I'm playin' my guitar, while my sister bangs a jar
The glass sets up a sound like people laughing
It's goin' to my brain, and it's easin' all my pain
I must hear this sound again, 'cause time is passing

I'm walkin' by the sea, and the shingle sings for me
The crabs are swimmin' down amongst the starfish
The rocks all patter down and the seagulls fly around
But the whole trip rubs it in that time is passing

Find it, I've got to hear it all again
My heart has heard the sound of harmony
Blind to it, as my tears fall again
But it's only by the music, I'll be free

There's something in the whisper of the trees
Millions hear it, still they can't believe
There are echoes of it splashing in the waves
As an empire of dead men leave their graves

Don't listen to people talk
Or to them sellin' souls
Don't listen to me or words from men above
Don't hear it in your needs
And don't hear it in your greeds
Just hear it in the sound of time a' passing

Find it, I've got to hear it all again
My heart has heard the sound of harmony
Blind to it, as my tears fall again
But it's only by the music, I'll be free

There once was a note, pure and easy
Playing so free, like a breathe rippling by
The note is eternal, I hear it, it sees me
Forever we blend as forever we die

I listened and I heard, music in a word
And words when you played your guitar
The noise that I was hearing was a million people cheering
And a child flew past me, riding in a star
As people assemble, civilization
Is trying to find a new way to die
But killing is really, merely scene changer
All men are bored, with other men's lives

I listened and I heard, etc.

Gas on the hillside, oil in the tea cup,
Watch all the chords of life lose their joy
Distortion becomes somehow pure in its wildness
The note that began all, can also destroy

We all know success, when we all find our own dreams
And our love is enough to knock down any walls
And the future's been seen, as men try to realize
The simple secret of the note in us all
There once was a note,...listen

I think these hands have felt a lot
I don't know, what have I touched?
I think these eyes have seen a lot
I don't know, maybe they've seen too much
I think this brain has thought a lot
Searchin' trying to find a crutch
I think this heart has bled once too often
This time, it's bled a bit too much

Too much of anything, is too much for me
Too much and everything gets too much for me

I can't remember before '49
But I know, '48 was there
My ears let in what I should speak out
M-m-m-m, there' something in the air
I'm overloaded on my way
Bye, bye. You better keep in touch
I think your ears, hear a whole lot of music
And like me, they've heard a bit too much

Too much of anything, is too much for me
Too much and everything, gets too much for me

I think these hands have felt a lot
I don't know, what have I touched?
I think these eyes have seen a lot
I don't know, maybe they've seen too much
I think this brain has thought a lot
Oh, searchin', trying to find a crutch
I think these ears, hear a whole lot of music
And like me, they've heard a bit too much

Too much of anything, is too much for me
Too much and everything, gets too much for me