Litany For A Return
((Adapted from: Litanies Pour Un Retour (by Jacques Brel) - 1958))
((Dutch Version: Litanie Bij Een Terugkeer (by Liesbeth List) - 1969))
Composer(s): Jacques Brel - François Rauber - Paul Francis Buck
Performer(s): Marc Almond - 1989



My love
My heart
My sweet, oh
My sky
My fire
My heat, oh
My work
My spring
My veil
My honey
My bomb
My grail
My gate
My gold
My thrown, oh
My stock
My rock
My stone, oh
My night
My thirst
My hunger
My day
My bread
My water
My sail
My wave
My guide
My way
My blood
My strengh
My fever
My ray
My song
My love
My wine
My joy
My dawn
My life
My faith
My cry
My love
My heart
My sweet, oh
My sky
My fire
My heat, oh
My body
My flesh
My yearning
All this, now you're returning

Magic Bus
Composer(s): Pete Townshend
Performer(s): The Who
and various other artists



Every Day I Get In The Queue (Too Much, Magic Bus) 
To Get On The Bus That Takes Me To You (Too Much, Magic Bus) 
I'm So Nervous, I Just Sit And Smile (Too Much, Magic Bus) 
You House Is Only Another Mile (Too Much, Magic Bus) 

Thank You, Driver, For Getting Me Here (Too Much, Magic Bus) 
You'll Be An Inspector, Have No Fear (Too Much, Magic Bus) 
I Don't Want To Cause No Fuss (Too Much, Magic Bus) 
But Can I Buy Your Magic Bus? (Too Much, Magic Bus) 

Nooooooooo! 

I Don't Care How Much I Pay (Too Much, Magic Bus) 
I Wanna Drive My Bus To My Baby Each Day (Too Much, Magic Bus) 

I Want It, I Want It, I Want It, I Want It ... (You Can't Have It!) 
Thruppence And Sixpence Every Day 
Just To Drive To My Baby 
Thruppence And Sixpence Each Day 
'Cause I Drive My Baby Every Way 

Magic Bus, Magic Bus, Magic Bus ... 

I Said, Now I've Got My Magic Bus (Too Much, Magic Bus) 
I Said, Now I've Got My Magic Bus (Too Much, Magic Bus) 
I Drive My Baby Every Way (Too Much, Magic Bus) 
Each Time I Go A Different Way (Too Much, Magic Bus) 

I Want It, I Want It, I Want It, I Want It ... 

Every Day You'll See The Dust (Too Much, Magic Bus) 
As I Drive My Baby In My Magic Bus (Too Much, Magic Bus)

Magic 
Composer(s): Ric Ocasek
Performer(s): The Cars



Summer turns me upside down
Summer summer summer
It's like a merry-go-round
I see you under the midnight
All shackles and bows

High shoes with the cleats a-clickin'
a temperamental glow

How far will you take it
Well no one knows
Don't let me go
I got a hold on you tonight

Oh oh it's magic
When I'm with you
Oh oh it's magic
You know it's true
Got a hold on you

Twisted under sideways down
I know you're getting twisted
And you can't calm down
I see you under the midnight
Love darts in your eyes
How far can you take it
Till you realize
There's magic in your eyes

Oh oh it's magic
When I'm with you
Oh oh it's magic
You know it's true
Got a hold on you

Magic 
Composer(s): Billy Lyall; David Paton
Originally performed by: Pilot



Ho, ho, ho 
It´s magic you know 
Never believe, it´s not so 
It´s magic, you know 
Never believe, it´s not so 

Never been awake 
Never seen a day break 
Leaning on my pillow in the morning 
Lazy day in bed 
Music in my head 
Crazy music playing in the morning light 

I love my sunny day 
Dream of far away 
Dreaming on my pillow in the morning 
Never been awake 
Never seen a day break 
Leaning on my pillow in the morning light 

Ho, ho, ho 
It´s magic, you know 
Never believe it´s not so 
It´s magic, you know 
Never believe, it´s not so

Magic 
Composer(s): John Farrar
Originally performed by: Olivia Newton-John



Come take my hand
You should know me
I've always been in your mind
You know that I'll be kind
I'll be guiding you

Building your dream
Has to start now
There's no other road to take
You won't make a mistake
I'll be guiding you

You have to believe we are magic
Nothin' can stand in our way
You have to believe we are magic
Don't let your aim ever stray
And if all your hopes survive
Your destiny will arrive
I'll bring all your dreams alive
For you

From where I stand
You are home free
The planets align so rare
There's promise in the air
And I'm guiding you

Through every turn I'll be near you
I'll come anytime you call
I'll catch you when you fall
I'll be guiding you

You have to believe we are magic
Nothin' can stand in our way
You have to believe we are magic
Don't let your aim ever stray
And if all your hopes survive
Your destiny will arrive
I'll bring all your dreams alive
For you

Maggie's Dream
Composer(s): Dave Loggins; Lisa Silver
Performer(s): Don Williams



Maggie's up each morning at four am
By five at the counter at the diner
Her trucker friends out on the road will soon be stoppin in
As the lights go on at Cafe Carolina

Maggie's been a waitress here most all her life
Thirty years of coffee cups and sore feet
The mountains around Ashville she's never seen the other side
Closer now to fifty than to forty

Maggie's never had a love
She said she's never had enough
Time to let a man into her life
Aw but Maggie has a dream
She's had since she was seventeen
To find a husband and be a wife

Maggie knows the truckers most by first name
What they'll have to say and what they'll order
And they take her in their stories to places far away
And leave her with the dishes, dreams and quarters

And she relies upon the jukebox on the lonely afternoon
When the business starts to slow down she plays the saddest tunes
And she stares off down the highway and she wonders where it goes
Nobody to go home to and it's almost time to close

Listening In
Composer(s): Mickey Bradley - John O'Neill
Performer(s): The Undertones



I was sitting on my own
No one rang so I picked up the phone
Then I heard your voice
I was listening in

You were talking in the hall
I wasn't there but I heard it all
Nothing I could do
Just listening in

On the carpet you're so small
Who had you covered wall to wall
Nothing I could do
Just listening in

Now you're gone any your line's dead
Nothing I can do instead
No more - no more
No more listening in 

Maggie May 
Composer(s): Martin Quittenton; Rod Stewart
Originally performed by: Rod Stewart 
Covered by various other artists



Wake up Maggie, I think I've got something to say to you
It's late September and I really should be back at school
I know I keep you amused
But I fell I'm being used
Oh Maggie, I couldn't have tried any more
You led me away from home
Just to save you from being alone
You stole my heart and that's what really hurts

The morning sun when it's in your eyes really shows your age
But that don't worry me none, in my eyes you're everything
I laughed at all of your jokes
My love you didn't need to coax
Oh Maggie, I couldn't have tried any more
You led me away from home
Just to save you from being alone
You stole my soul and that's a pain I can do without

All I needed was a friend to lend a helping hand
But you turned into a lover and mother, what a lover, you wore me out
All you did was wreck my bed
And in the morning kick me in the head
Oh Maggie, I couldn't have tried any more
You led me away from home
'Cause you didn't want to be alone
You stole my heart, I couldn't leave you if I tried

I suppose I could collecd my books and go on back to school
Or steal my daddy's cue and make a living at playing pool
Or find myself a rock and roll band
That needs a helping hand
Oh Maggie, I wished I'd never seen your face
You made a first class fool out of me
But I'm as blind as a fool can be
You stole my heart but I love you anyway
I'd never seen your face
I'll get on back home, one of these days

Listening
Composer(s): Michael Nesmith
Performer(s): Michael Nesmith



Sometimes thoughts coincidental
With activities quite simple
In consideration seem to be quite meaningless
Yet hoping for the best
I listen for the rest

Listening to find a way
To overcome earthbound decay
Still I'm classifying these ideas that come to me
Into those that I can see
And those that I can feel

It seems it should be
So easy to do
The things that I am led to do
But conviction and courage
Sometimes drift apart
And takes me back to the start

Sometimes thoughts coincidental
With activities quite simple
In consideration seem to be quite meaningless
Yet hoping for the best
I listen for the rest

Maggie Mae
Originally performed by: The Beatles



Oh, dirty Maggie Mae 
they have taken her away 
and she'll never walk 
down Lime Street anymore 

Oh, the judge she guilty found her 
of robbing the homeward bounder 
dirty no good robbing Maggie Mae 

It's the part of Liverpool 
She returned me to 
Two pound ten a week 
that was my pay

Listen Mr. Bilbo 
Composer(s): Adrienne Claiborne - Bob Claiborne
Performer(s): Peter, Paul and Mary
and multiple other artists



Listen, Mr. Bigot, listen to me, I'll give you a lesson in history
Listen while I tell you that the foreigners you hate
Are the very same people made America great
Oh listen Mr. Bigot, uh-huh ... listen Mr. Bigot 

In 1492, just to see what he could see
Columbus, who was an Italian set out across the sea
He said "Isabella, baby, the world is round
And the USA's just awaitin' to be found" 

Listen, Mr. Bigot, listen to me, I'll give you a lesson in history
Listen while I tell you that the foreigners you hate
Are the very same people made America great
Oh listen Mr. Bigot, uh-huh ... listen Mr. Bigot 

Oh listen Mr. Bigot, (well, some of my best friends are)
Listen Mr. Bigot (oh, they like to live with their own kind) 

Well when the King of England started pushin' Yanks around
They had a little trouble up in Boston town
But a brave, black, Crispus Attucks was the man
The first one to fall when the fightin' began

Listen, Mr. Bigot, listen to me, I'll give you a lesson in history
Listen while I tell you that the foreigners you hate
Are the very same people made America great
Oh listen Mr. Bigot, uh-huh ... listen Mr. Bigot 

Oh listen Mr. Bigot
(They can't help it 
It's their cultural point of view)
Listen Mr. Bigot (They all look alike to me!) 

Now Bigot, you're taking one hell of a chance
Your good friends the Duponts, came over from France
Another thing I'm sure will be news to you
The first Mr. Bigot was a foreigner too

Listen, Mr. Bigot, listen to me, I'll give you a lesson in history
Listen while I tell you that the foreigners you hate
Are the very same people made America great
Oh listen Mr. Bigot, uh-huh ... listen Mr. Bigot 

You don't like blacks, you don't like jews
Well if there's anyone you do like, it sure is news
You don't like Poles, Hispanics too
Anyway they serve you up, we don't like you 

Listen, Mr. Bigot, listen to me, I'll give you a lesson in history
Listen while I tell you that the foreigners you hate
Are the very same people made America great
Oh listen Mr. Bigot, uh-huh ... listen Mr. Bigot 

Oh listen Mr. Bigot
(Well there we were on the beach, just trying to get some sun
And up comes a busload of them, well first they got these boxes that play this music 
I mean it's not even in English
Then they take out these stoves or hibachi's or something
The smoke was dreadful, the smell was even worse
I wouldn't let my daughter marry one, ya know?) 

Listen Mr. Bigot

Maggie
(Traditional)
Performer(s): Maura O'Connell



The violets were scenting the woods Maggie
Displaying their charms to the breeze
When I first said I loved only you Maggie
And you said you loved only me

The chestnut blooms green through the glades Maggie
A robin sang aloud from the tree
When I first said I loved only you Maggie
And you said you loved only me

A golden row of daffodils shone Maggie
And danced with the leaves on the breeze
When I first said I loved only you Maggie
And you said you loved only me

The birds in the trees sang a song Maggie
Of happy a trance for us to be
When I first said I loved only you Maggie
And you said you loved only me

Our dreams they have never come true Maggie
Our hopes they never were to be
When I first said I loved only you Maggie
And you said you loved only me

Listen, Learn, Read On
Composer(s): Ian Paice - Jon Lord - Ritchie Blackmore - Rod Evans
Performer(s): Deep Purple



In ages past when spells were cast 
In a time of men in steel 
When a man was taught no special thing 
It was all done by feel 

So listen, so learn, so read on 
You gotta turn the page, read the Book of Taliesyn 

Hear the song of lovely Joan 
Her sound so sweet and clear 
In the courtroom of the King 
Among children and the peers 

So listen, so learn, so read on 
You gotta turn the page, read the Book of Taliesyn 

'Now hear ye the words of Taliesyn, 
on the foaming beach of the ocean, 
in the day of trouble, 
I shall be of more service to thee 
than three hundred salmon...' 

The hare he bounds across the page 
Past castles white and fair 
Past dreaming chessmen on their boards 
With a fool's mate as a snare 

So listen, so learn, so read on 
You gotta turn the page, read the Book of Taliesyn 

'Three times I have been born 
I know this from meditation...' 

The bird he flies the distance 
From pages two to six 
Past minstrels in their boxes 
To the waters of the Styx 

So listen, so learn, so read on 
You gotta turn the page, read the Book of Taliesyn 

Don't take the pictures lightly 
Listen to their sound 
For from their coloured feeling 
Experience is found 

So listen, so learn, so read on 
You gotta turn the page, read the Book of Taliesyn

'All the sciences of the world are collected in my breast 
for I know what has been, what is now
and what hereafter will occur ...' 

Listen To What The Man Said
Composer(s): Paul McCartney
Performer(s): Wings



Any Time, Any Day 
You Can Hear The People Say
But He Won't Mind, Well, I Don't Know 
But I Say Love Is Kind 

Soldier Boy Kisses Girl 
Leaves Behind A Tragic World 
But He Won't Mind, He's In Love 
And He Says Love Is Fine 

Oh -- Yes, Indeed We Know 
That People Will Find A Way To Go 
No Matter What The Man Said 
And Love Is Fine For All We Know 
For All We Know, Our Love Will Grow 
-- That's What The Man Said 
So Won't You Listen To What The Man Said 

He Said ...

Oh -- Yes, Indeed We Know 
That People Will Find A Way To Go ...

Oh -- Yes, Indeed We Know 
That People Will Find A Way To Go ...

The Wonder Of It All Baby ...
The Wonder Of It All Baby ...
The Wonder Of It All Baby ...

Atmospherics: Listen to the Radio
Composer(s): Peter Gabriel - Tom Robinson
First release by: Tom Robinson - 1984



Leave the bureau in the snow
Catch a tram to Onkel PO
Early evening ring around the moon
Slip in by the concierge
By the bikes and up the stairs

Snap the latch and creep into the room
You throw off your coat, pick up the post
And put a coffee on
Lie down on the bed, lay back your head
And smoke a cigarette

And listen to the radio
Listen to the radio
In the city late tonight
Double feature, black and white
"Bitter Tears" and "Taxi to the Klo"
Find a bar, avoid a fight
Show your papers, be polite
Walking home with nowhere else to go
You throw off your coat, pick up my note
Put another coffee on
Lie down on the bed, lay back your head
And smoke a cigarette

And listen to the radio
Listen to the radio
Atmospherics after dark
Noise and voices from the past
Across the dial from Moscow to Cologne
Interference in the night
Thousand miles on either side
Stations fading into the unknown
So throw off your coat, we'll butter some toast
And put a coffee on
We'll lie down on the bed, lay back our heads
Smoke another cigarette

And listen to the radio
Listen to the radio
All night long ...

Atmospherics: Listen to the Radio
Composer(s): Peter Gabriel - Tom Robinson
First release by: Tom Robinson - 1984



Leave the bureau in the snow
Catch a tram to Onkel PO
Early evening ring around the moon
Slip in by the concierge
By the bikes and up the stairs

Snap the latch and creep into the room
You throw off your coat, pick up the post
And put a coffee on
Lie down on the bed, lay back your head
And smoke a cigarette

And listen to the radio
Listen to the radio
In the city late tonight
Double feature, black and white
"Bitter Tears" and "Taxi to the Klo"
Find a bar, avoid a fight
Show your papers, be polite
Walking home with nowhere else to go
You throw off your coat, pick up my note
Put another coffee on
Lie down on the bed, lay back your head
And smoke a cigarette

And listen to the radio
Listen to the radio
Atmospherics after dark
Noise and voices from the past
Across the dial from Moscow to Cologne
Interference in the night
Thousand miles on either side
Stations fading into the unknown
So throw off your coat, we'll butter some toast
And put a coffee on
We'll lie down on the bed, lay back our heads
Smoke another cigarette

And listen to the radio
Listen to the radio
All night long ...

Listen To The Ocean
Composer(s): Nina Möller - Frederik Von Pallandt
Performer(s): Nina & Frederik



There's a world of sun and sand
Full of sky and far from land
Where evening breezes caress the shore
Like a gentle comforting hand

Fragrant blossoms, honey bees
Careless laughter upon the breeze
And lovers fading to pools of deep
Purple shadows among the trees

Listen to the ocean, echoes of a million seashells
Forever it's in motion
Moving to a rhythmic and unwritten music
That's played eternally

The sound of a seagull's distant cry
His wings like parentheses drawn in the sky
And two white birds clinging like foam
To the crest of a wave rolling by

The silence of noon, the clamour of night
The heat of the day when the fish won't bite
These are the things that remind me of
The day you sailed out of sight

Listen to the ocean, echoes of a million seashells
Forever it's in motion
Moving to a rhythmic and unwritten music
That's played eternally

Listen To The Music
Composer(s): Tom Johnston
First release by: The Doobie Brothers - 1972
Covered by multiple other artists



Don't you feel it growin', day by day
People gettin' ready for the news
Some are happy, some are sad
Oh, we got to let the music play
What the people need
Is a way to make 'em smile
It ain't so hard to do if you know how
Gotta get a message
Get it on through
Oh now mama, don't you ask me why

Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
All the time 

Well I know, you know better
Everything I say
Meet me in the country for a day
We'll be happy
And we'll dance
Oh, we're gonna dance our blues away
And if I'm feelin' good to you
And you're feelin' good to me
There ain't nothin' we can't do or say
Feelin' good, feeling fine
Oh, baby, let the music play 

Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
All the time 

Like a lazy flowing river
Surrounding castles in the sky
And the crowd is growing bigger
List'nin' for the happy sounds
And I got to let them fly 

Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
All the time

Listen To The Love
Performer(s): Noel Paul Stookey



If you ask me what I want
I'd say yes I want it too
And if you ask me what I think
I'd say yes I think I dooo
But some will say here
Some will say there
Some will sell you tickets to a show
Some will say now
Some will say then
Some will say stay when you know you have to go

Listen to the Love in your heart
Don't you realize you're a special part
You can sing along from the start
If you listen to the Love in your heart

You can bring your horse to water
But he may not drink
You can give a man a book
But you cannot make him think
Some will say do
Some will say don't 
Some will put their name up on a door
Some will say how
Some will say why
Some will never get their feet up off the floor

Listen to the Love in your heart
Don't you realize you're a special part
You can sing along from the start
If you listen to the Love in your heart

Listen To The Lion
Composer(s): Van Morrison
Performer(s): Van Morrison



And all my love come down
All my love come tumblin' down
All my love come tumblin' down
All my love come tumblin' down

Oh, listen listen
To the lion
Oh, listen listen listen
To the lion...
Inside of me
Oh, oh, oh

And I shall search my soul
I shall search my very soul
And I shall search my very soul
I shall search my very so-o-oul

For the lion
For the lion
For the lion
For the lion...
Inside of me
Oh, oh, yeah

And all my tears have flown
All my tears like water flown
And all my tears like water flown
All my tears like-a water flown

For the lion
For the lion
For the lion
For the lion...
Inside of me

Listen to the lion
Listen to the lion
Listen to the lion
Listen to the lion
Listen to the lion
Listen to the lion
Listen to the lion
Listen to the lion
Listen to the lion
Listen to the lion
Listen to the lion
Listen to the lion
Listen to the lion
Listen to the lion

And we sailed, and we sailed...
And we sailed, and we sailed...
And we sailed, and we sailed...
... sailed to Caledonia

And we sailed, and we sailed
And we sailed, and we sailed, and we sailed...
Away from Denmark
Way up to Caledonia
Away from Denmark
Way up to Caledonia

And we sailed, and we sailed, and we sailed...
All around the World
And we sailed..., and we sailed..., and we sailed...
Looking for a brand new start

And we sailed...
And we sailed, and we sailed...
All around the World
... a brand new start

Looking for a brand new start
Looking for a brand new start
Looking for a brand new start

And we sailed, and we sailed, and we sailed...
And we sailed...
Away from the Golden Gate
Way up to the New York City