Goodbye And Hello Lyrics by 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
    Are not really riddled with widening cracks
    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
    As all become one ------ know the way

    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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