The Roaring Silence

Manfred Mann's Earth Ban The Roaring Silence Lyrics
1.Blinded By The Light(Bruce Springsteen)

madman drummers bummers
Indians in the summer
With a teenage diplomat
In the dumps with the mumps
As the adolescent pumps
His way into his hat
With a boulder on my shoulder
Feeling kinda older
I tripped a merry-go-round
With this very unpleasing
Sneezing and wheezing
The calliope crashed to the ground

Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
She got down but she never got tight
She's gonna make it through the night

Some silicone sister
With her manager mister
Told me i've got what it takes
She said i'll turn you on sonny to
Something strong
Play the song with the funky break

And go-kart mozart
Was checking out the weather chart
To see if it was safe outside
And little early pearly
Came by in her curly wurly
And asked me if i needed a ride

Mama always told me not to look into
The eyes of the sun
But mama that's where the fun is

Some brimstone baritone
Anticyclone rolling stone
Preacher from the east
Says dethrone the dictaphone
Hit it in its funnybone
That's where they expect it least
And some new mown chaperone
Was standing in the corner
Watching the young girls dance
And some fresh-sewn moonstone
Was messin' with his frozen zone
Reminding him of romance


2.Questions(Slade Mann)

In a dream it would seem
I went to those who close the open door
Turning the key i sat and spoke to those
Inside of me

They answered my questions with questions
And pointed me into the night
Where the moon was a star painted dancer
And the world was just a spectrum of light

They reached to my centre of reason
And pulled on the touchstone that's there
The shock of that light has me reeling
And i fell into the depths of despair

They answered my questions with questions
And set me to stand on the brink
Where the sun and the moon were as brothers
And all that was left was to think

They answered my questions with questions
And pointed me into the night
The power that bore me had left me alone
To figure out which way was right


3.Singing The Dolphin Through(Mike Heron)

Farewell plymouth, your morning cold
And grey
Is painting shadows on my thoughts
And we're bound for nowhere

Joseph, i know you're trusting me to see
You right
And i know you can't stand the fighting
For one more night

Joseph, the mud gives way to coral
Somewhere

And the hours of light they last and last
We'll see no more hostile flag there
From craft unknown we will have grown free
From sighing

Singing the dolphin through
Singing the dolphin through
Singing the dolphin through
Still waters


4.Starbird(Mann Slade)

Starbird let your cry lead us all through
The night
Rising from the ashes, your light'll show us
The way
Starbird you can fly me take me everywhere
You go
Roaring with the windsong, burning in your
Fiery glow
Screaming through the darkness

Roaring with the windsong

Starbird keep your light shining for all to see


5.The Road To Babylon(Mann Thomas Pattenden)

By the waters of babylon
We lay down and wept and
Wept for these i am
We remember we remember we
Remember these i am

A golden helmet blinded minds
Among ten thousand swords
Along the road to babylon
A golden thunder silenced songs
Among ten thousand voices
On the road to babylon

Well well well, beware that golden helmet
Well well well
There's no easy way to go
Well well well
No easy road to follow
Well well well ...

A golden ocean turned to fire
And burned ten thousand ships
Along the road to babylon
Golden dreamer touched the sky
Alone in empty silence
On the road to babylon

Well well well
Beware that golden thunder
Well well well
That dreamed and sang the song
Well well well
The empty sound of sorrow


6.This Side Of Paradise(Mann Pattenden Thomas)

Life passes slowly just this side of paradise
Eyes watching skies with salt water rain
There you stay watching day follow day
Living lonely and only just this side
Of paradise
Oh it's easy to see when the moon passes by
And a cloud dies in a clear black sky

Living lonely and only just this side
Of paradise
Oh it's easy to see when the moon passes by
Like a leaf spin slow slow

Maybe that's where the sun and the rain
Live together

Maybe it's time to get up and move out
Forever

Life passes slowly just this side of paradise
Eyes watching skies with salt water rain
There you stay watching day follow day


7.Waiter, There's A Yawn In My Ear(Mann)

Instrumental