KHAN
"Space Shanty" (1972)

SPACE SHANTY (including The Cobalt Sequence and March Of The Sine Squadrons)
Words and Music
by Steve Hillage

I need you and you need me
Also I need to be free
Free as the word free can mean
To stand secure outside this dream
Starstruck moonman looks so blind
You're still a slave within your mind
And all this time you have not guessed
Where you are bound
Which way you're heading
How you can stop feeling confused

Follow the star that is moving so slowly
Flow in its river of light and you'll see
That you have found
What you've been searching
Come back and help us to regain

STRANDED EFFERVESCENT PSYCHONOVELTY NO.5
Words and Music
by Steve Hillage

We escaped from the city
Miles and miles we did flee
Through the endless forest
To the edge of the sea
It was as though the world was ours
Lying on a deserted beach
Out of reach, out of their reach

I could see you much clearer
As we strode by the shore
All the peace all around us
Seemed impossibly pure
And then the sun shone through the clouds
Touched us with its magnificent beam
Made us clean, made us feel so clean

On our island of safety
From the alien crowd
Of the city of madness
Could we really be sure
That the peace would still remain
Sealed away from insanity
We shall see, we shall see

MIXED-UP MAN OF THE MOUNTAINS
Words and Music
by Steve Hillage & Nick Greenwood

Looking at the ground
I'm crying for the sky
I know I can't hope to go
Where I can't be found
But when I close my eyes
I start to fly

The sun burns down on me
I'm praying he'll take me away
So very much higher
Than the peaks above me
I open myself, my spirit is free
And I start to fly

As a lead upon the breeze
Higher than the chains of mortal man
Surrounded by the wonders of a life I saw but never knew
Revealed the hazy secrets of the mountain man
But soon as I am here I have to go

DRIVING TO AMSTERDAM
Words and Music
by Steve Hillage

We look ahead for miles
Down our avenue of lights
We motor past the airport
In the flatness of the night
Its fairy beads reflected
In the shining of your eye

Can it be that there's so many
That have been through this whole scene before ?

Staring at the ground
For I knew not what to do
I turned full around
And found myself, in you

The water looks so placid
To deny that it's a threat
Our weary faces smiling
With the energy that's left
Your flowing now has reached me
And I feel I want to stay

There's no need for a reason
We switched off our thinking hours ago

Still we're driving onward
Moving steady as a plane
Moonbug cars flash past us
As we head the other way
Across the dyke of worry
To a Nederlander dream

Now the morning opens slowly
On what seems a very special day

STARGAZERS
Words and Music
by Steve Hillage

Open your eyes if you dare
Future comes, all you know is that you'll share
Suns and moons, many cycles, miles of days
Your love shines like a beacon through the haze
Your twin lives twined together
Jigsaw, fit, snap together
Your twin heads crowned together
King and Queen, an extra gene

Can your words cope with infinity ?
You must communicate it perfectly
Don't you think you can surely make it now ?
You don't need anyone to show you how
Your twin lives twined together
Jigsaw, fit, snap together
Your twin heads crowned together
King and Queen, an extra gene

HOLLOW STONE - ESCAPE OF THE SPACE PIRATES
Words and Music
by Steve Hillage

Hollow stone
Early morning you slip out the window
And glide through the dew
All alone
Back a thousand years

And you know there is no answer
They can give you, they can give you
For the words are not there for them to choose

After all
You are only a molecule drifting
An atom afloat
As you fall
Into space from your lonely shell of fear

You raise your hands and gaze in wonder
At a word you have seen somewhere before

Only you can see the men of wisdom
Moving slowly on together
Sun shines through the stone but once a year
Ceremony now will start anew

And so you sit beneath the linden tree
Staring ghostly at the altar
And all the problems that perplex you so
Dissolve and vanish deep into the water

No use asking what you are
Or what you'll be a millisecond after

As you plunge back into laughter now
Dancing and calling out your name

And still you sit beneath the linden tree
Staring ghostly at the altar
And all the problems that perplex you so
Dissolve and vanish deep into the water