INNER THOUGHTS
The Misty Mountain Trail
The Misty Mountain Trail is a place where reality and fantasy unite
The kind of place where the conflicts of Heaven and Hell ignite
It's the site where disease becomes hot as fire or cold as frost
The infinite place where the celestial and the infernal are crossed
The untold stories of this never ending path, this hazy road
The bedlam and it's secrets held in by illegible code
It is a scene with no limitations or design
It has a perpetual way of changing it's mind
This is where white doves play and vultures prey
Time has little meaning here and the calendar has no day
Those who can face their inner selves shall remain alive
Those who can not, shall never survive,
The Misty Mountain Trail
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Donovan - 1984
The World Is Waiting
The world is waiting for you
Seize the day, make your mark
Don't stand and wait to be seen
Do what needs to be done
Take your life for a ride
Go get it and take what you need
Grasp the urge and make it yours
The time is now, do your thing
If you don't take the chance
You'll regret it, from this moment on
You only live one life, make it count
Never hesitate again, feel alive
Don't let someone else do what belongs to you
Don't let yourself or the world do without
We all need to act on inspiration
Your moment has come, take it hard!
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Donovan - 1997
Reflections
When I look at my reflection
Do I see me or dishonest rejection
Is this what I am supposed to believe
Or an image I want to perceive
Do I know and love my life as me
Or do I pretend to make fallacy
Why can't I believe in what I am
Is there a love I don't understand
It shouldn't matter what they think
I must never let myself sink
I do many things for everyone
Shouldn't I do more, for my fun
Treating myself with a little affection
Will brighten my own reflection
The time for me is today
I'm changing to do things my way
Life, it seems to reflect on
It creates images coming on the pond
Is it important for me to reflect clear?
I really care and that's why I'm here
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Donovan - 1990
I Saw the Color
From a great distance, I saw a light embraced with haze of ultra-violet blue.
It became a part of me.
I witnessed this immortal blaze of brilliancy and through me it will vanish.
You see, I saw the color of love, alone.
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Donovan - 1986
Who Am I?
I have a sheet of paper
With pencil in my hand
I am writing about an inspiration
A feeling I don't understand
I'm writing a poem and a song
I'm not quite sure I understand
The song is for singing
The poem is for reading
Someone needs to tell me who I am
Who am I
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Donovan - 1983
Forever Lost
When the mind travels
It moves a great distance
It shall arrive there
Swiftly, in an instance
May the arrangement of expression
Continue on, never to fall
Living life, forever lost
In concert music halls
So let the music play
I need to dance and sing and scream
Show me a sign of the happy life
And I'll show you my dream
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Donovan - 1990
No Choice of the Misunderstood
Twisted eccentric lust
Doing the odd is a must
Why call all this a fetish
Normalcy is my real wish
To some, strange and hate
They would do it too, if by fate
Absolute desire for all infinity
An expression of creativity
This obsession is an urge
Never leaving, I can not purge
I loath the fact it controls me
I need strength to set me free
But here I sit and do my thing
Wax, whips, handcuffs, and a cock ring
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Donovan - 1997
Take a Moment to Breathe
Fire Dance
Walking the street
Hot road burning, beneath your feet
Rush Hour Traffic
Non-stop hustle
The tension and stress, in every muscle
Waves of Crime
Murder and rape
Feeling the need, to make an escape
View Through a Window
Mind in the sky
Falling into a daze, as the world passes by
A Telephone Rings
A breath you take
The city has no mercy, end of your break
Take a moment to breathe
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Donovan - 1997
Touched
Touched by an Angel
Enlightened forever more
Share the experience
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Donovan - 1997
The Buzz
I saw a Monet' and a Picasso
I even saw one made of fossil
Stepping around the art museum
Wishing I could be a part of them
All of a sudden there it was,
A huge picture of a forest. "Buzz, Buzz!"
What's that sound buzzing in my ear?
A bee flew from the painting and said, "Come here."
I leaped right in, but to never return.
I was stuck in the picture with a look of concern.
Someone's daughter was looking in at me.
I wish I could scream and be set free.
Now I fear for the rest of the world, because
That little girl just heard that horrible, "Buzz!"
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Donovan - 1998
Your First Home
Endless searching from place to place
The financial pressure thrown in your face
Then one day you step into a home
You take a big breath and begin to roam
This is where you want to hang your hat
There's no other spot you'd rather be at
One afternoon you sit and sign your life away
Then they hand you a key for an extended stay
Stepping to the door and turning the key
Pushing the door open, you've been set free
You take a big breath, and begin to roam
It's finally happened, your first home
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Donovan - 1998
Ask The Hopi
People and their skin
Red, yellow, black, and white
Where did those colors come from?
The answer is well within sight
Ask the Hopi
Before Christopher Columbus
People knew the Earth was round
This wasn't a mystery
Just a discovery to be found
Ask the Hopi
An age of fire, ice and water
The world's recycling of life to unfold
Science only proved knowledge known
The warning of the next is about to be told
Ask the Hopi
There are seven chances to life
Three down and living number four
Take care of the Earth, the people, and remember the creator
This is our chance last forever more
Just ask the Hopi
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Donovan - 1997
Falsely Accused
I've been accused of being a player
One of those innocent woman slayers
Mistaken by my fellow peers
I'm just facing social fears
Although I make it look real easy
The intention is to not be sleazy
Because my true goal is straight from the heart
The honest word is, I'm still learning my part
So what looks like a spiral game
Does not go by the same bloody name
I'm in search of that perfect mate
And avoiding a life with a lonely fate
Someday I will find love and happiness
And then I will be able to confess
No matter how much fun was the time
It was the love that was on my mind
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Donovan - 2000
Creative Freedom
Mold undiscovered time with your unconsciousness
Expel those secret desires out on to the wet emerald floor
Take a moment to see what has always been unseen
Evolve your spirited soul beyond the hearts darkened core
There is a freedom that you have never actually tapped into
Go forth and find the source of your hidden agenda my friend
Unleash this creative freedom from the bowels of your existence
Before the forces of this world bring you to a bittersweet end
~~~~~~
Donovan - 2000
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