CARAVAN
"Caravan" (1968)


  • Place Of My Own (P.Hastings)
  • Ride (P.Hastings)
  • Policeman (R.Sinclair)
  • Love Song With Flute (P.Hastings)
  • Cecil Rons (P.Hastings)
  • Magic Man (P.Hastings)
  • Grandman's Lawn (R.Sinclair)
  • Where But For Caravan Would I (P.Hastings/B.Hopper)

  • PLACE
    OF MY OWN
    Words and Music
    by Pye Hastings


    Yesterday's face
    Is not the one I choose to see
    Nor is the face
    Of someone who gets much too close to me

    I've got this place of my own
    Where I can go when I feel I'm coming down
    We'll do our best to ensure
    You'll feel secure if you come

    Love is the thing you crave
    But it lies asleep inside of all your heads
    Please, why don't you live a bit today?
    For tomorrow you may find that you are dead

    I've got this place of my own
    Where I can go when I feel I'm coming down
    We'll do our best to ensure
    You'll feel secure if you come


    RIDE
    Words and Music
    by Pye Hastings


    Here am I, alone in your sky
    With my mind passing by the thoughts in your eye
    If I were you, and you were me,
    Could you feel how unreal your world seems to be?

    Oh please, don't mind that I'm here
    For who am I when you're near?
    I'll try to find a place in my mind
    Where you know you can go, and leave all behind

    How does it feel when a dream seems so real
    And you fly through my eye on a steel rainbow wheel?
    Searching my mind for thoughts left behind
    Let you feel you're concealed by a smile-coloured blind

    Oh please, don't mind that I'm here
    For who am I when you're near?
    I'll try to find a place in my mind
    Where you know you can go, and leave all behind


    POLICEMAN
    Words and Music
    by Richard Sinclair


    We can see you creeping, Mr.Policeman
    Looking through the keyhole in the door
    Taking notes of all that floats
    With the beat your marching feet
    Shiny shoes, looking for clues
    Do come in, we'll offer you a rissole
    If you will only blow your whistle for me
    And then we'll be good, I know we should
    Take the time to change our minds
    We will pay our parking fines - sure!

    I'm the same as you, please Mr.Policeman
    It's just, I'd like to stay behind my door
    You can't stop me laughing Mr.Policeman
    You'd better find out what I'm smiling for
    No, I ain't broke the law
    Hey man, don't put me in your van
    Please see it's free, I wanna be to dig the scene
    Ah, weed the green
    Oh, forty people more locked behind the door
    In the bathroom
    Hope you don't go in for at least an hour
    They're taking it in turns to have a shower

    We can see you creeping, Mr.Policeman
    Looking through the keyhole in our door
    Taking notes of all that floats
    With the beat your marching feet
    Shiny shoes, looking for clues
    Do come in, we'll offer you a rissole
    If you will only blow your whistle for me
    And then we'll be good, I know we should
    Take the time to change our minds
    We will pay our parking fines, soon!


    LOVE SONG
    WITH FLUTE
    Words and Music
    by Pye Hastings


    When I've got time on my side and there's nothing I can do
    to escape from the scenes that have been making me want you
    So I think of the dreams that I've had, and what's left I'd like to do
    But my mind draws a blind over me, and all I see is you...
    Look into my eyes - tell me what you see - listen to me now

    I'm needing you - though it may not seem to be
    I'm needing you - you're all I care to see
    I'm needing you - and you, you...
    I'm needing you - and you, you...

    I can feel the sun in my hair when I'm sitting here with you
    Who cares if I'm lost in my mind? My dreams are overdue
    I've been living more for myself than I've ever done before
    And my feeling's so real over you, I keep coming back for more
    When I look at me, all that I feel and all I see is you - so look into my eyes

    I'm needing you - though it may not seem to be
    I'm needing you - you're all I care to see
    I'm needing you - and you, you...
    I'm needing you - and you, you...


    CECIL RONS
    Words and Music
    by Pye Hastings


    Cecil runs a mill in the garden
    Cecil Rons!
    So we all go to wee in the garden
    Cecil Rons!
    So we all go to wee in the garden

    Oh, what a beautiful scene!
    Playing underneath my tree
    Oh, what a beautiful scene I see!
    Oh, what a beautiful scene!
    Playing underneath my tree
    Oh, what a beautiful scene I see!


    MAGIC MAN
    Words and Music
    by Pye Hastings


    Sittin' in my treetop world, doing nothing at all
    Just floating in the sky, I'm free
    Envy me all you want, it don't mean a thing
    But join me anytime, if you please

    I'm lazy I know, but I do anything that I want to do
    Fly to my arms and feel your fantasies coming through
    I'm a magic man on a sea, in the sky
    A magic man on a sea, in the sky
    Join me and see... in the sky

    I know that I am not too far away for you to come to
    There ain't a storm that my ship can't carry you through
    I know that you know in your mind that I'm right, it's good to be free
    Soft Machines, Heart Club Bands and all, are welcome here with me

    I'm lazy I know, but I do anything that I want to do
    Fly to my arms and feel your fantasies coming through
    I'm a magic man on a sea, in the sky
    A magic man on a sea, in the sky
    Join me and see... in the sky


    GRANDMA'S LAWN
    Words and Music
    by Richard Sinclair


    Knees on legs, toes on feet
    Hair on chest, itchy vest
    Woolly pants, nylon socks
    Leather boots smash down the grass
    Oh, grandma's lawn has just been mown
    Ten feet tall, overgrown with weeds

    Cold blue light, warm red light
    Blue-green grass, jangling glass
    These things I bought, Comisio sauce
    Lima rice, water cress and Misco soup
    So spare a thought for Albert Gott

    Coloured lights, see-through tights
    Moist-wet lips, heavy hips
    Silvery sheets, crumbling thoughts
    Parting legs, curried eggs
    The meal we had was very bad
    Too much Yin and not enough Yang

    Lost my plec, bloody heck
    Who's got my plec, break his neck
    The rent's due, feeling blue
    Got no bread, so in the street
    We all will meet with nothing to do
    No place to eat, nowhere to glue dolly friends

    To my surprise, in a teardrop reflected
    A scene there is you
    Surrounded by vast carpet of bell-blue
    There is me too


    WHERE BUT FOR CARAVAN WOULD I
    Words by Pye Hastings,
    Music by Brian Hopper and Pye Hastings


    Don't try to find stars in my eyes
    We've been there before - and seen...
    Just take what you need to find the sun
    For you and I, we have a dream to come

    Way past the sky of wine-coloured seas
    Down through the land of limbo
    From here and there, a cry can be heard
    Not knowing whether to come - or go

    Soon you will see all the stars
    But will you know what you feel, yeah?

    Don't listen to the man in the skies
    He lives with the bottle, dream man
    He'll take what he can, with his thoughts in his hand
    So follow me now and we'll find the sun

    * * * * *

    Now you're here, please make yourself at home
    Climb inside our fire
    Can you see that you never were alone
    And your world is getting higher?
    We'll take time to play for you now
    So fly into my eye

    We'll take our time flyin', we'll take our time
    We need you mind to be flyin', we need your mind...
    Tell me, is there anything that you need?
    We'll find you another dream
    Just a smile you'll find will make your own scenes come on!

    Through the trees that grow by the mill
    We can sing a song of laughter
    And goin' round your dreams on a hill
    Find what you are after
    What you make of your world is your own
    So come and you'll see why...