Van Morrison - Keep It Simple (2008) by Van Morrison (보컬) on maniadb.com

Had my congregation, had my flock
When I was a shepherd of men
Chased the wild goose,
chased the pot of gold
Chased the rainbows end

How can a poor boy deliver this message to you?
How can a poor boy?
You don’t believe anything that’s true

Had my rise, had my downfall
Now I’m gonna rise up again
Had my degrees, my initiations
Not speaking to the profane

How can a poor boy get this message to you?
How can a poor boy
when you don’t believe a thing that’s true?

I’ve been anointed, been appointed
Even been magnified
Spied a chapel all of gold
The priest was laying down with the swine

How can a poor boy get a little message to you?
How can a poor boy
when you don’t believe anything is true?
How can a poor boy
get this message through to you?
How can a poor boy
when you don’t believe a single thing is true?

Watch the illusion of false security
Play of the shadows that move
Tell me what evil lurks in the hearts of men
Only the shadow knows

How can a poor boy get this message to you?
How can a poor boy
when you don’t believe a thing that’s true, for you
When you don’t believe a thing,
nothing that’s true for you
How can a poor boy ever get next to you?

I was educated by the school of hard knocks
Tell me who’s gonna patronise me now?
They’ve brainwashed the suckers again and perpetrated the myth
Propaganda far and wide

No wavelength, no mileage
No current currency
No answers - just silence
And nothing is what it’s supposed to be

I was educated by the school of hard knocks
Tell me who’s gonna patronise me now?
I got shipwrecked
and got stranded on the rocks
Everybody left me high and dry

I was educated by the school of hard knocks
Who’s gonna patronise me now?
Brainwashed the suckers again
and perpetrated the myth
Propaganda far and wide

No wavelength, no mileage
There’s no current currency
No answers - only silence
Nothing looks like it’s meant to be

I was educated by the school of hard knocks
Who’s gonna patronise me now?
Just got shipwrecked
and stranded on the rocks
And it left me high and dry

And it’s left me sitting high and dry
And it left me sitting high and dry
And it left me sitting high and dry

Don’t get around much anymore
The smoke has driven me out the door
All night I used to walk the floor
Don’t go to nightclubs anymore

Don’t see my old friend Mose
I don’t run into Mr. Clive
I cut out all that off the wall jive
I don’t go to nightclubs no more

I’m not a legend in my own mind
Don’t need juice to unwind
And don’t have no need to pretend
Ain’t got no huckleberry friend

Alcohol was too big a price
Listen I just said no dice
When it comes to the men and the mice
Don’t go to nightclubs anymore

I’m not a legend in my own mind
Don’t need booze to unwind
Don’t have no reason to pretend
Ain’t got no huckleberry friend

Alcohol was too big a price
That why I said hey no dice
When it comes to men or mice
Don’t go to nightclubs no more

Don’t go to nightclubs no more
Don’t go to nightclubs no more
Don’t go to nightclubs no more,
I’m such a bore
Don’t go to nightclubs no more

The sound of the evening breeze
Is calling you back to me
The sun behind the clouds
Reminds me that
you're not around
Lover come back to my arms
Lover come back to my heart
The sound of the roar of the waves
The misty evening haze
Playing that sad refrain
Going through it all over again
Lover come back to my arms
Lover come back to my heart
that's you went away
I'm a lonely lonely lonely one
Come on back to stay

You are the only one

The clickety clack of the train
Is easing all of my pain
I'm seeing it all too plain
I'm calling you home again
Lover come back to my heart
Lover come back to my arms

Since you went away
Oh Lord I'm a lonely one
Come on back to stay
You be my only one

The clickety clack of the train
Is making it all so plain
Is easing some of my pain
And I'm calling you home again
Lover come back to my arms
Lover come back to my heart
Lover come back to my arms
Lover come come on back baby
Come on back to my heart
Come on back come on back baby
Come on back come on back

Lover come back to my arms
Lover come back to my heart

They mocked me when
I was singing the songs
Trying to get back to
something more simple than we have
They mocked me
cos I told it like it was
Wrote about
disappointment and greed
Wrote about
what we really didn't
need in our lives
Make us feel alive and whole
Illusions and pipe dreams
on the one hand
And straight reality
is always cold
Saying something hard
edged is off the wall
And it might seem too bold
Mocked me when it
got out of hand
Nobody tried to understand
Now we got to keep
it simple and that's that

Illusions and pipe dreams
on the one hand
And straight reality
is always cold
Saying something hard edged
is off the wall
And it just might be too bold
Well I'm down here
on the running board
Where I've been
many times before
But we got to keep it simple
to save ourselves
Mocked me when
I tried to get back
Said the train was
completely off the track
And we got to get back to
something simple to
save ourselves
Whoa we got to get back
to something simple just
to save yourselves
Well got to get back to
something simple just
to save yourselves
Well you got to keep it simple
keep it simple just to
and that's that
Whoa you got to keep it
simple nowadays and
that's just that
Whoa you got to keep
it simple nowadays and
that's just the way it is
And you got to keep it
simple these days cos
that's the way it is
Well you got to keep it
keep it simple and that's that

When too many demands have destroyed
all my plans
Going down to end of the land
If I have to drive all night just to feel all right
Going down to the end of the land

When it gets out of hand and I fail to agree
Just what’s in it for me?
Going down to the sea

Then I’ve got to run towards the setting sun
Going down to the end of the land

When it gets out of hand
and I beg to disagree
Just what’s in it for me?
Get back down to the sea

And then I’ve got to run to the setting sun
Going down to the end of the land
If I’ve got to drive all night till the morning light
I’m going down to the end of the land

Ba da da da da, ba da da da da da
Going down, going down,
going down to the end of the land
Ba da da da da, ba da da da da
Going down to the end of the land

Well it’s written in the wind
For the story to begin
I will go back to my kin across the sea
And the bird that’s on the wing
and is flying free
He can hear the song of home endlessly

Well the further I must go
Then the nearer I must stay
Men have sailed the seven seas to be free
And like that bird that’s on the wing
and is flying free
He can hear the song of home endlessly

I can see the harbour lights
Hear the foghorns in the night
All up and down the lough, calling

From the rocky shores of Maine
I will sail back home again
Back to where my heart longs to be
And the bird that’s on the wing
and is flying free
He can hear the song of home endlessly

I can see the harbour lights
Hear the foghorns in the night
Moving up and down the lough,
calling, calling

From the rocky shores of Spain
I will sail back home again
Back to where my heart will always be
And like a bird that’s on the wing
and is flying free
He can hear the song of home endlessly

He can hear the song of home endlessly
He can hear the song of home endlessly

People come and people go
One monkey don’t stop no show
I’m getting too tired to start all over again
Cos it ain’t gonna change no thing

There’s just all of this here land
Been trampled on by man
And all around me, all these birds of prey
And all I’m trying to do is just get by one more day

Only a fool would ever think things could ever be the same
Only a fool would surmise everyone is sane

I watch them come and go
I’m fed up with the status quo
And I’m feeling too tired to start all over again
Cos I know that it ain’t gonna change no thing

Only a fool could think that things would ever be simple again
Only a fool would surmise everyone is the same

So I watch them come and go
I don’t have time for the status quo
I say blessed be and I’m on my way, on my way
Cos it ain’t gonna change no thing, no, no, no, no, no, no

Well it ain’t gonna change no thing, yeah, yeah, yeah
Well it ain’t gonna change no thing

Soul is a feeling, feeling deep within
Soul is not the colour of your skin
Soul is the essence, essence from within
It is where everything begins

Soul is what you’ve been through
What’s true for you
Where you going to
What you’re gonna do

Soul is your station for the folk of your nation
Something that you wear with pride
Soul can be your vision or something that is hidden
It’s not something that you gotta hide

Soul is what you’ve been through
What’s true for you
Where you going to
What you’re gonna do

Soul can be your station for the folk of your nation
Something that you wear with pride
Soul can be your vision it can be your religion
Something that you just can’t hide

Soul is a feeling, feeling deep within
Soul is not the colour of your skin
Soul is the essence, essence from within
Soul is where everything begins

Drinking wine in the alley,
drinking wine in the alley
Making time, drinking that wine
Out of my mind in the days gone by

Making time with Sally, drinking that wine
In the days gone by,
talking all out of my mind
Drinking that wine, talking all out of my mind

Spin and turning in the alley,
spin and turning in the alley
Like a Whirling Dervish in the alley,
drinking that wine
Drinking wine,
making time in the days gone by

Boogie woogie child in the alley
Drinking that wine, making time,
talking all out of my mind
Drinking wine in the days gone by,
behind the ritual

Behind the ritual, behind the ritual
In the days gone by, drinking that wine
Making time,
drinking that wine way back in time

Spin and turn and rhyme in the alley
Spin and turning, making up rhymes,
talking all out of my mind
Talking that jive, drinking that wine
in the days gone by

Drinking wine in the alley, drinking that wine
Making time, talking all out of my mind
Drinking that wine making time in the alley

Behind the ritual, behind the ritual
You find the spiritual, you find the spiritual
Behind the ritual in the days gone by

Drinking wine in the alley,
drinking wine in the alley
Making time, talking all out of my mind
Drinking that wine in the days gone by,
days gone by

Spin and turn talking that jive
Spin and turn talking that jive
all out of our minds
Drinking that sweet wine
Making time,
making time in the days gone by

Behind the ritual, behind the ritual
Behind the ritual, behind the ritual
Drinking that wine making time
in the days gone by

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah
Behind the ritual, making time
in the days gone by

In the days gone by, in the days gone by
Drink that wine, making time
Getting high in the days gone by,
drinking that wine

Getting high behind the ritual
Getting high behind the ritual
Drinking that wine in the days gone by

Behind the ritual, behind the ritual
Behind the ritual, behind that spiritual
In the days gone by drinking that wine
and getting high

So high behind the ritual,
so high behind the ritual
So high in the days gone by
Drinking that wine making time,
making time

Stretching time, stretching time
Drinking that wine, stretching time
Stretching time in the days
gone by behind the ritual

Behind the ritual

And we'll walk down the avenue again
And we'll sing all the songs from way back when
And we'll walk down the avenue again and the healing has begun

And we'll walk down the avenue in style
And we'll walk down the avenue and we'll smile
And we'll say baby ain't it all worthwhile when the healing has begun

I want you to put on your pretty summer dress
You can wear your Easter bonnet and all the rest
And I want to make love to you yes, yes, yes when the healing has begun

When you hear the music ringin' in your soul
And you feel it in your heart and it grows and grows
And it comes from the backstreet rock & roll and the healing has begun
I want you to put on your pretty summer dress
You can wear your Easter bonnet and all the rest
And I want to make love to you yes, yes, yes and the healing has begun

We're gonna make music underneath the stars
We're gonna play to the violin and the two guitars
We're gonna sit there and play for hours and hours when the healing has begun

[Spoken:] Wait a minute, listen, listen,
I didn't know you stayed up so late.
I just got home from a gig and I saw
you standing on the street.
Just let me move on up to this window-sill a lot yeah, I got some sherry.
You want a drop of port.
Let's move behind this door here.
Let's move on up behind this letter-box behind this door.
Let's go in your front room,
let's play this Muddy Waters record you got there,
if you just open up a little bit
and let me ease on in this backstreet jellyroll....

We're gonna stay out all night long
And then we're gonna go out and roam across the field
Baby you know how I feel when the healing has begun

When the healing, when the healing
We're gonna stay out all night long
We're gonna dance to the rock & roll
When the healing when the healing has begun
Baby just let me ease on a little bit, dig this backstreet jellyroll