Well I've been watchin'
While you've been coughin'
I've been drinking lots
While you've been nautious
And now I'll drink to hell
While you kill yourself
And I've got just one thing
That I can offer
Go and save yourself
Take it on me
Go and save yourself
Take it on me yeah
I'm not a mother
I'm not a poppin
And I won't preach to you
But it's a caution
You better understand
That I won't hold your hand
But if it helps you men
Then I won't stop it
Go and save yourself
Take it on me
Go and save yourself
Take it on me
Go and save yourself
Take it on me
Go and save yourself
Take it on me yeah
Run if you want
And I'll see you at the bottom
Where you crawl
On the stairs
And put the pain on me
So you don't feel a thing
Go and save yourself
Take it on me
Go and save yourself
Take it on me
Go and save yourself
Take it on me
Go and save yourself
Well they don't hate you, you know they love you
But they're gonna come kill you
They don't mean you any harm
It's just what they do
Could be your mother
Could be your father
Or your best friend in the world
But just like blood and rain, love and pain are one and the same (One and the same)
Just like blood and rain, love and pain are one and the same (One and the same)
Yeah, yeah, yeah
You wear a mask with a target
Keep your enemies closer
You fall in love from a great height, now the easy part's over
Choose your battles, not your soldiers
You're never sure of their colors
But just like blood and rain, love and pain are one and the same (One and the same)
Just like blood and rain, love and pain are one and the same (One and the same)
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Just like blood and rain, love and pain are one and the same
Just like blood and rain, love and pain are one and the same (One and the same)
Just like blood and rain, love and pain are one and the same (One and the same)
Just like blood and rain, love and pain are one and the same (One and the same)
Just like a rescue of a stray dog in the rain I was
Hungry when you found me
And you could tell by my tail and my rib cage what was
Once around me
I've been chased by a rain cloud
I was lost and nearly drowned and kicked around
But now I'm found and I won't run away
Bless your heart you gave me a home and a new start
And I will leave you never
Sleep at your feet and stay guard at your front door
I will keep things together
I've been chased by a rain cloud
I was lost and nearly drowned and kicked around
But now I'm found and I won't run away
I killed myself, threw away my mental health but nobody was blinking an eye
Backyard, basement, falling on the pavement
Nothing Left to Say But Goodbye
Nothing Left to Say But Goodbye
It's true I ran away before but be sure
I am no tail-chaser
I know a good thing when it throws me a bone
I'm your best friend forever
I've been chased by a rain cloud
I was lost and nearly drowned and kicked around
Listen now, let me speak
I will be the dog at your feet
And come along when you call
Be the little bird in your straw and sing you a song
I'll be there to take the fall
Though you tread upon me for no reason at all
[Chorus]
But just when you think you've left me blind
I will keep you in the corner of my eye
I will never leave your side
Though you call me your number one zero
your nevermind
I'll be your king, I'll be your pawn
I will build a pedestal and put you upon it
[Chorus]
But just when you think you've left me blind
I'll be creeping right up behind
Cause if I need to
I will keep you in the corner of my eye
corner of my eye
Down on the street, over your night
Out of your sleep, out of your sight
if I need to, if I need to
Out of your mouth, in every word
Down in your ego one thing is sure
I will keep you, I will keep you
[Chorus]
But just when you think you've left me blind
I will be creeping right up behind
Cause baby if I need to
Lord, I will keep you in the corner of my eye
I will be the bird in your straw
But you won't get far
I met a man locked away
For things he hadn't done
Innocence on a ball and chain
He'll never feel the sun
Again on his face
Roses in his hands
But when he smiled at me
I could understand
If you're free you'll never see the walls
If your head is clear you'll never freefall
if you're right you never fear the wrong
if your head is high you never fear at all
There was a daughter of a man
Took his life too young
She swore she'd never do those things
Then did just what he'd done
And a boy who's gone insane
Heard voices in his head
No one knows what they say
Now his mother's dead
If you're free you'll never see the walls
If your head is clear you'll never freefall
If you're right you never fear the wrong
If your head is high you never fear at all
There was a man who had a face
It looked a lot like me
I saw him in the mirror and
I fought him in the street
Then when he turned away, I shot him in the head
Then I came to realize, I had killed myself
If you're free you'll never see the walls
If your head is clear you'll never freefall
If you're right you never fear the wrong
Thought I was different and it seems I'm just the same
As a game I put my hand over the flame
I thought, I was smarter as I flew into the sun
But it turned out the way it does with everyone
Oh, oh, I don't fly around your fire anymore
I don't fly around your fire anymore
Burnin', fallin' down so many times before
I don't fly around your fire anymore
I love the heat, I love the things that I forgot
I love the strings that tie me down and cut me off
I was a king, I was a moth with painted wings made of cloth
When did the flame burn so high and get so hot?
Oh, oh, I don't fly around your fire anymore
I don't fly around your fire anymore
Burnin', fallin' down so many times before
I don't fly around, fly around
Fly around
I don't fly around your fire anymore
I don't fly around your fire anymore
Burnin', fallin' down so many times before
I don't fly around, fly around
I don't fly around your fire anymore
I don't fly around your fire anymore
Burnin', fallin' down so many times before
I don't fly around, fly around
You give me a heart attack
You look like the summertime
You call me an artifact
But I'll save that for another time
I could be rich or poor
I don't need anymore
Keep your love inside the kitchen
You can feed me anything
Leave the feathers on the chicken
Peel the leather from your skin
I can be young or old
Sweet or sad, hot or cold
Man or animal, I don't care at all
Find the antidote underneath the dose
Man or animal, obidient-
out of control
I will love you more than money
I will breathe you in the smoke
I will drink you in my honey
Sweet and golden down my throat
When you're right, when you're wrong
Head is near, eyes are gone
You can drown my appetite
I will sip your tears at night
You can tie me to a chair
Skin and bones, I don't care
I could be rich or poor
I don't need anymore
Man or animal, I don't care at all
Find the antidote underneath the dose
Man or animal, obedient-
out of control
Man or animal, I don't care at all
Find the antidote underneath the dose
Man or animal, obedient-
out of control
out of control
You give me a heart attack
I will give you more than that
You give me a heart attack
I was on my way
to the center of the sun
when i lost my wings
and i fell into the crowd
and they carried me
to a hole in the ground
and they burried me
where no one can see
and no one would be around
i am a virus
i live in silence
I was on my way
to a city in the clouds
when i lost my mind
and i had to settle down
then i had a dream
of an island in the sea
where the lepers die
where no one survives
where no one can hear their cries
i am a virus
i live in silence
just like heathens thinking on our feat
believe in god
we're one step
two step
three steps towards the graveyards
hello to the memory
it seems that we forgot
i am a virus
i live in silence
i live in silence
In my hour of need
on the sea of grey
on my knees
i prey to you
help me find the bones of the dying dead
will you light my way
won't you light my way
won't you light my way
won't you light my way
the bullet is a man
from time to time he strays
i compare my life to theres
to this i remain
and unwilling to listen to your answers
and i'm not ashamed to tell you i need you today
won't you light my way
won't you light my way
won't you light my way
won't you light my way
and so when i'm lost
and i'm tired and depressed
and when my mind goes astray
won't you light my way
don't save it for another day
don't save it for another day
hey! don't save it for another day
hey! don't save it for another day
hey! don't save it for another day
won't you light my way
won't you light my way
won't you light my way
Once upon a time
I was on a mind to lay your burden down
and leave you where you stood
you believed i could
you'd seen it done before
i could read your thoughts
and tell you what you saw
and never say a word
but now that is gone
all worth and done
and never to return
i can tell you why
people die alone
i can tell you why
the shadow on the sun
staring at the loss
looking for the cause
and never really sure
nothing but a hole
to live without a soul
and nothing to be learned
i can tell you why
people go insane
i can show you how
you could do the same
i can tell you why
the end will never come
i can tell you why
the shadow on the sun
shapes of every size
move behind my eyes
doors inside my head
bolted from within
every drop of flame
lights a candle in
memory of the one
who lived inside my skin
i can tell you why
people go insane
i can show you how
you could do the same
i can tell you why
the end will never come
i can tell you why
the shadow of the sun
shadow of the sun
shadow of the sun
shadow of the sun
shadow of the sun
shadow of the sun
shadow of the sun
shadow of the sun
Killing in the name of...
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Huh!
Killing in the name of...
Killing in the name of
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
But now you do what they told ya
Well now you do what they told ya
Those who died are justified, for wearing the badge
They're the chosen whites
You justify those that died by wearing the badge They're the chosen whites
Those who died are justified, for wearing the badge They're the chosen whites
You justify those that died by wearing the badge They're the chosen whites
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Uggh!
Killing in the name of
Killing in the name of
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
...Now you're under control (7 times)
And now you do what they told ya,
now you're under control
And now you do what they told ya,
now you're under control
And now you do what they told ya,
now you're under control
And now you do what they told ya,
now you're under control
And now you do what they told ya,
now you're under control
And now you do what they told ya,
now you're under control
And now you do what they told ya!
Those who died are justified, for wearing the badge They're the chosen whites
You justify those that died by wearing the badge,
They're the chosen whites
Those who died are justified, for wearing the badge, They're the chosen whites
You justify those that died by wearing the badge,
They're the chosen whites
Come on! Yeah!
Come on!
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me. Fuck you!
I won't do what you tell me. Fuck you,
I won't do what you tell me. Fuck you,
I won't do what you tell me. Fuck you,
I won't do what you tell me. Fuck you,
I won't do what you tell me. Fuck you,
I won't do what you tell me. Fuck you,
I won't do what you tell me. Fuck you,
I won't do what you tell me. Fuck you,
I won't do what you tell me. Fuck you,
I won't do what you tell me. Fuck you,
I won't do what you tell me. Fuck you,
I won't do what you tell me. Fuck you,
I won't do what you tell me. Fuck you,
I won't do what you tell me. Fuck you,
I won't do what you tell me.
And when you wanted me I came to you
And when you wanted someone else I withdrew
And when you asked for light I set myself on fire
And if I go far away I know you'll find another slave
'Cause now I'm free from what you want
Now I'm free from what you need
Now I'm free from what you are
And when you wanted blood I cut my veins
And when you wanted love I bled myself again
Now that I've had my fill of you I'll give you up forever
And here I go far away, I know you'll, you'll find another slave
'Cause now I'm free from what you want
Now I'm free from what you need
Now I'm free from what you are
Then a vision came to me when you came along
I gave you everything but then you wanted more
'Cause now I'm free from what you want
Now I'm free from what you need
Now I'm free from what you are
Now I'm free from what you want
Now I'm free from what you need
Oooh
Oooh
Oooh
Oooh
Long days and nights you fought for truth
Gotta hand it to you
Uprising paid for in blood
Only to lose
We're gonna hang you up
You've got balls but
We got the whip
we got a better bomb
We got the whip
We got the whip
we got a better bomb
Oooh
Oooh
Heartache and strife is all you've known
A slave since your youth
And only one life to bargain with
And ration is due
We're gonna string you up
You've got balls but
We got the whip
we got a better bomb
We got the whip
We got the whip
we got a better bomb
Yeah
Fearlessness in the face of death
Pain with a smile
Braving the fight until the end
I know I will never be anything like you
We got the whip
we got a better bomb
We got the whip
We got the whip
we got a better bomb
Oooohhhh, ooohhh
Oooohhhh, ooohhh
Well now if you want blood with your money,
You can help yourself,
And if you want a lot more then you got coming,
I will never tell,
I will weigh all your time and your wealth,
If it makes you smile,
But now if you want something worth while,
I can show you how
Listen to me now come on Give
Look them in the eye and give...
Theres nothing to decide come on give
Look them in the eye and give...
Take it all in stride
When you got enough food on your table
Blood in your mouth
And now you wanna taste something better
Then just spit it out
Listen to me now come on Give
Look them in the eye and give...
Theres nothing to decide come on give
Look them in the eye and give...
Take it all in stride
Oooohhhh, Ooohhh,
Oooohhhh, Ooohhh,
Give...Look them in the eye and Give...
Theres nothing to decide, come on give...
Look them in the eye and give...
Take it all in stride
Give...
Look them in the eye and give...
Theres nothing to decide
Look them in the eye and give...
Take it all in stride...
Give...
Give...
Give...
Give...
He was standing at the rock
Gathering the fog
Getting there with no directions
And underneath the arch
Turned into a march
And there he found a spot to set this fucker on
Set if off, set it on my children
Set it right
Set it off, set it off my children
Alright
Set it off, set it on my children
Set it fire
Set it off, set it on my children
Suddenly a shot
Ripped into his heart
He needed some attention
And there he played his card
Going into shock
The last thing that he said was set this fucker on
Set if off, set it on my children
Set it right
Set it off, set it off my children
Alright
Set it off, set it on my children
Set it fire
Set it off, set it on my children
Alright, alright, alright
Alright, alright, alright
Jesus at the back door, everything is alright
All we need is some direction
Every time the wind blows, everything you don't know
Turns into a revelation
It all ends up inside your head
Time is wasted
Set if off, set it on my children
Set it right
Set it off, set it off my children
Alright
Set it off, set it on my children
Set it fire
Set it off, set it on my children
Alright, alright, alright
The first time I saw you you were
Chasin down
A cyclone
All alone in the field
With railyards and clovers I kept rollin on
Never thought you'd wind up chasin
Settle down
I won't hesitate
To hit the highway
Before you lay me to waste no
Settle up and I'll help you find something to drive
Before you drive me insane
Your tired of walkin
And you loathe the ground
The sidewalk will barely touched your feet
Life moves too slowly to hold you down
With ringing hands you take it out on me
Settle down
I won't hesitate to hit the highway
Before you leave me to waste
Settle up and i'll help you find something to drive
Before you drive me insane
so get yourself a car
and drive it all alone
get yourself a car
and ride it on the wind
get yourself a car
and drive it all alone
get yourself a car
and ride it on the wind yea
yea we'll settle down
i won't hesitate to hit the highway
before you leave me to waste
settle up and i'll help you find something to drive
before you drive me insane
get yourself a car
and drive it all alone
get yourself a car
and ride it on the wind
get yourself a car
and drive it all alone
get yourself a car
Oooooooooooh
Oooooooooooh
Oooooooooooh
Oooooooooooh
Long days and nights you fought for truth
Gotta hand it to you
Uprise and paid for in blood
Only to love
We're gonna hang you up
You've got balls but.....
We got the whip
we got a better bomb
We got the whip
We got the whip
we got a better bomb
Oooooooooooh
Oooooooooooh
Heartache and strife is all you've known
A slave since your youth
And only one life to bargain with
Admiration is due
We're gonna string you up
You've got balls but.....
We got the whip
we got a better bomb
We got the whip
We got the whip
we got a better bomb
*Guitar Piece*
Yeah
Fearlessness in the face of death
Hand it with a smile
Braving the fight until the end
I know I will never be like you
We got the whip
we got a better bomb
We got the whip
We got the whip
we got a better bomb
I walk the streets where I regret, ah-ah-ah
I stood along and watched myself fall apart
And said the voices in my head, ah-ah-ah
Slipped through the chain link of a broken heart
And when I'm tired of feeling black
Spread the wings upon your back
Take us high above it all
Stroke your feathers 'til we fall back down again, ah-ah-ah
But everything that sounded good, ah-ah-ah
I understand that I'll be misunderstood
And when I'm tired of feeling black
Spread the wings upon your back
Take us high above it all
Stroke your feathers 'til we fall
Until we fall, until we fall back down again
Yeah, back down again
What do you feel before you think?
What do you see before you blink?
Who do you battle in your dreams?
Who strokes your feathers 'til you scream?
And when I'm tired of feeling black
Spread the wings upon your back
Take us high above it all
And stroke your feathers 'til we fall
Until we fall, until we fall back down again
I got up feeling so down
I got off being sold out
I've kept the movie rolling
But the story's getting old now
I just looked in the mirror
Things aren't looking so good
I'm looking California
And feeling Minnesota
So now you know, who gets mystified
Show me the power child
I'd like to say
That I'm down on my knees today
It gives me butterflies
Gives me away
Till I'm up on my feet again
I'm feeling outshined
Someone let the dogs out
They'll show where the truth is
The grass is always greener
Where the dogs are shedding
I'm feeling that I'm sober
Even though I'm drinking
I can't get any lower
Still I feel I'm sinking
So now you know, who gets mystified
Show me the power child
I'd like to say
That I'm down on my knees today
It gives me butterflies
Gives me away
Till I'm up on my feet again
There's no time to keep it low
I've been deaf now I want noise
You stay down
But I won't be quiet
I'll hammer on until you fight
Loud love
Loud love
Loud love
Loud love
If you've got some time to kill
Slow resistance wins the war
Well I know
But that's no way to go
You can't resist the louder pull
Well that's right
I want something to explode
I've been deaf
Houses haunted, I just want to go for a ride
Out and on, thought I'd set this room a light
Left alone forever and for crimes unclear
With my patience gone, someone take me far from here
Yeah, burn that gasoline
Yeah, burn that gasoline
New day only another day in solitude
Houses honest, clearly more than I can bare
Drag me off before I set my world on fire
I am gone, the sun will never set tonight
Yeah, burn that gasoline
Yeah, burn that gasoline
No more forests, only a can on red
Says 'Danger' on it, I have found another way
Burn that gasoline
Yeah, burn that gasoline
Burn it all away
When I first came to this island
that I called by own name
I was happy in this fortress,
in my exile I remained
But the hours grew so empty
and the ocean sent her waves
In the figure of a woman
and she pulled me out to sea
When you come down to take me home
send my soul away
When you come round you'll make me whole
send my soul away
On the altar of a sunrise
was a wedding in the waves
And inside her shown a young light
from her labor I was saved
Though I've traveled long in darkness
in her harvest I'm embraced
When you come down to take me home
send my soul away
When you come round you'll make me whole
send my soul away
Now the spires and the gables
grow in orchards to the sky
And the blessings on my table
multiply and divide
When you come down to take me home
send my soul away
Yeah when you come round you'll make me whole
send my soul away
Yeah when you come down to take me home
when you come round you'll make me whole
Yeah when you come round to take me home
Send my soul away
send my soul away
Send my soul away
On a cold wet afternoon
In a room full of emptiness
By a freeway I confess
I was lost in the pages
Of a book full of death
Reading how we'll die alone
And if we're good we'll lay to rest
Anywhere we want to go
In your house I long to be
Room by room patiently
I'll wait for you there like a stone
I'll wait for you there alone
And on my deathbed I will pray
To the Gods and the Angels
Like a pagan to anyone
Who will take me to Heaven
To a place I recall
I was there so long ago
The sky was bruised
The wine was bled
And there you lead me on
In your house I long to be
Room by room patiently
I'll wait for you there like a stone
I'll wait for you there alone, alone
And on I read
Until the day was gone
And I sat in regret
Of all the things I've done
For all that I've blessed
And all that I've wronged
In dreams until my death
I will wonder on
In your house I long to be
Room by room patiently
I'll wait for you there like a stone
Help me I don't know what I'm doin
Help me before I fall to ruin
And if I'm blind, I will lead you on
Come follow me now, before our time is gone
And as you're laughing at this fool tonight
Let me rid myself of any line that I might use to trip you up
And as I'm howling at the moonlight, don't you kid yourself
I will be your luck and never your curse
Help me I don't know what I'm saying
Sometimes this tongue can be betraying
And if I'm wrong, is that such a crime?
And if you want, you can set my words to right
And as you're laughing at this fool tonight
Let me rid myself of any line that I might use to trip you up
And as I'm howling at the moonlight, don't you kid yourself
I will be your luck
And if your eyes forget to well
And if your lies forget to tell
And if our paths forget to cross
It doesn't mean you're lost
So as you're laughing at this fool tonight
Let me rid myself of any line that I might use to trip you up
And as I'm howling at the moonlight, don't you kid yourself
I will be your luck
If you're laughing at this fool tonight
Let me rid myself of any line that I might use to trip you up
And as I'm howling at the moonlight, don't you kid yourself
I will be your luck
Cause even at my worst
I will be your luck
Listen now, let me speak
I will be the dog at your feet
And come along when you call
Be the little bird in your straw and sing you a song
I'll be there to take the fall
Though you tread upon me for no reason at all
[Chorus]
But just when you think you've left me blind
I will keep you in the corner of my eye
I will never leave your side
Though you call me your number one zero
your nevermind
I'll be your king, I'll be your pawn
I will builid a pedestal and put you upon it
[Chorus]
But just when you think you've left me blind
I'll be creeping right up behind
Cause if I need to
I will keep you in the corner of my eye
corner of my eye
Down on the street, over your night
Out of your sleep, out of your sight
if I need to, if I need to
Out of your mouth, in every word
Down in your ego one thing is sure
I will keep you, I will keep you
[Chorus]
But just when you think you've left me blind
I will be creeping right up behind
Cause baby if I need to
Lord, I will keep you in the corner of my eye
I will be the bird in your straw
But you won't get far
I will keep you in the corner of my eye
Settle down now and sit with me
Let me tell you how this all came to be
A yellow flower with your petals to the air
And flying on paper wings that brought you here
Summer rolls on in the lazy hours
An neither dream way of hummingbirds and clouds
Midnight swims in the cool back waves
And you in my arms as it rolls away
Little dandelion
Let your heart keep time
Now the clouds are gone
All your tomorrows shine
Oh, oh
All your tomorrows shine
Oh, oh
All your tomorrows shine
Born of restless night the moon as a pearl
Playing games down inside your soft warm world
Hear my voice, I know that you can
You're the fire in my eyes, the sun as a man
Seasons come along and seasons go
And what they'll leave behind, I don't pretend to know
I'm afraid that all I have missed
Will loom very large when the darkness lifts
Little dandelion
Let your heart keep time
And now the clouds are gone
All of your tomorrows shine
Oh, oh
All of your tomorrows shine
Oh, oh
All of your tomorrows shine
I will ride by your side
Wherever you go
I won't run, I won't hide
Just letting you know
Just letting you know
Little dandelion
Let your heart keep time
Now the clouds are gone
All of your tomorrows shine
Oh, oh
All of your tomorrows shine
Oh, oh
All of your tomorrows shine
Oh, oh
Someone falls to pieces, sleeping all alone
Someone kills the pain, spinning in the silence
To finally drift away
Someone gets excited
In a chapel yard and catches a bouquet
Another lays a dozen, white roses on a grave
Yeah and to be yourself is all that you can do
Hey, to be yourself is all that you can do
Someone finds salvation in everyone, another only pain
Someone tries to hide himself, down inside himself he prays
Someone swears his true love until the end of time
Another runs away, separate or united, healthy or insane
And to be yourself is all that you can do, yeah
(All that you can do)
To be yourself is all that you can do
(All that you can do)
To be yourself is all that you can do
(All that you can do)
Hey, be yourself is all that you can do
Even when you've paid enough
Been pulled apart or been held up
Every single memory of the good or bad
Faces of luck
Don't lose any sleep tonight
I'm sure everything will end up alright
You may win or lose
But to be yourself is all that you can do, yeah
To be yourself is all that you can do
Oh, to be yourself is all that you can do
(All that you can do)
Hey, to be yourself is all that you can do
(All that you can do)
To be yourself is all that you can
Be yourself is all that you can
Now one fell asleep in the street and he never woke up
And now one died in pieces in his bed with a mouth full of bones
And one threatened me long ago, I saw him melt in the bright light of day
And one laid to rest in a field under stories and clones
I've been wanderin sideways
I've stared straight into the sun
Still I don't know why you're dying
Long before your time has come
Your time has come
Now one took some bullets in the chest in a deal gone wrong
And one got a little too depressed and he went and jumped the gun
One got shot right in the face and he somehow survived
But he doesn't know my name or who I am and I'm not surprised
I've been wanderin sideways
I've stared straight into the sun
Still I don't know why you're dying
Long before your time has come
I've been wanderin sideways
I've stared straight into the sun
Still I don't know why you're dying
Long before your time has come
I've seen 50,000 names all engraved on a stone
Most of them men under the grave years before I was born
All of them left brothers and sisters and mothers behind
And most of their family and friends have all had their time
I've been wanderin sideways
I've stared straight into the sun
And I don't know why you're dying
Long before your time has come
I've been wanderin sideways
I've stared straight into the sun
And I don't know why you're dying
Long before your time has come
Long before your time has come
Long before your time has come
People like you, I know myself
Walk in the shoes of somebody else
Whisper to me, my tragic fate
Whisper to me, my tragic end
But don't give me your savior
But don't give me your savior
Say hey
People I choose, life on my own
Burn me your fuse, throw me your stones
Give me your brand, burn on my hand
Whisper to me, my tragic end
But don't give me your savior
But don't give me your savior
People I choose, I know myself
Lay my need out, give you my help
But you give me your blues
And you whisper my fate
But don't give
But don't give me your savior
But don't give me
White riot - I wanna riot
White riot - a riot of my own
White riot - I wanna riot
White riot - a riot of my own
Black man gotta lot a problems
But they don't mind throwing a brick
White people go to school
Where they teach you how to be thick
An' everybody's doing
Just what they're told to
An' nobody wants
To go to jail!
White riot - I wanna riot
White riot - a riot of my own
White riot - I wanna riot
White riot - a riot of my own
All the power's in the hands
Of people rich enough to buy it
While we walk the street
Too chicken to even try it
Everybody's doing
Just what they're told to
Nobody wants
To go to jail!
White riot - I wanna riot
White riot - a riot of my own
White riot - I wanna riot
White riot - a riot of my own
Are you taking over
or are you taking orders?
Are you going backwards
Or are you going forwards?
White riot - I wanna riot
White riot - a riot of my own
White riot - I wanna riot
Beauty is what the eyes behold
And you burn brighter than most
I chased you thru the midnight streets
To be where I could speak freely
I didn't care what tomorrow held
I felt the world turning only for us
Only bliss now for you and me
Rise up let life's kiss send us reeling
And unlike the times before
From yesterday comes tomorrow
When life comes alive the past moves aside
No regrets and no remorse
We have more than everything
More than man or machine
More than luck
More than fiction
Higher than any religion
And unlike the times before
From yesterday comes tomorrow
When life comes alive the past moves aside
No regrets and no remorse
We'll squeeze the blood out of life
And say goodnight to the silver of old
Even when wrong we're right
Far beyond the world of diamonds and gold
I've come to realize
Where happiness lies
I want you to know I know
And unlike the times before
When life comes alive the past moves aside
You can a look a hurricane right in the eye.
1200 people dead or left to die.
Follow the leaders, were it an eye for an eye we'd all be blind.
Deaf or murdered, and this I'm sure in this uncertain time.
So come pull the sheet over my eyes
So I can sleep tonight
Despite what I've seen today.
I found you guilty of a crime, of sleeping at a time
When you should have been wide awake.
Down on the road the world is floating by.
The poor and undefended left behind.
While you're somewhere trading lives for oil,
As if the whole world were blind, hey.
So come pull the sheet over my eyes
So I can sleep tonight
Despite what I've seen today.
I found you guilty of a crime of sleeping at a time
When you should have been wide awake.
Come pull the sheet over my eyes
So I can sleep tonight
Despite what I've seen today
I found you guilty of a crime of sleeping at a time
When you should have been wide awake
I don't know why
All the fiction of your sleeping
Doesn't visit you awake
I don't know how to get your storybook sunrise
To follow you above your cloudy day
All these gifts you left on you
With heaven painted on you
I wish this now with all my soul
May all your visions turn to gold
To have and hold
May all your visions turn to gold
May all your visions turn to gold
To have and hold
May all your visions turn to gold
Terrified the world will never turn to look at you
And the sun won't see you shine
Sure as life, a rose could burst just from your smiling
Let the water form a cry
Only better luck should greet you
The road should rise to meet you
I wish this now with all i know
May all your visions turn to gold
To have and hold
May all your visions turn to gold
May all your visions turn to gold
To have and hold
May all your visions turn to gold
Loose inside your winter
Feel the cold wind blowing
Cutting through your head and your ears
Feel the fire growing
No more frozen danger
No more wrteched ice storm of fear
May all your visions turn to gold
To have and hold
May all your visions turn to gold
May all your visions turn to gold
To have and hold
Was a time early in life
When I hated everything
Born too young, top of my lungs
Sitting on the bottom rung
Took advice from the wrong shoulder
Took a lot of everything
I've decided to make it alright with my
Halo--I'm complete
Halo--with me underneath
Halo--I'm reborn
I can do no wrong
Black and blue, suffering fools
By the age of seventeen
Low and high, just one more time
Felt like an eternity
Right or wrong, never too strong
Friends became my enemies
God forsaken, never too late with my
Halo--I'm complete
Halo--with me underneath
Halo--I'm reborn
I can do no wrong
You'll stay the same
You'll stay the same
You'll stay the same
You'll stay the same
You'll stay the same
You'll stay the same
You'll stay the same
Halo--I'm complete
Halo--with me underneath
Halo--I'm reborn
Halo--I'm complete
Halo--with me underneath
Halo--I'm reborn
Roll me on your frozen fields
break my bones to watch them heal
drown me in your thirsty veins
where i watch and i wait
and pray for the rain
curl like smoke
and breathe again
down your throat
inside your ribs
and through your spine
and every nerve
where i watch and i wait
and you too the herd
and if you don't believe
sun will rise
still i'm in grief of the coming night
in the last remaining light
seven moons and seven suns
heaven waits for those who run
down your winter and underneath your waves
when you watch and you wait
and pray for the day
and if you don't believe the sun will rise
stand alone and greet the coming night
and in the last remaining light
and if you don't believe the sun will rise
stand alone and greet the coming night
and in the last remaining light
light
light
Well I been watchin
While you been coughin
I've been drinking life
While you been nausous
And so I drink to health
While you kill yourself
And I got just one thing
That I can offer
Go and save yourself
Take it out on me
Go and and save yourself
Take it out on me yea
Well I'm not a martyr
I'm not a prophet
And I won't preach to you
But heres a caution
You better understand
That I won't hold your hand
But if it helps you mend
Then I won't stop it
Go and save yourself
Take it out on me
Go and save yourself
Take it out on me
Go and save yourself
Take it out on me
Go and save yourself
Take it out on me yea
Go if you want
And I'll see you in the bottom
Where you crawl
On my skin
And put the blame on me
So you don't feel a thing
Go and save yourself
Take it out on me
Go and save yourself
Take it out on me
Go and save yourself
Take it out on me
Go and save yourself
Super stupid bought a nickel bag,
thought it was coke but it was skag.
Super stupid did a one on one,
then his eyes began to water and his nose began to run.
Oh, stupid with your ups and downs,
your maggot brain, your grins and frowns.
Super stupid you are here today,
Feel the rhythm with your hands
Steal the rhythm while you can, spoonman
Speak the rhythm on your own
Speak the rhythm all alone, spoonman
Spoonman, come together with your hands
Save me, Im together with your plan
Save me
All my friends are indians
All my friends are brown and red, spoonman
All my friends are skeletons
They beat the rhythm with their bones,
Spoonman
Feel the rhythm with your hands
In the here and the now I'll wait down among the young and the old
With the moon and the ground I play with my children in my home
This is for the daughters and sons of forgotten ones learning how to stand
This is for the innocent unknowns buried in the sand
All running from a sound of a gun
Running from the sound of a gun 'til you're weary
Running from the sound of a gun
Running from the sound of a gun
From the crack in the blackness I'll wake, it's getting closer every night
In my city the playground is a battleground between the wrong and the right
I could run free as a child I was safe and wild, naked, and unarmed
Now I'm gone and safe in my home but some will never stop
Running from the sound of a gun
Running from the sound of a gun 'til they're weary
Running from the sound of a gun
Running from the sound of a gun
The open mouth of the city swallowed up the town
On that same old concrete that I still walk down
And it seemed they put a shine on this place when I was young
Well maybe I just don't see it now
Running from the sound of a gun
Running from the sound of a gun 'til I'm weary
Running from the sound of a gun
Running from the sound of a gun
Hey!
I'm running from the sound of a gun
I'm running from the sound of a gun
I'm running from the sound of a gun
Somedays, somedays, somedays just ain't so easy
Wake up, look around just before your feet hit the ground
Where they make the oil and street, is where you stand and where you sleep
Black and whites along the lights, plain clothes and Miranda Rights
At the right place but in the wrong life, somedays just ain't so easy
Somedays, somedays, somedays (Somedays) just ain't so easy
Somedays, somedays, somedays (Somedays), somedays (Somedays)
Just ain't so easy
It's not the fault of anyone as we revolve around the sun
We sleep beneath the same sky but we all see it through different eyes
So if you go or if you stay, standin' still or if you walk away
If you bend or if you break somedays just ain't so easy
Somedays, somedays, somedays (Somedays) just ain't so easy
Somedays, somedays, somedays (Somedays), somedays (Somedays)
Just ain't so easy, they just ain't so easy
Oh yeah
Nobody say it's so easy, yeah
I don't care for somedays
Someone may have done you right or done you wrong
Or kept it down from the day you were born
There's no need to apologize for the riot in your eyes
Somedays just ain't so easy
Hey! Hey! Hey!
Somedays, somedays, somedays (Somedays) just ain't so easy
Somedays, somedays, somedays (Somedays), somedays (Somedays)
YEAAAH!
The world is my expense
The cost of my desire
Jesus blessed me with its future
And I protect it with fire
So raise your fists and march around
Dont dare take what you need
I'll jail and bury those committed
And smother the rest in greed
Crawl with me into tomorrow
Or i'll drag you to your grave
I'm deep inside your children
They'll betray you in my name
Hey!
Hey!
Sleep now in the fire
Hey!
Hey!
Sleep now in the fire
The lie is my expense
The scope with my desire
The party blessed me with its future
And i protect it with fire
I am the nina, the pinta, the santa maria
The noose and the rapist, the fields overseer
The agents of orange
The priests of hiroshima
The cost of my desire
Sleep now in the fire
Hey!
Hey!
Sleep now in the fire
Hey!
Hey!
Sleep now in the fire
For it's the end of history
It's caged and frozen still
There is no other pill to take
So swallow the one
That makes you ill
The nina, the pinta, the santa maria
The noose and the rapist, the fields' overseer
The agents of orange
The priests of hiroshima
The cost of my desire
Sleep now in the fire
YEAAAH!
Sleep now in the fire!
Sleep now in the fire!
Sleep now in the fire!
In with the early dawn
moving right along
i couldn't buy an eyeful of sleep
and in the aching night
under satellite
i was not recieved
with the stolen parts
a telephone in my heart
someone get me a priest
to put my mind to bed
this ringing in my head
is this a cure or is this a disease
nail in my hand from my creator
you gave me life now
show me how to live
nail in my hand from my creator
you gave me life now
show me how to live
in the afterbirth
on the quiet earth
let this things remind you
you thought you made a man
you better think again
before my role defines you
nail in my hand from my creator
you gave me life now show me how to live
nail in my hand from my creator
you gave me life now
show me how to live
and in your waiting hands
i will land
and roll out of my skin
and in your final hours i will stand
ready to begin
ready to begin
ready to begin
ready to begin
nail in my hand from my creator
you gave me life now
Well it's late in the hour and a few more grains of sand will fall.
On the colorful flowers grown upon the dust and moss.
Now I feel the worst is near,
I hold them close and count their years.
And pray a ray of light appears
To shine down on us here
Breakdown in the shape of things to come
But I'm moving on like a soldier.
And I say now when all is said and done:
It's not ours to break, the shape of things to come.
There's a crack in the clouds, but only for a moment now
Like an owl looking out, the blue sky spies the roads we will go down.
I wonder what they hold for us? I hold my family to my breast,
I feel the worst and hope the best will come to see us blessed.
Breakdown in the shape of things to come
But I'm moving on like a soldier.
And I say now when all is said and done:
It's not ours to break, the shape of things to come.
Hey! Hey!
Give me one more try in what I'll change.
I won't deny the thought is strange.
I've done my best and now will lay no blame myself.
Breakdown in the shape of things to come
But I'm moving on like a soldier.
And I say now when all is said and done:
It's not ours to break, the shape of things to come.
The shape of things to come.
Once upon a time
I was on the mind to lay your burden down
and leave you where you stood
you believed i could
you'd seen it done before
i could read your thoughts
and tell you what you saw
and never say a word
but now all that is gone
over with and done
and never to return
i can tell you why
people die alone
i can tell you im
the shadow of the sun
staring at the loss
looking for the cause
and never really sure
nothing but a hole
to live without a soul
and nothing to be learned
i can tell you why
people go insane
i can show you how
you could do the same
i can tell you why
the end will never come
i can tell you im
the shadow of the sun
shapes of every size
move behind my eyes
doors inside my head
bolted from within
every drop of flame
lights a candle in
memory of the one
who lived inside my skin
i can tell you why
people go insane
i can show you how
you could do the same
i can tell you why
the end will never come
i can tell you im
the shadow of the sun
shadow of the sun
shadow of the sun
shadow of the sun
shadow of the sun
shadow of the sun
shadow of the sun
shadow of the sun
I'm gonna fight 'em off
A seven nation army couldn't hold
me back
They're gonna rip it off
Taking their time right behind my
back
And I'm talking to myself at night
Because I can't forget
Back and forth through my mind
Behind a cigarette
And a message coming from my
eyes
Says leave it alone
Don't want to hear about it
Every single one's got a story to tell
Everyone knows about it
From the Queen of England to the
hounds of hell
And if I catch it coming back my way
I'm gonna serve it to you
And that ain't what you want to hear,
But that's what I'll do.
And the feeling coming from my
bones
Says find a home
I'm going to Wichita
Far from this opera for evermore
I'm gonna work the straw
Make the sweat drip out of every
pore
And I'm bleeding, and I'm bleeding,
and I'm bleeding
Right before the lord
All the words are gonna bleed from
me and I will think
No more
And the stains coming from my blood
You know what to do, you know what I did
Since you know everything just clue me in
I am such a wreck, I am such a mess
I know what I know, why don't you fill in the rest?
I will bring you down, I will make it bad
While you're feelin' proud, why don't you help me?
Such a shame that I wouldn't know by now
Your revelations
Cut me in, I don't wanna live without
Your revelations, revelations
You know what to say, you know what I said
You know what I dream sleeping in my bed
You hold all the keys, you know all the roads
Why don't you guide me in, if I'm such a lost soul?
I'm spinnin' 'round, I will make you ill
Since I'm so broken down, why don't you fix me?
Such a shame that I wouldn't know by now (I wouldn't know by now)
Your revelations
Cut me in, I don't wanna live without (Don't wanna live without)
Your revelations
I am haunted when I am sleeping
Try to give without receiving
It's in the applebite (It's in the applebite)
It's in the days and nights (It's in the days and nights)
In the afterlife we'll reap
Such a shame that I wouldn't know by now (I wouldn't know by now)
Your revelations
Cut me in, I don't wanna live without (Don't wanna live without)
Your revelations
Such a shame, such a shame that I wouldn't know by now
Cut me in, I don't wanna live without (Don't wanna live without)
Your revelations
I had a dream the other night
You were in a bar in the corner on a chair
Wearing a long white leather coat
Purple glasses and glitter in your hair
And you said hey this is where I’m gonna sit
And buy you a drink someday
You were going to the dog shows
But you kinda lost your way
You say now I got all this room
And no money to decorate it, so some
Local customer put me in touch with the man
Upstairs, he said little man
You got no business gettin’ frustrated, you gotta rest
You gotta rest you gotta reach down
And pick the crowd up
Carry back in your hands
To the promised land
Now I had some angel shine my wings, she said
Nothin’ but the best for the golden boy
She made me promise not to tell I had her under
A spell singing golden words in a broken voice
And I caught some blessing on the wind
I’m feeling lighter than a whisper from a dove
I’ve got no hands to tie behind my back
And I’m sparking like a heart attack,
Now I’ve got room to spread my wings
And my messages of love, yes love was my drug,
But that’s not what I died of,
So don’t think of me crying louder
Than some billion dollar baby cause I gotta rest I gotta rest I gotta
Reach down and pick the
Mother mother found me on her step
Gracious mother held me to her breast
Until the day I started..
..pushing
Too late to cry she turned away
I started pushing
I saw no future in this lack
I started pushing pushing pushing forward back
I was pushing pushing pushing forward back
I was pushing pushing pushing forward back
I was pushing pushing pushing forward back
Baby brother clinging to her hair
Gracious mother pleading not another soul to bare
He started..
..pushing
All my kings have fallen down
I started pushing
Fallen heroes feed the ground
I started pushing pushing pushing forward back
I was pushing pushing pushing forward back
I was pushing pushing pushing forward back
I was pushing pushing pushing forward back
Falling down..
Now I know her
I know I'll never drown
drown
drown
Falling down..
Now I know her
I know I'll never drown
drown
drown
Oh, I was pushing
I was pushing pushing pushing forward back
I was pushing pushing pushing forward back
I was pushing pushing pushing forward back
I was pushing pushing pushing forward back
I was pushing pushing pushing forward back
I was pushing pushing pushing forward back
I was pushing pushing pushing forward back
I was pushing pushing pushing forward back
I was pushing pushing pushing forward back
As I walk through
This wicked world
Searching for light in the darkness of insanity.
I ask myself
Is all hope lost?
Is there only pain and hatred, and misery?
And each time I feel like this inside,
Just makes me want to say:
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? Ohhhh
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?
As I walked on
Through troubled times
My spirit gets so downhearted sometimes
So where are the strong
And who are the trusted?
And where is the harmony?
Sweet harmony.
And each time I feel like this inside,
Just makes me want to say:
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? Ohhhh
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?
The original fire has died and gone but the riot inside moves on
The original fire has died and gone but the riot inside moves on
The original fire has died and gone but the riot inside moves on
The original fire has died and gone but the riot inside moves on
With a pen in one hand, taking a stand, drugged on kerosene
'84 and 5 would find us something to believe
Right or wrong with dirty hands on wires, singing songs in discord choirs
Screaming in Braille, no temptress prize could ever yield anything so real
The original fire has died and gone but the riot inside moves on
The original fire has died and gone but the riot inside moves on
Golden soldiers born much older than they'll ever live to be
Diving into a sea of hands in a long forgotten city
Here the rain falls forever after and the swinging vines hang dead in rafters
Blood rush to your head induces laughter endlessly
The original fire has died and gone but the riot inside moves on
The original fire has died and long gone but the riot inside moves on
Can't explain it, it was something to see
Can't contain something ever real, ever real
Can't explain it, it was something to see
Can't contain something so ever real, ever real
The original fire has died and gone but the riot inside moves on
The original fire has died and gone but the riot inside moves on
The original fire has died and gone but the riot inside moves on
