They’re burning through the capital
They’re hoisting up a noose
They’re warning on the radio
The boys are on the loose
They’re coming in a marching band
They planned a rendezvous
The time has come to comprehend
That soon they’ll come for you

They’re coming for the newsreader
They’re coming for the proof
They’re coming for the teacher
And the guardian of truth
They’re coming for the colonel
And the people that he knew
If you saw his broken brother
Then you know they’ll come for you

They’re jacking with a pathogen
They’re tracking down the cats
They’re shattering Volkswagens
And they’re confiscating maps
They’re breaking all the telescopes
And libeling the moon
They’ve been sending poisoned envelopes
And one might be for you

They’re coming for your castles
They’ll subsume the well-to-do
They threaten from a beachhead
Built along Park Avenue
You can try to test the waters
But don’t ever misconstrue
They’ll be coming for your daughters
Once they close the door on you

They’re coming in with Lebensborn
You might feel déjà-vu
We haven’t seen this uniform
Since nineteen forty-two
A boy with head all shaven
Will recall the brick he threw
Countless more were taken
So you know they’ll come for you

Yes they’re coming for the Syrian
They’re coming for the Jew
Look at how they redefined a citizen
Be careful what you do
They’re scorching with impunity
The courts have gone askew
Their friends all get immunity
But soon they’ll come for you

And when the love of kin and kindness
Has been trodden under shoe
Every corner of the kingdom
Fears the turning of the screw
No neverland too sacrosanct
No fury too taboo
No clemency for circumstance
They’re coming soon for you, and maybe you

And all you soldiers steeped in the sacraments
Of the sanctioned party hymn
As you don your leather holster
To another purge begin
This machine that made you a weapon
Never cared that you were true
Get in line for Armageddon
Wait and see, they’ll come for you

They're Coming

For my father.


Summertime, June twenty-one
Rising at the crack of dawn
Homework done, father son
Going for a morning drive
What a day to be alive
The day we saw a rocket ship come flying through the sky

And we have always shared times like this and more
And I still go there in my mind
The day we saw that rocket ship come flying through the sky

They left the moon when I was born
Did you know then that you were the moon to me?
High above and smiling down
Old and wise and gentle eyes
I repaid the smallest slice
The day we saw the rocket ship come shining through the sky

And now that I have flown to a place that we once read about
Your favorite son can see your light
Coming round our roundabout
Remembering our talks each night
Before we saw a rocket flight ascending out of sight

The aeroplane was true and strong
Carrying the spaceship on
Just like you once raised me, John
Now it flies all on its own
And this is what it meant to me
The day we saw the rocket plane come soar above Mojave

White Knight and SpaceShip One
A father and a son
Two in awe and two up high
The day, oh dad, our rocket ship came flying through the sky

Rocket Ship

Aberdeen, Aberdeen
You give me joy sometimes
I feel like a boy sometimes
You turn these North Sea winds
Into a burst of sunshine, Aberdeen

You’ve stolen all my dreams
All my Saturdays
For the way you play
Through the night and day
If I pledge my love to thee, Aberdeen
Will you win this one for me?

Golden days
Gold in Gothenburg
You give me pride in times
When vict’ries are hard to find
You turn these North Sea winds
Into a burst of sunshine, Aberdeen

You’ve stolen all my dreams
All my Saturdays
For this way you play
Through the night and day
If I pledge my love to thee, Aberdeen
Will you win this one for me?
Will you win this one for me?

All My Saturdays

Do you remember the night we met
You were my Scarlett and I was Rhett
We played a strange game under silent stars
It’s funny, never could we work out who we are

Romeo and Juliet were made up in a book
Bill Sykes won his Nancy although he was a crook
Maybe one day we’ll stop wond’ring who to be
Perhaps that's when we'll learn to just be you and me

Life is just a movie scene and Hollywood is real
Perhaps that's why we never understood how we should feel
And every twister passing through is on its way to Oz
And Dorothy can walk with you because, because
Because I love you

Disneyland is our friend now in a world gone wrong
Josephine, we'll somehow find words to our song
So I'll be in your dream if you'll be in mine
It's real enough to me so Josie, hold me one more time

Josie's Song

The Boxer (Acoustic)

There's a home in California
It has chimes around the door
And the flower of bougainvillea
Grows high down to the floor

You  can go there if you're weary
You can go there if you're scared
For when you cross the doorway
Your mind shall be repaired

There's a lady there who knows you
Though she's lived here all her life
She has seen it all before you
If she's ever been a wife

And she'll understand your suffering
If she's ever felt forlorn
She will heal you with her loving
Until you feel reborn

You  can go there like it’s Friday
You can go there to be free
For when you cross her doorway
Bougainvillea  you will be

The Doorway

For our stranded astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.

We’ll keep a light for you
Virginia rings at night for you
New York is shining bright for you
And we’ll keep a light for you

Beneath your speeding star
Been a strange old year so far
Are dolphins thinking less of who we are?
We’re billions all alone inside our car
Still keeping a light for you

A woman on the telephone
Wondered if you miss your home
I don’t know why she wouldn’t know
Over in LA I’m missing Glasgow

And we’ll keep a light on your door
I’ve been working on your song a little more
Josie says hello
Now we’re going to the store
It’s time to go, and one thing more
We’ll keep a light on your door

We'll Keep a Light

(Sail above the land and sea)
(Sail above the land and sea)
While waking from a mono sleep
A fancy thought came over me
I wondered what it might be like
To take a ride with Buzz and Mike
We sailed above the land and sea
Gave a wave to gravity
We could not say if this was real
Or candy floss inside a dream

Oh can it be it might be true
Someone walked upon the Moon
Can you believe that it could be
Someone just like you and like me
(Sail above the land and sea)
(Sail above the land and sea)

And I thought about how I might feel
Inside the heel of Buzz or Neil
A boy on the Moon in a long-distance call
From Clouden Road in Cumbernauld
For stillborn babies, weary dreams
Lives of strained and threadbare seams
With everything they’ll never do
You know that Neil felt this way too

But can it be it might be true
Someone walked upon the Moon
Oh can you see that it could be
Someone just like you and-
Can it be it might be true
Someone walked upon the Moon
Can you believe that it could be
One day we shall witness our dreams (like Neil)
(Sail above the land and sea)

Someone Walked Upon the Moon

You’re everywhere
Like the desert air
That’s blowing through your flowing hair
Like the clothes I wear
When I sit and stare
In my favorite chair
You’re everywhere
You’re everywhere

Yes you’re everywhere
It’s a gift so rare
It’s a sacred place
Of unspoken grace
It’s not anywhere
‘Cause you’re everywhere
You’re everywhere
You’re everywhere
	
Everywhere I go
Every seed I sew
At a half past ten
In Jerusalem
When I close my eyes

You’re everywhere
In the silverware
In the napkin fold
In the songs you’ve told
When the clouds roll by
On this April sky
You’re everywhere
You are everywhere

You’re everything
And everywhere

Everywhere

I hope it snows for you
I hope they close the roads for you
And if the cold front holds
I hope you see the snow

I’ve been away too long
But you’re the music in my song
I never stopped wond’ring
What you ever saw in me
So I would make winter blow
To bring you a hint of snow

Thousands of tears ago
Winter was ev’rywhere you go
Baby, they burrowed
It’s warmer to hide below
If it brings you a flake of hope
I hope you see the snow

We crossed the ocean, babe
We crossed the years
We took a notion, babe
And made the ocean disappear

I still believe in you
And whenever you are blue
I’ll summon the snowflakes
Right on the avenue
So sit by your window
Wait and you’ll see the snow
Wait and you’ll see the snow

I Hope It Snows For You

Love of my life, good morning
I hope you had a quiet night
Our hummingbirds are singing
Clouds are pink and sun is bright
And everything you need’s right here beside you
I promise I will stay
Because I loved you on the stairs
And I love you on our final day

And it’s a lovely, gentle June day
I hope you dreamed of throwing rice
Or your mother and your father
Kissing you once more goodnight
And everyone whoever might have hurt you
Is gone and out of sight
But I was always blown away
Now I love you on our final day

Oh wouldn’t it be nice if we were older
Then we wouldn’t have to wait so long
Gonna keep the dogs from barking
Better you can hear my song

On this calm and cozy June day
With the animals and me
There’s a plesiosaur playing
In the Great Glen Vault, you’ll see
Now the Cyclops in the sky, my Pookie, is calling
Oh it seems like yesterday
Back in Inverness I loved you
And I love you on our last and final…
I still love you on our last and final day

Inverness

I'm a singer-songwriter with influences from Paul Simon to Neil Young and more.

We'll Keep a Light

Michael John Anthony

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