Some songs say it all
This song is especially meaningful to me. I remember travelling with mates across saddle hill, off to the brighton surf club for a party. One of my mates made a throw away comment that was racist and derogatory to maori. It was my first realisation that that could happen. That people I liked and were friends with, could be racist in an unconscious and conscious way. The words, "I was thinking about what a friend had said, I was hoping it was a lie." from this song rang in my head. I'll never forget that day.
Well, I dreamed I saw the knights in armor coming
Sayin' something about a queen
There were peasants singin' and drummers drumming
And the archer split the tree
There was a fanfare blowin' to the sun
That floated on the breeze
Look at mother nature on the run in the nineteen seventies
Look at mother nature on the run in the nineteen seventies
I was lyin' in a burned out basement
With a full moon in my eyes
I was hopin' for a replacement
When the sun burst through the skies
There was a band playin' in my head
And I felt like getting high
Thinkin' about what a friend had said,
I was hopin' it was a lie
Thinkin' about what a friend had said,
I was hopin' it was a lie
Well, I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying
In the yellow haze of the sun
There were children crying and colors flying
All around the chosen ones
All in a dream, all in a dream
The loading had begun
Flyin' mother nature's silver seed
To a new home in the sun
Flyin' mother nature's silver seed
To a new home in the sun
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