Blind Eye-03.-1972 - (The Magician's Birthday)
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" Free Me"
(Hensley)

Why should I worry that you might not love me
You're not the only love I ever had
Your sweet memory will [bad word] me
So why should I be feeling sad

Far as I can tell
You knew so well
I was always at the end of the line
I loved you as much as any man can
But not enough to make you mine

So long easy rider I know I'll miss you for awhile
But sooner or later I know that I'll forget you
Free me somebody free me won't you
Free me, free me from your spell

We let a good love die
We let it pass us by
Though you try to keep me hangin' on
But with all this doubt
It'll never work out
So tomorrow I'll be travellin' on
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"Blind Eye"
(Hensley)

Stranger than the sunrise
Darker than the night
Fiercer than a rainstorm
This is man's delight
This is man's delight.

Weaker than a moment
And hot as any fire
Blinder than the blind eye
This is man's desire
This is man's desire.

I ran to a place in the open sea
Where I pledged my life to the sun
But when I woke up one day the sun
Had gone.

I ran to a place in the open sea
Where I pledged my whole life to the sun
It was good for a while, I could laugh, I could smile
But when I woke up one day the sun
Had gone.
Had gone had gone had gone had gone

So what of my meaning
What am I trying to say
What of my caution
...I'm a man anyway, I'm a man anyway
I'm a man anyway, I'm a man anyway
I'm a man anyway, I'm a man anyway.
(repeat to fade)
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" Choices"
(Williams)

I was walking alone [bad word] a side show
With passion and pain on each side.
Something inside me was calling
For a chance to stay alive.

At the time I didn't know what was calling
As my head was buried in grief.
Today I heard what was crying.
My FREEDOM calling me

And we all make our choices
Like a blind man feels his way,
And the choice I've made is simple:
Passion over pain.

When I got to the end of the side show
And looked back to where I had been,
My eyes filled with teardrops of loneliness
For the ones who will never be free

And we all make our choices
Like a blind man feels his way,
And the choice I've made is simple:
Passion over pain.

I thought of the children in the side show
As they wandered around so confused.
Some day they'll make their decision
But which one will they choose?

And we all make our choices
Like a blind man feels his way,
And the choice I've made is simple:
Passion over pain.
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"Illusion"
(Hensley)

In a forest known as heartbreak
In a clearing in the wood
'Cross a pathway called confusion
Toward the garden of delight

You'll reach the river of desire
And meekly try to cross it
While the valley of love keeps avoiding you
Because it's only an illusion

Upon the hill of high ideals
You begin to wonder if it's real
You are reaching sleep's oasis
You begin to wonder how you feel

But it happens so quickly it doesn't fit
Into your scenes
Tossin' and turnin' the star of so many scenes
It's only an illusion