MANFRED MANN '06/ EARTH BAND:   2006

Demons And Dragons

Dragons rage outside your door
But I'm on my way to save you
Demons wage unholy war
But I'm on my way to guide you

But the Demons never need to know
What the demons never got to see
As we fall in and out of line
Stay in touch now for a while

But the Demons never got to read
What we never got around to write
As we fall in and out of line
Stay in touch now for a while

'Thomas D' German rap

Two Brides [Interlude]

One bride smiled as she came down the aisle
And one bride cried as she waited right outside

How the bells were ringing
Oh how the choir did sing

Down In Mexico

There's a little spot in Mexico
Too small to be a village
Not large to be a town
Joe plays the blues
Joe plays the blues because he needs to

Down in Mexicali there's a crazy little place that I know
Where the drinks are hotter than the chili sauce
And the bass is a guy named Joe

He wears a red bandana plays a Blues piano
In a little old bar in Mexico
He's a cool survivor, plays an old Synthesizer
In a little old bar in Mexico

First time that I saw him, he was sitting on a piano stool
I said 'tell me Joe when does the fun begin'
He just winked his eye & said 'Be cool'

Joe plays the blues
Joe plays the blues because he needs to
Need is the ultimate monkey at the 'Time Out Of Joint Cafe'
A weird landscape of whacked-out plots
With hi-fi loving farmers who look more like organic ghosts
Being served by misanthropic robots
Joe only plays one song
One continuous vomitific never-ending song
Half spoken in some obsolete vernacular
He tells one long story about a girl
A girl he met down in Mexico

Happenstance (instrumental)

The History Of Sexual Jealousy Parts 17 To 24

I'm jealous of the people, the people I fall in love with
I'm jealous of the people, the people I try to be more like
I'm even jealous of the people who hate me, hate me more

The complete history of sexual jealousy part 17 to 24
I'm jealous of the man, the man you broke the heart of
I'm jealous of the man you knew before in the life that I cannot be a part of
There's more than meets the eye in the way a stranger meets your eye,
I know there's more

OPERA SECTION
Part 17 18 19 part 21 to 24
The law of infidelity   of fear and insecurity
The law of promiscuity the tale of sexual jealousy

If looks could kill, I'd like the man, whose looks would kill you if looks could kill
And the man who says no competition, knows the competition love instills
I'm jealous of the people who ask you to ask me, who's keeping score

Black Eyes (instrumental)

Mars

Rifle butts and band aids
Mortar bombs and hand grenades
Match battle cruisers
Who came out the losers
Lie in the long grass
Can't let them pass
Bullets flying all ways
Let me get through the day

Mars, the bringer the bringer the bringer of war
Mars the bringer of war, what for.

Tracers star shell
Get me outta this hell
Napalm in the sun
This could run and run and run
Slide down tank track
afraid to look back
Planes up bombs down
Think this used to be a town
Mars, the bringer the bringer the bringer of strife
Destroyer of life, that's right

Atom bombs, night sights
Submarines and satellites
Flame thrower back pack
You just gotta fight back
Caught on the barbed wire
Halt or I fire
Cannon fodder faces
Put them through their paces.

Get Me Out Of This

Sometime after seven there's a knock knock knocking at my door
Someone's out there yelling, 'I just can't take it anymore'
He's waving round a gun it's a Magnum 20 42
He said 'it's full of bullets and I saved them all for you'

And I screamed 'Get me out of this dream'
And I yelled 'Get me out of this hell'
The world was really ending there was flame fire there was flood
Everything was freezing, my ears eyes balls and blood
Star ship there from Venus, Captain Kirk and Dr. Spock
Then I heard Mick shouting 'Hey babe it's nearly 6 o'clock

Frog

Once upon a time, on a quiet summer's evening an old man was rowing an old boat across an ancient lake.
A little frog jumped up onto the end of the boat, and the frog said to the old man.
'Old man, if you kiss me, I will turn into a beautiful young Princess and you can do whatever you want with me'
And the old man smiled at the frog and kept on rowing his old boat across the ancient lake.
And the frog said again, 'Old man if you kiss me I will turn into a beautiful young princess, and you
can do whatever you want with me and I'll do whatever you want.'
And the old man smiled and looked at the frog and carried on rowing his old boat across the ancient lake.
And there was a long silence while the guitar played.
The frog said to the old man, 'Old man why won't you kiss me'
The old man looked at the frog and stopped rowing his old boat across the ancient lake, put his hands in the air,
shrugged his shoulders, and said 'at my age I'd rather have a talking frog'.

Two Friends

One friend says 'Just get on with your life'
and one friend says 'There's no way you'll win this fight'
Sometimes it just ain't worth it
You gotta cut your loss

One horse won cause he did it right
and one horse lost though he fought
with all his might
They were a long time running
I was a hard run race

One twin died as he saw the light
and one twin cried 'You gotta fight the good fight
oh there are hard times coming
it's such a hard hard road'

One man's song really sounds absurd
One man's song is the best you ever heard
They took a long time writing
Those rhymes are hard to find

Monkmann

Marche Slave [Instrumental Interlude]

Independent Woman

Lend me your ears dry up your tears
And let's hear the cheers for the year of the independent woman
You gotta break through this wall
Take a stand never fall
There may be one chance I know
Take it now one final go
Don't sit back stick on the track
You watch your back but give a damn
You've gotta be the one to keep it like that, to keep it like that
Do what you have to do
Say what you need to say
Be what you want to be what you want to be
Lend me your ears dry up your tears

And let's hear the cheers for the year of the independent woman
You gotta break from these chains
You gotta make this your claim
You know it's all down to you
and we know who's to blame
It's been tough gonna get rough
you've had enough and you can tell
you gotta think what you can do about
that can do about that
Do what what you have to do
Say what you need to say
Be what you want to be what you want to be
Lend me your ears dry up your tears
And let's hear the cheers for the year of the independent woman
Don't sit back stick on the track
You watch your back but give a damn
You've gotta be the one to keep it like that
Do what you have to do

...Mark your mark you know the way
(Be what you wanna be)
Let's hear the cheers for the year of the independent woman
Take it now you know the way
(Be what you wanna be)
Let's hear the cheers for the year of the independent woman...

Dragons [reprise]

Demons wage unholy war
But I'm on my way to guide you

+ 23/9/05