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