DONOVAN


Atlantis

The continent of Atlantis was an island

Which lay before the great flood

In the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean

So great an area of land, that from her western shores

Those beautiful sailors journeyed

To the South and the North Americas with ease

In their ships with painted sails.

To the east, Africa was a neighbor

Across a short strait of sea miles.

The great Egyptian age is but a remnant of The Atlantian culture

The antediluvian kings colonized the world

All the gods who play in the mythological dramas

In all legends from all lands were from fair Atlantis.

Knowing her fate, Atlantis sent out ships to all corners of the Earth

On board were the Twelve

The poet, the physician, the farmer, the scientist

The magician and the other so-called gods of our legends

Though gods they were

And as the elders of our time choose to remain blind

Let us rejoice and let us sing and dance and ring in the new:

Hail Atlantis!

Way down below the ocean

Where I wanna be, she may be
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The Ballad of a Crystal Man

Walk along and talk along and live your lives quite freely

But leave our children with their toys of peppermint and candy

For seagull, I don't want your wings

I don't want your freedom in a lie

Your thoughts they are of harlequin, your speeches of quicksilver

I read your faces like a poem, kaleidoscope of hate words

For seagull, I don't want your wings

I don't want your freedom in a lie

On the quilted battlefields of soldiers dazzling made of toy tin

The big bomb like a child's hand could sweep them dead just so to win

For seagull, I don't want your wings

I don't want your freedom in a lie

As you fill your glasses with the wine of murdered negroes

Thinking not of beauty that spreads like morning sun glow

Seagull, I don't want your wings

I don't want your freedom in a lie

I pray your dreams of vivid screams of children dying slowly

And as you polish up your guns your real self be reflecting

For seagull, I don't want your wings

I don't want your freedom in a lie