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Cloud-Cuckoo-Land by Johnny Cashpoint
(with extra guitar by Andy Balham)

The sound of Heaven is your last gasp
The sound of Heaven is the last laugh
The sound of Heaven is an empty glass
Breaking on the floor but there is no-one there
To hear it fall.

Are you happy? (x3) in cloud cuckoo land?

The sound of Heaven is ...silence.
The sound of Heaven is ...

Cloud-Cuckoo-Land
by Schlimminy Cricket

Loose piano
Cranium
Third-floor window
Laudanum
I think I will die
Where chirping birdies fly
I'll meet you in cloud and cuckoo land

all the trouble I've been through
for reaching to your heart
rocket science couldn't stop
my mind to fall apart
loneliness has frozen us
in a cold and selfish state
all my hopes are yours to heal me
before its too late

why so cold
I've been doing fine
staying in the line
waiting for your heart
to open mine

why so strange
seeing all my hopes
slipping from my hand
I was living in
cloud-cuckoo-land

gets colder
gets darker
gets colder
gets every minute harder
it's price for getting wiser

Cloud-Cuckoo-Land
Pigfarmer Jr


They say I'm living in a Cloud
I'm just one of many
There is quite a crowd
They say I'm living in a Cloud

They say I'm like a cuckoo bird
I'll tell you stories
The strangest that you've heard
They say I'm like a cuckoo bird
(I'm flying high)
(Up in the sky)

No matter where I go
or what I say
How much I wish
How much you pray
It's not your fault
I ended up this way
They say I'm crazy

They say I live in a faerie land
They just don't want
To try and understand
They say I live in a faerie land
(Brownies and pixies and sprites)
(Magical dust and pots of gold)

No matter where I go
or what I say
How much I wish
How much you pray
It's not your fault
I ended up this way
They say I'm crazy

Don't squeeze me -- I love it when you squeeze me
Don't tease me -- I love it when you tease me
Don't please me -- I love it when you please me
When you squeeze me and you tease me and you please me
I get flustered and confused
And I feel my cheekbones getting hot
And I notice you're amused
If you think we could be lovers but you think it couldn't last
Just hold fast
Just squeeze me -- you know I hate to be squeezed --
And come with me to Cloud Cuckoo Land.

...the other side of crazy
i peer between the bars..
I won't get out today;
or anytime this year
but that's okay

They give me shiny things to swallow
I've got my teddy bear
'Judge Judy's' on tomorrow;
and i don't care about nothing anyway...

CH
Cloud - Cuckoo - Land
is a place you'll never understand -
so put your pad and your pencils down..
stop squinting at me like I'm crazy!
Cloud - Cuckoo - Land
Cloud - Cuckoo - Land
(Cloud - Cuckoo - Land)

everybody's quiet...
it's half past three and the med-carts have gone around
i don't think half the people like it here
and I have mixed feelings
about the way i am dealing
and by the time I take off in the air
i don't seem to care

Cloud - Cuckoo - Land
is a place you'll never understand! -
a place of flying away and healing ...
a place of revealing...

This fortress has a firm foundation.
I concentrate on condensation.
They said never to build a castle in the clouds.
Put up some walls to keep from thinking aloud.

So what name shall we give our city?
What name shall we provide As worlds below us die?

I think it's time to come down
From the clouds and put my feet on the ground.
I expected the reception of royalty.
I have only hard surface to greet me.

So what name shall we give our city?
What name shall we provide As war rages inside?

I love you,
Daring Front

This should be pretty close to the way it was recorded. As somebody pointed out, yes, the expression "cloud cuckoo land" was one I was not familiar with, and although I looked at the wikipedia entry for it, I took a bit of poetic license in my use of it... anyway... also, I guess I sang "repartations" instead of "reparations" - reparations is correct.

Cloud Cuckoo Land
King Arthur

Where the interstate cuts through the reservation
There used to be a souvenir stand
The signs along the road said "Navajo Authentic"
But we called it Cloud Cuckoo Land

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Busloads of tourists prepared to believe
That the guy behind the register was really a chief
Down in Cloud Cuckoo Land.

Where the corner of the rez meets the corner of the city
Somebody built a shop in the sand
The sign on the top said "Tax Free Smokes"
But we called it Cloud Cuckoo Land

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We were taking advantage of the white man's laws
They were hitting on our daughters and calling them squaws
Down in Cloud Cuckoo Land.

For years and years on the reservation
People crying out for reparations
Then someone said, "I don't know, but I've been told
There's a better way to separate the white from the gold..."

Where the edge of the rez meets the edge of the city
We finally built something grand
The neon proclaims it's the "Feather Rock Casino"
But we still call it Cloud Cuckoo Land.

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We got food, we got gambling, we got glittering lights
We got Loggins and Messina live in concert tonight
Live in CCL

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After all the years, here's the joke -
We're making money while the country goes broke,
Down here in CCL