The Light (Live)

[Intro]
I wanna go to the stars
I wanna go to the stars
I wanna go to the stars

[Verse 1]
She awoke with a start from a dream of stars
"Let's talk metaphysics," she said in her BVDs
Didn't need comfort, just some verbal intercourse
A dance around the intelligence tree
"Where was the light before it came here?
Who had the power to begin the spin?
What is in store and what am I here for?
Is it love? Is it war? Is there more?"
There she goes at my mind again
The age of poetry had begun

[Chorus]
Wasn't that a time for the light?
Wasn't that a time to shake the foundations?
Wasn't that a time for love?
Go out and stuff the universe into your eyes

[Verse 2]
Out together on the streets
At the barricades or in the sheets
What a scintillating dish with her eyes on the light
"Let's go to hell together" in her eyes
"Why do we remember the past and not the future?
What's inside a black hole? What is the nature of the universe?
How does it work? Which way is west in space?
Is there sex in heaven? Is it the best?"
"Connect me with my intellect," she sighed
You can't hide the sexual drive

[Verse 3]
Friction makes sparks, sparks make fire
Fire makes heat and the heat will endure
'Til the animal comes with a ferocity
Not unlike you and me in the throes of poetry
A lover's eyes can stare an eagle blind
A lover's ears can hear the lowest sound
A lover's lips taste like a dream
I know you like it on top, don't stop

[Chorus]
Wasn't that a time for the light?
Wasn't that a time to shake the foundations?
Wasn't that a time for love and danger?
Go out and stuff the universe into your eyes

[Verse 4]
Now the only answer that I have found
Above the sky or below the ground
Is that there are no answers
There never were any answers
And there will never be any answers
And as Gertrude Stein once said, "That's the answer!"
I'm not afraid of the future
I'm not afraid of ideas
I'm not afraid to shake the foundations
Of the wonder years
These are visions of tomorrow
These are visions of the strength of ideas
Like matter and energy, ideas shape the sky
Of the future years

[Bridge]
You know in my imaginary world, there are no hungry children
In my world, love is true
In my world, teachers get paid more than baseball players
In my world, there is you
But in the real world, people get hungry
In the real world, people need love
And in the real world, people need light and hope
And ideas and food and love and a soothing human touch

[Verse 5]
Just like they're standing in the presence of gods
Standing in the halls of imagination
Every boy a lion and every girl a tiger
It just takes a moment to step through the fire
Adventure beckons from above
The age of poetry begins again with love

[Chorus]
Ain't this a time for the light?
Ain't this a time to shake the foundations?
Ain't this a time for love and danger?
Go out and stuff the universe into your eyes
Ain't this a time for the light?
Ain't this a time to shake the foundations?
I know you like it on top, don't stop
Ain't this a time for the light?

[Outro]
Darby Gould