KHAN
"Space Shanty" (1972)


  • Space Shanty (Hillage)
  • Mixed-Up Man Of The Mountains (Hillage/Greenwood)
  • Stargazers (Hillage)
  • Hollow Stone (Hillage)

  • SPACE SHANTY (including The Cobalt Sequence and March Of The Sine Squadrons)
    Words and Music
    by Steve Hillage

    I need you and you need me
    Also I need to be free
    Free as the word free can mean
    To stand secure outside this dream
    Starstruck moonman looks so blind
    You're still a slave within your mind
    And all this time you have not guessed
    Where you are bound
    Which way you're heading
    How you can stop feeling confused

    Follow the star that is moving so slowly
    Flow in its river of light and you'll see
    That you have found
    What you've been searching
    Come back and help us to regain


    STRANDED EFFERVESCENT PSYCHONOVELTY NO.5
    Words and Music
    by Steve Hillage

    We escaped from the city
    Miles and miles we did flee
    Through the endless forest
    To the edge of the sea
    It was as though the world was ours
    Lying on a deserted beach
    Out of reach, out of their reach

    I could see you much clearer
    As we strode by the shore
    All the peace all around us
    Seemed impossibly pure
    And then the sun shone through the clouds
    Touched us with its magnificent beam
    Made us clean, made us feel so clean

    On our island of safety
    From the alien crowd
    Of the city of madness
    Could we really be sure
    That the peace would still remain
    Sealed away from insanity
    We shall see, we shall see


    MIXED-UP MAN OF THE MOUNTAINS
    Words and Music
    by Steve Hillage & Nick Greenwood

    Looking at the ground
    I'm crying for the sky
    I know I can't hope to go
    Where I can't be found
    But when I close my eyes
    I start to fly

    The sun burns down on me
    I'm praying he'll take me away
    So very much higher
    Than the peaks above me
    I open myself, my spirit is free
    And I start to fly

    As a lead upon the breeze
    Higher than the chains of mortal man
    Surrounded by the wonders of a life I saw but never knew
    Revealed the hazy secrets of the mountain man
    But soon as I am here I have to go


    DRIVING TO AMSTERDAM
    Words and Music
    by Steve Hillage

    We look ahead for miles
    Down our avenue of lights
    We motor past the airport
    In the flatness of the night
    Its fairy beads reflected
    In the shining of your eye

    Can it be that there's so many
    That have been through this whole scene before ?

    Staring at the ground
    For I knew not what to do
    I turned full around
    And found myself, in you

    The water looks so placid
    To deny that it's a threat
    Our weary faces smiling
    With the energy that's left
    Your flowing now has reached me
    And I feel I want to stay

    There's no need for a reason
    We switched off our thinking hours ago

    Still we're driving onward
    Moving steady as a plane
    Moonbug cars flash past us
    As we head the other way
    Across the dyke of worry
    To a Nederlander dream

    Now the morning opens slowly
    On what seems a very special day


    STARGAZERS
    Words and Music
    by Steve Hillage

    Open your eyes if you dare
    Future comes, all you know is that you'll share
    Suns and moons, many cycles, miles of days
    Your love shines like a beacon through the haze
    Your twin lives twined together
    Jigsaw, fit, snap together
    Your twin heads crowned together
    King and Queen, an extra gene

    Can your words cope with infinity ?
    You must communicate it perfectly
    Don't you think you can surely make it now ?
    You don't need anyone to show you how
    Your twin lives twined together
    Jigsaw, fit, snap together
    Your twin heads crowned together
    King and Queen, an extra gene


    HOLLOW STONE - ESCAPE OF THE SPACE PIRATES
    Words and Music
    by Steve Hillage

    Hollow stone
    Early morning you slip out the window
    And glide through the dew
    All alone
    Back a thousand years

    And you know there is no answer
    They can give you, they can give you
    For the words are not there for them to choose

    After all
    You are only a molecule drifting
    An atom afloat
    As you fall
    Into space from your lonely shell of fear

    You raise your hands and gaze in wonder
    At a word you have seen somewhere before

    Only you can see the men of wisdom
    Moving slowly on together
    Sun shines through the stone but once a year
    Ceremony now will start anew

    And so you sit beneath the linden tree
    Staring ghostly at the altar
    And all the problems that perplex you so
    Dissolve and vanish deep into the water

    No use asking what you are
    Or what you'll be a millisecond after

    As you plunge back into laughter now
    Dancing and calling out your name

    And still you sit beneath the linden tree
    Staring ghostly at the altar
    And all the problems that perplex you so
    Dissolve and vanish deep into the water