Wielder of Words

The Marc Bolan Lyricbook

D | E | F | G

D

Dance in the Midnight

Dance in the midnight, dance in the midnight
Dance in the midnight, dance in the midnight

Gonna take a chance on this dance
Dance in the midnight, oh yeah

Come to my cadilac, goin' to my cadilac
Come to my cadilac, goin' to my cadilac

Gonna take a chance on this dance
Come to my cadilac, oh yeah

Gonna take a chance
Gonna make this dance, in my cadilac
Gonna take a chance
Gonna make this dance, in my cadilac

Dance in the midnight, dance in the midnight
Dance in the midnight, dance in the midnight

Wanna take a chance
I want this dance

Dance in the midnight, dance in the midnight
Dance in the midnight, dance in the midnight


Dandy in the Underworld

Prince of Players, pawn of none
Born with steel reins on the heart of the sun
Gypsy explorer of the New Jersey heights
Exalted companion of teenage nights [diff. version has "cocaine nights"]

'Cos he's a Dandy in the Underworld, Dandy in the Underworld
When will he come up for air, Oh, will anybody ever care?

At an old eighteen, exiled he was
To the deserted kingdoms of a mythical Oz
Distraction he wanted, to destruction he fell
Now he forever stalks the ancient mansions of Hell

'Cos he's a Dandy in the Underworld, Dandy in the Underworld
When will he come up for air, Oh, will anybody ever care?

Sha-da um-shoo-be-doo, Sha-da um-shoo-bee-doo

'Cos he's a Dandy in the Underworld, Dandy in the Underworld
When will he come up for air, Oh, will anybody ever care?

Now all of his lovers have left him and his youth's ill spent
He cries in the dungeons and tries to repent
But change is a monster and changing is hard
So he'll freeze away his summers in his underground yard

'Cos he's a Dandy in the Underworld, Dandy in the Underworld
When will he come up for air, Oh, will anybody ever care?

[Repeat till fade...]

Dawn Storm

Dawn storm, oh my dawn storm
I realize that you're blue
Please babe, oh, don't squeeze babe
All that I see must be true

Times they are strange and I won't
Uh, re-arrange
No, no, no, not my love for you
Times they are strange and I won't
Uh, re-arrange
No, no, no, not my love for you
Ohhh...

Baby, I'm not crazy
A rush ain't no crush, it's a trip
But learning on a journey
Ain't no month on the Sunset Strip

Times they are strange and I won't
Uh, re-arrange
No, no, no, not my love for you
Times they are strange and I won't
Uh, re-arrange
No, no, no, not my love for you
Ohhh...

Dawn storm, oh my dawn storm
I realize that you're blue
Please babe, oh, don't squeeze babe
All that I see must be true

Times they are strange and I won't
Uh, re-arrange
No, no, no, not my love for you
Times they are strange and I won't
Uh, re-arrange
No, no, no, not my love for you
Ohhh...

Day Laye, A

Every dawn of our lives a heart is forged and
Linked with lore to one so similar
Born with blessed life dust
Stored beneath its soul
To bless and pass onto its children
Even though the wind may blow it all away
Don't ever worry 'cos I'm your friend.
 

 

Deboraarobed

Dugaredug, dugaredug, redug...

O Debora you look like a zebra
Your sunken face is like a galleon
Clawed with mysteries of the Spanish main
O Debora.

O Debora you're always dressed like a conjurer
It's fine to see your young face smiling
'Neath the stallion that I'm riding
O Debora.

Debora you look like a stallion.


Demon Queen

Demon Queen of Voodoo Sun
In you vales of blue
Evil-eyed with the dwarves of Alabar
Children's payers of life

Niceness is a golden gown
Seated on the planets round

[Repeat verses twice]

Hoo-la-la-la, Hoo-la-la-la-lala, ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-laaaa...

 

Desdemona

Desdemona just because
You're the daughter of a man
He may be rich.
He's in a ditch.
He does not understand
Just how to move or rock and roll
To the conventions of the young

Desdemona, Desdemona, Desdemona
Desdemona, Desdemona, Desdemona
Lift Up your skirt and fly.

Just because my friend and I
Got a jute joint by the Seine
Does not mean
I'm past fourteen
And cannot play the game
I'm glad I split and got a pad
On Boulevard Rue Fourteen

Desdemona, Desdemona, Desdemona
Desdemona, Desdemona, Desdemona
Lift Up your skirt and fly.

Just because Toulouse Lautrec
Painted some chick in the rude
Doesn't give you the right
To steal my night
And leave me naked in the nude
Well just because the touch of your hand
Can turn me on just like a stick.

Desdemona, Desdemona, Desdemona
Desdemona, Desdemona, Desdemona
Lift Up your skirt and speak.
 

 

Diamond Meadows

If I could have grown
All upon my own
If I could have grown
I grew
If I could have grew
I do
If I had a throne
You could call it home
If I cry my tears are yours
To open any frozen doors

Hey let's do it like we're friends
Let's do it do it
Hey let's do it like we're friends.
 

 

Dove

All my days are leafy blue
Because I'm not with you
All my words are ragged steel
When I'm not with you.
See how the sun shines
Like an arc where you walk
All my fears are water clear
When I'm not with you
All I hear is wicked dear
When I'm not with you.


Down Home Lady

Down Home Lady, Down Home Lady
All I wanna do is be with you tonight
Oooh yeah

Down Home Lady, Down Home Lady
All I wanna do is be with you tonight

When the breeze is cold, I will sing to you
That you're my
Down Home Lady, Down Home Lady
All I wanna do is be with you tonight

When the breeze is cold, I will sing to you
That you're my
Down Home Lady, Down Home Lady
All I wanna do is be with you tonight

(Mmmm, nice one Cyril, ...)

Do You Remember (Cult)?

Her Face was like a cult to me
Her limbs were fierce in symmetry
It throws me into song
The throng have done us wrong

And away she goes, her toes leave gold
Her horn of youth has passed behold
It throws me into song
The throng have done us wrong

Do-oo you remember?
Do-oo you remember?
Pleasures of love
Tresures of love

The voice of light denounce the night
Sweet pilgrims climb the chily heights
It throws me into song
The throng have done us wrong

Do-oo you remember?
Do-oo you remember?
Pleasures of love
Treasures of love

Do-oo you remember?
Do-oo you remember?
Pleasures of love
Treasures of love

[chant till fade...]
 

 

Dragon's Ear

Dragon's ear and druid's spear
Protects you while the *Dworns are here
The winds of wrath chill cold the cloth
That drapes her shape from fangs of fear.
I love you my love
Please take this heart which I bear
O heal my sorrow
Weareth my arms like a charm
Through the dales of your doom.
Our lives are merely trees of possibilities.

(*Dworn-Machinery of war, 
a bronze frame with wheels of white ivory 
and the horns of a gazelle for steering, 
so sayeth Agadinmar.)
 

Dreamy Lady

Ahhh
O dreamy lady won't you come to my bed?
Night is the right time to get acquainted with my head
In my bed, Yeah

Star light is shinning
Silver baby hold me tight
Moon beams are twining
In the portals of my sight
You're so right

Na, na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na
Will you still love me?

O dreamy lady won't you come to my bed?
Night is the right time to get acquainted with my head
In my bed, Yeah

Na, na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na
Will you still love me?
(Repeat)

Oh, dreamy lady.

Drive Me Crazy (Disco Lady)

Do the Bomp, let's stomp
I'm a Disco Lady, who's gonna play me?
I'd just like to tell ya
I hope you'll get some pleasure
I'll dance past midnight
So don't get uptight
If I bump real dirty
We're gonna party
'Til one-thirty

I'm a Disco Lady
I'm a Disco Lady
I'll drive you crazy
I'm a foxy baby
Get down, get down

I'll try to do the hoe-down
I can jive now, I can get it on
Even do the locomotion
I'll even swim in the ocean
I'm a Disco Lady
Who's gonna play me
I just like excitement
I hope you get a partner

I'm a Disco Lady
I'm a Disco Lady
I'll drive you crazy
I'm a foxy baby
Get down, get down

Do the Bomp, let's stomp
Disco baby
Disco Lady
She'll drive you crazy
She's a foxy baby
Get down, get down

Do the Bomp, let's stomp
I'm a Disco Lady, who's gonna play me?
I'd just like to tell ya
I hope you'll get some pleasure
I'll dance past midnight
So don't get uptight
If I bump real dirty
We're gonna party
'Til one-thirty

I'm a Disco Lady
I'm a Disco Lady
I'll drive you crazy
I'm a foxy baby
Get down, get down

Do the Bomp, let's stomp...

[Fade...]
 

 

Dwarfish Trumpet Blues

I saw a little man who had a toy trumpet
He sat on a stone with his lips to the mouthpiece
He was deaf dumb and blind so he couldn't quite make it
When out of the horn came a solid silver genie
Who was made just to make the little man happy
As the man made sounds the genie painted fluid,
Mind-blowing visions on the little man's brain-box

Everybody small with no lips to play the trumpet
Everybody living inside a giant deaf aid
Everybody's eyes crucified to the tapestry
Woven by the giant with the solid silver genie
Who plays the trumpet
 

E

 

 

Eastern Spell

Eastern voices calling to you
Mystic magic oceans of blue
Timeless wonders cease to wonder
When you know the spell you're under
Is mine.

Many times I've seen the sunset
Only 'cos I'm trying to get
All the love my mind is holding
Unseen pleasures are exploding for me.

Secret sounds of giant sea birds
Singing songs of lonesome sailors
Golden cats in temples only knowing
That the spell of time
Is his

.

Electric Slim and the Factory Hen

On the street people call you a foxy girl
Me, I'm loose like a golden goose
You can have my juice

Steady on soldier, watch what you're doin' to my girl
Steady on soldier, watch what you're doin' to my girl

Electric Slim and the factory hen
Man, they ain't my kind
At dead of night, like a firy kite
You've been on my mind.

Steady on soldier, watch what you're doin' to my girl
Steady on soldier, watch what you're doin' to my girl

Frozen feet on a winter street
Man, that ain't your fate
Greased in sun, California fun
Man, that's more my style

Steady on soldier, watch what you're doin' to my girl
Steady on soldier, watch what you're doin' to my girl

Steady on soldier, watch what you're doin' to my girl
Steady on soldier, watch what you're doin' to my girl
 

 

Elemental Child

Torch girl of the marshes
Her kiss is a whip of the moon
Dawn's damsels are dancing
To the hum of her sunny young tune.
Gems hemmed in the heart's head
The shield of the rivers is hers
She one told me to think white
And the night disappeared like a bird.
Hold the glove of gold behind you
Love the glove of Truth.
 

 

Evenings of Damask

The evenings of Damask are falling
The youth of truth chest
Feeds a starling
With his heart.

A chosen man begged by the wayside
A horse came soon and lied before him
And said eat.

The icy claws of earth are crawling
Upon my baby's brow and calling
Please come home.

The boy unlike the man was smiling
For gullies, streams and hills would hide him
Like a swan.

A vagabond, a weaver warrior
Produced a loom, a cheese and choppper
And said choose.

My sandled feet are fleet like water
I kiss the limbs is Earthess daughter
A little tree.


Everyday

Are you really as rich as you said, love?

Everyday I could have given you
Every little thing I ever had
Every little thing you ever wanted
But that was yesterday

Everyday I could have loved you
Everyday you could have been my pearl
Every little thing you ever wanted
But that was yesterday

Time has a way of doin' cruel things to lovers

Everyday I could have loved you
Everyday you could have been my pearl
Every little thing you ever wanted
But that was yesterday

Everyday I could have given you
Every little thing I ever had
Every little thing you ever wanted
But that was yesterday

Time has a way of doin' cruel things to lovers

Just like yesterday

 

 

Explosive Mouth

Now I'm poppin' a few in the morning dew
Do the monkey wrench,
On a Persian bench it's a teenage night
And the vampires were right

And I want to lay my lips on your explosive mouth
Picked up Kenny at the art-deco deli,

And Zero is a cat with any automated hat
And I need to be rid of all the fantasies I'm hiding

And I want to lay my lips on your explosive mouth

It's a shame for a man to hide all the things
that do survive from his past

When I jump on your horse I gallop the course,
And howl like a wolf and I drink up the sky
And I beat on my chest just to punk up the rest

And I want to lay my lips on your explosive mouth
And I want to lay my lips on your explosive mouth

It's a shame for a man to hide all the things
Tthat do survive from his past
 
 
 

F

 

Find a Little Wood

Find a little wood
And have a little sleep sleep there
Find a little wood
And have a little sleep sleep there
Find a little wood
And have a little sleep sleep there
Like the sun and the sea
You soon wash away all cares

Find a little stream
And have a little dream dream there
Find a little stream
And have a little dream dream there
Find a little stream
And have a little dream dream there
Like the windy moon
You'll soon shed all your cares ah

Love is like a beautiful girl
Who smiles for you
Love is like a beautiful girl
Who smiles for you
Love is like a beautiful girl
Who smiles for you

Boppa oo mow mow boppa
 

 

Fist Heart Mighty Dawn Dart

Fist Heart Mighty Dawn Dart
In some way our slain our yours
Stone eyes drill for wealth lies
In some way our fate is one.
Funny how the day comes slow
Funny how the day comes so.
Fist Heart Mighty Dawn Dart
At a glance our dance is one
Sun Liege by your star trees
Could you please heart cleanse our shores.
 
 

Foxy Boy

Girl won't you move close to me
Take me in your arms and groove me
Girl don't you ever miss a date
With your Foxy Boy

Girl won't you move close to me
Take me in your arms and groove me
Girl don't you ever miss a date
With your Foxy Boy

The nights are long
And my love grows strong
As I work all day
I dream a song

With words of love
You captured my soul
As we reached to hold
My heart you stole

Girl won't you move close to me
Take me in your arms and groove me
Girl don't you ever miss a date
With your Foxy Boy

Girl won't you move close to me
Take me in your arms and groove me
Girl don't you ever miss a date
With your Foxy Boy

With each dawn men are history born
A summer romance, a winter storm
My disco love that was destined to be
You kissed me hard, my soulless sea

Girl won't you move close to me
Take me in your arms and groove me
Girl don't you ever miss a date
With your Foxy Boy

Girl won't you move close to me
Take me in your arms and groove me
Girl don't you ever miss a date
With your Foxy Boy

[Fade....]

Free Angel

Right on, this song

Gonna slip and slide to the motivations of your heart
Well, say it again
I know, I gotta g-go
Slip and slide to the motivations of your heart
Well say it again

Free Angel, we love you (say it again)
Free Angel, we love you (say it again)
Say it again
Right on, this song

Gonna slip and slide to the motivation of your heart
Well say it again

Free Angel, we love you
Free Angel, we love you

[Fade...]
 

 

Friends, The

O Satyr come and suck my thumb
'cos you're a little fawn
and you need me.

On hoofy feet
through the windy wheat
'cos you're a little fawn
and I'll feed thee.

Down the delly way
with your belly grey
I've some fruit and nuts
and a reed O.

And I'll skip with you
in the midnight blue
and carve fluting pipes
for you to play on.

In the deeply dark
when the wolves loom large
I've a snuggly nook
'neath the meadow.

Where you'll sleep and be
curled and friends with me
through the evil night
till starling morning.
 

 

Frowning Atahuallpa (My Inca Love)

Sitting all alone, looking at the throne of the one I used to love
Sitting all alone, looking at the stone of my lovely Inca love

The huntress stands, with peacock hands she'd take me to where she lie
She sighs so deep, it rocks the river of her stomach sky

The oval moon, it tans the faun who holds grapes for my love
Sitting all alone, sitting in the throne of my lovely Inca love

hare Krishna

I come from a time where the burning of trees was a crime,
I lived by a sea where to be was a thing of true joy,
My people were fair and had sky in their hair,
But now they're content to wear stars on their brows.
 

Futuristic Dragon

Deep beneath an ancient shadow
Stunned with age and too much wisdom
Reclined in glass, with eyes too steep
Relentless dimensions of quadraphonic sleep
Dwelt the wild grinning Cyclopean pagan
Screaming destruction in sheer dazzling raiment
A thunderbolt master a 'lectronic savior
A gold galactic raver, the Futuristic Dragon
Yes, and I do mean yes Ahhh
 
 

G

 

 

Galaxy

Which Galaxy are you from
Tell me how they bang a gong

Your world, I mean your world
Your world, I mean your world

Shadow in the alley at midnight
Metal clad rocker with bent teeth My world, I mean my world
My world, I mean my world

My planets like an angel with clipped wings
A river bed dump shed sweetheart
Do they have sickness in society
Do they have glitter crap gaiety

Your world, I mean your world
Your world, I mean your world

[Repeat till fade....]
 

 

Get It On

Well you're dirty and sweet
Clad in black
Don't look back
And I love you
You're dirty and sweet oh yea.

Well you're slim and you're weak
You got the teeth
Of the Hydra upon you
You're dirty sweet
And you're my girl.

Get It On
Bang a gong
Get it On
Get It On
Bang a gong
Get It On

You're built like a car
You got a hubcap
Diamond star halo
You're built like a car
Oh yea.

Well, you're an untamed youth
That's the truth
With your cloak full of eagles
You're dirty sweet
And you're my girl.

Get It On
Bang a gong
Get It On
Get It On
Bang a gong
Get It On

Well you're windy and wild
You got the blues
In your shoes and your stockings
You're windy and wild
Oh yea.
You're built like a car
You got a hubcap
Diamond star halo
You're dirty sweet
And you're my girl.

Get It On
Bang a gong
Get It On
Get It On
Bang a gong
Get It On

Well you're dirty and sweet
Clad in black
Don't look back
And I love you
You're dirty and sweet
Oh yea.

Well you dance when you walk
So let's dance
Take a chance
Understand me
You're dirty sweet
And you're my girl.

Get It On
Bang a gong
Get It On
Get It On
Bang a gong
Get It On

[Repeat to Fade....]

Well, meanwhile, I'm still thinking
 

 

Girl

O God
High in your fields above earth
Come and be real for us
You with your mind
Oh yes you are
Beautifully fine.

O Girl
Electric witch you are
Limp in society's ditch you are
Visually fine
Oh yes you are
But mentally dying.

O Boy
Just like a boat you are
Sunk but somehow you float you do
Mentally weak
Oh yes you are
But so much you speak.

Girl in the Thunderbolt Suit

Sadly drives the daring dudes
But who decides their moods
Who is the centre star
The dude who takes their food
The towns trembling, and the collectamaninc pants
But I can't still, so baby let's dance
With a girl in a thunderbolt suit

Girl in a thunderbolt suit
Girl in a thunderbolt suit
She's cute that girl
Girl in a thunderbolt suit
Girl in a thunderbolt suit
She's cute
Girl in a thunderbolt suit

We just love restrictively my old and lonely head
I love you most of all, the mansions of your head
You do me like you do the winds blow only chance
But I can't stand still, so baby let's dance Girl in a thunderbolt suit

Girl in a thunderbolt suit
Girl in a thunderbolt suit
She's cute that girl
Girl in a thunderbolt suit
Girl in a thunderbolt suit
She's cute
Girl in a thunderbolt suit

[Fade...]

Go Go Girl

Mama-ma-mama, mama-ma-mama, mama-m-mama
Mama-ma-mama, mama-ma-mama, mama-m-mama
Mama my go go girl
She's all put together with chocolate feathers
And my baby don't know just what to do
My baby says, "Hey, keep cool, you!"
She don't realize, I'm hypnotized
she's all put together and she gives me lots of pleasure, and

Mama-ma-mama, mama-ma-mama, mama-m-mama
Mama-ma-mama, mama-ma-mama, mama-m-mama
Mama, my go go girl
she's all put together with chocolate feathers
Yeah

My baby don't know where I'm hidin'
My baby keeps askin' where I've bin
My baby is guessin' that I'm messin'
She's all put together with chocolate feathers and
My go go girl
My my go go girl
My my go go girl
My my g-g-g-g-go go girl
My my g-g-g-g-go go girl

[Fade...]

Golden Belt

Well baby, baby don't ya know
You hair's a lair and one to spare
I need you girl, oh, yeah

Be good you know your trips
You're so rare, there's no one there
Hold my head between your knees

Hey baby jump in the car
We'll go to the sun and have us some fun
I love you child, oh, yeah

Long day runs into night
Twilight child, you drive me wild
Don't scare me now, oh, yeah

Golden belt strapped around my head
Rock 'n' roll on the oceans floor
Knock me down girl, oh, yeah

Be glad to get down
My love is strong like a mist at dawn
Don't get me wrong, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah

[Repeat all verses to fade]
 

 

Graceful Fat Sheba

Graceful fat Sheba, she works with a meat cleaver
Sweating behind the meat counter
Her skin, it leaks liquid, the odor is sickly
Her features aren't unlike a swan
Her poetic, gluttonic waist is impressive
She smiles as she hacks up a pig
Graceful fat Sheba, she works with a meat cleaver
Sweating behind the meat counter
 

 

Great Horse

Great Horsey Champer Gold braid
Pranced proudly in the garden villas
With the Sun
Dipped diving with his horned onyx saddle
Shining in the black aped eyeballs
Of the gun.
When the great apple falls
She'll be queen of your halls.
Tall bowman from the burnt pastures
Saw Champer and he bowed ground kissing
To his lord.
Strange beastie from the legend lair
Sire, I can master with the aid of this
Skull powdered cord

Groove A Little

You can call somebody "Captain"
Under pressure you can flip
You can be a rock commando
But you can't pilot the ship

Groove a little baby, groove a little now
Groove a little baby, you might know what you want
But I'll show you how

You can trip the light fantastic
Become a space grotesque--yeah
You can fossilize your thought dream
Behind a rusty desk

Groove a little baby, groove a little now
Groove a little baby, you might know what you want
But I'll show you how

You might know what you want
But I'll show you how

You can read the words of Shakespeare
In the Academy of Life
You can punk the skunks of freedom
With your Ju-Ju Truscan knife

Groove a little baby, groove a little now
Groove a little baby, you might know what you want
But I'll show you how

[Fade...]

 
Groover, The

T. - R. - E. - X.

Some call me Arty, some name me Slim
It don't make no difference
'Cos I move right in
I'm The Groover,
'Cos I move right in, yeah
They call me The Groover
When I'm off the floor the kids yell for
More, more, more

Na, na, na, na, na, na

Some call me Star King, some name me Stud (yes they do)
It don't make no difference
'Cos I move in the mud
I'm The Groover,
'Cos I move right in, yeah
They call me The Groover
When I'm off the floor the kids yell for
More, more, more

I said, sing it to me children

Yeah, I'm The Groover, honey (Yeah)
Yeah, I'm The Groover, honey (Yeah)
Yeah, I'm The Groover, honey (Yeah, Yeah, Yeah)

Well some call me Jeepster, and some name me Lame
It don't make no difference
Man you know I ain't tame
I'm a groover
'Cos I move right in

Well they call me The Groover
When I'm off the floor the kids yell for
More, more, more
I said, sing it to me children

Yeah, I'm The Groover, honey
Yeah, I'm The Groover, honey
Yeah, I'm The Groover, honey

[Repeat till fade...]