Soul Asylum

The papers read that the king is dead
The people said what we need instead
Is to be on our own
But people, they do the strangest things
You never know what they might do
When they are left alone
There's men without gods and gods without men
And a spirit of which none of them can transcend
But something peculiar is happening
We should just be happy with just what we've got
And the problems should be too few to mention
But they're not

Where can I go for some information?
So tired of the big sensation
I need to know what's going on
Oh well you're the well-informed
Into your world which I was born
My friend, here's to you


How would I know if there was something wrong
When the weak of heart out-survive the strong
The truth is almost always confidential
You never know just what you've got until it's gone
And your friends have never seemed so essential
When you're wrong

Remarkably incredible, incredibly forgettable
I know this might sound strange, don't ever change

Amazingly unfaceable, entirely replaceable
There's nothing I would rearrange, don't ever change

Out of luck, out of space, out of time, out of place
Don't try to save face my friend

There was a time and there was a place
For your face and for your race but it's been swept away

The papers read that the king is dead
The people said what we need instead
Is to be on our own
But people, they do the strangest things
You never know what they might do
When they are left alone
There's men without gods and gods without men
And a spirit of which none of them can transcend
But something peculiar is happening
We should just be happy with just what we've got
And the problems should be too few to mention
But they're not

Where can I go for some information?
So tired of the big sensation
I need to know what's going on
Oh well you're the well-informed
Into your world which I was born
My friend, here's to you


How would I know if there was something wrong
When the weak of heart out-survive the strong
The truth is almost always confidential
You never know just what you've got until it's gone
And your friends have never seemed so essential
When you're wrong

Remarkably incredible, incredibly forgettable
I know this might sound strange, don't ever change

Amazingly unfaceable, entirely replaceable
There's nothing I would rearrange, don't ever change

Out of luck, out of space, out of time, out of place
Don't try to save face my friend

There was a time and there was a place
For your face and for your race but it's been swept away

Just like an old man in a candy store, the riots across the street
The cold greets the newborn, the neighbors that never meet
No one's making plans here, no one knows for sure
The way to keep it inside, it's just one more dark opening for you
And whatever you do, when everything still seems new
It's sure to come to something to change the rest of your life
A chance to feel normal, but now you're in too deep
Pacing circles around your eyes, the rest of the world's fast asleep
No sense of direction, no sense at all
No one there to break your fall, no one knows what's happening to you
I never quite got that through; I know what waits for you
I know for something to do with the rest of your life
Stop looking over my shoulder, it was a little bolder
You're going somewhere I might be on your way
This time I don't mean maybe
Nowhere I'd rather be
If you're coming with me I might be on your way
I saw you there on the corner with my name written all over you
I was trying to get your attention, it's all I ever wanted from you
Who will be the victim, who will be the host
Who will you take it out on for not being there when you needed them most
For you, I'm coming to terms with you
And you can pull me through,
I'm settling up with something to change the rest of my life
Something to do with the rest of my life
I need something to fear the rest of my life's not in vain

Just like an old man in a candy store, the riots across the street
The cold greets the newborn, the neighbors that never meet
No one's making plans here, no one knows for sure
The way to keep it inside, it's just one more dark opening for you
And whatever you do, when everything still seems new
It's sure to come to something to change the rest of your life
A chance to feel normal, but now you're in too deep
Pacing circles around your eyes, the rest of the world's fast asleep
No sense of direction, no sense at all
No one there to break your fall, no one knows what's happening to you
I never quite got that through; I know what waits for you
I know for something to do with the rest of your life
Stop looking over my shoulder, it was a little bolder
You're going somewhere I might be on your way
This time I don't mean maybe
Nowhere I'd rather be
If you're coming with me I might be on your way
I saw you there on the corner with my name written all over you
I was trying to get your attention, it's all I ever wanted from you
Who will be the victim, who will be the host
Who will you take it out on for not being there when you needed them most
For you, I'm coming to terms with you
And you can pull me through,
I'm settling up with something to change the rest of my life
Something to do with the rest of my life
I need something to fear the rest of my life's not in vain

Right before the aftermath, I saw where it would end.
They said it was an accident, I guess that all depends
on who you talk to and who you know,
and where you come from and where - where you go.
In your crowd of pushers and users, takers and loosers,
beggars and beggars and beggars and choosers.

Your childhood days are over as you stuff your shirt and say
made a choice it's wrong or right, it's this way I will stay.
You'll sell it to your children, you'll sell it to your wife.
Buying is your business, and selling is your life, It's your life.


The vultures are all circling around your ????.
Scavengers, evangalists will get to you some how.
Your mother and your ex-best friend, letters that you never send.

Your illegitamate children are coming for you now.
They're always dragging you down, it's looking like a showdown,
between revenge and in the end you can't defend.
Can you try to imagine, a story that has no end?
I think you better steal it while you still understand it, and sell it to one of your friends.

At the end of the track is a shack
When you die, that's where you go
Down the lines, up from this pit at the end of your rainbow
That's one too many flights of stairs
One more stair and almost there
One more dose close
Keep coming back to haunt you,
Got no place left to go
And they'll strip your car to the bone
We did a scene, checked out a gown
The Justice started laughing
I guess that's what you get for laughing
One last laugh and lived to tell
One more pomp and circumstance
One more fool to follow
Another finger down my throat
It's a bitter pill to swallow
It's moving much too slow
Who it is asleep at the wheel
I don't want to know
Just around the corner there's
Somebody there to take you there
Don't worry child you're sure to be scared
One more drink before I go
One last good luck kiss
One less thing to call my own
That's one more thing I miss
Took the world by storm
Most of 'em either in a dark jail
Or wishing they had never been born
Just around the corner there's
One more pomp and circumstance
One more fool to follow
Another finger down my throat
That's a bitter pill to swallow

I got something special to show you
But I suppose you've seen it all before
There's one thing I'm trying to tell you
But then again, you've heard it all before
I survived another week just like the one before,
When everything you wanted somehow leaves you wanting more
And I looked beneath the carpet behind each and every door,
Trying to find you something like you've never had before
And it seems we're just beginners
No previous experience at all
Just the last original sinners
And if you need me just be sure to call
And they tell you which way not to go and so you go that way
One child plays with another throws it away
Like a kite without string do anything
I'm trying to take you someplace you've never been before
I see something new in each and every moon
From your old, old hat to your blown-out shoes
It's tried and true, and it's all I do
And I hope it's not all the same to you
The old and new, they get mistaken all the time
Is there something I've never seen before
No, just a brand new shine
Now they're cranking 'em out by the millions
They look and act exactly just the same
And each one's one in a million
And each has got its own elusive game
It's the same old dusty atmosphere just like the other place
I see something familiar in each and every face
Seems to me I've seen you, been here, said this once before
I'm trying to take you someplace you've never been before
I see something new in each and every moon
From your old, old hat to
When I dropped it and broke it, I thought of you
And I hope it's not all the same to you
And the old and new, they get mistaken all the time
Is there something I've never seen before

Now everybody’s looking after me,
if I’m dragging by some coat tail,
I can’t see it’s too dark,
but I’ve got to know what’s got the best of me.
When the circus that you left goes on parade,
and those things you see seem so far
in your charade, too far,
but I’m feeling like I don’t dare look away,
Don’t look away.
Did it almost make you feel,
that something’s got to happen soon,
when you wake up feeling lost in your own room.
If you’re crying and you fear you’re gonna drown,
if you think we’ll rise above,
you’d better look around,
you’ll see.
It’s a mountain made of sand crumbling under me.
Maybe I’m chasing shadows on your wall,
they loom so large,
but make me feel so small somehow,
when you’re chasing your own tail
spinning your own wheels.
..
And a time to leave,
and a time to stay,
I guess the things I look away...
Did it almost make you feel
that somethings gotta happen soon.
You’re in the movies now that I’m in your cartoon.
There’s a ringing in my ears that’s heaven sent.
There’s a beast out on the ruins,
some broken down lover’s lament.
It goes on and on but it won’t go away.

Now everybody’s looking after me,
if I’m dragging by some coat tail,
I can’t see it’s too dark,
but I’ve got to know what’s got the best of me.
When the circus that you left goes on parade,
and those things you see seem so far
in your charade, too far,
but I’m feeling like I don’t dare look away,
Don’t look away.
Did it almost make you feel,
that something’s got to happen soon,
when you wake up feeling lost in your own room.
If you’re crying and you fear you’re gonna drown,
if you think we’ll rise above,
you’d better look around,
you’ll see.
It’s a mountain made of sand crumbling under me.
Maybe I’m chasing shadows on your wall,
they loom so large,
but make me feel so small somehow,
when you’re chasing your own tail
spinning your own wheels.
..
And a time to leave,
and a time to stay,
I guess the things I look away...
Did it almost make you feel
that somethings gotta happen soon.
You’re in the movies now that I’m in your cartoon.
There’s a ringing in my ears that’s heaven sent.
There’s a beast out on the ruins,
some broken down lover’s lament.
It goes on and on but it won’t go away.

Caterpillar crawling up the big phone pole
Is there somebody that you want to talk to?
You know that pretty soon you’ll be able to fly
How is this going to affect you?
Do you think it might wreck you?
Your friends might reject you
Say you took it too far
You said you want to be want to be
want to be want to be

Hooked on glossy pictures
and drugs I’ve never seen
We’ll treat you with advice from a fashion magazine
One day she just walked into that magazine
I wonder if she’ll ever come back
And they all said she would crack
They said her mind was one track,
Said she took it too far
You said you want to be want to be
want to be want to be
Closer to the stars
...

Every time you move your lips
Let me give you a few tips
Yesterday you were too young
Tomorrow you will be too old
To regret all the things
you’ve done who’re you trying to hustle ?
Somebody you wanna show your muscle?
Second hand excuses never went too far
What’s this scene you’re making?
Your ideas have been taken
We’ll seek when you awaken alone
in someone’s car
You just stood there shaking, stood there shaking
They said you were faking

You said you want to be want to be
want to be want to be
Closer to the stars...

Closer to the stars

He's a stranger to authority, welcome to the minority.
It's not someplace you have to go, it's not something you have to know.
Don't do this, don't touch that. Hey, draw the line
I'll speak my mind, maybe I'll wait for another time.
Sometimes you get close to those who wait,
Sometimes it makes you hesitate.
Some folks find more humanity, some folks find more than sanity.
Don't do this, don't do that, don't try this, don't do that,
Don't try this, don't touch that. Hey, do it for the last time.
By the weight of the world coming down, down on, down on up to me.
Down on up to me, wait for another time.
When you look down on me, I get so uppity,
Starting my own army, just me and my friends, said you better get ready. Hahaha.
Coming down, down on, down on up to me, down on up to me.
Coming down, down on, down on up to me, down on up to
Though it might just come down to trust,
It sometimes just comes down to lust, that's just one person's point of view.

Did you hear the one about the friend of a a friend who tried to end it all
At the last moment he picked up the phone and gave you a call
You thought about letting it ring, but you answered after all
And there you were, put on the spot at the end of the other line
For questions that you never thought you'd ever have to answer to
Who do you turn to when the ones you always turn to go and turn on you
It leaves you in the dark, feeling for a switch to turn it on again
There are no easy answers, the questions remain tough
There's no shortcuts to easy street, no corners you can cut
Can you cut this diamond in the rough
And it's good to see you alive
Sign your will to survive
A look into your heart before it sees its final hour
Lived each day like there is no tomorrow
Beyond this mess ahead there is a street so very hard to find
Though I have got to lay my head down at this dead end so many times
And if we ever get to easy street, you can say with a smile
I came just for the ride

Rise and shine it's you're razor sharp.
Size up yourself in the mirror, a slice of life,
To last through all the years, because sooner or later it all comes back to you,
And we will remember, the fine things you can do.
I'm giving back all the things that you gave to me.
I'm saving up the price to pay to be free.
Remember the first time you saw the rising sun.
You may be done but I've just begun.
The leaves are burning and the ashes have flown away.
I'm turning over new leaves almost every day.
You let him think you just as soon stay - you let him think you had nothing to say.
Just let you go away, to find some mangled security, some strangled form of purity,
To restore your faith and all the things you've come to hate.
You give and you take and you leave, leave it alone.
What i want so badly for this to be a place you can call home, and I haven't felt this
Way since yesterday, but I don't remeber when.
What I want so badly to be someone you can call a friend, till we meet again.
Endless Farewell. Hello, Hello, Hello again. Endless Farewell.

Make ure chillin
guts start spillin
its piece of a puzzle
piece of a trouble
is it somethin else?
ure sellin yourself
Im so wanting
without a clue
gotta find something better
something better to do
something so exciting
Im into something new
you piece together the whole thing
gives u something to use

maybe I should practice it one more time
maybe Im afraid what it might do
maybe it might upset someone
maybe that's what its supposed to do

pull it from the bottom
it begins to change
find another existance
thats what ure trying to say?

Im not pushin u out
Im not pushin u off
Im not pushin u out
Im not pushin u

All of the lands are terribly restless
with tellin u what to do
but u go bak to the land


where ure defensless
they act just like me and u

look what u've dont to me
look what I've done to u
look what they've done to us
now were like noone else
theyre laughin at u
talkin about u
all these new things
all these new things
I found in use

and Im workin so hard
when I think it is real
everybody does once
just to see how it feels
its not a sensation
and its not for sale
so what can u call it now?

keep em gotten
theyll spoil u rotten
keep em gotten
keep em gotten
just another freak
be another freak
be a freak

When aid turned sideways
And It'd head on down the highway
Say this is my way, disappearing forever
But there ain't just one way
So you choose the fun way
Slide down the runway
On a ticket that goes two ways
And by the way that it sounded
You thought that you'd be astounded
But you left it like you found it
Cause it wasn't yours to take
What once seemed like dying
Soon turned into flying
So you settle for trying
And you wish you were grounded
No you cannot get much higher
Than your utmost desire
So you bring it down to size and
Now it seems that you are grounded
By the way that it sounded
You thought that you'd be astounded
But you left it like you found it
Now you find that you are grounded

Order in this court you call my own
Confusion is the order I have shown

Some things don't come easy
Some things got to give
You just might have to waste your life just to live

Now did you think that I was somebody?
And did you think this was somewhere?
I will still be there
So watch out

Well, I got the right to free myself of fear
Stand over me and watch me disappear
You're sent to the death to be in another mess
To keep your mind, to keep them in
I don't know where they're meeting to pretend

Well, I am the one that soaks it up
Well, I am the one that takes a punch
And I am, I am, I am the human sponge

Could I be so serious, or am I just too curious?
Just afraid to look away for missing something you might say

'Cause you've got so much I can't follow
One more debt I can't repay
Tomorrow brings just one more chance to throw it all away
I'm just trying to live with today
And I'm just trying to live with the way
The way I am?

I am
I am
I am
I am
I am
I am
I am
I am
I am

Order in this court you call my own
Confusion is the order I have shown

Some things don't come easy
Some things got to give
You just might have to waste your life just to live

Now did you think that I was somebody?
And did you think this was somewhere?
I will still be there
So watch out

Well, I got the right to free myself of fear
Stand over me and watch me disappear
You're sent to the death to be in another mess
To keep your mind, to keep them in
I don't know where they're meeting to pretend

Well, I am the one that soaks it up
Well, I am the one that takes a punch
And I am, I am, I am the human sponge

Could I be so serious, or am I just too curious?
Just afraid to look away for missing something you might say

'Cause you've got so much I can't follow
One more debt I can't repay
Tomorrow brings just one more chance to throw it all away
I'm just trying to live with today
And I'm just trying to live with the way
The way I am?

I am
I am
I am
I am
I am
I am
I am
I am
I am

If I could be anything I wanted, I don't know
I'd be stuck here with myself, be an Average Joe
But if I could be like a Jack of all trades, yes I'd have it made

Glass blower, flamethrower, grass mower, firefighter
I'm tryin' to loose it up, or make it tighter

But a Jack of all trades master, I'm not dead, you're tired in bed
But a Jack of all trades, there's stuff that gets made, wait for your lucky day

See my train and now it's gone
Rings the damned, threw the phone
He's studdering, he stalls
He hit the bottle of call
Ching chase and rat race, and laid down and out of place, and down the hall

Problem called (na, na)
Problem called (na, na, na)

Yes I'll try anything sometimes I just can't say no
And I'm learnin' to dig with my hands
I've learned to work with my mind
So much to lose, and so much left to find
So much to take, so much to leave behind

Yeah, I walked down, your thoughts are free, don't think of the dead but think of dignity
Picked you up by the side of your head, you were half dead
Say your prayers, and put you to to bed

At the end of the day stands a Jack of all trades, and the fool he has made
It's a Jack of all trades and the fool he has made of himself and his friend

But he'd do it again, yes he'd do it again
He's a Jack

You sold your soul for a lump of coal
She's blacker than the night
Didn't think you'd be needing it
But you thought
But you never know who you might meet
On the street where the church bells ring to a different beat
Is it joy, is it pain? Is it rustin' in the rain?
Do you really think I need it?
Is it just plain evil?
Heard of a man who had a plan
To save the wretched world
Nationwide genocide, like one-eyed jacks
And suicide queens
Look out for if you know what I mean
Is it good, is it bad? Is it bitter, is it sad?
Is it inside all these people?
Is it just plain evil? You've got a lot to learn
You've got a lot to change, you've got nothing to lose
But a ball and chain
Is it good, is it bad?Is it bitter, is it sad?
Do you really think I need it? Is it just plain evil?

Thought I heard you screaming
And pulling out your hair
Furious and steaming, a state upon your stare
Don't you know dirt will find you and
Dirt reminds you that
Dirt will always be there, it's only
Dirt around you and dirt surrounds you and
Follows you everywhere
Here's a dirty joke, man, filled with filth and smut
The heart of it, it sparkles, the more it can corrupt
Don't you know, dirt can't hurt you
I'm truly certain, usually washes out
Don't you know, rain will wash out the
Stain and all of your, pain will work itself out
Work it out, 'fraid you've lost your innocence
To some-odd social scene, you're right on top
But you've been replaced, by a shiny new machine
And dirt keeps following you, and you don't know what it means
You're a little too clean, a little too clean, a little too clean
One day dirt will bury you and you will understand
There is nothing much more than the ground on which you stand
Don't you know dirt will find you and
Dirt reminds you that dirt will always be there
It's only dirt around you and
Dirt surrounds you and follows you everywhere
'Fraid you've lost your innocence, to some-odd social scene
You're right on top, but you've been replaced
By a shiny new machine and dirt keeps following you
And you don't know what it means, you're a little too clean
A little too clean, a little too clean

Thought I heard you screaming
And pulling out your hair
Furious and steaming, a state upon your stare
Don't you know dirt will find you and
Dirt reminds you that
Dirt will always be there, it's only
Dirt around you and dirt surrounds you and
Follows you everywhere
Here's a dirty joke, man, filled with filth and smut
The heart of it, it sparkles, the more it can corrupt
Don't you know, dirt can't hurt you
I'm truly certain, usually washes out
Don't you know, rain will wash out the
Stain and all of your, pain will work itself out
Work it out, 'fraid you've lost your innocence
To some-odd social scene, you're right on top
But you've been replaced, by a shiny new machine
And dirt keeps following you, and you don't know what it means
You're a little too clean, a little too clean, a little too clean
One day dirt will bury you and you will understand
There is nothing much more than the ground on which you stand
Don't you know dirt will find you and
Dirt reminds you that dirt will always be there
It's only dirt around you and
Dirt surrounds you and follows you everywhere
'Fraid you've lost your innocence, to some-odd social scene
You're right on top, but you've been replaced
By a shiny new machine and dirt keeps following you
And you don't know what it means, you're a little too clean
A little too clean, a little too clean

Guess I'll be leaving in the morning
By the chill that you gave me I will ride
I will tear out my insides just to find a place to hide
And I don't want to hurt you anymore

You got the dagger but I got the revolver
As we rolled and we tumbled to the floor
I been ?? is it just these drugs I'm feelin'?
And I don't want to lie to you no more

??
?? till the end
A guitar's a man's best friend
But these rules were meant to be broken



?? make myself uneasy
And I haven't got the guts to make you cry
?? to one thing ?? do something
And I don't want to hurt you anymore

Now with this advice I will end
??
Some things are meant to be spoken
And these rules are meant to be broken

Marionette I haven't met you yet
I hear you're good I hear you're made out of wood
Not quite as blind as you might think she'd be
And they cut off your wings and replaced them with strings
Now the strings attach to everything
It's twisted and tangled and troubled with anger
But somehow you still swing
Tried all my tricks I tried to steal a kiss
Splinters and slivers stuck all over my lips
She thinks she must be doing something wrong
They pull the strings and then they string you along
And they cut off your wings and replaced them with strings
Now the strings attach to everything
It's twisted and tangled but I've got an angle
On just what makes you swing
Hanging by a string
Know the boss he makes her do things his way
So why do you think she's so scared of you
What do you think makes her that way
When push comes to shove she'll push and shove
It doesn't always have to be this way
She's saving up for a vacation somewhere
Why do you think she's so scared of you
What do you think makes her that way
When push comes to shove she'll push and shove
It's very hard work when you don't get paid
And they cut off your wings and replaced them with strings

Marionette I haven't met you yet
I hear you're good I hear you're made out of wood
Not quite as blind as you might think she'd be
And they cut off your wings and replaced them with strings
Now the strings attach to everything
It's twisted and tangled and troubled with anger
But somehow you still swing
Tried all my tricks I tried to steal a kiss
Splinters and slivers stuck all over my lips
She thinks she must be doing something wrong
They pull the strings and then they string you along
And they cut off your wings and replaced them with strings
Now the strings attach to everything
It's twisted and tangled but I've got an angle
On just what makes you swing
Hanging by a string
Know the boss he makes her do things his way
So why do you think she's so scared of you
What do you think makes her that way
When push comes to shove she'll push and shove
It doesn't always have to be this way
She's saving up for a vacation somewhere
Why do you think she's so scared of you
What do you think makes her that way
When push comes to shove she'll push and shove
It's very hard work when you don't get paid
And they cut off your wings and replaced them with strings

Well they packed up their violin cases ??
Hopped in a big black Studebaker, they were acting pretty scary
No one talked as they synchronized their watches
And they drove past a train station

The train rolled out with a passenger car
Filled with retired millionaires and movie stars
?? coats
?? and that would be all she wrote

And the gangsters, cowboys, gypsies, and freewheelers
Sold out their trades to become drug dealers
There ain't no money in doing things straight
Your community thanks you, business is good, and nice guys don't get paid

Outside the train window fast as he could ride
Was a kid on a horse with a head full of lies
And the tears of excitement couldn't put out the fire in his eyes
For the house he was riding to burglarize

All through the house they were dancing and singing
An extended family with fiddlers and magicians
A juggler and a chemist who'd invent potion
to pacify all the killers and rapist

The chemist died in the burglary and they sold the prescription
For a case of cheap red wine to a traveling salesman
In a three-wheeled jalopy; he bought and sold potions
To the city that looked over the ocean

And he sold the last drop, it was big with the rich kids
And soon the city would be crawling with addicts
And back rooms, dark allies, basements and attics
(When?) a fly is trapped in a spider's web (but a bat's got the spider?)

And no one knows what's going on
But you've gotta show up for yourself at the end of the day
And nice guys don't get paid
Nice guys don't get paid

Now all the hopeless romantics are wearing white collars
(Upstanding assassins?) cleaning filthy dollars
Car-jacking fanatic

Well they packed up their violin cases ??
Hopped in a big black Studebaker, they were acting pretty scary
No one talked as they synchronized their watches
And they drove past a train station

The train rolled out with a passenger car
Filled with retired millionaires and movie stars
?? coats
?? and that would be all she wrote

And the gangsters, cowboys, gypsies, and freewheelers
Sold out their trades to become drug dealers
There ain't no money in doing things straight
Your community thanks you, business is good, and nice guys don't get paid

Outside the train window fast as he could ride
Was a kid on a horse with a head full of lies
And the tears of excitement couldn't put out the fire in his eyes
For the house he was riding to burglarize

All through the house they were dancing and singing
An extended family with fiddlers and magicians
A juggler and a chemist who'd invent potion
to pacify all the killers and rapist

The chemist died in the burglary and they sold the prescription
For a case of cheap red wine to a traveling salesman
In a three-wheeled jalopy; he bought and sold potions
To the city that looked over the ocean

And he sold the last drop, it was big with the rich kids
And soon the city would be crawling with addicts
And back rooms, dark allies, basements and attics
(When?) a fly is trapped in a spider's web (but a bat's got the spider?)

And no one knows what's going on
But you've gotta show up for yourself at the end of the day
And nice guys don't get paid
Nice guys don't get paid

Now all the hopeless romantics are wearing white collars
(Upstanding assassins?) cleaning filthy dollars
Car-jacking fanatic

Well my friend Jud he was a fuddy-dud
Chewed his cud, was a stick in the mud
I swear he hated everyone
And he's bumming nickels and bumming dimes
But most of all you know he's just bumming time
And every day was a bad day
They walked out and on and over him, he was turning gray
Never knew love he gave up on hope
Stayed in bed and he stopped using soap was a dirty old man
But he never said poor little old me, poor poor
Now one fine day he won the lottery
Instant millionaire without a care it didn't change a thing
Drove up to Reno he lost everything at a roadside casino
You know he never made it into town
Where the bright lights trickle down, he was a casualty
And all he got was more lewd and crude, he was very rude
The only thing he hated worse than the city
Was charity and self pity he'd been around
I talked to him that's what I found, he was a casualty
Poor little old me, poor poor casualty

Put the bone in
She yelled at the store
'Cause my doggie's been hit by a car
And I do want to bring him home something
Put the bone in
She yelled out once more
Because the meat from the pork is so sweet
And the bone from the pork give to me
Put the bone in she begged him


As she paced across the floor
Put the bone in she yelled out once more

Put the bone in
She yelled at the store
Cause my doggie's been hit by a car
And I do want to bring him home something
Put the bone in
She yelled out once more ...

Well if there's one thing that I know, it's easy to kill what's hard to grow
One thing I might say, no one's gotta know about running away

Trying to make something out of nothing
Leaning hard on yet another drug
All of these temptations keep me wanting to feel your touch
It's not supposed to make you feel so

Helpless, selfless, crying for some tenderness
I miss your kiss, impossible to resist

Find some budget to support my habit
Suffering an under-dose of love
All of these temptations keep wanting the sky above

Oh my desperate disposition keeps me bitching, keeps me wishing


Wishing for some shelter from within
There ain't nothing I can't live with nothing I can't live without

I want this, I want that; I wanted just a little slack
It's like an itch that I can't scratch, could you get this monkey off my back

Trying to make something out of nothing
I can't live without
Wanting nothing

Oh my desperate disposition keeps me bitching keeps me wishing
Wishing for some shelter from within
It's not supposed to make you feel this way

Well if there's one thing that I know, it's easy to kill what's hard to grow
One thing I might say, no one's gotta know about running away

Trying to make something out of nothing
Leaning hard on yet another drug
All of these temptations keep me wanting to feel your touch
It's not supposed to make you feel so

Helpless, selfless, crying for some tenderness
I miss your kiss, impossible to resist

Find some budget to support my habit
Suffering an under-dose of love
All of these temptations keep wanting the sky above

Oh my desperate disposition keeps me bitching, keeps me wishing


Wishing for some shelter from within
There ain't nothing I can't live with nothing I can't live without

I want this, I want that; I wanted just a little slack
It's like an itch that I can't scratch, could you get this monkey off my back

Trying to make something out of nothing
I can't live without
Wanting nothing

Oh my desperate disposition keeps me bitching keeps me wishing
Wishing for some shelter from within
It's not supposed to make you feel this way

Well if there's one thing that I know, it's easy to kill what's hard to grow
One thing I might say, no one's gotta know about running away

Trying to make something out of nothing
Leaning hard on yet another drug
All of these temptations keep me wanting to feel your touch
It's not supposed to make you feel so

Helpless, selfless, crying for some tenderness
I miss your kiss, impossible to resist

Find some budget to support my habit
Suffering an under-dose of love
All of these temptations keep wanting the sky above

Oh my desperate disposition keeps me bitching, keeps me wishing


Wishing for some shelter from within
There ain't nothing I can't live with nothing I can't live without

I want this, I want that; I wanted just a little slack
It's like an itch that I can't scratch, could you get this monkey off my back

Trying to make something out of nothing
I can't live without
Wanting nothing

Oh my desperate disposition keeps me bitching keeps me wishing
Wishing for some shelter from within
It's not supposed to make you feel this way

I ran away I walked a fine line wasting time only to find
You were callin' I think finally to remind me I am fine
What you are is what you see and you see me and we can be
Something you can call real we are, we are, we are
Doing the best we can, working without a plan
I'm beginning to understand, its getting out of hand
I have seen these closing doors, I've woke up on this floor before
Picked it apart for hours and hours and hours
Of turning, tossing and looking and listening
To you and all the f~~ked up things you do
But you're doing the best you can, with every grain of sand
Its trickling through your hand, sayin'catch me if you can
If someday comes early, comes whipping comes whirling
To take you for all you have learned
The tables are turning, the bridges are burning
My destination sometime to return
Throw away your calender and saddle up your salamander
Get up and get down ride in to town and look around
Get up and do something, no time to choose it, do it, do it, do it, do it
Doing the best I can, with or without a plan,
I'm taking what I can get, I haven't seen nothing yet.
If one day you wake up and find what you make up,
Come and get me, come and take me there.
Into your illusion,I'll make my intrusion - anytime, anyplace, anywhere.
The hour glass is draining fast, it knows no future holds no past, and
all this to wil lcome to pass - never, forever, whenever.

Follows me wherever we go
Undermining all that we know
Suddenly starts thinkin' been fooled from the beginnin'
When the cause is lost you find there is no point in winnin'
Then it's hard to think straight when your head it keeps on spinnin'
If I lost my mind, would you help me find it?
Maybe it's you, maybe it's me
Things aren't quite the way they should be
And now it seems my peace of mind has come up for the biddin'
All those I respect and trust I guess they were just kiddin'
And they will say it's me who's lost, and as you sit there grinnin'
My little world has lost control but still it keeps on spinnin'
If I lost my mind, would you help me find it?
If I lost my mind, I wouldn't have to be reminded
If I lost my mind I'm not sure I would mind
Would you help me find it?

Standing in the doorway
Wondering if it's safe to go outside
Wondering if I'll come back
Wondering if I might just drift out with the rising tide
Sitting and waiting and hoping to find
Something you're good at to use up your time
To crawl from the ocean and lie on the shore
A moonbeam the rests on the dust on your floor

I'm not going out there
Don't try to tell me I'm paranoid
Wouldn't say I'm not scared
Though it may be safe to say that I am annoyed
In the intersection traffic lights are red in all directions
Everyone breaks the law sometimes
We all break down have foolish pride and
Beg for some affection
I can't say I know how you feel everyone seems to know
Are you sure I would if I could help you remember
What it's like to feel good
Chitter and chatter and everything matters
I ask how you're feeling
And you just act shattered
Asleep on the couch with your eyes open wide

Standing in the doorway
Waiting as you come and as you leave
You say get out of my way
Won't you stop and talk about the hectic life you lead
They're all going somewhere
They all have some place they have to be
Maybe I should join them
I wish I could I think I have to stay here with me
It brings a tear to your eye to get out into the open
I can't believe I see myself
Coming into focus

People say I'm the life of the party
'Cause I laugh or tell a joke or two
Though I might be laughing loud and hearty
Deep inside I'm blue

So take a good look at my face
You know my smile looks out of place
If you look closer it's easy to trace
The tracks of my tears

I need you

If you see me with another guy
Looking like I'm having fun
May be cute, she's just a substitute
'Cause you're the permanent one

So take a good look at my face
You know my smile looks out of place
If you look closer it's easy to trace
The tracks of my tears

Outside I'm masquerading
Inside my hope is fading
I'm just a clown since you put me down
My smile is my makeup
I'm absent since my break-up with you

Baby, take a good look at my face
You know my smile looks out of place
If you look closer it's easy to trace
The tracks of my tears

Those schoolgirl days of telling tales and biting nails are gone
But in my mind I know they will still live on and on
But how do you thank someone who has taken you from crayons to perfume?
It isn't easy but I'll try

If you wanted the sky I would write across the sky in letters
That would soar a thousand feet high
To Sir, with love

The time has come for closing books and long last looks must end
And as I leave I know that I am leaving my best friend
A friend who taught me right from wrong
And weak from strong that's a lot to learn
What, what can I give you in return

If you wanted the moon I would try to make a start
But I would rather you let me give my heart
To Sir, with love

Those awkward years have hurried by, why do they fly away?
Why is it Sir, children grow up to be people some day?
What takes the place of climbing trees and dirty knees in the world outside?

If you wanted the world I'd surround it with a wall
I'd scrawl these words with letters ten feet tall
To Sir, with love

Well, a fascinating sensation, no I can't even feel it
I just had to let you know I can't conceal it
I was recently considering taking the pain with the pleasure
Just to find my way to the bottom of this, I'll have to dig forever

And it's no small measure
Lift up your veil of tears

Don't be disappointed child, if your prayers go unanswered
We are not responsible for these sad circumstances
Secret agents and freedom fighters on those impossible missions
Better put your toys and games away, maybe take the kids out fishing

For a family treasure
In your early years
Behind your veil of tears

So frustrated
Get up anyway
So complicated


Changes every day

So the darkness fades
And the light will come shining through

I heard the eyes that look to a better world
always hide beneath the veil of tears
And you hide no more
Lift up your veil of tears
Hide no more
Behind your veil of tears

Now the executioner must be executed
No I think we'll set him free instead, watch him run

And you hide no more
Lift up your veil of tears
You hide no more

I was tapping my foot on a Friday night
To my favorite band I was pushed aside
I said "hey don't push me no one pushes me"
When I was face to face with the woman I admired
And she gave me this look I could not believe
And the cold stare remained; I wanted to leave

See, I do believe anger is offset by sorrow
But you destroy today you might regret tomorrow
When you're young and defensive it comes off offensive
And it's hard to repay the tolerance that you borrowed
The lasting relationship sinks right off the pier
Who wears the pants; it's faded but clear

She's your girlfriend, seems she ain't too fond of me
I guess if that's the way it was meant to be
There we were, just we three
You, your girlfriend, and me

I've known you forever, you two just met
So easily amused; how fast we forget
In my jealously, my self-righteous greed
She's a bit like a book I'm too far sighted to read
And I wish you the best, I sometimes feel the need
To say remember me

She's your girlfriend, as far as we can see
Does she look at you the way she looks at me
And here we are, just we three
You, your girlfriend, and me

She's your girlfriend, it's getting harder to see
Better just take her home, better just let her be
When she walks out that door, you'll come looking for me

Protect and serve, slice my nerve
Gotta make sure everybody's gonna get what they deserve

Make my plea, I'm down on my knees
Street cowboy with a badge that says can do what you please
Do what you please, do what you please, do what you please

Rape me, take me, shine your lights so I can't see
Holsters, guns and uniform just don't impress

Blood stained streets, he still looks neat
Somebody's cryin' for help and he's breaking up my party

Please stop breathing down my neck


Took away something that's mine, I want you to give it back
You gotta give it back, now give it back
Walk across my face with your shiny shoes
Bow down to the badge and colors black and blue

It's a blue night, he rides tonight, a show of strength, a polished fight
Take me home, 'cause I'm not alone, I'm not alone

The squads breakin' down, but you misjudged power
Get your handcuffs ready, 'cause we're coming in numbers

Long distance information, ring me 608
Laughing at the other end
get me my prescription, come and walk my dog
please get me anything

You can't seal fate with a kick
You should know it doesn't work that way
As for your lofty aspirations
You couldn't give them all away (throw away)

Those precious things that juist don't last (throw away)
Everybody's been cut like broken glass

Long distance information sounds like broken glass



Just how long is all of this really gonna last
Get someone I used to know
In another place of time
Please please me

You've been places I'll never go
Begged the questions I'll never know
You've had so many arms around you
This time you've hit an all-time low

So many things just don't last
So many things like broken glass

Do you know what it's like to really hate somebody
Oh, will you remember cause you drank all my funny wine
You thought your friend's upset, you're gonna be a big success
And you'd do anything to keep your mind all so secret

Chimes and diamond rings and obtain fingerprints and drew a line right across the pavement
I'm so little doctor, I've got oh so many

And do you know what it's like to really love somebody
Oh will you remember cause I've got what you really need
You got it in a plan in the palm of your hand
And you'd do anything but I'm not so upset
Trip to a far away place and diamonds have laid faith and jewerly under bombs and fools and country bums
Oh, help, come get me

What the fuck is gonna kill the hate master, cancer of the father of my wanted love

The bank keeps draggin' me down, gonna rip it from my heart
Drown and shut out the sound, comedy's about to start
World's been draggin' me down, prepare your inner child
I keep draggin' me down, let me run before I walk

It's only water, it's only rain, it's only teardrops, it's only pain

But it's draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down
Stop draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down

My mom's been draggin' me down
Everytime I stop to think
Mom you're pushing down, my hands are startin' to stink
World's been draggin' me down, don't die I'm warnin' you
I keep draggin' you down
Can't even help myself

It's only water, it's only rain, it's only teardrops, only pain

World is draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down
Stop draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down

Ahh, ahh, c'mon make me smile
Hey, hey, I'll be- I'll be alright in a while
Hey, hey, it's not like I have some special infection
I just want that good 'ole-fashioned affection

One, two, draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down
Stop draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down

It's only water, it's only rain, it's only teardrops, only pain

Stop draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down
Stop draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down

Draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down
Draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down
Draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down

Uuuhh

When I'm with my friends my troubles end
I'm one of the boys, so self employed

When we're together, could last forever
And I'm almost there

I'm away from the boss, at least for awhile
I'm away from the girls that cramp my style

I'm away from the jerks, I'm away from the works
And I'm almost there, I'm almost there

And it's happy time, happy, happy time
It's happy time, happy time, happy time
Got a happy head, so happy, happy time
I wish I could be this happy all the time

I'll take one of those, and four of those
And more of those, and more of those

I'm away from the jerks, I'm away from the works
And I'm almost there, I'm almost there

Mine is a lonely one, I forgot to have fun, standing under the street light
Ever so nervously, people lookin' down on me, telling me it's all right

If it were up to me I'd tear down this whole city, what's all this shit here for?
I give you my heart, but you just say I make you feel like a whore

All this trouble just to die, all this trouble's only temporary, it's temporary, temporary

Took away his power but he hides a tiny flower in the corner of his jail cell
Never been outside he just can't hide, he'd just assume be in hell

Get off the fucking telephone, why'd you hate to be alone, paranoid of death and love


Ever so patiently we sit upon our sinking ship waiting for the black dove

All this trouble just to die, all this trouble's only temporary, it's temporary, temporary

Sad that I could make it, glad that I could fake, sorry but I got to go
I ain't afraid of cryin', ain't afraid of dyin'. ain't afraid of what I don't know

(Screaming gibberish)

I'm so glad we could get together
I thank you for supplying the fun
Well, we took this time out to enjoy ourselves
Now let's just fucking get it done

Well, we're talka€”talka€”talking and talka€”talka€”talka€”talking
And maybe we'll have a little fight
Hush, hush, hush, hush, hush, hush, hush, now don't you admit that the reason you are here
Is just to get fucked tonight?

Come on

This masquerade is over

(Personal invitations only)

Ia€” Ia€” I got my makeup on
I got my hair all done
I bet you can't even guess who I am

Well, I? I thought you were my friend
But then the troubles began
And that old identity set in

I see no end to this bullshit so let's talk politics
Where it's parties, parties, parties all the time
We got big long cars, we got movie stars
We got the three B's, and don't you forgetting, the bigots, the bombs, and barriers

This masquerade is over

(Hey, hey)

I didn't invite no black, white-hippie, hardcore, the rich, Hasidic Jews, reds, white-bastard mothers, ya know, ya know
You're think you're something special, you know, I certainly didn't invite you
You know these costume parties they're such a good time
But ya, know I think I'm gonna have to be headin' home, ha, ha
Ha, you know it's funny how these social events, they just make me want to be alone

This masquerade is over
This masquerade is over
This masquerade is over

It's all over
It's all over
It's all over

It's over
It's over
It's over
It's over
It's over
It's over
It's over
It's over
It's over
It's over
It's over
It's over
It's over

It's all over
It's all over
It's all over
It's all over

Ha, ha, ha

Money talks these days and everybody listens
We're whipping out our wallets trying to but what we're missing

Money screams out "I need a slave"
I'm just trying to find some worker to dig my grave

Everybody's listening, everybody's listening, all those eyes are glistening
I need more, a little more, in a little while

I say those???
Machines?

I'm just trying to find somebody to pay my bail
Money screams is says "My soul's for sale"

Everybody's listening, everybody's listening, all those eyes are glistening

I need a maid to pick up my mess, help me in the morning, help me get dressed
I'll pay you when I get paid, I'll pay you when I get paid

Money talks these days, money talks these days
What you gonna do when the criminal says "Your money or your life"?
(Not used?)
I need more, I'm bored, shine my shoes, wax my floor

Mew father of our powerful land of the free
I ain't doing nothing, I'll just jire someone to do it for me

No matter how small George gets he'll still talk louder than you
Dollars shrieking "Ha, ha, ha jokes's on you"

End everybody's listening, all those eyes are glistening

Rich bored, blind, and lone, better buy me a wife
I'm saving up everything to buy me a knife

Nail myself way up high and I'm gonna die for you
The mother offers up the child to the preaching of channel two

The empires rise and the babies cry, when is the lesson to be learned
And all I hear is the commercials and now the crosses are gonna burn

Now I ain't gonna be the cure to wash away your sins
Why so the children have to pay for the poor planning that you did

No matter how loud you scream and cry you're gonna be sentenced to suffer
You married your life and you married you wife and now you're gonna have to
learn to love her
But can you love her?



I like to watch religious TV, what you get is not what you see. Religiovision

Save me my dear goddamned Lord, won't you please take me hand
Lead me to your sweet salvation in McDonald's land

I was born a wild beautiful baby but you tried to tell me what to be
Can you love your children knowing you must set them free

I'm sick of that song about how you lost your lover
Sick of that song about how you hate your mother
Sick of that song laced with useless solutions
I'm sick of that song about how you look at life
Sick of that song about how you beat your wife
Sick of that song about sha na blah blah
I'm sick of that song about sex and drugs and rock

Sick of that song about how you love your cock
Sick of that song about your bitchin' bad luck
Sick of that song about all those women you f*ck
I'm sick of that song

AAA So you think I got a problem
You think its all to clear
Got fucking mental of disorder
Wheres the fucking order around here?
Im a spacehead im not a stupid head
I am a space head just open minded
Spacehead(x2)
Why when I cry do I hang my head down low?
How do you move so fast but think so slow?
???????????/
I hang my head the way I let it flow
Im a spacehead im not a stupid head
I am a space head just open my head
Dancin in the ?light? and the teacher says Im a space head
Smokin in hte church and the preacher says Im a space head


The books are burning fast(x2)
I bet you know just what Im saying
Maybe Iam saying something else
The next decision that you make is probaly gonna be a big mistake
Im a space head. Can I open up your head?
Im a space head
Im just open minded
Space head(x9 to a fade)

I said "Hey brown girl I seen tears through the window of the junk shop downtown"
Selling trinkets from your far off homeland, did the Promise land let you down?

I said "hey young boy I notice that you ain't afraid to walk next to me"
"Old man, you look like you're dying, is that all you want is a quarter from me?"

Sometimes I feel like a stranger, I feel like a stranger

I'm just another face in a faceless crowd, I'm just another king in a headless crown
I'm so alone. Y'know I live here in this city, but this place it just ain't nobody's home

Now how many times do I got to tell you?
There's no such thing as a man made world
Now how many times do I got to tell you?
There's no such thing as a man-tamed girl

Sometimes I feel like stranger, I feel like a stranger

I want to buy some flowers for my mother, if I only had a chance
You see, I got a happy family, but that's oh so far away
You see, I've got it all here inside me, but I just can't seem to get it out
But I know with a little imagination we can work this whole goddamn thing out

Oh don't make me feel so strange, I feel like a stranger

I'm hung up on a wire so thin,
tearing out what's been trapped in
My puppet strings, been pulled too tight
I can see the real me's going to be a bloody fight
I'm your Voodoo doll don't you hear my call

Trying so hard to forget, got my bottles, got my pills, got my TV set
I'm imprisoned by my passion, i;m a slave to my trade
How can you be so possessed by the profit that's been made

I live for love where love's insane, I need to numb to ease the pain
When the end begins again, needles, needles, I'm sticking them in
I'm your Voodoo doll, heed my call

I'm strung out on pretty, pretty girls, I forgot about the rest of the world
Pots and pans and good free sex my wife she is the best
If I get bored of her I'll have a family and get into incest



I live for love where love's insane, I need to numb to ease the pain
When the end begins again, needles, needles, I'm sticking them in

Think your thoughts, confirm your petty doubts,
The spell is cast in broken glass your time is running out
You're just a prisoner, sweet prisoner, you're just imprisoned by your own devices
Come on out and bleed some blood and solve this fucking crisis

I live for love where love's insane, I need to numb to ease the pain
When the end begins again, needles, needles, I'm sticking them in
Voodoo doll, don't you hear my call

The big old world doesn't seem so f*cked up when I'm f*cked up too
Voodoo doll, don't you hear my call

The sun's creeping up and stomping on my dreams
Works all right, party's fine, but sleeping is my scene

The traffic inside your head is tearing you apart
Stick your fingers down my throat and grab on to my heart

And I'm walking a little closer
Gonna rise up, take you away,
Sunday's just another day

Her eyes shine like oceans, her skin is like the earth


Suck the life out of her, you better take her for what she's worth

No free ride, this bus is going charter
So get up off you ass and try a little harder, try a little harder

Walkin' a little closer

A sweet scent of discontent rising in the air
You don't get old you just get passive and then you stand and stare
Hey nobody's keeping you from stopping
Like a bulb without a socket your finger trigger's itching but you forgot to cock it

And things didn't turn out the way you thought they would be
No you can't take that out on me
If you can find a better way then I ain't standing in your way

I'm fed up with holding out I called your bluff now let it out
You were thinking you were never never never enough it ain't bad luck it's just that you ain't that tough

Ain't that tough ain't that tough

A graveyard of bottles and a
If you're so brave why's a .45 hang from your hips
Nobody's keeping you from stopping
You're always threatening to kill yourself well why don't you just do it right here, right now

I didn't turn out the way you thought I would be
No you can't take that out on me
I thought I was talking to someone else I guess I was talking to myself

I'm fed up with holding out I called your bluff now let it out
You were thinking you were never never never enough it ain't bad luck it's just you ain't that tough

Last time I saw you you were talking just like me
Now you're talking like some hollywood actress, what the hell's that supposed to mean?

You ain't that tough you ain't that tough ...

The aim of my time is to fill up my mind
And when it gets too full I forget
Now if I'm late and I'm making you wait
Then there ain't one thing around that's even funny

Seein' things clearly and I thank you so dearly
Everything's so true to life when you're not living
When it's all a drag that's when you give it all the way
put it all in bags, just call it charity

You just can't go back
You just can't go back
Everybody's going their own way
Each one is gonna make his day
It's more than amusement now
You're just killing time

(Just killing time) You just can't go back
(Just killing time) You just can't go back
(Just killing time) You just can't go back

Fifteen years later caught in time's incinerator
Yesterday's worries are today's
But the good times are so near just sitting back and drinking beer
You know I'm halfway down the road but I know that I still ain't there

Seeing things clearly I thank you so dearly
Everything's so true to life when you're not living
When it's all a drag that's when you give it all the way
put it all in bags, just call it charity

You just can't go back
(Just killing time) You just can't go back
Everybody's going their own way
Each one is gonna make his day
It's more than amusement now
You're just killing time

Riding into town when the sun goes down
And the natives get restless and the crowd comes round
Pacing in place in a backward race
While starting my case to another blank face
I'm just sitting on the roadside
Watching all the cards and the clouds roll by
They may pass me by
But i need a better reason to cry
Growing pain it leaves a stain
That's similar but not the same
It's down the drain and what remains
Maybe you're the one who's a little insane
Now everything's lovely if you're ugly
What you would, what you should, and what you could be
Mr right, spending his life,
Stabbing himself with a butter knife
I'm just sitting on the roadside
Watching all the cards and the clouds roll by
They may pass me by


But I need a better reason to cry
Growing pain's a spinning blade
Whirling round you like a razor edged chain
It's down the drain and what remains
Maybe you're the one who's a little insane
Growing pain it leaves a stain
That's similar but not the same
Its down the drain and what remains
Maybe you're the one who can make that change
Can't shake hands with boxing gloves
With whips and chains you'll never make love

Peeping Tom creepin' through the mornin' moonlight (ohh, ohh, ohh)
Like a crazy coyote in the middle of the night (ohh, ohh, ohh)
You keep taggin' along 'til it does you wrong
Sometimes it takes so long for you to say so long

Not for the lone rider
Lone rider

Woah
Huh
Ya

Black cloud troll wherever he goes (ohh, ohh, ohh)
He breaks out in a cold sweat when you get too close
Your suitcase is home long may you roam lone rider
Ohh, baby's cryin' please come home lone rider

The reflections in the water but the water's a mirage
It's like a dream machine that never leaves the garage
Your boots start walkin', as the story goes
People start talkin' and he wrestlessness gows

They say he hates people, say he's a queer
Never listens but always hears
Off into the sunset he disappears
Surely the last time to come around here, oh no

Ride on
Ride on
Ride on

You've got eyes but they can't see
What's inside a tv and they never look at me
You won't know and you're never claim to show
That special feeling inside
Oh how time flies when its got nowhere to go
Up to the skies and it only goes to show
I've waited here for you a long, long time
I think i'd better go
Long way home (x4)
So now you studied the changes


Have you lost your way
Through all the strangeness
And you got no more to say
Long way home (x8)

Guess I'll be leaving in the morning
By the chill that you gave me I will ride
I will tear out my insides just to find a place to hide
And I don't want to hurt you anymore

You got the dagger but I got the revolver
As we rolled and we tumbled to the floor
I been ?? is it just these drugs I'm feelin'?
And I don't want to lie to you no more

??
?? till the end
A guitar's a man's best friend
But these rules were meant to be broken



?? make myself uneasy
And I haven't got the guts to make you cry
?? to one thing ?? do something
And I don't want to hurt you anymore

Now with this advice I will end
??
Some things are meant to be spoken
And these rules are meant to be broken

Sirens are a-screaming, shots ring out at night
Movie cameras rolling in
And there goes my hero with his head between his legs
And all this time I believed in him

Now, what is the sound of snow falling down
On the tombstone in the dead of the night?
And who is the hound at the downtown dog pound
Who speaks English when the watchman's not in sight?

And where will you be in 1993?
Still sitting in the same chair
Sinning is for sinners and I'm just a beginner
But I've never really been touched there

Hey ain't it strange how some things never change
Ain't it strange how nothing stays the same?
You were thinkin' I was distressed about some universe oppressed
But I was just depressed about my last pinball game

I've learned to accept and not to expect
The respect and neglect that I get
I've tried not to forget about what hasn't happened yet
And on this I place my last bet

Hey did you give what you get
Did you get what you give?
of your ??
Winning is for winners
And I know spring follows winter
But I've never really been touched there

You know it's hard to be nice when hate becomes your vice
And you can't find peace anywhere
Love's just not for lovers
Get off your high horse brother
Drop your fist and get out of here

Stroll away the chains that wrap around me
Wipe the spider webs from my eyes
Tumble down the tall walls that surround me
I won't need no lies no alibis
My new feeling
New feeling (x5)
Daydreams screams
They just don't seem so far away
No I'm not possessed by my possessions
Lift my head to clear my right to die
You're in love with your evangelist investment
I don't need an alibi
My new feeling
New feeling (x5)
Daydreams screams


They just don't seem so far away
My head's like a wrecking ball and you look like a wall
Mopping up the tears that fill your eyes
This is my life, my right and that's not all
I just laughed my head off and cried
My new feeling ...

Shipwreck sailors searching for some fools gold
They're the local drunken boys
Been out drinking all night feeling alright
We watch them kill each other in a fight

Ship of fools, drunken hearts
Making yet another new start
Ain't it hard to play that part
When you've got a drunken heart

I can't change the world by complaining


You can't change it with a kiss
(Be no?) concentrating contemplating
No time to find out what we miss

Ship of fools ...

What are you doing here in my nightmare? (In my nightmare)
Stepping back into the stupidness gets me nowhere (Gets me nowhere)

Look at you now - You look like an angel in hell
Look at you now - Drown in your wishing well
Look at you now - All those strories and there's no one to tell
Look at you now
Do you think you can find a place for your dreams in my nightmares?
And you're tied to the tracks but the train broke down

Wake me up and let me go (from) somebody I used to know
From somewhere in my nightmare.
Don't you remember the years we got nowhere? (We got nowhere)

Look at you now - You look like an angel in hell
Look at you now - Drown in your wishing well
Look at you now - All those strories and there's no one to tell


Look at you now
Do you think you can find a place for your dreams in my nightmares?
And you're playing with a different joker, but there's always one more sucker
And you're tied to the tracks but the train broke down
Trapped at the top of the merry-go-round
But it won't let you down.

Look at you now - You look like an angel in hell
Look at you now - Drown in your wishing well
Look at you now - All those strories and there's no one to tell
Look at you now
Do you think you can find a place for my dreams?

Whoaaaaaa! I want blood
Southwest go home
I'm desperate to make love
Whoaaaaaa! desperate?
Southwest go home
I'm desperate to make love
Whooooaaaa!

This will be over
I hope you don't mind the pain
I wanna cut you
And let you force it out clean

It'd be a shot quick
I think I know how this works
Things will be better
Because they can't get much worse

And we will carry on
Carry… carry on

Now, I can't carry the weight of your hang-ups
They're dead weight, they're made out of lead
And I can't carry the guilt and frustration
Of something someone else said

Now I'm just learning to carry myself
Carry myself on my own
Now I'm just looking to carry myself
Carry on, carry on, carry on

Whenever I see you
I know you think I don't know
That I could be you
And your thoughts they don't show

I want to trust you
I want to trust you so bad
I want to bust you
Stealing the few things we had

And we will carry on
Carry on

Now, I can't carry the weight of your hang-ups
They're dead weight, they're made out of lead
And I can't carry the guilt and frustration
Of something someone else said

Now I'm just learning to carry myself
Carry myself on my own
Now I'm just looking to carry myself
Carry on, carry on, carry on

(Now's the place to lose your faith
Keep the faith that reinstates the habits
That are forming what you feel)

This will be over

Caterpillar crawling up the big phone pole
Is there somebody that you want to talk to?
You know that pretty soon you’ll be able to fly
How is this going to affect you?
Do you think it might wreck you?
Your friends might reject you
Say you took it too far
You said you want to be want to be
want to be want to be

Hooked on glossy pictures
and drugs I’ve never seen
We’ll treat you with advice from a fashion magazine
One day she just walked into that magazine
I wonder if she’ll ever come back
And they all said she would crack
They said her mind was one track,
Said she took it too far
You said you want to be want to be
want to be want to be
Closer to the stars
...

Every time you move your lips
Let me give you a few tips
Yesterday you were too young
Tomorrow you will be too old
To regret all the things
you’ve done who’re you trying to hustle ?
Somebody you wanna show your muscle?
Second hand excuses never went too far
What’s this scene you’re making?
Your ideas have been taken
We’ll seek when you awaken alone
in someone’s car
You just stood there shaking, stood there shaking
They said you were faking

You said you want to be want to be
want to be want to be
Closer to the stars...

Closer to the stars

Dying on a bed of roses in the middle of the night
Woke up in a cold, dark basement looking through candlelights

Up all night, silly kid come crashing down (just one more taker)
Like a ghost of a thousand miles crawling over me

Here's to falling off the world's dark side
Drifted it alone on a morning's tide
Riding on an all-night train through a crystal gate
When the moonlight shines a path for a brighter day

When the ballrooms are all banging and the evening is so still
Could you see it in your heart to let me in?

Did he hand you the reigns of the morning news?
He lulled you asleep 'til the Aussie cat mews

When the leaves from the trees come crashing down (don't time pass slowly)
When the seasons don't change, they're spinning around

Here's to falling off the world's dark side
Drifted it alone on a morning's tide
Riding on an all-night train through a crystal gate
When the moonlight shines a path for a brighter day

When the ballrooms are all banging and the evening is so still
Could you see it in your heart to let me in?

Let me in

Make ure chillin
guts start spillin
its piece of a puzzle
piece of a trouble
is it somethin else?
ure sellin yourself
Im so wanting
without a clue
gotta find something better
something better to do
something so exciting
Im into something new
you piece together the whole thing
gives u something to use

maybe I should practice it one more time
maybe Im afraid what it might do
maybe it might upset someone
maybe that's what its supposed to do

pull it from the bottom
it begins to change
find another existance
thats what ure trying to say?

Im not pushin u out
Im not pushin u off
Im not pushin u out
Im not pushin u

All of the lands are terribly restless
with tellin u what to do
but u go bak to the land


where ure defensless
they act just like me and u

look what u've dont to me
look what I've done to u
look what they've done to us
now were like noone else
theyre laughin at u
talkin about u
all these new things
all these new things
I found in use

and Im workin so hard
when I think it is real
everybody does once
just to see how it feels
its not a sensation
and its not for sale
so what can u call it now?

keep em gotten
theyll spoil u rotten
keep em gotten
keep em gotten
just another freak
be another freak
be a freak

I ain't working nine to five
I ain't going out to plant no seed
I don't ask what I'm supposed to do, cause I've got everything I want
But I don't have anything I need

Well I do my thing in a palace full of kings
Do it in an old broken-down shack
I'd give you the shirt off my back, show you where your systems lack
Meet you in the lap of luxury

I get off the floor and walk it off
Get back to a place that I can see
Well I'm coming back for more abuse
Meet you in the lapa€” the lapa€” the lap of luxury

Now I'm working noon to midnight
Now my precious seeds they have been sown
I don't ask when they're supposed to grow 'cause I got everything I know
I don't know anything I need

No exploitation, paid vacation
All I want's communication
That ain't too hard to see

When the van stops rolling, the band starts rocking
It ain't too pretty, it ain't too shocking but
I've got everything I need

I get off the floor and walk it off
Get back to a place that I can see
Well I'm coming back for more abuse
Meet you in the lap of luxury

Now you're mad and leaving home
'Cause you say there's no one there for you to talk to
Isn't it nice to go outside
When you know there is no place you have to walk to
You can live alone inside a crowded room
And it's never, never too late, never too soon
Put on your frown to go downtown
You have come a long long way
Even though you have no idea where you're going
You ain't done a godamn thing all afternoon
Your confidence is sinking like a lead balloon
And it's never, never too late, never too soon
I can't come down I can't come down
I can't come down I can't come down
I can't go on I can't go on
It's not like I'm asking you to hold up the sky
All the things you held so high
Are you surprised to find that now they add to nothing
Now you're growing old and bored


Do you think that maybe you could teach me something
There is nothing that you really can assume
And it's never, never too late, never too soon
Now you're mad I know you're mad
Now you're mad I know you're mad
Why don't you just tell someone
It's not like you're the only one
It's not like I'm asking you to hold up the sky
I can teach you how to drive
You can teach me how to lie
Hush my darling don't you cry
This could be your lullaby

Now you're mad and leaving home
'Cause you say there's no one there for you to talk to
Isn't it nice to go outside
When you know there is no place you have to walk to
You can live alone inside a crowded room

And it's never
Never too late
Never too soon

Put on your frown to go downtown

You have come a long long way
Even though you have no idea where you're going
You ain't done a godamn thing all afternoon
Your confidence is sinking like a lead balloon
And it's never
Never too late
Never too soon

I can't come down I can't come down
I can't come down I can't come down
I can't go on I can't go on
It's not my fault
It's not like I'm asking you to hold up the sky



All the things you held so high
Are you surprised to find that now they add to nothing
Now you're growing old and bored
Do you think that maybe you could teach me something
There is nothing that you really can assume
But you can be the ___________ on someone's __________
And it's never
Never too late
Never too soon

Now you're mad I know you're mad
Now you're mad I know you're mad
Why don't you just tell someone
It's not like you're the only one
It's not like I'm asking you to hold up the sky

I can teach you how to drive(?)
You can teach me how to lie(?)
Hush my darling don't you cry
This could be your lullaby

In a town without a name
there is no shame
no blame to claim
one fine day the pilgrims came
and made new rules for an old game
And I'm waiting for the garbage man To take you away
And I'm searching for my playground
So I can go and play
So they built a big smoke stack
Built a railroad track
They made the dirt roads black
And they did it behind your back
And now you pay their tax
hoping something cracks
And I'm waiting for the garbage man
To take you away
And I'm searching for my playground
So I can go and play
From out of the dust came corrosion and rust
That made you look so cheap
There's nothing to have here
And nothing to hold here
And nothing that you can keep
Now understand this is no man's land
And its all that's left that's free
Where the kings of nothing rule my friend
And you can't make me leave
There's a billboard in the sky
Reflecting water in your eyes
This big city, this ghost town
Will come crawling to the ground
And I'm waiting for the hurricane To blow you away
And I'm searching for my twister
to twist you into shape
Now my speach is said and done
The circus came, I had my fun
And the wasteland has been won
And the building has begun
And I'm waiting for the earthquake To shake you down
And I see my mother nature Trying to drag you around
From out of the dust came
Corrosion and rust
That made you look so cheap
There's nothing to have here
And nothing to hold here
And nothing that you can keep
Now understand this is no man's land
And its all that's left that's free
Where the kings of nothing rule my friend
(Then you can't make believe?)

If you're walking home late at night
dressed up and alone
dont you get tired of being white
buffalo never roam
go to sneak up behind you
still your boss tapped your phone
'cause you might be keepin secrets
that you ain't supposed to know
now it's about to be
and your bus
and the lovely miss liberty
is just another whore
(there's somethin I gotta tell ya)
its hard to see things your way
and its hard to understand the things you say
most of all
its hard to get hard these days
now if you got to hate someone
you might as well hate yourself
you find that you dont deserve it now
more than anyone else
so get out of your kitchen
and get out of your bed
got to tell them what you've always wanted to tell them
'cause in the morning you might be dead


so dont call the doctor
'cause Ill be ok
its just a passing sad daydream
and it led me astray
and its hard to see things your way
and its hard to understand the things you say
but most of all
its hard to get hard these days
and I ain't proud of nothin
but its better that way
'cause its too loud for talkin
and there aint much to say
so pick up your explosives
and pack up your gun
if you ain't chasin someone
you got to be on the run
and Im so far from home now
nothin better anyway
I aint lookin to make a livin now
I just need a place to stay

Picture if you will a house on the hill
Where the family kills each other for a place in the will
Understand that he came a dirty old man
That holds a plastic rosary in the palm of his hand

And under the rug you will sweep (under the rug you will sweep)
Secrets and promises that you can't keep (promises that you can't keep)
The dam it will leak, it will weep
Said "I'd like to tell you how I feel", you said "You know that can't be real, it's much too deep"

Why'd you wanna watch and wait, you can't walk on water
Get your feet on the ground
There's a hole in the floor, hole in the door
Whole wide world waiting to turn you around

And under the rug you will sweep (and under the rug you will sweep)
Secrets and promises you can't keep (promises that you can't keep)
The dam it will leak, it will weep
Said "I'd like to tell you how I feel", you said "You know that can't be real, it's much too deep"

Now how will you keep yourself busy?
Take the trouble you're leaving behind
And dig down deep where you do not belong there
Shine a light where the sun doesn't shine

Seven days, still no sign of daylight
Your tunnel's collapsing from behind
And how the hell did I get to Alaska
Will it shine, the light where the sun doesn't shine?

It's a second hand story no one wants to hear
And it's wet with blood, salted with tears
It's black and white and red all over, happens all the time
This was something about an artificial heart
She lived in a sleepy town trailer home park
Where not many people go out after dark
Innocent helpless at 17, queen of every loser's wet dream
Which brings us to our villain but a mother could love
He liked amputation and the Lord above
He kidnapped her on her way home from school
She lost her mind, he lost his cool
She didn't tell him about the artificial heart
Then some kid found her head
Then an arm and a leg and you know the rest they said
The artificial heart it was still beating
With a needle and a thread they sewed on her head
She's alive and well like she was never dead
She doesn't remember the day she didn't die
Or how everybody cried
She read a story in the paper how she was victimized
And you should have seen the look in her eyes
Her assailant was acquitted and as she read
I swear she laughed off her head

The mirror on the wall it tells no lies
And oh I don't like what I see
I see a woman there I watch her as she cries
And the woman isn't really me
But every day I get up, calm down, give up, hang around
Look for you, hold me, tender, set me free
I need to feel you put your hands around me
Day in, day out it's the same old story
You're out there on your own
Is he worth the price you pay
Got you in his chains
Will he set you free someday
I wish I didn't feel this way I can't get nothing done
And all I want to do is go to sleep
Though I lie in bed for hours I cannot close my eyes
And lonely days turn into lonely weeks
But every day I get up, calm down, give up, hang around
Look for you, tender, hold me, set me free
I need to feel you put your hands around me
Day in, day out, it's the same old story
You're out there on your own
Is he worth the price you pay
Got you in his chains
Will he set you free someday
Every now and then I think things might be all right
And I think I see a light beyond the door
Just as I approach it disappears again
And everything seems darker than before
But every day I get up, calm down, give up, hang around
Look for you, hold me, tender, set me free
I need to feel you put your hands around me
Day in, day out, it's the same old story
You're out there on your own
Is he worth the price you pay
Got you in his chains
Will he set you free someday

You sold your soul for a lump of coal
She's blacker than the night
Didn't think you'd be needing it
But you thought
But you never know who you might meet
On the street where the church bells ring to a different beat
Is it joy, is it pain? Is it rustin' in the rain?
Do you really think I need it?
Is it just plain evil?
Heard of a man who had a plan
To save the wretched world
Nationwide genocide, like one-eyed jacks
And suicide queens
Look out for if you know what I mean
Is it good, is it bad? Is it bitter, is it sad?
Is it inside all these people?
Is it just plain evil? You've got a lot to learn
You've got a lot to change, you've got nothing to lose
But a ball and chain
Is it good, is it bad?Is it bitter, is it sad?
Do you really think I need it? Is it just plain evil?

Somebody's thinking that there might be something wrong
Business is sinking and the crew's been casted off
Nobody's bailing, nobody's sailing, but we're watching it from shore
Nobody's working and we better work this out
If we could see eye to eye, you could see just exactly who is small
But I do my job and do it well and go to hell for writing on the wall
There'd be enough to go around if I could just get around you
I am not down, my hands are empty, and they're open and I need something to do
And it makes me wonder who I'm working for
'Cause I think you know just what I'm looking for
And it makes me wonder who you're working for
How many children are waiting by your door?
Is this just a job that I'm working for?
You gave me nothing now you're taking it away
I should be walkin' and makin' it easy to ignore but I guess I'd better stay
And I forgave you for all the people you've done wrong
Nobody's working and it's gone on far too long
And it makes me wonder who you're working for
'Cause I think you know just what I'm looking for
And it makes me wonder who I'm working for
How many children are waiting by your door?
Is it just a paycheck I'm fighting for?

Well, well, now what the hell has gotten into you
Is it something we can make it through
I'll spend the rest of my life trying to figure you out
Like a black silhouette in a shadow of doubt
Some kinda spectacle that no one can see through
But it burns inside, you hide it well
You hide it from yourself
And you promise that you won't tell
Promise that you won't tell, promise that you won't tell
Promise that you won't yell, secret no more, secret no more
Now I know that something's wrong
And I'll find out before too long
Only you can break my solitude
Don't you tell anyone I told you this
We got to die to spread your disease too
But it burns inside, you hide it well
And you promise that you won't tell
Promise that you won't tell
Promise that you won't tell
Promise that you won't yell
Secret no more, secret no more
Promise that you won't tell, promise that you won't tell
Promise that you won't tell, promise that you won't yell
Secret no more, secret no more
Secret no more, secret no more

Hey what're you doing comin' around my place
I've been cryin', tears are down my face
Do this, do that, it's always push, push, push
But I sure grow tired of beating 'round the bush

Take it to the root

Hey what're you saying, calling out my name
I ain't got no shame, better find someone else to blame
Talking 'round in circles, take it to the point
?? someone else to give support

Take it to the root

I can't take it, always in my face
Hey, don't I know you? I've seen you someplace
Back before you know it, back for more abuse
Back to where I started from, home and on the loose

Take it to the root

Take it to the root one time
Take it to the root two times
Take it to the root three times
Take it to the root four times

Black lights and a disco ball
Cut the carpets going wall to wall
Maybe someday won't be just one way
Had a dream I was laying in hell
Looked a lot like this hotel
Maybe one day, won't be just one way
But it's one big maybe
And maybe I'm the one who's crazy
How can I find out,
How can I wonder,
Trying to be like you.

And all is well in hell,
I wish you were here,
I wishing you well.
You know who asked about you
As far as I can tell
all in all, all is well.

A bomb shelter and some cans of food
A gas mask looks good on you
Come and see me
Ya wouldn't wanna be me
I think I injured my funny bone
I'm gonna cry when I get home
Maybe one day, save it for someday.
But it's one big maybe
And maybe I'm the one who's crazy
How can I find out,
How can I wonder,
Trying to be like you.

And all is well in hell
I wish you were here,
I wishing you well.
You know who asked about you
As far as I can tell
All in all, all is well.
All is well......

All is well, here in hell
I wish you were here,
I wishing you well.
All is well, here in hell!
I wish you were here,
All in all, all is well.
All in all, all is well.
All in all, all is well!