Cruising makes some people get uptight
But nothing beats a lonely Friday night
Friday night, nothing much to do but hang around
Think I might just grab myself a cab and head downtown
And for hours, I hang around the dance hall crowd
I feel like a boor
But then I turned around and cast my eyes to the door
In a long flowing robe
She appeared at the ballroom door
I was hard-pressed to know
What I hoped she was looking for
Coming on at first may not seem right
But nothing beats a lover at first sight
What a sight, nothing can compare with simple grace
It's all right, I see it in the look upon her face
That she wants me the same way that I'm wanting her
In fact maybe more
But as I take her hand
She turns and heads for the door
In a long flowing robe
She took off through the ballroom door
I was hard-pressed to know
What did she go and do that for
Friday night, nothing left to do but go to bed
Sleeping tight, when something stirring deep inside my head
Said "Wake up and cast your eyes to the door."
In a long flowing robe
She appeared at the bedroom door
I was hard-pressed to know
What I knew she was looking for
Jean did her best
Denny worked hard
And so together made him a star
And he loved her
Money changed hands
Denny must start
Tallying up things close to his heart
And he loved her so
But we don't always know what to say
When they ask you, what do you say?
No one can tell what's in a heart
People just drift apart
Jean lost her head
Denny got mad
"How, Jean," he said, "can things be so bad
Right before my eyes"
Jean told a lie, Denny deceived
Jean packed her bags to leave
"Jean, if you must go
Before you do
Tell me you know I did it for you
And I loved you so."
Don't be sad now
Get up and start again
Though it's bad right now
It takes a while to mend
Keep your eyes
Upon the other side
Nobody cries
When they know nobody died
We all feel it too
No one needs to change places with you
Take two pills and go to bed
If you lose your body don't lose your head
You're only bleeding
Be a big man
Go on and take the gun
If you lose your hand
You got another one
Pieces fly
But we don't run and hide
Nobody cries
When they know nobody died
Take a stand boy
Let's throw the crutch away
And we'll jump for joy
Though our feet are shot away
When you leave
Leave a bit of you behind
How can you cry
When you know nobody died
There's a grand old maid
Across the sea
So the story was recalled to me
And from dawn 'til dark you hear her call
Down in front of the Wailing Wall
And she cries all day so sad and alone
'Til someone comes along and leads her home
Nobody listens and nobody seems to care
But everyday you'll find them there and
Kneeling down
For sadness sake
Crying just as though their hearts would break
And from dawn 'til dark you hear them call
Down in front of the Wailing Wall
And they cry all day so sad and alone
'Til someone comes along and leads them home
You know I don't listen and you know that I don't care
But everyday you'll find me there and
Kneeling down
For sadness sake
Crying just as though my heart would break
And from dawn 'til dark you'll hear me call
Down in front of the Wailing Wall
Yore Daddy runs sheep and mah uncle runs cattle
Nothin' can keep us out of this battle they wage
As it burns up the range, 'til no man is left
In the saddle
Yore ranch is upstream and they dammed up the water
Thirsty cows scream for mah uncle to slaughter
The sheep while yore Daddy's asleep
And I do the same for his daughter
If I had my own way, we would be together
Back in Pittsburgh
It's the only town east of the river I know
And I feel kinda bad, bringin' our grief
Upon this pore old farmer's house
But we ain't got nowhere else to go
Three years on this range since they started the range war
Nothing has changed except maybe change for the worst
If I'd married you first,
there might not have been any range war
You wouldn't be lost to the range war
Don't take yourself too seriously
There are precious few things worth hating nowadays,
And none of them are me
I was only trying to say how things used to be
'Til we grew up and we all went our separate ways
Looking for our own paths to immortality
This is how I thought I'd start my song
And it seems a little silly when I think of it
But now I'm so far along
And no one really wants to know that he's wrong
That his ears can't really hear or he's blind a bit
Or that he's really weak when he thinks that he is strong
Now I'm in the middle and I just don't know
If I'll make it any further if the words don't flow
When you live in silence any sound is dear
But for those who don't, take heart because the end is near
This is the ending of my song
It has made me blind and deaf and weak but most of all
It shows you that I'm wrong
For you see it's really twice this long
And if I should die tomorrow it will carry on
It's a long time and a long way to go
What was once mine isn't mine anymore
All my fears you would not find me
All behind me
It's a long way and a long time to come
When our hearts stray and the troubles begun
I'll forget it if you make me
Please just take me if you will
I know that if you will
Nothing you can say could block my way
Nothing you can do to make me not want you
And love you for a long time
It's a long time and a long way to go
But in my mind there is one thing I know
For as long as we're together
Love forever
Boat on the Charles
Train on a spur down by the riverside
The door's open wide
Planes in a line just seven miles away
They leave every day
And someone's always going south
A guy with a truck here about is going New Year's Eve
Why don't you leave
Why don't I leave
I can't make myself believe
No one really cares for me here
I can't make no sense of this place and I fear
I can't spend another day without hearing from you
Throw my life away and pass my body through into the Charles
Boat on the Charles
Bird on a wire outside my window pane
It's started to rain
Buses in line just seven blocks away
They leave every day
And someone's always asking me why I can't seem
To make myself see
That you won't answer me
Why don't you leave
Why don't I leave
How many times can a man be told
How many times before I lose control
I don't give a damn for my immortal soul
It's just about time I let my insides show
So here I go
No catch, no strings
None of the usual things
I'm happy just to lay and look
Let's throw out the book
Now we're off the hook
And please just be nice to me
Won't you be nice to me
So tired, so sad
So sick of being had
By everyone who comes along
Would it be so wrong
If you played along
And please just be nice to me
And would it bring you down if I hang around
Just be nice to me
It's been a long, long time since I felt so fine
And I know your love is fine
I know what's on your mind but
Don't laugh, don't cry
Don't make me wonder why
You're doing what you're doing now
Can't you see somehow
It's the wrong time now
So please just be nice to me
You know I ain't in heat
And it would feel real neat
If you would just be nice to me
Come on think of me
Some happy day, after I'm long gone away
Someone will make you see
You were in love with me
And know what it's like to be
Where I'm standing now
And then you'll find me somehow
You better hope I'm around when you need me
You know I won't be around when you need me
You better know what to do when you need me
No one told me what to do when I needed you
I was a man, now I'm just a bird sitting in your hand
You tell me that it's through
But when it comes to you
That I was in love with you
You'll wonder where to fly
When someone tells you goodbye
Maybe now you cannot see
But I know just what you need
'Cause you're looking for someone like me
And after I leave you here
You'll spend some lonely years
And you won't need my tears
To know what I've been through
And need me like I needed you
Put down that phone and listen
Baby how can you be so unkind
If they catch me out of line only one more time
I'll be down in the slammer 'fore you count to nine
I didn't mean to step out without you
And I'm sorry way down in my soul
But it ain't easy being on
Parole with you baby
Before they throw me in the hole
I got to get my dose of Rock and Roll
And it ain't easy being on
Parole with you baby, let go
Put down that gun and listen
If you shoot it would be such a waste
'Cause any one of these days I just might change my ways
And I won't be around to see the look on your face
I know that it might make you happy
To fill my body full of holes
But you know it ain't easy being on
Parole with you baby
Put down the phone and put down the gun
Please let me know you still believe in me, hon
I don't know how you feel
If you really see
And for years I would pray
That you'd favor me
But for now, please allow
One formality
Down the road, 'cross the sea
Please remember me
Something/Anything?
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It was late last night
I was feeling something wasn't right
There was not another soul in sight
Only you, only you
So we walked along,
though I knew there was something wrong
And the feeling hot me oh so strong about you
Then you gazed up at me and the answer was plain to see
'Cause I saw the light in your eyes
Though we had our fling
I just never would suspect a thing
'Til that little bell began to ring in my head
In my head
But I tried to run,
though I knew it wouldn't help me none
'Cause I couldn't ever love no one, or so I said
But my feelings for you
were just something I never knew
'Til I saw the light in your eyes
But I love you best
It's not something that I say in jest (ha ha)
'Cause you're different, girl, from all the rest
In my eyes
And I ran out before but I won't do it anymore
Can't you see the light in my eyes
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Do you remember the last time I said
If I ever thought about lying,
I'd rather think of dying instead
And maybe you remember the last time you called me
to say we were through
How it took a million tears
just to prove they all were for you
But those days are through
'Cause it wouldn't have made any difference,
if you loved me
How could you love me
When it wouldn't really make any difference,
if you really loved me
You just didn't love me
'Cause I know of hundreds of times I could be
In the most unfaithful arms that you always picture me
And maybe you remember that
though I can't always show proof I was true
No one else could change my mind or
stop me coming home to you
But those days are through
You just did not love me enough to believe me
Enough not to leave me
Enough not to look for a reason to be unhappy with me
And make me regret ever wanting you
But those days are through
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"Hey baby, you're on a subliminal trip to nowhere.You better get your trip
together before you step
in here with us!"
Full moon tonight, everything's all right
Baby come on back to Wolfman Jack
If you want yourself a day man, well I don`t mind
You just ditch him when the sun goes down
'Cause the moon shines bright
and everything's all right
When the Wolfman, he creeps into town
Now you maybe want a man who throws 'round his money
But he ain't as cool as Wolfman Jack
And you might want yourself a man
who don't act so funny
But he ain't your fool like Wolfman Jack
I don't mean to treat you evil
I'm just a good boy gone bad
But if I catch you after dark walking through the park
I'm just liable to do something mad
You maybe think you know what love is about girl
But it's nothing 'til it's Wolfman Jack
And everybody knows, you go round and shout it
That your only thrill is Wolfman Jack
Full moon tonight, everything's all right
Baby come on back to Wolfman Jack
I may miss your loving while I'm on my back
But you can't escape from Wolfman Jack
You can't do this to me
Look me in the eyes baby, now you cut that jive
You know the Wolfman's just about
the number one cat alive
You got my great big eyes spinning round in my head
How could you love another man instead?
(Back to the Top)
I believe if I was all alone,
I would be better off in a world my own
I'd forget I ever knew of you, and this dream every
night that you put me through
We walk along a Hollywood sea
and you dance once again with me
We are close, we are friends
And our love never ends
But in the cold morning light I see
That you won't be back for me
The wound you left is healing and then
it starts itching and I scratch it open again
So the pain comes out and I give in
and indulge my imaginations, whims
We sit and drink Victorian tea
and your face wears a smile for me
I was yours, you were mine
Our hearts bound, lost in time
But in the cold morning light I see
That you won`t be back
For me there can be no peace
For me there can be no rest
I believe though I've tried my best
I'm condemned it seems to a life of
restlessness and broken dreams
(Back to the Top)
It's true, yes it's true
I'm as guilty of the sin as you
I lived through it too
And as you can see it didn't hurt me
You must admit, you helped a bit
It takes two to tango
You know I wasn't alone
It takes two to tango
I remember it still
Drink a toast if you will
This is for the girls who just couldn't see
That my only sin was being me
And this one's for the girls and they know who they are
It's so long ago and I don't know
Now I don't recall all the details of the scene at all
But I had a ball
And learned all the games, forgot all the names
You must admit you learned a bit
This is for the girls who couldn't understand
What it's like to try to be a man
And this one's for the girls and they know who they are
It's so long ago and I don't know
I don't claim to know at all
Who was right and who was wrong
I just don't remember all
All the things that were said
What went on in my head
But it's easy to see that I used you and you used me
This is for the girls who think I've done wrong
Could you really hold a grudge that long
And this one's for the girls and they know who they are
It's so long ago and I don't know who you are
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There's a cloud in the sky and it's raining on you
Still you try to keep dry but your troubles leak through
And you've lost all you could, feeling sad
Choose your reveries
Keep the good, leave the bad
Take a few of these, the sweeter memories
Don't forget them please, the sweeter memories
To set your mind at ease, the truest remedies
Are the sweeter memories
There's a life full of pain and a life full of glee
So you see that the rain doesn't mean much to me
For I know that it pays making light
of living's tragedies
Make your days be as bright
Take a few of these, the sweeter memories
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Spoken:
Before we go any further...
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instrumental with: "breathless, I'm so breathless"
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Weren't you there when the carousel burned down
The fire and confusion, the smoke and the sound
I swear you were there when the carousel burned down
We were all around
The rings charred and tarnished all over the ground
And the heads hung down
And we all left town the next day
The children all cried when the carousel burned down
The old ladies sighed and the carousel burned down
The rest of us lied as the carousel burned down
And the flames did fly
The pipes steamed and shrieked out a blazing goodbye
As the boiler died
And they melted down the midway
And we all left town the next day
(Back to the Top)
I think I'm gonna love it
I think I'm gonna love it
Because I know someday someone else will see it my way
And then I'll know I was not wrong
I know they won't believe it
I know they won't believe it
They think that I'm no good
but I will make myself understood
'Cause I believe it all along
I think I'm gonna love it
I know they won't believe it
When they finally see the saving grace in me
I know the time is gonna come
When I will mean something to someone
Until that day I'm hanging on
(Back to the Top)
Marlene
Marlene, you're the prettiest girl I've ever seen
Do you care for me at all
Marlene, I care for you
And I just don't care who knows it
and I guess that means that I love you
Marlene
Marlene, who'd believe that you're only seventeen
I'm in trouble if your folks get mean
And if they do
Then I don't care if they bust me
and I guess that means that I love you
I don't need no fantasies
Just one thing I need
I you could make it here, Marlene
Dear Marlene, Marlene
Marlene, when I think that it all is just a dream
I remember that your eyes are green
And mine are blue
They will always see each other
and I guess that means that I love you
I don't need realities
Just one thing I need
If you could make it here Marlene
Dear Marlene, Marlene
Marlene, I'm depending on you now
Marlene
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I am a Viking of some note
Knut's my name and here I float
Out on the sea in a great big boat
and I'm the one who beats the drum in time
To stroke the oars that drive our galleons on
And while we rowed we had our song
And we had our god, and it may seem odd
But at least there was a cause
Caught a wind and we upped the sail
Lost two ships when it turned to a gale
Down went a third when she rammed on a whale
Though we despaired we could not fail
And through it all we never faltered
Late at night I lay on the decke
Wondering whye I risk my necke
Picture myselfe in a sinkinge wrecke
Ande downe I'me goinge notte knowinge whye
I just can't quite recall the reason why
It's such a drag to carry on
But there was a cause, but there was a reason
If you like I'll be your Viking
Sit you down to a Nordic meal
Give you strength that you might wield
A Viking sword and a Viking shield
And off we'll sail in mighty ships of yore
Perhaps we shouldn't let our hands get sore
We need someone to pull the oars
And to do the chores
So we need a cause, so we need a reason why
(Erik is here!)
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In a voice soaked with euphoria:
I went to the mirror this morning
I looked in the mirror instead
The first thing to come into focus
Was a face wrapped all around my head
There's something sticking out of the middle
I guess it's my nose (I suppose)
I just don't recognize those eyes
All these years I've been watching from the other side
The voice is now one of brutal stupefication. The underlying question is - "If
you went crazy, would you know it?"
Uh oh, here I go thinking them crazy thoughts again.
Who is that there? You mean I been walking around
in that all these years? What's it all about?
Where's it all at? I don't want to get heavy but
what am I doing here? uh
My lip has a dark spot upon it
(The voice of a mature adult who's comprehensive
capacity has suddenly been reduced to that of a
cherrystone clam)
My teeth look like plastic in chips
And there on my chin I discover
One lonely red and arrogant zit
I went about my business this morning
You got to get out of bed and make that bread
But try as I may to get away
I won't forget what I seen in the mirror today
Boogie on out to a brand new day.
Get off your back and dance!
I seen my eyes. I seen my nose. My lips. My teeth.
My, my gums. I seen my gums! I looked all the way
down my throat! I looked at my ears. I looked real
hard at my ears. I looked at my hair. I think I'm going
bald. I had hair all over the sink or something...
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Black Maria, you scare me so
I feel as though my heart stop dead
You're a liar, this I know
I watch you go around my head
Oh, I'm going down slow
You scare me so
Oh, you never let go
You scare me so
Gay deceiver, my eyes they burned
My insides turned, my brain it rolled
Unbeliever, but now I've learned
I took my turn, I come up cold
(Back to the Top)
One more day
They said we'd be home for Christmas
but I'm still here today
One more day
I went to see the first lieutenant
he said shut up and wait
One more day, no word
We don't pick no more trees 'til the union OK
If they don't get a contract soon
then I don't think we can stay
One more day, no word
All alone, all my friends are gone
Ears of stone, eyes gone blind
Too little to do and too much time
I haven't seen my girl in a year last July
She hasn't even written a letter but I try not to cry
One more day, no word
(Back to the Top)
Keep your head and everything will be cool
You didn't have to make me feel like a fool
When I try to say I feel the way that I do
I want to talk to you
And make it load and clear
though you don't care to hear
Couldn't I just tell you the way I feel
I can't keep it bottled up inside
And could we pretend that it's no big deal
And there's really nothing left to hide
Something sure doesn't seem right to me
When you can turn your back whenever you please
And you stroll away and calmly bid me adieu
Why can't I talk with you
And put it in your ear though you don't care to hear
Hear me out
Why don't you lend me an ear
You've got no reason to fear
I'll make it perfectly clear
I love you
I don't come whining with my heart on my sleeve
I'm not a coward if that's what you believe
And I'm not afraid but not ashamed if it's true
I got to talk with you
And then I'll make it clear
(Back to the Top)
When you say goodbye to the love that we knew
This you can be sure of
I will torch on for you
I will carry my torch for you
When you break somebody's heart,
nothing much left to do
Howsoever sadly
I will torch on for you
Somewhere in the back of my heart it's there
And every day it finds me then reminds me
I will bear my cross, I will bear your cross too
I will pine forever
I will torch on for you
I will carry my torch for you
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You got to ease into line boy
But once I hit the open road
I'll be sailing off and on my own
You and me in my GT
With those little red lights in front of me
When I go to heaven you know that's where I want to be
Would you please fill it up boy
I'd like to stop and catch myself a bite
but I sure hate to leave the road tonight
Instrumental in 3 movements: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd gear.
And when I'm racing the clock
You know that I would die or kill somebody
just to move this hunk of steel one more block
Spoken (with mild disdain as one gropes for the
stick):
I think I see a little red light in my rear view mirror
A terrific case ensues, resulting in many highway
statistics and ultimately, the realization of the
desire expressed in the chorus. RIP
(Back to the Top)
excerpts from the early days
(includes "Money (That's What I Want)")
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Tell everyone that I am sorry, truly sorry
For all the wrongs I done
I never meant to hurt nobody
Lord I never want to do no wrong
I have lied, I have begged and I have cheated
And I know my ship won't be coming in
As I lay me down to take my rest
I see that it's just dust in the wind
Take hold my hand, hold it tighter, ever tighter
You must believe that I love you still
But my strength, it grows weaker, ever weaker
And my body has lost its will
Oh my Lord, I have lost once again
And I got no one to help me find my way
But I never wanted to hurt nobody
And I never wanted to do no wrong
(Back to the Top)
We figure, my daddy and me
Things are still the same, it seems
As when he lived it in his teens as a kid in school
Aaron was a junior, the class of '32
His momma called him angel,
but everybody knew he was the
King king, the gross out king
They called him Piss Aaron
They always caught him pissin' in the hall
Piss Aaron, he never would refuse when nature called
Dumb Larry from homeroom 9
Kept his locker full of weeds
Just to satisfy his smoking needs and his love of fire
Went to a game and lit a stink bomb in the bleachers
The coach, the cheer leader, and
the chem teacher, and the
Dean dean, duh dean dean was after
Dumb Larry, they always caught him smokin' in the john
Dumb Larry, you never would have missed him
when he's gone
Chuck Biscuits, conservative-jive
The biggest pig in all the school
He would sit and smack his lips and drool
as he eyed your lunch
I left a bag in his desk one night
A raw egg sandwich and when Hungry took a bite
he had to
Up chuck, uh up up-chuck, a'pukin'
Chuck Biscuits, they always caught him eatin'
in the class
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Hello, it's me
I've thought about us for a long, long time
Maybe I think too much but something's wrong
There's something here that doesn't last too long
Maybe I shouldn't think of you as mine
Seeing you
Or seeing anything as much as I do you
I take for granted that you're always there
I take for granted that you just don't care
Sometimes I can't help seeing all the way through
It's important to me that you know you are free
'Cause I never want to make you change for me
Think of me
You know that I'd be with you if I could
I'll come around to see you once in a while
Or if I ever need a reason to smile
And spend the night if you think I should
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There ain't a man alive today
Who doesn't want to have the world in his hand
And everything to go his way
And abuse what he don't understand
Some people never can be satisfied
less they push somebody else around
But I can't give no aid or take no side
I just watch them drag each other down because
Some folks is even whiter than me
Some folks is even blacker than me
I got myself caught in the middle somewhere
And that's just where I want to be
I'm talking bout the outside
Talking bout the inside too
I spent a lot of time alone
And when I'm gone you won't remember my name
But I ain't never been nobody's boss but my own
And I hope that you can say the same
And I feel just like everyone around
I like so sing my songs of change like a crooner
But if we was all to live another mile uptown
I think we'd like to get it changed a whole lot sooner
(Back to the Top)
Love is infectious and I was a victim
The worst case you'd ever see
But still I know no doctor or nurse
Could cure what you gave to me
'Cause you
Really, you left me sore
You really left me sore now baby
You messed me up for sure and I don't mean maybe
'Cause you really left me sore
You didn't tell me and I didn't ask so there's
Nobody left to blame
But still I know no place I can go
That helps to relieve the pain
But now I know no good ever comes
From love on a one night stand
(Back to the Top)
See that girl, watch her dance
If I knew her name I wouldn't have to sit on my hands
If my mouth don't work I get some help
And she don't mind if I don't keep my hands to myself
You're all right
You put up such a good clean fight
I'm afraid that you lose tonight
S-L-U-T
She may be a slut but she looks good to me
You're so clean, so refined
You don't care to get messy just to have a good time
She's got saggy thighs and baggy eyes
But she loves me in a way I can still recognize
A Wizard, A True Star
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Here we are again, the start of the end,
but there's More
I only want to see if you'll give up on me
But there's always More
There is More, International Feel
And there's More, Interplanetary Deals
But there's More, Interstellar Appeal
Still there's More, Universal Ideal
Still there's More, International Feel
I swear something lies
in your ears and your eyes
'Cause there's More
You hear and you see yet you do not believe
That there's always More
(I know)
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I know a place where dreams are born
And time is never planned
It's not on any chart
You must find it in your heart
Never Never Land
It may be miles beyond the moon
Or right there where you stand
Just keep an open mind
And then suddenly you'll find
Never Never Land
You'll have a treasure if you stay there
More precious far than gold
For once you have found your way there
You will never, never grow old
And that's my home where dreams are born
And time is never planned
Just think of pleasant things
And your heart will fly on wings, forever in
Never Never Land
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instrumental (tic, tic, tic)
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You don't need your feet
'cause you know you got wheels
You don't need your hands
'cause you know how it feels
You don't need your eyes
'cause you know how she looks
You don't need your tongue
'cause you know how she cooks
But you need your head
You don't need your belly
'cause there's nothing to eat
You don't need your heart
'cause it just can't be beat
You don't need your mouth
'cause you talk too much
You don't need your crotch,
ah you know it's only a crutch
But you need your head
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Beat it, beat it, beat your guitar
Smash it, smash it, 'til it sees stars
Rip it, rip it, rip it to shreds
Throw down your axe and then jump into bed
Get up, get up, get up and see
Revolution on the TV
Will you, will you, get your nails dirty
Or are you only just a rock and roll pussy
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Arf snarf growl sniff snuk abba woof, etc
Snicker, hyuck, ngih, chuckle, ha, etc
Don't you think of anything but sex?
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Daddy don't like it but Mommy still wonders, Sweet Boy
But you're allowed to try it and I point no fingers
Sweet Boy, but I'm still wonderin' what it means, boy
You hold your wrist so limply
You don't have to camp around
Save all your money, go confess on Sunday, Sweet Boy
And you get your copy of "Honey,"
back on the street by Monday
Sweet Boy, but tell me where does that leave me, boy
Save the satin undies, don't pluck out your eyebrows
Stow the mincey lisping, you don't have to camp around
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Pretty bird with feathers falling
Pretty as a lady calling
For her pink and midnight lover
As she stares into the water
And a yellow moon is rising
And there can't be no disguising
That the pretty bird is dying
With a silver arrow lying at its side
Rivers of blood,
oceans of tears,
life without death,
and death without reason
To the whole United Nations,
To your greatest expectations
To the moment that you realize
As a dark figure slips from out of the shadow
Pretty bird closes its eyes, pretty bird dies
Another pretty thing dead on the end of the shaft
Of the Zen Archer
A man in parts forgotten
With an outlook that is rotten
And an attitude to match it
Finds relief inside a hatchet
And he halved someone in Boulder
Justifiability is in the hands of the beholder
And you just don't know what people will do next
Mountains of pain,
valleys of love,
death without life,
and life without meaning
To the promise kept and broken
To the love that's never spoken
Just as surely as I'm in your ears
A dark figure slips from out of the shadow
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The blessing of the turtles, the eggs lay on the lawn
Paint a pretty picture for me to sit upon
The calling of the rabbit, the falling of the hare
The hat man then begins to play, a song is everywhere
You want the obvious
You'll get the obvious
Tell them Groucho said, you're just another onionhead
Another Virgin Mary, another case is shut
Have another helping, prime cut of baby's butt
A sip of holy water, a shot of saving grace
Another western mystic, the words pour out my face
You want the obvious
You'll get the obvious
I'll shave my skull instead, be just another onionhead
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Dada Dali goodbye, Dada Dali don't sigh
Your soft alarm clocks quake me
So boil your beans and meet me at Perignon Station
Crutch me Dali again, Lobster telephone friend
Stay in your seat, watch what you eat
If you don't get a dead mule then you'll know I'm in heat
Dada Dali hello, Dada Dali you're just another onionhead
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Earthquake in New York City,
the Chrysler Building fell in my yard
But when the shit hits the fan,
I think I'll have to make my way
back to Sunset Boulevard
The IRA has just hit London,
they blew up half of Scotland Yard
But when the shit hits the fan,
I guess I'll try to make my way
back to Sunset Boulevard
Cruisin' down a mountain highway,
someone's cut the brakes on my car
But when the shit hits the fan,
I know I have to get my ass
back to Sunset Boulevard
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Everyone is mine,
no one left behind and there's More
Wait another year,
Utopia is here and there's always More
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Sometimes I don't know
I just don't know what to feel
Sometimes I don't know what to feel
Everything I thought that I knew starts to look so unreal
There's a ringing in my head that keeps me awake at night
Sometimes I don't know what is right
Today I saw a car crush my little dog under its wheel
It did not even stop, it just sped off and out of sight
Sometimes I just feel so afraid
But I know that no one else has it made
So if I just believe in myself
I won't need no help from nobody else and I can make it alone
And everything will be cool, I got to keep on keepin' on
There's nothing else I can do
Sometimes I don't know what to do
Someone said the world's going to end and I think its true
I thought there was some love in the world
but I guess I'm wrong
Sometimes I just feel so alone
I don't want to admit to my friends that I feel confused
I wonder what I'd do with myself if the world was gone
Something makes me stay on my feet
Don't you dare admit to defeat
And if I tell myself it's all right
I can comfort myself through the night
and watch another day dawn
And everything will be cool
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Talk, you can talk, but if you ask me take
All your big words and put them together
What good will they do when the long day is through
Does anybody love you?
Do you think that anybody's in love with
You can dress up or dress down as you
Gaze in the mirror, hung up on your body
What good can it be when there's no one there to see
You're so lovely, so wise
You could make Venus crawl
But love between the ugly is the most beautiful love of all
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You're prettier than all the world
And I'm so proud, I'm so proud, I'm so proud of you
'Cause you're only one fellow's girl
I'm so proud, I'm so proud, I'm so proud of you
I'm so proud of being loved by you
And it would hurt, hurt to know,
if you ever were untrue, yeah
Sweeter than the taste of a cherry so sweet
Yeah, and I'm so proud, I'm so proud,
I'm so proud of you
Compliments to you from all the people we meet
Yes babe and I'm so proud, I'm so proud,
I'm so proud of you
I'm so proud of being loved by you
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I did you wrong
My heart went out to play
But in the game I lost you
What a price to pay
I'm crying - ooh baby, baby
Mistakes
I know I've made a few
But I'm only human
You've made mistakes too
I'm crying - ooh, baby, baby
I'm just about at
The end of my rope
But I can't stop trying
I can't give up hope
'Cause I believe
One day I'll hold you near
Whisper I still love you
Until that day is here
I'm crying - ooh baby, baby
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Many guys have come to you
With a line that wasn't true
And then you pass them by
Now you're in the center ring
And their lies don't mean a thing
Why won't you let me try
Now I don't have a diamond ring
I don't even know a song to sing
All I know is La La means
I love you
If I ever saw a girl
That I needed in this world
You are the one for me
Let me take you in my arms
And fill you with my charms
I'm sure that you will see
The things I am saying are true
And the way that I say them to you
Can't you hear me, La La means
I love you
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Cool jerk, cool jerk, cool jerk, cool jerk
This cat they're talking about
I wonder who could it be
'Cause I know I'm the heaviest cat
The heaviest cat you ever did see
When you see me walking down the street
And they clapping and they speak
All the business they wish to whisper it
But they know I'm the king of the cool jerks
Ah ha ha
Look at them guys looking at me like I'm a fool
Ah but deep down inside they know I'm cool
I said now,
I said now the moment of truth has finally come
When I was gonna do some, some of that cool jerk
All right, now I want to hear a little bit
of the drums by himself here
All right, now I want to hear a little bit of
a bass with those eighty-eights
All right, now let's hear the organ player fall in
All right now everybody, I wanna hear you howl
Ah you're cooking, you're smoking
Come on people can you do it?
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Mom's old fashion cooking
Caviar and champagne
A meal at McDonald's
Nothing fills a man when he's hungry for love
Give him love, make him feel all right
Give him love, help him sleep at night
Give him love, give him one more bite
He's hungry for love (give him that)
An ounce of sweet Jamaican
A snowy spoon of powder
A half a pint of Bushmill's
Nothing gets you high when you're hungry for love
Give me love, make me feel all right
Give me love, help me sleep at night
Give me love, give me one more bite
I'm hungry for love (give me love, give me love)
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Sometimes it's hard to look up under
The times we're going through
I scratch my head and stare and wonder
How to face the day anew
But it gives my life a bit more meaning
To feel in love with you, so heavy
I don't want to weigh you down, oh baby
I don't want to tie you down
I don't want a thing to mar this ever
The picture that we make
The balance of our minds together
The perfect give and take
For me to let my love possess you
Would be the worst mistake, I'm sorry
I don't want to bring you down, oh baby
I don't want to tie you down, oh Jesus
I don't want to nail you down
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There is cause and effect
There's a reason I'm so erect
There's last night and there's today
There's a reason you feel this way
Is it my name?
Don't miss the boat baby, don't miss the plane
I don't think I can make this scene again
Why don't you love me?
Is it my name?
All the lies, all the truth,
All the things that I offer you
All the sights, all the sounds
All the times that you turn me down
Is it my name?
My voice goes so high you would think I was gay
But I play my guitar in such a man-cock way
Why don't you love me?
It is my name?
You only love me for my machine
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We've been waiting so long,
we've been waiting for the sun to rise and shine
Shining still to give us the will
Can you hear me, the sound of my voice?
I am here to tell you I have made my choice
I've been listening to what's been going down
There's just too much talk and gossip going 'round
You may think that I'm a fool, but I know the answer
Words become a tool, anyone can use them
Take the golden rule, as the best example
Eyes that have seen will know what I mean
The time has come to take the bull by the horns
We've been so downhearted, we've been so forlorn
We get weak and we want to give in
But we still need each other if we want to win
Hold that line, baby hold that line
Get up boys and hit 'em one more time
We may be losing now but we can't stop trying
So hold that line, baby hold that line
If you don't know what to do about a world of trouble
You can pull it through if you need to and if
You believe it's true, it will surely happen
Shining still, to give us the will
Bright as the day, to show us the way
Somehow, someday,
we need just one victory and we're on our way
Prayin' for it all day and fightin' for it all night
Give us just one victory, it will be all right
We may feel about to fall but we go down fighting
You will hear the call if you only listen
Underneath it all we are here together shining still
Todd
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How about a little fanfare, fanfare?
(Back to the Top)
The visitors were never seen
They missed my monologue between
But I think you know
The letters came, the letters went
The last reply was never sent
But I think you know
I can't explain what's in my brain
That tells me where to go
But I think you know
For I would draw a diagram
To signify the things I am
But I think you know
And in the end it all boils down
A useless bit of running 'round
'Cause I think you know
And love I send to you my friend
But never tell you so
But I think you know
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Spoken: No, no, no! A Little more humanity, please!
Who's that on the racks again?
A portrait of a crazy man
Trying to make a living off an elpee's worth of toons
A picture of a soul in pain
Trying to change the world with an elpee's worth of toons
There's something at the heart of it that's simply awful
A man who makes a living off a plastic waffle
Sweat is forming on my brow
Not a thing can help me now
My life is on the line for an elpee's worth of toons
I can see the write-ups now
The multitudes are crying for an elpee's worth of toons
A man would simply have to be as mad as a hatter
To try to change the world with a plastic platter
What's your problem, sonny?
What's your problem, son?
I want to change the world.
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A million old soldiers will fade away
But a dream goes on forever
I'm left standing here, I've got nothing to say
All is silent within my dream
A thousand true loves will live and die
But a dream lives on forever
The days and the years will go streaking by
But the time has stopped in my dream
We all have our everyday hopes and fears
And you'll find no exception in me
But that doesn't get me through a sea of tears
Over life's biggest tragedy
You're so long ago and so far away
But my dream lives on forever
I guess I believe that I'll see you one day
For without it there is no dream
You're so far away and so long ago
But my dream goes on forever
And how much I loved you you'll never know
'Til you join me within my dream
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Love unrequited, robs me of me rest,
Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers,
Love, nightmare like, lies heavy of me chest,
And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers.
When you're lying awake with a dismal headache and
repose is taboo'd by anxiety,
I conceive you may use any language you choose to
indulge in, without impropriety;
For your brain is on fire, the bed-clothes conspire of
usual slumber to plunder you:
First your counter-pane goes, and uncovers your toes,
and your sheet slips demurely from under you;
Then the blanketing tickles, you feel like mixed
pickles, so terribly sharp is the pricking,
And you're hot and you're cross, and you tumble and
toss 'til there's nothing 'twixt you and the
ticking.
Then the bed-clothes all creep to the ground in a heap
and you pick 'em all up in a tangle;
Next your pillow resigns and politely declines to
remain at it's usual angle!
Well, you get some repose in the form of a dose, with
hot eye-balls and head ever aching,
But your slumbering teems with such horrible dreams
that you'd very much better be waking;
For you dream you are crossing the Channel, and
tossing about in a steamer from Harwich,
Which is something between a large bathing machine and
a very small second class carriage,
And you're giving a treat (penny ice and cold meat) to
a party of friends and relations,
They're a ravenous horde, and they all come on board
at Sloane Square and South Kensington Stations.
And bound on that journey you find your attorney
(who started this morning from Devon);
He's a bit undersiz'd and you don't feel surpris'd
when he tells you he's only eleven.
Well you're driving like mad with this singular lad
(by the bye the ship's now a four wheeler),
And you're playing round games, and he calls you bad
names when you tell him that "ties pay the dealer";
But this you can't stand so you throw up your hand,
and you find you're as cold as an icicle;
In your shirt and your socks (the black silk with gold
clocks) crossing Sal'sbury Plain on a bicycle:
And he and the crew are on bicycles too, which they've
somehow or other invested in,
And he's telling the tars all the particulars of a
company he's interested in;
It's a scheme of devices, to get at low prices, all
good from cough mixtures to cables
(Which tickled the sailors), by treating retailers as
though they were all vegetables;
You get a good spadesman to plant a small tradesman
(first take off his boots with a boot tree),
And his legs will take root, and his fingers will
shoot, and they'll blossom and bud like a fruit
tree;
From the green grocer tree you get grapes and green
pea, cauliflower, pine apple and cranberries,
While the pastry cook plant cherry brandy will grant,
apple puffs, and three corners, and banburys;
The shares are a penny and ever so many are taken by
Rothschild and Baring,
And just as a few are allotted to you, you awake
And with a shudder despairing
You're a regular wreck, with a crick in your neck, and
no wonder you snore, for your head's on the floor
And you've needles and pins from your soles to your
shins, and your flesh is acreep, for your left leg's
asleep,
And you've cramp in your toes, and a fly on your nose,
and some fluff in your lung, and a feverish tongue,
and a thirst that's intense,
And a general sense that you haven't been sleeping in
clover;
But the darkness has pass'd, and it's daylight at
last, and the night has been long, ditto, ditto my
song,
And thank goodness they're both of them over!
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It's the last ride
Our little game is over
It's the last ride
It's time to take you home
And we can't cry 'cause we seen it coming
No use running, take it slower
It's a dangerous drive
I'm afraid to arrive
But I strive to survive
More a fool than alive
I thought I knew just everything
I had it made and I could coast
But I turned away love when I needed it most
It's the last ride
My little game is over
It's the last ride
It's time to take me home
And I can't cry 'cause I seen it coming
No use running, take it slower
And the road rolls around
And turns through the town
The depression drips down
And glazes the ground
Horizons east and skylines west
The moon, the sun, and all the rest
The loving son, the faithful wife
The burnt out wreck of a poor man's life
The father, son, and holy ghost
They all turned away love when they needed it most
It's the last ride
Their little game is over
It's the last ride
It's time to take them home
And they can't cry 'cause they seen it coming
No use running, take it slower
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I remember, I remember
What life was like in the yard
'Cause you can't ever think about dying
And it just makes a person get hard
I keep wondering if my friends feel like I do
I don't know how someone could stand it
To go through what I'm now going through
So every night we party
And every night we get too high
And I put myself so close to death
'Til I think that I ain't gonna die
And I realize just a little
Why sometimes I like to feel like dirt
It's the only thing in this day and age
That can make me feel close to the earth
But if I ever get to heaven
If I ever reach that door
I will listen why I had to go through this life
Why they just couldn't take me before
But everybody's going to Heaven
'Cause already we've all been through Hell
We're gonna laugh all night and cry all day
Watch the big monkey do the King Kong Reggae
A Cadillac and a Chevrolet
Watch the big monkey do the King Kong Reggae
The president of the U. S. A.
Watch the big monkey do the King Kong Reggae
Everybody fall down on your knees and pray
Here comes that big monkey doing the King Kong Reggae
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I wanna see your number 1 lowest common denominator
You're so hot! What choo got?
On the outside I'm a good boy
Let me inside 'cause I'm full of joy
I don't want to shock you but I'm an electric eel
How's that make your denominator feel?
Think I'll surprise her
I can always depend on my great equalizer
I wanna grind, lose your mind
I kissed you once, but will I kiss you again?
Be certain with sex and you'll always have friends
Your glands wanna freak, your hands wanna speak
And your mind slips away at the peak
Recitation (A Poem of Love)
Time stops - the light goes on
A thundering head and no body
Washed up and woke up on the beach,
seaside breakfast
A tender egg on white sand
Legs long and tan without a break, even to the neck
Suddenly, simultaneously, an eclipse and a snowfall
Flakes melt instantly on the shoulders like wet silver
Burning little holes all the way to the marrow
Puckered flesh like avocado sags into a green pool
All the birds leave turquoise ruts
across the Velveeta sky
It's time to scream
I wanna be your number 1 lowest common denominator
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Is that you?
Look who's on the skids this time
Bitchin' 'bout her place in line
And all you really want is attention
'Cause you're like every other girl uptown
Who wants to ride her face around
And wave about that power you have to put me down
And so I'll tell ya
To see you like this is nearly tragic
But it's like Ruby says our dreams have magic
But I know useless begging won't help me
Yes it's you
You leave me nothing left to say
'Cause I thought that we'd return one day
Together to a great sphere of knowledge
But that would never do for you
'Cause you thought you knew a thing or two
But you don't even know what is and isn't true
And so I'll tell ya
I was a fool that's why I got burned
But in all that time there's one thing I learned
And that is useless begging won't help me
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Izzat love what I feel when you're in my arms
Make me die before I'd do you harm
When you're lost I will lead you home
If you're cold, you know I'll keep you warm
Am I wrong?
Or izzat love when I dream there is no one else
In the end, who's your friend? Just myself
Izzat love to forget my pride
To conceal how it feels deep inside
Am I wrong?
Or izzat love?
Izzat love to forgive all those things you've done
If you go still you know I'm the one
Only love, love alone can survive
Deep inside I believe it's alive
Am I wrong?
Or izzat love?
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It's like a normal Times Square day on 42nd Street
I feel like trashing some windows and crunching some feet
I watch society crumble and I just laugh (hee hee)
They soon will see what it's like to be the other half
But I'm trying
Said I'm trying to forget
And it ain't happened yet
I musta woke up this morning with a bug up my ass
I think I'll just haul off and belt the next jerk that I pass
My old man says I'm just a stoned little punk
But he keeps himself a pistol and he's always drunk
I know
Something's gonna give
Pretty soon
I know it
Something's gonna give
I wanna live
I wanna mess thing whole world around
Go on and poison all the water, use up all the air
Blow your stupid heads off, see if I could care
Put me down but don't blame me for what you did
'Cause inside everyone is a heavy metal kid
I was a sweet little kid once
Now I'm a full grown crank
And when I die I'll probably come back as a Sherman tank
I know that I could make this world so peaceful and calm
If I could only get my hands on a hydrogen bomb
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Don't you ever listen?
Don't you ever learn?
The hand may find you
It's time to take a turn
You think this life is something strange
You're ready for another change
But don't you ever learn?
Don't you ever listen?
Don't you ever learn?
The world is on fire
Your body doesn't burn
Kill yourself before receiving
Something out of all this breathing
Don't you ever learn?
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Open your eyes and see
The world I couldn't change for you
Reach out your hand and take
The world that will belong to you
We were on our way to a better day
And the spirit was in us all
But as time went by we fell by the wayside
Maybe you'll be the last to fall
You are the only ones
There is nobody left but you
You are the chosen ones
There is nobody else to choose
Back when I was young, my hope was strong
But the time blew it all to hell
If I thought I knew what was good for you
I would have gone and done it for myself
Worlds of tomorrow
Life without sorrow
Take it because it's yours
Sons of 1984
I can still see the great panorama of hate
Being cleansed by our loving hands
But the brothers broke stride, the sisters cried
Now you have to start all over again
Initiation
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When I was a child
I thought as a child
I spoke as a child
I didn't know better
But now I'm a man
I look like a man
I'm old as a man
And I should know better
Got my head in the sky
And my mind knows what it wants
But my body just drags me down
And my world is something you can't see
But it's still very real to me
You can find it in the hole where I keep my soul
There it is - way down inside me
There's a real man
Forget about my body and be a real man
I see with my heart
I hear with my heart
I feel with my heart
Sometimes it works better
And some so-called friends put me down
And they pity me for trying
Bad emotions push me around
But the vision shines on and on
It will shine when we all are gone
And I'd like to add a little sparkle while I'm here
Light it up - way down inside me
There's a real man
Forget about bad feelings and be a real man
Some men's world is only hate and money
Afraid of everything and they laugh at nothing
And they only live to criticize
You can laugh at me now [ha ha ha]
But the time comes to everybody
When you must decide
When that day finally comes along
You might wish you'd been a little more strong
Then you'll wake up in the morning cryin'
"Oh my God"
There it is - way down inside me
It's a real man
You got to grow up sometime
Be a real man
Suffer them slings and arrows
Be a real man
Now be a real man
Don't sell yourself for nothing
Be a real man
Don't take no crap from no one
Be a real man
Get your trip together
Be a real man
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A handful of nothing is all that I need
It contains plus and minus everything
The odd combinations are what make up
The world that you see before you
In one hand I hold what people call good
The rest I hold in the other
But these are just symbols to the perfected minds
Of which we are but mere reflections
I was born to synthesize
Energize and catalyze
I was born to synthesize
Like waves on still water the forms reappear
Quickly erasing the ones before
But forms like these are born only to die
But the life in them lives forever
Pyramids, spheres, and obelisks
are the patterns of all creation
But the red polygon's only desire
is to get to the blue triangle
I was born to synthesize
Visions rise before your eyes
I was born to synthesize
The orbits of consciousness spin 'round and 'round
Apparently they go nowhere
But the odd combinations are leading you on
To your home which is in the center
You were born to synthesize
Ain't no jive - it's no surprise
You were born to synthesize
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Just the other day I got a call from a friend
"I heard what you been playin' and I think it's a sin
Why can't you make a living like the rest of the boys
Instead of fillin' your head with all that synthesized noise?"
Jackals wait nearby, watching rock and roll die
And no one dared to help it
Vultures fill the sky
I thought we was supposed ta, supposed ta be free
But we all got sold
It must be the Death of Rock and Roll
The critics got together and they started a game
You get your records for nothing
and you call each other names
Things got out of hand and somebody got sore
Now we're all tuning up for the Rock and Roll War
Time to take up sides, helping rock and roll die
Pick up your check at the window
No one left to cry
I thought we was supposed ta, supposed ta be free
But we all got sold
It must be the Death of Rock and Roll
Nobody paid, nobody played, nobody stayed
Just my lonely guitar
Nobody paid, nobody stayed, nobody played
Just my lonely guitar
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As the sun rises in the east
As the wind blows the fog across the sea
As the hand of Man creeps across the face of the world
Caught in a web of glamours
Persian perfume and oriental eyes
Yogi in knots and Sufi wise
Master sublime and swami high
Through in some Voodoo on the side
And a dash of the old Kung Fu
Lord you got me strung out on eastern intrigue
Chapter six and verse eleven
If you wanna get to heaven
You've got to ask the Man who owns the Property
Ya gotta dance your dance
And do your act
And get His Big Attention that's a natural born fact
I'm on my knees, one question please
Will the real God please stand up?
Jesus and Moses, Mohammed, and Sri Krishna
Steiner, Gurdjief, Blavatsky, and Bhudda
Guru Maharaji, Reverend Sun Myung Moon
On the banks of the Holy Nile
As the palm tree sways at the base of the sphinx
'Neath a crescent desert moon many thousands
younger than ours
In fact, forget about time completely
Think of it in the abstract please
Think of the swaying tropic trees
One of your many destinies
Like having a hot peyote tea
In the palace of Fu Manchu
Lord you got me strung out on eastern intrigue
Sell your wife and pawn your heater
Buy the new Bhagavad Gita
Do the pranayama 'til your spine gets sore
I'll tell you for free
'Cause God told me
We checked it with the Pope and so we all agree
I'm on my knees, one question please
Will the real God please sit down?
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Power changes hands in the unseen worlds
'Cause in '75 something comes alive
Watch the silver cup and the golden rod
Silently listen and it shall be revealed
I was born to fly higher,
born to stand where I'm standing now
Basking in the light of the neon fire
As it burns my useless body to the ground
Desire let me go
I would fly so high through the sky, never to die
Love has come, Love has come
Inside outside, it shall be revealed
Brilliant stars splash down across a crystal sky
And the moon and the sun and the earth are one
See the shining soul break the ring-pass-not
Spiraling upward and it shall be revealed
The spirit is free
The Universe wants it to be, It calls you and me
Love has come, Love has come
Over under, it shall be revealed
When the bells ring out
And the fire burns within and without
Initiation
When your star grows bright
and fills all of the world with its light
Unification
Swallow your pride, you don't need it no more
Don't have to hide, all I am is only one more
Standing at the door
waiting for the world's Initiation
Thunder roar and lightning crack
Snakes of fire dance up and down my back
A long, long road is behind me now
Too late to be afraid of the choice that I have made
But there's one thing I know
Where my spirit says to go,
you know that's where I must go
When the golden ray
Of the dawn signifies a new day
Initiation
And when loves grows strong
And the spheres join together in song
Unification
Swallow your pride, you don't need it no more
Don't need to hide, all I am is
Only one more, then shut the door
waiting for the world's Initiation
Over under, it shall be revealed
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You know, wishing won't make it so
Hoping won't do it, praying won't do it
Religion won't do it, philosophy won't do it
The supreme court won't do it,
the president and the congress won't do it
The UN won't do it, the H-bomb won't do it,
the sun and the moon won't do it
And God won't do it,
and I certainly won't do it
That leaves you, you'll have to do it
I know that you've been wondering
if I'm the same man inside
Never tried to fool you
'cause I've got nothing to hide
I gave you fair warning I could never be tied down
'Til I've seen paradise with my very own eyes
Love owns us all, Time owns us all, Life owns us all
But the world doesn't own me
Dontcha follow me now
I ain't afraid to say I may have been wrong
I have to go now
I'd rather live by a dream than live by a lie
And that's why
There ain't no cure for what I've got baby
We just have to suffer
I feel no pain, I can't complain,
things could always be rougher
But I picked up this banner
and I just can't put it down (No)
I can't let the world die just 'cause no one would try
Dontcha follow me now
Everybody's got to find his own place in the sun,
everyone
So shine on me now
I'd rather live by a dream then live by a lie
You can say what you will about me
talk is cheap and I don't mind
When you lay your life down in them grooves
you know you're bound to get scratched up sometime
It's only just a song, pay me no mind
I have to go now
You've got to walk that road alone
if you walk it at all
Don't follow me now
I gave you all fair warning
Now it's goodbye
And every once in a while why don't you think of me
'Cause it's a long, long time and a long way to go
Can't you see the light shining in my eyes
'Cause it's just one victory
'Cause your dream goes on forever
Don't you know that I've been trying
to get my trip together
Be a real man
I got to be a real man
1, 2, 3, do it one more time
Be a real man
Everybody be a real man
Go then, don't believe, and I don't know
'Cause I got to be a real man
You can be a man, a real man
I'll swim that river, climb that mountain
You and me, we all gotta be, real men
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instrumental
Faithful
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Meeting people along my way
Seemingly I am among they
But in reality of things
What my dreaming always brings
Happenings ten years time ago
Situations we really know
But the knowing is in the mind
Sinking deep into the world of time
Looking in a room I see
Things that mean a lot to me
Why they do I never know
Memories don't strike me so
It seems to me I've been here before
Those sounds I heard and the sights I saw
Was it for real, was it in my dreams
I need to know what it all means
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I love the colorful clothes she wears
And the way the sunlight plays upon her hair
I hear the sound of a gentle word
On the wind that lifts her perfume through the air
I'm picking up good vibrations
She's giving me excitations
Good bop bop, good vibrations
Bop bop, excitations
Good, good, good, good vibrations
Close my eyes, she is somehow closer now
Softly smile, I know she must be kind
When I look in her eyes
She comes with me to a blossom world
I don't know where but she sends me there
Oh my my my, what a sensation
Oh my my, what elation
Got to keep those loving good vibrations
happening with her
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If the rain comes, they run and hide their heads
They might as well be dead if the rain comes
When the sun shines, they slip into the shade
And sip their lemonade, when the sun shines
Rain, I don't mind
Shine, the weather's fine
I can show you that when it starts to rain
Everything's the same, I can show you
Can you hear me, that when it rains and shines
It's just a state of mind, can you hear me
I know what it's like to be dead
I know what it is to be sad
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You say you love me and you thinking of me
But you know you could be wrong
You say you told me that you want to hold me
But you know you're not that strong
I just can't do what I done before
I just can't beg you anymore
I'm just gonna let you pass
I'm gonna last
'Cause time will tell just who has fell
And who's been left behind
When you go your way and I go mine
You say you disturb me and you don't deserve me
But you know sometimes you lie
You say you're breaking and you're always aching
But you know how hard you try
Sometimes it gets so hard to care
You just can't be this way everywhere
I'm gonna let you pass
Well the judge he holds a grudge
He's gonna call on you
But he's badly built and he walks on stilts
Watch out he don't fall on you
You say you're sorry for telling stories
That you know I believe are true
You say you got some other kind of lover
And I guess I believe you do
You say my kisses aren't like his
This time I ain't gonna tell you why that is
I'm just gonna let you pass
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(In a whisper: Yeah, sing the song bro)
If the sun refused to shine
I don't mind, I don't mind
If the mountains fell in the sea
Let it be, it ain't me
All right, 'cause I got my own world to look through
And I ain't gonna copy you
Now if six turned out to be nine
I don't mind, I don't mind
If all the hippies cut off all their hair
I don't care, I don't care
Dig, 'cause I got my own world to live through
And I ain't gonna copy you
White collar conservatives flashing down the street
Pointing their plastic finger at me
They're hoping soon my kind will drop and die
But I'm gonna wave my freak flag high (high)
Fall mountain, just don't fall on me
Go on Mr. Business man, you can't dress like me
You don't even know what I'm talking about
I'm the one that's got to die
When it's time for me to die
So let me live my life the way I want to
Sing on brother, play on drummer
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Let me take you down
'cause I going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about
Strawberry Fields forever
Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see
It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out
It doesn't matter much to me
No one I think is in my tree
I mean it must be high or low
That is the catch you know
Tune in but it's all right
That is I think it's not too bad
Always know sometimes think it's me
But you know I know when it's a dream
I think I know, I mean, oh yes, but it's all wrong
That is I think I disagree
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Stick to your guns
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
Nobody knows the trouble this poor boy's seen
People will believe anything
Man on the run
Always gets it in the end
Nobody cares 'cause nobody shares his dream
People don't believe anything
Everything is changed
Everything is still the same
It's just a part of the game
Blood on the moon
Patterns running across the floor
A musical inside a movie inside a dream
Guess you can believe anything
Everything is changed
Everything is still the same
It's all a part of the game
Mama, Papa, boys, and girls
Holding hands around the world
Wrong is wrong and right is right
Nothing changes overnight
I'll believe it when I see it in black and white
Tell me the truth
Nobody leaves here alive
In the black hole of doubt
trying to get out in the light
Sometimes you can't see anything
Everyone is changed
Everyone is still the same
They can't get out of the game
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I've been burned in my prime
The simple things in life
Seem so hard to learn sometimes
And it takes so long
Catch it while you can
Too late tomorrow
And everyone
Said we all know what comes of that
Living in your pockets and talking through your hat
But it won't take long
To turn your head around
Too late tomorrow
'Cause everyone needs the love of the common man
Turn the world around
Too late tomorrow
'Cause everyone
Everyone is waiting, just anticipating on you
Won't you make a showing everybody knows what to do
Take a dive from your ivory tower
And fall on everyone will catch you, everyone
I would be so pleased to spend some time
To hear a little talk about what's been on your mind
'Cause it don't take long
To turn my head around
If it comes easy
'Cause everyone needs the love of the common man
Turn the world around
Too late tomorrow
'Cause everyone
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Now I lay me down to sleep
I'm praying Lord my soul to keep
If I die before I wake
Somebody make a big mistake
I'm only just one little man
Just usin' up the air
Still I'm askin' anyway
Lord when I pray, please be there
Lord when I pray, please be there
Singin' om om my god, please be there
You know I'm just like all my kind
I got a weak and confused mind
When I feel a little pain
You know how I love to complain
But I try to be strong
I try hard to lift my share
I don't expect for nothing
But Lord when I pray, please be there
Now I sing for you
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One more game, one more chance
One more orchestrated song and dance
He'd be up front and speak his peace
and ask for her time
To put their heads together
and try to make the knot unwind
And it strikes home that it's time to make his move
or it's time to turn and walk away
So he plays that old cliché
Silent tears, bleeding heart
Well our prima donna plies her art
Defenses of defenses of faultless design
Still she's only asking him
to help her make the knot unwind
And if the very next words
leaving her lips could decide
If he'd go or if he'd stay
She would play that old cliché
Who makes up the rules for the world?
Haven't we been down this road before?
Isn't anything peculiar here?
Certainly there must be something more
Where are the words, where are the words,
where are the words
Where are the words, where are the words,
where are the words
And it's almost not worth singing about,
it seems so everyday anyway
Still we play that old cliché
And here sit I, one man show
I vivisect and then pretend to know
All it ever gets me is an ache in the mind
Can't somebody help me to try to make the knot unwind
And I say what I say when I know
there's really nothing left to say
Then I play that old cliché
Throw away that old cliché
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Some people tell me that love is a feeling
or a possession
Somehow it seems so cold
And when they say love is sweet,
does it mean that you eat it?
Maybe you drink it,
does it fill up an empty hole?
I'm lookin' for a love and I may not find it
You know it doesn't mean a thing
without some action behind it
Please come home
I can hear them calling
Please come home
Please don't leave us all alone
Your mama and your papa are crying all alone
You better let it magnetize, learn to sacrifice
'Til we get the true version of
The meaning of the verb 'To Love'
What does it mean to love?
And when somebody needs love,
do they spend some money?
Say something funny,
ask for some tenderness?
And when you wanna touch of love,
do you lie on your back?
Stand on your head,
how do you feel it best?
I'm looking for a love with no strings attached
To take me like I am, that's the only catch
Please come home
I can hear them calling
Please come home
Please don't leave us all alone
Your wife and your lover are crying all alone
You better let it magnetize, learn to sacrifice
'Til we learn the true version of
The meaning of the verb 'To Love'
Does it mean any more,
the more you talk about it
Is it anymore real
if you jump around and shout it
I'm sick and tired of hearing
'bout everyone without it and
Too much talkin' sends me walkin'
Night is falling and everybody's calling for love
Everybody's lookin' for their one and only
It's only just a game 'cause they're scared to be lonely
Please come home
I can hear them calling
Please come home
Please don't leave us all alone
Your brothers and your sisters are crying all alone
You got let it magnetize, learn to sacrifice
'Til we get the true version of
The meaning of the verb 'To Love'
What does it mean to love?
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Beefsteak Charlie says to Porky the Pig
"I can see the party lights
Someone's throwin' a bash and it sure looks big
Down at the slaughterhouse tonight."
Say, let's get together and hit the buffet
You might as well stuff yourself,
They'll only throw it away
Old Colonel Sanders says to Elsie the Cow
"Golly, baby you're the one
Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce,
pickle, cheese, onions on a sesame seed bun."
Say, we just got time for a roll in the hay
Might as well stuff yourself
They've come to take you away
I know where you're going, I can tell
Don't go looking for me down in Hamburger Hell
Don't misunderstand me, I wish you well
Don't go looking for me down in Hamburger Hell
Hermit of Mink Hollow
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See Ms. Malone
She spends another quiet evening alone
Sits in her study and stares at the phone
And a bell in her head will ring
All the children sing
All the dancers start to sway in time
The orchestra begins to play
Somebody pours the wine
The sun and moon collide
Isn't gravity a funny thing
The universe explodes apart
All the children sing
Of Mr. Malloy
He's always seen himself as one of the boys
He thinks that men are tough and women are toys
But a bell in his head will ring
All the children sing
All the birds are chirping harmony
The scent of love is in the air
Sunset on the sea
The angel of the Lord
Just declared we aren't worth a thing
The galaxy is null and void
All the children sing
Crawled across a thousand miles of desert sand
Looking from an answer from a holy man
And this is what he told me with a wave of his hand
He said, "A bell in your head will ring"
Here's to the Chinaman, wise and old
Here's to the Eskimo, brave and cold
Here's to the Jew in the holy land
Here's to the Arab in his caravan
Here's to the African, strong and proud
Here's to the Redneck, good and loud
Here's one to you and there's one more thing
A bell in your head will ring
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We can't play this game anymore
But can we still be friends
Things just can't go on like before
But can we still be friends
We had something to learn
Now it's time for the wheel to turn
Grains of sand, one by one
Before you know it, all gone
Let's admit we made a mistake
But can we still be friends
Heartbreak's never easy to take
But can we still be friends
It's a strange, sad affair
Sometimes seems like we just don't care
Don't waste time feeling hurt
We've been through hell together
Can we still get together sometime
You know life will still go on and on and on
We awoke from our dream
Things are not always what they seem
Memories linger on
It's like a sweet, sad old song
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Yesterday
I just saw the one you left behind, yesterday
I could tell that he was hurting for you
Sad, but he can't deny it
There was nothing else he could do
He was one of the many struck by it
Hurting for you
Finish before it started
It's the only thing left to do
'Cause the last of the broken-hearted
Is hurting for you
Day to day
That's how you should learn
to live your life, day to day
Put aside those dreams that keep hurting for you
Don't let the pain remind you
There is nothing else you can do
Better not ever let the day find you
Sympathy
I don't want to sound like what I feel
seems like pity at all
Destiny
But in the great design of life
we are all so pitifully small
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Why don't you write your mother
Why don't you call your family
They're expecting an answer
Spare them your strange behavior
What of your expectations
Weren't you going to show us all
Some new kind of dancer
This season's singing savior
I'm too far gone, and it's no use pretending
I could ever forget what I done
I'm already too far gone,
I got no bridges left to burn
It's better to keep moving on
It's such a long way down, too far to fall
Too much trouble to turn back around
Think of your friends and neighbors
Suffering through your lamest years
You must owe them something
Come now, you must remember
Haven't you finished playing
Get down to business soon
Because your lean years are coming
June now, but come December
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Onomatopoeia every time I see ya
My senses tell me hubba
And I just can't disagree
I get a feeling in my heart that I can't describe
It's sort of lub, dub, lub, dub
A sound in my head that I can't describe
It's sort of zoom, zip, hiccup, drip
Ding, dong, crunch, crack, bark, meow, whinnie, quack
Onomatopoeia in proximity ya
Rearrange my brain in a strange cacophony
I get a feeling somewhere that I can't describe
It's sort of uh, uh, uh, uh
A sound in my head that I can't describe
It's sort of whack, whir, wheeze, whine
Sputter, splat, squirt, scrape
Clink, clank, clunk, clatter
Crash, bang, beep, buzz
Ring, rip, roar, retch
Twang, toot, tinkle, thud
Pop, plop, plunk, pow
Snort, snuk, sniff, smack
Screech, splash, squish, squeek
Jingle, rattle, squeel, boing
Honk, hoot, hack, belch
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Girl the last time I saw you, you were crying my name
When I put you on the spot,
will you still feel the same
Show me some determination
Show me the measure of your dedication
I need to see just a reflection of your inspiration
Don't you break down on me
I'm looking for someone,
someone strong enough to believe in
Everybody's looking for someone
strong enough to stand on his feet
And never break down
I'll put my life on the line and believe what you say
I'll go out on a limb if you meet me halfway
I'm looking for someone
to show me what they mean by devotion
Everybody's looking for someone
prepared to put aside his emotion
And never break down
You're a new wave raver and you like to talk tough
But can you still cut the mustard
when the going gets rough
I need a demonstration of your determination
Give me an indication of your determination
Three days in the rain and I ain't had no sleep
But I won't break down now, I got a promise to keep
Showing my determination
'Cause that's the way I am
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Sleeping at night in a plaster board box
Scratching the earth with the nails on my fingers
And the ground pukes up rocks and rocks and more rocks
And when the seeds finally reach the ground
It's all been for nothing
I hear the cries of children at night
I watch their faces grow sallow with hunger
Who draws the line between what's wrong and right
And when I ask my life is for
It's all been for nothing
Save your regrets for the dead, but for the living
Give them love and give them bread
One more hungry mouth to be fed
Remember the living
Give them love, give them bread
Standing in the light of the kitchen screen door
Like some kind of untouchable stuck in Calcutta
I almost forget what I'm standing here for
And I don't know what to do but I know
I won't leave with nothing
Where are the days when life was carefree
Why must I suffer this, what was my crime
Begging or thievery, which shall it be
Is there no other choice for me
I can't live with nothing
Justice only comes to the dead
And when they ask me what life is for
I must give them something
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You cried wolf once too often
You cried wolf, you made me run
You cried wolf, I caught you bluffing
You'll cry wolf but I'll be gone
If you need someone to love
You only had to ask
Instead you pulled a false alarm
Baby, just for a laugh
You can have your little joke
But when they see what you done
You will holler for assistance and nobody will come
You can threaten me forever
With the same old song
But you can toy with my emotions
Baby, only so long
Because the very next time
I see you talk through your hat
You will get no more attention, I can promise you that
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Some people don't seem real at all
Unafraid of any mountain
Sure that the gods won't let him fall
Should he fall, he will always get up again
If he's hurt, he never shows it
If he's wrong, nobody knows it
Seems like he never has to try
He just must be a lucky guy
And when there's pain, he never minds it
When it's lost, he always finds it
Nobody really knows just why
He just must be a lucky guy
I wish I was that lucky guy
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Like a fly batters itself against a window
Time and again and again it senselessly blunders
Up and down the length of West Broadway
the bag lady wanders
Fifty cents rent goes pretty far
when you live in a subway car
One stop's the same as another
Even Son of Sam sees her sleeping,
she's not worth the bother
Sorrow, do they ever want to cry
Do they see us pass by
Where do they come from (simple answers)
Do they come falling,
falling from the sky like rain
Crawling up the basement drain
Misfits and black sheep
Former brothers, friends of mothers
There is no yesterday, there is no tomorrow
There is only now and that hardly matters
No one cares about sad old ladies
with bags full of tatters
One day it gets a bit too cold
Maybe a little too wet, maybe a little too lonely
Lifelessly she lies amidst her bag world
But maybe she's only sleeping
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Hot damn
Never dreamed a man could know such speed
Never had a chance to fill my need
It's just what I always wanted
To be the last of a dying breed
Said I thought I had my number down
I'd seen every scene to hit this town
Looks like no one wants to tell you
When something like this comes around
There they go, everyone's going
Everyone's gone this time
There they go, everyone's going
Don't you get left behind
Looks like it's gonna explode
Looks like it's gonna explode
Looks like it's gonna go totally out of control
Look out
I ain't never seen such chaos before
I ain't got no point of reference no more
And when I get my trip together
I'll be making a rush for the door
Doesn't anybody here know the rules
Hasn't anybody gotten through school
And the more I hear the answers
The more that I feel like a fool
Here I go, everyone's going
Everyone's gone this time
Here I go, everyone's going
Don't you get left behind
I think I'm gonna explode
I think I'm gonna explode
I think I'm gonna go totally out of control
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The day is done, the blinds are drawn
The sound of afternoon is gone
The corner store has locked its door
And everyone has left for home
When their sleepy little heads
settle snug inside their beds
You and I will stay and watch the sun fade away
The balladeer, the buccaneer
The liar, the man who would be king
The cavalier, the profiteer
The one who knows only suffering
As the cannons gather rust,
all their castles turn to dust
You and I will stay and see them fade away
We are on an endless flight my friend
With no beginning and no end
I've forgotten more than I remember
Sometimes I want to hide myself away
But I know there's no escape
We must go on, go on forever
The sea will rise, mountains fall
The earth will turn itself upside down
But we have seen it all before,
we will always be around
In a hundred million years
when the planet disappears
You and I will stay
and watch the world fade away
And in a million trillion years
when the stars all disappear
You and I will stay
and watch it all fade away
Healing
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My child, I had a visitation in my sleep last night
Something was calling to me from a blinding light
And told me not to fear it, hear it
It said, "It's time to make the world a little wiser.
There are enough destroyers and criticizers.
The world needs a healer, healer."
And I awoke, my heart was pounding
'Cause it was not like me to have such dreams
But I could not fall asleep for wondering
Why the messenger had come to me
My child, I am too old and I am set in my ways
But now I realize just what the voice conveyed
You will be a healer, healer
Rejoice, rejoice, rejoice
Because the healer comes
The healer comes
Your destiny I lay before you
But then the choice was never yours nor mine
When it's time to take this burden on you
Then I will take the one you leave behind
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Step by step by step by step by
Steps grow longer
'Til it's just like stepping in another world
Feel that pulse that pulse that pulse
That pulse go stronger
Like a breath line coming from another world
Don't want to leave my old world but I can't deny
What it is that draws me on
Like a magnet pulling from another world
Don't know what I'll find in the new world
But I'm not afraid of the sound that calls me on
Like a siren singing in another world
Here comes a change, and another change,
and another change
And another wave of change
Like a heartbeat pumping from another world
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Oh the law is the law
For no man wrote the law
They who would change the law just abuse it
Oh the law is the law
There is no justice outside the law
But if you know the law, you can use it
If you will, then you will
For nothing can withstand your will
As your faith is so you are
Where your mind is there you are
Just as action follows thought
You can be whole again
Be healed again
And make your body follow
You are but flesh and flesh will obey
You are but flesh and flesh must obey
Whoa your life is your life
No one else can live your life
And the debts of your life
You must pay them
If a man knows the law
He gets help from the law
Only fools fear the law that can save them
(Back to the Top)
If you know how to catch a mouse
The world will beat a pathway to your door
But since the first one's found our house
I can appreciate the saying more
I don't know
What they expect to find
I don't know
I can't make up my mind
They say he's got a special gift
But I don't envy him at all
They started camping in the yard
They've got their ears pressed up against the wall
I don't know
How long can this go on
I don't know
How did it last this long
Everybody wants an egg from the golden goose
But no one cares if they're the one
who kills the golden goose
Everybody wants an egg from the golden goose
I wonder just how many eggs are in the golden goose?
A paparazzi's at the door
He says he's here from People Magazine
And there's some lady on the phone
Wants him to advertise designer jeans
(Back to the Top)
You want more, and still more,
Until you get more than you ever bargained for.
Now its plain, clear as rain,
I've seen your symptoms many times before.
Lying on your bed of pain
What will you have now?
What are riches untold in a life without compassion?
For there's no winter as cold
as a life without compassion.
There's no prescription that's sold
that can heal you like compassion.
Well you tried and you cried,
And let your disappointment make you hard inside.
You have doubt, you reach out,
Still you're the only one you care about.
Hiding in your sack of woe
What do you need now?
For there is nothing so sad
as a life without compassion.
And even love has turned bad,
it was love without compassion.
And you don't need what you had
'Cause you did not have compassion.
Dying on your bed of pain
What will you have now?
You'll get no judgment from me,
I can only feel compassion.
And if that's what you need,
I will give you my compassion.
Just don't forget about me
'Cause we all need some compassion.
Open up your heart
so you can start to feel compassion.
Get down on your knees,
pray to heaven for compassion.
Everybody needs compassion.
If you want to be healed
then you know you got to feel compassion.
(Back to the Top)
Now as the evening sun sets on you healer
Your day is over, your light is fading away at last
And the wolves howl after the healer
Fighting for pieces, bits of his shattered remains
All who could know it
First they curse you then they warn you so
Then they use you and then they go on
'Til they curse you and there's no more
And they turn off all the light
that you were giving away
And they burn off but they just don't seem to shine
Is it all gone, is there no one who will shine?
Don't let the secret out, it's much too early
They are not ready but the hour is close at hand
For the wolves of the world are still hungry
But they are dying, there is no healing for them
You will know by the signs you have seen before
In your seeds of life there are more to come
The healer was not alone
He will turn on all the light
that they've been hiding away
Turn on the light
He will burn off
Come on and shine you diamond shine
They will turn on all the light
that they've been hiding away
They've got to turn on the light
They will burn off
Come on shine you diamond shine
There are a million eyes watching the world tonight
Have we learned nothing?
Do we merit another chance?
By what grace have we earned some redemption
Ten million saviors, ten billion angels of man
Those who know that such miracles can be so
They arrive because they must go
And lead believers to bring it home
(Back to the Top)
Listen, listen
Listen to the voice,
the voice is an illusion
Listen to the voice,
don't let the words confuse you
'Cause you need something to concentrate on,
concentrate on me
You need something to meditate on,
meditate on me
Listen, listen
Listen to your heart
tune into the rhythm
Listen to your heart
beating with precision
Like the waves upon the seaside,
it goes on and on
Like the spinning of the world,
it goes on and on
Listen, listen
Listen for the sound
that is not in the music
Only you can hear it,
only you can use it
It's the sound of someone breathing,
it's the breath of life
It's the sound that you are weaving
with the thread of life
Listen, listen
Listen to the sound,
let nothing disturb you
You are in a place
where nothing can hurt you
If you feel a strange sensation,
it can do no harm
Like the spiral of creation,
it will soon move on
(Back to the Top)
Where you are going
you cannot take your body
You are on a journey,
the baggage is too heavy
You can leave your legs behind you,
you will learn to fly
You can leave your arms behind you,
you will touch the sky
You can leave your head behind you,
you are thought itself
You can leave the rest behind you,
you are breath itself
Now you are naked,
there's no one here to judge you
See the clear light
shining high above you
Then you're floating in the silence,
you are not alone
For the power of your being
keeps you flowing on
Look upon yourself
only with compassion
Strip away the shell
hiding your perfection
Though your past was full of darkness,
now the past is gone
And your life is starting over
when it's just begun
Now you are whole,
don't you recognize it
Towering eternal
behind the troubled thoughts that hide it
Though at times it seems so distant,
it is always there
When you need its peace and power,
you will know it's here
(Back to the Top)
Listen, listen
Listen to the cry
of a world that's calling to you
Listen to the cry
of the helpless souls that need you
Though you may have trepidation
you can not refuse
You will find your own salvation
in the path you choose
Listen, listen
Listen to the voice
that whispers in the silence
Listen as the voice
solidifies your self reliance
Let the peace that you've discovered
be a guiding light
Let the cry that you've uncovered
set the world aright
You could not be closer to your maker
never more or less alone
If you know thyself
there's nothing else to know
You are home
Welcome home
Listen, listen
Listen to the sound,
let nothing disturb you
You are in a place
where nothing can hurt you
If you feel a strange sensation,
it can do no harm
Like the spiral of creation,
it will soon move on
(Back to the Top)
If you're bleeding,
Then everyone can see you're bleeding
They can call for the doctor,
Who'll provide what the diagnosis says you're needing
Then he'll take away your pain
But if your heart,
Your heart has been broken
And you don't wear it on your sleeve
No one can tell,
Your hell goes unspoken
But there's one thing you must believe
Time heals the wounds no one can see
Time heals the wounds that no one can see
If you're crying
Then everyone can see you crying
And they all sympathize
But it just doesn't matter
Though they may be trying,
They can't feel the hurt inside
You can't go on,
You've gone to the limit
And your life seems to slip away
You're on your own
Alone you must face it
And tomorrow's so far away
You got to hold on baby
Got to give it time to heal
Time heals the wounds that no one can see
You must believe what they say is true
It do's wonders for ya, yeah, yeah
(Back to the Top)
One of them plays a piccolo in my ear
Another one makes me smell things that aren't there
And they know where to hide
And they know everything that's inside
Of my head
Tiny demons, inside me
One of them ties a lasso around my heart
Another makes me nod when I drive the car
And they won't ever leave
But they won't show their faces to me
And they wait 'til I feel
Like they're gone and they jump out and steal
My relief
Tiny demons, inside me
The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect
(Back to the Top)
I've been watching how you dance
Watching how you smile
Watching how you carry yourself around in a crowd
And watching what you say
You've got something that's a secret to the average eye
You've been saving something nobody's seen until now
In a hideaway
I'm not trying to invade your privacy
There are things you have a right to hide
But it's oh so cold
Standing on the outside
Will you take me to your secret hideaway
I won't tell nobody where I'm going
Won't you tell me that we're leaving right away
For the heart of your hideaway
Everybody's looking for a heaven on earth
A slice of paradise where nobody gets hurt
Someone to put the pieces back together again
When your daydreams die
Are you trying to get a message through the air to me?
Get me on your wavelength and tell me which way to go
To your hideaway
I can't stand another second in this tinker-toy world
Give me your direction
Don't make me wait anymore
It seems so far away
You can trust me with your secret fantasy
You will never know until you've tried
But it's oh so cold
Standing on the outside
I've been trying to get a message
Through the air to you
Get on my wavelength
And I'll tell you which way to go
To my hideaway
I will show you to my secret hideaway
We will tell nobody where we're going
(Back to the Top)
I can feel, I can tell
I can feel, I can tell, I can see
Something is changing
To me change is no stranger
I don't run, I don't hide
I don't run, I don't hide, I don't fight
What fate arranges
I don't think about danger
If it was meant for me
I'd know just where to go
But if I can take it slow
Then I might be in control
In the back of my head
In the back of my head there is doubt
There is suspicion
With my new fascination
I don't know what it is
I don't know what it is, you might say
It's intuition
It's a true indication
I should trust myself
I should beware of this
But it's like a stranger's kiss
And somehow I can't resist
I can feel my will slip away
From a strange influenza
I can feel my mind slip away
Under your influenza
I can feel my heart slip away
Under your influenza
There's a part of my heart
There's a part of my heart that cries out
Please go no further
I just can't take the pressure
So I try to resist
So I try to resist and my heart
Tells me don't bother
That this pain is a pleasure
If I were someone else
I wouldn't disagree
But it's always hard to see
When something's controlling me
(Back to the Top)
I've done some bad things
This I know
If I can't change things
Tell me so
It does no good to break your toe on the wall
I know you're angry
That's all right
I said I don't care
Well, I lied
But I don't care who wins the fight after all
As long as you don't hurt yourself
Don't hurt yourself
It's bad enough
Don't hurt yourself
I wouldn't want to see you make
Trouble for yourself over
My mistake
That's all I'm asking so
Don't hurt yourself
Don't hurt yourself
I don't want to see you hurt
Hurt a single second for me
You burn your bridges
When you're cross
There's nothing left when
You cool off
You can't go back so
Now you're lost like a rolling stone
It seems like trouble
So you hide
You keep it bottled up inside
'Til its too late and
You end up crying alone
And there you go
(Back to the Top)
Your ship is sinking in a swirling sea
The water's rising up around your knees
Let's pop the question
Is it time to leave?
You say maybe
You're at the bottom of an avalanche
A swift departure is your only chance
You say it doesn't make a difference 'cause
There goes your baybay
There goes your baybay
There goes your baybay
You never thought you'd see her
Walking away
There goes your baybay
There goes your baybay
There goes your baybay
You never thought that it would
Affect you this way
The Market's crashing and the bulls and bears
Are falling out of windows everywhere
You've got it covered and you just don't care
Yeah, it's crazy
You made some clever moves in real estate
It's caviar upon a golden plate
Until you're throttled by the hand of fate
There goes your baybay
You know I've seen it happen all the time
You get too far above the bottom line
One day you're sure that everything is fine
Then the next day you see
I stand behind every word I said
It takes a special thing to make her stay
And I was convinced that I had found a way
Now I can't believe it's happened to me
'Cause there goes my baybay
(Back to the Top)
I am a little tin soldier
That wants to jump into your fire
You, are a look in your eye
A dream passing by in the sky
But I don't understand
And all I need is treat me like a man
'Cause I ain't no child
Take me like I am
I got the love that belongs to you
Do anything that you want me to
Sing any song that you want me to
Sing to you
I don't need no aggravation
Listen, I just got to make you
I just got to make you
I just got to make you understand
All I need is your whispered hello
Smiles melting the snow with one word
Your eyes, they are deeper than time
Say love that won't die without words
So now I've lost my way
I need help to show me things to say
So give me your love
Before I fade away
I just want some reaction
Something to give me satisfaction
[...] to be with you
'Cause I love you
(Back to the Top)
I am the Emperor of the Highway
I wield the Universal Will
One might chance to overlook on my Divineness
Unless I'm sitting in the Imperial Poupe de Ville
I am the Emperor of the Highway
Strapped with foolish mortals such as these
I need never indicate my intentions
I can stop and go and turn just as I please
For I am the Emperor of the Highway
Hold!
Methinks that thou hast driven too far
I am the Royal Prince of Foreign Sports Cars
Better that I should drive a wheelchair or jog
Than to be blown off by a Regal Road Hog
I am the Emperor of the Highway
(Where did you ever get that gas sucking pig of a car?)
This time my friend, you are outclassed
(Any real man would drive a stick shift)
For my uncle is the Duke of the State Police
(Cut me off again and I will punch your lights out)
And he will place his Royal Boot upon your Ass
(This is my exit, we shall meet another day)
Don't forget who's Emperor of the Highway
For I am the Emperor of the Highway!
(Back to the Top)
I don't want to work
I want to bang on the drum all day
I don't want to play
I just want to bang on the drum all day
Ever since I was a tiny boy
I don't want no candy
I don't need no toy
I took a stick and an old coffee can
I bang on that thing 'til I got
Blisters on my hand because
When I get older they think I'm a fool
The teacher told me I should stay after school
She caught me pounding on the desk with my hands
But my licks was so hot
I made the teacher wanna dance
And that's why
Listen to this
Every day when I get home from work
I feel so frustrated
The boss is a jerk
And I get my sticks and go out to the shed
And I pound on that drum like it was the boss's head
Because
I can bang that drum
Hey, you wanna take a bang at it?
I can do this all day
(Back to the Top)
I'm bleeding
I don't think I can go on
I'm dying
My last breath has come and gone
Pity the man
Searching in the sky
Looking for a sign from above
And he never caught a glimpse of
What he's worthy of
Don't sit and wait
For the world on a plate
It's not a stroke of luck or chance
Just draw a bead on that sucker
And drive
I'm falling
I don't know what's up or down
I'm spinning
I can't turn my life around
Pity the man
Waiting for a clue
Can't tell what to do with himself
Ends up as a fool who
Lives for someone else
Don't sit and cry
While the world passes by
Stop tagging after the other guy
Just get a line on that mother
And drive
(Back to the Top)
We can't turn back the clock
But we can chant for love
Let's cut the idle talk so we can
Chant for love
We always have the time to quarrel
About such problems as money and war
Let's put it off until tomorrow
Who needs another dose of sorrow?
It don't necessitate an act of faith
To chant for love
What alibi is strong enough to wait
To chant for love
Though we don't hold the reigns of power
Somebody else seems to be in control
We mustn't waste another hour
We'll get directly to the soul
If we can
Chant
For a world united
Chant
For a world that's dying for love
The Hare Krishna plays a drum and bell
When he chants for love
The tribal priest is afraid of hell
So he chants for love
I am not pushing some religion
Don't get me wrong,
I never mess with such things
Just be true to your own vision
This is your personal decision
The Dervish spins to a "Hu Hu Hu"
When he chants for love
Nobody knows what the angels do
When they chant for love
You're at the bottom of the ladder
Someone may try to tell you where you should start
But the words, they never matter
If you can feel it in your heart
Then you can
Why don't you chant?
You can chant
Chant, chant, chant ...
A Cappella
(Back to the Top)
If you want to cry
You can always find something to cry about
It's so easy to be wise
Over someone else's tears
But you have a gift
That the rest of us just can't live without
And it's something in your voice
When you tell us how you feel
'Cause we've all loved something and lost it
And it's burning my heart
I can't open my mouth and just let it out
But when I hear my Blue Orpheus sing
I know that life is a wonderful thing
Somewhere there's love and perpetual spring
I know life is a wonderful thing
Seems so long ago
The sound of your joy filled the atmosphere
We can make it on our own
But the road is so rocky and steep
And when you feel lost
No one tells you what you need to hear
And the only dream you have
Is the one that's in your sleep
'Cause we soon forget what we're here for
I need someone to say he's got dreams of his own
I'll know I'm not alone
I want to hear my Blue Orpheus sing
I'll know that life is a wonderful thing
Somewhere there's love and perpetual spring
I'll know life is a wonderful thing
Sing
You will one day be together again
Though you can not see her
Sing
She is somewhere in the world
(Back to the Top)
He was just fifteen, he was a new trainee
He lied about it for the opportunity
To defend the border his life was sworn
Though not a generation was native born
Johnee Jingo
Johnee Jingo
He had lost the battle but won the war
When the generals said he couldn't fight no more
He was proud and bitter at what he'd done
So he passed it off to his favorite son
Johnee Jingo
Johnee Jingo
Jingo don't you fight for me
Jingo don't you speak for me
To the man who owns the land
We're all the same
But when his grip begins to slip
Then he'll be calling out your name
Johnee Jingo
And the throne, the pulpit, and the politician
Create a thirst for power in the common man
It's a taste for blood passed off as bravery
Or just patriotism hiding bigotry
(Back to the Top)
Today I am your chariot horse
Tomorrow I'm your albatross
Suspended by the finest thread
No one could ever see
And when there's breathing in your ear
You put your faith in all you hear
But just how deep those feelings go
I have no way to know
I'll never know
If I was blind
Would you still be my eyes
Or hide everything you see
Pretending to care about me
When all the time
You're just wishing I'd fade away
You just can't bring yourself to
Say out loud the reasons why
You won't admit you realize
The promise you've been living by
Is just an empty shell
You'll come to bear it like a cross
Then start to tear it like frayed gauze
Though I'm ashamed to be afraid
I just can't help myself
Can't help myself
(Back to the Top)
Hodja please show me how to spin now
Hodja please show me how you do it
All the other boys are laughing at me again now
Hodja please show me how you do it
Whenever I talk they don't hear a thing
And everyone laughs when I sing
Hodja, please show me how to spin
I want to do that dance 'til I forget where I am
So get up out of your bed one more time
Hodja, make me spin
Yeah, teach me to spin like I seen you do
Why don't you make me the envy
of the kids in school
I know what to wear, I know how to sound
I know about kissing the ground
From every alley in Konya
Mevlana sings "Turn around, turn around
You've got to spin 'til your feet leave the
ground"
Hodja, someday soon you will be moving on
So won't you let me be the one
you lay the secret on
And it's a 2 4 6 8, take it from the top
You've got to start me up and don't let me stop
(Back to the Top)
Now I guess it's too late to speculate
On things as they might have been
That given the time, you'd read my mind
And know there was love within
I could loudly exclaim we felt the same
But not in all honesty
Now you'll never know
How could you know the friend that you had in me
I've got so much to learn now
Lessons I never had
When you lose a friend forever
Hurts so bad
Ooh it hurt me so bad
I had always believed that you and me
Were connected by destiny
But the time never came
It sounds so lame
Is it all just my vanity?
Am I the only one to feel the sun
Exactly the way I do?
When you sang how you felt I'd tell myself
Maybe someday I'll sing with you
I've got so much to hope for
Dreams that I've never had
When you've got no one to share them
Hurts so bad
Ooh it hurt me so bad
I have an ideal I think is real
But I just can't find it
I believe that one day
I'll melt away into that lost horizon
Ooh it hurt me so bad
That you had an ideal you knew was real
And you went out to find it
And you found it one day
You've gone to stay into that lost horizon
(Back to the Top)
If I gave you just a bit more time
Do you think that you would make up your mind?
You can't expect that a flower will grow
Until you get around to giving it more
Like it's only
Something to fall back on
Something to fall back on
Something to fall back on
Like a crumpled dollar hidden in your hat
For the subway home when there's no welcome mat
You'd be left with nothing if it weren't for that
When you need to find it it's right behind you
Remember when you were the talk of the town
And you didn't care if I was around
But still you kept me in the back of your head
Just like the teddy bear that you took to bed
I was only something to fall back on
And to wake up lonely is your deepest dread
So you stay connected by a tiny thread
Though you'd rather try for something else instead
When you need to find me I'm right behind you
I know I'm only
Something to fall back on
I don't know what makes me think I've the right
To tell you what is most important in life
But after all I guess I just don't care
And if you need me I will always be there
'Cause when I just imagine how it will be
Then I guess it's something to fall back on
Something to fall back on for me
I need to know you'll need me sometime
Everybody needs somebody to fall back on
Fall back on me
Nobody's going nowhere
You can call me anytime
You can fall back on me
You can call on me
I'm waiting on you babe
When your world is falling down
And there's no one else around
And you're sitting, waiting by the phone
You can call me and I won't leave you alone
(Back to the Top)
As Jalaludin Rumi has prophesied
This day
This day Allah
Allah will make his presence known to you
There is a miracle in the bazaar
There is a miracle in the bazaar
There a spirit appeared in flaming green
Mamun the madman is cured
Praise be to Allah
Praise be to Allah
There is no God but God
There is no God but God
(Back to the Top)
Look out children
Mothers hide all the children who lie
Lockjaw's coming with a rusty nail
He's gonna nail your mouth open wide
Look out children
Boys and girls who do falsify
From the Black Forest with a hammerhead
He's looking for you with a rusty eye
In the Black Forest, lives an ogre named Lockjaw. Lockjaw doesn't like children
who tell lies. Late at night he stalks the houses of the fibbers and the
falsifiers, and before they can cry out from their beds, he nails their jaws
open with a rusty nail, using his head for a hammer. You may escape him for a
while and think you fooled him, but he'll get you in the end. He'll get ya!
HE'LL GET YA!!
Lockjaw's coming
Hide your heads, all you lying children
Mothers hide all your lying children
Fathers hide all your lying children
Look out mothers
Telling lies to a gullible child
Lockjaw's coming with a rusty nail
He'gonna nail your mouth open wide
Look out Fathers
Teachers and leaders who do falsify
From the Black Forest with a hammerhead
He's looking for you with a rusty eye
Many people wonder "Could such a terrible tail be true? Who would make up such
a terrible tale?" It seems such a cruel punishment for such a tiny little lie.
Well, I've got to confess. It's a fib. I made it up myself. It's pretty funny,
don't you think? Ha, ha ha! Gag, gag, gag!!!
(Back to the Top)
I'm not afraid to bend my back
I'm not afraid of dirt
But how I fear the things I do
For lack of honest work
My family is lost to me
They could not bear the hurt
To see the state their boy is in
For lack of honest work
I hold no blame for anyone
'Twas I who did arrange
To pay my union dues so I'd
Not have to learn or change
And when I was replaced, 'twas I
Who started down the hill
And drank away my savings 'til
I couldn't stop myself
The prophets of a brave new world
Captains of industry
Have visions grand and great designs
But none have room for me
They see a world where everyone
Is rich and smart and young
But if I live to see such things
Too late for me they come
I know I'm not the only one
To fall beneath the wheel
Such company can not assuage
The loneliness I feel
So many are resigned to be
Society's debris
But I will be remembered for
The life life took from me
For I'm not afraid to bend my back
I'm not afraid of dirt
But how I fear the things I do
For lack of honest work
(Back to the Top)
Once there was a boy and girl
Boy said "I love you so"
Girl said "I'll never leave you"
They grew older and left each other
'Cause that's the way love goes
Then there's a time
Seems like you'll never find
Someone willing to love you
Keep on looking you'll soon discover
A mighty love
Can sometimes make a weak man moan
Said a mighty love
You sit all day by the telephone
'Cause you're all alone
You need a mighty love
Some say that you're sure to find
True love and piece of mind
At the end of the rainbow
There's no sign in the sky to follow
'Cause that's the way love goes
And so there's a rhyme
That says life will soon be fine
Love is just what you make it
Keep on loving, you'll soon discover
A mighty love
Can sometimes make a weak man strong
A mighty love
Can sometimes make a rich man weep
And knock him off his feet
To have a mighty love
Nearly Human
(Back to the Top)
I've been wrong
I had plans so big
But the devil's in the details
I left out one thing
No one to love me
No one to love me
No one to love
For the want of a nail, the world was lost
For the want of a nail, the world was lost
For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost
For the want of a shoe, the horse was lost
For the want of a horse, the rider was lost
For the want of a rider, the message was lost
For the want of a rider, the message was lost
For the want of a message, the battle was lost
For the want of a battle, the war was lost
For the want of a war, the kingdom was lost
(Such a tiny thing)
You're askin'
What's all this talk about horses and war?
Put yourself in the place of the man at the forge
And day after day you live a life without love
'Til the morning you can't take it anymore
And you don't get up
Multiply it a billion times
Spread it all 'round the world
Put the curse of loneliness on every boy and every girl
Until everybody's kicking, everybody's scratching
Everything seems to fail
And it was all for the want of a nail
Tell me what else could the answer be
Don't hold back now
Give me all your love
Just a little more love
A little tiny bit of love
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Every time that I fall for that same old trick
I punish myself with the same old stick
I want to believe it so badly I deceive myself
Forgetting reality
Ignoring the fact that you're altogether someplace else
Forgetting reality
But I swear here and now
The truth shall be mine
And surrender to my prayer
The weapon is time
I'll play your waiting game
I'm gonna win the win the waiting game
I'll play your waiting game
I'm gonna win this game my friend
And forget you in the end
Your memory seems like a living thing
I never know if I'm imagining
I look at your face and I know that's impossible
Forgetting it's just a dream
Now I'm hearing your voice saying anything is possible
Forgetting it's just a dream
And I still can't say why
You keep invading my mind
But this uncontrolled fixation
Grows weaker with time
A cloud of unknowing floats between you and me
A trickle of love still flows between you and me
But we live in different galaxies
But I swear here and now
Your heart will be mine
You'll surrender to my love
My weapon is time
And your wall of resistance
I will slowly undermine
While your uncontrolled fixation
Grows stronger with time
I'll play your waiting game
I'm gonna win the win the waiting game
I'll play your waiting game
I'm gonna win this game my friend
And I'll be with you in the end
I'll play, yes I will
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Kindred spirits moving along the spiral
I can see you up on another level
It's too great a fall
And I can't reach you to pull me higher
But I don't seem to get much closer or any more far
What would you tell me, if I could hear you speaking?
If you could touch me, how would I know the feeling?
I just can't imagine
But I try to do it anyway
I wish I was moving faster, I wish you'd drift back
But it just wasn't meant to happen
Very soon I'll have to
Face the fact
Some things never come together
Parallel lines running on forever
And you can't turn back
There is never any starting over
Parallel lines never do cross over
It's a challenge
Gotta make myself remember
Facing the truth, well, that doesn't mean surrender
What is bravado and how much is a force of will?
I know that the world is full of opposites that attract
But unless we ignore the physics
Very soon we'll have to
So I send you the gift of empathy
If you'd once in your life acknowledge me
I have visualized so thoroughly
That when I think of me I think of we
Can't face the truth
It means that we must surrender
Understanding won't satisfy the hunger
It whittles away at the destiny we fulfill
And like an animal running wild
You can't call it back
And it's just gonna make it harder
When it's finally time to
It's like a train that's stuck running on a track
Parallel lines running on, running on, running on
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Why are we racing to be so old?
I'm up late pacing the floor
I won't be told
You have your reservations
I'm bought and sold
I'll face the music, I'll face the facts
Even when we walk in polka dots and chequer slacks
Bowing and squatting, running after tidbits
Bobbing and squinting just like a nit wit
Two little Hitlers will fight it out until
One little Hitler does the other one's will
I will return, I will not burn
Down in the basement
I need my head examined
I need my eyes excited
I'd like to join the party
But I was not invited
You make a member of me
I'll be delighted
I wouldn't cry for lost souls you might drown
Dirty words for dirty minds, written in a toilet town
Dial me a valentine, she's a smooth operator
It's all so calculated, she's got a calculator
She's my soft-touch typewriter and I'm the great dictator
A simple game of self respect
You flick the switch and the world goes out
Nobody jumps as you expect
I would have thought you would have had enough by now
You call selective dating for some effective mating
I thought I'd let you down dear, but you were just deflated
I knew right from the start, we'd end up hating
Pictures of the merchandise plastered on the wall
We can look so long as we don't have to talk at all
You say you'll never know him
He's not a natural man
He doesn't want your pleasure
He wants as no one can
He wants to know the names of all those he's better than
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Time marches on
I learn to crawl, I learn to walk
You couldn't stop me from running
Stop me from running
Before I heard my name
Before I learned to talk
I knew I was running to something
Running to something
Into the arms of my god
Time marches on
And I awaken to the world
And I'm still running to something
Running to something far away
Unseen by the others in the herd
I'm only running to something
Running to something
Into the arms of my dream
I can't stop running
I can't stop running
I have a vision of myself breaking the finish line string
I still can hear it
This dream is calling
So I'll keep running
Time marches on
I start to trip, I start to fall
And now I'm running from something
Running from something on my tail
Can't turn to look, can't hear the call
I'm only running from something
Running from something
Running in fear I will fail
Meanwhile
Time marches on and on
And the strength to run may soon be gone
Now I watch the young ones coming
And it's on their legs I'm running
Into the arms of my god
Can you hear it? Can you hear it?
Feet don't fail me now
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Must be a factory somewhere
Keeps on cranking them out
Seems like they travel in pairs
Not worth the trouble but too full of clout
Somebody must play his game
They get stuck in the here and now
Lending and borrowing pain
His fist, your face, you kiss the ground
But he don't do nothing half way
Complete this equation
He needs justification
Distaff affirmation
To keep on crankin' it out
We could build cell on cell
Mainline him straight to hell
But that would not dispel
Violent men, hard-headed women, unloved children
Must be a garden somewhere
Keeps on sending them down
Big eyes, big teeth, big hair
Ready to breed with the nearest clown
She has the will to complain
But something won't let her
Break free of the tether
Even though she knows better
She just can't figure it out
We can prescribe for pain
Have her declared insane
Even all this won't change
Violent men, hard-headed women, unloved children
We let them find their own way
While everyone chooses
To ignore the abuses
We've all got excuses
We keep on, keep on cranking them out
And nobody has the time
To look at the great design
But they're all from the same bloodline
Violent men, hard-headed women, unloved children
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I've been hurt
I've never been so hurt
Yes, and only you know why
But I would be far more hurt if we had to say good bye
When I think that it's all or nothing
I tell myself
True love does not demand fidelity
If there's one sacred place always in your heart for me
Time has come
I knew the time would come
When someone would want to be more than friends
But we had a love so sweet
I thought the dream would never end
If my love could not withstand this jealousy
I'd remember the day I threw away our eternity
Has no plan, things will happen we don't understand
One day the glove is on the other hand
And when you think that it's all or nothing
Just tell yourself
If our love could not withstand this jealousy
We'd remember the day we threw away our eternity
If it's true love, it does not demand fidelity
Oh it hurt me so bad
But I can't help but love you for eternity
I know we got a true love
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I look at you and go mad
With thoughts of things that I'd do
If I had just one chance to show you
What this man really wants to do
When we're through, you would say
It's been done never that way
Now I know you can learn something new every day
And it feels so good
If you don't think too much
Don't even try to be serious
Just let my hands take control
And give me all of your soul
You know I tried
To run away but I can't hide
From the moment that's suspended deep inside
When you were mine
And now I need to feel it
One more time
Won't you try to feel it
Help me try to feel it
Feels so good when you lean into me
In the dark I can see
In my mind I can feel what is reality
Why can't you see
Things like this are meant to be
Yet somehow once again
You have thrown me aside
But always this feeling survives
Help me try one more time
Don't you know I tried
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Whenever I
I close my eyes
Then I don't mind being the way I am
But whenever I try
Explaining why
I know I never can
Now that it's
Gone, paths I used to travel
Gone, things I used to handle
Gone, once I had a choice what to be
But then god kissed me
And I lost it when I fainted in his arms
Have pity on me brother
I'm trapped behind the mirror
I'm out here on the border
Wondering why
Why was it I?
Maybe my mind wouldn't have come this way
If I'd taken my time
Answers only unwind
When you can't look away
Maybe 'cause
I want the secret broken
I want the casket open
I need to see what no eyes can see
And when god kissed me
Then I dreamed them when I fainted in her arms
Now I've got to go on sleeping
Lean in a little closer
And I'll tell you what I'm dreaming
I'll tell you what I'm dreaming
I see time without beginning
Space without an ending
I see bodies strong and running
With minds not comprehending
Have pity on your brother
Please have pity on your sister
Take pity on each other
And on every living creature
Whenever I
Open my eyes
I can't believe it's real
It's a jungle outside
People just survive
They can't reach the high ideal
But I
Know if I can't recover, at least I
Know, I know the book from cover to cover, and who
Knows, I might dream forever
Since I've met the world's greatest lover
When god kissed me
And I knew it when I fainted in his arms
Let's dream together people
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Every day I hear the news
Seems like people worship pain
All your Oprahs and Donahues
They just can't explain
As you reap you shall sow
I looked high I looked low
Now I know that I love my life
I love my life
I said me and my creator
We got a funny love thing
It's happenin' now and not later
Yeah, that's why I sing
First came thought then came deed
I got caught now I'm freed
All I need is to love my life
I love my life
Time, the topic of the sermon tonight is time
Time, the thief of hope
Time, the ameliorator of all our endeavors
What will we do with time off our backs?
We would make this world a perfect place
We would make our lives a perfect thing, if not for time
But I tell you now, time is an illusion
Time is an illusion, time is not real
Time is the dividing line between what is true and what is not true
Between what is real and what is not real
Between what is so and what is not so
But who, I said who, who stands for time?
Who stands at the threshold of time?
Who decides what is true and what is not true?
We do, you and I
You and I decide what is true and what is not true
What shall be our guiding light?
Happiness, I say happiness
But in a world, I see people in a world of misery
I see a world full of sorrow
Why should we be happy?
Tell me why should we be happy?
We need a message from above
Look over there, look over here
I can see it, there is beauty in the world
2nd Wind
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Half of me wants to knock you out
Half of me wants to tell you that I'm sorry, so sorry
Meanwhile, half of the world wants to scream and
shout at half of the world
Just like you and I
Just another fact of life
We plan and we scheme
'Til there's nothing left of our little dream
But half of the time I can't decide and
Half of the time I'm petrified
I want to change the world
I want to make it well
How can I change the world
When I can't change myself
Try again tomorrow
I'd love to change your mind
Capture your citadel
How could I change your mind
If I can't change myself
Try again tomorrow
Both of us want to win this fight
Both of us think the other is mistaken, so mistaken
Meanwhile, everyone wants to take up sides
So everyone helps us to fall apart
Just another fact of life
It's hard to play fair
And it's so easy to pretend to care
But if nobody wants to share the blame
Then everyone gets more of the same
If I want more peace in the world
Then I must make peace with myself
If I want more trust in the world
Then I've got to trust in myself
If I want more love in the world
I must show more love to myself
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I've been around the world, I'm going around again
I got a new word up, gonna lay it on my friends
I'm still too young, I've got these emotions in my blood
But when I grow up, gonna be a scientist of love
Working on, love science
Got to know, love science
Show the world, love science
How to be a scientist of love
Tell my friends, love science
Take a chance, love science
Give it up, love science
I'm a scientist of love
Feel the power, love science
Study hard, love science
Know the truth, love science
Be a scientist of love
Choose a plan, love science
Pick 'em up, put 'em down, love science
Bring it on home, love science
Got to be a scientist of love
Hey you!
Sometimes you get screwed up, and you're looking for a cure
But you don't want to see just another amateur
I know the kind of expert you must be thinking of
Go out and find yourself a scientist of love
Some say that love's a game, a random circumstance
I'm not the type to leave that kind of thing to chance
You might sit back and wait, but I'm taking off the gloves
I'm gonna crack this case like a scientist of love
1, 2, 3!
If love's what we want, if love's what we need
Why can't we make love from suspicion and greed?
If love's what we want, if love's what we need
Why can't we make love?
I've got no time to waste just waiting for the bus
This is the place, the space to get down and serious
School is in, the lab is open for research
I do declare that love is a walking, talking church
I've got to quell the beast, be a credit to my sex
I've got to give at least as much as I expect
Can't get no rest 'til I discover what I need
Gotta start somewhere, that why I believe, believe, believe
Believe the word, love science
Party down, love science
Thinking hard, love science
How to be a scientist of love
Place to place, love science
Hour to hour, love science
Can't hold back, love science
Got to be a scientist of love
Sexy girl, love science
Manish boy, love science
Take the course, love science
And be a scientist of love
In your face, love science
Outer space, love science
Here's a taste, love science
Got to be a scientist of love
If love's what we want, if love's what we need
Why can't we make love in a love factory?
If love's what we want, if love's what we need
Why can't we make love?
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You can feel the bodies aching
You can feel the spirit waisting
But it's someone else's children
And it's someone else's problem in the end
You just go about your business
You've got bigger fish frying
Someday you might be a witness
Someday you may wake up crying like I cry
What's the problem?
There's no problem in your own little world
What's the bother?
Can't be bothered
'til your own little world goes to hell,
Then you can tell
We are all in this together
We are all in this together
We got to pull together
And we can't worry who's sorry now
Who's sorry now,
Now that everything is clear
Who's sorry now,
Sorrow unspoken here
Please take a bow
You got so many distractions
You got old friends to satisfy
You're afraid of the reaction
If the others should find out, you'd falsify
Maybe this could never happen
Maybe God is on your side
Tell yourself what I tell myself
That it's justice when somebody else must die
It's a hard life
Such a hard life, it's a hard little world
Some are winners, some are losers
Here in our little world
But you'd sell out, beg, borrow, steal,
Move mountains, if it was your own
It was your own
When it's your own pretty baby
There's no method in the madness
We all can't escape the sadness
Don't surround your heart with hardness
You may someday need someone to sympathize
Before you're crushed by your own selfishness
You must confess
Are you feeling sorry?
Sorrow spoken here
Who's sorry now
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My boy I say you're unaware of
Things that I am unaware of
The things they say behind one's back
That you suspect but aren't quite sure of
Don't say you haven't noticed
The smell of money is all about me
I just can't rid myself
Of it's overpowering bouquet
My inner beauty cursed with obscurity
By a scent that can't be washed away
I don't know who you think I am
But if I'm who I think I am
Then there's no cranny I've examined
Taints the air where ere I am
But don't say you haven't noticed
The smell of money wafts all about me
It neutralizes any other odors I convey
Best friends won't tell me
They know I'm suffering
With a scent that can't be washed away
The stench of money
Is reeking off of me
A mix of cheap cologne
Weasel pheromone and rotted grave
Thank dad and mommy
I'm filthy, stinking rich
So I can say to you "Piss off"
I bathe, I bathe
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If I have to be alone
Then I should make my mind serene
After all you're born alone, you die alone
You might as well spend every moment in between alone
But if I have to be alone
Then it will be on my own terms
I can never talk about it, ever show it
Even though the world is watching while I squirm alone
And your bleeding heart friends say, "Isn't it sad?"
Then they go make love
While you go insane. Insane!
It drives you mad! Mad!
My mind, I love my mind
And if no one can feel the same
I'm a computer with a name
And I've got no one else to blame
If I have to be alone
And if nobody understands
That special creature that is me
And if they fail to see the me I see
Then no one else knows truly what it is
To be alone
Maybe once in a lifetime you lose your will
Then you can let down your guard
But they cower in fear. In fear.
It makes you ill! Ill!
My heart, my burning heart
And if no one will quench the flame
I'm not obliged to do the same
And then they'll have to share the blame
Because I have to be alone
Because I have to be alone
But I don't want to be alone
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Sometimes things fall apart
That's God's love in disguise
And when I break your heart
That's my love in disguise
When you awake in pain
It should come as no surprise
I'm not so sure I care
Yet still it must be there
My love is in disguise
And all you want are sweet lies
Ian
I see my problem now
Don't be a fool
Her love was in disguise
Look what she's done
Some fear that won't allow
She'll do it again
Her love to shed this guise
Ian
Pale, pure, and virgin things
She'll be our downfall
So frail, it turns from my eyes
Don't believe your eyes
It hides while I become
So hurt my heart is numb
When love is in disguise
The best you have is sweet lies
And then she'll leave you all alone
Possessiveness and jealousy
We recognize easily
That which we all claim to prize
No one can recognize
The poor young sap is unaware of
Things that we are all aware of
The knife she hides behind her back
Misery! He'll get his share of
The flowers must pollinate
The beasts are forced to mate
Woman and man decide
Yet we're not satisfied
God's love is in disguise
And all we want are sweet lies
Sweet lies
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The one that showed me kindness
Was the one that taught me kindness
Though I did not recognize it
Still I might have died without it
And when I awakened
It was too late to thank her
If I live someday I'll make repayment
And show someone the kindness she showed me
When my voice grows strident
When I feel important
I'm reminded of that kindness
And where I'd be without it
I'm learning my lessons
It may take me a lifetime
Give me strength to justify my being
And show someone the kindness shown to me
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Cut 'em loose
Public servant, public slave
It's one single slide from the cradle to the grave
Can't remember why you're still in the race
To be a public servant, public slave
You got to know who Satan is
You know you made him come alive
You let the yahoos write the script
When you sold your soul to survive
I only want to hear my voice
Come on, hit me where I live
Let's imagine we had a choice
Let's pretend we're persuasive
I guess it keeps you off the street
I guess you couldn't find honest work
And you're content to follow the fleet
Hanging 'round with world-class jerks
I guess you can't have too little class
Sometimes it pays to have no soul
Just keep your mindset in the past
And your head up your asshole
It's not as if we couldn't cope
It's not as if the pope eloped
It's just as if you're out of hope
And if you can't stand twice as tall
If you're too afraid to fall
If you haven't got the balls
Cut 'em loose
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Gaya's crying, can't you hear her crying
Like a whisper, oh so very soft and low
If you listen, underneath the status quo
Will she still be friends and once again
Pardon our ignorance?
Can we make ammends so near the end?
Is there no second chance?
No one hears when Gaya cries
No one cares to wonder why
Can't they see the tears in Gaya's eyes?
Gaya's crying (yes she is)
Selfish children, greedy little children
Took her loving and gave her nothing in return
Like invaders, everything is slash and burn
Count up every face and every race
That we will never see
Count the human ache we can't escape
The tears are for you and me
As her lovely green eyes
Turn black
And her pretty blue dress
Turn black
And her gentle red lips
Turn black
Everything that she has
Turn black
And is it too late?
Turn back
Is it too late?
Turn back
Is it too late?
No facts of life, no birds and bees
Can't see the forest, can't see the trees
Oh pitiful capricious lies
That hide the tears in Gaya's eyes
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Old rocking chair
It beckons you like a junkie's needle
Start thinking feeble
Cowardly lion
The special today is karma yoga
Glued to the sofa
Where was I when we lost power?
Where was I when lies were spoken?
Where was I when evil snuck in?
Where was I when hope was choking?
A spy in the house
Someday one of the kids may catch us cussing
Then turn us in
Family ties
They used to be colors in a rainbow
Now we fly solo
Give me back the passion flower
Give me back the nonconsumer
Give me back my lack of reason
Give me back my sense of humor
Blow like cyclone my second wind
Blow like typhoon my second wind
Blow like tempest my second wind
Blind by design
I've gotten the hang of not resisting
Who cares who's listening
Popular press
And we've got the video and the movies
Let's feed the zombies
Now that I know what to fight for
Now that I need more adventure
Now that I have thoughtful patience
Now that I can see the future
Put your hours in and take your pay
Like there wasn't any other way
Then I heard a voice inside me say
It was twenty years ago today
When did I get so tired?
Did I wake up half-sleeping?
I can't life slip away
To a world with no meaning
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He found a letter.
Someone had slipped it under the door.
Said I gotta tell you something,
I never told no one before.
I know it sounds crazy.
I can hardly bring myself to say,
But the feeling is oh so strong now,
I can't hold out another day.
I hope you can take it said that way.
When I say,
I wanna fuck you, Jesse.
I wanna fuck you, Jesse.
I wanna fuck you 'cause I got the right
To love a man whose stupid, ugly, and white.
I wanna say "fuck you," Jesse Helms.
She got a message,
Just another beep on the message machine.
Said I feel so guilty,
I think it's time that I come clean.
I thought I knew better.
I thought I had chosen the proper words to say.
I wanted to be so honest.
Tell you a story you've never heard,
Now that I finally got the nerve.
I wanna fuck you, Tipper.
I wanna fuck you, Tipper.
'Cause you showed me that
Things are still the same.
Everybody's parents turn out lame.
I wanna say "fuck you," Tipper Gore
He heard her crying,
But he couldn't make out a word she said.
She was alone and frightened.
She was wishing she was dead.
She knew it was hopeless.
He was way up there, and she was way down here.
Still she called his name out
In a voice that was loud and clear.
She said I know it sounds so weird,
But I wanna fuck you, Johnny.
I wanna fuck you, Johnny.
I wanna hold you down
And fuck you while you squirm
And force you to bring that thing to term.
I wanna say "fuck you," John Paul II.
Got to say "fuck you" Tipper Gore.
Just got to say "fuck you" Jesse Helms.
Up Against It
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When worlds collide, the best of us
Won't be here with the rest of us
They'll drop before the paint has dried
When worlds collide, when worlds collide
The young today, I must confess
Have lost the path of righteousness
By settling for something less
The smarty pants, they fail to see
The posture of morality
Is just like common currency
That's the way it works for me
So I dress like a brushing bride
Because my every move is sanctified
By claiming God is on my side
When worlds collide, when worlds collide
When worlds collide, the virtuous
Will have to take the shuttle bus
But we in limousines shall ride
When worlds collide, when worlds collide
These kids today, they have no pluck
Don't know the value of a buck
They think all politicians suck
But managing economies
Is one of my best qualities
Especially to friends like these
I can favor the ones I please
And if the mandate should be denied me
Then there's always something kept aside
If you have grease then you can slide
When worlds collide, when worlds collide
When worlds collide, the devious,
The cunning, and mischevious
Will mourn the moral men who died
When worlds collide, when worlds collide
The youth today, I must relate
Have not learned to appreciate
The pleasures of the city-state
They waste themselves on drugs and sex
And boogieing in discotheques
I'll take them by their bleach-blond necks
And conscript those I don't reject
Then I'll serve them butchered and fried
For our commander can sleep satisfied
While someone's licking one's backside
When worlds collide, when worlds collide
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Kindred spirits moving along the spiral
I can see you up on another level
It's too great a fall
And I can't reach you to pull me higher
But I don't seem to get much closer or any more far
What would you tell me, if I could hear you speaking?
If you could touch me, how would I know the feeling?
I just can't imagine
But I try to do it anyway
I wish I was moving faster, I wish you'd drift back
But it just wasn't meant to happen
Very soon I'll have to
Face the fact
Some things never come together
Parallel lines running on forever
And you can't turn back
There is never any starting over
Parallel lines never do cross over
It's a challenge
Gotta make myself remember
Facing the truth, well, that doesn't mean surrender
What is bravado and how much is a force of will?
I know that the world is full of opposites that attract
But unless we ignore the physics
Very soon we'll have to
So I send you the gift of empathy
If you'd once in your life acknowledge me
I have visualized so thoroughly
That when I think of me I think of we
Can't face the truth
It means that we must surrender
Understanding won't satisfy the hunger
It whittles away at the destiny we fulfill
And like an animal running wild
You can't call it back
And it's just gonna make it harder
When it's finally time to
It's like a train that's stuck running on a track
Parallel lines running on, running on, running on
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We're free
We're male
We're twenty-one
Free, male, and twenty-one
Free, male, and twenty-one
It's not enough to be twenty-one and free
It's not the same as male and twenty-one
Free, male, and twenty-one
This is such a fine distinction
The career that we've begun
I just made twenty-one
I'm old enough to run
For congressman or clerk of the public works
Or dogcatcher or something just as dumb
If I should choose to run
I make no exaggeration
Just a statement of the facts
Now I'm second generation
And I am manly to the max
And no one can decree
Just who I have to be
The choice is up to me
And if I could be anything, I'd be
Male and twenty-one
It's nice to be a man
I use it all I can
I never had a choice for a higher voice
But I have to say I'm glad to be a man
Since this is what I am
Sigmund Freud may have a crisis
With his own identity
But there's nothing wrong with me
Because I enjoy being a boy
And all that it will say upon my resume'
Free, male, and twenty-one
Free, male, and twenty-one
Free, male, and twenty-one
Free, male, and twenty-one
If I could change
Change anything, everything
Everything in the world
Then I would make
Half of the world
Free, male, and twenty-one
Free, male, and twenty-one
Free, male, and twenty-one
And I don't believe in heaven
What a let down it would be
And I hope there's not a hell
But there must be a God 'cause He made me
Free, male, and twenty-one
There's got to be a God 'cause He made me
Male and twenty-one
Free, male, and twenty-one
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My boy I say you're unaware of
Things that I am unaware of
The things they say behind one's back
That you suspect but aren't quite sure of
Don't say you haven't noticed
The smell of money is all about me
I just can't rid myself
Of it's overpowering bouquet
My inner beauty cursed with obscurity
By a scent that can't be washed away
I don't know who you think I am
But if I'm who I think I am
Then there's no cranny I've examined
Taints the air where ere I am
But don't say you haven't noticed
The smell of money wafts all about me
It neutralizes any other odors I convey
Best friends won't tell me
They know I'm suffering
With a scent that can't be washed away
The stench of money
Is reeking off of me
A mix of cheap cologne
Weasel pheromone and rotted grave
Thank dad and mommy
I'm filthy, stinking rich
So I can say to you "Piss off"
I bathe, I bathe
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The smell of money
Like flies and honey
Appeals to something
More immediate than mere foreplay
And now if you're hungry
This one is on your mind
The aroma takes my will away
Who does this young man think he is?
Who needs this turgid love he gives?
For though he strives to please me
He can't hit the spot like fifty G's can
How can I help but notice
The smell of money
It makes me runny
I want a man whose been endowed
And is preparing to pay
And if you're tipsy
It even smells like love
The aroma takes my will away
It takes my will away
The aroma takes my will away!
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If I have to be alone
Then I should make my mind serene
After all you're born alone, you die alone
You might as well spend every moment in between alone
But if I have to be alone
Then it will be on my own terms
I can never talk about it, ever show it
Even though the world is watching while I squirm alone
And your bleeding heart friends say, "Isn't it sad?"
Then they go make love
While you go insane. Insane!
It drives you mad! Mad!
My mind, I love my mind
And if no one can feel the same
I'm a computer with a name
And I've got no one else to blame
If I have to be alone
And if nobody understands
That special creature that is me
And if they fail to see the me I see
Then no one else knows truly what it means
To be alone
Maybe once in a lifetime you lose your will
Then you can let down your guard
But they cower in fear. In fear.
It makes you ill! Ill!
My heart, my burning heart
And if no one will quench the flame
I'm not obliged to do the same
And then they'll have to share the blame
Because I have to be alone
Because I have to be alone
But I don't want to be alone
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Can you hear it?
Ear against the ground and you'll hear it
I can tell a change when I hear it
We are tigers
Kings of jungles
Trapped in cages
We forget we once were free!
And the average swain
Would be contented in his chains
Were it not for complainers like me
Throw the book
I'm up against it
Up against the rules
Bring the experts
Up against them
Up against the fools
Bring on city hall
I'm against them all
Lamp of freedom
No, you can't change
Human nature
Wheels of power
Keep revolving endlessly
With a fanatical faction
A charismatic attraction
There's a piece of that action for me
Call the press
I'm up against it
Up against the flacks
Bring the shrink
I'm up against it
Up against the quacks
Revenuers
Up against it
Up against the tax
Name some names
And I'm up against them
Bullies, big and small
I'm against them all
All we need is some vitality
Like an [...] individuality
But I guess they [...]
[...] make it all alone
Bring the girls
I'm up against them
I'm up against their lips
Bring the boys
I'm up against them
Up against their hips
Bring the priest
I'm up against him
Up against that cross
Bring the mob
I'm up against it
Up against the boss
Bring the cops
I'm up against it
Up against the jaw
Throw the book
I'm up against it
Up against the law
Politicians, all - I'm against them
Fascist lackies all against the wall
Fist of freedom
Guns of freedom
Bring the lackies
Up against it
Up against the wall
Bring the bishop
Up against it
Up against the wall
Bring the chairman
Up against it
Up against the wall
Put the general
Up against it
Up against the wall!
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Submitted for your inspection
The evolutionary erection
Of primitive man
But before we explore the question of his sense of style
We must point out his predilection
To cover his glands
Brothers, we've been led to believe
That between Adam and Eve
There was nothing to hide
Were it not for Eve's primal haste
Or a leaf strategically placed
Who knows what she'd decide
Eve and some guy named Clyde
That's why life is a drag
Life is just a pose in a rag
You can play the part of
Pusher or pastor
Of harlot or hag
Life is just a dressing game
Life is a drag
The argument can be rendered
All bodies are forcibly gendered
By how they are wrapped
And though popular opinion holds this
Makes us civilized
So much deference is attended
By what's in one's lap
History proves that
Who wears the pants is as much a mere circumstance
As a matter of time
Ultimately, why should we care
Where one buys one's lace underwear
If one is so inclined
Show me yours, I'll show mine
That's why life is a drag
Fashion is a long running gag
We can deck you out in sequins or spandex
A mohawk or shag
Who remembers unisex?
Life is a drag
It's a drag
What a drag
You can be a stag in a bag
They won't know until you're stiff
On a slab and they look at the tag
What you see is what you get
Life is a drag
Let's just say
We hereby conspire
That a change of attire
Is all part of the plan
Something that was so long suppressed
Starts to show when you wear a dress
And if clothes make the man
They can unmake the man
That's why life is a drag
Life is just a pose in a rag
You can play the part of
Pusher or pastor
Of harlot or hag
Life is just a dressing game
Life is a drag
It's a drag
What a drag
Fashion is a long running gag
Aren't you glad they found a way to look hip
When your butt starts to sag
Praise the Lord, designer jeans
What you see is what you get
Who remembers unisex
And who are you calling fag
Life is a drag
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Puff we now ourselves with pride
Swelling outward far and wide
For God Herself is on our side
With heaven's plan for the motherland
"All right, all right ladies,
Settle down now, settle down"
Now, the usual formalities
Everyone, hold all your questions please
You'll all have your opportunities to
Shoot the breeze or cut the cheese
But upon this juncture I must state
How immensely you appreciate
The illusion of grandeur I create
When every trait I overrate
And every word gesticulate
In praise of the motherland
Puff we now ourselves with pride
Swelling outward far and wide
For God Herself is on our side
With heaven's plan for the motherland
"Quiet please, quiet, I'm still speaking"
Irregardless of to what we pledge
The electorate gives me the edge
And the boost to my ego that can't be measured
Ruling you is such a pleasure
Speaking of good taste in dames
I submit to you my list of names
Maybe some of them come up short on brains
But good at diplomatic games
And sycophantic without shame
I give you the cabinet
The privilege is strictly ours
To have you watch while we devour
The crumbs of presidential power
That we can grub from Lilly
She's got the wardrobe we adore
Her teeth are perfect, what is more
She knows what having friends is for
We're silly over Lilly,
Silly over Lilly
'Til we're ill, we'll sing it shrilly
Lilly is the nation's pride
And we love her like a mother
"You like me, you like me"
You don't know what this means to me
To be the one you run to see when
You need a mother
"All right, I feel good
I'm a [partridge?]
I'm ready to take you all on
First question please"
Tell us the end, tell us the end
Can you confirm the rumours goin' 'round?
For the record, one time being
Terms of truth are being spread around
"All right, all right, settle down buddy
Are you ready to get an answer to your questions:
Yes, yes, no, maybe, no,
Maybe, not a wink, I wasn't there,
I don't recall, the dog ate it.
Now I certainly hope that clears up the air
And we can get on with important business now"
Tell us prime minister
Tell us prime minister
For the record
One time, prime minister
Sources state
That the Archbishop's hiding some
Thing of interest
Something of interest
Sources state
Maybe you're just a puppet of
Special interest
Some special interest
Special interest
Some special interest
We would like to know your posture please
On the hard line's platform policies
Like providing free to all the nation
Mandatory mass castration
For the sake of common decency
The Judeo-Christian society
Wants to guarantee a pregnancy
To anyone past twenty-three
Tell us prime minister
Tell us prime minister
We've fresh ugly rumors going 'round
For the sake of party unity
I've some photographs you'd like to see
Puff we now ourselves with pride
Swelling outward far and wide
For God Herself is on our side
With heaven's plan for the motherland
All right ladies, settle down now
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Sometimes things fall apart
That's God's love in disguise
And when I break your heart
That's my love in disguise
When you awake in pain
It should come as no surprise
I'm not sure I care
But it still must be there
My love in disguise
And all you want are sweet lies
I see my problem now
Her love was in disguise
Some fear that won't allow
Her love to shed this guise
Ian, don't be a fool
Look what she's done
She'll do it again
Pale, pure, and virgin things
So frail, it turns from my eyes
It hides while I become
So hurt my heart is numb
When love is in disguise
The best you have is sweet lies
Ian she'll be our downfall
Don't believe your eyes
Lies! And she'll leave you all alone
Possessiveness and jealousy
We recognize easily
That which we claim to prize
No one can recognize
The poor young sap is unaware of
Things that we are all aware of
The knife she hides behind her back
Misery! He gets his share of
The flowers must pollinate
The beasts are forced to mate
Woman and man decide
Yet we're not satisfied
God's love is in disguise
And all we want are sweet lies
Sweet lies
Long live the glorious revolution
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Sacrifice!
Christ-like sacrifice!
Pass that cup to me
I will bear the price
If the puny and insignificant
Are to have a glimpse of peace
Then someone much like I myself
Almost exactly like I myself
Must rise above the rabble
By helping them to their knees
As this is how I see myself
I might as well anoint myself
For the greater good of us all
You'll thank me in the end
For the loss of the weak and small
You'll thank me in the end
Though it may seem painful at first
You'll thank me in the end
And you'll wonder how things could get worse
You may not reach the end
Speak my name as your last breath is spent
When you were lost in your ignorant haze
And afraid of the dark
I led you out again!
When you dreamed that God was love
And life was a lark
I woke you up again!
For my sacrifice
Who will bear the price?
The extraordinary problems
That occur from day to day
Require somebody like myself
Let's say exactly like I myself
So that ordinary labors
May proceed with least delay
So we've elected me myself
Since we can think of no one else
When you're in the mood to complain
You'll call me in the end
Then for things that I'll do in your name
You'll blame me in the end
But if I use the right choice of words
Your family and friends
You'd betray like a cowardly turd
Then refuse to watch the end
Then we'll go through the whole thing again
And when I'm standing astride your backs
With my head in the stars
You'll take me in the end
While I'm bending you over and
Screwing you hard in the arse
You'll love me in the end
Pass that whip to me
Let us raise the price
Sacrifice!
Never knowing love
Just so you can believe a power above
This is my sacrifice!
You'll thank me
You'll thank me in the end
You'll like me in the end
You'll love me in the end
You'll praise me in the end
You'll thank me
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Maybe I'm better off
If I never leave this cell
Maybe I've lived enough
In a world as free as hell (just as free as hell)
Where you keep on thinking
While it's stinking
You enjoy the smell
And you lick the bowl as well
Love's out there
They tell you
They sell you anything to make you happy
Then it all just turns to crap
So maybe I'm better off
Than I was when I was young
Now that I know the cost
When you try to love someone
Guess I'm better off
In jail at thirty-one
What about all my friends?
Now I won't have to watch them die
And every time they sell out
I won't be there to question why
They can get so high
On the butts they're kissing
While they're pissing
'Way each other's lives
As they shag each other's wives
No shopping, co-oping
None of the grand design to sooth the masses
'Til it's time to pay your taxes
Maybe I'm better off
Than I was in days gone by
Now that I know the cost
When you set your sights too high
Yes I'm better off
It's jailbreak time for Ian
Maybe I'm better off
Now that I've kissed her off
Now that they've whisked me off to the slammer and
Maybe I'm better off
Now that she's pissed me off
Now that my fist takes on a new glamour and
Maybe my mind's run off
Maybe I've just gone off my head
Maybe I've just gone 'round the bend
Maybe I'm in my own little world
It's jailbreak time for Ian
Praise the lord, it's jailbreak time for Ian
What the hell took you so long?
Life hands you new chances
Uncertain circumstances
Set you back
But then you win the Lotto jackpot
Every time you give up (every time you give up)
Then you give up being young
Everything has a cost
That's the way this world is run
Maybe I'm better off
Now I'm free and thirty-one
I'm free, male, and thirty-one
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It's never your fault, sweet mother
That I was raised in the days
Of the house-husband craze
But the taste of your loving udder
Was replaced by another
Dried cow puss and rubber
And now a hunger still thrives
A hunger that I've never satisfied
I'm fumbling through life
From hunger
I writhe for someone
With a place I can hide my eyes
I'm searching for a mighty heart
Housed with a mighty crest
And from this base of operation
I would pacify the nation
But then who would rely
On a boob such as I
I'll be anyone's twit
For a mouthful of tittie
And still that hunger will thrive
A hunger that I've never satisfied
I'm fumbling through life
From hunger
I writhe for someone
With a place I can hide my eyes
And I've got big eyes
For someone
With a place I can hide these eyes
And that ain't all
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We understand each other
Bull!
You hear some distant drummer play
I think we understand each other
Have you no else to offer?
Poor boy!
I have expenses to defray
I hope we understand each other
We have a problem
Yes, but it's not that we
Don't understand each other
Oh brother!
When they say "understand"
They gotta mean fairyland
For twenty tons of silver
She sold him into stir
And when it gets his freedom back
He throws it away over her
When he says "understand"
He must mean some other girl
I'll never comprehend
My putrid taste in men
It's not fair I love
Each little hair and he
Don't even care about me
When she says "understand"
Must mean some other man
Our preconceptions to retain
We're obliged to exclaim
We understand each other
We hear some distant drummer play
Must mean we understand each other
Oh brother!
If there's a problem
We'll admit it
Not that we don't understand each other
Each other
When they say "understand"
It's like Wendy and Peter Pan
Have you ever met somebody
More self-involved than he?
This has got to be a miracle
The man has divine empathy
What could be wrong with me?
I know his repartee
Insincere
He's down
There, I'm up here
But whenever he's near
It's some kind of divine empathy
When they say "understand"
Smells like something else to me
We're talking sleight of hand
Each other's mind
We read so well
We have no time to know ourselves
We understand each other
Though we don't even know ourselves
We think we understand each other
Though we don't even know ourselves
We think we understand each other
Though we don't know ourselves
I hope we understand each other
Each other
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Consider the riddle that is man
From his perch at the top of Darwin's ladder
Though the rules he little understands
Plays at life as if it really mattered
When before all our eyes
A parading of lies
And reality splatters
But we have dreams, wonderful dreams
While we live in dreams, terrible dreams
We're only waiting, waiting for
Entropy, mindless entropy
Beseech it not,
For it has no thought of anything
All things are equal to
Entropy, heartless entropy
It knows not love, for it shows no love
For anything, anything
Breathes there a soul so dull
It has not striven to attach some meaning
To the chaos that invades the human skull
At the thought that some force is intervening
And this thought we call God
Keeps us straight as a rod
While all else is careening
But we have dreams, beautiful dreams
But we live in dreams, perverted dreams
While we are waiting
There's no stopping
Entropy, skulking entropy
That lustless rapist who plants its seed in
Everything, everything, everything
Yes, there is a thing call wisdom
But we've never had it
We are too preoccupied with
How to iron-clad it
There was never a chance
There was never a chance
Let us dance!
What about our fearless leaders?
What about our necks?
What about the church of Jesus?
How 'bout drugs and sex?
What about our precious freedom?
What about free will?
What about our precious freedom?
What about free will?
What about our precious freedom?
Entropy will win!
What about the rule of reason?
Entropy will win!
What about our precious freedom?
What about free will?
What about our precious freedom?
What about free will?
Entropy!
We're all up against it
Entropy
We're all up against it!
Entropy can't take away your freedom
Precious freedom
There's no freedom
No shelter
No heaven help us!
Entropy crushes everything
Entropy smashes everything
Entropy cleanses everything
Everything!
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Drumgoole, my dear, I must admit
Your life's been one long pile of shit
I must be nuts, at least a bit
To want to be involved in it
But given the alternative
Who knows how we'd be forced to live?
When worlds collide, when worlds collide?
With you, Drumgoole, at my side
And at my side!
And at my side!
With worlds colliding in on us
Drumgoole must be trigamous
Pray, say we shall be man and bride
And man and bride and man and bride!
When worlds collide, the chivalrous
Drumgoole performs the frivolous
And dares to make it man and bride
And man and bride and man and bride!
That one's mine, he's my concubine
He'll get more out of me
Than what you peons call "love"
Hands off him, that one's mine!
Your favors do not satisfy
I've witnesses who'll testify
And though Drumgoole is thin of thigh
She's worth a try, she's worth a try
Though nature was not generous
Her breasts are not as pendulous
Yet still they would be man and bride
And man and bride and man and bride!
Now according to the law this week
Still evolving even as we speak
Any woman may, at her discretion
Have her pick of losers
Since the breed has dropped so in quality
We abolish, hereby, monagomy
If you don't quite fancy this selection
We've got lots more losers
I've seen all that I need to see
I've fallen for their flattery
And so we shall be man and bride
And man and bride and man and bride!
When world's collide, the rest of us
Won't be here with the best of us
For these, they shall be man and bride
And man and bride and man and bride!
Correct me, honey
I smell no money
And when the chips are down
You'll be back around this finger here
I never said that I was in love with you
I never said that I was not, my dear
Why must this girl have everything?
How quickly he forgets the sting
For though she feigns to please him
She is talentless except to tease him
Don't think we haven't noticed
We'll have a shower
And I'll allow her
She seems amused with you
It's so hard to keep her entertained
We'll all go "nudies"
And you can bring your friends
Just keep the one who's nuts for tits restrained!
My long term memory
Is not what it should be
Some tiny spark of love
Helps me find the proper words to say
Your smell of money
You filthy, lying bitch
Is just about to make me puke!
Go away
Please go away!
It's time to make us man and bride
And man and bride and man and bride!
We've simplified, no muss, no fuss
And vows are now superfluous
I just declare you man and bride
And man and bride and man and bride!
Wait a minute! Wait a minute!
Georgianna, get over here with that law book
Listen up everybody
I've the law book right in front of me
Article sixteen dash thirty-three
"When consenting adults shack together
They're connected legally"
Though he wants to eat and have his cake
There's a pact with me he cannot break
So the rest of you go rot forever
This one will stay here with me
When worlds collide, the devious
The cunning, and the mischevious
Our not-yet-happy-home divide
When worlds collide, when worlds collide
When worlds collide, this friend of us
Is forced to be a succubus
Cruel fate is not upon our side
When worlds collide, when worlds collide
Connie! Connie!
This urgent telegram is just in from Parliament
Well don't just stand there, let's gloat over it
Aw oh, I don't think you're going to like this
"Must clear the old regime' away
The residue must be destroyed
As of 9:00 o'clock today
Contracts with men are null and void"
What!
You're free, my boy, I'm proud to say
And so without further delay
I now declare you man and bride
And man and bride and man and bride!
When worlds collide, the least of us
May get to share the feast with us
For now we four are man and bride
'Til worlds collide, 'til worlds collide
We're men and bride!
With a Twist...
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It was late last night
I was feeling something wasn't right
There was not another soul in sight
Only you, only you
So we walked along,
though I knew there was something wrong
And the feeling hot me oh so strong about you
Then you gazed up at me and the answer was plain to see
'Cause I saw the light in your eyes
Though we had our fling
I just never would suspect a thing
'Til that little bell began to ring in my head
In my head
But I tried to run,
though I knew it wouldn't help me none
'Cause I couldn't ever love no one, or so I said
But my feelings for you
were just something I never knew
'Til I saw the light in your eyes
But I love you best
It's not something that I say in jest (ha ha)
'Cause you're different, girl, from all the rest
In my eyes
And I ran out before but I won't do it anymore
Can't you see the light in my eyes
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I can feel, I can tell
I can feel, I can tell, I can see
Something is changing
To me change is no stranger
I don't run, I don't hide
I don't run, I don't hide, I don't fight
What fate arranges
I don't think about danger
If it was meant for me
I'd know just where to go
But if I can take it slow
Then I might be in control
In the back of my head
In the back of my head there is doubt
There is suspicion
With my new fascination
I don't know what it is
I don't know what it is, you might say
It's intuition
It's a true indication
I should trust myself
I should beware of this
But it's like a stranger's kiss
And somehow I can't resist
I can feel my will slip away
From a strange influenza
I can feel my mind slip away
Under your influenza
I can feel my heart slip away
Under your influenza
There's a part of my heart
There's a part of my heart that cries out
Please go no further
I just can't take the pressure
So I try to resist
So I try to resist and my heart
Tells me don't bother
That this pain is a pleasure
If I were someone else
I wouldn't disagree
But it's always hard to see
When something's controlling me
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We can't play this game anymore
But can we still be friends
Things just can't go on like before
But can we still be friends
We had something to learn
Now it's time for the wheel to turn
Grains of sand, one by one
Before you know it, all gone
Let's admit we made a mistake
But can we still be friends
Heartbreak's never easy to take
But can we still be friends
It's a strange, sad affair
Sometimes seems like we just don't care
Don't waste time feeling hurt
We've been through hell together
Can we still get together sometime
You know life will still go on and on and on
We awoke from our dream
Things are not always what they seem
Memories linger on
It's like a sweet, sad old song
(Back to the Top)
Everyone asks
Are we some kind of lovers?
Everyone asks what you're doing with me
I know this is not what they want
They're afraid you've been blinded
But I already know how it's going to be
If anyone should ask
Say we're mated
For as long as this life lasts
We are mated
Why else would you be here right now
And you know we'll still be here tomorrow
Nobody else understands what I'm doing
Nobody else makes me act in this way
And because they can't comprehend
What we mean to each other
They won't leave you alone
So you know what to say
I hold you in my heart
'Cause we're mated
In a very special part
We are mated
Why else would I be here right now
And you know I'll still be here tomorrow
I see things far ahead, maybe light
Maybe beautiful children
I don't have words I'm thinking of
But it's way beyond what they call love
(Back to the Top)
Do you remember the last time I said
If I ever thought about lying,
I'd rather think of dying instead
And maybe you remember the last time you called me
to say we were through
How it took a million tears
just to prove they all were for you
But those days are through
'Cause it wouldn't have made any difference,
if you loved me
How could you love me
When it wouldn't really make any difference,
if you really loved me
You just didn't love me
'Cause I know of hundreds of times I could be
In the most unfaithful arms that you always picture me
And maybe you remember that
though I can't always show proof I was true
No one else could change my mind or
stop me coming home to you
But those days are through
You just did not love me enough to believe me
Enough not to leave me
Enough not to look for a reason to be unhappy with me
And make me regret ever wanting you
But those days are through
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Name your price
A ticket to paradise
I can't stay here any more
And I've looked high and low
I've been from shore to shore to shore
If there's a short cut I'd have found it
But there's no easy way around it
Light of the world, shine on me
Love is the answer
Shine on us all, set us free
Love is the answer
Who knows why
Someday we all must die
We're all homeless boys and girls
And we are never heard
It's such a lonely world
People turn their heads and walk on by
Tell me, is it worth just another try?
Tell me, are we alive, or just a dying planet?
What are the chances?
Ask the man in your heart for the answers
And when you feel afraid, love one another
When you've lost your way, love one another
When you're all alone, love one another
When you're far from home, love one another
When you're down and out, love one another
All your hope's run out, love one another
When you need a friend, love one another
When you're near the end, love one another
We got to love one another
Light of the world, you got to shine
Love will be a means, yeah, yeah
Shine on us all
Know that love can save the day
Just give it one more chance
Lord you just can't let it stop Lord
Love is the answer
Got to be free to let love into your life
Let it shine
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I've been hurt
I've never been so hurt
Yes, and only you know why
But I would be far more hurt if we had to say good bye
When I think that it's all or nothing
I tell myself
True love does not demand fidelity
If there's one sacred place always in your heart for me
Time has come
I knew the time would come
When someone would want to be more than friends
But we had a love so sweet
I thought the dream would never end
If my love could not withstand this jealousy
I'd remember the day I threw away our eternity
Has no plan, things will happen we don't understand
One day the glove is on the other hand
And when you think that it's all or nothing
Just tell yourself
If our love could not withstand this jealousy
We'd remember the day we threw away our eternity
If it's true love, it does not demand fidelity
Oh it hurt me so bad
But I can't help but love you for eternity
I know we got a true love
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I know a place where dreams are born
And time is never planned
It's not on any chart
You must find it in your heart
Never Never Land
It may be miles beyond the moon
Or right there where you stand
Just keep an open mind
And then suddenly you'll find
Never Never Land
You'll have a treasure if you stay there
More precious far than gold
For once you have found your way there
You will never, never grow old
And that's my home where dreams are born
And time is never planned
Just think of pleasant things
And your heart will fly on wings, forever in
Never Never Land
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Hello, it's me
I've thought about us for a long, long time
Maybe I think too much but something's wrong
There's something here that doesn't last too long
Maybe I shouldn't think of you as mine
Seeing you
Or seeing anything as much as I do you
I take for granted that you're always there
I take for granted that you just don't care
Sometimes I can't help seeing all the way through
It's important to me that you know you are free
'Cause I never want to make you change for me
Think of me
You know that I'd be with you if I could
I'll come around to see you once in a while
Or if I ever need a reason to smile
And spend the night if you think I should
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I want you the right way
I want you, but I want you to want me too
Want you to want me too
Just like I want you
I give you all the love I have baby, and get nothing in return
Your love is all I crave
It's too bad, it's too sad
You don't want me now
I want you the right way
I want you, but I want you to want me too
Want you to want me too
Just like I want you
This one way love is just a fantasy
To share is precious, pure and fair
Don't play with something you should cherish for life
Baby don't you want to care?
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A million old soldiers will fade away
But a dream goes on forever
I'm left standing here, I've got nothing to say
All is silent within my dream
A thousand true loves will live and die
But a dream lives on forever
The days and the years will go streaking by
But the time has stopped in my dream
We all have our everyday hopes and fears
And you'll find no exception in me
But that doesn't get me through a sea of tears
Over life's biggest tragedy
You're so long ago and so far away
But my dream lives on forever
I guess I believe that I'll see you one day
For without it there is no dream
You're so far away and so long ago
But my dream goes on forever
And how much I loved you you'll never know
'Til you join me within my dream
One Long Year
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The reason that I signed up
Is the reason that I hate it
I know she's made her mind up
I just don't know how she's made it
And my dial-up screen has locked me
Into a touch tone tune monotony
Because some snot-nosed pube has blocked me out
And I wait
And I wait
And I hate my frickin ISP
He ain't got go bandwidth left for me
And I'll never get back
Never get back the time that I waste
That's what I hate
My job's so hard to swallow
But it's got me by the collar
In some Motel 6 squalor
Where every local call's a dollar
I got no time left to jack off
I got a deadline that won't back off
I'm about to chew my own leg off
Cause it's so late
And I'm late
And I hate my frickin ISP
I get bumped for inactivity
And I'll never get back
Never get back the time that I waste
That's what I hate
It rained CD roms that gave me
Twenty hours free
I let my service provider
Make a junky outta me
And then he cut me off
From my online community
And now I hate, I hate it
I hate I hate I hate I hate
I hate my frickin ISP
His domain name lookup takes eternity
etc...
Na na na na na
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Saw you once and you looked so sweet
Saw you twice and I felt complete
Three times thought I'd get some peace
Dozen times and there's no release
And I was already gone
And life goes on in white and black
Cloaking the stealth of your attack
The tendrils creep through every crack
And every time I cut you off
You grow right back
Like buffalo grass
You crawled across my heart
Oh like buffalo grass
Wrapped yourself around my heart
Day goes by and I think I feel clean
Week goes by and I feel serene
Month goes by like you're just a dream
Year goes by I'm back on my knees
When I was already gone
But since you first infected me
We've been connected karmically
Should I escape your gravity
In every other solar system
There you'll be
Like buffalo grass
You crawled across my heart
Oh like buffalo grass
Wrapped yourself around my heart
Like buffalo grass
You crawled across my heart
Oh like hele hele
Cat claw across my heart
Empires fall and the roach will rule
Lifetimes pass and I'm still your fool
Universe collapses in a silvery pool
Watering the root that connects me to you
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With friends like these,
Who needs enemies?
With friends like these,
Who needs enemies?
With friends like these,
Who needs enemies?
With friends like these,
With friends like these
I wanna grind you down to atoms
Grind you down to atoms
I wanna grind you down
Grind you down to atoms
Jerk
Why bother
Jerk
Why bother
Jerk
Why bother
Get you out of my system
I wanna pound you down to powder
Pound you down to powder
I wanna pound you down to powder
Pound you down to powder
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I don't want to work
I want to bang on the drum all day
I don't want to play
I just want to bang on the drum all day
Ever since I was a tiny boy
I don't want no candy
I don't need no toy
I took a stick and an old coffee can
I bang on that thing 'til I got
Blisters on my hand because
When I get older they think I'm a fool
The teacher told me I should stay after school
She caught me pounding on the desk with my hands
But my licks was so hot
I made the teacher wanna dance
And that's why
Listen to this
Every day when I get home from work
I feel so frustrated
The boss is a jerk
And I get my sticks and go out to the shed
And I pound on that drum like it was the boss's head
Because
I can bang that drum
Hey, you wanna take a bang at it?
I can do this all day
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I've got a great big problem that I can't fix.
I think it's quarter to three when it's half past six.
Everything's early or way too late.
Now I never can remember the day and the date.
Never used to be this much trouble before.
I used to watch the clock but not anymore.
I used to keep track of the time I'd lose,
But now the whole thing has me so confused.
I have to find a new job every week or so,
'Cause no one needs a man who's always fast or slow.
Still you'll get no complaint from me,
But what can the answer be?
Where does the time go when I'm with you?
How many hours do I lose every day?
They recombine when I'm missing you,
Slowing me down like a digital delay.
Where does the time go when I'm with you?
Why does it seem like there's never enough?
It's just like I'm living split in two.
Two kinds of time when you're out and in love.
There's only so much pleasure a man can take,
'Til his brain starts to go and his senses fade.
Doesn't need to eat or drink or sleep.
Can't feel a thing 'cause he's in too deep.
Walks around thinking that the world is fine,
While an alien force takes over his mind.
And then he throws away every single dime,
And the last thing to go is his sense of time.
But then if you're having fun,
Who cares if you're that far gone?
They tell me that time's not free.
What did time ever do for me?
And if I don't see that's wrong,
Then maybe I'm too far gone.
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I've been burned in my prime
The simple things in life
Seem so hard to learn sometimes
And it takes so long
Catch it while you can
Too late tomorrow
And everyone
Said we all know what comes of that
Living in your pockets and talking through your hat
But it won't take long
To turn your head around
Too late tomorrow
'Cause everyone needs the love of the common man
Turn the world around
Too late tomorrow
'Cause everyone
Everyone is waiting, just anticipating on you
Won't you make a showing everybody knows what to do
Take a dive from your ivory tower
And fall on everyone will catch you, everyone
I would be so pleased to spend some time
To hear a little talk about what's been on your mind
'Cause it don't take long
To turn my head around
If it comes easy
'Cause everyone needs the love of the common man
Turn the world around
Too late tomorrow
'Cause everyone
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Instrumental
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You got speed, turn it on
What I need to mow my lawn
You're my steed I ride til dawn
And the main vein bleeds til my strength is gone
I'm in the saddle, I'm in the race
I try not to ratle but you set the pace
When I start to struggle to share your space
You stop and then you
Stick it in my face
Stick it in my face
You stick it
Yer fast, and I like it
Yer fast, and I like it
It can't last, but I like it
I like it I like it I like it
Now stop
I need time to catch my breath
I behind but I ain't done yet
Too inclined to stop and rest
Lest my racing mind beat my heart to death
I ain't a yokel but lawd I swear
This ain't the local, it's express somewhere
When the flat on my cycle ain't got no spare
You stop and then you
Put your finger there
Put your finger there
You put it
Yer fast, and I like it
Yer fast, and I like it
It can't last, but I like it
I like it I like it I like it
I like it
Freeze frame, stop the press
It's insane to go on like this
Forgot my name, gorgot to piss
Am I plain inane or a slave to bliss?
Space was bending to bring you near
Thought I was trascending but now I fear
It looks like the ending of my fine career
But you stop and then you
Kiss me over here kiss me over here
You kiss me then you kiss me over here
Kiss me on the... you know!
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I have visions, I have visions of a happy land
And in this happy land, happy land
There is still one unhappy man
Because of all the things he wants
There is always something he can't have
It's like a siren singing, like a church bell ringing
I can feel you winning, and my head starts spinning
Now I'm back at the beginning
I, I, I see you lying there and
I, I felt a wave come over me and
I, I, I thought I had escaped you
As I sat down by the roadside
And it hit me like a train
Hit me like a freight train
When the truth came down on me
It hit me like a long, slow train
It is written, I know it's written
All God's children get smitten
And if there's anyone, anybody
I know the [Lord] can fit that description
And if I could turn back the hands of time
Still I wouldn't know what I'm supposed to change
It's like a well gone dry, like a kiss goodbye
As the grip gets tighter, I continue to fight it
Then you strike me with your lightning
I, I, I woke up in a cold sweat and
I, I thought I heard you call my name and
I, I, I had to reach out for your fingers
And before I could call the doctor
You hit me like a train
Hit me like a freight train
When the truth came down on me
Swear you hit me like a long, slow train
Lord you hit me like a train
Hit me like a coal train
When your love came down on me yeah
Say hit me like a long, slow
Lord I feel it coming down and
I, I, I, I, oooh
I, I, I, oh Lord have mercy [on me]
I can't hold out no longer
I was ready to surrender
And it hit me like a train yeah
Hit me like a freight train
When your love came down on me yeah
And it me like a long, slow train
Lord you hit me like a train
Hit me like a soul train
When your love, when your love came down on me child
Hit me like a long slow [how long was it] long train
Hit me like a coal train?
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Oooh I love you
Giggle giggle
The surf talks
Do you love me too?
If the surf could talk, I know she'd ask
"Do you think you're equal to the task?"
If the surf could talk, she'd say
"Beware I love you"
So I'd answer very carefully
And I'd ask if she'd be there for me
And the surf says "always
Beware I love you"
The surf says "I want you like you want me
Am I in you? Are you in me?
Tell me"
The surf talks
And it knows what to say
The surf talks
I must learn to obey
The gun cocks, the clock stops, the earth rocks, the surf talks
The surf talks
Puts its tongue on my skin
The surf talks
While it's sucking me in
The door locks and unlocks, the veil drops, the surf talks
She has promised me a beach of pearls
And an endless wave, a perfect curl
And she tells me always
"Beware I love you"
She will place the world inside my hand
She will touch the soul of every man
She will take my message
"I'm here to love you"
The surf says "I want you here inside me
Am I in you? Are you in me?
Tell me"
We are standing on a beach of pearls
We are riding deep inside the curl
And everybody all around the world
Must surrender when your flag unfurls
We are standing on a beach of pearls
We are riding deep inside the curl
And everybody all around the world
Will be dancing in the sea.
Liars
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I'm gonna find it, I'm gonna find the truth
Cause it ain't here, it's nowhere near
I gotta find it, I gotta find the truth
If I lose my mind, well I don't care
The truth is in plain contradiction
The truth is not in this situation
The truth is it's my only salvation
The truth is not here
I tried to find it looking in the works of man
And if it's there it's sure not clear
I thought I saw it somwhere [sic] in a starry sky
And if it's there, I'm stuck down here
The truth is like chasing a phantom
The truth is so seemingly random
The truth is not easily handled
The truth is not here
The truth is stranger than fiction
I gotta find the truth
If I have to stand all day in the bright sunshine
I gotta find it, I'm gonna find the truth
If I have to dance all night, leave my body behind
Because the truth is never gonna look for me
I will never get to see what I have not earned
And the truth is, if that day should never come
That doesn't mean I was wrong
To try to capture that bird
Sweet bird of truth, come to me
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I've been living with a lie for so long now, baby
I gotta set my soul free, I can't take it no more
That's why I gotta
Sing and shout it, tell the world about it
The truth is sweet
I made a promise to myself not to let nobody else
Have any sway on the way I lived my life
I didn't see the need to compromise but now I've come to realize
That living is more than just surviving
And I've been lying to myself, I gotta cover up what I feel
But now it's time I must admit this is real, this is real
The truth is sweet
Just like honey from a bee, the truth is sweet
So many people in the world let it all pass them by
They won't admit they need rescued from their lonely lives
That's why we gotta sing and shout it tell the world about it
The truth is sweet
When you've been hurt so many times it's enough to make you blind
To anything that feels like true happiness
Nobody wants to be the foolish one but after all is said and done
You constantly settle for less
It's like a broken carousel, it just goes round & round & round
But now it's time you admit you've lost ground
Hear that sound?
The truth is sweet
Just like a baby's kiss, the truth is sweet
Go on admit it, you know you want it to be true
Go on admit it, you say you don't but you know you do
Go on admit it, you've been disguising what you feel
You could be living in a fantasy
But then that fantasy could turn out to be real
Sweet and true like my love for you
And everybody in the world's gonna wake up some day
Singing love is the answer, love is the answer
What's left to say?
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Come to me, she said, my girl
I must teach you of the world
It is full of hungry men
Who will drag you to their den
But their feelings they won't share
And of yours they do not care
And they think that they're so smart
But they're not
Men are stupid, men are stupid
And that's just the way it's got to be
Happy anniversary
Come to me my boy, he said
Better get this in your head
All the girls will use their sex
To get a yoke around your neck
Then they'll try to make you change
And when they fail, hold you to blame
And they don't care what's real or true
Like we do
Women are evil, women are evil
And that's just the way it's got to be
Happy anniversary
You'd like to change it but there ain't no way
Cause you're a slave to your DNA
It's so unfair but it's the game we play
We're only slaves to our DNA
Men are stupid, women are evil
Happy anniversary
And is that the way it has to be?
Happy anniversary
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I didn't just pull into town.
This happened right before my eyes.
There's something missing in the sound,
That so used to satisfy.
It may rock, it may roll, but tell me
Whatever happened to your soul?
It's just a murky, jerky groove.
It motivates but it don't move
And all the pimps and funky divas
Crank out their empty testifying
They mixed it all in a bowl but then they
Forgot to add a pinch of soul
Tell me, whatever happened to soul, brother?
Tell me, what did they do with the soul, soul brother?
Tell me, where did they go with the soul, brother?
Can I get a witness?
We're only here to entertain
And just pretend to be in pain
And if you wanna see me get down
Just watch me wave my hands around
It's just a distraction I'm told, I use it
To hide my total lack of soul
Can't find a little a bit of soul
Cause it's so hip to be a ho
And all the brothers act like crooks
And all the kids in the suburbs write the radio hooks
And if you want to be a star
Just grab your crotch and squeeze it hard
And make your mom and daddy proud
As you dry hump for the crowd
It may be tired and old, but then it's
Your only substitute for soul
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When I found we could have some brains
I was the first in line, cause we were, like
Dragging our knuckles along the ground
Ever since, I've been convinced that every
Sacred thought is mine, and you were still
Dragging your knuckles along the ground
I think I'm there, dude (don't get ahead of yourself)
I think I'm there, dude
Already there
And when they asked us who will lead
I thought it surely must be me
But I stood up too fast
Because as soon as I was boss
The next one in line took my head clean off
Cause I stood up too fast
I was barely in my teens when I decided I was tired
Of always like dragging my knuckles along the ground
So with all due haste I based until I got so freakin wired
Forgot I was dragging my knuckles along the ground
I thought I was there, dude (you got ahead of yourself)
I thought I was there, dude
Already there
And when they asked for volunteers
I must have thought they said 'drink beers'
And I stood up too fast
I can imagine things that can't possibly exist
And then I add them to an ever-expanding list
And when I've solved every significant test there is
I'll just move on no matter how many clues I've missed
Its easy to be smart but it's a struggle to be wise
You shouldn't be always throwing your weight around
It's much better to be humble than to have a big hat size
Or you'll be just begging somebody to take you down
And you'll be nowhere, man (you got ahead of yourself)
And you'll be nowhere, man
Already there
And right before your very eyes
I have ignored my own advice
Cause I stood up too fast
And nobody has the slightest choice
But to put up with my droning voice
When I stood up too fast
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O Holy Father
Divine Provider
Grant me my prayer
All I desire
It's been a long, long time since you faced the truth
You haven't heard the voice of god since your wasted youth
Faith of your father, holy faith
In the dollar almighty and the tithing plate
And you'd like to rub my face in it
Your god, your god
And you'd like to rub my face in it
Your god, your god, your god is Mammon
Pew after pew in the house of the lord
Nod their heads at the sermon while they mind the store
And their holiest book is a PDA
It's got god's cell number if you find time to pray
And you'd like to rub their face in it
Your god, your god
Even though you have no faith in it
Your god is Mammon, your god is dead
And you rage and fume at the godless ones
Cause they don't understand how the company runs
And they think it's the money that you care about
You pretend to be offended when they figure it out
Tell me what kind of heaven do you think awaits
When your ass is too fat to fit the pearly gates?
It's like the eye of a needle and a limosine
Paradise is set aside for the less obscene
You only care for the power that the lucre brings
And you have no love for any living thing, save Mammon
And you'd like to rub our face in it
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I remember the world of tomorrow
I remember the world of tomorrow
I'm supposed to drive a flying car
I'm supposed to have a house on Mars
I'm supposed to live 200 years
I'm supposed to live, I'm supposed to live in
The future is now
I remember the world of tomorrow
I remember the world of tomorrow
Where's the office building two miles high?
And the ocean liner 12 blocks wide?
Where's the supertrain thats solar powered
Average speed 600 miles an hour?
I'm supposed to get my eyesight back
I'm supposed to gain all things I lack
I'm supposed to live devoid of fears
I'm supposed to live, I'm supposed to live in
The future is now
Where's the better world that was declared
At the 1964 World's Fair?
Where's the only orb that's got a plan?
It's at EPCOT Center Disneyland
We're supposed to all drive flying cars
We're supposed to all have homes on Mars
We're supposed to live 200 years
We're supposed to live, we're supposed to live in
The future is now
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I saw you on the street today
I could not catch your eye or you'd have heard me say
That you look just the same
But then I realized
We are not even friends and I was so surprised
When the teardrops came
I'm living in the past
Living in the past
Living in the past, I know
But the past is gone
I can't remember when
You didn't cross my mind and pull me back again
Into my reverie
And that's why I'm living in the past
And I gaze out the window as the world drifts by
And my eyes will glaze and I slip away
And my todays are gray, the seconds tick away
But if I close my eyes it's only yesterday
And I see rainbows surrounding you and me
But that was in the past
I know it was the past
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Life is always strange
You just get used to it
Once in a while something reminds you
Then your forget about it
I heard it at the coffee shop
And on the radio
They're talking at the trolley stop
And everywhere I go
It's all over, all of the suffering
It's all over, all of the other things
I know it's all over now
But for the wondering
We could change our minds
But what's the use of it?
If there's a thing we haven't tried
Too tired to think about it
I can't pick up the telephone
Somebody wants to know
The thing that can never be known
A place we'll never go
It's all over, no more imagining
It's all over, is that a tragic thing?
I know it's all over now
But for the wondering
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You could be my everything, you almost have it all
You'd be perfect but you've got one fatal flaw
We could live so happily, the envy of them all
But that'll never happen cause you've got one fatal flaw
And all my friends they look at me
Say 'she's a ten' and I agree that you are a mad love maker
I know I should accpet it all and overlook the little faults
But this one's a real deal breaker
And all my friends they look at us
Say 'he won't bend when he could just live happily ever after'
It's not that I'm afraid of it, but every time you force a fit
There's crying instead of laughter
So why you gotta be such a lyin' ass motherfucker?
And you sure had me fooled
You really sent me back to school
And you made me feel like a royal tool
Still I can't help having a soft spot for you
If we put it down on paper and we're careful how we draw
It looks perfect but it's got one fatal flaw
And you may overlook the obvious, pretend you know it all
You refuse to see it but it's got one fatal flaw
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They say I don't think enough about the afterlife
Of what's below and above, it's all so black and white
They say there's only one kind of love
You have to choose just right
They say there's ony one kind of love in the afterlife
Kiss it all goodbye
You don't get another try
But I can see... I don't know how
That I won't be what I am now, no
And I won't have some other heart
That could find peace though we're apart, no
It's not enough anymore to be good in this life
They say you've got to be sure so you can sleep at night
The only love that endures gives up without a fight
The only love that endures in the afterlife
Kiss it all goodbye
It was just a clever lie
If I could never see your face
Then I would have to fall from grace, I know
Or for eternity be blind to your presence in my mind? No
And they could promise me a seat
At the right side of the throne
But all would still be incomplete
Within the holy host, alone
Without the guiding light so sweet
That has forever led me on
For me there's no eternal rest
You and I have unfinished business
If I could still hold one thought clear
Then you will instantly appear, I know
I could not repose in bliss
Never more to know your kiss, no
(Back to the Top)
Faithful friend, at journey's end
The shore that I land on is you
The rock that I stand on is you
Fortunes fade and beds unmade
You're like a mountain to me
Forever changeless to me
Everything changes
So look me straight into the eye
Swear to god and tell me I'm not living a lie
But if I'm wrong and you know why
Tell me now, don't let me go on living a lie
Fate is cruel you're made a fool
And when I've fallen from your grace
I will find comfort in your face
Everything changes
I can hear the howling hounds not far behind
But I keep the destination clear in mind
And the certain sanctuary I will find
When I get home to your arms
Trusting hearts are torn apart
Jealousy follows in their wake
Under the pressure they break
Everything changes
And everyone wants to divide us
Fan the flames and tell us we are living a lie
But they don't care if we survive
And I refuse to say that we are living a lie
(Back to the Top)
Nearly everyone I know claims to have heard your voice
And every time they do, I know I should rejoice
Because one day I'm sure you'll break your silence
And speak just to me
But I feel like time's running out
And my heart, my heart is filling with doubt
And god said
I don't dwell upon you, I dwell on something else
And I am not really here so get over your self
I've tried to follow every rule they said you handed down
And spread the sacred testimony all around
And still the others seem to have your ear but never will I
Have I displeased you somehow?
I can't, I can't help feeling left out
And god said
There's no anger in me, you must mean someone else
Cause it's not me that you see, you're looking at yourself
And I won't give you a prize instead of someone else
Cause I don't play favorites, so get over yourself
Is it my fear, is it my pride, is it my vanity?
Should your name just be denied to save my sanity?
What is the price I need to pay to have
What others seem to grasp so easily?
Pity your servant your slave
Who'll kiss, kiss your feet to be saved
Save me, save me...
And god said
You are not serving me, you're serving something else
Cause I don't need to be pleased, just get over yourself
You can't suck up to me, I know you all too well
But I don't dwell upon you, so get over yourself
Cause you're not praying to me, you're praying to yourself
And you're not worshipping me you're worshipping yourself
And you will kill in my name and heaven knows what else
When you can't prove I exist so get over yourself
(Back to the Top)
Duty calls the faithful few
The infidel must pay his due
For your family we will provide
You will fill them with empty pride
And for you many virgins wait
Say your prayers, accept your fate
Liar
And with every lying breath
You send them to their death
We need not the authority
Of some god of morality
Nor the aid of some skeptic land
Who puts truth before our demands
And to those who defy our law
We will bring them our shock and awe
Liar
And you send them to their death
With your every lying breath
Arena
(Back to the Top)
Crowded world
How can I find peace of mind
With so many small agendas
Pushing at me all the time
Button one: you knew I had no time today
Button two: you had to push it anyway
Button three: then you went and did it again
So I counted to ten and right there and then
You made me mad
Now I'm mad
This is more than upset
It's as enraged as I get
And you ain't seen me mad yet
And now I'm mad
Crowded world
Where no quiet can be found
But for little scattered spaces
With invaders lurking round
Button one: I told you not to call me here
Button two: your voice is like a drill in my ear
Button three: you never hang up on your own
So get off the phone and leave me alone
Because I'm mad
At the end of my patience, and I have a lot
Don't know what makes you feel as if you're all I've got
Nothing better to think about, better to do
Why does everything always have to be about you?
(Back to the Top)
It must feel pure to be so sure
About every little thing
But there's no cure for that angst of yours
That tugs at you like a string
Because you're afraid, afraid to know
To know the answer
'Cause you're afraid that it will burn
You're afraid to learn
A nervous tic, you're being tricked
By somebody else's god
A little bit sick and a whole lot addicted
There's another crack in the facade
Because you're afraid, afraid to see
To see the reason
'Cause you're afraid the tide has turned
And you're afraid to learn
Because you're afraid, afraid to hear
To hear the accusations
'Cause you're afraid of what you've earned
You're afraid to learn
Why suffer for nothing?
Suffer for something
(Back to the Top)
Close your eyes and plug your ears and turn away
I will execute the task without dismay
Just leave upon the table what you've agreed to pay
Then tell me
How do you like me now?
How do you like me now?
I will do your dirty work
Tell me, how do you like me now?
Chances are you'll never hear again from me
Not my style to put my business on the street
But you know where to find me and youalso know my fee
So tell me
How do you like me now?
How do you like me now that I've
Done your dirty work
Tell me, how do you like me now?
I will lay a foe to waste
For a grudge I've never had
I will burn a field of grain
For a spite I've never had
I will spoil the wealth of kings
For a greed I'll never have
I will bring a nation down
For a cause I'll never have
(Back to the Top)
I like the noise and I like the smell
And where the lead ends up, what the hell
I've got a gun
So you be the robber and I'll be the cop
Cowboy saloons where someone gets dropped
GI Joe goin' over the top
I don't much care as long as I pop pop pop my gun
You better run
'Cause I'm young, dumb and I've got a gun
Public idiot number one
'Cause I'm young, dumb and I've got a gun
The constitution says that I'm so blessed
That I can clean my piece on the supreme court steps
My pretty gun
There's many like it, yeah but this one's mine
A good replacement for a lack of spine
When tribulation makes me need to unwind
And pierce the air like I'm in Palestine
Here's my gun
This is my rifle, this is my gun
This is for fighting and this is for fun
I hate to gush but I'm your biggest fan
I really love the way you fit my hand
You're with me always like a wedding band
More than a friend to me, my true identity
You're smooth and hard and that's the way you stay
Bright and polished like a Chardonay
Fully loaded as a New Year's Day
With a round in the chamber
A round in the chamber
(Back to the Top)
It's good to be the king, I've heard it said
That's why I let you put a crown on my head
Hoping that I'll never be forced to fake
Actions that I'll never have to take
I let you think I was a better man
With pretty words about how true I am
Humbly pretending to be brave and strong
Inside I'm wondering, what if I'm wrong?
Every once in a while you'll see
Things are not what they seem to be
Like the moment you saw through me
Ah, but when push came to shove
I had lost the thing I love
When I lost the courage of my convictions
I never let you see my doubting side
I've always felt there's things you can't confide
I need to be what I need to be
However artificially
And now I haven't got a thing to show
For all the posing and the bravado
You tested me and I had to fail
No longer am I a supermale
I was proud and I had to fall
Now my image has grown so small
And to think that I had it all
Ah, but when push came to shove
I had lost the thing I love
When I lost the courage of my convictions
And I live in constant fear
That I'll never have you here
Til I find the courage of my convictions
Ah, but when push comes to shove
I will have the thing I love
If I have the courage of my convictions
And your heart I would enslave
And this whole world I would save
If I have the courage of my convictions
(Back to the Top)
I don't keep a lot of secrets
But the ones I do will die with me
It's not because I'm hiding something
A trusted friend I try to be
But when every adversary lies in wait to test me
My world they would undo
And they'd break me down to nothing if they only knew
That you are my weakness, my weakness
You're my Achilles' Heel
The flame that melts the steel in my heart
I don't pretend to be objective
I will always come down on your side
But every time I see or hear or smell you
My bias grows more hard to hide
And when the truth must be protected
I find myself distracted
My duty I abuse
And in the battle's clamor
The flaw within my armor
Might shake the secret loose
There's no ties
As far as anybody knows, no surprise
As far as anybody knows, you and I
As far as anybody knows, have no ties
And as far as they know, my will is bulletproof
And I'd be no good to no one
If they knew the truth
That you are my weakness, my weakness
You are my Kryptonite
The sun that shines a light on my soul
(Back to the Top)
Gathering in the corner
Trying to look discrete
We been talking about this all night long
Now it's time to hit the streets
Are you ready to rumble?
Are you just gonna grumble?
You might take a tumble
But it's time to rumble
This is the reason you keep a dream alive
Spread it round the underground
The moment will soon arrive
Time to strike while the iron is hot
No one received a message
Nobody has a plan
Everybody knows when the time is right
To take a righteous stand
You spend a lifetime waiting for a sign
Alert the press and place your bets
The planets will soon align
(Back to the Top)
I didn't notice you there
Til I felt your breath on my neck hair
Now you put me through my paces
You don't know what personal space is
And not a soul in the room
seems to have your need to share
Did you ever stop to wonder
Does anybody care?
Maybe the ladies are impressed
But I don't think so, let's be honest
Why don't you give that thing a rest
You're just a one-man pissin contest
This used to be a nice place
And now your dick is in the mayonnaise
How does one vent one's sense of sickness
At skull and skin of such vast thickness?
Of everybody at the party
Your target had to be me
I really hate to disappoint you
But I ain't got the need
'Cause it's the thing you do the best
The kind of fight of which you're fondest
You wanna brag, well be my guest
You won a solo pissin contest
I think by now we know better
You can't get blood from a bore
We gonna find that stupid sucker
Who let you through the door
None of the ladies were impressed
Our recollection may be jaundiced
We all recall with special zest
We saw a solo pissin contest
(Back to the Top)
Time to get up and face it
Time to endure that aching
Time, I must keep account of
Time, the exact amount of
My life you've entwined in the game that you've designed
To waste my time, my precious time
All gone down the drain
Now it's time to break the chain
Today's the day
Today's the day
We settle our scores
Because tommorrow we're gonna wake up
Even
Time, there is no such thing as
Time, just the endless ring of
Time after time of constant
Time wasted wrestling with
Something someone said that got glued inside your head
Somewhere in time, in ancient time
Hope the memory dies
Then you finally realize
Today's the day
How many years must we continue
With bitter tears upon the menu?
The same old fears, a different venue
Now it appears the stress will end you
Let's get it all out in the open
Somebody call and make it happen
In the boardroom, on the backstreets
Hugs and kisses, knives or axes
Why not here, why not now?
Why not here, why not now?
Why not today?
(Back to the Top)
It's been easy until now
But you'll likely question how
You have traveled far, it's true
But there's much more left to do
For it's time to pay the toll
And we never know the sum of what we owe
You can't go back from where you came
You must move on and face the flame
Of the last bardo
You can pray unto your god
But your prayers will bring you naught
For in here you bear the scar
Of exactly what you are
It matters not what you believe
And it matters even less what you think you know
So put on your little show
But no further will you go
Til you pass the last bardo
You will surrender all you hide
And be cleansed and purified
And of you burden you'll be free
If it takes eternity in the last bardo
(Back to the Top)
Well, the old man called me to his dying bed
There's only one thing in this world I like to see, he said
I tried so many times but I've never done it
Often made the climb but never reached the summit
So I could look down on this pissant little town
I took one step
And another step
But I could not reach that mountaintop
I couldn't reach the mountaintop
So I picked him up and put him on my back
And strapped him in just like a hiking pack
I took off up the hill at a steady pace
I said: don't die on me now, we're gonna win this race
So we can look down on this pissant little town
I'll take one step
And another step
Til I reach that mountaintop
I'm gonna reach the mountaintop
(Back to the Top)
You like to push the envelope
If you're gonna stick out your neck
Everybody's sure to give you plenty of rope
So who am I to object?
Don't know what it means to fail
You like walking along the edge
Feel like you got a guardian angel
Follows you around the ledge
Everything's a different size
When you're totally adrenalized
It's a very thin line
The room is on fire but it
Won't help to panic
And the floods rise higher but it
Don't help to panic
You lost you're voice but it
Won't help to panic
And you got no choice so it
Don't help to panic
Yea it's a very thin line
It don't take much to lose it
One moment everything is going just fine
Then something takes your head and screws it
You can never lose your cool
Though you've got no course of action
You may just wind up looking like a fool
Or some other social infraction
Everyone expects to be
At a level of anxiety
It's a very thin line
You're in a strange town but it
Won't help to panic
And the power goes down but it
Don't help to panic
The zombies awake but it
Won't help to panic
And the earh is aquake but it
Don't help to panic
Yea, the wings fall off but it
Won't help to panic
And your boner goes soft but it
Don't help to panic
All the liquor's gone but it
Won't help to panic
The bars closed at one but it
Don't help to panic
We all think we'll do what's right
Though we're half as high as Franklin's kite
When it all comes down to fight or flight
It's a very thin line
Yea, the wheels just spin but it
Won't help to panic
And the roof caves in but it
Don't help to panic
And you just made a stinky
Won't help to panic
Then you cut off your pinky
Don't help to panic
(Back to the Top)
There's a cloud in the distance
Rising from the dunes
Ten thousand riders
Blaze a trail of ruins
No doubt about it
They're headed this way
Who will protect us on a judgement day?
Some are unready, some are unwilling
Hiding amongst the women and children
Rousing the rabble from under the bed
I'm calling you by name to bite the bullet
Manup
We didn't want no trouble
But trouble's what we have
You call it paranoia
And have yourself a laugh
And avoid the confrontation
Until some other year
Somebody call the boys cause there's no men in here
Some are unready, some are unwilling
Some are still able but ain't got the feeling
Talking real loud at the back of the crowd
I'm calling you by name to bite the bullet
Manup
Listen to me my friend
What you will not defend
Somebody else will end up takin'
And when the famine comes
You think they'll just give you some
But if you believe that
You're mistaken
Todd Rundgren's Johnson
(Back to the Top)
I'm gonna get up in the mornin'
I believe I'll dust my broom
I'm gonna get up in the mornin'
I believe I'll dust my broom
Girl that man that you've been lovin'
I don't want him in my room
I don't want no woman chases
Every downtown man she meets
I don't want no woman chases
Every downtown man she meets
She's a no good mistreater
Shouldn't allow her on the streets
I believe, I believe, I believe I'll go back home
I believe, I believe, I'll go back home
You can mistreat me when I'm here babe
But you can't when I am gone
Oh you can mistreat me when I'm here babe
But you can't when I am gone
Oh mean mistreater now I'm gone
(Back to the Top)
Every time I'm walkin' down the street,
Some pretty mama start breakin' down with me.
Stop breakin' down, yeah stop breakin' down.
Stuff I got'll bust your brains out baby, whoo, it'll make you lose your mind.
I can't walk the streets to console my mind,
Some no-good woman starts breakin' down.
Oh stop breakin' down, please stop breakin' down, stop breakin' down.
Stuff I got'll bust your brains out baby, whoo, make you lose your mind.
Now you Saturday night womens, aww you love to ape and clown,
You won't do nothin' but tear a good man reputation down.
Oh stop breakin' down, please stop breakin' down.
Yeow, the stuff I got'll bust your brains out, baby, whoo, it'll make you lose
your mind.
Oh I give my baby now, ninety-nine degree.
She jumped up and throwed a pistol down on me.
Yeow stop breakin' down, baby please, please, please stop breakin' down. (Whoa
so crazy mama.)
The stuff I got'll bust your brains out baby, whoa, make you lose your mind.
(That explains everything.)
The stuff I got'll blow your brains out baby, whoa-hoo, make you lose your
mind.
(Back to the Top)
Well I woke up this mornin'
Feelin' 'round for my shoes yeah
You know that I got these old walkin' blues yeah
Woke up this mornin'
Feelin 'round for my shoes
'Cause you know that I got these old walkin' blues
Oh I feel like blowin' my old lonesome home
Got up this morning, my little Bernice was gone
Lord I feel like blowin' my old lonesome home
Well I woke up this morning, all I had was gone
Well I'm leavin' this mornin'
If I had to ride the line
Feel I been mistreated, and I don't mind dyin'
Leavin' this morning if I have to ride the line (oh yeah)
Well I feel so mistreated, and I don't, I don't mind dyin'
Well, some people tell me that
These worried blues ain't bad
But it's the worst old feelin' I most ever had
Some people tell me that
These worried blues ain't bad (not so bad)
But it's the worst old feelin' I most ever had
She got Elgin movement from her head down to her toes
Break in on a dollar
Most anywhere she goes, oh ooooooooooh
From her head down to her toes (Lord knows)
Yeah she break in on a dollar
Most anywhere she goes (oh there she goes)
(Back to the Top)
I got a kindhearted woman, do anything in this world for me.
Yeah I got a kindhearted woman, do anything in this world for me,
Oh but these evil hearted women, no they just won't let me be.
Ooh I love my baby, but my baby don't love me.
Oh I love my baby, but my baby don't love me.
Oh I got it so bad for that woman, just can't let her be.
Come over here baby.
Well there ain't but one thing make me startin' to drink.
I's worried 'bout how you treat me baby, I begin to think.
Oh, babe, my life don't feel the same (no no).
Breaks my heart baby, when you call Mr. So and So's name. (whoo)
Oh-whoa she's a kindhearted woman, studies evil all the time (all the time).
She's a kindhearted woman, studies evil all the time.
Babe you might as well just kill me, anytime it cross your mind.
(Back to the Top)
Well I followed her to the station
With a suitcase in my hand
Well I followed her to the station
With a suitcase in my hand
Well it's hard to tell, it's hard to tell
When all your love's in vain
All my love's in vain
When the train pulled into the station
Well I looked her in the eye
When the train pulled in the station
Looked her in the eye
I was so lonesome, so lonesome
Could not help but cry
All my love's in vain
When the train pulled out the station
It had two lights on behind
When the train pulled out the station
Had two lights on behind
Well the blue light was my blues
The red light was my mind
All my love's in vain
(Back to the Top)
It's the last fair deal gone down.
It's the last fair deal gone down.
It's the last fair deal gone down good Lord
On that Gulfport Island Road.
Please, Ida Belle, don't cry this time.
Ida Belle, don't cry this time.
If you pull for a nickel, oh you die for a dime.
You won't cry 'cause that money ain't mine.
Well I'm working my way back home.
Said I'm working my way back home.
Well I'm working my way back home good Lord
On this Gulfport Island Road.
It's the last fair deal gone down.
It's the last fair deal gone down.
It's the last fair deal gone down good Lord
On this Gulfport Island Road,
On this Gulfport Island Road.
(Back to the Top)
I said hey, baby don't you want to go
I said hey, baby don't you want to go
Back to the land of California
Oh my sweet home Chicago
I said hey baby, baby don't you want to go
I said baby, baby don't you want to go
Back to the land of California
Oh my sweet home Chicago
Well one and one is two
Two and two is four
I'm heavy loaded baby
I'm booked, I gotta go
Cryin' baby
Baby don't you want to go
Back to the land of California
Oh my sweet home Chicago
Well two and two is four
Four and two is six
You gonna keep on monkeyin' round here friend-boy
You're gonna get your business fixed, baby
Well six and two is eight
Eight and two is ten
When Marsh he trick you one time
He sure gonna do it again
Cryin' baby
Baby don't you want to go (don't you want to go)
Going back to California
Oh my sweet home Chicago (Illinois)
(Back to the Top)
Hot tamales and they're red hot
Hot tamales and they're red hot
Hot tamales and they're red hot
Hot tamales and they're red hot
Hot tamales and they're red hot, yeah she got 'em for sale
Hot tamales and they're red hot, yeah she got 'em for sale
Well I got a girl, she's long and tall
Sleeps in the kitchen with her feet in the hall
Hot tamales and they're red hot, yeah she got 'em for sale, oh yeah
Yeah she got 'em for sale
Hot tamales and they're red hot, yeah she got 'em for sale
Hot tamales and they're red hot, yeah she got 'em for sale
You get two for a nickel, four for a dime
Would sell you more, but you ain't getting mine
Hot tamales and they're red hot, yeah she got 'em for sale, oh yeah
Yeah, she got 'em for sale, red hot
Yeah hot tamales and they're red hot, yeah she got 'em for sale
Hot tamales and they're red hot, yeah she got 'em for sale
Well grandma left and grandpa too
Wonder what in the world we children gonna do
'Cause hot tamales and they're red hot, yeah she got 'em for sale, oh yeah
Yeah she got 'em for sale
Hot tamales and they're red hot, yeah she got 'em for sale
Hot, hot, hot, hot, hot tamales, yeah she got 'em for sale
You know the monkey and the baboon playin' in the grass
Monkey stuck his finger in that old good Gulf Gas, oh red hot
Yeah she got 'em for sale, oh yeah
Yeah she got 'em for sale, oh yeah
Yes she got 'em for sale, oh yeah
Yeah she got 'em for sale
(Back to the Top)
Mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm
Mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm
Mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm
Mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm
You'd better come on in my kitchen
Baby it's going to be rainin' outdoors
Oh the woman I love
I took from my best friend
Some joker got lucky
Stole her back again
You better come on in my kitchen
Baby it's going to be rainin' outdoors
Oh she's gone
I know she won't come back
Took the last nickel
Out of nation sack
You better come on in my kitchen
Baby it's going to be rainin' outdoors
When a woman gets in trouble
Everybody throws her down
Lookin' for her good friend
No one can be found
You better come on in my kitchen
Baby it's going to be rainin' outdoors
Winter time's comin'
It's gonna be slow
You can't make the winter baby
That's dry long so
You better come on in my kitchen
'Cause it going to be rainin outdoors (oh yeah)
It's going to be rainin' outdoors
(Back to the Top)
Got to keep movin'
Got to keep movin'
Blues fallin' down like hail
Fallin' down like hail (Oooh ooh oh)
Said the blues fallin' down like hail
Fallin' down like hail
And the days keep worryin' me
Hellhound on my trail
Hellhound on my trail
If today was Christmas Eve
If today was Christmas Eve
And tomorrow was Christmas Day
Yeah Christmas Day (ooh ooh)
And tomorrow was Christmas Day
All I need is my little rider
Pass the time away
Pass the time away
I can tell the wind is risin'
Leaves tremblin' on the trees
Tremblin' on the trees (woooh whoo)
Tremblin' on the trees (tremblin' on the trees)
All I need is my sweet woman
Keep me company (keep my company, oh baby, my company)
All I need is my sweet rider, oh my sweet rider
My sweet rider, keep me company
(Back to the Top)
If your man get personal, want you to have your fun
If your man get personal, want you to have your fun
Just come on back to me now mama, make love all night long
I got womens in Vicksburg, clean on into Tennessee
I got womens in Vicksburg, clean on into Tennessee
But my Friars Point rider make sweet love to me
Well I'm goin' to Rosedale, gonna take my rider by my side
Well I'm goin' to Rosedale, gonna take my rider by my side
We can still make love baby by the riverside
We can still make love baby by the riverside
We can still make love baby by the riverside
Riverside, riverside, riverside
(Back to the Top)
I went down to the crossroads
Fell down on my knees
I went down to the crossroads
Fell down on my knees
Asked the Lord above for mercy
Save me if you please
I went down to the crossroads
Tried to flag a ride
I went down to the crossroads
Tried to flag a ride
Didn't nobody seem to know me
Everybody pass me by (pass me by)
Standing at the crossroads baby
Rising sun going down
Standing at the crossroads baby
Rising sun going down (going down)
I believe to my soul now
Lord I'm sinking down
Whoa you can run, you can run
You can hide but you'll be found (you'll be found)
You can run, you can run
You can hide but you'll be found
I'm standing at the crossroads
I believe I'm sinking down
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(Back to the Top)
Come fly with me,
What are you waiting for?
Come fly with me,
Don't waste a minute more.
I'll give you my prime time.
I'm saving my prime time for you.
You get my prime time.
I'm saving my prime time for you.
Give me your prime time.
Have me make it mine.
I will give you my time.
Every second is mine.
Go anywhere
Still you can call on me,
And I'll be there.
Just say the word and see.
Don't be shy,
I would never hurt you.
I have had my eye on you
For such a long, long time.
You know I'm always here
If you should need me.
If you want a dream come true,
I'm the one you should see.
Give me your prime time.
Have me make it mine.
I will give you my time.
Every second is prime.
Give me your prime time.
Save your prime time for me.
We can live in prime time for eternity.
I'm waiting here
For no one else but you.
Come closer dear,
That's all you have to do.
(Back to the Top)
Oh god I fell for you
She is benediction, benediction
She is addicted, addicted to thee
She is the root connection, root connection
He is connecting, connecting is he
Here I go, and I don't know why
I spin so ceaselessly
Could it be she's taking over me?
I'm dancing barefoot
Heading for a spin
Some strange music draws me in
Makes me come on like some heroine, like some heroine
She is sublimation, she is sublimation
She is the essence, the essence of thee
She is concentrating, concentrating on
He who has been chosen, chosen by she
Here I go, and I don't know why
I fell so ceaselessly
Could I lose my sense of gravity?
She is re-creation, she is re-creation
She is intoxicated by thee
She has the slow sensation, slow sensation that
He is levitating, levitating with she
I'm dancing barefoot
In mid-air I spin
Some strange music draws me in
Makes me come on like some heroine, like some heroine
The plot of our life sweats in the dark like a face
The mystery of childbirth, childhood itself
Grave visitations
What is it that calls to us?
Why must we pray screaming?
Why must not death be redefined?
We shut our eyes
We stretch out our arms and whirl on a pane of glass
Affixation, a fix on anything: the line of life, the limb on a tree
The hands of he, or the promise that she is blessed among women
(Back to the Top)
Baby we can talk all night
But that ain't getting us nowhere
I've told you everything I possibly can
Nothing left inside of me
I poured it on, and I poured it out
I tried to show you just how much I care
I'm tired of words, and I'm too hoarse to shout
But you've been cold to me so long
I'm crying icicles instead of tears
And all I can do is keep on telling you
I want you (I want you)
I need you (I need you)
But there ain't no way I'm ever gonna love you
So don't be sad, two out of three ain't bad
Come on don't be sad (don't be sad)
'Cause two out of three ain't bad
I can't lie
I can't tell you that I'm something I'm not
No matter how I try
I'll never be able
To give you something
Something that I just haven't got
There was only one time I ever been in love
And that was so many years ago
And though I pleaded and I begged her not to walk out that door
She packed her bags and turned right away
Packed her bags and turned away
Packed her bags and turned away
And I can still hear her say
And she kept on telling me
Yeah she kept on telling me
You know
(Back to the Top)
Images of you, only this and nothing more
Blurring shades of blue, dancing on the thinnest floor
Reaching out for you, you are slipping through my hands
You are here, then you're gone, once again I am alone
The more I seek, the less I find, but still you're always on my mind
I'm chasing your ghost, your ghost, chasing your ghost
I hear your voice, but day by day your apparition fades away
I'm chasing your ghost, your ghost, chasing your ghost
Shadows in my bed, how could I be so mislead?
Voices in my head, am I living, am I dead?
Wandering the hall, come closer, I can't see you at all
I need to hold you near, your disappearing is my fear
The more I seek, the less I find, but you are always on my mind
'Cause I'm chasing your ghost, chasing your ghost
I hear your voice day by day, but your apparition slips away
I'm chasing your ghost, your ghost, chasing your ghost
(Back to the Top)
There's an army on the dance floor
It's a fashion with a gun my love
In a room without a door
A kiss is not enough in
Love my way
It's a new road
I follow where my mind goes
They'd put us on a railroad
Dearly make us pay
For laughing in their faces
And making it our way
There's emptiness behind their eyes
There's dust in all their hearts
They just want to steal us all
And take us all apart but not in
Love my way
Love my way
Hey it's a new road
I'm gonna follow
Swallow all your tears my love
Put on your new face
You can never win or lose
If you don't run the race
(Back to the Top)
Walk with personality
Talk with personality
Walk with personality
Talk with personality
Well it's gonna be a pretty bad week
And my friends don't want another speech
But there ain't gonna be a better day
To say what I got to say
'Cause I got a personality crisis
I got it while it was hot (it's always hot because)
Frustration and heartache is what I got
I got a personality (walk), yeah, yeah, yeah (talk)
Well now I wanna be something, now I wanna do something
I wanna be someone who cow wow wow wows
But I'm thinkin' about the times I did, they took every ounce
Yeah but I don't feel that ounce of shame when I start to scream and shout
'Cause I got a personality crisis
I got it while it was hot (it's always hot because)
Frustration and heartache is what I got
Talkin' about my personality, yeah, yeah, yeah, (walk) with personality (talk)
Well with all the taunts and fates that mother nature sends
My mirrors getting jammed up with all my friends
Too much personality when my mind starts to bend
Too much personality impression of a friend,
Of a friend, of a friend, of a friend
Too much personality, everything's startin' to blend
Just like my personality crisis
(Back to the Top)
Is it a star, or is it me
You say you believe in?
And the nights
When my stage smile not so wild, ain't coming easy.
Can't you see it's me
All broken down inside?
Can't you see it's me
All broken down inside?
Can't you see it's me
All broken down inside?
Can't you see it's me?
Honey, you've been dreaming
Then they meet you on the streets, and say they've had
A crush on you for a year or two, maybe it was three
And they say "Hi, how you doing," but is it really me, or you,
You say you believe in
Baby, you've been dreaming
Baby, you've been dreaming
Is it a star, or is it me
You say you believe in?
And all the nights
When my stage smile lasts awhile, coming easy.
(Back to the Top)
Standing in a corn field, hat in your hand, the wind is whipping at the weather vane
Just a young girl in a big wide world, the days seem to last forever
I pull up on a tractor, an old John Deere, smile, and offer up some water
The clouds are rolling, the corn is growing, the kids are playing by the chicken shed
Then I wake up in our apartment, and we're down on the lower east side
You tell me what you dreamed about, it keeps me up all night
You tell me your dreams, I give you my heart
You tell me your dreams, I give you my heart
Flying down a staircase, a cat in your arms, a man is crouching by the living room
There's blood in his eyes, and no place to hide, just you and him
You're floating above it, just out of his reach, he smiles and looks just like your brother
The cat is purring, the carpet's burning, and the walls close in
Then I wake up in my apartment, and I'm far from the lower east side
You call me on the telephone and keep me up all night
(Back to the Top)
In a way the sun has shone on me
Makes it easy to make it hard
Take an inch, take a yard, take it all
I don't need it at all
Any day the sun could shine on you
Makes it silly to make it bad
Take it good, take it glad, take it all
Don't you know there's a stronger thing
Keeping us together
Don't you know there's a song to sing
Sing on, let the feeling take you high
Any day the sun will shine on you
Makes it silly to make it bad
Make it good, take it glad, take it all
I don't need it at all, I don't want it at all, I don't need it at all
(Back to the Top)
Well I saw you today and realized
How I missed my peace of mind
I feel your breath in my ear
Late at night it's you I always think about
That little girl inside of you I once knew
I should have known better
But still the smell of you is on my face
But you were too busy to notice me last night
Now I can't take it alone
I can't make it alone
I can't take it alone
I can't make it alone
I can't take it
I can't make it alone
Oh no, ooh whoo, oh no
Well I tell myself I'll put you down
Don't wanna see your face around
Don't call me up anymore
When I hear your voice, it's in my ear
You're kisses on the phone
It makes it all come clear
I try to tell myself
Don't need you anymore
Don't want you hangin' around my door
Oh no
Now I can't take it alone
I can't make it alone
I can't take it alone
I can't make it alone
I can't take it
I can't make it alone
Oh no no
I can't take it
I can't make it alone
You know how much I tried
I can't take it
I can't make it alone
Ooh my pretty baby
I can't take it
I can't make it alone
(Back to the Top)
Dear God, hope you got the letter, and
I pray you can make it better down here.
I don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer,
But all the people that you made in your image,
See them starving on their feet
'Cause they don't get enough to eat from God.
I can't believe in you.
Dear God, sorry to disturb you, but
I feel that I should be heard loud and clear.
We all need a big reduction in amount of tears,
And all the people that you made in your image,
See them fighting in the street,
'Cause they can't make opinions meet about God.
Now I can't believe in you.
Did you make disease and the diamond blue?
Did you make mankind after we made you?
And the devil too!
Dear God, don't know if you noticed, but
Your name is on a lot of quotes in this book.
Us crazy humans wrote it, you should take a look,
And all the people that you made in your image
Still believing that junk is true,
Well I know it ain't, so do you, dear God.
I can't believe in, I don't believe in
I won't believe in heaven and hell.
No saints, no sinners, no devil as well.
No pearly gates, no thorny crown.
You're always letting us humans down.
The wars you bring, the babes you drown.
Those lost at sea and never found,
And it's the same the whole world 'round.
The hurt I see helps to compound that
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is just somebody's unholy hoax,
And if you're up there, you'd perceive
That my heart's here upon my sleeve.
If there's one thing I don't believe
It's you.
Can't believe in you.
Don't believe in you.
Won't believe in you.
It's you, dear God.
(Back to the Top)
Out of my mind, I must be out of my mind
To let a thing like real, real pain, you left me out in the rain, oh wo wo
How many times must I keep moving on when I already was there?
How many years must I live alone, tie me on your bed of nails and
Hit me over the head! Spit in my face! Bang on the drum!
I must be blind, I must be blind
Hit me over the head! Step on my feet! Make me feel numb!
I must be blind, I must be going out of my mind... and it's worrying me
Out of control, I must be out of control
To let a silly thing like this hurt my soul, I must be out of control whoa whoa whoa
How could a thing like this get me down, I'm a militant man?
How many times must I carry on? Tie me on your bed of nails and
Hit me over the head! Spit in my face! Bang on the drum!
I must be blind, I must be blind
Hit me over the head! Step on my feet! Make me feel numb!
I must be blind, I must be out of my mind
She should have told me, she could have let me down easy
That woman should have told me, but I've got to pay for it now
(Back to the Top)
You see your chance for life
You see it pass you by
You see your chance for life
It makes you want to cry
You see that spark called life
You know the reason why
You see your chance for life
And you just can't let it die
You feel her in the room
You feel her in the night
She's sent to share your gloom
And turn it into light
Her presence in the room
Touches you late at night
And you can feel her love
She makes everything all right
'Cause she's everything, perfection
Like a circle 'round the sun
She's everything, perfection
She's somewhere in the heart of everyone
There is no time like now
No better place than here
Don't ever wonder how
Baby just believe I'm here
There is no time like now
No better place than here
Don't ever wonder how
Just as long as you are near
'Cause you're everything, perfection
Like a circle 'round the sun
You're everything, perfection
Somewhere in the heart of everyone
(Back to the Top)
Walk like a man.
Talk like a man.
Walk like a man.
You can call me your man.
Little girl asked me what am I gonna' do,
When I get old and blue and worn half through?
And I said, by that time I'll be in my prime,
I'm gonna' strut like a cock until I'm ninety-nine.
I'm gonna walk like a man.
Talk like a man.
Gonna walk like a man.
You can call me your man.
Sometimes I feel like it's gettin' late,
And all that settlin' down can wait.
Before my routine days all seem the same,
I've got to get on out, I gotta play my game.
(Back to the Top)
Realize
When you go out on the road, you keep looking behind you
And you're leaving no trail around, so nobody can find you
When the rain comes pouring down, got nothing to hide you
When the cold freezes the ground, there ain't nothing inside you
When you gonna realize you've got nothing to lose? (realize?)
When you gonna realize you've got nothing to lose?
And when that train pulls out, you better know that she's leaving
She took away any shadow of doubt, left you nothing to believe in
State
(Back to the Top)
I am what I am, that's all that I am
I tell myself
I have no demands, I don't have a plan
To sell myself
Every day's the same old song (and over and over)
Go along and get along (and over and over)
Nothing's ever right or wrong
What is hell? The same old smell
The same old situation
No imagination
Whatever life brings, eventually things
Will just work out
Whenever they don't, I certainly won't
Be found about
Every new year I resolve (and over and over)
Never gotten past day twelve (and over and over)
Just a problem I can't solve
What is death? The train has left
And you're still in the station
No imagination
(Back to the Top)
I like a laugh
I like my fun
You cross a line
You better run
If you're inclined
To laugh at this
Soon you will find out
Where that line is
I try to play the nice guy
You had to be a wise guy
I should just let it pass by
But now it's daddy time
Because I'm serious, serious as I can be
Serious, better call the cops on me
Serious, I'm about to chain react
Because I'm serious
As a heart attack
(Clear)
You're on the edge
Of trouble now
You have offended
My sacred cow
You shall receive
What you deserve
Seems you've been dancing
On my last nerve
I should try to ignore you
There's really no cure for you
Once again you're out of line
Now it's daddy time
You know I'm serious, you made a fool out of me
Serious, now I'm counting up to three
Serious, your lame excuses don't mean jack
Because I'm serious
As a heart attack
(Clear)
You know I'm serious, you went and made a fool out of me
Serious, now I'm counting up to three
Serious, your lame excuses don't mean jack
Because I'm serious
As a heart attack
(Clear)
(Back to the Top)
I woke up the other morning
Felt like there was something growing in my brain
And I went to see the doctor
He looked me up and down, and he could not explain
And this mystery affliction
Seems to reach its peak whenever you're around
I thought maybe you're the one
I'm seeking who knows how to help me out
Come over here
What is this?
There is something in my mouth
Something in my mouth
Might be a word
Could be a kiss
There is something in my mouth
Something in my mouth for you
(I have something in my mouth for you)
I have tried to understand it
Doesn't really make a lot of sense to me
But as an explanation
I will admit it fits the bill quite handily
Since this form of medication
Seems to be available from only you
I need reexamination
Every now and then until I feel like new
(Back to the Top)
I know it isn't fair to ask for something
That I may not return
Sometimes I get so absent minded
I come off unconcerned
I guess it's true I may have volunteered
I never dreamed that I would end up here
I wouldn't want to take up any time
Just let me know that I have crossed your mind
And ping me
You don't have to ring me
There's no gift you need to bring me
No song that you could sing me
Just ping me
When so much time has passed you wonder
Are things really the same?
And if my expectations are a burden
Then I will take the blame
It doesn't bother me to be alone
I've gotten used to being on my own
A little sustenance is all I need
A small reminder that you think of me
So ping me
You don't have to ring me
There's no gift you need to bring me
Not a song that you should sing me
Just ping me
I thought I'd never have a friend like you
Someone who loves no matter what I do
I hope you know I feel the same way too
And I will be there if your need is true
But I have always been a solitary man
I try to change but find I never can
So please forgive my distant silences my friend
You're in my heart until we meet again
Just ping me
You know you don't have to ring me
There's no gift you need to bring me
There no song you need to sing me (oh oh)
Just ping me
(Back to the Top)
Everybody's talkin', tell me have you heard?
I know it sounds fantastical, I know it sounds absurd
It's an angry bird
She's mad as a soakin' chicken
At alert level orange
Some pig is trying to control her eggs
Time to take her revenge
She's an angry bird
The piggies up in the statehouse
Couldn't leave well enough alone
Now she's flying off the handle
And flingin' herself like a stone
Now the pig party is pooped
And the answer has been found
Tell me just how many angry birds
It takes to knock a pigpen down
Are you angry now?
(Back to the Top)
It happened so fast
The blink of an eye
I never intended to
Go flying so high
Nothing was serious
Then it caught fire
Tried to stay cool
But the heat just got higher
Trapped in a tinderbox
Of rage and desire
The friction was so intense
Then we caught fire
We were aflame
Starshine was here to stay
Then it faded away
And it all went up in smoke
Life was cherries flambe
But that was so yesterday
Then it all went up in smoke
Now here am I
Kicking the ashes
Of a memory gone by
Things got too serious
Then they caught fire
Now I've been burned
I'm a bit wiser
A place in the shade
Is all I require
Yet I'm still hypnotized
When I see fire
(Back to the Top)
I take, I lend
I make, I spend
I think, I act
Extend, retract
I freak, I cope
I doubt, I hope
Collide-A-Scope
I sleep, I wake
I'm real, I'm fake
I walk, I ride
I seek, I hide
I'm fast, I'm slow
I'm high, I'm low
Collide-A-Scope
I'm good, I'm bad
I'm glad, I'm sad
I'm poor, I'm rich
I keep, I switch
I ebb, I flow
I'm friend, I'm foe
Collide-A-Scope
I talk, I hear
I'm brave, I'm fear
I lead, I trail
I'm freed, I'm jailed
I'm to, I'm fro
I catch, I throw
Collide-A-Scope
I'm right, I'm wrong
I'm short, I'm long
I stay, I leave
I bob, I weave
I'm dull, I glow
I guess, I know
Collide-A-Scope
I'm false, I'm true
I'm old, I'm new
I float, I sink
I stare, I blink
I'm yes, I'm no
Goodbye, hello
Collide-A-Scope
We live, we die
We laugh, we cry
We're here, we're gone
We're dusk, we're dawn
We come, we go
We doubt, we hope
Collide-A-Scope
We love, we hate
We start, we wait
We curse, we pray
We birth, we stay
We're high, we're low
We're friend, we're foe
Collide-A-Scope
We give, we take
We're real, we're fake
We're there, we're here
We're brave, we're fear
We're to, we're fro
We guess, we know
Collide-A-Scope
We live, we die
We laugh, we cry
We're here, we're gone
We are dusk, we're dawn
We're yes, we're no
Goodbye, hello
Collide-A-Scope
(Back to the Top)
Staring down the dry hole
That used to be a well
This town has dried up long ago
There's no tale left to tell
I am a sole survivor
Each day I search the sky
And never a rain cloud goes by
I have faith
I have faith
What is faith?
Something from nothing
I live without companionship
Nobody takes this road
It doesn't lead to anywhere
Since they closed the motherlode
I gaze at the horizon
Until it hurts my eyes
And never a soul passes by
I have faith, I have faith
Without faith then there is nothing
But with faith I create
Something from nothing
And inside every atom
There is naught but empty space
Why does the sight of rainbows
Put a smile upon your face?
And how will you become yourself
From a little tiny ball?
The answer is nothing at all
Just have faith, I have faith
Without faith then there is nothing
But with faith I create
Something from nothing
(Back to the Top)
There is this party, they say I should come by
I'm bad with strangers, but I may give it a try
Sittin' in the corner, and I'm feeling kinda shy
I see someone, but I'm afraid to catch their eye
And in my mind
We'll have a nice time
Drinking fine wine
Then somebody yelled
"Wake up and smell the moonshine"
And the lights got dimmer and began to flicker
Then they broke out the party liquor
When the moment came, I didn't have to trick her
She just threw back that party liquor
This shit gets crazier with every passing hour
I should slow down, but I don't seem to have the power
I'm mixing everything including grape and grain
I'm thinkin' thoughts that I should never entertain
And in my brain
We are so urbane
Oysters and champagne
Then somebody yelled
"Wake up, you must be insane"
Then the loud mouths lose it, and they began to bicker
Over who holds their party liquor
And we all find out just who can get sicker quicker
When they break out the party liquor
While the trash piles higher, and the floor gets slicker
'Cause they spill so much party liquor
And the TV's blaring 'cause they can't find the clicker
Things get so lost on party liquor
(Put your hands in the air)
And the noise grows louder, and the plot gets thicker
As they run out of party liquor
Then I look right at her and begin to snicker
Things get so strange in party liquor
'Cause if I was sober I would never pick her
You do weird things on party liquor
And the rude boys line up to get in her knickers
When she's face down on party liquor
So everybody sing
It's party liquor time!
(Back to the Top)
No one ever lies
No one really dies
Money brings you joy
Girls are girls
And boys are boys
The ocean has no salt
Lack is all your fault
Knowledge comes for free
Sir reality
The truth is plain to see
But you may not agree
Much prefer to be
In sir reality
The truth is plain to see
If you disagree
Then you can call on me
Sir reality
All science is a ploy
A gun's just a toy
Man is born not made
It's good to be afraid
The earth is not so old
The moon is not that cold
The rich deserve to be
Sir reality
Global
(Back to the Top)
Evrybody Clap Your Hands!
Evrybody can't paint the Mona Lisa
Evrybody can't be a millionaire
Everybody can't make the perfect pizza
Evrybody's here so we just don't care
Because we're all together again
Everybody can't be El Presidente
Evrybody can't be the talk of the town
Everybody can't lead a life of plentay
Evrybody's ready to get on down
Because we're all together again
Evrybody can't have the Life O' Riley
Evrybody can't be a movie star
Evrybody can't get a twerk from Miley
Evrybody here'd rather hit the bar
Because we're all together again
Evrybody don't need a mini mansion
Evrybody don't want an 80 foot yacht
Evrybody don't need the latest fashion
Evrybody needs what we already got
Because we're all together again
(Back to the Top)
It's the tom tom tom beat of the medicine man
Driving the eyeyevil spirits back to a rhythmless land
Now it's a layayptop and a microphone
Fifty thouwowosand watts and still going strong
You hear the bangbangbangin' of the drum machine
You can't help bowowouncin' like a Mexican jumping bean
Soon everyboyoyody has the urge to move
It's like an owowocean swelling to the thunderous groove
You got free will but you're flesh and blood
You can't stand still 'cause you're flesh and blood
When that wall of sound hits you like a flash flood
Then you can't stop moving 'cause you're flesh and blood
There's no resistance 'cause we're flesh and blood
We go that distance 'cause we're flesh and blood
When that wall of sound hits us like a flash flood
Then we keep on moving 'cause we're flesh and blood
Now the crowowowd starts to move as one
You lose your miyiyind 'cause it's so much primitive fun
You feel that rururumbling way down below
That synthesiyiyizer noise begins to grow and grow.
It hypnotiyiyizes everyone in the room
Then the emcee drops it and the bottom goes boom
There ain't a sowowoul isn't covered in sweat
And the LEDs are flashing but it ain't nearly over yet
(Back to the Top)
Plans to make and facts to face
There ain't no future in this place
Time's ticking away, time keeps ticking away
If we don't rise, then we will fall
We don't need an excess of caution
Doing nothing is not an option
Time's ticking away, time keeps ticking away
If we don't rise, then we will fall
(Back to the Top)
For as long as I remember
I've been searching for the holyland
From across the ocean
Over the mountain to the desert sand
Under every rock and stone
Looking for a sacred plan
But now I understand
This is the holyland
Every drop of rain
Blade of grass
Grain of sand
Is in the holyland
Everywhere I go I see it
Even though so many want to stake their claim
They say history and gods foretell the answer
Conjure up some ancient game
Take away the gates and fences
Everything is all the same
No matter where you stand
You're in the holyland
Every hill and dale
Mountain stream
Forest stand
Earth is the holyland
(Back to the Top)
I'm not a scientist
Everybody likes to brag these days
And yet they still insist
Twisting all the facts their way
Gravity is real
Just step off the ledge and you will fall
Summers get hotter
Winters get colder
Writing on the wall
You'd have to be blind
Eyes that will not see
You say God will handle everything
Seems like he ain't done shit so far
Take yourself for example
You're still wishing on a star
Wish upon that star
But you see God is a scientist
He don't play dice with the universe
It don't take an Einstein
And your fake and cynical solutions
It's as if you're trying to make things worse
And you know the reason
'Cause you never want to see the
Writing on the wall
Don't want to see
Writing on the wall
Turn your back to the wall
Writing on the all
Hide your eyes now
Writing on the wall
There it is
Writing on the wall
Plain as day
Writing on the wall
Don't look away
Writing on he wall
Gotta face the truth
Writing on the wall
WAKE UP!
(Back to the Top)
Can I get a shout out from my sisters? (Yeah, brother)
Can I get a shout out from my girls? (Yeah, brother)
Can I get a shout out from my sisters? (Yeah, brother)
Now go out there and change (heal) the world
Earth Mother
Rosa sat in the front of the bus
The driver start to make a fuss
The end result was so unjust
But she was sitting in the front for the rest of us
R E S P E C T for my ladies
R E S P E C T for my girls
Malala went to school one day
It was against a rule they say
She went and studied anyway
Now Malala's got the Nobel Prize today
We got a little bit too much testosterone
Need a little more progesterone
(Back to the Top)
Calling out to the planet
Calling out to the world
I want to wrap my arms around the world
And dance
Away the isolation
Away the separation
Away the tribulation
Our way to liberation
Global Nation
I want to wrap my arms around the world
And dance
Away the tribulation
Our way to inspiration
Away the indignation
Our way in celebration
Away the bad vibrations
Our way to liberation
Global Nation
(Back to the Top)
Life is hard enough
Even if you do find love
It can be so tough
Losing what you're dreaming of
When your lovers are untrue
And the whole world seems out to hurt you
Know that I would try everything I knew
Just to soothe you
I will soothe you
Maybe I can't make that dream come true
But I can soothe you
I know how it feels
Trying hard to keep things real
But it's so plain to see
You don't have a heart of steel
And anytime I hear you weep
Suddenly I can't eat, can't sleep
Not until I've done all that I can do
Just to soothe you
I will soothe you
Maybe I can't make gray skies turn blue
But I can soothe you
(Back to the Top)
I am Christopher Columbus
On the bounding main
Searching for a new world
And I don't know when I'm back again
If I can find my way back home again
I am scanning the horizon
But there's nothing there to see
Wondering where to turn to
And the quest seems more like a fantasy
With every passing moment it seems to be
And that's the thing that frightens me
Whenever I feel afraid
I put my faith in terra firma
And I'm never far away
Because you're my terra firma
I am on Apollo seven
Heading into space
Where no man has ever ventured
And at times I feel so out of place
Then the moon looks like your shining face
I see Terra far below me
Green and white and blue
I know you are down there somewhere
But I feel so far away from you
Hoping that you're thinking of me too
Even though I know you always do
Whenever I feel alone
I come home to terra firma
The place that I call my own
Because you're my terra firma
I am off to great adventures
Leaving you behind
Far beyond the border
And I have no clue what I will find
But the thought of home never leaves my mind
Though the minutes stretch to hours
And the hours stretch to days
Through the trials and tribulations
When it seems like I'm so far away
And it's just too high a price to pay
There is one thing I can always say
(Back to the Top)
Sitting at the table losing every hand
And the cards come up the same
I keep thinking I'll get lucky, something's gotta change
And I will catch a flame
I'm as cold as January, cursed as a Jonah
But I ca't quit the game
Another round, I am all in
I'll beat the odds, someday I'll win
Luck of the draw, Out of my hands
Whatever comes, it's up to chance
Wager it all, accept the deal
My fate is sealed
Gripped by an addiction
That is driving me to hell
But it's easily encouraged, everybody all around me
Has the malady as well
We would rather take our chances, bet away the future
Than face up to the smell
Gamble away the moon and stars
The world to be that is not ours
Drunk with the lust for easy wealth
We'll take the chance, bankrupt ourselves
We bet the farm, no turning back
Even or odd, on red or black
Our future is no longer ours
The outcome rests with higher powers
All bets are down, now spin the wheel
Our fate is selaed
(Back to the Top)
Why don't you come on down from your skyscraper?
Why don't you come on down and join the party
Everybody from the hood is all here
We singin' oldies and drinkin' cold beer
So won't you come on down from your skyscraper?
Seen you riding around in your Escalade
Made all your bones but you never paid any attention
To the other dimension
You got a solid gold grill and an Armani suit
Big bodyguard and a haughty attitude
But what goes up comes down sooner or later
Think twice before you reach the elevator
Why don't you come on down from your skyscraper?
Why don't you come on down and join the party,
Brothers and sisters, strangers and cousins
We playing' volleyball and doin' the dozens
So won't you come on down from your skyscraper?
You feel safe and secure in your castle in the sky
You don't have to be afraid of the average guy down below ya
Come on down and we'll show ya
You can keep all your money cause the party is free
We could be friends if you want to be
Because a good life spent/lived in an ivory tower
Don't mean a thing without some people power
(Back to the Top)
They say there may well be a million other planets
Just like this island Earth
And that the day will come when can travel there and
stage some kind of rebirth
Until you realize they're so far away, so far away, light years away
There is no other place in this universe like this island Earth
We fantasize about despoiling other worlds
Like this island Earth
Some believe that aliens are testing us
Like they had eyes on this island Earth
We get amusement from crop circles
Or when a cow gets inverted
We want to think that we're not alone, we're not alone
All on our own
There are no aliens looking to take over this island earth
We are the only ones to blame for what becomes of this island earth
Because the garden world where we used to thrive
Will be a place where nothing living survives
And we finally realize we must strive to save this island earth
There is no other place in this universe like this island Earth
We have all the water in the galaxy, for what that is worth
We behave like we're not of this world
We turn the garden of eden to hell
Where is the love
For this island Earth?
White Knight
(Back to the Top)
There is no freedom
We are not free
We all reach the boundary eventually
Time erases all we made
We are judged by what we leave
Others turn their backs but as for us
There's change to oversee
The battlefront is our backyard
We raise our flag for all to see
And when it's time to come for you
Will you come, come, come, come with me?
Come with me
When I call you
Will you come, come with me?
(Back to the Top)
Time's as hard as I've ever seen
Money is scarce, and people get mean
You struggle to stay on your own feet but then
You fall down, you sometimes don't get up again
A brother in need is a brother indeed
The naked to clothe and the hungry to feed
The garden is barren, but I'll plant a seed
I got your back
Pull you out of the gutter and off of the street
I got your back
You get the food off my plate, the shoes off my feet
I got your back
Alright dad, let me squeeze inside this moment of service
I want to give back too
I know, know that you're humble
But I got to, gotta let the world know
I got your back through all the hard times
Call on me when you're looking for the hard vibes
When you're starvin' and you're wishin' on a star
Kid, call on me, no more starvin' the artist
Let go, no more need for the pride, son
Pride before the fall, and it ain't no fun
We got a movement going on
And it's called movin' on through the power of truth
Will you, you ride on the train through
Through the dark times, nitty gritty too
We will, we will feed the hungry
People with the soul and they're searchin' for the wholeness
Whole foods is a state of mind booth
And it starts with a diet made of tender made truths
(Back to the Top)
Whoo!
Too much water under a broken bridge
Evil words I couldn't hear
How much battering can a love endure
Before it turns into tears?
Is there any life left in this love?
Or should we move on and let it die?
But if there's still a flame that I can fan
I'm gonna try, I'm gonna try one more time
Is there still a chance, a chance for us? (A chance for us)
Or has too much time gone by?
Is there still a chance, a chance for us? (A chance for us)
Or did the music die?
Can you bring back that sweet magic
After they showed it was just a trick?
Can you bring back heart, can you bring back health
To a love that turned so sick?
Maybe we should face the bitter truth,
Cut our losses and say goodbye?
But if you think there's something we can save
I'm gonna try, I'm gonna try one more time
(Back to the Top)
Tell me it can be arranged
Things as if they haven't changed
You'll return and never leave
This and more if I believe
This fiction
Every moment goes to plan
I become a different man
Give to me 'til none is left
All is mine if I accept
This fiction
Chivalry was never dead
Bitter words were never said
We were always civilized
Happy to no one's surprise
(Back to the Top)
It's really over, now it's done
Never thought I'd see the day
But it's finally come
The slate is clean
The slate is clean
Yes it is, yes it is
Now I can move on
But I woke up this morning,
Incomplete
Something like a shadow haunts my sleep
Made myself a promise,
I'm not sure I can keep
I had that burden off my shoulder
And I was sure that it was over
But it's the beginning of the end
Tell myself I'm winning
But it's pointless to pretend
Though the habit may be broken
The desire comes back again
And you never know just when
At the beginning of the end
It's time that I got honest with myself
A man can do a lot of things with nobody's help
I'll never, never, never, never, never, never, never going back into that hell
But there's some things you can't achieve all alone
You can feel strong, you can feel weak, then sometimes you just don't know
In the midnight hour, when you reach for the phone
Where's an angel when you need one, a rock that you can lean on?
When you're at the beginning of the end
Told myself I was winning
But it's pointless to pretend
Though the habit may be broken
The desire comes back again
And you never know just when
You're at the beginning of the end
(Back to the Top)
He's coming down the escalator
With a girl from east of here
He wants to make the country greater
We've got nothing left to fear
Because the man in the tin foil hat
Is sitting on the throne tonight
It kinda feels like a coup e'tat
But it's gonna be great, tremendous, amazing, and all that
'Cause the man in the tin foil hat
Is tweeting like a teenage girl
He puts the Pluto in plutocrat
But it's gonna be huge, huge, huge new world
He hasn't got the time for losers
Unless they do as he commands
He's writing checks to his accusers
With those tiny little hands
Because the man in the tin foil hat
Is sitting on the throne tonight
It kinda feels like a coup e'tat
But it's gonna be huge, huge, huge new world
'Cause the man in the tin foil hat
Is gonna drain the swamp tonight
And fill it up with alternative facts
And it's gonna be great, tremendous, amazing, and all that
(Back to the Top)
Check one two, one two two
All the ladies to the stage
[...]
And the Krispy Kremers, there ain't no dreamers but schemers
So get up, get up
Get up, get up
Get up, get up
Bonzai, Excelsior, Geronimo!
[...]
Ain't take no tape, shimmy shake, no mistake
[...]
Jibber, jabber, Java Hutt
It doesn't matter, shake your butt
Solaceous, [...], she moves me
Good gracious
Biggest show on earth yo
A miracle at birth yo
No you wouldn't want to miss this
Here my ass, you can kiss this
You can't handle my braggin'
I'm a fire breathin' dragon
You don't need to b'lee me
All you gotta do is see me
Look at me, look at me
Check one two, one two
What you gonna do? You?
Yo, this is Money Mike
Coming to you from the LES
Where the girls are fresh
And folks know best
The best MC there will ever be
MC who you be
M C G O D ... D
MC Look at Me
I pick a fight for no reason
But you know I'm just teasin'
I do something you hate yo
Then you tell your friends I'm great yo
I make a spectacle of myself
I'm electrical as all hell
I could make utter shit sell
While I stand on my head as well
Look at me, look at me
Check one two, one two
Yeah
[...]
Take for teh taking is for all of the rest
West coast, east coast, [...]
Jack it up, jack it up, jack it up
I got a technicolor ego
And it goes wherever we go
I set my hair on fire yo
Anything you desire yo
Drop my pants to my knees yeah
If you think that'll please ya
You tell everyone that sees ya
That you needed anesthesia
Look at me, look at me
(Back to the Top)
You're playing checkers, and I'm playing chess
You're playing checkers, and I'm playing chess
Think it's high time to face it, everyone's thinkin' small
But then after you taste it, don't you just want it all?
Who wants to do this? Yeah, let's do this!
Who wants to do this? Yeah, let's do this!
I'm going far and wide, come along for the ride
Because I'm gonna do this. Yeah let's do this!
I could play you for suckers, just 'cause you want it less
Maybe you're playing checkers, yeah, and I'm playing chess
I got my mad skills honed, and I'm ready to roll
Because I'm gonna do this. Yeah let's do this!
And I just won't stop 'til I'm over the top
Because I'm gonna do this. Yeah let's do this!
(Back to the Top)
I'm sitting in the dark
And watching you sleep
I'm wide awake, and you are breathing deep
There's nothing on my mind
No promises to keep
I'm happy ever after, and I'm not counting sheep
(And I am not counting sheep)
I'm sitting alone, counting my blessings
And watching you sleep
I'm waiting for the dawn, trying not to yawn
And watching you sleep
(Watching you sleep)
The light across the street
Illuminates the gloom
And but for your small breath, it's like a tomb
I close the bathroom door
And carefully I tiptoe 'round the room
I want to wake you up, but it will be daylight soon
(Yes, it will be daylight soon)
(Back to the Top)
I thought I was your Supergirl
But you had something else in mind
You promised a place in your world for me
But it's so cold and undefined
If there's something I've overlooked
I just don't know what it could be
I've got to finally close the book on us
Not even that you'd do for me
But I will swallow my pride
What will be will be
And you'll roll over at night
Tell me what you see
That empty pillow by your side
That could have been me
That could have been me
It's like you'll always mean to me
More than I'll ever mean to you
And when I should have broken free
I was willingly your fool
I can see it in your eyes
I should simply walk away
After all I compromised
I know you won't hear me anyway
Oh and I will swallow my pride
What will be will be
And you'll roll over at night
Tell me what you see
That empty pillow by your side
That could have been me
That could have been me
(Back to the Top)
The world we made goes up in flames
It's raining ashes
We reenact the hunger games
It's raining ashes
It's raining ashes
It's raining ashes
Falling on deaf ears
We pray to god our soul to keep
From raining ashes
And then we smother in our sleep
Covered in ashes
The dark as far as eyes can see
It's raining ashes
We've reached the end of history
Here come the ashes
(Back to the Top)
You're not from around here
It's pretty plain to see
But everybody knows this
You don't mess with the queen
She might not look imposing
But looks they can deceive
The graveyard's full of bodies
Of those who disbelieve
You are in, you are out
There is no in between, better
Pray for your life if you take on the queen
There never was a man that can frighten me
Push the wrong button and wait and see
I'll leave you naked and afraid
This time you're in way over your head
I'll suck the life blood out of you, and if you ain't dead
You'll wake up naked and afraid
Naked and afraid
There's no means of defense
Neither man nor machine, better
Pray for your life if you take on the queen
There never was a man that can frighten me
Push the wrong button and I'll guarantee
I'll leave you naked and afraid
Naked and afraid
You may be the seventh son of a seventh son
But I don't give a damn what you came from
I'll leave you naked and afraid
(Back to the Top)
t's so perpetual, it's anywhere
Everything's virtual, it's light as air
It's so ephemeral, like it's not there
Need something I can hold
Or maybe something I can wear
Buy my T
Buy my hoodie
You need a souvenir
We got your cotton goodies
I know my limits
I give until I hurt
You can bootleg the music
But you have to buy a shirt
I used to stand in line to buy my shred
I get it from inside my phone instead
If it's a new design, I'll spend the bread
Though I don't own your vinyl
I got your branding on my head
Come on
Buy my T
My cap is fine
If we sell out, you can find
Everything online
We got all sizes
We got 5 X large
That's a limited edition
And will that be cash or charge?
Pushin' cotton, we pushin' cotton
(Back to the Top)
Ignorance is bliss
And I believe it's so
I guess sometimes you have to hurt like this
If you ever hope to grow
Rolling like a stone
Down the same old road
Why you're still alone
Wouldn't you like to know?
Ever wonder where
Or why she had to go?
Did she really care?
Wouldn't you like to know?
Life is so complex
I can't help but fall behind
It's hard to see how all of this connects
With a simple little mind
When you close your eyes
What is that tableau?
All gone when you rise
Wouldn't you like to know?
Never asking more
Going with the flow
What's behind the door?
Wouldn't you like to know?
Facing toward the wall
With my fingers in my ears
Don't want to know if I've been wrong at all
That I wasted all these years
(Back to the Top)
This is not a drill, pass it down the line
Keep your voices still, could happen any time
Word came down last night, our enemies advance
If you're itchin' for a fight, well now you get your chance
This is not a drill, we're takin' live fire
Shit has gotten real, threat level can't be higher
The clank of armor plate rollin' down the hill
The horde is at the gate, comin' for the kill
This is not a drill, this is the big show
Our destiny fulfilled, that's all you need to know
We're movin' out at dawn, so clean your weapon well
The happy days are gone, we're headed into hell
This is not a drill, blood is not for show
The sound you hear is real, the fire is down below
If anyone is captured, we take the poison pill
And curse the bloody coward who doesn't have the will
This is not a drill
Space Force
(Back to the Top)
People struggle everywhere you look
It's written on their faces like an open book
Emptiness or happiness, therein lies your heart
People are so fragile, why is life so hard?
Because the world is a puzzle
So pick up the pieces
Get them together again, one by one
One by one
One day life is beautiful
Like living up in the stars
The next day I say, "look out below"
'Cause I'm falling apart
Emptiness or happiness, therein lies your heart
People are so fragile, why is life so hard?
Because the world is a riddle to everyone in it
Nobody solves it the very first time
Because the world is a riddle to everyone in it
Nobody solves it the very first time (Keep on tryin')
(Back to the Top)
We're going down with the ship
We're going down, down, down, down with the ship
It's all for one, and one for all, yeah
We're going down with the ship
On the Indian Ocean, lead a pirate crew
We be twenty-seven days out of Mogadishu
Now there's something gone wrong, we got red skies at dawn
Can't find the captain, and the lifeboat's gone
Here we come Davy Jones, here we come
Here we come Davy Jones, lookout below
Here we come Davy Jones, here we come
Here we come Davy Jones, lookout below
Now the sea is a rockin' like an angry bitch
We be leakin' like a sieve, and we run out of pitch
Now we prayin' to the Lord, how we stay afloat?
With a three-meter a hole in the bottom of the boat
(Back to the Top)
I'm not just a pretty face
On the cover
You can trust me now
When you lose yourself in the crowd
Oh take me with you when you walk down the street
I'm captivating and light on my feet
Every new beginning, oh the song's like a secret smile
On the face of a lover
You can have me now
As the chords are cascading down
There is an artist in residence
There is an artist in residence
And he'll be with you now
And where it's going is a mystery, yeah
But it's passing by with a familiar scent
And it's always been the way to radiate special light
In the eyes of my brother
When we harmonize
Everything will be all right
And when it happens, it's like time floats free
Feels like forever for you and for me
It's an expression of a feeling I can never speak
For the life of another
But I'm with you now
So switch off and settle down
There is an artist in residence
There is an artist in residence
There is an artist in residence
And he'll be with you now
And I am with you now
(Back to the Top)
Godiva Girl
You're my sugar-sweet Queen
Sometimes you're peppermint patty, oh
And you're espresso praline
Godiva Girl
You know I loves you because
You keep me up all night, baby
With your caffeine buzz
Godiva Girl
What is inside your heart?
Why do I crave you so badly
When we're apart?
Tell me, what's in your heart?
My Godiva Girl
I gots to tell ya the truth
You can be so hard inside
And then you're so soft and smooth
Godiva Girl
Feels like I'm living a dream
And when you melt in my mouth
Baby, I taste your coconut creme
Godiva Girl
What is inside your heart?
Is it sweet like a cherry?
Or something more soft?
What's in your heart?
Godiva Girl
My Godiva Girl
This is true love, no doubt
You left a stain on my sofa, baby
That won't never come out
Godiva Girl
Godiva Girl
Girl, you're so, so bittersweet
And I discover you been hiding
Some kind of cluster of nutmeat
My Godiva Girl
What is inside your heart?
My Godiva Girl
I thought we was lifelong sweeties
And you gave me the love diabetes
Godiva Girl
Tell me what is that in your heart?
I ain't fakin'
You got my teefuses achin'
I got your sweet caramel
All stuck up in my grill
(Back to the Top)
Everybody likes it when you do your fandango
When you do your fandango, when you do your fandango
Everybody loves it when you do your fandango
When you do your fandango, when you do your fandango
Your Fandango, Fandango
Everyone loves it when you begin, your Fandango, Fandango
Everyone loves it when you begin, your Fandango, Fandango
All the ladies swoon whenever
You Sarabande
Every Friday 'til Monday
They would gladly Pasodoble
In a bright pink tuxedo
Or a little tiny Speedo
You make everyone's libido
Stop and say "Oh yes, indeedo"
Everyone, everyone, by that I mean everyone
Likes it when you begin, your Fandango, Fandango
Everyone, everyone, by that I mean everyone
Loves it when you begin, your Fandango, Fandango
Whether Tango or Bolero
Or Corrida or Flamenco
We don't mind a little Zambra
Or a quick Zapateado
They may envy your Farucca
But not so much your Cachucha
And I must say your Bambera
Is no match for my Muineira
Not your mother's Martinetes
Or your father's Matachinas
Nor your sister's Alborea
Or your cousin's old Solea
We may not Alegrias
On your style of Bulerias
But we all pay to see ya
That's your famous Seguidilla
(Back to the Top)
I'm not gonna wait around for someday
If someday's too far away
I don't want to have to wait for someday
Tell me what's the big delay?
Could be Friday, Saturday
A month of Sundays
If I go ahead to have it your way
Could be anything you say
Isn't it already someday?
Isn't it already time?
Isn't it already someday?
'Cause I'm not gonna wait around for someday
I'm not gonna wait around for someday
Say that you'll be sad if I go away
Then you never tell me why
Could be April, May
Or June or July
While I sit around and wait for someday
Then another year goes by
(Back to the Top)
Let it bleed
Let it be
Mother Mary, I'm on my knees
I'm like a smokestack in the wind
It seems I've spread myself pretty thin
And now the bank has took all I own
One more bad check, it's all gone
It's all gone
Thank you, Jesus
Thank you, Lord
For all these gifts that I can't afford
And take that pretty thing in my bed
Just let me fuel my truck instead
'Cause if the Holy Ghost don't appear
I'm on the next train outta here
I'm out of here
And there were moments in the night
I could've chewed the curtains
And for the first time in my life
I think I knew for certain
I'm not your dog
Your whipping boy
Your squeaky toy
I'm not your ashtray, ashtray heart
Your ashtray heart
I'm not your swag
Your piece of meat
I'm not your freak
I'm not the extra, extra cog
In some big wheel
I'm not your dog
Puppy beg now
Puppy heel
Bring it on, y'all, I can deal
What if the centipede lost a leg?
To make an omelet, break some eggs
And I'm delirious, happy now
Just like your other fine Puppy Chow
Puppy Chow
Now I patrol your garden fence
I've learnt to feign obedience
But in my mind, I still run free
Along the marshes and the beach
(Back to the Top)
I thought that there could be
Some kind of privacy
A place for you and me
Where we could just be we
Without no espionage
See, I can see it
They watchin' me
Hey, I can feel it
They watchin' me
I can see that I can't be
A kind of entity
Where we don't need to be
Worried 'bout espionage
Champagne popsicles, no campaign obstacles, lots of truth, 'til our soul pops the noose
My life's like a block of proof, give you four parts like wifi mixed with Olive Oyl Popeye then I disappear like poof
Genie at the lamp line up in a gold tooth, I'm a fuckin' cartoon, all I see is a box around me, everything on loop
Introductions so classic sounding, me and sandhill like the fountain of youth
Treat you like our sons like an aunt will, ain't a hype that you can't kill, Omar like mad chill
The sun don't chill a law, white supremacy might kill a law, but it still can't kill Allah
Feeling it, feeling it...
(Back to the Top)
It was bad enough before the circus came
When the local shrew thought that she had a brain
Now we all gotta listen to that dog-faced bark
Like she's the god damn Einstein of the trailer park
Your mamma done raised a knucklehead
Your mamma done raised a fool
Your mamma should have closed her legs instead of
Breeding a loud-mouthed clown like you
Shut up liar, the stuff you say
Shut up liar, the stuff you do
Shut up liar, STFU, STFU
Shut the fuck up
Shut up liar, the stuff you play
Shut up liar, the stuff you spew
Shut up liar, STFU, STFU
Shut the fuck up
Shut the fuck up
It was bad enough before they fed that chimp
Any stupid theory 'bout why he was limp
Now we all gotta listen to that gas bag blow
Like some kind of white trash Michelangelo
Your daddy gotta be ecstatic
Your daddy gotta be so proud
Your daddy only wanted a little prick
To holler the quiet thought out loud
(Back to the Top)
I see your reflections
Oh wherever I go
Where do they come from?
Oh, I really don't know
My head is in the ocean
Say goodbye to all emotions
And away we fall without plans
All sinking to the bottom
Pain seems to hit me
Oh whenever I wait
Guilt never stops me
When I make the mistake
I'm closer to the ending
So please don't start pretending
And away we fall without plans
All sinking to the bottom
I'm falling in
Oh, oh, oh
(Back to the Top)
I still recall just what my mama said
"You need an old-fashioned girl who makes breakfast in bed"
And you are that and everything
But then I must confess
The bacon is burnt, and the eggs are a mess
That's why I'm leaving the garden
I'm sorry, but I have to go
Oh darling, I'm sorry, but I have to
Everything about you is as good as it gets
You know just how I like it, especially the sex
I should be happy as a king
I would make you my wife
But you can't even boil water to save your own life
Or you could maybe learn to fry up some SPAM
Don't know a pot from a pan
Well right now my lovin' isn't on the table
We gotta make it up as we go along
Now that my lovin' isn't on the table
We gotta make it on up, make it on up, oh
One of us has got to learn to work in the kitchen
But at this rate we’ll starve to death
And that's why I'm bitchin'
That's why I'm bitchin' baby
That's why I'm bitchin' yeah
That's why I'm bitchin' baby
That's why I'm bitchin' yeah
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Eco Warrior Goddess, righteous defender of the Amazon, Amazon Forest
Solider of survival for every being, great and small, great to the smallest
Chosen, a shining child of the sun, she could have been anyone
Standing proud aside the world immune to mortal hammer blows
Living for the young, wherever love won't bother, nature flows
Eco Warrior Goddess, warrior goddess
Eco Warrior Goddess, righteous in anger, no fear of the danger, fear of the danger
Empress of the jungle, eternal protector from withering changes, withering changes
Listen to hear the clarion call, a message meant for us all
Floating high above the fray and focused like a laser eye
Sanctify the future of the ocean, land, and of the sky
Eco Warrior Goddess, warrior goddess
Dare you look in her eyes?
She will unmask your disguise
Bring your vision of light
Will the garden survive?
Eco Warrior Goddess, righteous defender of the Amazon, Amazon Forest
Solider of survival for every being, great and small, great to the smallest
Chosen, a shining child of the sun, she could have been anyone
Eco Warrior Goddess end the battle of the Amazon
Fighting for the lives of Earth as she leads the charge for everyone
Eco Warrior Goddess, warrior goddess
