Time Honoured Ghosts

The Barclay James Harves Time Honoured Ghosts Lyrics
1.In My Life

In my life i have seen so many things
Some were true and some were not what they seemed
In my life i've seen love and i've seen loss
There've been times when i did not count the cost
I have been to a place where chaos rules
In the caves of the talking stoned the fools
Seen the stars plant their seeds and watch them grow
Just to keep mister reap but never sow

In my life i've seen greed and i've seen hate
Seen the first to accuse the last to praise
Tried so hard to find just one saving grace

But i was young did not know
Grace is for god
Greed is to know
Mister middle of the road
Reaps what you sow


2.Sweet Jesus

Where's the lady and the time i used to know
I think that i've been on the road too long
Scenes of better days are pictured in my head
And haunting me those old familiar songs
Oh sweet jesus hear me cry
Let me see a clearing sky
For tomorrow i may be back home again
So take the shadow from my eyes

Sunday morning comes i'm feeling kind of down
I can't see back to where it all began
And i know you'd help me if you only could
I don't know why or where or who i am

Oh sweet jesus hear me cry
Let me see a clearing sky
For tomorrow i may be back home again
So take the shadow from my eyes
Take the shadow from my eyes


3.Titles

The long and winding road that leads to your door
Here comes the sun it's alright people shout for more
But were you trying to deceive telling me
All you need is love to succeed
Across the universe one after nine 'o' nine
I got a feeling for you blue and i feel fine
I tried so hard to make believe that i'd see
All you need is love to succeed

Chorus:

Lady madonna let it be
Something in the way you moved me yesterday
All you need is love so they say


4.Jonathan

Circles in the sky
White as paper fly
Sound of seagulls crying fills the air
High above the lonely one is there
Jonathan he cares
To feel better
Like the passing wind
Swooping down again
Waitin' for the sun to turn to night
Find him miles away in endless flight
Longing to be free
Telling you and me

Give me wings to fly
Tell me why, tell me why
The answer must be heard
And from a lonely bird
He's giving us a reason to believe

See the painted silver sunlight on his wing
As he sails upon the wind and slowly skyward
Flying as to music you can hear him sing
Like the windsong on the breeze he seems to sigh

Give me wings to fly
Tell me why, tell me why
The answer must be heard
And from a lonely bird
He's showing us the way we can be free


5.Beyond The Grave

We will survive beyond the grave
And as we sleep we will be saved
Life in its essence will endure
Whilst still on earth we can be sure
All our endeavours surely must return to dust
We will survive beyond the grave
And as we sleep we will be saved
Though storm and tempest ravage all
And all is darkness where we fall
Like brave explorers bold and free
We sail forever on the sea!!

Above the seven seas is one
The sea of life we drift upon
Our spirits living in the waves
Survive beyond the grave!


6.Song For You

As the sounds of the morning
Roll on out of the night
The thoughts of a dreamer
Asking and telling me why
Lady awaken the morning is taking
Your bad dreams away from your eyes
Nothing's forsaken the new day is breaking
So come now it's time to arise
As the sounds of the morning
Rise up out of the blue
Still a voice keeps on saying
Hold on, hold on to you
Lady awaken the morning is taking
Your bad dreams away from your eyes
Nothing's forsaken the new day is breaking
So come now it's time to arise

Is it my life, is it my song
That makes me feel something's wrong?
You know me well, the tale i tell
Is only halfway there, 'cause you
You made me smile when i was down
And you made me happy, being around
So i'm always gonna sing for you

Is it the time, flying along
That makes me feel that it's wrong?
You know me well, the tale i tell
Is only halfway there, 'cause you
You made me smile when i was down
And you made me happy, being around
So i'm always gonna sing for you


7.Hymn For The Children

Their spirits soar on high
They wing with birds that float on by
Your love and mine
Their spirits with the breeze
That gently plays the summer leaves
Your love and mine

Life is a bird in the sky
Life is the breeze blowing by
Time picked the words
Time picked the songs
But we sang them wrong

Their spirits with the rain
That feeds the wheat and weeds the same
Your love and mine

The sun their spirits light
That feels and warms both black and white
Your love and mine

Life is the rain from on high
Life is the sun in the sky
Time picked the words
Time picked the songs
We were the choir
But we sang them wrong

Their spirits bless the cruel
The intellectual, the fool
Your love and mine

Their spirits point the way
But who has noticed, who will say
Your love or mine?

Life is a soft lullaby
Soothing a child as it cries
But it cries in pain
Time wrote the songs
We hear the cry
And still we sing wrong


8.Moongirl

Voices in the air, drifting from afar
Evening finds her waking, dancing with the stars
And when i'm waiting for the sun to smile upon my face
Moongirl's softly sleeping, daylight dreams away
Silence stepping by, lightly on the ground
Movng like a butterfly, never makes a sound
And when i'm waiting for the sun to shine so i can see
Comes the dancing moongirl, watching over me
(love of my life)

Moongirl shines her light on me
Moongirl, she's the one i see
Takes me to the places where i long to be
She moves me, she moves me


9.One Night

You took all my money
I gave you no name
My love and my money
Did you think i would chase it in the rain?
My eyes are now open
But what do i see?
One ride after midnight
Had i thought it would mean that much to me?

Chorus:

Everybody needs someone to love
Everybody needs a friend
Everybody needs someone to care
Do you think you can make it in the end?
Do you think that you can make it, my friend?

I thought it was easy
But what did i know
Of old men and first blood
Or the drunk who gets taken blow by blow?

The dice are all loaded
You pay by the throw
But you pay the loser
Seems the rain is turning into snow

Chorus

We stand round your doorways
You hang on the walls
Your frames are your windows
Put your bodies on the stalls
You take all our money
We leave you no name
We're dealt just the one card
But the dealer plays in every game

Chorus