
THE DARN FUNK ORCHESTRA
LYRICS
SOUL FOOD
Hey Mr preacher man, come on and feed us if you can
There’s a famine on, malnutrition’s here
We need some sustenance, come on and knock us off the fence
With the Bread of Life
We need soul food
You’ve been playing with your words
Just like you’re playing with my dinner
Knowledge puffs up, love it builds up
So build the crowd
We’re getting thinner
We don’t need no added sugar
E-numbers or flash vocabulary
Sometimes it’s sour but I’ve got to taste that power
Hitting me with vitamin C
Hey Mr preacher man, come on a feed us if you can
There’s a famine on, malnutrition’s here
We need some rooted veg; Leviticus, Numbers and the rest
Plate up the manna
We need Soul food
Hey Mr preacher man, come on and feed us if you can
There’s a famine on
We need soul food
So get your roots below the surface
Come drench your mind in waters deep
You can bring out more than dried old figs
Just let your fruit be ripe and juicy
So take us to the future banquet
The feast that can never decompose
‘Cos we are able to get more than crumbs from your table
We don’t need no yeast to make them grow
Give it to me fresh, give it to me cooked
Give it to me straight out of the book
Give it to me, give it to me
Give it to me, give give give it to me
Spoon feeding feeds no contemplation
We don’t fast our food and quickly fill you with frustration
I’m gonna have to wait if I don’t want mono-saturates
‘cos i’m gorged on comfort information
Maybe we’ve got the children’s menu
Ready for milk, not solid food
There’s got to be a way to get our RDA
So won’t you teach us how to chew
Does not the ear taste the words
As the tongue tastes the food
I’m sorry preacher man, you only feed us what you can
Hey Mr. preacher man, don’t think I really understand
Just a few bread rolls and some mackerel
Just watch it multiply, your cake can wait another night
There’s a famine on
We need soul food
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MUNDANE
Back from the festival
Feeling like a vegetable
Said goodbye to the summertime
Fell out of the weekend bed
Monday points the way to the week ahead
Wake us up to the better life
Mundane takes us by surprise
Mundane teaches us new lies
Mundane
Been waiting for something new
Listening to the hum of another queue
Hanging round just to feel alive
Strapped to the motorway
Flagging on the track of another day
Chasing the 9-5
Mundane…
Autumn comes and dry leaves crunch about our feet
Our bones are aching but this monotony won’t cease
My mind flirts with the summer when the sky was wild and blue
But now the day’s mundane, can I still walk with you?
Haunted by memories
You and me making new discoveries
When spring time was in bloom
Summer seems so far away
Does it seem too much to brighten up my day
Now that daylight ends so soon?
Mundane…
August left us on high and full of hope
November comes along and we can hardly cope
I’m not waiting for the summer – though it’s easier in June
Now the day’s mundane it’s still alive in you
Mundane…
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SALVATION SHOES
Did you see my soul sliding on the floor?
Since we’ve been flung through the narrow door
Twist and shout to the angels’ groove
So overjoyed I can’t help but move
Party people pounding positive
To my surprise my friend we’re gonna live
Dancing with freedom flowing in the air
As we shake the room, spin off our feelings of despair
Because I’m there, dancing on my salvation shoes
Haven’t got the time to sing those lonely blues
Yeah I tripped through the eye of a needle passing by
Spinning through
On my salvation shoes
Don’t get me wrong my friend, I’ve known hard times
I’m overdrawn, my face is full of lines
But the world spins on like a mirror ball
Because you know that we are dancing to a higher call
I’m there, dancing on my salvation shoes
Haven’t got the time to sing those lonely blues
Though troubles bring me down they keep me dancing on the ground
Spinning through
On my salvation shoes
They sang that hymn ‘til it went grey
That first groove seemed so far away
Rise up sleepy people please do not be dead
Angels are grooving out now overhead
Shake of the dust and rise up from your pews
Strut you stuff now to the funky news
There’s a rhythm that’s been flowing for so many centuries
So rise up my friend because you know you’ll be set free
I’m there dancing on my salvation shoes
Haven’t got the time to sing those lonely blues
Though I’ve been told a thousand times
This ancient God still blows my mind
Spinning through
On my salvation shoes
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ISLAND
Watched you rush by
Your reputation’s flying but you’re feeling dry
In your suit and tie
Can’t help but see outside your fine, inside you’re crying
See it in your eyes
You think that you can fool the world with your disguise
And professional lies
You’re so mysterious
You say no man’s an island
But we’re knocking on your shore
This may just be surprising
No one knows you anymore
Please, please, please
How do you feel?
Please, please, please
Show the world that you’re real
Walked the plank
Through your eyes to sympathise with a hypocrite man
Through your face
But your eyes and dancing speeches wouldn’t correlate
Your heart exposed
All wrapped up in a world where everyone knows
Your para-lies
And false hysteria
You say no man’s an island
But we’re knocking on your shore
This may just be surprising
We’ve all been there once before
Please, please, please
How do you feel?
Please, please, please
Show the world that you’re real
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WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY
(Written by James Darn, Tom Mayle and Ben Wilkes)
I’ve been thinking about their pre-perceptions
Watching myself through other men’s ears
Listening to their misconceptions
Of why my heart holds you to be so dear
But I don’t care what the people say
I’m going to love you any way
I don’t care what the people do
Won’t let them barricade my way to you
If I’m indoctrinated, hope delirious
Or this is just another romantic phase in my mind
It’s true that we fear time’s bad experience
But you know those fears I’m leaving behind
But I don’t care what the people say
I’m going to love you any way
I don’t care what the people do
Won’t let them barricade my way to you
You can kill or throw me in the fire
Persecute my for my heart’s desire
If I’m in too deep when all is at the wire
Won’t let them barricade me from your love ‘cos your love takes me higher
So quick to speak so slow to listen
Opinion screaming out for some time
I’m listening to a premonition
Of you and me growing on through this life
But I don’t care what the people say
I’m going to love you any way
I don’t care what the people do
Won’t let them barricade my way to you
You can kill or throw me in the fire
Persecute my for my heart’s desire
If I’m in too deep when all is at the wire
Nothing can separate me from your love ‘cos your love takes me higher
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POSTCARD
I see her open up her hands
Her face all dressed in smiles
All in pink and innocence
Love fires cannons through her eyes
Standing dazed, watching amazed
Her arms held up with fire
A life once caught up in your love
It leaves us asking why
Pain it hardened up her soul
As she let her love subside
Looking out for other coal
To fuel the journeys ride
Ran from all the arguments
The uncompleted fights
Took the train past rock and roll
Blended out of sight
But we’ll be waiting here for you
If you path winds back to you
Guess I wouldn’t miss us hypocrites
Just don’t forget the feeling
When you were wading through the healing
And when you’re spent just recall
Sailed away still off the coast
She sent me a postcard
Saying she’d been far away
Reading many stars
Said that she had long forgotten
Why she bothered and with a sigh
Said that maybe all along
It way have just been teenage hype
But we’ll be waiting here for you
If your path winds back to you
Guess I wouldn’t miss us hypocrites
Just don’t forget the feeling
When you were wading through the healing
And when you’re spent just recall
But we’ll be waiting here for you
If you path winds back to you
Guess I wouldn’t miss us hypocrites
Just don’t forget the feeling
When you were wading through the healing
When it was God you clearly saw
Sanding down your roughened core
Warming up your winters
Opening your narrow door
And when you’re spent just recall
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UP-HERE DOWN-THERE
What’s it like up on the ledge of the universe’s edge
Is it lonely on the membrane of the womb of all creation?
Spinning stars in space, kicking off a meteor race
Making a connection to your planet innovation
Up here, down there, inside, out there,
Afar and near, outstanding everywhere
What’s it like deep in my soul? I’ve been so numb and cold
Is it lonely in the gloom? Is there any space for you?
My conscience seemed as far away as the stars on a cloudy day
But you whisper in the deep bringing healing where you speak
Up here, down there, inside, out there
Afar and near, outstanding everywhere
When the rhythm of the sunrise shakes the sluggard man away
You shoot up from my depth, I watch you change all destiny
Light years away you shape the moons and curve my jagged thoughts
You still the outer stratosphere but shake my inner core
When darkness left the ninth hour light switches on within
Travelling through my skin
Up here, down there, inside, out there
Afar and near, outstanding everywhere
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GRACE
Grace I don’t deserve
Every good and perfect gift is from above
This love I could not earn has been pouring down on me
Your grace is all that I need
Grace pours down in waves
For there’s a time to have and a time to crave
It melts my hardened skin
And washes out the pride I hoard within
Yet do I dare to believe your grace is all that I need
Your grace is all that I need
Grace. Can love be free?
You lift me up and bring me to my knees
Cos I’d been trying so hard to please
But you say “freely give, freely receive”
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THE WAY OF THE SLUGGARD
The way of the sluggard is blocked with thorns
Cannot hack his path as he strolls along
Doesn’t know the sensation of a hard day’s work
Hasn’t taken a ride on the light of dawn
You need to work this out
This isn’t what life’s about
Come on and get out of your bed
Or you may soon wake up dead
His bed is no peaceful sanctuary
But a dungeon of thoughts of the could have beens
Lives by the riches of JSA
And sleeps his whole empty life away
Like a city whose walls are all broken down
Is a man that greets discipline with a frown
So go to the ants and you soon will find
A remedy for your lazy mind
You need to work this out
This isn’t what life’s about
Come on and get out of your bed
Or you may soon wake up dead
As poverty knocks on your paint chipped door
And your life is rusting away on your thoughts
Get up and give and you soon will see
The man you were created to be
Come on my friend there’s still hope around
Don’t have to earn this love just an even pound
As you rise you know your demons will pay
And your lazy days will soon fade away
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