Once upon a time in the land of Hushabye
Around about the wondrous days of yore
They came across a sort of box
Bound up with chains and locked with locks
And labeled, "Kindly do not touch, it's war"
Decree was issued round about all with a flourish and a shout
And a gaily colored mascot tripping lightly on the fore
"Don't fiddle with this deadly box
Or break the chains, or pick the locks
And please, don't ever play about with war"
Well, the children understood, children happen to be good
They were just as good around the time of yore
They didn't try to pick the locks
Or break into that deadly box
They never tried to play about with war
Mommies didn't either, sisters, aunts, grannies neither
'Cause they were quiet and sweet and pretty
In those wondrous days of yore
Well, very much the same as now, not the ones to blame somehow
For opening up that deadly box of war
But someone did, someone battered in the lid
And spilled the insides out across the floor
A sort of bouncy bumpy ball made up of guns and flags
And all the tears and horror and the death that goes with war
It bounced right out and went bashing all about
And bumping into everything in store
And what was sad and most unfair
Is that it didn't really seem to care
Much who it bumped, or why, or what, or for
It bumped the children mainly, and I'll tell you this quite plainly
It bumps them everyday and more and more
And leaves them dead and burned and dying
Thousands of them sick and crying
'Cause when it bumps, it's really very sore
Now there's a way to stop the ball, it isn't difficult at all
All it takes is wisdom
I'm absolutely sure that we could get it back into the box
And bind the chains and lock the locks
No one seems to want to save the children anymore
Well, that's the way it all appears
'Cause it's been bouncing 'round for years and years
In spite of all the wisdom whizzed since those wondrous days of yore
And the time they came across the box
Bound up with chains and locked with locks
On the top shelf in the closet in the workshop where he spent his extra time
Was a dusty wooden box but I had never noticed till that time
Then we set it on the table and carefully we opened up the top
And stared into the memories daddy kept inside the box
There was a letter from mama when
She went out to Reno to help her sister out in sixty two
And a flower from Hawaii when they went on vacation
It was the first time that my daddy ever flew
And the pocket knife I gave to him on fathers day
Years ago I thought it had been lost
We all thought his heart was made of solid rock
But that was long before we found the box
I guess we always knew it, but 'I love you' was hard for him to say
Some men show it easily and some just never seem to find the way
But that night I began to see a softer side of someone I had lost
I saw the love he kept inside the first time when we opened up the box
There was a picture that was taken
When he and mom were dating standin' by his 1944
And the faded leather Bible, he got when he was baptized
I guess no one understood him like the Lord
And the poem that he had written about his wife and children
The tender words he wrote were quite a shock
We all thought his heart was made of solid rock
But that was long before we found the box
We all thought his heart was made of solid rock
I am the box, I am a screen
I'm every nightmare, I'm every dream
I am the window over your land
So turn me on, come take my hand
Don't push me
I offer you scandal, I offer a wealth
Of grafuitous violence, hazerdous to your health
I give the vision, of how life should be
I choose your heroes, come follow me
It's just a box, It's just a screen
It's only a nightmare, It's only a dream
We give the vision, of how life should be
In a box, by the door
I keep a letter you sent before
It says keep, your head up high
I'll think about you while you drive
And when you get up on that stage you will arrive
A collect phone call, the lobby's bare
It's a call to know I care
It's a postcard in the mail
To let you know I haven't failed
And if I miss one day it's been a long, long trail
Welcome to my world
I'm coming home.
And in this hotel lobby
You leave me alone
Will you be there when I return
It's been a question of some concern
And who's to say, what's less or more
Oh, I'll be waiting at your door
And when I see you, I'll know what I've waited for
It's the way we see the world
There's other ways we can't afford
From town to town, we're sometimes late
You hurry up and then you wait
And when it rains you just can't stand out at the gate
Jack's sittin' back in a pitch black box
When some light shines through a crack in the corner
Will he take the risk break out of this
Place that he hates or will he just sit and wonder
If he springs out there's no doubt that his system might be shocked
But he's afraid what it might take for him to unlock
The box
You can be free if you want to
Travel outside the lines
If you dare to be individual
No tellin' who's inside
The box
Jacklyn's got green hair piercings everywhere
She's not scared to be different
She does what she loves above all
There's not any walls in her environment
She's herself no one else she knows you only get one time
To wear your shoes in life and view the world from outside
The box
You can be free if you want to
Travel outside the lines
If you dare to be individual
No tellin' who's inside
The box
The box
You can be free if you want to
Travel outside the lines
If you dare to be individual
No tellin' who's inside
The box
Jack's sittin' back in a pitch black box
When some light shines through a crack in the corner
The box
The industry is dumbing down the nation
They dope up the youth
So plug up your ears
While phony punk bands cry about relationships
We forget our roots
And run on patriotic fears
I was so weak
I let them run all over me
But now I'm fighting just to get back my name
Yea I was so fuckin weak
But now I'm so fucking pissed
You bitches - I'm fucking tired of this shit
Don't box me in
I'm out the box
This I'll keep it so real
I'll learn from my mistakes
Can you feel me?
Next time I'll stick to my guns
Ya wanna rumble - here I come
I never run
I get up - stand up and fight
I'm burnin and lootin all night
No woman - no cry - know why?
Cuz e'rythings gonna be alright
Just let me do what I gotta do
You'll never change me
Can ya feel that?
Let me do me - you do you
Stay outta my business
Hear dat?
I can't stop rappin you faggot
You see what happens - it's tragic
You want war
You can have it
Don't box me in...
No I can't live that way
You never say what you wanna say
You only say what you think they wanna hear
Fuck you - I'm not your motherfucking slave
Fuck you - I fucking hate you!!
A box arrived this morning
Its reason was unspoken
It was signed and sent with deadly seal
The box said "Do Not Open"
It stood there in the hallway
And arrested my attention
I paced the floor and pondered why
The box said "Do Not Open"
And still I wondered,
"Will temptation get the best of me again?"
It was just the very thing I wasn't
Wishin' to be ownin'
A package sent to Waseley Hills
The box said "Do Not Open"
Seven lonely days went by
I wasn't really copin'
It soon consumed my every thought -
The box said "Do Not Open"
And still I wondered,
"Will temptation get the best of me again?"
Frozen there in terror, I
Could hardly have been hopin'
Through an omen of my comin' doom,
The box said "Do Not Open"
An image of repulsion
I saw the premonition
It filled my frightened mind and still,
The box said "Do Not Open"
And still I wondered,
"Will temptation get the best of me again?"
I couldn't stand the torture
And approached the thing in question
I ripped away the seal
The box, it lay there open
And there I was, a sorry man
All doubled up and chokin'
With bleedin' hands and withered nails,
The box, it lay there open
And it looks like
In a box, by the door
I keep a letter you sent before
It says keep, your head up high
I'll think about you while you drive
And when you get up on that stage you will arrive
A collect phone call, the lobby's bare
It's a call to know I care
It's a postcard in the mail
To let you know I haven't failed
And if I miss one day it's been a long, long trail
Welcome to my world
I'm coming home.
And in this hotel lobby
You leave me alone
Will you be there when I return
It's been a question of some concern
And who's to say, what's less or more
Oh, I'll be waiting at your door
And when I see you, I'll know what I've waited for
It's the way we see the world
There's other ways we can't afford
From town to town, we're sometimes late
You hurry up and then you wait
I was living in a small mind with no lifeline
And no messages can reach me from the outside
When I looked out over the horizon
Didn't notice the sun was setting or just rising
Then it hit me, maybe bit me
Then I knew, quite a few would not go with me
I didn't know exactly where I would be going
But I had to let this river in me flowing
What a ride
When you open your eyes
For the very first time
A real surprise
I started living outside of the box
Crossing over lines where I always used to stop
Living outside of the box
'Cause I'm not gonna be anybody that I'm not
I always knew this day would come
When I got off my back, found some motivation
I've been living on the other side
Come hell or high water every moment I'm alive
I was living on a fault line, the fault was all mine
And this unstable ground found me down half the time
But I had enough, I had to get up
I had to shrug it all off 'cause it's the same old stuff
Then it hit me, you won't permit me
To be an individual just doesn't fit me
But I decided that it's going to be living
Yeah, I decided I'm escaping from your prison
What a high
When you open your mind
For the very first time
A real surprise
I started living outside of the box
Crossing over lines where I always used to stop
Living outside of the box
'Cause I'm not gonna be anybody that I'm not
I always knew this day would come
When I got off my back, found some motivation
I've been living on the other side
Come hell or high water every moment I'm alive
So long conformity
And ambiguality is a new priority
All it takes, for heaven sakes
Is to figure out the face and learn to separate
I started living outside for the box
Taking my time when I always used to rush
Living outside of the box
'Cause I'm not gonna be anybody that I'm not
I always knew this day would come
When I broke down the walls for my liberation
I've been living on the other side
Come hell or high water every moment I'm alive
Oh, living outside of the box
Oh, living outside of the box
Oh, living outside
Ha ha ha
I always knew this day would come
When I got off my back, found some motivation
Oh, living outside of the box, of the box, of your life
Bluelight screaming, figures in the dark
Shelter-seeking, but you've run so far
They gonna get out if you're slow and put you in a cell
You don't wanna be arrested so you run like hell
[Chorus:]
Here comes ... the pigs
They always nick the underdogs
There's no regret but nowhere to go
Draw back, breathing, but you've run to slow
They don't care if you're innocent, they don't care if you're right
They're looking for a scapegoat and they found their prey
Glaring is nice at the sun
If you stare well you might go blind
Feelings are fine when they're fun
If they're bad well you might just die
Hang up the phone there's still meat on the bone
Don't you know you got a lesson to learn?
I'm pulling you out of the blue
You can take a clue and begin with the ABCs
ABC ABC
Eating's no good if you choke on your food
So you chew it slow
Sleeping's the best if you rest
If you don't then you're in the dark
Hang up the phone there's still meat on the bone
Don't you know you got a lesson to learn?
I'm pulling you out of the blue
You can take a clue and begin with the ABCs
Robins and whales
Tying dog's tails
The streets can talk so
You should listen
'Cause tonight you might be on your own
Robins and whales
Tying dog's tails
The streets can talk so
You should listen
'Cause tonight you might be on your own
Yeah tonight you might be all alone
If you don't know anything
It's alright if you don't think so
'Cause dying's like hanging around
At a funeral that no one goes to
Hang up the phone there's still meat on the bone
Don't you know you got a lesson to learn?
I'm pulling you out of the blue
You can take a clue and begin with the ABCs
ABC ABC
Robins and whales
Tying dog's tails
The streets can talk so
You should listen
'Cause tonight you might be on your own
Yeah robins and whales
Tying dog's tails
The streets can talk so
You should listen
'Cause tonight you might be on your own
They put him in the box
And they gave him toys to play with
They gave him the best of Beethoven
And a bowling ball
And they told him to invent games
They told him to play music
They told him to write stories
They told him if he did these things
They would let him out of the box
They would let him out of the box
They would let him out of the box
And he did these things
And he did them incredibly well
But they didn't let him out of the box
They lie (13X)
This is what he learned
From the day she was born they brought her to it
It had opaque walls & a lid locked tight
She spent all of her life picturing what was inside
This perfect world that its walls did hide
Can you see inside the box?
Can you be just like one of us?
For those who can see inside the box will live forever
And all the rest are dying soon
When she came of age she stepped to the outside
Told her family that she couldn't see
"I spent all of my life picturing what was inside"
This perfect world that its walls did hide
And she said,
I can't see inside the box
I can't be just like one of you
For those who can see inside the box will live forever
And all the rest are dying soon
I can't see inside the box
When she told them so they started to panic
Asked her please, begged her to lie
No longer can we talk to a heathen such as you
This perfect world has its walls locked tight
And they said,
Can you see inside the box?
Can you be just like one of us?
For those who can see inside the box will live forever
Yesterday when I was just a boy in times of youthful hero worship
My kind have been molded by images on the screen
Brought up to emulate the big guns
Another guest on death's best show
The influence cuts deeper than mom knows
Electric waves the demon's fly
Now could we just be bred to kill or die
There must be something else
The blame I place on myself
Behind tired eyes the demons stir
The tears go uncried
In the box - doin' time
Now that I'm grown
Abandoned childhood toys
But still what danger have I retained?
To grab the brass ring
& go in for the kill & covet the goods you know dem got for murder
In the box - doin' time
Yesterday
When I was just a boy
In times of youthful hero worship
My kind have been molded by images on the screen
Brought up to emulate the big
Guns
Just another guest on death's best show
The influence cuts deeper than mom knows
Electric waves
The demon's fly
Now could we just be
Bred to kill or DIE
There must be something else
The blame I place on myself
Behind the tired eyes
The tears go uncried
In the Box
Doin' time
In the Box
Just like doin' time
In the Box
Doin' time
In the Box
Now that I'm grown
Abandoned childhood toys
But still what danger
Have I retained
To grab the brass ring
To go in for the kill
And covet the good you know 'dem got for
MURDER
It's just another guest on death's best show
The influence cuts deeper than mom knows
Electric waves
The demon's fly
Now could we just be
Bred to kill or DIE
There got to be something else
The blame I place on myself
Behind tired eyes
The demon's stir
The tears go uncried
In the Box
Doin' time
In the Box
Just like doin' time
In the Box
Doin' time
In the Box
Minds are locked down
(out)
Minds are locked down
(out)
Minds are locked down
(out)
Minds are locked down
Rob lived in a box by the rails
Only thing he knew, you don't fail
When you live in a box by the rails
Don't comb your hair, don't comb your tail
Sweep my mess away
Leave my body, leave my bones
Leave me whole and leave my soul
Leave me nothing, I don't need at all
Nothing, I don't need at all
He ate from the bins in the park
Stayed out with the rats after dark
Never left a trail, never made his mark
When he ate with the rats after dark
Sweep my mess away
Leave my body, leave my bones
Leave me whole and leave my soul
Leave me nothing, I don't need at all
Nothing, I don't need at all
Calling on his friends, never made him sad
Didn't want the things he never had
It only made them feel so bad
For having the things he never had
Sweep my mess away
Leave my body, leave my bones
Leave me whole and leave my soul
Leave me nothing, I don't need at all
Nothing, I don't need at all
If you stay in that box overnight
And don't get out when it gets light
There's not much lost of the secret life
That's done wrong and it's never done right
Now some more flowers grow
The corn gets eaten by a few more crows
And an old man's box is full of bones
Won't see his footprints in the stones
Sweep my mess away
Leave my body, leave my bones
Leave me whole and leave my soul
Leave me nothing, I don't need at all
Nothing, I don't need at all
Sweep my mess away
Leave my body, leave my bones
Leave me whole and leave my soul
Leave me nothing, I don't need at all
The industry is dumbing down the nation
They dope up the youth
So plug up your ears
While phony punk bands cry about relationships
We forget our roots
And run on patriotic fears
I was so weak
I let them run all over me
But now I'm fighting just to get back my name
Yea I was so fuckin weak
But now I'm so fucking pissed
You bitches - I'm fucking tired of this shit
Don't box me in
I'm out the box
This I'll keep it so real
I'll learn from my mistakes
Can you feel me?
Next time I'll stick to my guns
Ya wanna rumble - here I come
I never run
I get up - stand up and fight
I'm burnin and lootin all night
No woman - no cry - know why?
Cuz e'rythings gonna be alright
Just let me do what I gotta do
You'll never change me
Can ya feel that?
Let me do me - you do you
Stay outta my business
Hear dat?
I can't stop rappin you faggot
You see what happens - it's tragic
You want war
You can have it
Don't box me in...
No I can't live that way
You never say what you wanna say
You only say what you think they wanna hear
Fuck you - I'm not your motherfucking slave
Fuck you - I fucking hate you!
Shares his neighbors with a building
Knows addresses of by heart
Draws a picture of his future
Keeps the paper close at hand
Packs his tongue into a suitcase
Suffers terror on the train
And he wants to start a movement
'Cause he's indestructible
Destructible..suffers terror on the train
He indestructible
And you know they'll never find us
And they'll leave us alone
And if we just keep on talking
Then we'll still make it home
There's commotion and promotion
Now they've done good every war
Sell our pictures to a paper
Now that everyone must know
Trading satellites for substance
Let spectators pay their way
We'll invade the trevi fountain
Now that everyone must pay
Mama and babies mother tragedy
Babies mothers tragedy
Babies mothers tragedy
I turned the box on only to whitness quality hide.
My thoughts all escaping from me or dying as they tried.
I used to always protest against the bullshit we're fed.
I see all the needlles this time but cannot pass the
thread.
I'll cut it instead.
You write lies you disguise the truth, scare the youth.
commit error, endorce terror.
You talk loud and becloud the fact that you lack.
emmit error, enforce terror.
You write lies you disguise the truth, scare the youth.
commit error, endorce terror.
You talk loud and becloud the fact that you lack.
emmit error, enforce terror.
Why not begin today?
Lets keep them all away.
Lets not forget that they're not always here to stay.
I need to redifine.
This isn't yours its mine.
