Daevid Allen Came To Find You lyrics

Came To Find You by Daevid Allen

Came To Find You lyrics

i came to find her 
far across the world i came 
lookin for my lover 
lost shadow in the world game 

the time she left me i was 
burnin like a bird on fire 
puppet on a melting wire 
windup spring unwound 

she found love the 
dancing on a money box 
tying up the thought fox 
givin me the runaround 

gender gap tender spot 
she loved me she loved me not 
turnin on her heel she got 
married on the rebound 

but now i'm sittin here having coffee with you 
wondering how you feel today 
do you still have sugar in yr cappuccino? 
do yr eyes still flutter away? 
i'm feelin like a man that fell to earth 
doesnt recognise the pulse 
i'm startin to wonder just who we are 
i tried to find you 
now i'm tryin to convince myself 
that i'm not somebody else 

old age new age 
trap the bird inside the cage 
pleasing daddy leads to rage 
theatre in the round eye 
blazing crazy 

happy sad time bomb 
swingin on a pendulum 
who can calculate the sum 
sleepin with the outcome's 
easy peasy 

say cheese smile please 
bare yr teeth but not yr soul 
sex & hugs & shock control 
tryin hard pushin for yr own space 

fear of not enough for me 
left alone without a lover 
moving target finds its cove 
livin 'tween a cushion and a soft place 

you say you will no longer walk the path of fear 
step out of nintendo game 
warrior woman will shed no tears 
she will generate no blame 
but time is a river of deep belief 
head above the surface or drown 
to swim back upstrea 
tryin to grasp a past dream 
its hard to face the fact 
that in this fiction 
i'm living on your own 

here i sit now 
in a theatre in the round 
watch you dance without a sound 
are we dead or are we in the dreamtime? 

fellow travellers round yr fire 
watch you walk the high thought wire 
watchin for the flyer to inspire us real time 

they come to see and to be seen 
the real dramas they play between 
the acts and encores 'tween the scenes 
read between the songlines 

to show yr vulnerability 
demands intense humility 
cos human fallibility 
knows self esteem is simply mainly 
ego there you go 
most of the time 

once i was a teacher in a circle of ghosts 
none of them believed they were dead 
i closed my eyes and took em to the mountain but 
we went down a stairway instead 
we dug up our bodies and many old fears 
shook out dusty wings to fly 
i began to wonder what i was doing this for 
but i forgot to ask them then 
just what its like to die