This album is an 18 track compilation of songs recorded between 1965 and 1969 by Jokers Wild in multiple studios. This CD was released in 2013 by Normal Records, Bonn, Germany and is available through multiple online vendors. Be sure to include Jokers Wild Liquid Giraffe when conducting a search for any available CDs.
Album Credits
Mastered By:
Denny Johnson, Pete Huber
Producers:
Jokers Wild- Tracks: 3, 4, 5, 9 to 14, 17, 18
Timothy D. Kehr and Tony Andreason – Tracks: 6, 8, 16
Tony Glover – Tracks: 1, 2
Music Credits
Lonnie Knight: Guitars, vocals
Denny Johnson: Bass, vocals
Pete Huber: Drums, vocals
Composers:
Clarke-Hicks-Nash – Track: 12
Denny Johnson – Tracks: 9, 18
Ed Fitzgerald – Track: 9
Greg Springer – Track: 16
Lonnie Knight- Tracks: 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15, 17, 18
Pete Huber – Tracks: 2, 4
Vanda I Young – Tracks: 14
©2013 Normal Records
NOTE: Below are lyrics for Lonnie’s original songs.
Lyrics
Every morning walking downstairs
Each day I sit here in this chair
Every time I say never again
Every night I say no oh but then
Here comes the peace man
He holds out his hand
Here comes the peace man
And holds out his hand
Full of white magic sand and I’m gone
Walking softly through valleys of glass
I am sailing the river of glass
Touching minds with the comical winds
Waiting for it all to begin
Peace man gives me the key that need eternally
Here in my mind lies a world you can’t see
I’ll come back tomorrow
‘Til then let me be
Here comes the peace man
And he holds out his hand
Here comes the peace man
And holds out his hand
Full of white magic sand and I’m gone
Peace man peace man
The grass is always greener on the other side
The grass is always greener on the other side
The grass is always greener won’t you take a ride ride
And I can see with my eyes
You’re picking up on all the things you once despised
You turned your back on one whose love you once
Relied on and cried on
The grass is always greener on the other side
The grass is always greener on the other side
The grass is always greener won’t you take a ride ride
You’re holding fortunes in your hand
And now you’ve got a thousand castles made of sand
There are too many now there is no place
To stand on or land on
Greener greener greener
And the room has turned to silver and your hands have turned to stone
And your friends in black and crimson
They just won’t leave you alone
The grass is always greener on the other side
The grass is always greener on the other side
The grass is always greener won’t you take a ride ride
Who’s that man in the mirror
He’s not the one I’ve seen there before
Those two eyes staring back at me
Cold and lonely cold and lonely
Who am I now and what’s become of
The face I’ve known for so many years
It seems familiar but when it passes
Leaving tears leaving tears
I’m building castles to the sky to hide away
I’m shutting out the sights and sounds that I know
I’m a stranger here and I’ve got to go I know
I’ve seen too many days from behind a big smile
I have no key to find the door that leads to me
Who gave this love to her
Was it some young stranger
Who wears the face that isn’t mine anymore
Who’s that man in the mirror
He’s not the one I’ve seen there before
Those two eyes staring back at me
I’m a stranger
I’m a stranger
In my red walled room I can see
Many days and happy hours
Sitting with my love
We knew the world was ours
Sixteen years alone I’ve lived ‘til
She came upon my sight
One day for joy we both laughed sometimes we cried
And all the world was a copper penny
We could hold it or let it go
And all the world was a copper penny
A perfect world our love did grow
A walk in a park on a rainy morning
Our love kept us warm and dry
It seems funny looking back at that time in my life
Holding hands in the moonlight
See our faces jump and sway
I’d love to live with you
Forever and a day
And all the world was a copper penny
We could hold or let it go
All the world was a copper penny
A perfect world our love did grow
Perfect world our love did grow
You’re up on the wings of a white sea bird
Screaming your eyes at the sun that your heard
Raising your hands to the cold white sky
Wandering breeze cries who am I
Changing your mind that you couldn’t define
It’s easy to see you’re confusing me
Please let me down this time
Soft yellow hair is a curtain of light
To shelter your head as I fly through the night
To hold all my troubles just me and you
Held in your hand while you fall out of tune
Blow out your mind calm your desires
It’s easy to see your confusing me
Please let me down this time
Little wheel in my head yeah
Little things that I’ve said yeah
Beneath the comic book sky as you view any eye
One for my master and one for my queen
Before the two burn as death reigns supreme
One more mile on the back of a bone
I watch as your face takes the shape of a stone
Less in this world see the dove in your hands
Will you spread joy will you fight for the land
Holding all the cards by the wizards smile
It’s easy to see you’re destroying me
Please let me down this time
One for my master and one for my queen
It’s a hard road lonely lonely
Take your chances ever changing
Rearranging your head every season
For no reason
So you went along with promises that never keep
Something moves inside you
Makes you laugh and makes you weep
But it’s a hard road lonely lonely
Take your chances ever changing
Rearranging your head every season
For no reason
Such a young girl with eyes like diamonds
Don’t leave them hiding
Leave them bloody tears
Don’t hold out baby
Don’t leave them hiding
Feel and touch them don’t cry
Now don’t let it die now
So close you can hear it crying
They’ll tell you all the while
It’s a hard road lonely lonely
Take your chances ever changing
Rearranging your head every season
For no reason
Such a young girl with eyes like diamonds
Don’t leave them hiding
With bloody tears
You’re whole life’s waiting
Don’t let them hear
If you feel them touch you don’t cry
Baby don’t let it die now
So close you can hear it crying
They’ll tell you all the while
It’s a hard road lonely lonely
Take your chances ever changing
Rearranging your head every season
For no reason
Everywhere a river flows by every door
Flows by everybody’s feet never asks for more
Our window’s sad no stars around whose message is I said
Somewhere flows the river its course will never end
The sky turns black on my birthday wind howls drags us along
Trees start to smile as I’m passin’ on my way
They know I’ll be tired much too soon
Somewhere in the distance pretty grass grows all around
Sun up comes tomorrow starts to wake the sleeping town
Called peace man with another voice
Screaming said it’s got to be tonight
Witches lurk behind the smile going back along glory light
No one knows my name it’s just the river flowing
Yeah just the river flowing yeah just the river
Yeah just the river flowing
This way’s out of town ‘nother nation being the star
Something called goodbye
It’s something down the hall
Too satisfied to walk the street that leads to the party
Everywhere the river flows to eternity
The sky turns black on my birthday wind howls drags us home
Trees smile as I’m passing on my way
They know I’ll be tired much too soon
Oh I get so lonely
Even in this crowded room
Yes I get so lonely people
Even in this crowded room yes I do
Yes I get so lonely people
Even in this crowded room yes I do
I’m so dissatisfied with you baby
I feel I feel like I’m never satisfied
When you’re walking down the street walk
See me coming turn your head and run away
Yeah when I’m walking down the street woman
If you see me coming turn your head and run away
That’s what you do
If you don’t love me baby
Why do I feel this way
Just want to know
Would you cry if I left you
Would you cry if I left you all alone
Cry yes cry if I left you
Would you cry if I left you all alone
You know a man can only fall so low yeah
Only so far to go on your own
Listen listen when I talk yeah
Listen listen can you hear me yeah
Now listen gonna ‘get you woman
Gonna’ take you take you
No matter where you go
Yes I will yes I will
I’m gonna’ get you woman
I know I’m gonna’ take you
No matter where you roam
So come on home
I’m gonna’ take you back with me baby
Just gonna’ take you home
I know I know I know
Look up at the sky above you
Wonder where the sun and moon go
You hear someone say I love you
But the voice is just an echo
I’m not going to see you anymore
Echoes of a once familiar girl you know
Who has gone
Walk along an empty hallway
Hear the footsteps echo
Leading back to only yesterday
Hear your sad words echo
I’m not going to see you anymore
Is someone calling you
Don’t turn there’s no one there
See the face looking at you
No reminding everywhere
Is someone calling you
Don’t turn there’s no one there
Is someone calling you
Don’t turn there’s no one there
Hear the waves shadows come
The angry hands of time
I sit and count the colors of my mind
People pass by I can't see them
And I don't care to
Sun is fading all I see is you
Standing up above the world
And don't you look so fine
Hold my hand and let me know you're mine
[Bridge]
All I see is you
Keep on falling further from the darkness of the day
It’s only you that matters anyway
Here the sky is shining brightly
All the world is blue
Nothing matters all I see is you