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Scene Beyond Dreams The Words in the Tones Two Remember when you were young? You shone like the sun Now there's a look in your eyes Like black holes in the sky You were caught in the crossfire of childhood and stardom Blown on the steel breeze Come on you target for faraway laughter Come on you stranger / You legend / You martyr / And shine! -- Pink Floyd / Shine on You Crazy Diamond I pictured a rainbow / You held it in your hands I had flashes / But you saw the plan I wandered out in the world for years / While you just stayed in your room I saw the crescent / You saw the Whole of the Moon You were there in the turnstiles / With the wind at your heels You stretched for the stars / And you know how it feels to reach Too high / Too far / Too soon / You saw the Whole of the Moon I was grounded / While you filled the skies I was dumbfounded by truth / You cut through lies I saw the rain dirty valley / You saw Brigadoon I saw the crescent / You saw the Whole of the Moon I spoke about wings / You just flew I wondered I guessed and I tried / You just knew I sighed / But you swooned! I saw the crescent / You saw the Whole of the Moon With a torch in your pocket / And the wind at your heels You climbed on the ladder / And you know how it feels to get Too high / Too far / Too soon / You saw the Whole of the Moon The Whole of the Moon! Unicorns and cannonballs / Palaces and piers Trumpets towers and tenements / Wide oceans full of tears Flags rags ferryboats / Scimitars and scarves Every precious dream and vision underneath the stars Yes, you climbed on the ladder / With the wind in your sails You came like a comet / Blazing your trail Too high / Too far / Too soon / You saw the Whole of the Moon How? / How? / How did you see the Whole of the Moon? -- The Waterboys / The Whole of the Moon Once I rose above the noise and confusion Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion I was soaring ever higher / But I flew too high -- Kansas / Carry on Wayward Son He played his left hand / But made it too far Became the special man / Then we were Ziggy's band -- David Bowie / Ziggy Stardust You reached for the secret too soon / You cried for the moon Threatened by shadows at night / And exposed in the light Well, you wore out you welcome with random precision Rode on the steel breeze Come on you raver / You seer of visions Come on you painter / You piper / You prisoner / And shine! -- Pink Floyd / Shine on You Crazy Diamond You're not the child you thought you were You wake-up in the night / And know you're blind And yet they keep on pushing / Trying the insides of your mind Forever / Forever / Arresting to control Until the emptiness of Heaven / Welcomes your weary soul -- Steve Miller / Your Saving Grace Thought true love could have been a contender Are you there? Say a prayer for the pretender Who started out so young and strong Only to surrender -- Jackson Browne / The Pretender And little baby's dreams / Will be the first of many crimes -- The Rave Ups / When the End Comes Before its Time You were young when you heard the call Saw it all in your crystal ball and chains -- Pat Benatar / Wide Awake in Dreamland And did you exchange a walk on part in the war / For a lead role in a cage? -- Pink Floyd / Wish You Were Here This prison has now become your home / A sentence you seem prepared to pay -- Sting / Fortress Around Your Heart A prisoner in the dark / Tied up in chains you just can't see A beast in a gilded cage / That's all some people ever want to be -- Sting / If You Love Somebody Set Them Free Child of vision, won't you listen? / Find yourself a new ambition -- Supertramp / Child of Vision Control yourself / Set yourself free -- Simple Minds / Sanctify Yourself Hey you! / Out there in the cold Getting lonely / Getting old / Can you feel me? Hey you! / Don't help them to bury the light Don't give in / Without a fight Hey you! / With your ear against the wall Waiting for someone to call out / Would you touch me? Hey you! / Would you help me to carry the stone? Open your heart / I'm coming home But it was only fantasy / The wall was too high, as you can see No matter how he tried / He could not break free And the worms ate into his brain -- Pink Floyd /Hey You Don't get discouraged / Don't be afraid You can make it through another day / Make it worth the price we pay Keep up your spirit / Keep up your faith I am counting on you / You know what you have to do: Fight the good fight every moment / Every minute / Every day Fight the good fight every moment / It's your only way -- Triumph / Fight the Good Fight Daily routine takes your soul / Lost without a trace It'll hold you down / And turn you round / And put you in your place Another day / Another dollar / Another pretty face Another chance to lose yourself / In the endless race Caught up in routine / You've got to break it Time won't wait for us / We've got to make it Fate gives you the chance / You've got to take it / Take it! -- Triumph / Hold On I don't know why nobody showed you how to unfold your love I don't know how someone controlled you / They bought and sold you I don't know how you were diverted / You were perverted too I don't know how you were inverted / No one alerted you -- The Beatles / While My Guitar Gently Weeps And how can there be such a sinister plan? That could hide such a lamb / Such a caring young man And you're fooling yourself if you don't believe it You're killing yourself if you don't believe it Get up! / Get back on your feet You're the one they can't beat / And you know it -- Styx / Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man) C'mon you little fighter / And get back up again Get back up again / Fill your heart again -- Supertramp / It's Raining Again I can see that you've got fire in your eyes / And pain inside your heart So many things have come / And torn your world apart I believe in fate and destination / But so much of that lies in our own hands If you know what you want / Just go out and get it Just don't give up / Oh no, don't give up -- Sammy Hagar / Give to Live He's noble enough to know what's right / But weak enough not to choose it He's wise enough to win the world / But fool enough to lose it -- Rush / New World Man Nowhere man / Please listen You don't know what you're missing Nowhere man / The world is at your command -- The Beatles / Nowhere Man Nobody knows where you are / How near or how far Pile on many more layers / And I'll be joining you there And we'll bask in the shadow of yesterday's triumph Sail on the steel breeze Come on you boy-child / You winner and loser Come on you miner for truth and delusion / And shine! --- Pink Floyd / Shine on You Crazy Diamond Are you out there? / Can you hear me? / Can you see me in the dark? I don't believe it's all for nothing / It's not just written in the sand Sometimes I thought you felt too much / And crossed into the shadow land Fallen angel / Casts a shadow against the sun If my eyes could see / The spirit of the Chosen One -- Robbie Robertson / Fallen Angel Everybody wants to know where Jimmy has gone He left town / I doubt if he's coming back home I think Jimmy must have had the right idea Packed his stuff and he got right out of here -- The Allman Brothers / No One to Run With Everybody knows the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good-guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed That's how it goes / And everybody knows -- Leonard Cohen / Everybody Knows Where's Johnny? / Has he gone away? Where's Johnny? / Will he be back some day? Oh, but Johnny's all right / He just turned out his light They'd have paid it no mind / Had he not been so bright He opened-up his eyes / And he snapped out of the groove He saw both sides of everything / And he found he could not move His mother keeps his pictures in the scrapbook in the drawer with her pearls She polishes the trophies that he won back when they thought he'd save the world -- James MacMurtry / Where's Johnny Now deep in the heart of a lonely kid Suffered so much for what he did They gave this poor boy his fortune and fame Since that day he ain't been the same Now if he says that he's afraid / Take him at his word And for the price that the poor boy has paid He gets to sing just like a bird See the man with the stage fright? Just standing up there to give it all his might He got caught in the spotlight But when we get to the end / He wants to start all over again He wants to try it once again / Please don't make him stop Let him take it from the top / Let him start all over again -- The Band / Stage Fright I'll wait till the end of time for you / Like everybody else -- The Call / I Still Believe (Great Design) So, keep your chin up, boy / Forget the pain I know you'll make it / If you try again There's no use in quitting / When the world is waiting for you -- Supertramp / Gone Hollywood Three