Patti Smith

Birdland


His father died and left him a little farm in New England.

All the long black funeral cars left the scene

And the boy was just standing there alone

Looking at the shiny red tractor

Him and his daddy used to sit inside

And circle the blue fields and grease the night.

It was if someone had spread butter on all the fine points of the stars

'Cause when he looked up they started to slip.

Then he put his head in the crux of his arm

And he started to drift, drift to the belly of a ship,

Let the ship slide open, and he went inside of it

And saw his daddy 'hind the control board streamin' beads of light,

He saw his daddy 'hind the control board,

And he was very different tonight

'Cause he was not human, he was not human.



And then the little boy's face lit up with such naked joy

That the sun burned around his lids and his eyes were like two suns,

White lids, white opals, seeing everything just a little bit too clearly

And he looked around and there was no black ship in sight,

No black funeral cars, nothing except for him the raven

And fell on his knees and looked up and cried out,

"No, daddy, don't leave me here alone,

Take me up, daddy, to the belly of your ship,

Let the ship slide open and I'll go inside of it

Where you're not human, you are not human."



But nobody heard the boy's cry of alarm.

Nobody there 'cept for the birds around the New England farm

And they gathered in all directions, like roses they scattered

And they were like compass grass coming together into the head of a shaman bouquet

Slit in his nose and all the others went shooting

And he saw the lights of traffic beckoning like the hands of Blake

Grabbing at his cheeks, taking out his neck,

All his limbs, everything was twisted and he said,

"I won't give up, won't give up, don't let me give up,

I won't give up, come here, let me go up fast,

Take me up quick, take me up, up to the belly of a ship

And the ship slides open and I go inside of it where I am not human."



I am helium raven and this movie is mine,

So he cried out as he stretched the sky,

Pushing it all out like latex cartoon, am I all alone in this generation ?

We'll just be dreaming of animation night and day

And won't let up, won't let up and I see them coming in,

Oh, I couldn't hear them before, but I hear 'em now,

It's a radar scope in all silver and all platinum lights

Moving in like black ships, they were moving in, streams of them,

And he put up his hands and he said, "It's me, it's me,

I'll give you my eyes, take me up, oh now please take me up,

I'm helium raven waitin' for you, please take me up,

Don't let me here," the son, the sign, the cross,

Like the shape of a tortured woman, the true shape of a tortured woman,

The mother standing in the doorway letting her sons

No longer presidents but prophets

They're all dreaming they're gonna bear the prophet,

He's gonna run through the fields dreaming in animation

It's all gonna split his skull

It's gonna come out like a black bouquet shining

Like a fist that's gonna shoot them up

Like light, like Mohammed Boxer

Take them up up up up up up

Oh, let's go up, up, take me up, I'll go up,

I'm going up, I'm going up

Take me up, I'm going up, I'll go up there

Go up go up go up go up up up up up up up

Up, up to the belly of a ship.

Let the ship slide open and we'll go inside of it

Where we are not human, we're not human.



Well, there was sand, there were tiles,

The sun had melted the sand and it coagulated

Like a river of glass

When it hardened he looked at the surface

He saw his face

And where there were eyes were just two white opals, two white opals,

Where there were eyes there were just two white opals

And he looked up and the rays shot

And he saw raven comin' in

And he crawled on his back and he went up

Up up up up up up

Sha da do wop, da shaman do way, sha da do wop, da shaman do way,

Sha da do wop, da shaman do way, sha da do wop, da shaman do way,

Sha da do wop, da shaman do way,

We like birdland.

Patti Smith - Horses (1975)

Break It Up


Car stopped in a clearing,

Ribbon of life, it was nearing.

I saw the boy break out of his skin.

My heart turned over and I crawled in.

He cried, "Break it up, oh I don't understand,

Break it up, I can't comprehend.

Break it up, oh, I want to feel you.

Break it up, don't talk to me that way,

I'm not listening."



Snow started falling,

I could hear the angel calling.

We rolled on the ground, he stretched out his wings.

The boy flew away and he started to sing.

He sang, "Break it up, oh, I don't understand.

Break it up, I can't comprehend.

Break it up, oh, I want to feel you.

Break it up, don't look at me."



The sky was raging, the boy disappeared,

I fell on my knee

Atmosphere broke up, the boy reappeared.

I cried, "Take me please!"



Ice, it was shining.

I could feel my heart, it was melting.

I tore off my clothes, I danced on my shoes.

I ripped my skin open and then I broke through.

I cried, "Break it up, oh, now I understand.

Break it up, and I want to go.

Break it up, oh please take me with you.

Break it up, I can feel it breaking,

I can feel it breaking, I can feel it breaking,

I can feel, I can feel, I can feel, I can feel."



So break it up, oh now I'm coming with you.

Break it up, now I'm gonna go.

Break it up, oh, feel me, I'm coming.

Break it up, break it up, break it up,

Break it up, break it up, break it up,

Oh, break it up, break it up, break it up

Break it up, break it up, break it on up

Break it up, break it on up, up, up

Break it, break it, break it, break it

Break it on up, break it up,

Break it up, break it up, break it up ...

Patti Smith - Horses (1975)

Elegie


I just don't know what to do tonight,

My head is aching as I drink and breathe

Memory falls like cream in my bones, moving on my own.



There must be something I can dream tonight,

The air is filled with the moves of you,

All the fire is frozen yet still I have the will,

ooh, ah.



Trumpets, violins, I hear them in the distance

And my skin emits a ray, but I think it's sad, it's

much too bad

That our friends can't be with us today.

Patti Smith - Horses (1975)

Free Money


Every night before I go to sleep

Find a ticket, win a lottery,

Scoop the pearls up from the sea

Cash them in and buy you all the things you need.



Every night before I rest my head

See those dollar bills go swirling 'round my bed.

I know they're stolen, but I don't feel bad.

I take that money, buy you things you never had.



Oh, baby, it would mean so much to me,

Oh, baby, to buy you all the things you need for free.

I'll buy you a jet plane, baby,

Get you on a higher plane to a jet stream

And take you through the stratosphere

And check out the planets there and then take you down

Deep where it's hot, hot in Arabia, babia, then cool, cold fields of snow

And we'll roll, dream, roll, dream, roll, roll, dream, dream.

When we dream it, when we dream it, when we dream it,

We'll dream it, dream it for free, free money,

Free money, free money, free money,
free money, free money, free money.



Every night before I go to sleep

Find a ticket, win a lottery.

Every night before I rest my head

See those dollar bills go swirling 'round my bed.



Oh, baby, it would mean so much to me,

Baby, I know our troubles will be gone.

Oh, I know our troubles will be gone, goin' gone

If we dream, dream, dream for free.

And when we dream it, when we dream it, when we dream it,

Let's dream it, we'll dream it for free, free money,

Free money, free money, free money, X7

Free money, free money, free money, free.


Patti Smith - Horses (1975)

Gloria


Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine

meltin' in a pot of thieves

wild card up my sleeve

thick heart of stone

my sins my own

they belong to me, me

people say "beware!"

but I don't care

the words are just

rules and regulations to me, me



I-I walk in a room, you know I look so proud

I'm movin' in this here atmosphere, well, anything's allowed

and I go to this here party and I just get bored

until I look out the window, see a sweet young thing

humpin' on the parking meter, leanin' on the parking meter

oh, she looks so good, oh, she looks so fine

and I got this crazy feeling and then I'm gonna ah-ah

make her mine

ooh I'll put my spell on her



here she comes

walkin' down the street

here she comes

comin' through my door

here she comes

crawlin' up my stair

here she comes

waltzin' through the hall

in a pretty red dress

and oh, she looks so good, oh, she looks so fine

and I got this crazy feeling that I'm gonna ah-ah make her mine



and then I hear this knockin' on my door

hear this knockin' on my door

and I look up into the big tower clock

and say, "oh my God here's midnight!"

and my baby is walkin' through the door

leanin' on my couch she whispers to me and I take the big plunge

and oh, she was so good and oh, she was so fine

and I'm gonna tell the world that I just ah-ah made her mine



and I said darling, tell me your name, she told me her name

she whispered to me, she told me her name

and her name is, and her name is, and her name is, and her

name is G-L-O-R-I-A

G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria

G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria



I was at the stadium

There were twenty thousand girls called their names out to me

Marie and Ruth but to tell you the truth

I didn't hear them I didn't see

I let my eyes rise to the big tower clock

and I heard those bells chimin' in my heart

going ding dong ding dong ding dong ding dong.

ding dong ding dong ding dong ding dong

counting the time, then you came to my room

and you whispered to me and we took the big plunge

and oh. you were so good, oh, you were so fine

and I gotta tell the world that I make her mine make her mine

make her mine make her mine make her mine make her mine

G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria G-L-O-R-I-A

Gloria,

G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria



and the tower bells chime, "ding dong" they chime

they're singing, "Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine."



Gloria G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria

G-L-O-R-I-A,

Gloria G-L-O-R-I-A, G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria G-L-O-R-I-A

Gloria

G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria G-L-O-R-I-A

Gloria,

G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria G-L-O-R-I-A

Gloria,

G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria G-L-O-R-I-A

Gloria .


Patti Smith - Horses (1975)

Land


The boy was in the hallway drinking a glass of tea

From the other end of the hallway a rhythm was generating

Another boy was sliding up the hallway

He merged perfectly with the hallway,

He merged perfectly, the mirror in the hallway


The boy looked at Johnny, Johnny wanted to run,

but the movie kept moving as planned

The boy took Johnny, he pushed him against the locker,

He drove it in, he drove it home, he drove it deep in Johnny

The boy disappeared, Johnny fell on his knees,

started crashing his head against the locker,

started crashing his head against the locker,

started laughing hysterically



When suddenly Johnny gets the feeling he's being

surrounded by

horses, horses, horses, horses

coming in in all directions

white shining silver studs with their nose in flames,

He saw horses, horses, horses, horses, horses, horses,

horses, horses.

Do you know how to pony like bony maroney

Do you know how to twist, well it goes like this, it goes like this

Baby mash potato, do the alligator, do the alligator

And you twist the twister like your baby sister

I want your baby sister, give me your baby sister, dig your baby sister

Rise up on her knees, do the sweet pea, do the sweet pee pee,

Roll down on her back, got to lose control, got to lose control,

Got to lose control and then you take control,

Then you're rolled down on your back and you like it like that,

Like it like that, like it like that, like it like that,

Then you do the watusi, yeah do the watusi



Life is filled with holes, Johnny's laying there, his sperm coffin

Angel looks down at him and says, "Oh, pretty boy,

Can't you show me nothing but surrender ?"

Johnny gets up, takes off his leather jacket,

Taped to his chest there's the answer,

You got pen knives and jack knives and

Switchblades preferred, switchblades preferred

Then he cries, then he screams, saying

Life is full of pain, I'm cruisin' through my brain

And I fill my nose with snow and go Rimbaud,

Go Rimbaud, go Rimbaud,

And go Johnny go, and do the watusi, oh do the watusi



There's a little place, a place called space

It's a pretty little place, it's across the tracks,

Across the tracks and the name of the place is you like it like that,

You like it like that, you like it like that, you like it like that,

And the name of the band is the

Twistelettes, Twistelettes, Twistelettes, Twistelettes,

Twistelettes, Twistelettes, Twistelettes, Twistelettes



Baby calm down, better calm down,

In the night, in the eye of the forest

There's a mare black and shining with yellow hair,

I put my fingers through her silken hair and found a stair,

I didn't waste time, I just walked right up and saw that

up there -- there is a sea

up there -- there is a sea

up there -- there is a sea

the sea's the possibility

There is no land but the land

(up there is just a sea of possibilities)

There is no sea but the sea

(up there is a wall of possibilities)

There is no keeper but the key

(up there there are several walls of possibilities)

Except for one who seizes possibilities, one who seizes possibilities.

(up there)

I seize the first possibility, is the sea around me

I was standing there with my legs spread like a sailor

(in a sea of possibilities) I felt his hand on my knee

(on the screen)

And I looked at Johnny and handed him a branch of cold flame

(in the heart of man)

The waves were coming in like Arabian stallions

Gradually lapping into sea horses

He picked up the blade and he pressed it against his smooth throat

(the spoon)

And let it deep in

(the veins)

Dip in to the sea, to the sea of possibilities

It started hardening

Dip in to the sea, to the sea of possibilities

It started hardening in my hand

And I felt the arrows of desire



I put my hand inside his cranium, oh we had such a brainiac-amour

But no more, no more, I gotta move from my mind to the area

(go Rimbaud go Rimbaud go Rimbaud)

And go Johnny go and do the watusi,

Yeah do the watusi, do the watusi ...

Shined open coiled snakes white and shiny twirling and encircling

Our lives are now entwined, we will fall yes we're together twining

Your nerves, your mane of the black shining horse

And my fingers all entwined through the air,

I could feel it, it was the hair going through my fingers,

(I feel it I feel it I feel it I feel it)

The hairs were like wires going through my body

I I that's how I

that's how I

I died

(at that Tower of Babel they knew what they were after)

(they knew what they were after)

[Everything on the current] moved up

I tried to stop it, but it was too warm, too unbelievably smooth,

Like playing in the sea, in the sea of possibility, the possibility

Was a blade, a shiny blade, I hold the key to the sea of possibilities

There's no land but the land

looked at my hands, and there's a red stream

that went streaming through the sands like fingers,

like arteries, like fingers

(how much fits between the eyes of a horse?)

He lay, pressing it against his throat (your eyes)

He opened his throat (your eyes)

His vocal chords started shooting like (of a horse) mad pituitary glands

The scream he made (and my heart) was so high (my heart) pitched that nobody heard,

No one heard that cry,

No one heard (Johnny) the butterfly flapping in his throat,

(His fingers)

Nobody heard, he was on that bed, it was like a sea of jelly,

And so he seized the first

(his vocal chords shot up)

(possibility)

(like mad pituitary glands)

It was a black tube, he felt himself disintegrate

(there is nothing happening at all)

and go inside the black tube, so when he looked out into the steep

saw this sweet young thing (Fender one)

Humping on the parking meter, leaning on the parking meter

In the sheets there was a man dancing around to the simple

Rock & roll song


Patti Smith - Horses (1975)

Redondo Beach


Late afternoon, dreaming hotel

We just had the quarrel that sent you away.

I was looking for you, are you gone gone ?

Called you on the phone, another dimension.

Well, you never returned, oh you know what I mean.

I went looking for you, are you gone, gone ?



Down by the ocean it was so dismal,

Women all standing with a shock on their faces.

Sad description, oh I was looking for you.



Everyone was singing, girl is washed up

On Redondo Beach and everyone is so sad.

I was looking for you, are you gone gone ?

Pretty little girl, everyone cried.

She was the victim of sweet suicide.

I went looking for you, are you gone gone ?



Down by the ocean it was so dismal,

Women all standing with shock on their faces.

Sad description, oh I was looking for you.



Desk clerk told me girl was washed up,

Was small, an angel with apple blonde hair, now.

I went looking for you, are you gone gone ?

Picked up my key, didn't reply.

Went to my room, started to cry.

You were small, an angel, are you gone gone ?



Down by the ocean it was so dismal.

I was just standing with shock on my face.

The hearse pulled away, and the girl that had died, it was you.

You'll never return into my arms 'cause you were gone gone.

Never return into my arms 'cause you were gone gone.

Gone gone, gone gone, good-bye.


Patti Smith - Horses (1975)

Do sada su postavljeni ovi tekstovi:

1. Birdland
2. Break It Up
3. Elegie
4. Free Money
5. Gloria
6. Kimberly
7. Land
8. Redondo Beach