Lyrics
Tribe - 2007 - Tracklist
1. Tribe
2. Sound
3. I am a River
4. Change
5. Early Morning Instrumental
6. Out There
7. Dead Of The Night
8. Star Of Doolin Instrumental
9. Homeless
10. Lebanon
11. Peace Rains
12. Beara Instrumental
1. Tribe
I hope the rain holds off just for today I hope it doesn't rain on
Your parade kick up your white heels wave your flags around
Kick up your white heels parading in our town
Oh, where is my tribe
All around the side streets, needles look for veins where bullets found
Their mark in old rebellions others stand saluting, saying this is who
I am a piece of cloth, a field, an island
Oh where is my tribe
Joyce lies in Zurich, Beckett lies in France what anthem has the tune
To their dance, who is my tribe, is it only green or is it in a rainbow
Of my dreams
Oh where is my tribe
Home's a place inside I take with me I meet my tribe wherever
I may be my tribe is the swallow flying to be home my tribe is the
Heron, who never feels alone my tribe is in Pine Ridge, my tribes in
Alice Springs my tribe is in the heartbeat of all things
Its good to lay your head down outside its good to dance around the
Tribe....
2. Sound
Driving into a grey, grey evening
Drive into a good New Year feeling
It doesn't need to mean a thing when you sing when you sing
Put a foot upon a spade
Spade into the ground
Follow the trail of worms
Until the rhythm's found
Wait until the words come down
Sound
Sound as a pound
Sing your day away
Sing your day away and dream away
Walking through the winter trees
Naked branches in the loss of leaves
Naked in the wind and rain
No escaping winter's waiting game
Put a foot upon a spade
Spade into the ground
Follow the trail of worms
Until the rhythm's found
Sound as a pound
Sing your day away
Sing your day away and dream away
Dream away...
3. I am a River
Underneath the oak tree
Underneath the sky
I listen to the newborn lambs cry
Cry out for nipple, soon be out to grass, everything is changing too
Soon, too fast
I am a river passing through
I am a river passing through
I am a river passing through
This is what we do...
Standing at a corner
Of a Dublin street
Stare into a sea of busy little feet
Going about our business
Rush, push, shove
Hoping in our lifetimes
We'll find and be in love
I am a river passing through
I am a river passing through
I am a river passing through
This is what we do...
We're all passing through...
4. Change
Every time I fall down
It’s a new beginning
Getting up again and again trying to rise up has more to love than
Winning I love it when the moment of change comes I love it when the
Road is clear I love it when the moment of change comes the beginning
Of the end of fear
We all rise up
Rise up slow
We all rise up, to grow
From our saying hello
When the dancing begins
From the meeting of our eyes
To the tingling touch of skin
I love it when the moment of change comes...
From running around the world
To standing still
From taking all the earth can give
To knowing when you've had your fill
I love it when the moment of change comes I love it when the road is
Free I love it when the moment of change comes the open road and me
5. Early Morning
(Instrumental)
6. Out There
Did you know I was out there?
I knew you were out there
Did you know I was out there?
I knew you were out there
I saw you in a dream
I saw you like a summer's evening you were all alone there
You never know who's out there you never know who's out there
Did you know I was out there?
I knew you were out there
I saw you there upon the sand
I saw the flat stone leave your hand
You were all alone there
You never know who's out there
You never know who's out there
Never be alone
You need never be alone.......
7. Dead of Night
I love the dead of night and the nightsky
Greed is sleeping
In Dublin's little Shanghai
Foxes go hunting
In the waste to get by
Little girl is sleeping
By the banks front door
Cctv is watching over her
I love the dead of night and the nightsky
Every dawn, something magical is gone
I hide away after birdsong
I love the dead of night and the nightsky
Arguments in the rain under nightsky
Lovers kissing on trains they pass me by prayer for the world under
Nightsky pray for boys and girls under nightsky
I love the dead of night and the nightsky
8. Star of Doolin
(Instrumental)
9. Homeless
It was a homeless man in Hollywood got me thinking.
We'd just flown in from San Francisco; we'd been flying and driving
For weeks. That day I saw this homeless man on the street in
Hollywood. I felt the usual mix of sorrow for him, and anger at a
Society that causes a man to have to live like this. But later on I
Thought about this man more, and he affected me differently. See he
Looked really together, really organised. A survivor. I'm sure his
Life is really tough, but I just felt a strong sense of respect for
Him, more than pity. Then I asked myself why was I so affected by this
Man.
Then it struck me, that here in this crazy, consumer world, here was a
Man who drives no car, who flies no planes who heats no home; in a
Time of global warming his Co2 emissions are pretty much zero. So
Right here, and right now this homeless man in Hollywood is a model
Urban citizen.
I on the other hand, live this life of good intentions, travelling the
World, trying to be aware of the earth, singing songs, and looking and
Hoping for change. But out on the road, I fly every day; drive
Everyday, heat my home, and burn up so much fuel that if everyone
Lived like me we'd need about 4 planets to keep it all
Going..............................Shit!
Funny how a homeless man in Hollywood got me thinking......... Men
Like him literally walk the walk, and men like me....well we talk a
Good talk....
It was a homeless man in Hollywood.....
10. Lebanon
Things are looking bad now
You know they never have been worse, to the north
Lie mountains, to the south a curse, bloodstained footprints in the
Shifting sands among the olive groves of Cedarland
Lebanon
Young girls go running around
Giggling out the door
Every generation has seen these wars before caught between a rock and
A hard, hard place still you live your lives in a state of grace
Lebanon
Old man smokes his pipe
And through world-weary eyes
He curses the cameras
And pleads to merciless skies
Through the ashes
Float the words of Khalil Gibran
Love, in time
Will show her hand
Lebanon
11. Peace Rains
Peace rains everywhere
In my dreams
Love rules everywhere
In my dreams
Sweet dreams....
