Fire and Brimstone (1970 - Age 23)

 

Field (1968 - Age 21)

 

Fiction Princess (1969 - Age 22)

Written, Composed
Arranged & Performed
by Michael Woodhead
Copyright © 1969, 2021

Fiction princess in your tower
Eat your purple cauliflower
Hoping someone will deflower you

Fiction prince upon your charger
Do your perils now grow larger
Do you think that you'll o'ercharge her boon

Fiction mother wants to aid you
Find your way unto the maid
View all you can for you'll invade too soon

Fiction father wants to see you
Down upon your swollen knee
To enter in the fray, or flee, do swoon

Fiction child was born on Sunday
Learned to read and write on Monday
Learned to love, then left in one day, too

Fiction princess in your tower
Eat your purple cauliflower
Hoping someone will deflower you

[Listen to it here]

Heroes Of Vasuda (2026 - Age 79)

Pocketbook version now available on Amazon:

 Heroes of Vasuda: The Fifth Scroll from the Scrolls of Solomon Magus : Woodhead, Michael: Amazon.ca: Books

Fear Of Music

 

Why People Get Rothko 
But Don’t Get Stockhausen
David Stubbs
Zero Books
2009
ISBN: 978-1-84694-179-5
modern art, music

 “Why has avant garde music failed to attain the audience, the cachet, the legitimacy of its visual equivalent?”
 
So begins this small book of six chapters and just over 130 pages. It endeavors to help the reader understand why modern society seems to have embraced avant garde and experimental art, but not the same in music, even though they both mirror the psychological, spiritual and societal breakdown of Man.
 
Chapter One takes an overall view of the apparent ‘schism’ between modern art and music.
 
Chapter Two looks at the roots of both, beginning with the original friendship between Schoenberg and Kandinsky; the rise of the Futurist movement; and the relationship of art and music with Nazi Germany. 
 
Chapter Three highlights the beginnings of musique concrète and electronic music, as well as the evolution of jazz.
 
Chapter Four focuses on pop art and pop music, and the early experiments of Paul McCartney and the free form group, AMM, and then on to the music of Derek Bailey.
 
Chapter Five takes a look at some European groups like Can, Faust, and Kraftwerk, then to the music of Frank Zappa, punk and post-punk work, and then on to rave and ambient
 
Chapter Six wraps things up by taking another overview of the art and music, and the author explains that, “One of the great reasons avant garde music needs to exist is that it does not need to exist…It is the threat it notionally poses to civilization that makes it so supremely civilized. It is its refusal to be co-opted by the forces that drive us on towards eventual death that makes it so affirmative."
 
Fear Of Music, I feel, is a much needed resource in our appreciation of the arts regardless of our own tastes in music or art.

Book Review by Michael Woodhead
Copyright ©2009

Fay (1969 - Age 22)

Written, Composed 
Arranged & Performed
by Michael Woodhead
Copyright © 1969, 2021

There's never been a woman so excitingly gay
Who catches my heart like the sweet birds in May
Like Fay

There'll always be that woman I'll remember each day
Who ever says to me that she will never go away
My Fay
She makes all my dreams so excitingly real
My Fay
And all my love I know I cannot conceal
From Fay

Remember that woman who made my head sway
With thoughts of her and of her love, yes, everyday
My Fay
She makes all my dreams so excitingly real
My Fay
And all my love I know I cannot conceal
From Fay

There's never been a woman so excitingly gay
Who catches my heart like the sweet birds in May
Like Fay

[Listen to it here]

Fate of Man (1969 - Age 22)

Lyrics by Patricia Eeckeleers
Music Composed, Arranged & Performed
by Michael Woodhead
Copyright © 1969, 2021

Looking at the fate of Man
I've often wondered why
A man will laugh when things go wrong
Yet he never seems to cry

Is that the way the world was made
Is that how it should be
If when again a man will learn
A new life makes him free

Looking at the fate of Man
Why does he never try
He speaks of Death with eager words
Yet he's afraid to die

Is that the way the world was made
Is that how it should be
If when again a man will learn
A new life makes him free

Looking at the fate of Man
He reaches for the sky
But when he speaks with wistful words
What lingers in his eye

[Musical Chorus]

I've looked upon the fate of Man
And now, his world is through
The lessons that he thought were many
Had been just a few

Is that the way the world was made
Is that how it should be
If when again a man will learn
A new life makes him free

[Listen to it here]

Faceless Face (1977 - Age 30)

Written, Composed
Arranged & Performed
by Michael Woodhead
Copyright ©1977, 2021

Look into my faceless face
And tell me what you see
Do you view the final days
The last catastrophe
Armageddon, on its way
Has once been prophesied
Now two worlds, both love and hate
Will soon meet and collide
Find some shelter, hide you there

Look into my faceless face
And tell me what you hear
Are you listening to the wind
Or to the heavenly charioteer
Soon, we'll all be overrun
Like lost and wandering sheep
As, defenseless
We await the final, dreaded sleep
There's no place for you to hide

[Musical Verse]

Look into my faceless face
And tell me what you feel
You can't run, no, you can't walk
Can't take an automobile
This is it--your time's run out
Stand and face it if you can
Though the end has come at last
Death begins a new life-span
An eternity of love

[Listen to it here]

Eye In the Sky (1967 - Age 20)

Written by Michael Woodhead
Copyright ©1967, 2023

Faeries can fly
So why can't I
I can still see
The eye in the sky

Do you know why
Someone can cry
Now can you see
The eye in the sky

Everybody seems to think that I am what I am
But I know that I am only hiding in a sham

I say goodbye
Though it's a lie
Can you still see
The eye in the sky

Is your mouth dry
Do you still cry
What is this thing
The eye in the sky

No one knows the truth about me, no one knows my name
But I face the aching trials and the pending shame

Exploring the Eternal Soul

Andy Tomlinson

O-Books

ISBN:   1-978-1-84694-069-9

Past Lives, Reincarnation

2007

Rather than focusing on past lives, this book looks at the ‘life between lives’, the spirit world, or the ‘light realm’, as experienced through regressive hypnosis by several different individuals (from Europe rather than North America). All the subjects had varying degrees of knowledge about the interlife from having heard about it to possessing no knowledge at all.

The chapters cover a variety of different aspects about the interlife: moving towards the light after death, becoming whole, reviewing past lives, soul groups, specialist activities, planning the next life, the influence of karma, and returning to the new incarnation.

What I find amazing is the similarity in the narratives related by the subjects, some environments varying only because of the different personalities and previous experiences.

Two things impacted me while reading this book: the power of our thoughts to create something from nothing (or, rather, energy since, if I remember correctly from physics, nothing is destroyed, it merely changes its form); and the necessity and power of meditation.

Ever since the search for Bridey Murphy in the 1950s, increased research into past lives and in between lives has been done, with often similar and surprising results. The author makes note of several of these while recounting his own research.

Exploring the Eternal Soul is only a part of that total body of research, but for those seeking proof of life after and beyond Death, there are some convincing accounts offered therein.

Spirit guides, soul mates, libraries, and life books, healing, energy—these and more are examined and discussed through these 'insights from the life between lives.

Book Review by Michael Woodhead

Copyright ©2007

 

Except You (1968 - Age 21)

Written, Composed
Arranged & Performed
by Michael Woodhead
Copyright © 1968, 2021

Three dozen or more
Maybe even a score
One is always like the other
I could never love another
Except you

I will always love you
I will never be blue
One is always like the other
I could never love another
Except you

I will always need you
I will always be true
One is always like the other
I could never love another
Except you

[Listen to it here]

Evolution's Revolution (1971 - Age 24)

Written, Composed
Arranged & Performed
by Michael Woodhead
Copyright ©1971, 2021

Are you one of us 
Are you on the bus of Evolution's Revolution 
Are you in a dream 
Are you in the stream of Evolution's Revolution 

Evolution's Revolution
It is what we feel
Evolution's Revolution
In the minds we peel 

Are you still alive 
Are you still deprived of Evolution's Revolution 
What will you soon find 
In-between the mind of Evolution's Revolution 

Evolution's Revolution
It is everywhere 
Evolution's Revolution
Feel it in the air 

When the people stare 
And when you are bare—Evolution's Revolution 
Sit upon my chair 
Stroke your silken hair—Evolution's Revolution 

Evolution's Revolution 
Know that you're so fair 
Evolution's Revolution 
You know you are there 
With us as we share 
Evolution's Revolution

[Listen to it here]

Ev'ning Love (1967 - Age 20)

Written, Composed
Arranged & Performed
by Michael Woodhead
Copyright ©1967, 2021

Here stand we beneath the moon 
Baby, don't you leave so soon 
Don't you see that it can be
Ev'ning love for you and me 

Come to me my baby, dear 
Let me hold you oh so near 
Can't you see that this will be 
Ev'ning love for you and me 

I will love you tenderly 
Baby, know that I love thee 
Can't you see that this will be 
Ev'ning love for you and me

[Listen to it here]

Everything (1964 - Age 17)

 

Every Now and Then (1965 - Age 18)

 

Every Kiss, Every Thrill (1972 - Age 25)

Written, Composed
Arranged & Performed
by Michael Woodhead
Copyright © 1972, 2021

Every kiss, every thrill
Everything that you will shall be yours
Every touch, every smile
Every move done in style shall be more

Every kiss, every thrill
Sends a cold, ecstatic chill down my spine
Every lip, every hand
That we hold, understand you are mine

Every kiss, every thrill
Shall be yours, dear, until Death we part
Every eye, every ear
Every laugh, every tear from your heart

Every kiss, every thrill
Every valley, every hill beckons me
Everyone, everywhere
You must show how you care
I am free to be me

[Listen to it here]

Every Chance (1967 - Age 20)

 

Evergreen (1967 - Age 20)

Written, Composed
Arranged & Performed
by Michael Woodhead
Copyright ©1967, 2021

I play upon my silver tambourine 
I make love to you my subterrene 
Dressed complete in golden crinoline 
Evergreen 

I seek to hide away in Argentine 
Dressed myself in silken velvetine 
Never have I known a thing obscene 
Evergreen 

[Musical Verse]

Baby at your breast begins to wean 
Everything about you is so clean 
I will always think you as a queen 
Evergreen 

Move to lands away from cruel machine 
Sing to me a loved one's magic paean 
Do you know what I find in-between 
Evergreen 

Coralline , Evergreen 
Lovely Jean, Evergreen 
Sapphirine , Evergreen

[Listen to it here]

Ever-Eternal (1972 - Age 25)

Written by Michael Woodhead
Copyright ©1972, 2019

I am the Lord thy God, I Am that I Am
I made the Earth dry-shod whereon thou hast trod
I made men and wo-men, I Am that I Am
Put them east of Eden to beget again
I am the All-Father, the Same
Men call me by many names

I am Eternity, I watch and I wait
Ever will men think of me, this do I decree
Men don't understand all, I watch and I wait
They will try to forestall the fate that will befall
I am Eternity, the Same
Men call me by that name

I was made, I am Man, the Earth is my home
In Eden I began, my spawn was still unspanned
The living breath of God was breathed into my lungs
I walk the Earth untrod, no clothes, my feet unshod
I was made, I am Man
Men call me one name—Adam

I was made as Wo-man, the Earth is my home
I was made from man, to live I began
I formed the seeds of sex, began them anew
From Eden began treks because I was perplexed
I was made as Wo-man, I conceive
Men know me by my name—Eve

I am the Garden, of land was I made
I hold the citizen, know naught what he ken
Man and Wo-man were sent to decorate me
I gave my assent, in my grasses life spent
I am the Garden, I am for Man and Wo-man
Men know my name, my name, Eden

I was unknown until the fall of Man
To me goes Man's last breath—Man must die, God hath saith
But still, there's life eternal, I am but asleep
Yes, life is sempiternal, there is no Hell infernal
I was unknown, I, Death, the same
I was unknown until I came

Even More (1969 - Age 22)

Written, Composed
Arranged & Performed
by Michael Woodhead
Copyright ©1969, 2021

Darling, I will love you till the end of time 
Just because you say you're mine 
Now you know I will never go 
Because you know I love you so 

Sweetheart I will never leave you, dear 
Just because you are sincere 
Now you know that I love you so 
But, do you know I'll love you more 

Even more than I do today 
Even more than these words can words can say 
If you'll say that you love me 
Darling I pray that you will see 

That I will love you everyday 
Always by to hear you say 
That you'll love me if your love is true 
Promise that you won't be blue 

And when this day is over and done 
I will know that you're my only one 
When I kiss you I will say 
I will love you more each day 

Even more than I do today 
Even more than these words can words can say 
If you'll say that you love me 
Darling I pray that you will see

[Listen to it here]