Even For A Shadow Words and music Ray Cooper The lights are changing in the rain Green to amber and red again It's a new day old days left behind I am just a shadow A visitor on Europe's road Alone we come into this world And alone we go But I have friends I know And there's a place to go Even for a shadow Another day another town I go to work when the sun goes down Cities count the days along the way Driving through the pouring rain Heading for the next meeting place People waiting there I am expected But why do I turn back To watch the big trucks climb And struggle up that hill Just to vanish in the haze Lights turn to amber then green again But there is a place to go Even for a shadow The seconds pass with each white line But up there the sun still shines Moving slow behind a curtain sky That's enough for reasons why And I know that I I found some treasures here Caresses of gold I'll keep forever Along with tears of silver in a special box But still I like to watch The highway in the rain And there is a place to go Even for a shadow And I have a place to go Even for a shadow

Falling Like Thunder Words and music Ray Cooper And the fruit of our dreams is falling Falling like raindrops falling like thunder We were taught that we finally broke free Shook off the chains of history We climbed out of the mess that was World War II And made the world brave and new Justice for all and homes for heroes Let’s start again from a new year zero They said we learned from our mistakes We built the UN and the welfare state But as Castro said the revolution never ends We never thought about it then But democracy and the things we hold dear Can never be won outright You have to carry on the fight 'Cos if the reins go slack Things have a way of sliding back And the fruit of our dreams is falling Falling like raindrops falling like thunder So yes let's keep the taxes low Then complain about the hospitals the police and the roads But what you get is what you pay for That is what taxes are made for And every few years we a chance to chose Another chance to make it all new But when the smoke clears it's the same old scene We've been asleep too long to remember our dreams What the Gods love is chaos What the speculators love Is a crash One jump ahead with an eye to the main chance A stash of bitcoins and a house in France Never mind the pound is tumbling Never mind the nation's crumbling And the fruit of our dreams is falling Falling like raindrops falling like thunder And the fruit of our dreams is falling Falling like soldiers falling like snow The jungle is never far away It can never be defeated just held at bay What the gods love is chaos What the bankers love is a war First destruction then reconstruction Contracts loans and more production Destroy a nation’s air defences then sell them new ones We take oil credits Armies and arming the cost is alarming Arm for peace arm for a warning But like a box of fireworks forever unlit What is the point you might as well use it It's like a football team that never plays a match Needs a game sometimes to keep it up to scratch And the fruit of our dreams is falling Falling like raindrops falling like thunder And the fruit of our dreams is falling Falling like soldiers falling like snow What the gods love is chaos What the gods love is chaos And the jungle is never far away It can never be defeated just held at bay

Wind And Steel (Words and music Ray Cooper) Here I am sitting in a bar With a margarita and a cheap cigar I feel I'm falling but I can hear the angels calling I jump back through the candle flame And I'm right back by your side again Driving down that desert road But in my dream you take the wheel Through the desert wind and steel A thousand miles of empty road On and on the highway goes With your voodoo ways and your gris-gris prayers Your cocktails made out of prickly pears You seem to have the antidote To all the chaos in the world I wish I could be back in New Orleans And have you show me all you've seen¬ And drive with you to San Antone and on to the enchanted zone In my dream you take the wheel Through the desert wind and steel A thousand miles of empty road On and on the highway goes You say hey let's count the stars So we pull aside and stop the car We lay on the roof and in the heat I could hear the sound of your heartbeat But it's all too much much too late To be knocking on the doors of another state I feel it all slip away I drink and drink but my throat is dry Won't you take me back to that cowboy sky There's nothing I would rather do Than stay and drink the evening there with you To stand on the canyon with the wind in our hair And listen for the spirits who move there But they all they all slip away And in my dream you take the wheel Through the desert wind and steel A thousand miles of empty road On and on the highway goes A thousand miles of empty road

The Sky Was Black With Diamonds Words and music Ray Cooper The sky was black with diamonds I stood out on the edge And gazed upon the darkness so full of promises I heard a new voice calling from some far distant plain Far from the life I left behind where I shook off the shackles and the chains I thought about my father so long ago he died He was touched by the eagle's wing he was born to fly And fly he did and on he flew And he passed to me the things he knew The sky is still the same now the river's moved away We fill in the blank spaces and turn another page Darkness comes back where there was light But somewhere fires are burning there will be stars tonight I think about a family and all the friends we've made How we survived our lives and made our promises Well I kept some and the sky heard my pledge After all the roads we've travelled down I'm still standing on the edge I think about my father the things we left unsaid And how each generation is so different from the rest I think about my mother when I last saw her face She faded like a sunset and she left me in her place And the moon will rise and take me in her hand And lead me on to that ever promised land And the great wheel turns around And the sky looks back like a mother at her son

Going Underground Words and music Ray Cooper A quiet time we're slowing down Cruising in and gliding down Take the chance take a look around We're going underground There's no map nor pattern here We're pushing on to the interior It's deeper than any world we know And we're going down below There's a river running underground That feeds the souls of the lost and found Now take a breath we're going down I'll be holding on to you You'll be holding on to me Shut the window lock the door against the storm And we're going down down we're going underground Stop the trains stop the boats and planes We have to learn to live in a different way Learn to live learn to love learn to give again And we're going down All our lives we strove to win Never saw the life we're living in Now we are just breathing out breathing out and breathing in And we're going down I'll be holding on to you You'll be holding on to me Shut the window lock the door against the storm And we're going down down we're going underground This is not the home I know Something's changed we're on our own And I don't know this world Take my hand I'm by your side Together we will make this right And get through the storm Feel the rock it's hard and cold Trust to love and let the path unfold Now take the chance 'cos we're growing old I'll be holding on to you You'll be holding on to me Shut the window lock the door against the storm And we're going down down we're going underground We're going down down Going down

Sir Patrik Spens traditional arranged by Ray Cooper The King sat in Dunfermline town drinking his blood red wine Oh where can I find a skeely skipper to sail this ship of mine Up then spoke an eldern knight that sat at his right knee Sir Patrick Spens is the best sailor that ever sailed the sea The King he wrote a braid letter and he sealed it with his hand And sent it to Sir Patrick Spens who was walking on the strand To Noroway to Noroway to Noroway over the foam To the King's daughter in Noroway you've gotta bring her home The first line that Sir Patrick read loud loud laughed he And the next line that Sir Patrick read a tear blinded his eye Oh who is it that's done this deed and told the King of me To send us out at this time of the year to sail on the salty sea Be it wind be it wet be it hail be it sleet our ship must sail on the morn To the King's daughter in Noroway we've gotta bring her home They hoysed their sails on a Monday morn with all the speed they may And landed safe in Noroway upon a Wednesday They hadna been a week a week a week but barely three When all the lords of Noroway began aloud to say Ye Scotsmen spend all our King's gold and all of our Queen's fee Ye lie ye lie ye liars loud full loud I hear ye lie For I brought a bag of the white money enough for my men and me And I brought a bag of the good red gold from over the sea Make ready make ready my merry men all our good ship sails on the morn Now ever alack my master dear I fear a deadly storm For I saw the new moon late yestreen with the old moon in her arms And if we put to sea master I fear we'll come to harm And they hadna gone a league a league a league but barely three When the wind got up and the sky grew dark and stormy blew the sea The anchors broke and the top mast split it was such a deadly storm And the waves came over the broken ship till all her sides were torn Oh where can I find a good sailor that will take this helm in hand Till I climb up to the tall top mast to see if I can spy the land Oh here am I a good sailor that'll take the helm in hand Till you climb up to the high top mast but I fear you'll not spy the land He hadna gone a step a step a step but barely three When a bolt flew out of the goodly ship in came the sea Go fetch me a web of the silken cloth and another of the twine And wrap them round our goodly ship don't let the sea come in They fetched a web of the silken cloth and another of the twine And wrapped them round the good ship's side but still the sea came in Oh loath loath were the good Scots Lords to wet their cork heeled shoes But long before the day was o'er they'd wet both hats and trews Many were the feathered beds that floated on the foam And many were the good Scots Lords that never more came home And long may the ladies sit with their gold combs in their hand Before they see Sir Patrick Spens come walking on the strand It's forty miles off Aberdeen and forty fathoms deep There lies the good Sir Patrick Spens with the Scots Lords at his feet.

Black Is The Colour/ En Vacker Vän arranged by Ray Cooper Black is the colour of my true love's hair Her lips are like some roses fair She's got the sweetest smile and the gentlest hands I love the ground whereon she stands I love my love and well she knows I love the ground whereon she goes And I wish the day it soon would come When she and I would be as one En vacker vän jag har utvalt Den tänkte jag skull bli min tröst Den tänkte jag skull bli min tröst Och vila vid mitt unga bröst Min väninna bröt, hon bröt sin ed Hon bröt min lyckostjärna ned Nu står jag en och förtald Med sorgen över tappad skatt Black is the colour of my true love's hair Her lips are like some roses fair And she's got the sweetest smile and the gentlest hands I love the ground whereon she stands So I went to the Clyde to mourn and weep Where satisfied I ne'er can be And I wrote her a letter just a few short lines And suffered death a thousand times. Var morgon jag i lunden går Jag måste fälla mången tår Där hörer jag småfågelsång Ja det var vid solens nedergång Black is the colour of my true love's hair Den tänkte jag skull bli min tröst Black is the colour En vacker vän jag har utvalt Translation of Swedish verses: A beautiful friend I have chosen I thought she would be my comfort I thought she would be my comfort And rest beside my young breast My friend broke she broke her oath She broke my lucky star down Now I stand alone and deserted With the sadness over lost treasure A beautiful friend I have chosen I thought she would be my comfort I thought she would be my comfort And rest by my young breast My friend broke she broke her oath She broke my lucky star down Now I stand alone and deserted With the sadness over lost treasure

The Wind Words and music Ray Cooper It's just the wind that rattles on my door It's the wind and nothing more It must be the wind not your step upon my stair There's no one there It must be the wind not your breath upon my back I don't know why these little things play on my mind I must be dreaming it can't be you no more It's just the wind that rattles on my door Men of some kind lose their mind When the wind blows every day And drives them to a violent rage So I rise and go to close the old window And try to shut out the storm Shut out the storm Now leave me alone I hear a sound it can't be a human cry It must be a wild beast screaming at the sky I thought I was safe safe within these walls But they can fall It's just the wind that howls out on the plain And I see a figure struggle through the rain Is that an old man who turns his face to me He looks familiar stirs a memory Men of some kind lose their mind When the wind blows every day And drives them to a violent rage The wind it tries to break me As I hear it rise and fall Like waves that pound an old sea wall They can break the wall They can make it crumble But I hear the wind in the valley below And I see that figure coming closer now It's the old man he's staring back at me He looks familiar

When We Reach The Sun Words and music Ray Cooper Are you waiting there my friend With your decks and your glass of wine That old familiar greeting and a joint in your hand Beyond the sunset Beyond the ocean’s tears We close our eyes And drift towards the sun No need to be someone When we reach the sun From the glistening rolling changing silver waters Of the deep From the ocean mother we come To the ocean we return To the dark green shadows Where mysteries are born Beyond the sunset Beyond the distant shore But the deep is cold flesh biting cold Breath catching skin numbing cold Come seals and dolphins be our guide Take us home take us home Take us home take us home No need to be someone When we reach the sun