Moondog Monologue Lyrics
| Song | Moondog Monologue |
| Artist | Moondog |
| Album | Rare Material |
| Download | Image LRC TXT |
| [00:03.175] | No matter where I came from, I say, |
| [00:06.048] | No matter where I go, |
| [00:08.041] | To me what matter is where I am on this day |
| [00:15.841] | Let me identify myself now |
| [00:18.374] | Songsters both and both clad in brown |
| [00:21.705] | The hermit thrush and I dwell far out of town |
| [00:28.895] | Death, when you come to me, |
| [00:30.512] | May you come to me swiftly |
| [00:33.027] | I would rather not linger, not linger. |
| [00:42.406] | Driving with air doctor one day for the air |
| [00:45.207] | He recircled the square before he taught me |
| [00:47.852] | How to square the very same circle. |
| [00:54.679] | You are opportunist the very worst way |
| [00:57.196] | Therefore, I pray, |
| [00:58.670] | Let it pay for you to know me. |
| [01:06.351] | I do not dress as I do to attract attention, |
| [01:09.339] | I attract attention because I dress as I do. |
| [01:18.839] | You the vandal plunder the village as you will |
| [01:22.448] | The earthworm will pillage you the vandal, |
| [01:24.958] | When you are under. |
| [01:29.798] | I would bow down before just one: |
| [01:32.092] | One who bows down before none. |
| [01:34.854] | I should know who that one might be, |
| [01:36.860] | Who would do that to me. |
| [01:38.894] | I am that one |
| [01:40.404] | And I bow down before me. |
| [01:46.075] | Since the hunter is the hunted, |
| [01:47.620] | Surely, he knows what it is to listen in ecstatic dread |
| [01:50.921] | To some oncoming hunter′s tread. |
| [01:57.200] | Such and such is a star |
| [01:58.795] | That filters through the starry blue alone |
| [02:01.417] | A burning star, turning in an orbit all of its own |
| [02:05.977] | Such and such as I. |
| [02:12.530] | Beasts were always great trail-blazing engineers. |
| [02:16.350] | Modern engineering would do well to do as well today, |
| [02:19.866] | As well as beasts have done. |
| [02:27.686] | If on this rock I stand alone, |
| [02:30.443] | Loneliness will turn heel as he turns to stone. |
| [02:40.163] | Each today is yesterday's tomorrow, |
| [02:42.462] | Which is now. |
| [02:44.215] | Now is all I have, now is all I need, |
| [02:48.301] | Now is all I want, |
| [02:50.566] | Now. |
| [02:55.084] | Better I go when you would that I stay, that I stay on, |
| [02:59.601] | Than stay when you would that I would go. |
| [03:02.674] | Better I go than stay. |
| [03:08.704] | Ebb and flow of the ocean, |
| [03:11.004] | Love and hate of emotion, |
| [03:13.514] | Nothing lasts is my refrain, |
| [03:16.286] | As the moon is my feelings wax and wane, |
| [03:19.836] | I remain calm. |
| [03:26.868] | I was just everything until I fell, |
| [03:29.882] | And was just nothing. |
| [03:32.642] | Then, worming up half-way, |
| [03:34.399] | I found with pleasure: |
| [03:36.661] | I was just something. |
| [03:42.202] | Standing at the door of my departure I observed |
| [03:45.559] | That your eyes belie all that you have said, |
| [03:48.602] | For you are still in love with me. |
| [03:56.414] | Then, when recognition comes, |
| [03:58.673] | You will take my muse, take her to his bed of ease, |
| [04:02.462] | Have his will, have his fill, |
| [04:06.001] | And strangle her. |
| [04:13.813] | My tiny butterfly butters my bread, |
| [04:17.262] | My browny flutterby keeps me well-fed, |
| [04:20.776] | Why should I mutter? |
| [04:28.811] | Stung by this last rebuff, |
| [04:30.818] | I rebound |
| [04:32.882] | On the way back I hear me saying to myself, |
| [04:36.118] | Dwell in your shell. |
| [04:43.151] | One thing about life be it said, |
| [04:46.162] | It feeds upon itself over and over |
| [04:49.425] | And of itself is fed. |
| [04:58.158] | Should I love you the way I love myself, |
| [05:00.671] | Suppose I hate myself, |
| [05:03.694] | I would be as free to hate you, too. |
| [05:12.988] | I am never quite educated, |
| [05:14.561] | Never quite so, |
| [05:16.317] | But I am ever in the painful process |
| [05:18.350] | Of becoming so. |
| [05:25.653] | You remember me and my song. |
| [05:28.161] | Only such immortality strikes creative sparks from my soul, |
| [05:32.705] | Because of you. |
| [05:41.242] | Who could wear out their welcome there, |
| [05:43.000] | Where there is no welcome there to wear out. |
| [05:45.816] | There is where it is, |
| [05:47.826] | Here on earth. |
| [05:54.857] | I would advise you not to generalize as a rule, |
| [05:58.894] | A-hoo to be! |
| [06:00.650] | I have just entered a generalization, |
| [06:02.909] | Ah-me! |
| [06:08.217] | Down is up and so up is down. |
| [06:10.726] | Because the earth is round, |
| [06:13.000] | There is no such a thing as up or down. |
| [06:21.017] | This one wish is ever so near to my heart, |
| [06:23.785] | But oh, so far away from my tongue. |
| [06:30.848] | Sadness was so mixed with gladness that she wept for joy, |
| [06:34.611] | She was so sad. |
| [06:36.880] | Tear-filled eyes but enhanced a smile on her face. |
| [06:40.390] | She was so glad. |
| [06:46.413] | Think of all of the thoughts that I think. |
| [06:48.926] | They are naught to me, compared with just one fleeting thought of you. |
| [06:59.472] | How could I fear for my last day when I am dying daily, |
| [07:03.237] | And have been since my first day? |
| [07:11.551] | Thus, the clown wore cap and gown |
| [07:14.574] | For she lived by degrees while she died by degrees |
| [07:18.410] | With a frown. |
| [07:26.196] | Voices of spring were in chorus, |
| [07:28.712] | Each voice was singing a song. |
| [07:31.485] | I could not sing in that chorus |
| [07:32.991] | Until I wrote me a song. |
| [07:35.294] | I wrote my song and joined the throng. |
| [07:44.643] | Why besiege my liege still further? |
| [07:47.448] | For my wooing is turning your majesty′s royal head |
| [07:50.967] | And turning toward me. |
| [07:57.548] | Though I climbed up the highest mountain in view, |
| [08:00.325] | Yet contentment was not mine, |
| [08:03.613] | For beyond, a mountain still higher was looming. |
| [08:12.222] | Now is that painful moment of parting we dreaded. |
| [08:15.738] | Saying goodbye is plural indemnity, truly, |
| [08:19.504] | Of having said hello. |
| [00:03.175] | No matter where I came from, I say, |
| [00:06.048] | No matter where I go, |
| [00:08.041] | To me what matter is where I am on this day |
| [00:15.841] | Let me identify myself now |
| [00:18.374] | Songsters both and both clad in brown |
| [00:21.705] | The hermit thrush and I dwell far out of town |
| [00:28.895] | Death, when you come to me, |
| [00:30.512] | May you come to me swiftly |
| [00:33.027] | I would rather not linger, not linger. |
| [00:42.406] | Driving with air doctor one day for the air |
| [00:45.207] | He recircled the square before he taught me |
| [00:47.852] | How to square the very same circle. |
| [00:54.679] | You are opportunist the very worst way |
| [00:57.196] | Therefore, I pray, |
| [00:58.670] | Let it pay for you to know me. |
| [01:06.351] | I do not dress as I do to attract attention, |
| [01:09.339] | I attract attention because I dress as I do. |
| [01:18.839] | You the vandal plunder the village as you will |
| [01:22.448] | The earthworm will pillage you the vandal, |
| [01:24.958] | When you are under. |
| [01:29.798] | I would bow down before just one: |
| [01:32.092] | One who bows down before none. |
| [01:34.854] | I should know who that one might be, |
| [01:36.860] | Who would do that to me. |
| [01:38.894] | I am that one |
| [01:40.404] | And I bow down before me. |
| [01:46.075] | Since the hunter is the hunted, |
| [01:47.620] | Surely, he knows what it is to listen in ecstatic dread |
| [01:50.921] | To some oncoming hunter s tread. |
| [01:57.200] | Such and such is a star |
| [01:58.795] | That filters through the starry blue alone |
| [02:01.417] | A burning star, turning in an orbit all of its own |
| [02:05.977] | Such and such as I. |
| [02:12.530] | Beasts were always great trailblazing engineers. |
| [02:16.350] | Modern engineering would do well to do as well today, |
| [02:19.866] | As well as beasts have done. |
| [02:27.686] | If on this rock I stand alone, |
| [02:30.443] | Loneliness will turn heel as he turns to stone. |
| [02:40.163] | Each today is yesterday' s tomorrow, |
| [02:42.462] | Which is now. |
| [02:44.215] | Now is all I have, now is all I need, |
| [02:48.301] | Now is all I want, |
| [02:50.566] | Now. |
| [02:55.084] | Better I go when you would that I stay, that I stay on, |
| [02:59.601] | Than stay when you would that I would go. |
| [03:02.674] | Better I go than stay. |
| [03:08.704] | Ebb and flow of the ocean, |
| [03:11.004] | Love and hate of emotion, |
| [03:13.514] | Nothing lasts is my refrain, |
| [03:16.286] | As the moon is my feelings wax and wane, |
| [03:19.836] | I remain calm. |
| [03:26.868] | I was just everything until I fell, |
| [03:29.882] | And was just nothing. |
| [03:32.642] | Then, worming up halfway, |
| [03:34.399] | I found with pleasure: |
| [03:36.661] | I was just something. |
| [03:42.202] | Standing at the door of my departure I observed |
| [03:45.559] | That your eyes belie all that you have said, |
| [03:48.602] | For you are still in love with me. |
| [03:56.414] | Then, when recognition comes, |
| [03:58.673] | You will take my muse, take her to his bed of ease, |
| [04:02.462] | Have his will, have his fill, |
| [04:06.001] | And strangle her. |
| [04:13.813] | My tiny butterfly butters my bread, |
| [04:17.262] | My browny flutterby keeps me wellfed, |
| [04:20.776] | Why should I mutter? |
| [04:28.811] | Stung by this last rebuff, |
| [04:30.818] | I rebound |
| [04:32.882] | On the way back I hear me saying to myself, |
| [04:36.118] | Dwell in your shell. |
| [04:43.151] | One thing about life be it said, |
| [04:46.162] | It feeds upon itself over and over |
| [04:49.425] | And of itself is fed. |
| [04:58.158] | Should I love you the way I love myself, |
| [05:00.671] | Suppose I hate myself, |
| [05:03.694] | I would be as free to hate you, too. |
| [05:12.988] | I am never quite educated, |
| [05:14.561] | Never quite so, |
| [05:16.317] | But I am ever in the painful process |
| [05:18.350] | Of becoming so. |
| [05:25.653] | You remember me and my song. |
| [05:28.161] | Only such immortality strikes creative sparks from my soul, |
| [05:32.705] | Because of you. |
| [05:41.242] | Who could wear out their welcome there, |
| [05:43.000] | Where there is no welcome there to wear out. |
| [05:45.816] | There is where it is, |
| [05:47.826] | Here on earth. |
| [05:54.857] | I would advise you not to generalize as a rule, |
| [05:58.894] | Ahoo to be! |
| [06:00.650] | I have just entered a generalization, |
| [06:02.909] | Ahme! |
| [06:08.217] | Down is up and so up is down. |
| [06:10.726] | Because the earth is round, |
| [06:13.000] | There is no such a thing as up or down. |
| [06:21.017] | This one wish is ever so near to my heart, |
| [06:23.785] | But oh, so far away from my tongue. |
| [06:30.848] | Sadness was so mixed with gladness that she wept for joy, |
| [06:34.611] | She was so sad. |
| [06:36.880] | Tearfilled eyes but enhanced a smile on her face. |
| [06:40.390] | She was so glad. |
| [06:46.413] | Think of all of the thoughts that I think. |
| [06:48.926] | They are naught to me, compared with just one fleeting thought of you. |
| [06:59.472] | How could I fear for my last day when I am dying daily, |
| [07:03.237] | And have been since my first day? |
| [07:11.551] | Thus, the clown wore cap and gown |
| [07:14.574] | For she lived by degrees while she died by degrees |
| [07:18.410] | With a frown. |
| [07:26.196] | Voices of spring were in chorus, |
| [07:28.712] | Each voice was singing a song. |
| [07:31.485] | I could not sing in that chorus |
| [07:32.991] | Until I wrote me a song. |
| [07:35.294] | I wrote my song and joined the throng. |
| [07:44.643] | Why besiege my liege still further? |
| [07:47.448] | For my wooing is turning your majesty s royal head |
| [07:50.967] | And turning toward me. |
| [07:57.548] | Though I climbed up the highest mountain in view, |
| [08:00.325] | Yet contentment was not mine, |
| [08:03.613] | For beyond, a mountain still higher was looming. |
| [08:12.222] | Now is that painful moment of parting we dreaded. |
| [08:15.738] | Saying goodbye is plural indemnity, truly, |
| [08:19.504] | Of having said hello. |
| [00:03.175] | No matter where I came from, I say, |
| [00:06.048] | No matter where I go, |
| [00:08.041] | To me what matter is where I am on this day |
| [00:15.841] | Let me identify myself now |
| [00:18.374] | Songsters both and both clad in brown |
| [00:21.705] | The hermit thrush and I dwell far out of town |
| [00:28.895] | Death, when you come to me, |
| [00:30.512] | May you come to me swiftly |
| [00:33.027] | I would rather not linger, not linger. |
| [00:42.406] | Driving with air doctor one day for the air |
| [00:45.207] | He recircled the square before he taught me |
| [00:47.852] | How to square the very same circle. |
| [00:54.679] | You are opportunist the very worst way |
| [00:57.196] | Therefore, I pray, |
| [00:58.670] | Let it pay for you to know me. |
| [01:06.351] | I do not dress as I do to attract attention, |
| [01:09.339] | I attract attention because I dress as I do. |
| [01:18.839] | You the vandal plunder the village as you will |
| [01:22.448] | The earthworm will pillage you the vandal, |
| [01:24.958] | When you are under. |
| [01:29.798] | I would bow down before just one: |
| [01:32.092] | One who bows down before none. |
| [01:34.854] | I should know who that one might be, |
| [01:36.860] | Who would do that to me. |
| [01:38.894] | I am that one |
| [01:40.404] | And I bow down before me. |
| [01:46.075] | Since the hunter is the hunted, |
| [01:47.620] | Surely, he knows what it is to listen in ecstatic dread |
| [01:50.921] | To some oncoming hunter s tread. |
| [01:57.200] | Such and such is a star |
| [01:58.795] | That filters through the starry blue alone |
| [02:01.417] | A burning star, turning in an orbit all of its own |
| [02:05.977] | Such and such as I. |
| [02:12.530] | Beasts were always great trailblazing engineers. |
| [02:16.350] | Modern engineering would do well to do as well today, |
| [02:19.866] | As well as beasts have done. |
| [02:27.686] | If on this rock I stand alone, |
| [02:30.443] | Loneliness will turn heel as he turns to stone. |
| [02:40.163] | Each today is yesterday' s tomorrow, |
| [02:42.462] | Which is now. |
| [02:44.215] | Now is all I have, now is all I need, |
| [02:48.301] | Now is all I want, |
| [02:50.566] | Now. |
| [02:55.084] | Better I go when you would that I stay, that I stay on, |
| [02:59.601] | Than stay when you would that I would go. |
| [03:02.674] | Better I go than stay. |
| [03:08.704] | Ebb and flow of the ocean, |
| [03:11.004] | Love and hate of emotion, |
| [03:13.514] | Nothing lasts is my refrain, |
| [03:16.286] | As the moon is my feelings wax and wane, |
| [03:19.836] | I remain calm. |
| [03:26.868] | I was just everything until I fell, |
| [03:29.882] | And was just nothing. |
| [03:32.642] | Then, worming up halfway, |
| [03:34.399] | I found with pleasure: |
| [03:36.661] | I was just something. |
| [03:42.202] | Standing at the door of my departure I observed |
| [03:45.559] | That your eyes belie all that you have said, |
| [03:48.602] | For you are still in love with me. |
| [03:56.414] | Then, when recognition comes, |
| [03:58.673] | You will take my muse, take her to his bed of ease, |
| [04:02.462] | Have his will, have his fill, |
| [04:06.001] | And strangle her. |
| [04:13.813] | My tiny butterfly butters my bread, |
| [04:17.262] | My browny flutterby keeps me wellfed, |
| [04:20.776] | Why should I mutter? |
| [04:28.811] | Stung by this last rebuff, |
| [04:30.818] | I rebound |
| [04:32.882] | On the way back I hear me saying to myself, |
| [04:36.118] | Dwell in your shell. |
| [04:43.151] | One thing about life be it said, |
| [04:46.162] | It feeds upon itself over and over |
| [04:49.425] | And of itself is fed. |
| [04:58.158] | Should I love you the way I love myself, |
| [05:00.671] | Suppose I hate myself, |
| [05:03.694] | I would be as free to hate you, too. |
| [05:12.988] | I am never quite educated, |
| [05:14.561] | Never quite so, |
| [05:16.317] | But I am ever in the painful process |
| [05:18.350] | Of becoming so. |
| [05:25.653] | You remember me and my song. |
| [05:28.161] | Only such immortality strikes creative sparks from my soul, |
| [05:32.705] | Because of you. |
| [05:41.242] | Who could wear out their welcome there, |
| [05:43.000] | Where there is no welcome there to wear out. |
| [05:45.816] | There is where it is, |
| [05:47.826] | Here on earth. |
| [05:54.857] | I would advise you not to generalize as a rule, |
| [05:58.894] | Ahoo to be! |
| [06:00.650] | I have just entered a generalization, |
| [06:02.909] | Ahme! |
| [06:08.217] | Down is up and so up is down. |
| [06:10.726] | Because the earth is round, |
| [06:13.000] | There is no such a thing as up or down. |
| [06:21.017] | This one wish is ever so near to my heart, |
| [06:23.785] | But oh, so far away from my tongue. |
| [06:30.848] | Sadness was so mixed with gladness that she wept for joy, |
| [06:34.611] | She was so sad. |
| [06:36.880] | Tearfilled eyes but enhanced a smile on her face. |
| [06:40.390] | She was so glad. |
| [06:46.413] | Think of all of the thoughts that I think. |
| [06:48.926] | They are naught to me, compared with just one fleeting thought of you. |
| [06:59.472] | How could I fear for my last day when I am dying daily, |
| [07:03.237] | And have been since my first day? |
| [07:11.551] | Thus, the clown wore cap and gown |
| [07:14.574] | For she lived by degrees while she died by degrees |
| [07:18.410] | With a frown. |
| [07:26.196] | Voices of spring were in chorus, |
| [07:28.712] | Each voice was singing a song. |
| [07:31.485] | I could not sing in that chorus |
| [07:32.991] | Until I wrote me a song. |
| [07:35.294] | I wrote my song and joined the throng. |
| [07:44.643] | Why besiege my liege still further? |
| [07:47.448] | For my wooing is turning your majesty s royal head |
| [07:50.967] | And turning toward me. |
| [07:57.548] | Though I climbed up the highest mountain in view, |
| [08:00.325] | Yet contentment was not mine, |
| [08:03.613] | For beyond, a mountain still higher was looming. |
| [08:12.222] | Now is that painful moment of parting we dreaded. |
| [08:15.738] | Saying goodbye is plural indemnity, truly, |
| [08:19.504] | Of having said hello. |
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