Coming Down Soft & Easy - Shawn Phillips

Tell a tale of married men

Of simple shells and curried zen

Falling through the world of when

Today

Serpent coils and hydrofoils

You don’t believe what he does with oils

Speaking words that he said once

Yesterday

Peaches are predominant

Peace has got no counterpoint

Peter said he had to go nowhere

Away

But could it be a grand joke

A puff of smoke

Yes it’s but a great day

To know the way

Don’t you see the huge clouds go flying by

Don’t you know

Deep down we all are butterflies

Just you take another look round

What you been seeing

What’s been running through your mind

Is all we have at all

Have you been to the tinkers' ball

Waiting for the light to come again

Yes, we was sitting on a rooftop

Looking at the planets

Have you looked out there?

Today is like tomorrow then

A little scared of the affairs of men

Everybody also knows that they’re been afraid

'Cause they are frightened by a love life with everybody

Terrified by the thought of

Unity is probable

Vanity is escapable

Violence, the workings of a tortured mind

Waterbeds are really fun

Sleeping in the baking sun

Debbie’s disappointed

But I think she knows it’s right

Jellyfish are dangerous

Politics are perilous

And I’m really glad that I’m not Richard’s friend

'Cause I say sexual repression can make a lot of trouble

It can only lead to

Craziness

Is in the head

The heart is short of being dead

Have you got a reason for survival in the fall

Oh look at blood-soaked Charlie on a silk-stained bedsheet

Can you tell me do you really want to

Die in all your false belief?

I tell you now that there is no relief

Oh, you really gotta grow again

Psychosomatic delusions of euphoria

Better dig it now

Before the coming in memoriam

Could it be a grand joke

A puff of smoke

Yes it’s but a great day

To know the way

Don’t you see the huge clouds go flying by

Don’t you know

Deep down we all are butterflies