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Fifth Dimension Album
by  The Byrds


The Byrds - Fifth Dimension Lyrics



  1. 5D (Fifth Dimension)
  2. Wild Mountain Thyme
  3. Mr. Spaceman
  4. I See You
  5. Whats Happening?!?!
  6. I Come And Stand At Every Door
  7. Eight Miles High
  8. Hey Joe (Where You Gonna Go)
  9. Captain Soul
  10. John Riley
  11. 2-4-2 Fox Trot (The Lear Jet Song)


5D (Fifth Dimension)

[ Featuring Van Dyke Parks ]

Oh, how is it that I could come out to you
And be still floatin'
And never hit bottom but keep falling through
Just relaxed and paying attention?

All my two-dimensional boundaries were gone
I had lost to them badly
I saw that world crumble and thought I was dead
But I found my senses still working

And as I continued to drop through the hole
I found all surrounding
To show me that joy innocently is
Just be quiet and feel it around you

And I opened my heart to the whole universe
And I found it was loving
And I saw the great blunder my teachers had made
Scientific delirium madness

Oh, I will keep falling as long as I live
Ah, without ending
And I will remember the place that is now
That has ended before the beginning

Oh, how is it that I could come out to you
And be still floatin'
And never hit bottom but keep falling through
Just relaxed and paying attention?
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Writer: ROGER MCGUINN
Copyright: Lyrics © HORI PRO ENTERTAINMENT GROUP, RESERVOIR MEDIA MANAGEMENT INC



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Wild Mountain Thyme

(Traditional, arranged by McGuinn / Hillman / Clarke / Crosby)

Oh the summer time is coming and the leaves are sweetly turning
And the wild mountain thyme blooms across the purple heather
Will you go lassie go

If you will not go with me I will surely find another
To pull wild mountain thyme all across the purple heather
Will you go lassie go

And we'll all go together to pull wild mountain thyme
All across the purple heather
Will you go lassie go

And we'll all go together to pull wild mountain thyme
All across the purple heather
Will you go lassie go

And we'll all go together to pull wild mountain thyme
All across the purple heather
Will you go lassie go
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Writer: FRANCIS MCPEAKE, JIMMY O'NEILL
Copyright: Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group



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Mr. Spaceman

Woke up this morning with light in my eyes
And then realized it was still dark outside
It was a light coming down from the sky
I don't know who or why

Must be those strangers that come every night
Those saucer shaped lights put people uptight
Leave blue-green footprints that glow in the dark
I hope they get home all right

{Refrain}
Hey, Mr. Spaceman
Won't you please take me along
I won't do anything wrong
Hey, Mr. Spaceman
Won't you please take me along for a ride

Woke up this morning, I was feeling quite weird
Had flies in my beard, my toothpaste was smeared
Over my window, they'd written my name
Said, so long, we'll see you again
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Writer: ROGER MC GUINN
Copyright: Lyrics © RESERVOIR MEDIA MANAGEMENT INC



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I See You

(McGuinn / Crosby)

I see you, under there behind your hair everywhere
I see you

I see you, turned on eyes can't tell lies, empathise
I see you

Warm sliding sun through the cave of your hair
Wind washing fields, kind of space living there
I see you

I know you, met before seventh floor, first world war
I know you

Who lives there, tell old fair I'm aware that she cares
Who lives there

Green specks bright spiralling out in the sky
Catch my mind, turn my head, have to look, don't know why
Who lives there

We thought talked
For a while they just smile just a silent thought talk

I see you, sun is there behind your hair everywhere
I see you, I see you
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Writer: DAVID CROSBY, ROGER MCGUINN
Copyright: Lyrics © RESERVOIR MEDIA MANAGEMENT INC



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Whats Happening?!?!

(Crosby)

I don't know who you think you are
I don't know what you're doing here

I don't know what's going on here
I don't know how it's supposed to be

I, I don't have the vaguest notion
Whose it is, what it's all for

I don't know, I'm not crying
Laughin' mostly as you can see
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Writer: DAVID VAN CORTLANDT CROSBY
Copyright: Lyrics © RESERVOIR MEDIA MANAGEMENT INC, BMG Rights Management



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I Come And Stand At Every Door

(Traditional, Hikmet, arranged by Waters)

I come and stand at every door
But no one hears my silent prayer
I knock and yet remain unseen
For I am dead, for I am dead

I'm only seven although I died
In Hiroshima long ago
I'm seven now as I was then
When children die they do not grow

My hair was scorched by swirling fire
My eyes grew dim, my eyes grew blind
Death came and turned my bones to dust
And that was scattered by the wind

I need no fruit, I need no rice
I need no sweets nor even bread
I ask for nothing for myself
For I am dead, for I am dead

All that I ask is that for peace
You fight today, you fight today
So that the children of this world
May live and grow and laugh and play
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Writer: JAMES H. WATERS, NAZIM HIKMET
Copyright: Lyrics © THE BICYCLE MUSIC COMPANY



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Eight Miles High

Eight miles high and when you touch down
You'll find that it's stranger than known
Signs in the street that say where you're going
Are somewhere just being their own

Nowhere is there warmth to be found
Among those afraid of losing their ground
Rain gray town known for it's sound
In places small faces unbound

Round the squares huddled in storms
Some laughing some just shapeless forms
Sidewalk scenes and black limousines
Some living some standing alone
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Writer: DAIVD CROSBY, GENE CLARK, JIM MCGUINN
Copyright: Lyrics © RESERVOIR MEDIA MANAGEMENT INC



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Hey Joe (Where You Gonna Go)

Hey Joe, where you goin' with that money in your hand?
Hey Joe, where you goin' with that money in your hand?
I'm gonna find my woman, she's runnin' around with some other man

Gonna go downtown buy me a blue steel 44
I'm gonna go downtown, gonna buy me a blue steel 44
When I find my woman she's not gonna run any more

Mmm hmm mmm, hey Joe, I hear you shot your woman dead
Hey Joe, I hear you've shot your woman dead
Yes, I did, you know, I found them both in the same damned bed
Mmm hmm mmm

Hey Joe, where you gonna go?
Ah, hey Joe, where you gonna go?
I guess I go to my favorite Mexico

I guess I go down where a man can be free
Yes, I guess I go down where a man can be free
Ain't no damned old hangman gonna put a noose around me, babe

Hey Joe, where are you goin' with that mon' in your hand?
Hey Joe, where are you goin' with all of that cash?

Mmm
Mmm
Mmm
Mmm
Mmm hmm mmm, mmm hmm mmm mmm
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Writer: Billy Roberts
Copyright: Lyrics © Songtrust Ave



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Captain Soul


[Instrumental]
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Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher



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John Riley

(Traditional, arranged by Neff / Gibson)

Fair young maid all in her garden
Strange young man came riding by
Saying: "Fair young maid, will you marry me?"
This then, sir, was her reply

"Oh no, kind sir, I cannot marry thee
For I've a love who sails the deep salt sea
Though he's been gone these seven years
Still no man shall marry me"

"What if he's died all in some battle slain
Or if he's drowned in, in the deep salt sea?
What if he's found some other love
He and his new love both married be?"

"If he's found some other love
He and his new love both married be
I wish them health and happiness
Where they far across the sea"

He picked her up all in his arms
And kisses gave her one, two and three
"Then weep no more, my own true love
I am your long lost John Riley"
Saying: "Weep no more, my own true love
For I'm your long lost John Riley"
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Writer: JUDY COLLINS
Copyright: Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG Rights Management



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2-4-2 Fox Trot (The Lear Jet Song)

Go 'n ride the lear jet, baby
Go 'n ride the lear jet
Go 'n ride the lear jet, baby
Go 'n ride the lear jet, baby
Go 'n ride the lear jet
Go 'n ride the lear jet, baby

Go 'n ride the lear jet, baby
Go 'n ride the lear jet
Go 'n ride the lear jet, baby
Go 'n ride the lear jet, baby
Go 'n ride the lear jet
Go 'n ride the lear jet, baby

Go 'n ride the lear jet, baby
Go 'n ride the lear jet
Go 'n ride the lear jet, baby
Go 'n ride the lear jet, baby
Go 'n ride the lear jet
Go 'n ride the lear jet, baby

Go 'n ride the lear jet, baby
Go 'n ride the lear jet
Go 'n ride the lear jet, baby
Go 'n ride the lear jet, baby
Go 'n ride the lear jet
Go 'n ride the lear jet, baby

Go 'n ride the lear jet, baby
Go 'n ride the lear jet
Go 'n ride the lear jet, baby
Go 'n ride the lear jet, baby
Go 'n ride the lear jet
Go 'n ride the lear jet, baby

Go 'n ride the lear jet, baby
Go 'n ride the lear jet
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Writer: JAMES ROGER MCGUINN
Copyright: Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing, BMG Rights Management



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Fifth Dimension

Fifth Dimension is the third album by the American rock band the Byrds and was released in July 1966 on Columbia Records. Most of the album was recorded following the February 1966 departure of the band's principal songwriter Gene Clark. In an attempt to compensate for Clark's absence, guitarists Jim McGuinn and David Crosby increased their songwriting output. In spite of this, the loss of Clark resulted in an album with four cover versions and an instrumental, which critics have described as "wildly uneven" and "awkward and scattered". However, it was the first Byrds album not to include any songs written by Bob Dylan, whose material had previously been a mainstay of the band's repertoire.

The album peaked at number 24 on the Billboard Top LPs chart and reached number 27 on the UK Albums Chart. Two preceding singles, "Eight Miles High" and "5D (Fifth Dimension)", were included on the album, with the former just missing the Top 10 of the Billboard singles chart. Additionally, a third single taken from the album, "Mr. Spaceman", managed to reach the U.S. Top 40. Upon release, Fifth Dimension was widely regarded as the band's most experimental album to date and is today considered by critics to be influential in originating the musical genre of psychedelic rock.
Performed By: The Byrds
Genre(s): Folk rock, psychedelic rock, raga rock
Producer(s): Allen Stanton
Length: 29:59
Released: July 18th, 1966
Year: 1966

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