MEAN STEPMOTHER
(Lyrics: T.Roudi)

Pleased to meet you welcome to the show
Gonna take a ride down the wild frontiers
Stayin' up for days
Let me take you to the top

Here is somebody I want you to meet
My black heart queen mama Bad Dream
You may kiss her feet
Let me take you to the top

Mean stepmother mean mutha
I'm just a hired hand
Mean stepmother mean mutha
I'm just a hired hand

Pleased to see you comin' back for more
Wanna take a ride to the other side?
It's time for goodbyes
Let me take you to the door

Mean stepmother mean mutha
I'm just a hired hand
Mean stepmother mean mutha
I'm just a hired hand

Mean stepmother mean mutha
I'm just a hired hand
Mean stepmother mean mutha
I'm just a hired hand

BURN IT DOWN
(Lyrics: T.Roudi)

Close to the sky
Kissing the ground
Hand me my freedom
Don't make a sound

Cadillac smiles
Crocodile tears
A chain of pearls
Made of wasted years

You're so sorry for the things that you did
For the devilish laughter, the truth that you hid
Don't you worry, it don't matter anymore
I walk out of your life as I walk out of the door

Burn it down
Burn it down
Down to the ground
The candle of truth
Burn it down

My trust and faith
Had been misplaced
All golden memories
Have been erased

Please say farewell
To partnership
Before we sink or are blown to bits

You're so sorry for the things that you did
For the devilish laughter, the truth that you hid
Don't you worry, it don't matter anymore
I walk out of your life as I walk out of the door

Burn it down
Burn it down
Down to the ground
The candle of truth
Burn it down




EVIL
(Lyrics: C.Burnett)
(Original release: Howlin' Wolf - Moanin' In The Moonlight, 1959)

Long way from home
Can't sleep at night
Grab your telephone
You know something ain't right

That's evil, evil going on
I'm warning you brother
You better watch your happy home

Long way from home
Can't sleep at all
Feels like a mule's kicking
In your stall

That's evil, evil going on
I'm warning you brother
You better watch your happy home

Long way from home
Can't sleep at all
Feels like a mule's kicking
In your stall

That's evil, evil going on
I'm warning you brother
You better watch your happy home

SUNFLOWER
(Lyrics: T.Roudi/H.Leiden)


I've drawn circles in the water
Watched the ocean start to boil
Felt the pebbles melting under my feet

I drew the line into quicksand
Took a night flight to nowhere
Bid farewell to the flaming city streets

Join me in the hour of the sunflower
Tell me it's alright, it's alright
Can you tell me it's alright

I've spent my hours in silence
In the corner of the losers
Like the centre of a dead universe

I've sold my last shiny diamond
My very last ray of hope
Watched my life take a turn from bad to worse

Join me in the hour of the sunflower
Tell me it's alright, it's alright
That I can sleep tonight

Feel the power of the sunflower

I've spent my hours in silence
In the corner of the losers
Watched my life take a turn from bad to worse




GOODBYE
(Lyrics: T.Roudi)

After the goldrush came the hollow days
When the walls came tumblin' down
Winter arrived with it's icy waves
Even losers left town

Goodbye
I know something is dying
Goodbye
Goodbye my love

Take a look out, take a look out of the window
I wonder wonder wonder where all have gone
All my friends once so numerous
Now there's no one around

Goodbye
I know something is dying
Goodbye
Goodbye my love

It's time for us to say goodbye
Remember the good times
Forget about the rest
I didn't mean to bring your high hopes down this way
I hope you will forgive me someday

Yeah, yeah, goodbye
I know something is dying
Goodbye
Goodbye my love

Yeah, yeah, but this is it, the kings call
Babe goodbye

KING OF THE BEGGARS
(Lyrics: T.Roudi)

Born under hard-luck stars
Was a true child of Scorpio
Took a stranglehold of his destiny
Earned his gloomy halo

His empire built on greed and fear
On his fellowman's agony
Made him a legend in the streets
Escaping death and reality

Nobody will talk
Nobody knows
The king of the beggars
Just comes and goes

And a king he never forgives

Brutus sitting to his left
Judas sitting to his right
Betrayal riding shotgun
The king falls down and dies

Born under hard-luck stars
Was a true child of Scorpio
Took a stranglehold of his destiny
Earned his gloomy halo

Nobody will talk
Nobody knows
The king of the beggars
Just comes and goes




REAP WHAT I'VE SOWED
(Lyrics: Climax)
(Original release: Climax Blues Band - A Lot Of Bottle, 1970)

Working for a man down in the city
Life is passing by it's a terrible pity
Well I payed my dues, in the heat, well it's a long hard road
Guess I'm gonna reap what I have sowed

Drinking in a bar my friends all around me
It's the smell of my money is how they found me
Well I payed my dues, in the heat, well it's a long hard road
Guess I'm gonna reap what I have sowed

Lying in my bed, my baby beside me
She's trying to do her best to pacify me
Well I payed my dues, in the heat, well it's a long hard road
Guess I'm gonna reap what I have sowed
THUNDER PEOPLE
(Lyrics: H.Leiden/T.Roudi)

You're crying for a dream
Stayin' awake on top of Black Hill
Dreaming of Wakinyan
Heyoka power's what you crave

Let the thunder roll
Let the lighting flash
Let the world know that you say no
Thunder people
We will never go
Thunder people
We will never go

O great Thunderbird
Freedom image, rebel dream
Guardian of truth
All wild spirits know what I mean

Let the thunder roll
Let the lighting flash
Let the world know that you say no
Thunder people
We will never go
Thunder people
We will never go

Cry for a dream
Cry for a dream
Cry for a dream
Cry for a dream
Fly!
Thunder people
We will never go




GROOVELANDS
(Lyrics: T.Roudi)

Elevate your soul
We're leaving
Goodbye to low life
It's time for groovelands now

Take my hand and we can turn it
Upside down and inside out
In groovelands, yeah

You don't have to say a word, my love
Your movement's talk as colours turn to light

Untangle yourself, free your mind
Join the trip on the groovelands mothership

Take my hand and we can turn it
Upside down and inside out
In groovelands, yeah

You don't have to say a word, my love
Your movement's talk as colours turn to light

We can reach a higher ground up above
In groovelands, babe, in groovelands

You don't have to say a word, my love
Your movement's talk as colours turn to light

We can reach a higher ground up above
In groovelands, babe, in groovelands for the night

MAGIC
(Lyrics: T.Roudi)

Hey why don't we leave
This golden trap of generations
Afraid to live
We must go for the things the eye cannot see
The mind can't comprehend

Baby, baby, baby
There's magic - in the mystic -and the bizarre
Baby, baby, don't forget to remember who we are
Who we really are

We are the living
Livin' and loving
Makers of the magic, don't you know
We are the living
Livin' and loving
Makers of the magic, baby let's go

Now what good is lust?
If it is not the lust for life
Oh, if it's greed
You can learn from the legends old
Listen to your heart and dare

Baby, baby, baby
There's magic - in the mystic -and the bizarre
Baby, baby, don't forget to remember who we are
Who we really are

We are the living
Livin' and loving
Makers of the magic, don't you know
We are the living
Livin' and loving
Makers of the magic, baby let's go
We really gotta go now




EAST IS RED
(Lyrics: M.Kervinen)

Take me back to where I was on the other day
I was flying two thousand miles over old Bombay
East is red or so they say
I'm climbing a mountainside, there ain't no easy way

Hundreds of years thousands of days have all passed away
Millions of people still looking for a place to stay
If you see the faces, you can feel the pain
The struggle for love, is it all in vain

Take me back show me the road
Show me the reason, I can carry the load
I will follow your footsteps on and on
... to the dawn
I will keep on going on
I'll keep on movin' on to the dawn

On the mountains of Kashmir the sun is going down
Old munks are praying that peace will come somehow
East is red or so did they say
Still follow the mountainside there ain't no easy way

Take me back show me the road
Show me the reason, I can carry the load
I will follow your footsteps on and on
... to the dawn

I will keep on going on
I'll keep on movin' on to the dawn
I will keep on going on
I'll keep on movin' on to the dawn