBS

I swallowed forty atom bombs

To see what it would do

Then we chose direction

All between the me and you

That was in all the only way  

Through the flaming gap of doom

For I know that all you people

Never wished to die so soon

There are no words to describe 

The visions we can see

In burning worlds of stars

That give birth to you and me

It is the seed love to the land

Mother's children listen in

Destiny is calling us

Mother Sky calls 'begin'

This is what we are my friends

Before eternity

This is what we are in all

This is you and me

The hands we have are made to hold

Our hearts made to be bold

This is what we is my friends

And so it shall unfold

We are all pilgrims

On this earth road

In Time and Space

Yet voyaging endlessly

Settling down

And moving on

Living, dying

Around the Suns

There are no frontiers

Can contain us

No nationality

That can restrain us

Only temperory homes

To shelter us

Upon the One Host

Of  Mother Earth

Blessed be Her name

May we respect Her

May She Remain

We are the troubadours

Finders who seek

Who vision a future

When all seems bleak

Look into the future

What do you see?

War and destruction

Or that rare liberty?

Here is hope to propel us

Equanimity

Put barriers down

Transcend to see

Take down the shield

Our weapons lay down

By the riverside

Beneath the Sun 

VOICES OF A FUTURE

Political rhetoric I know it is all lies.

Double-speak duplicity, you can read it in the eyes.

See the silver plated squirming of the tongue.

Some sycophant, a corporate slave announces we will bomb.

You feed the World with little wars by selling tyrants arms.

As long as they are subservient, how could there be qualms?

Customers must not fight back. What happens when they do?

Spin a tale of right and wrong and gloss over the truth.

VISIONS AND VOICES OF A BETTER WORLD;

WAR NO MORE. VOICES OF A FUTURE SPEAK

Twisted lies from puppet lips. TV, papers spread the fear.

It's all sewn up, but listen in; Voices of a future are near.

As long as no-one knows, or doesn't dare to ask,

A silver tongue says what it likes. But voices; crack the mask.

Should these voices speak to you, do you think that you might hear?

And if these words might make a thread : Then know that hope is near.

Facades do not last for long. Tyrants fall. That's all.

Voices of a future speak and to us all they call

Pobble and the Firebird

Within a dream's twinkelling when Storyspeak was younger than he is now, he used to tell the tale of that which is to follow.

 It took him many millenia to find the cord with which to spin it into cloth and when his story's tapestry was made, it was for-stolen by the devils of that age.

 So it was that Storyspeak spent these ages crouched over the ground, awaiting the arrival of that which he had spoken.

 It was a long time coming, yet the Master is a patient one, and at last, one May morning when the moon first winked at the children of Earth after a dark period, they arose – the thirteen stones which stand still in a ring near his special place.

 It had been a long time, but that is Storyspeak for you. Here he was at the beginning and for certain as it was a new dawn in itself, he will be present there at the end.

 For he decided how it would be with that woven story tale.

 So there lo and behold, old story master for many a long age, crouched and waiting.

 When ALMIGHTY MAGICKS!

 The stones appear and he is sun be-dazzled.

 Didn't expect that!

 He looks up, and there 

 In the sky

 Is the mystic bird.

 PHAEDRON

 Flying from the Sun, arching through the stratosphere.

 Big light show!

 And just as soon, all over.

From his eyes to the ground

  Mmmmmmmmmma! 

More tears, his arms plead to the sky.

 Pobble crosses the ring and bends down before a stone.

 He stretches his hand forward and yes, he kisses the stone.

 So then, our stomachs respond to this missive of love and as if the ground spirals up to the sky, so we would appear to be joined with Pob in a merging swirling landscape. 

 This goes on for some time and it is a state difficult to describe, yet one that Pobble is getting used to.

 He has become one with the stones having awoken them with a kiss that speaks spells to the whole sky and earth.

 We wonder what magic is let loose.

 Pobble wonders sometimes where his body leaves off and where the world begins.

 He feels part of the Earth, he feels part of the Stones.

 That is why he has come here

 He wouldn't bother otherwise.

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 So this swirling starts at the stones and twists the surrounding grass into a whirl, that we might forget it was grass at all!

 The twirling wicker-weaves us into shapes that are new to us, and far points of the landscape take on a kind of helix-cyclical meaning that could never have been imagined.

 From the one landscape there now seem to be several, all with interwoven threads or paths between them.

 As if, to OUR eyes, they all existed in the SAME space at once

            and between them were great vacuums or voids AS WELL, which had not appeared to be there in our nicely familiar land as before when we started.

  Pobble is full of vacuums and voids as well and seeing as he looks like he can handle it, let us take him as a help line in this place.

  Perhaps we had better dance -because Pobble is,

  and he seems to know what he is doing, now everything is whirling around so much.

  He beseeches the sky

  He speaks for the sea's foam

  He wails at the moon

  He stamps the earth

  As it returns to beneath our own feet.

  And the vacuums and voids suck into outer space.

  And the spiral galaxies that I forgot to mention disappear back up Pobbles sleeve.

  Only the grass is shimmering, and light purple.

   Shapes have returned to forms that we recognise'

  And Pobble holds in his hand a still glowing golden bowl.