Roy Harper - McGoohan's Blues lyrics

Nicky my child he stands there with
The wind in his hair
Wondering whether the water the
Wind of the where
I fear that someday he might ask
Me if mine is the blame
And I've got no reply save to tell
Him it's all just a game
And Heather and I lay together
And I was in love
She weighted up the gains and the
Losses and gave me the shove
The fear of mankind's untogetherness
Pounds in my heart
The deceit of my friends the betrayals
Of which I am part

And O how the sea she roars with laughter
And howls with the dancing wind
To see my two feet standing here questioning
And I'm just a social
Experiment tailored to size
I've tried out the national machine
And the welfare surprise
I'm the rich man the poor man the
Peace man the war man the beast
The festive consumer who ends up
Consumed in the feast
And my fife eyed promoter is clutching
Two birds in the bush
He's a thief he's as bad as the
Joker they're both in the rush
He's telling me Ghandi was handy
And Jesus sold his ring
(Dunno who to, God maybe)
"And everyone knows dat dis dough's
Gonna make me de king"

And O how the sea she roars with laughter
And howls with the dancing wind
To see my two feet standing here questioning

Meanwhile the ticket collectors are
Punching their holes
Into your memories your journeys
And into your souls
Your life sentence starts and the judge
Hands you down a spare wig
Saying: "Get out of that and goodbye
Old boy have a good gig"
And the town label makers stare
Down with their gallery eyes
And point with computer stained fingers
Each time you arise
To the rules and the codes and the
System that keeps them in chains
Which is where they belong with no
Poems no love and no brains

And O how the sea she roars with laughter
And howls with the dancing wind
To see my two feet standing there questioning
Meanwhile the TV commercials are
Sweeping the day
Brainwashing innocent kids into
Thinking their way
The wet politicians and clergymen
Have much to say
Defending desires of the sheep
They are leading astray
And Ma's favourite pop star is forcing
A grin he's a smash
Obliging the soft headed viewers to
Act just as flash
The village TV hooks it's victims
On give away cash
The addicts are numbers who
Serve to perpetuate trash

And O how the sea she roars with laughter
And howls with the dancing wind
To see my stupid poetry shuffleing

And the bankers and tycoons and
Hoarders of money and art
Full up with baubles and bibles
And full of no heart
Who travel first class on a
Pleasure excursion to fame
Are the eyes that are
Guiding society's ludicrous aim
And the village is making it's
Sunday collection in church
The church wobbles 'twixt hell
And heaven's crumbling perch
Unnoticed the money box loudly
Endorses the shame
As the world that Christ fought is
Supported by using his name

And O how the sea she roars with laughter
And howls with the dancing wind
To see my stupid poetry burbling
And the pin-striped sardine-cum magician is
Packed in his train
Censoring all of the censorship
Filling his brain
He glares through his armour-plate
Vision and says "Hmm, insane"
The prisoner is taking his shoes off
To walk in the rain
And the luminous green prima donna
Is sniffing the sky
She daren't tread the earth that she's
Smelling her birth was too high
Her bank balance castle is built
On opinion and fear
Which is all she allows within three
Hundred miles of her ear

And O how the sea she roars with laughter
And howls with the dancing wind
To see my stupid poetry burbling

And I've seen all your pedestal values
Your good and your bad
If you really believe them your passing
Is going to be hard
And I've thought through our thought and I
Know that it's blind silly season
Occurs when our reasoning is trying
To fathom a reason
And if you really know it's all a
Joke but you're just putting me on
Well it's sure a good act that you've
Got 'cos you never let on
But if all of that supersale
Overkill world is for real
Well there's nowhere to go kid so you
Might as well start to freewheel

And O how the sea she roars with laughter
And howls with the dancing wind
To see my two feet standing there burbling

And I had this dream in here
Same time as standing awake
These various visions rushed through as
I giggled and quaked
The distant guns thunder my end and
I duck for a while
Auntie Lily is handing me candy
She chuckles I smile
And our village is where I was born
And it's where I will die
And I'll never be able to
Leave it whatever I try
The ebb and the flow of the
Forces of life pass me by
Which is all that I'll know from my
Birth to my last gasping sigh

And O how the sea she roars with laughter
And howls with the dancing wind
To see the dying lying there obeying

My age and my time
The blood fire wine and rhyme
That fills my dream reminds me of an
Atom in a bubble on a wave
That held it's breath for one sweet
Second then was popped and disappeared
Into fruitful futilities meaningless meaning
Meaningless meaning

Under the toadstool lover down by the dream
Everything flowing over rainbows downstream
Silver the turning water flying away
I'll come to see you sooner I'm on my way
And there's a mirror that
I'm looking straight through and I get it
And there's a doorway that I'm ducking into
To forget it
But flashing just beyond the sky
The shattering midnight gathers
And reminding me behind my mind
The earth quakes, the sun flakes flutter

Over the mountain fairground
Candy flies stay
Under the moonshine fountain i'm on my way
Lemon tree blossom ladies poured my tea
After the blue sky breezes following me
There's a river that I'm making it with
And I know it
And I'm floating to I don't care where
I just go it
But flashing just beyond the sky
The shattering midnight gathers
And reminding me behind my mind
The earth quakes, the sun flakes flutter

Daffodil April petal hiding the game
Forests of restless chessmen life is the same
Tides in the sand sun lover watching us dream
Covered in stars and
Clover rainbows downstream
And the question in the great
Big underneath is forever
And the fanfare that I'm forcing
Through my teeth answers "Never"
But flashing just beyond the sky
The shattering midnight gathers
And reminding me behind my mind
The earth quakes, the sun flakes flutter

The pumpkin coach
(oh yes) and the rags approach
And the wind is devouring the ashes