South
Pacific Sunshine
Well you know if there's
smoke
There may be flames
Of creativity, flaring up again
Like a beautiful flower
sweet as spring rain.
When I'm lost in the smog
Of rushhour traffic jams
So late for work
I have to make other plans
Now I'm cruising
Up Queen street at midnight
With the ravers I'm raging
All through clubnight.
Until that South Pacific
Sunshine's coming out again
We are the biggest Polynesian city
City of sails one million strong
The rainbow tribe of the
South Pacific
We are getting along
And all we want to do is
Sing you some love songs
Some groovy love songs |
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TOO HIGH
Well I had a dream
It was the following scene
[Cleaning up] after the party
Doing dues I'd been
And then a young
Joe Cocker I seen
And these were the word
that he said to me
If it's too high to sing
I call up my soul saxophone
Well it's a schizoid theme
Living in the country
So laidback and green
Then back up that motorway
To that bigsmoke
nightclub party scene
And the people they
love to hear
A saxophone scream
So I give it every drop
of sweat that I can steam
And if it's too high to sing
I call up my
soul saxophone
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Bellbird
In
the springtime
at dawn
The Bellbird calls to me
Outside
my bedroom window
In the
Pohutukawa tree
Twenty years living here
I've been
Planting trees
and waiting
For your return
Bellbird
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| Feijoa
I'm yours, you're
mine,
Feels good, all the time.
Wind may blow, rain may fall,
There will always be sunshine.
Together we'll keep
moving on,
Together we'll hear the new song.
Wood-stove music computerised
Information superhighway
has arrived
Lots of firewood and
feijoas in the jar,
The winter most creative
so far.
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Jani
Dennis - SoulSaxPlus - on percussion |
| Paradise
Walking on the beach
in moonlight
Don't tell me that I'm not
in paradise
Walking beside the waves tonight
Don't tell me that I'm not
in paradise
Here and now Tonight
As I woke from my
dream
I heard this reggae theme
Those butterflies slipped
through my fingers
They had to be free
As I woke from my
dream
I heard this reggae theme
That bamboo Balinese windchime
Is getting to me
SOON
Soon I'll be coming home
And making love to you.
Laid back amongst those
green hills and trees,
Looking down
on that shining sea
I'll be…
Making love to you
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Jani
Dennis & Paul Lee - SoulSaxPlus - original NZ music
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| New Spring
I've been dreaming
of people gathering
in peaceful valleys beside
the sea.
Making moves to
float their lives along,
digging their gardens
and singing songs.
I am ready for sunshine
to warm my bones again
and sweeten the ground.
It's a new spring
for everyone,
blossoms falling
all around.
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Ego
I just want to be a perfect man.
I just want to be as cool as I can.
I just want to be the one who knows
But instead my confusion grows.
She tells me that she loves me
And I sure do hope that she's right
I keep on trying don't want
The feeling to fade out of sight
Here and now, 25 years later,
I feel like I'm the last old green alligator
Left here in this swamp alive
And even I'm going to have to change
Just to survive.
She tells me that she loves me and I
Sure do hope that she's right
I keep on trying, don't want
The love to fade out of sight,
Don't the summer, summer sunshine,
Make you feel so
Make you feel so fine. |
Paul
Lee - SoulSaxPlus - in performance |
