Buckley Tim Goodbye And Hello Lyrics

Goodbye And Hello Lyrics

The antique people are down in the dungeons

 Run by machines and afraid of the tax

 Their heads in the grave and their hands on their eyes

 Hauling their hearts around circular tracks

 Pretending forever their masquerade towers

 Are not really riddled with widening cracks

 And I wave goodbye to iron

 And smile hello to the air 

 

 O the new children dance ------ I am young

 All around the balloons ------ I will live

 Swaying by chance ------ I am strong

 To the breeze from the moon ------ I can give

 Painting the sky ------ You the strange

 With the colors of sun ------ Seed of day

 Freely they fly ------ Feel the change

 As all become one ------ Know the Way 

 

 The velocity addicts explode on the highways

 Ignoring the journey and moving so fast

 Their nerves fall apart and they gasp but can't breathe

 They run from the cops of the skeleton past

 Petrified by tradition in a nightmare they stagger 

 

 Into nowhere at all and they look up aghast

 And I wave goodbye to speed

 And smile hello to a rose 

 

 O the new children play ------ I am young

 Under the juniper trees ------ I will live

 Sky blue or gray ------ I am strong

 They continue at ease ------ I can give

 Moving so slow ------ You the strange

 That serenely they can ------ Seed of day

 Gracefully grow ------ Feel the change

 And yes still understand ------ Know the Way 

 

 The king and the queen in their castle of billboards

 Sleepwalk down the hallways dragging behind

 All their possessions and transient treasures

 As they go to worship the electronic shrine

 On which is playing the late late commercial

 In that hollowest house of the opulent blind

 And I wave goodbye to Mammon

 And smile hello to a stream 

 

 O the new children buy ------ I am young

 All the world for a song ------ I will live

 Without a dime ------ I am strong

 To which they belong ------ I can give

 Nobody owns ------ You the strange

 Anything anywhere ------ Seed of day

 Everyone's grown ------ Feel the change

 Up so big they can share ------ Know the Way 

 

 The vaudeville generals cavort on the stage

 And shatter their audience with submachine guns

 And Freedom and Violence the acrobat clowns

 Do a balancing act on the graves of our sons

 While the tapdancing Emperor sings "War is peace"

 And Love the Magician disappears in the fun

 And I wave goodbye to murder

 And smile hello to the rain 

 

 O the new children can't ------ I am young

 Tell a foe from a friend ------ I will live

 Quick to enchant ------ I am strong

 And so glad to extend ------ I can give

 Handfuls of dawn ------ You the strange

 To kaleidoscope men ------ Seed of day

 Come from beyond ------ Feel the change

 The Great Wall of Skin ------ Know the Way 

 

 The bloodless husbands are jesters who listen

 Like sheep to the shrieks and commands of their wives

 And the men who aren't men leave the women alone

 See them all faking love on a bed made of knives

 Afraid to discover or trust in their bodies

 And in secret divorce they will never survive

 And I wave goodbye to ashes

 And smile hello to a girl 

 

 O the new children kiss ------ I am young

 They are so proud to learn ------ I will live

 Womanwood bliss ------ I am strong

 And the manfire that burns ------ I can give

 Knowing no fear ------ You the strange

 They take off their clothes ------ Seed of day

 Honest and clear ------ Feel the change

 As a river that flows ------ Know the Way 

 

 The antique people are fading out slowly

 Like newspapers flaming in mind suicide

 Godless and sexless directionless loons

 Their sham sandcastles dissolve in the tide

 They put on their deathmasks and compromise daily

 The new children will live for the elders have died

 And I wave goodbye to America

 And smile hello to the world