Really everyone's alone, so you're not alone It's impossible to lose what can't be won So forgive your enemies Forgive your enemies Forgive your enemies For they know not what they've done If you're looking for revenge, hold your hand And if you're standing on a ledge, make a stand If you among us are so pure, play god If you among us suffer too, are likewise flawed Forgive your enemies ... And in a million spinning worlds, you'll find Not another living animal, so be kind The human-being in front of you Is a damaged searching creature from a cruel and wondrous universe You too are your own enemy So forgive what you've done It was either one or the other

It was 5 in the morning Sun was coming up Gathered round the fire Drinking special cups Starting to tell of our loves, trials, revelations And all those silent truths in our relations I was speaking of my poems Singing of my songs Thinking of myself Not a care for anyone I asked the girl beside me if she'd ever heard the truth She said, yes, in a different world, in my lost youth All the people were laughing As I turned to hear She spoke of a past Of addiction and fear She spoke her tragedy of the needle and crime She spoke of all she'd lost, a child, a lifetime CHORUS Yeah something like that could really make a good man bad And something like that could really save a sinner Yeah something like that or something like that We talked of it a while I didn't ask for details I could not pretend That I know how it feels She said that it's over now, she's a musician And she helps save other folk from their afflictions My own luck in life Is just serendipity I didn't deserve it I didn't earn to be free I was lucky to learn, grow, and be cared for It is lucky to have a sense of being cared for ______________________________________ I got to looking round All the happy strangers The freedom of the morning No distant dangers And I thought of all the trapped lives unawakened As they slept in the cold beds of their prisons Maybe they are quite right Perhaps it's not my place For mostly folk that I've loved Have been reprobates Sinners portrayed in works of great writers Music makers, dreamers, freedom fighters CHORUS Yeah something like that could really make a good man bad And something like that could really save a sinner Yeah something like that could really save a sinner man Something like that, or something like that

Aurora Borealis The spring thaw reveals Her naked body Like a sculpture in ice A snowy mountain Out on the ocean Glows in the night O what a sight Aurora Borealis No quilted blanket To keeps her cold at night Under Northern Lights The Northern Lights In Arctic seas she dwells Slowly melting Softly drifting away When she broke free From the ice shelf I thought she would sink Into herself Aurora Borealis ... Now that you’ve broke free Lady Iceberg Don’t you miss the geese migrating? In the winter Frozen together Don’t you need something to cling to in the storm? Like a quilted blanket To keep you warm at night Under Northern Lights Northern Lights

Our father Our heaven Our mother Our children All buried in sacred ground (Consecrate the burial mound) (Drown the ashes in the sound) Out on the island Where the whales blow At the solstice Where we danced at dawn Our descendants Ancestors Haunt the darkness Of the winter winds We're all searching for something To believe in Do you already believe In what you are? We're all ready to see What’s in our hearts But for the dark (before the dark)

I had a dream I had a brother He was older than I could know His house burnt down The homeless wanderer Set sail for the land of war and snow I have a dream I have a sister She looks to the north and prays Squints in the sun Of the Mediterranean As she watches the glistening waves They set sail on the death ships at dawn They set sail on the ocean in the morning To Canada Or to Lampedusa They set sail though not knowing if their returning I had a dream I had a father Who drowned before me in the waves He took the risk Though he could not swim He could not fight as they took his armour away I had a dream I had a mother Who suffered the desert agony She did not weep For what she had lost For there was enough salt in the sea We set sail on the death ships at dawn We set sail on the ocean in the morning To Canada Or to Lampedusa We'll set sail with no knowing when we're returning I see the flag of our old enemy Fluttering like the waves of the sea Their power's wide Like the corpse-choked tide Let's put an end to their history

Women You carry the weight Of the world In your wombs Women Help your children Grow into men And women Woman In your breasts Bury me And share your strength With me I'm but a man You make me more Woman Women Talk together Of mysteries And pain Women With each other Sharing cares And laughter You will keep the secret in your smiling eyes

I watched the pale blue tear Sink into the moon I watched the atmosphere Swirl like a mother's womb Where every sailor drowned Where every king was crowned Where every lover discovered How to hold on to another I asked my friend Dr Sagan As he died on his bed Is it really all worth saving? Or are we already dead? He said listen To the silence Listen To the sound The wars The violence The anger Of the crowd The cancer The patient The screaming In the wards And through it all great migrations Tiny seabirds stormbound Sacred Statues standing On the clifftops in the clouds Human dreaming Human longing Baby crying Baby sleeping Human dreaming Woman laughing Children singing Old man weeping at the words Of a very old song

I’m losing my faith I’m losing my faith My religion and my women I’m losing my faith This is my body Broken for you Take it and eat it And when you do Do it in love for me

When you're hungry And you cannot eat When you're tired And you cannot sleep When you're injured But you must not weep When you're haunted And you cannot scream When you wake up And you cannot dream When you're trapped And you can't get out When you're cold And you can't get dry When you're dry And you can't get drunk When you're drunk And you can't get up Where you sit down Where you won't be found Where you won't beg Coz you'll never beg When you beg Coz you have to beg O o la povertà

I lie my head in my prison cell I want to hate and I might as well I lie my head in my prison cell Think of the breasts of a warm wet girl She lies by me imaginary I stroke the flesh above her knee She lies by me imaginary Play with the hair of her soft pussy I sing her the songs of Leonard Cohen I sing them loud so the guards will hear them I sing the songs of Leonard Cohen Fill the captives with loss and longing I bang the drum on graffitied walls I hear the jangle as the guard's key calls I bang the drum on graffitied walls Put up a fight for what it solves I lie here in my prison cell With no sunshine for the time to tell I lie here in my prison cell The prison sleeps, this song’s a bell Fuck the Queen and her Commonwealth Flung in a dungeon like it's 1612

Do you feel to be truly blessed? Do you see all your friends outside the bar? Have you swum with your sons in the sea? Have you tasted your wife's pasta recipe? Do you feel to be truly happy? Do you feel so happy in this life? Sentirsi benedetto in questa vita qui Hai visto tuoi amici al bar fuori? Hai nuotato con tuoi figli al mare? Hai provato la pasta di tua moglie? Essere felice Felice in questa vita che sei Felice Felice d'essere To be warm To sleep deeply To laugh long To make music To have close ones Who are needed To be happy Happy To be