Keep 'Er Lit

New Selected Lyrics

Van Morrison

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571353927
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music

'This mix of genuine humility and hard-won hubris, of mysticism and technical mastery ... makes Van Morrison quite simply, and quite indisputably, "The Bard of Belfast".' Paul Muldoon

If I ventured in the slipstream
Between the viaducts of your dreams

Keep 'Er Lit is the second volume of Van Morrison's collected lyrics containing one hundred and twenty songs from across his storied career. It contains love songs, work songs, songs about the pains and anxieties of existence, songs of consolation, songs about various kinds of spiritual quest and the realms of the mystical, and songs which deal with healing and reconciliation, both with the self and with others. Then there are the songs of memory and of childhood; songs about the natural world and about the perspectives it can provide on time.

Taken together with Lit Up Inside , this volume gives an overview of his fifty-year career, revealing why he is celebrated as one of the most innovative and enduring songwriters of our time.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Landing Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Dweller on the Threshold by Paul Muldoon
• Introduction by Eamonn Hughes
• If You and I Could Be As Two
• Bad or Good
• Could You Would You
• Friday’s Child
• One Two Brown Eyes
• You Just Can’t Win
• The Smile You Smile
• Astral Weeks
• Sweet Thing
• And It Stoned Me
• Crazy Love
• Caravan
• Come Running
• These Dreams of You
• Everyone
• Domino
• Virgo Clowns
• If I Ever Needed Someone
• Wild Night
• I Wanna Roo You (Scottish Derivative)
• I Will Be There
• Redwood Tree
• Autumn Song
• Mechanical Bliss
• Fair Play
• Linden Arden Stole the Highlights
• Who Was That Masked Man?
• Streets of Arklow
• You Don’t Pull No Punches but You Don’t Push the River
• You Gotta Make It through the World
• The Eternal Kansas City
• Joyous Sound
• Flamingos Fly
• Checkin’ It Out
• Natalia
• Lifetimes
• Hungry for Your Love
• Take It Where You Find It
• Full Force Gale
• You Make Me Feel So Free
• Steppin’ Out Queen
• Troubadours
• Satisfied
• Wild Honey
• When Heart Is Open
• Haunts of Ancient Peace
• Northern Muse (Solid Ground)
• Inarticulate Speech of the Heart
• A Sense of Wonder
• Oh the Warm Feeling
• A Town Called Paradise
• Queen of the Slipstream
• Give Me My Rapture
• Contacting My Angel
• I’d Love to Write Another Song
• I’m Tired Joey Boy
• Daring Night
• Real Real Gone
• Enlightenment
• Youth of 1000 Summers
• Professional Jealousy
• I’m Not Feeling It Anymore
• Some Peace of Mind
• Village Idiot
• Carrying a Torch
• Pagan Streams
• I Need Your Kind of Loving
• Big Time Operators
• Perfect Fit
• Ancient Highway
• In the Afternoon
• Rough God Goes Riding
• This Weight
• Waiting Game
• Piper at the Gates of Dawn
• It Once Was My Life
• The Healing Game
• Wonderful Remark
• Don’t Worry about Tomorrow
• Try for Sleep
• Drumshanbo Hustle
• Goin’ Down Geneva
• In the Midnight
• When the Leaves Come Falling Down
• Precious Time
• Golden Autumn Day
• Meet Me in the Indian Summer
• Whatever Happened to PJ Proby?
• The Beauty of the Days Gone By
• Man Has to Struggle
• Fast Train
• Whinin’ Boy Moan
• Too Many Myths
• Goldfish Bowl
• Little Village
• Once in a Blue Moon
• Get on with the Show
• Fame
• Celtic New Year
• Magic Time
• Blue and Green
• Behind the Ritual
• How Can a Poor Boy?
• Open the Door (to Your Heart)
• Goin’ Down to Monte Carlo
• Born to Sing
• Close Enough for Jazz
• Retreat and View
• Pagan Heart
• In Tiburon
• Look Beyond the Hill
• Memory Lane
• The Pen Is Mightier than the Sword
• Transformation
• Broken Record
• 5am Greenwich Mean Time
• Ain’t Gonna Moan No More
• Love Is Hard Work
• Spirit Will Provide
• The Prophet Speaks
• Acknowledgements
• Lyrics credits
• Index of Titles and First lines
• About the Author
• Copyright