Tim Buckley - Goodbye And Hello Lyrics
The antique people are down in the dungeons
Run by machines and afraid of the tax
Their heads in the grave and their hands on their eyes
Hauling their hearts around circular tracks
Pretending forever their masquerade towers
And I wave goodbye to iron
And smile hello to the air
O the new children dance - I am young
All around the balloons - I will live
Swaying by chance - I am strong
To the breeze from the moon - I can give
Painting the sky - you the strange
With the colors of sun - seed of day
Freely they fly - feel the change
The velocity addicts explode on the highways
Ignoring the journey and moving so fast
Their nerves fall apart and they gasp but can't breathe
They run from the cops of the skeleton past
Petrified by tradition in a nightmare they stagger
Into nowhere at all and they look up aghast
And I wave goodbye to speed
And smile hello to a rose
O the new children play - I am young
Under the juniper trees - I will live
Sky blue or gray - I am strong
They continue at ease - I can give
Moving so slow - you the strange
That serenely they can - seed of day
Gracefully grow - feel the change
And yes still understand - know the way
The king and the queen in their castle of billboards
Sleepwalk down the hallways dragging behind
All their possessions and transient treasures
As they go to worship the electronic shrine
On which is playing the late late commercial
In that hollowest house of the opulent blind
And I wave goodbye to mammon
And smile hello to a stream
O the new children buy - I am young
All the world for a song - I will live
Without a dime - I am strong
To which they belong - I can give
Nobody owns - you the strange
Anything anywhere - seed of day
Everyone's grown - feel the change
Up so big they can share - know the way
The vaudeville generals cavort on the stage
And shatter their audience with submachine guns
And freedom and violence the acrobat clowns
Do a balancing act on the graves of our sons
While the tapdancing emperor sings "war is peace"
And love the magician disappears in the fun
And I wave goodbye to murder
And smile hello to the rain
O the new children can't - I am young
Tell a foe from a friend - I will live
Quick to enchant - I am strong
And so glad to extend - I can give
Handfuls of dawn - you the strange
To kaleidoscope men - seed of day
Come from beyond - feel the change
The great wall of skin - know the way
The bloodless husbands are jesters who listen
Like sheep to the shrieks and commands of their wives
And the men who aren't men leave the women alone
See them all faking love on a bed made of knives
Afraid to discover or trust in their bodies
And in secret divorce they will never survive
And I wave goodbye to ashes
And smile hello to a girl
O the new children kiss - I am young
They are so proud to learn - I will live
Womanwood bliss - I am strong
And the manfire that burns - I can give
Knowing no fear - you the strange
They take off their clothes - seed of day
Honest and clear - feel the change
As a river that flows - know the way
The antique people are fading out slowly
Like newspapers flaming in mind suicide
Godless and sexless directionless loons
Their sham sandcastles dissolve in the tide
They put on their deathmasks and compromise daily
The new children will live for the elders have died
And I wave goodbye to America
And smile hello to the world
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- Tim Buckley - Martha
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Tim Buckley Goodbye And Hello Comments
i learned most of his songs from some friends before i ever got to hear his album. i still love this one. touched me in many ways,
One of the few "no skipping tracks" albums in my collection.
Tim Buckley, one of the most amazing people in the world when I was a child, teenager - he lived February 14, 1947 – to June 29, 1975, so he died aged 28, as so many of the amazing music people died ages 27, and 28 - why? how? I always thought was the evil stupid companies in charge of the countries killing them!! Or did the aliens, so liking them, took them up to their skies ... this music was in 1967
why did he die. I was born in 48 and served and fought for years. I was no musician but still alive.
@j H overdose
a tragic overdose.. this is sad
a lot of young musicians died in that time: Brian Jones, Alan Wilson, JImi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Pamela Courson [Morrison's girlfriend], Ron Pigpen.. all these people died at age 27 between 1969-1975
Loved this guy..