OSTRICH (Pete Ham)
[from Keyhole Street: Demos 1966-67 CD - recorded 1967 - released U.S. 2013]

You see someone you love
Out with somebody new
So you just close your mind
And pretend that it's you

Ostrich
With your head in the sand
Though your eyes are not closed
Your mind is opposed
To looking at life
Accepting it for what it is
Come on, open up your eyes

You see people who fight
You see people who kill
You see people who won't
You see people who will

Ostrich
With your head in the sand
Though your eyes are not closed
Your mind is opposed
To looking at life
Accepting it for what it is
Come on, open up your eyes

(Will you open up your eyes?)
(Will you open up your eyes?)
(Will you open up your eyes?)

You have problems you think (hide away)
So you reach for the drink (ostrich)
'Cause you know you will find (hide away)
It will turn off your mind (ostrich)

Ostrich (hide away, ostrich)
With your head in the sand (hide away, ostrich)
Though your eyes are not closed
Your mind is opposed
To looking at life
Accepting it for what it is

Da, da da da da da da
Da, da da da da da da
Da, da da da da da da
Da da
Start looking
Get your head in the sand
Thinking, doing, I'm having it for you
Can't you do me real?

lyrics transcribed by Tom Brennan,
corrections by Dan Matovina

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