The Return Of The Space Cowboy

Jamiroquai The Return Of The Space Cowboy Lyrics
1.Just Another Story(Remastered)

Lyricist:Jason Kay, Toby Smith
Writer(s):Jason Kay, Toby Smith

Nobody make a move
This kid's got you covered
He was just seventeen
Trying to get on like his dead brother
Mama couldn't do a thing for him
Though she hurt inside
And daddy wants his son back
While he knows he's still alive.

Stick up kid
Thinking you're a glory boy
Fronting that stupid toy
But you don't get that it's yourself you will destroy
Running that rock on the frontline
Get to hell before your time
If you your face on the cover of High Times
Push in.

Now it occured to me
As I awoke from deeper dreams
All this evolution
And still I don't know what it means
And it gets so hard for me to change
When there's an easy way to earn
Why should I work my fingers to the bone.

Can you give more than get
Get down
With a conscious train of thought.

Light years
Can pass me by without me realising
I'm water in a stream
But ya got to keep it clean.

Dirty dreams
Purity.

How can
So many people think they're right when
Everybody's wrong?


2.Stillness In Time(Remastered)

Lyricist:Jason Kay, Toby Smith
Writer(s):Jason Kay, Toby Smith

There's a stillness in time
Which I cannot define
Does your heart bleed like mine?
Oh, does your heart, yeah

For a place we can go
Where the troubles of our time are far away
Hey, they're so far away

And I had all my life in front of me
Now my darkest days are trouble free
There are so many wondrous things for you to see

Hey,
If you find that something's going wrong
Look around at what you're running from
You can wait a thousand years in line
For that stillness in time, hey

Oh yeah, I found love in that way
And I'm never sad, and I'm always glad
Anything you give me today
I will be thankful for, hey heya
People find it hard to be strong
Cuz they don't know where they're coming from
And there was nothing left to do but hang on
For a stillness in time

If this world is turning too fast for your head
Just remember how bad times can roll instead
Guess I'll have to search the spaces in my mind
For that stillness in time

I found love in that way
And I'm never sad, and I'm always glad
Ooh, Anything you give me today
I will be thankful for
Ooh, people find it hard to be strong
Cuz they don't know where they're coming from
There was nothing let to do but hang on
For that stillness in time

Ooh, I know that this,
Is the ... for a sudden bliss
There is no main, for the love I have will stay the same
I have no wrong, if I don't know where I'm comin' from,
If I don't see, the things that are inside of me,
Apart of me, in front of me
Oh, said it's all around me
Said I know, said I want to find that stillness in time,
stillness in time, hey
La la la la, la la lo la la la la lo (x7)
La la la la...
La la la la la la la, la la la la...


3.Half The Man(Remastered)

Lyricist:Jason Kay, Toby Smith
Writer(s):Jason Kay, Toby Smith

Yesterday I was
Half the man I used to be
Oh, maybe that's because
You're the other helf of me
Like the spring in bloom
The summer of our love is soon
Every bird will sing
The melody of our love tune.

Send down from above
Unconditionally love
Likened to a flower
Stronger love grows by the hour
Stormy weather days
Make us go our separate ways
Where our love was so at ease
Now you got me down on my knees.

Yesterday I was
Brighter than the morning sun
Now my love is lost
And lonely days have just begun
A solitary chair
For a silent love affair
A king has lost his throne
And now he sits alone.


4.Light Years(Remastered)

Lyricist:Jason Kay, Toby Smith
Writer(s):Jason Kay, Toby Smith

People tell me I'm no good
Cos I'm expressin' all my sentiments
Now I got to channel all my vehemence
For the benefit of my self defence
And you can be a do gooder
But true sincerity ain't charity
It can take a life time to be
How you wanna be.

You can be light years
Away from serious intention
And I thought I knew it all
Someday
I'd get to turn mankind
This way
If you don't know you can be light years
Away from your true destination. No conscious escalation
Until I get with good vibration
I'm never gonna get to use that
use that earthly power
Substitutes
Can never take the place of peace of mind
Losing all sense of direction.

When you're light years.
Too far away to turn you back on substitution
There is no u-turn on a one way route
Goin' up when I learn to love the life I can bite the fruit
Now I got sunshine in my life.

Light years
Never to return to Babylon
See money don't make a man
But if you really want you get there anyway you can.


5.Manifest Destiny(Remastered)

Lyricist:Jason Kay, Toby Smith
Writer(s):Jason Kay, Toby Smith

As I remember it was
Four hundred years ago
Since you came to crucify
And they were taken far away from home
There were promises of paradise
But if they had been told that day
That they would be sold this way
To satisfy the souls of chosen men
See I had to look carefully
At the shame of my ancestry
To redefine the storyline again.

If I was taken for a day
And shown another way
Now every child can learn a different thing
See I tried a million times
But I had to change my mind, oh
Sadness was the best thing I could bring
On the inside he was dead and this is what he said
As he took away the bloom above the clouds
Superiority was clearly meant to be
So destiny will manifest itself time.

So where has the love all gone
A troubled trail of tears will tell the tale
Of how I was put down where I don't belong
Woman, Child and man for sale
For ethical slavery is just an absurdity
How can you be alive when you are dead
With these chains of hypocrisy
The shame of my ancestry
Forever stained by blood in which you tread.

If I was taken for a day
And shown another way
Now every child can learn a different thing
See I tried a million times
But I had to change my mind, oh
Sadness was the best thing I could bring
On the inside he was dead and this is what he said
As he took away the bloom above the clouds
Superiority was clearly meant to be
So destiny will manifest itself time.

So, where has the love all gone...
Somebody tell me where has the love all gone...
Said I want to know why...


6.The Kids(Remastered)

Lyricist:Jason Kay
Writer(s):Jason Kay, Toby Smith

Now we're getting nasty.
Everybody's talking about the kids
The kids got funky soul and groove emotion
But if you don't give the kids the chance to use it
They're always morethan likely to abuse it
Everybody's talking about the kids
It's taking time for you to realise
Now hunger turns to anger in our eyes
I say the revolution will be televised
Yes it will, Gil
Everybody's talking about the kids
The kids needs space to get their heads in place
And every day this world we have to face
I just can't seem to find my proper place.
Kids get down
Stormy weather
Fifteen years of royal pleasure
Kids get down underground
Everybody dance to the funky sound.
Everybody's talking about the kids
It won't be long before we get our own
And every kid can truly feel at home
I told ya you should give the dog a bone
Everybody's talking about school
But I get more pleasure breakin' all the rules
Cos lesson one begins with 'Life Is Cruel'
Well I guess I'm just an educated fool
Everybody's talking about the kids
Mom and Dad make efforts to excuse it
Government officials will confuse it
Members of the bench will try to prove it
You're going down sucker.
Everybody's talking about the kids now
Everybody's talking about the kids now
The kids got funky soul.
Kids get down
Stormy weather
Fifteen years of royal pleasure
Kids get down, celebrate
Now we're going to kick the thing we hate
Everybody's talking about high
But kids get high to satisfy
For reaching out to touch the sky
Is all I can identify, and you know why.
Kids get down
Stormy weather
Fifteen years of royal pleasure
Kids get down, celebrate
Now we're gonna kick the thing we hate
Kids get down, pressurized
To live the life that you devised
Kids get, celebrate
Life's too short to complicate.


7.Mr Moon(Remastered)

Lyricist:Jason Kay, Toby Smith, Stuart Zender
Writer(s):Jason Kay, Toby Smith, Stuart Zender

Have you gone astray?
Or lost your way?
You should have seen me yesterday.
Well, I knew this kind of love
Was written in the stars.
It's only once or twice that you're in line with Mr. Moon.
Then it was you.
You took me on your cloud.
Gave me flowers for my pain,
but, with some degree of certainty,
my destiny
seemed to slip away from me, hey.
Before I got to know your name.
Oh, honey.

Just give me a chance,
I'll do what you want me to.
Everybody wants to dance,
so how come I can't dance with you?
You really turn me on.
You're the one that makes me smile.

It's Mr. Moon who plays in tune, Mr. Moon who knows
And if it's Mr. Moon who gives the sign, then that's the sign
that goes.
I never know what to do
'till I'm there with you.
Hey. Oh, right on.

Did you lose your mind
for a day?
You don't remember anyway.
Like the waters of a dream
encapsulate my mind,
a place I haven't seen sits at the end of space and time.
So lost in love
that I think I'm blind.
To perchance upon this circumstance is something of a miracle.
So spiritual,
it's verging on the physical.
Searching for a love I cannot find.

Oh, and now I'm lost in your love, (just play my tune)
Now I'm lost with Mr. Moon, (just play my tune)
And I don't know where to turn. (just play my tune)
Now I'm lost in your love, now I'm lost in your love. (just play
my tune)
Ba dee ah, ba dee ah. Ba dee ah, ba dee ah. (just play my tune)

Just play my tune, oh Mr. Moon.
Just play my tune, just play my tune
Just play my tune, just play my tune (repeats)

Just give me a chance,
I'll do what you want me to.
Everybody wants to dance,
so how come I can't dance with you?
You really turn me on.
You're the one that makes me smile, yeah. Oh.

It's Mr. Moon who plays in tune, Mr. Moon who knows.
And if it's Mr. Moon who gives the sign, then that's the sign
that goes.
I never know what to do
'till I'm there with you.
Hey, oh now.

Oh, Mr. Moon. Play that tune for me, yeah.
Oh, Mr. Moon, just play that tune for me.
Why don't you play that tune?
Then I can get down, then I can get down with this girl.

Oh, that girl, you know she really blows my head apart.
And the sky, and the stars all synchronize.
Hey, oh, now now now, now me and her,
we are in love again. Oh, we have synchronized.
I know, the stars know.
This is love.

This is love.

Oh now, girl.
You know me and you, and. And the stars and moon have
synchronized our love.
Ooh, ooh, oh.
Come on girl, I wanna tell you how I love you since we came
together, yeah.
Oh, yeah yeah yeah yeah. Ooh.
I wanna tell you how I love you since we came together. Hey.

Just play my tune.
Just play my tune.
Just play my tune.

Hey, hey now, girl. You know that- you know our love is
synchronized. Oh, I gotta tell ya.
Ooh I wanna tell ya.


8.Scam(Remastered)

Lyricist:Jason Kay, Toby Smith, Stuart Zender
Writer(s):Jason Kay, Toby Smith, Stuart Zender

You say you fight to give us freedom
But often more than not this is abused
And the faces of a tired generation
have decided they are sick of being used
for the purpose of current declarations
Still the same, it'll never change until the end
Is to buy appreciation of the nation
To cover the mistakes you must defend
And you say there'll be a chance for evryone
to proptest against your calculated greed
But I can see into the future
Won't be long before the welfare
Send me letters telling me how much they need
And it's not been in my interest to please them
For the only interest rate to fall is mine
See a brand new generation in demanding
What you've been doing with out money all this time

Scam
People try living life at speed of light
Scam
Don't know why but I have to do the things I do
Scam
Give me ten, that's the move I give you five
Scam
People say it's the way to stay alive

So you see you have to be a schemer
If you wanna love the life you have to live
And it don't matter how much I earn
'Cos I always get my fingers burned
When the man gets down to his business
And I've been searching for a reason
Why I have to give it all up just when I want to get ahead
See I had to lose car, job, wife, dog and home
Debts and threats on the telephone
Maybe I should bust a move instead
Now we all know when we watch the television
Not confused between a puppet or conviction
Glued to the screen by a thousand shallow words of widsom
It ain't what it seems when it's a single sided system
Someone's got a hold on my living
So I'm gonna have to do the things that's fair
They got to justify for what I should be giving
Should I lie, should I steal or should I care
'Cos now I've got to scam


9.Journey To Arnhemland(Remastered)

Writer(s):Jason Kay, Toby Smith, Wallis Buchanan




10.Morning Glory(Remastered)

Lyricist:Jason Kay, Stuart Zender
Writer(s):Jason Kay, Stuart Zender

All of my visions were untrue
Till I had a vision of you
And untimely end for all
But it was only then, only then that I saw
Saw the morning glory.

Can't you take me there
Can't you take me there
Away from soliloquies of sadness
And prophecies of pain
For us all to see.

I had a vision in my mind
I had a vision of peace
I had a vision of you.


11.Space Cowboy(Remastered)

Lyricist:Jason Kay
Writer(s):Jason Kay

Everything is good
And brown
On I'm here again
With a sunshine smile upon my face
My friends
Are close at hand
And all my inhibitions
Have disappeared without a trace
I'm glad
I found
Somebody who I can rely on.

This is the return
Of the space cowboy
Inter-planetary
Good vibe zone
At the speed of Cheeba
We'll go deeper
Maybe I'll have to get high
Just to get by.

Everything is good
And green
Oh, I'm red again
And I don't suppose I'm coming down
I can see clearly now,
High in the sky
A man with psychedelic picture frames
Of happiness to shade
His eyes
He's glad
That the found
Somebody who
He can rely on.