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Folks,

Found the work around for blogger's dim-wit upload tools. See this page to hear The Altered Statesmen render The Suite for Kathy Anderson.

S

Lyrical Doodling…

Dear Friends,

There are few things more lamentable than a lyric shorn of its melody and rhythm. Nonetheless, as I have not found the time to figure out how to upload MP4a files to this freekin' blog. So, here is a bit of somewhat musical nonsense in words. I wrote them lo some years ago for the redoubtable Altered Statesmen, a band of no-goods that shall always be my friends.

The Kathy Anderson who is the subject of this song popsicycle of five songs is the most troublesome, beautiful, bedeviling, perfect, ragged, happy, unhappy, joyous, hard to please source of any pleasure that I have yet to imagine… I do, of course, a good deal of imagining. K.A. is, was, always shall be my Starry Queen, and I continue to surf the Astral Waters in pursuit of her aetheral embrace.

Oh, if you want the inside scoop, see this and follow your bliss.

Yours, in the Bonds of Love and the Tragedy of Romance,

S

A Suite for Kathy Anderson  Solomon © 2003 

The Starry Queen 

You are to trouble 
as dawn is to dew 
cutting slack in the gallows' rope 
so my feet of clay 
can find my old shoes 

Dawn, Dew and the Starry Queen 

The gift of Perfection 
to wizened fools 
nothing to reflect on 
but the shine of Stolen Jewels 

Dawn, Dew and the Starry Queen 

Flat on my back 
sails to the wind 
cutting the chord in poor harmony 
ragged mates in fine sensibility. 

Dawn, Dew and the Starry Queen 
Amen to Dawn, Dew and the Starry Queen 
Sing it again, Dawn, Dew and the Starry Queen 
Here is a cheer to the Starry Queen 
Amen, bless us all, 
under the gaze of the Starry Queen. 

The Mystic Line 

The shore, it is receding 
can’t tell if it’s dawn’in 
or the evening 
the compass points skyward 
as sailors ride the Mystic Line 
...sail on the Mystic Line. 
...come along the Mystic Line. 

The moment’s disappearin’ 
as fleet as embers flashin’ 
upon intuition 
no secrets can be told 
as sailors ride the Mystic Line 
...sail out on the Mystic Line. 
...come along the Mystic Line. 

Count your limbs 
count your toes 
count your blessings 
get up n’ go, get up n’ go 
dance along the Mystic Line. 

Selling fortunes by the seashore 
a dollar on the dime 
nice work if you can get it 
if you give it all your time 

The moment’s disappearin’ 
as fleet as embers flashin’ 
upon intuition 
no secrets can be told 
as sailors ride the Mystic Line 
...sail out on the Mystic Line. 
...come along the Mystic Line. 

Sunshine Blues 

Pennies raining from the sky 
whether to catch 'em 
or let ‘em fly by 
do’ya stay pat and let it ride 
Just send down some pennies from the Sunshine Blues 

Maybe hard to understand 
whether to see ‘em 
or to close your eyes 
or best stay open n’ let ‘em fly 
Just send down some pennies from the Sunshine Blues 

Give me a hand 
Let me lend you a clue 
Here’s an umbrella 
for the Sunshine Blues 
It's raining pennies in the Sunshine Blues 

Pennies raining from the sky 
whether to catch 'em 
or to let ‘em fly by 
when you bet or just let it ride 
Just send down some pennies from the Sunshine Blues 

Give me a hand 
Let me lend you a clue 
Here’s an umbrella 
for the Sunshine Blues 
It's raining pennies in the Sunshine Blues 

Take it! 
Here’s an umbrella 
for the Sunshine Blues 
Just send down some pennies from the Sunshine Blues 
Take this umbrella for the Sunshine Blues 

Unhesitating Beauty 

Unhesitating Beauty 
Fetching Lady in waiting 
swinging on the Bough of Heaven 
whilst I stumble ‘cross the world of clay 

I do believe I have been down 
laid flat as a dollar whose eagle’s flown 
but I’ve never seen such strange terrain 
never sipped from this star-filled cup 
never known which way was up 

Unhesitating Beauty 
You’ve seen me when I’m sleeping 
and you know when I am awake 
and we amble ‘cross this waking dream 

Cartwheelin’ Goddess 
seducing no deception 
give'n what I’m asking for 
before I know that it can be real 

I do believe I have been down 
laid flat as a dollar whose eagle’s flown 
but I’ve never seen such strange terrain 
never sipped from this star-filled cup 
never known which way was up 

No never mind all that now 
no never mind confusion 
give me what I’m asking for 
yes, tell my heart that it can be real... 

Golden Laurels 

Shake the pennies from my eyes 
shower me with laurels 
shake me to my feet of clay 
and wake me from my slumber 
kiss me like there’s no time to lose 
kiss me hard, shake it loose 

You bet, and I do too 
here’s where we should meet 
one step across the rainbow 
one foot striding Heaven 
nothin’ between left forsaken 

Golden Laurels in my eyes 
shower me with blessings 
wake me from my walking dreams 
and shake me from my slumber 
kiss me, there aint nothing to lose 
kick it hard, shake it loose 

You bet, and I do too 
here’s where we should meet 
one step across the rainbow 
one foot striding Heaven 
nothin’ between left forsaken 

Here I’ll meet you on the shore 
the tide’s direction undecided 
I will love you more 
more than all the others 
more than all the others every way 
I will love you more and always

Hic Fins Est…

S