LIVING IN A BOX
Living in a Box
Living in a Box
Written by: Marcus Vere/Steve Piggot
Woke up this mornin'
Closed in on both sides
Nothin' doin'
I feel resistance
As I open my eyes
Someone's foolin'
I found a way to break through this cellophane bag
Cuz I know what's goin' on
In your mind
I'm a livin' in a box
I'm a livin' in a cardboard box
I'm a livin' in a box
I'm a livin' in a cardboard box
I'm a livin' in a box
Life goes in circles
Around and around
Circulating
I sometimes wonder
What's movin' underground
I'm escaping
I found a way to break through this cellophane bag
Cuz I know what's goin' on
In my mind
I'm a livin' in a box
I'm a livin' in a cardboard box
I'm a livin' in a box
I'm a livin' in a cardboard box
I'm a livin' in a box
(guitar solo)
Livin'
Ahh ha
I found a way to break through this cellophane bag
Cuz I know what's goin' on
In your mind
I'm a livin' in a box
I'm a livin' in a cardboard box
I'm a livin' in a box
I'm a livin' in a cardboard box
I'm a livin' in a box
I'm a livin' in a cardboard box
I'm a livin' in a box
I'm a livin' in a cardboard box
I'm a livin' in a box
I'm a livin' in a cardboard box
I'm a livin' in a box
I'm a livin' in a cardboard box
I'm a livin' I'm a livin'....I'm a livin'
I'm a livin', I'm a livin'....I'm a livin'
I'm a livin' in a box
I'm a livin' in a box....
(V. Reid, C. Glover, W. Calhoun, M. Skillings)
I see you crying in the sunshine
I hear you laughing in the rain
You say you can't tell any difference
Between the pleasure and the pain
You say you never ever dream at night time
You say you only dream when you're awake
And say that T.V. looks like your life
And the life you lead is fake
Desperate People
Desperate People
You get your sunshine from a tab of paper
Then you're sitting in a spinning room
The clock is tocking and it's laughing at you
your life's a mystery without a clue
The crowd you're in thinks you're so amusing
They're oh so flattering and so sincere
They stand and laugh as they watch you crumble
And when you cry for help they don't hear
Desperate People
Desperate People
You feel the earth revolving
You see the sun dissolving
You hear the night calling out to you
You have no direction and you have no protection
What you gonna do when your trip turns blue?
When you come crashing down and there's no help around
You need friends, you need help
But first you have to help yourself
The music stops and the party's over
The money's gone and your crowd is too
Can't break the chains that have kept you under
Has the monkey got the best of you?
I see you crying in the sunshine
I hear you laughing in the rain
You say you can't tell any difference
Between the pleasure and the pain
Where will we go, where will we go?
Where will we go, how will we know?
Where can we hide, Where can we hide?
Where can we hide, from the inside?
Where will we go, where will we go?
Where will we go, how will we know?
Where can we hide, Where can we hide?
Where can we hide, from the inside?
See I don't have a clue, I don't have a clue,
I don't have a clue and neither do.
I don't have a clue, I don't have a clue
I don't have a clue, And neither do, YOU!
Who will be next, who will it be?
Who will be next, will it be me?
Who will be next, who will it be?
Who will be next, it won't be me?
See I don't have a clue, I don't have a clue,
I don't have a clue and neither do.
I don't have a clue, I don't have a clue
I don't have a clue, And neither do, YOU!
Who do you love, who do you hate?
Who do you love, who's at the gate?
Who do you love, who do you hate?
Who do you love, who's at the gate?
Did it happen again, did it happen again?
Did it happen again, not a question of if but a question of when?
See I don't have a clue, I don't have a clue,
I don't have a clue and neither do.
I don't have a clue, I don't have a clue
I don't have a clue, And neither do,
I don't have a clue, I don't have a clue
I don't have a clue, And neither do,
I don't have a clue, I don't have a clue
I don't have a clue, And neither do, YOU!!!
How carefully I've shaped you in the solitude of days
How peaceful is my mind entwined in cord around my fingers
How sweet the days I've marked in knots I've tenderly caressed
So many times I've touched you, reached you, teased you
Now fingering these veins of hemp
Their hair upon my skin
And how gently, quickly you will sleep
Slip into my collection with its bristles, coils, intentions
Yet your words will be unfaithful before I set you free
Slip as life is bound to slip from this entropy disorder
Then tied and laid upon the floor in perfect symmetry
'Til the frayed edge of your lips on mine
Positioned, placed at ease once more
'Til this restlessness returns I turn and turn and turn again
56 times in 81 seconds...something like this
This little pig has a mind of his own
This little pig thinks he's cool
This little pig thinks that he's all grown
And this little pig needs school
This little pig has something to prove
This little piggie, he wants to be down
Now this little pig wishes that he can undo
The little pig that he shot down
This little pig's on a mission
This little pig needs a plan
This little pig's got ambition
This little pig does what he can
This little pig's got cum on his hands
This little pig needs money to talk
This little pig comes up with a plan
This little pig whistling rock
This little pig thinks he's runnning the show
This little pig thinks he's king of the hill
This little pig, well he doesn't know
He's the next pig to be killed
56 times in 81 seconds
(Theme song) - (V. Reid / C. Glover)
WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE COLOUR?
LIVING COLOUR
WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE COLOUR?
LIVING COLOUR
Is it Red?
That's what I said
Is it Gold?
You got me sold
Is it Green?
That's mighty mean
Is it Black?
Get back
WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE COLOUR?
LIVING COLOUR
WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE COLOUR?
LIVING COLOUR
WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE COLOUR?
this song last 2m 15sec and is instrumental .. thank you
(J. Brown / B. Byrd)
You can't tell me how to run my life down
and you can't tell me how to keep my fitness sound
you can't tell me what i'm doing wrong
when you keep dialing and sing that same old funny song
you can't tell me which way to go
cause i'm six and seven and then some more
like a dull knife that just can't cut
just talking a lot and saying nothing
and sayin' nothing, and sayin' nothing
don't tell me how to do my thing
when you can't do your own
don't you tell me how to feed my boy
when you know i'm grown
don't you tell me her dress
you can't tell me how to run my mess
you're like a dull knife that just ain't cuttin'
you're just talking a lot and saying nothing
and sayin' nothing, and sayin' nothing here we go ...
shape up your bag, don't worry 'bout mine
my thing is together and i'm doin' fine
good luck to you, just allow that i'm wrong
just keep on singing that same old funny song
then just keep on singing that same old funny song
just keep on singing that same old funny song...
keep on singin', keep on singin' ...n'
C. Glover
Tag team partners
once I was
yeah I was but now I'm not
once I would
yeah I would but now i won't
Once I could
Yeah I could but now i can't
Once I did
yeah I did but now I don't
I'm lowing my expectations
i'm lowing my...
I'm lowing my expectations
i'm lowing my...
once I tried
yeah I tried, now I'm giving up
once I care
care so much, now I'm giving up
You can regreat
Everything you've done and blame everyone
You can regreat
Everything you've done and blame everyone
I'm lowing my expectations
i'm lowing my...
I'm lowing my expectations
i'm lowing my...
I was goona change the word/world
world/word...
I was gonna say the word/world
World/word...
but I couldn't change the word/world
World/word...
I couldn't say myself
once a held it
I held it so close
now I let it dry
once a read/ran
you know I always read/ran
and now I...
I'm lowing my expectations
i'm lowing my...
I'm lowing my expectations
i'm lowing my...
V. reid, c. glover
When it hurts to be out there
Where no one will care
I've got the solace of you
Frustrated by people's lying
But I keep on trying
I've got the solace of you
When I can't think straight
And there's no escape
I've got the solace of you
Gotta go inside back where it started
Back to the beginning
'cause that's where my heart is
They can hurt me, jail my body
I'll still be free
I've got the solace of you
They can take my land
Tell me I'm not who I am
I've got the solace of you
A wise man said to know thyself
'cause in the end there's no one else
Just the solace of you
Gotta go inside back where it started
Back to the beginning
'cause that's where my heart is
Gotta go inside
In a new place, in a strange land
An undone new world, not a part of the plan
Hatred and fear is the language I know
Out of my home, out of control
Everything that I want, isn't it everything that you've got?
Everything that I want, isn't it everything that you've got?
How much more do you think I can take?
I yield to your smile, a victim's mistake
I don't want your life, I've got my own needs
A life of my own, a chance to be free
Everything that I want, isn't it everything that you've got?
Everything that I want, isn't it everything that you've got?
Everything that I want, isn't it everything that you've got?
Everything that I want, isn't it everything that you've got?
Everything that I want, isn't it everything that you've got?
In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication
A negro has got no name
Quite often, the words of the song are meaningless
A negro has got no name
We are wearing the name of our master
The slave had no separate?
A negro has got no name (Civilisation, start the way)
He was never asked who he was (They tied us to be against one another)
A negro has got no name
Another instrument used to control the mind of the slaves was religion
Is our slaves gonna be free and?
M. Skillings
[instrumental]
Well like a descendant, I drifted far, far and wide
Isolation, separation, no where to hide
Maybe there's somewhere I can go
Where there's sunshine and the wind won't blow
Nothingness
All I have to feel is my lonliness
Nothing in the attic 'cept an empty chest
And nothing lasts forever
Although there are many, I look for no one, no one but me
I search for things that are taking me high and far out of reach
But this is the place I call my home
I live with the lies and the fear all alone
Nothingness
All I have to feel is my lonliness
Nothing in the attic 'cept an empty chest
And nothing lasts forever
Nothingness
All I have to feel is my lonliness
Nothing in the attic 'cept an empty chest
And nothing lasts forever
Nothingness
Lonliness
Empty chest
And nothing lasts forever
Nothing lasts forever
Nothing lasts forever
Nothing lasts forever
Nothing lasts forever
i don't care about your dreams of peace
i don't care about your please lord please
i don't care about your africa
i don't care about your ancestors
'cause money talks and i'm listening to the sound
money talks and it's the only sound that counts
i don't care about your truth to tell
i don't care about your heaven - hell
i don't care about your rock and roll
i don't care about your blues, jazz or soul
'cause money talks and i'm listening to the sound
money talks and it's the only sound that counts
money talks and i'm listening to the sound
money talks and it's the only sound that makes the world go round
i used to be like you ... faithful and true
i used to lend my helping hand to my fellow man
than one day it all broke up
that's the day when i woke up
i don't care about your other man
i don't care about your master plan
i don't care about your free the land
all i care is cash in hand
'cause money talks and i'm listening
money talks
money talks
money talks
Yeah ehh ehh
Ah oooh ooh
Dib um dib dib dib dib dib dib
I always thought that our relationship was good
You played the role of having sense
I always played the fool
Now something's different
I don't know the reason why
Whenever we separate
I almost want to cry
Oh no, please not that again
Love rears up its ugly head
And when I come home late you don't complain or call
so as a consequence I don't go out at all
My friends are frightened
They don't know what's going on
They think you put a spell on me
And now my mind is gone
Oh no, please not that again
Love rears up its ugly head
...its ugly head
Love's not so bad they say
but you never know where love is gonna go
Does anybody really know oh?
(Check this out...)
I'm standing at the altar
As they play the wedding march
I'm in a black tuxedo with my collar full of starch
She looks as lovely as she's ever gonna get
I wake up from this nightmare in a pool of sweat
Oh no, no, no, no
Not that again... yeah...
I'm not goin'
I'm not goin when
Love rears up its ugly head
No not me
No no not me when
Love rears up its
Love rears up its ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly head
What you gonna do
Sometimes I feel
Like my mind will explode
Sometimes I feel
Like I've got no control
Sometimes I wish
I had a heart made of steel
Sometimes I wish
I couldn't feel
Information overload
Information overload
Information overload
Information overload
They say the future... it's on a microchip
Don't you know we're all on a sinking ship
Only ten percent control all the rest
Only ten percent decide what is best
Information overload
Information overload
Information overload
Information overload
Information overload
Information overload
Information overload
Information overload
I don't want to live like this
Still ain't no cure for the summertime blues
I'd like to shake these blues but I'm still paying dues
My blues so deep you might think they're black
My blues so deep there ain't no turning back
Tabloids scream
Elvis seen at a shopping mall
That's the kind of talk
That makes my stomach crawl
Picture a zombie Elvis
In a tacky white jump suit
Just imagine a rotting Elvis
Shopping for fresh fruit
You can't 'cause
Elvis is dead
Elvis is dead
Elvis is dead
Elvis is dead
When the king died
He was all alone
I heard that when he died
He was sitting on his throne
Alas poor Elvis
They made us know you well
Now you dwell forever
In the Heartbreak Hotel
Elvis was a hero to most
But that's beside the point
A Black man taught him how to sing
And then he was crowned king
The pelvis of Elvis
Too dangerous for the masses
They cleaned him up and sent him to Vegas
Now the masses are his slave
Slave? Slave
Yes, even from the grave
Elvis is dead
I've got a reason to believe
We all won't be received at Graceland
I've got a reason to believe
People, if they choose you, then they want you to decide
But you'd rather relax, kick back, enjoy the ride
There's a catagory if you're straight or gay
You're a wild card gambler and you like it both ways
Everybody wants you when you're bi
Looking at the girls and eyeing all the guys
Everybody loves you when you're bi
But the tension and the passion's double amplified
My lover told me, well, that she's bi
I wanted to scream, there were tears in my eyes
She said baby, baby, don't you cry
'Cause the one I am with, you've been seeing on the side
Everybody wants you when you're bi
Eating with the girls and laughing with the guys
Everybody loves you when you're bi
But the tension and the passion's double amplified
Everybody wants you when you're bi
Feeling all the girls and touching all the guys
Well, everybody loves you when you're bi
Well a friend of a friend of a friend told me
Everybody's messed up with their sexuality
Well a friend of a friend of a friend told me
I need a closet big enough to live in
A closet for the whole world to live in
I want a closet big enough to live in
A closet for the whole world to live in
Everybody wants you when you're bi
Loving all the girls and loving all the guys
Everybody needs you when you're bi
But the tension and the passion's double amplified
Everybody wants you
That's right
Everybody needs you
Um-hum
Everybody likes you
I'll bet
Everybody loves you
Everybody, yeah
Everybody
Everybody, come on now
Everybody, not me
Everybody, whoo
Everybody, yeah
Everybody, come on now
Everybody
Well everybody loves you
Bi
Licking all the girls
Licking all the guys
Everybody's fucked up with their sexuality
You like it both ways
Like it both ways
Bi
(V. Reid)
No, I'm not gonna rob you
No, I'm not gonna beat you
No, I'm not gonna rape you
So why you want to give me that
Funny Vibe!
No, I'm not gonna hurt you
No, I'm not gonna harm you
And I try not to hate you
So why you want to give me that
I am an angel, stands in the corner, nobody sees me
Invisible angel, makes certain signals, only I know what they me
Dogs and demons walks in my head
I am deep under pressure
I understand what I have to do now
I know I'm just following orders
They crucify me again and again
I won't stay on the cross
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
Nobody knows what I've lost
Heavy things, in a heavy bag, heavy thoughts on my mind
Ghosts and monsters, you bastard sinners, you've ruined my life
I walk through a crowd, nobody sees me, I'm invisible here
I've come to finish my mission and put an end to his fear
They crucify me again and again
I won't stay on the cross
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
Nobody knows what I've lost
Day in, day out, day in, day out
Chaos and carnage around me
Well I hear thier shouts and cries
Well I laugh at the gut when they try to surround me
They won't take me alive
They crucify me again and again
I won't stay on the cross
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
Nobody knows what I've, nobody knows that it's
Day in, day out, day in, day out, day in
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
Nobody knows what I've lost
Starts from the back of your head
Shifts to the front of your head because of the vibrations
Ain't got no girl to kiss on, what I got
Ain't got no face to sit on, what I got
Ain't got no star to wish on, what I got
I will never be satisfied
I will never be satisfied
I will never be satisfied until it ends in tears
I've gotta have more and more, what I got
That's what they make money for, what I got
I sold my soul like a whore, what I got
I will never be satisfied
I will never be satisfied
I will never be satisfied until it ends in tears
No, I will never be satisfied
I will never be satisfied
I will never be satisfied until it ends in fire
The world spins round and round and round
My life's in pieces on the ground
Some hearts just can't be bound, no
I feel like I'm going to drown
I got no hopes, no dreams, what I got
I've got no ways and means, what I got
What I have is this scheme, that's what I got
Well, I will never be satisfied
I will never be satisfied
I will never be satisfied until it ends in tears
No, I will never be satisfied
I will never be satisfied
I will never be satisfied until it ends in tears
No, I will never be satisfied
I will never be satisfied
I will never be satisfied until it ends in tears
No, I will never be satisfied
I will never be satisfied
I will never be satisfied until it ends
I always have the same fight with you
It doesn't change no matter what we do
Like, who is he, where was she, who were they with
And why I don't care about it
Why don't you mind your own business
Why don't you mind your own business
Why don't you mind your own business
Why don't you mind your own business
And leave mine alone
Gossip buzzes around your head like bees in a hive
Sometimes I think that's how you stay alive
Don't you hate it when those little facts interrupt?
So much more fun just to make it all up
Why don't you mind your own business
Why don't you mind your own business
Why don't you mind your own business
Why don't you mind your own business
And leave mine alone
Look, here's my point
GET A LIFE
A source gave me the scoop on you
Can you confirm or deny that it's true?
I heard that someone cut you down to size
Somehow, you know, I'm not surprised
Why don't you mind your own business
Why don't you mind your own business
Why don't you mind your own business
Why don't you mind your own business
Why don't you mind your own business
Why don't you mind your own business
Why don't you mind your own business
Mind your own business
Mind your own business
And leave mine alone
Buy and die/or sell and be free
We are the new Jacks/this is our reality
Do unto others/leave no one alive
This is our creed/we will survive
No control is how I'm living
On the edge with no forgiving
Things get rough when you've got time to kill
You've got the cash/then I've got your thrill
I make more money than a judge or a cop
Give me a reason why I should stop
Large is how I'm living
On the edge with no forgiving
Some people say my soul is lost
I'll lose my life if I start to turn soft
From where I am there's no turning back
Crack is the master
I am a new Jack
Can anybody see me?
Can anybody hear me?
I'll never change/I'll never stop
I've got cold cash/I'm on the top
We can get busy if you want to play
I'll have the last laugh when I blow you away
Don't you see me?
We are all fighting the same fight
We are all in the same war
We are all in the same revolution
You got to know what you're fighting for
We are all fighting the same fight
We are all in the same war
We are all in the same revolution
You got to know what you're fighting for
Yelling and kicking trying to stay alive
All the time eyes on the prize
But does anybody hear my cries
Tell me something do I qualify?
Tv telling me we're just the same
What they're talking is the same old game
Tell me if I'm just like you, why can't I do the things
That you do (huh)?
If war's the key, what door will it open?
Is peace the answer, then what's the question?
War is hell
Peace is hell
Love is hell
Oh what the hell
My heart beats just like yours
When I dream my mind soars
But no fantasy can pay my bills
Another dream unfulfilled
We are all fighting the same fight
We are all in the same war
We are all in the same revolution
You got to know what you're fighting for
We are all fighting the same fight
We are all in the same war
We are all in the same revolution
You got to know what you're fighting for
Fight the fight
In the war
In this revolution
We must never take these words too seriously
Words are very important but then if we take them too seriously
We destroy every thing...
I'm not one of those joiners
I'm not down with the club
There's no place I'm going to
You see, it's the hole I dug
I just leave it alone
I just leave it alone
I just leave it alone
I'm not down with this one
Their motives are much too severe
And that one, they're much too serious
I don't plan to make this a career
I just leave it alone
I just leave it alone
I just leave it alone
We're always talking about peace
But it's pieces that we find
What's with all this tension?
What is on your mind?
Why are we always talking about peace?
But it's pieces that we find
Tell me what's with all this tension
Tell me what is on your mind
I wouldn't get into that one
Naw, don't go for all their hype
And you know I'll never be like that one
Come on, I'm just not the type
Well I gotta leave it alone
Just gotta leave it alone
Gonna just leave it alone
Just gotta leave it alone
No, no, no
Leave it alone
Leave it alone
Leave it alone
What is the point of suffering?
What is the purpose of joy?
Is it true that the winner dies
With the most toys?
A lifetime spent for a dollar
A lifetime twisting in pain
A lifetime gone in an hour
A lifetime playing the game
I see the starving Africans on TV
I feel it has nothing to do with me
I sent my twenty dollars to Liveaid
I've aided my guilty conscience to go away
Now go Away
Now go away
Now go away
Go away
I don't want anybody to touch me
I think everybody has AIDS
What's the point in caring for you?
You're gonna die anyway
A lifetime searching for something
A lifetime going insane
A lifetime running from nothing
A life looking for someone to blame
I see the starving Africans on TV
I feel it has nothing to do with me
I sent my twenty dollars to Liveaid
I've aided my guilty conscience to go away
Now go Away
Now go away
Now go away
Go away
I see the starving Africans on TV
I feel it has nothing to do with me
I sent my twenty dollars to Liveaid
And paid my guilty conscience to go away
I see the starving Africans on TV
I feel it has nothing to do with me
I sent my twenty dollars to Liveaid
And paid my guilty conscience
Now go Away
Now go away
Now go away
Now go away, go away, go away
M. Stewart, Willian Calhoun, Corey Glover, Vernon Reid, Doug Wimbish. Recorded October 1994.
Feel the tension mounting in the air
No one seems to give a damn
No one seems to care
There'll be no submission, no surrender
Release, release, release the pressure
Tear off the mask of illusion
Smash on the screens
Where nothing is ever what is seems
There'll be no submission, no surrender
Release, release, release the pressure
The queen of sleaze
And the answer lies
Where you gonna run to since
We ripped off your face
There'll be no submission, no surrender
Release, release, release the pressure
A dark and hungry god arises
A savage messiah
There'll be no submission, no surrender
Release, release, release the pressure
We walked out of the eye of a hurricane
We were raised in bondage
We were born in flames
There'll be no submission, no surrender
Release, release, release the pressure
Tear off the mask of ilusion
Smash on the screens
Where nothing appears as what it seems
There'll be no submission, no surrender
Release, release, release the pressure
Release the pressure
Release the pressure
Release the pressure
Release the pressure
Release the pressure
Release, release, release the pressure
Release the pressure
Release, release, release the pressure...
(V. Reid, Addition lyrics by T. Morris)
Now you can tear a building down
But you can't erase a memory
These houses may look all run down
But they have a value you can't see...
This is my neighborhood
This is where I come from
I call this place my home
You call this place a slum
You wanna run all the people out
This what you're all about
Treat poor people just like trash
Turn around and make big cash
CHORUS: Now you can tear a building down
But you can't erase a memory
These houses may look all run down
But they have a value you can't see
Last month there was a fire
I saw seven children die
You sent flowers to their family
But your sympathy's a lie
Cause every building that you burn
Is more blood money that you earn
We are forced to relocate
>From the pain that you create
CHORUS
We lived here for so many years
Now this house is full of fear
For a profit you will take control
Where will all the older people go?
There used to be when kids could play
Without the scourge of drug's decay
Now our kids are living dead
They crack and blow their lives away
CHORUS
You've got to fight
You've got a right
To fight for your neighborhood!
(A.Green / M.Hodges)
you know in this
sin sick world we live in
gotta have something
to help you through the day
in this world full of frustration
lack of hope, despair
there's something in this world
to help your day
no, i'm not talking 'bout drugs, baby
no, i'm not talking 'bout alcohol
what i'm talkin' 'bout love and - love and happiness
something's going wrong
someone's on the phone
three o'clock in the mornin' well
talkin' 'bout how she can make it right
happiness is when
you really feel good about someone
nothin' wrong
bein' in love with someone, oh baby
love and happiness
love and happiness
you be good to me
i be good to you
we'll be together forever
love each other
walk away with victory
yeah, baby, yeah, yeah, yeah
love and happiness
well, love and happiness
love and happiness
love and happiness
love will make you do wrong
love will make you do right
what's love made you do
when love do it to you
and you and you and you and you and you
i'm talkin' power of
it's sent from up above
make you come home early
make you stay all night long
well, love and happiness
love and happiness
love and happiness
love and happiness
love and happiness
i'm talkin' , talkin' 'bout love and
talkin' 'bout happiness, well
i'm talkin 'bout smiling faces, oh
make me wanna moan
make me wanna moan
make me wanna -
yeah, that power of love
talkin' feelings
don't you feel, don't you feel
don't you feel it
well, power of love
give it to me, give it to me
give it to me
power, power, power, power, power
The morning is dead and the day, is, too.
The step is up here to meet me but the velvet fool.
All my loveliness I have felt today.
It's a little more than enough to make a man throw himself away.
And I continue to burn the midnight lamp alone.
Now the smiling portrait of you is still hanging on my frowning wall
It really doesn't really doesn't bother me to watch at all
It's just the ah ever fallinglove dust that makes it so hard for me to see
that forgotten earring clear on the floor facing coolly the one at the door
And I continue to burn the midnight lamp alone.
Yeah yeah.
Lonely lonely lonely.
Ah. Oh. Loneliness is such a drag.
So here I sit to face that same old fire place
getting' ready for the same old explosion goin' through my mind.
Yes, soon enough time will tell about the circus in the wishing well
and someone who will buy and sell for me, someone who will tow my bail
And I continue to burn the same old lamp alone
Yeah midnight lamp,
Can you hear me callin' you?
So lonely. Gotta blow my mine
Yeah, yeah. Lonely lonely.
Stars shine when no one is watching
I scream and nobody hears
I've hurt and cried and made my way
And no one has to see my tears
And the world spins around and around
They put you in the cold, cold ground
And the world spins around and around
They put you in the cold, cold ground
I've lived and died and nobody noticed
My suffering is nobody's blame
Love and hate forever existed
Everyday it's all just the same
And the world spins around and around
They put you in the cold, cold ground
And the world spins around and around
They put you in the cold, cold ground
Throwing stones in a pocket of tears
Throwing stones in a pocket of tears
Throwing stones in a pocket of tears
I caught myself having nothing
Caught myself having nothing, nothing
Caught myself having nothing
Caught myself having nothing, nothing at all
Flowers will still bloom without
The sun will shine when you're gone
The wind will blow on without her
And we still will all go on and on
And on and on and on and on and on
And on and on and on and on and on
And the world spins around and around
And the world spins around and around
We hate each other ?cause of race and religion
We hate each other ?cause of class and position
We want to know why is love so hard to come by
Give me a reason why love's so hard to try
The walls between us all must fall
The walls between us all must fall
We hate each other ?cause we dance to different music
We hate each other ?cause we think we know it all
We hate each other ?cause that?s what our parents taught us
We hate each other for no reason at all
The wall between us all must fall
The wall between us all must fall
We teach our young men how to kill and maim and torture
We teach our young men how to make their mothers cry
We want to know, why is love so hard to come by
Give me the answer, why is love so hard to try?
The wall between us all must fall
The wall between us all must fall
This is how our world breaks down
(The wall between us all must fall)
This is how our world breaks down
(The wall between us all must fall)
This is how our world breaks down
(The wall between us all must fall)
This is how our world breaks down
(The wall between us all must fall)
This is how our world breaks down
(The wall between us all must fall)
This is how our world breaks down
(The wall between us all must fall)
You can't tell me how to run my life down
And you can't tell me how to keep my fitness sound
You can't tell me what I'm doing wrong
When you keep dialing and sing that same old funny song
You can't tell me which way to go
'Cause I'm six and seven and then some more
Like a dull knife that just can't cut
Just talking a lot and saying nothing
And sayin' nothing and sayin' nothing
Don't tell me how to do my thing
When you can't do your own
Don't you tell me how to feed my boy
When you know I'm grown
Don't you tell me her dress
You can't tell me how to run my mess
You're like a dull knife that just ain't cuttin'
You're just talking a lot and saying nothing
And sayin' nothing and sayin' nothing here we go
Shape up your bag, don't worry 'bout mine
My thing is together and Im doin' fine
Good luck to you, just allow that I'm wrong
Just keep on singing that same old funny song
Then just keep on singing that same old funny song
Just keep on singing that same old funny song
We've got missiles and tanks
We've got bombs and planes
We've got plans and people
And we do it in your name
We've got our anger and rage
To send you back from where you came
We are hurting you to heal you
And we're doin' it in your name
We've got missiles and tanks
We've got bombs and planes
We've got plans and people
And we do it in your name
We're the righteous and true
You're the unholy, profane
We are fighting for your freedom
And we do it in your name
We've got missiles and tanks
We've got bombs and planes
We've got plans and people
And we do it in your name, yeah
We are the victims of privilege
You're the one to blame
We hate you, you hate us
We all feel the same
We've got missiles and tanks
We've got bombs and planes
We've got plans and people
You know in this din sick world we live in
Gotta have something to help you through the day
In this world full of frustration, lack of hope, despair
There's something in this world to help your day
No, I'm not talking 'bout drugs, baby
No, I'm not talking 'bout alcohol
What I'm talkin' 'bout love and
Love and happiness
Something's going wrong, someone's on the phone
Three o'clock in the mornin' well
Talkin' 'bout how she can make it right
Happiness is when you really feel good about someone
Nothin' wrong bein' in love with someone, oh baby
Love and happiness
Love and happiness
You be good to me, I be good to you
We'll be together forever, love each other
Walk away with victory
Yeah, baby, yeah, yeah, yeah
Love and happiness
Well, love and happiness
Love and happiness
Love and happiness
Love will make you do wrong, love will make you do right
What's love made you do when love do it to you
And you and you, and you and you, and you
I'm talkin' power of, it's sent from up above
Make you come home early, make you stay all night long
Well, love and happiness
Love and happiness
Love and happiness
Love and happiness
Love and happiness
I'm talkin', talkin' 'bout love and
Talkin' 'bout happiness, well
I'm talkin 'bout smiling faces, oh
Make me wanna moan
Make me wanna moan
Make me wanna
Yeah, that power of love
Talkin' feelings
Don't you feel, don't you feel
Don't you feel it
Well, power of love
Give it to me, give it to me
Give it to me
The glamor boys swear they are a diva
The glamor boys have it all under control
Always dancing and always laughing
The glamor boys are playing the role
The glamor boys never have no money
The glamor boys wear the most expensive clothes
The glamor boys are always at the party
Where the money comes from, Heaven only knows
I ain't no glamor boy, I'm fierce
I ain't no glamor boy
I ain't no glamor boy, I'm fierce
I ain't no glamor boy
The glamor boys live off their ambition
The glamor boys have it all figured out
A very, very dubious position
When you got no clout
The glamor boys' whole life is a gamble
They might get over or fall flat on their face
But if one does, there's no need to worry
Another G-boy will take this place
I ain't no glamor boy, I'm fierce
I ain't no glamor boy
I ain't no glamor boy, I'm fierce
I ain't no glamor boy
The glamor boys don't think tomorrow
The glamor boys just need tonight to play
But just like things you can't afford on credit
Time catches up and you have to pay
The glamor boys are always on the guest list
You'll always find them in the hottest spots in town
They'll be your friend if you have fame or fortune
If you don't they won't be hanging 'round
I ain't no glamor boy, I'm fierce
I ain't no glamor boy
I ain't no glamor boy, I'm fierce
I ain't no glamor boy, yeah yeah
I ain't no glamor boy, I'm fierce
I ain't no glamor boy
I ain't no glamor boy, I'm fierce
I ain't no glamor boy, no no
I see the fragments of the dreams I used to have
And bits of aspiration lying in the sand
The stained glass wall of love that I cannot see through
Provides the only light here in my lonely room
A breeze reminds me of the changing time and place
A tear that takes forever rolls down your timeless face
I hear that they say that broken hearts will mend
But when they do they're never good as new
I wish right now I could change it back
I never meant to do the things I did to hurt you
I never really thought that it would come to this
Sometimes the things you lose are often the things you
miss
I see the reason for things I used to do
They're all transparent now and so I see the truth
I hear they say that broken hearts will men
But when they do they're never good as new
I wish right now that I could change it back
I know you don't believe but I care about you
Time's up, the rivers have no life
Time's up, the world is full of strife
Time's up, the sky is falling
Time's up, the Lord is calling
How you gonna stop the clock now
When the well runs dry?
All the rivers have died
Moment by moment
Day by day
The world just slipping away
Your future won't save your past
The time is now, it won't last
Then time is nigh
Time to do or die
Time waits for no one
If you want to go on
Give me somethin' to grow on
The forest, the trees
The rivers, the seas
All die of this disease
Time ain't on your side
Don't sit idly by
You've got to just try
Let the children go, let the children go
Let the children go, let the children go
(Nobody knows the trouble she's seen)
Let the children go, let the children go
(She is, she's my ghetto queen, for real)
Let the children go, let the children go
In this brutal system that knows no pity
Living in nightmare city
In this urban battle field, she knows no barricade
With some kind of crazy hope in these days of rage
Living in nightmare city, living in nightmare city
Let the children go, let the children go
(Nobody knows the trouble she's seen)
Let the children go, let the children go
(She is, she's my ghetto queen, for real)
Here come the crawling politicians on their ghetto safari
Living in nightmare city
In this urban battle field she lives in smoke and haze
With some kind of crazy hope in these days of rage
Living in nightmare city, living in nightmare city
Let the children go, let the children go
(Nobody knows the trouble she's seen)
Let the children go, let the children go
(She is, she's my ghetto queen, for real)
She speaks without saying a word
She screams without being heard
Living in nightmare city
She speaks without saying a word
She screams without being heard
Living in nightmare city
Let the children go, let the children go
Let the children go, let the children go
(Nobody knows the trouble I see)
Let the children go, let the children go
(She is, she's my ghetto queen)
Let the children go, let the children go
Let the children go, let the children go
(She's my ghetto queen, for real)
Let the children go, let the children go
(She's my ghetto queen)
Let the children go, let the children go
(She's my ghetto queen, for real)
Let the children go, let the children go
(For real, for real)
Let the children go, let the children go
Do you remember here?
No you don't remember anything at all
I'm here flat on my back
Never woke up - had no regrets
There's a party in my mind
And I hope it never stops
They party all the time
Gonna party till they drop
Other people can go home
Other people they can split
I can never stop
I can never quit
Take a walk through the land of the shadows
Take a walk through the peaceful meadows
Don't look so disappointed
Isn't what you hoped for is it?
There's a party in my mind
And I hope it never stops
I'm stuck here in this seat
And I may not stand up
Other people can go home
Other people they can split
I can never stop
I can never quit
Everything is quiet
Everyone's gone to sleep
I'm wide awake
But these memories
These memories can't wait
How'd you come to live among freaks angel?
You fill this place with timeless grace
You blind us, come with heaven light
Without your wings you'd [Incomprehensible] through the night
Where'd you leave your halo angel?
Is it underneath the devil's bed?
Did you lose it among the stars?
Or is it circling my heart torn apart?
[Incomprehensible]
Where angels feel the same
Your warning and your sign
Of love and care be mine, be mine, be mine
Where will you go when you leave my angel?
To the gutter or to heaven's gate
But when St. Peter sees that look, he sees that knowledge in your eye
Will it tell you then that it's much too late
Well, is it much too late?
Angel, is it much too late?
Where are you going?
Don't you leave
I love, I love, I love you, oh
Don't you go
Please, don't you go
Please, please, don't you go
Don't you, don't you go
Don't you go, don't you go
Please, don't go, angel, angel
Living with myself is hard enough
So I get away when things get rough
Famine, strife and thoughts of war
Matter less than the dress she wore
You see ignorance is bliss
Problem solved with just one kiss
Ignorance is bliss
Problem solved with just one kiss
I'm just trying to survive
Pay my bills and stay alive
All the world's problems ain't my fault
I take it all with a grain of salt
You see ignorance is bliss
Problem solved with just one kiss
Ignorance is bliss
Problem solved with just one kiss
Ignorance is no excuse
Your problem's solved, what's the use
Ignorance is no excuse
The problem's solved then what's the use
I try to tell them everyday
But nobody listens to a word I say
Look out my window, what do you see?
Sometimes it's worse than that stupid TV
Ignorance is bliss
(Ignorance)
Ignorance is bliss
(Ignorance)
Ignorance is bliss
(Ignorance)
Well, ignorance is bliss
I jumped out of the window to get to the parking lot
I'm writing this little song on my way down
Never in my life have I felt a heat so hot
I had to get out
Such a lovely day to go flying
The sky is so clear, the sun is shining
Fate has given me wings
Such a terrible funny thing
I was gathering up my nerve to ask out Carmen
She glanced out of the window, oh my God!
The room, it went away, now we're holding hands
Just not the way I planned
Such a lovely day to go flying
The sky is so clear, the sun is shining
Fate has given me wings
Such a terrible funny thing, funny thing
I jumped out the window to get to the parking lot
I'm writing this little song on my way down
Such a lovely day to go flying
The sky is so clear, the sun is shining
Fate has given me wings
Such a terrible funny thing, funny thing
Such a funny thing, funny thing, funny thing
{And during the few moments that we have left
We want to talk right down to earth
In a language that everybody here can easily understand}
Look in my eyes
What do you see?
The cult of personality
I know your anger, I know your dreams
I've been everything you want to be
Oh, I'm the cult of personality
Like Mussolini and Kennedy
I'm the cult of personality
The cult of personality
The cult of personality
Neon lights, a Nobel prize
When a mirror speaks, the reflection lies
You don't have to follow me
Only you can set me free
I sell the things you need to be
I'm the smiling face on your TV
Oh, I'm the cult of personality
I exploit you, still you love me
I tell you, one and one makes three
Oh, I'm the cult of personality
Like Joseph Stalin and Gandhi
I'm the cult of personality
The cult of personality
The cult of personality
Neon lights, a Nobel prize
When a leader speaks, that leader dies
You won't have to follow me
Only you can set you free
You gave me fortune, you gave me fame
You me power in your God's name
I'm every person you need to be
Oh, I'm the cult of personality
I'm the cult of, I'm the cult of
I'm the cult of, I'm the cult of
I'm the cult of, I'm the cult of
I'm the cult of, I'm the cult of personality
{Ask not what your country can do for you
I don't have a need to be the best
Don't want to be just like the rest
Just stay who I am
Just an ordinary middle man
Give me the happy medium
Don't want to be the one whose leading them
I've got no master plan
Just a simple Middle man
Standing on a fine line between this and that
Just biding my time waiting for a sign
to tell me that I'm something special
My ideas are mine alone
Not yours, not theirs, but I care
I hurt for you, but not with you
I love that thing that's inside you
but I'm not your fan
I'm a stranger in a strange land
I'm your middle man
But I'm not your fan
I'm a stranger in a strange land
I am your middle man
Middle man yeah, yeah
I'm not your fan
I'm just a middle man
yours, theirs, but I care
I've got no master plan
Just stay who I am
Sometimes I Don't no know where I'm going
Sometimes I Don't where I've bean
Sometimes I Ain't feels like the beginning
Sometimes I feels just like the end.
But the morning star will light my way
Come on Holy Roller - Wash my sins away
Sometimes I get so tired
Sometimes I just want to give on up
Sometimes I want to lay my burdens down
Sometimes just ain't enough
But the morning star will light my way
Come on Holy Roller - Wash my sins away
Come on!
Sometimes I fell like I'm on the road to heaven
Sometimes I fell like I'm going somewhere else
Sometimes I'm looking for someone
All the time I just find myself, come on!
But the morning star will light my way
Come on Holy Roller - Wash my sins away
Wash down, wash down, wash down, wash down, yeah!
Wash away, Wash away, Wash away, Wash away!
Come on and wash way
Come on and wash way
Come on and wash way
When I speak out loud
You say I'm crazy
When I'm feeling proud
You say I'm lazy
I look around and see the true reality
You like our hair
You love our music
Our culture's large, so you abuse it
Take time to understand, I'm an equal man
Chorus:
History's a lie that they teach you in school
A fraudulent view called the golden rule
A peaceful land that was born civilized
Was robbed of its riches, its freedom, its pride
When I'm at work you say I'm great
You watch and ponder, but can you relate?
Inviting eyes hands drop, when the music stops
Don't ask me why I play this music
It's my culture, so naturally I use it
I state my claim to say, it's here for all to play
Chorus
It's time for a change
Concepts rearrange
Can't you feel my rage...
It's up to you to seek the truth
To know your history, the difference between me and you
Relate to me as me, not what you see on TV
In another life
You might have been a genius
In another life
You might have been a star
In another life
Your face might have been perfect
In another life
You'd drive a better car
In another life
All your jokes are funny
In another life
Your heart is free from fear
In another life
You make a lot of money
In this other life
Everything is clear
In another life
You're always the hero
In another life
You always win the game
In another life
No one ever cheats you
In another life
You never have to change
In another life
Your friends never desert you
In another life
You never have to cry
In another life
No one ever hurts you
In this other life
Your loved-ones never die
But this is the life you have
This is the life you have
This is the life you have
This is the life
In another life
You're always the victim
In another life
You're always the thief
In another life
You are always lonely
In this other life
There is no relief
In your real life
Treat it like it's special
In your real life
Try to be more kind
In your real life
Think of those that love you
In this real life
(V. Reid)
I look at the T.V.
Your America's doing well
I look out the window
My America's catching hell
I just want to know which way do I go to get to your America?
I just want to know which way do I go to get to your America?
I change the channel
Your America's doing fine
I read the headlines
My America's doing time
I just want to know which way do I go to get to your America?
I just want to know which way do I go to get to your America?
Go west young, go west young man
Don't want to crossover
But how do I keep from going under?
Where is my picket fence?
My long, tall glass of lemonade?
Where is my VCR, my stereo, my T.V. show?
I look at the T.V.
I don't see your America
I look out the window
I don't see your America
I want to know how to get to your America
I want to know how to get to your America
Darling, you got to let me know
Should I stay or should I go
If you say that you are mine
I'll be here till the end of time
So come on and let me know
Should I stay or should I go
It's always tease, tease, tease
You're happy when I'm on my knees
One day it's fine and next it's black
So if you want me off your back
So come on and let me know
Should I quit or should I blow
Should I stay or should I go now
Should I stay or should I go now
If I go, there will be trouble, if I quit it will be double
So come on and let me know
This indecision's bugging me
If you don't want me, set me free
Exactly whom I'm supposed to be?
I don't know which clothes even fit me
So come on and let me know
Should I stay or should I go, go, go, go, go
Should I stay or should I go now
Should I stay or should I go now
If I go, there will be trouble, if I quit it will be double
So come on and let me know
Come on and let me know
Touch without seeing love with no feeling
stealing a moment... under cover of darkness
I'd like to kiss you let my lips caress you
sending sparks of passion up your spine
but doing so means saying no and even
the thought would be a crime
I like to touch your skin even if it is a sin
i'd rather burn than not touch you
i might just go mad thinking what i might have had
and all the things i'd like to do
Chorus:
safe seduction isn't what it is
sexuality isn't what it appears to be
it's what you think you see
I want to make you hot
touch that spot and send you on a trip
but my consequence is abstinence
and lord knows i just can't slip
i want to feel you/the real you
not the projection that you let me see
the safest sex is when it's not skin to skin
it's very simple let your mind go free
Chorus
To do or not to do that is the question
over and over you're prone to suggestion
and i simply can't condone the fact
that you want to make your bed my home
let's say i take this man as my lover
and he swears that there will never be another
but really he doesn't give a damn about safe sex
and with all these other girls he has a taste test
well the thrill doesn't outweigh the consequences
therefore i am using my common senses
to let you know i adore you
but i'm afraid i'm not the one for you
Once I was
Yeah, I was but now I'm not
Once I would
Yeah, I would but now I won't
Once I could
Yeah, I could but now I can't
Once I did
Yeah, I did but now I don't
I'm lowing my expectations
I'm lowing my...
I'm lowing my expectations
I'm lowing my...
Once I tried
Yeah, I tried, now I'm giving up
Once I care
Care so much, now I'm giving up
You can regreat
Everything you've done and blame everyone
You can regreat
Everything you've done and blame everyone
I'm lowing my expectations
I'm lowing my...
I'm lowing my expectations
I'm lowing my...
I was goona change the word
World
I was gonna say the word
World
But I couldn't change the word
World
I couldn't say myself
Once a held it
I held it so close
Now I let it dry
Once a ran
You know I always ran
I'm lowing my expectations
I'm lowing my...
I'm lowing my expectations
Sacred Ground
M. Stewart, Corey Glover, Doug Wimbish, Vernon Reid and Willian Calhoun
How many times must we tell them
are they never gonna learn
How many times must we tell them
are they never gonna learn
This is sacred ground, sacred ground
How many times must we tell them
are they never gonna learn
This is sacred ground, sacred ground
For all those trying to make a stand,
Fighting to save their
Tribal land, for all those trying to make a stand,
Dying to protect their tribal land
For all those dying to protect their tribal land
Rainbow warriors, Chico Mendez
All the dissidents that they tried to suppress
How many more martyrs
Must there be will this be our poisoned
legacy how many times must us tell them
are they never gonna learn
This is sacred ground, sacred ground
How many times we must tell them
are they never gonna learn
This sacred ground, sacred ground
For those who lie before the bulldozers
and chainsaws
Battling the devouring megacorps
Here they come with their cash draws grins
Vampires, parasites and vermin
How many times must we tell you
are they never gonna learn
This sacred ground, sacred ground
How many times must we tell you
are you never gonna learn
This sacred ground, sacred ground
How many times
A day of repetition, in this shadow factory
It doesn't look much like freedom to me
It's operation mind control
It's the battle for America's soul
It's operation mind control
Just try on this straight jacket, of conformity
While we force feed you propaganda, on the state tv
It's operation mind control
It's the battle for America's soul
It's operation mind control
It's the battle for America's soul
Your under 24 hour surveillance
By the satellite spies
We'll always be watched by
The all seeing eye
In God we Trust (What's the matter with youx2)(Behold a pale Horse!)
In God we Trust (What's the matter with youx2)(Behold Oblivion)
In God we Trust (What's the matter with you, this is mind control)
In God we Trust (You better get behind, get in line,)
It's death in repetition.
The shadow factory
Doesn't look much like living to me
It's operation mind control,
It's the battle for America's soul
It's operation mind control,
It's the battle for America's soul(rise up)
Now put on this straight jacket of conformity
Fault of a nation, that's brought biology(?)
It's operation mind control
It's the battle for America's soul
It's operation mind control
We must never take these words too seriously
Words are very important but then if we take them too seriously
We destroy every thing...
I'm not one of those joiners
I'm not down with the club
There's no place I'm going to
You see, it's the hole I dug
I just leave it alone
I just leave it alone
I just leave it alone
I'm not down with this one
Their motives are much too severe
And that one, they're much too serious
I don't plan to make this a career
I just leave it alone
I just leave it alone
I just leave it alone
We're always talking about peace
But it's pieces that we find
What's with all this tension?
What is on your mind?
Why are we always talking about peace?
But it's pieces that we find
Tell me what's with all this tension
Tell me what is on your mind
I wouldn't get into that one
Naw, don't go for all their hype
And you know I'll never be like that one
Come on, I'm just not the type
Well I gotta leave it alone
Just gotta leave it alone
Gonna just leave it alone
Just gotta leave it alone
No, no, no
Leave it alone
Leave it alone
Your more interesting when your lying
What ever your selling I ain't buying
If theres someone out their without
Let them cast the first stone
If theres someone out their without sin
We can all go home
I don't believe in what your preaching
And you can't council what I'm feeling
If theres someone out their without
Let them cast the first stone
If theres someone out their without sin
We can all go home
Let's go out tonight
We can hide in plain sight
We can change our names, and never go home
And we'll never see the sun
If theres someone out their without it
Let them cast the first stone
If theres someone out there without sin
We can all go home
If theres someone out their without it
Let them cast the first stoned
If theres someone out there without sin
We can all go home
We can all go home
We can all go home
It's getting near dawn
When lights close their tired eyes
I'll soon be with you, my love
Give you my dawn surprise
I'll be with you, darling, soon
I'll be with you when the stars start falling
I've been waiting so long
To be where I'm going
In the sunshine of your love
I'm with you, my love
The light's shinin' through on you
Yes, I'm with you, my love
It's the morning and just we two
I'll stay with you, darling, now
I'll stay with you 'til my seas are all dried up
I've been waiting so long
To be where I'm going
In the sunshine of your love
I'm with you, my love
The light's shinin' through on you
Yes, I'm with you, my love
It's the morning and just we two
I'll stay with you, darling, now
I'll stay with you 'til my seas are all dried up
I've been waiting so long
I've been waiting so long
I've been waiting so long
To be where I'm going
Hey kids, lets go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, lets go, let's go
Baby you stole my heart
I don't know what to do
Got one problem on my mind
Do you feel the way I do?
I want to know
Give me a sign girl
Open your heart and tell me that you're mine
I want to know
Give me a sign girl
Open your heart and tell me that you're mine
When you walk down the street, the cats don't even make a noise
They worship at your feet
Acting just like little boys
I'm standing in the shadows baby
I got one thing that's on my mind
Gonna make you love me baby if it takes the rest of my life
I want to know
Give me a sign girl
Open your heart and tell me that you're mine
I want to know
Give me a sign girl
Open your heart and tell me that you're mine
It takes a lot of guts to show you how I feel, well, about you
Just say the words and let me know that this is real for you
Or is it just a dream, dream, dream, dream, dream, dream, dream, dream
I'm very patient baby and I've got a lot of time
I can see a clear horizon
You and me standing side by side
I want to know
Give me a sign girl
Open your heart and tell me that you're mine
I want to know
Give me a sign girl
Open your heart and tell me that you're mine
(I want know) I want to know
(I) Give me a sign girl
(You got to give, you got to have me, give, you gotta tell me) Open your heart and tell me that you're mine
I want to know (Please)
Give me a sign girl (Please)
Open your heart and tell me that you're mine (Open your heart and tell me that you're mine)
How're you feeling? Baby, baby, let me know
I want to know
I want to know
I want to know
I want to know
Give me a sign girl
Do you remember
The time of laughter
Children playing, life was so sweet
Before our city forgot us
And let the druglord take our street
Pacify me politician
Pacify me with your lies
Blind to the people suffering
Deaf to the children's cries
But I know what to do
With someone like you
Police
They chased my brother
Policeman licensed to kill
Oh how I miss my brother
Good shoes are so hard to fill
Policeman are you happy?
You snuffed a medical student out
Maybe he could have changed the world
I guess we'll never find out
But I know what to do
With someone like you
I know what to do
With someone like you
It's never too late to change your ways
It's never too late to change your ways
Too young
Gave her body
She was afraid of being alone
One baby having another
Sweet baby wants to be grown
But there's an angel on your shoulder
Always speaking to your soul
Listen and your heart will be glad
You'll never have to be alone
'Cause I know what to do
With someone like you
I know what to do
With someone like you
I know what to do
With someone like you
Turn off your mind
Relax and float down stream
It is not dying
It is not dying
Lay down all thought
Surrender to the void
It is shining
It is shining
That you may see
The meaning of within
It is being
It is being
That love is all
And love is everyone
It is knowing
It is knowing
That ignorance and hate
May mourn the dead
It is believing
It is believing
But listen to the
Colour of your dreams
It is not living
It is not living
Or play the game
Existence to the end
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Stereotype
Monotype
Blood type
Are you my type?
Minimalism
Abstract expressionism
Postmodernism
Is it?
We are the children of concrete and steel
This is the place where the truth is concealed
This is the time when the lie is revealed
Everything is possible, but nothing is real
Corporate religion
Televangahypnotism
Suffer till you die
For the sweet-bye-and-bye
Science and technology, the new mythology
Look deep inside
Empty
We are the children of concrete and steel
This is the place where the truth is concealed
This is the time when the lie is revealed
Everything is possible, but nothing is real
Everything that goes around
Comes around
Hypothetical
Theoretical
Circumstantial evidence
Irrelevance
Don't think twice
Just roll the dice
Pay the price
Snake eyes
We are the children of concrete and steel
This is the place where the truth is concealed
This is the time when the lie is revealed
Everything is possible, but nothing is real
We are the children of concrete and steel
This is the place where your fate has been sealed
This is the time when your life is revealed
Everything is possible, but nothing is real
Everything that goes around
Now you can tear a building down
But you can't erase a memory
These houses may look all run down
But they have a value you can't see...
This is my neighborhood
This is where I come from
I call this place my home
You call this place a slum
You wanna run all the people out
This is what you're all about
Treat poor people just like trash
Turn around and make big cash
Chorus:
Now you can tear a building down
But you can't erase a memory
These houses may look all run down
But they have a value you can't see
Last moth there was a fire
I saw seven children die
You sent flowers to their family
But your simpathy's a lie
Cause every building that you burn
Is more blood money that you earn
We are force to relocate
From the pain that you create
Chorus
We live here for so many years
Now this house is full of fear
For a profit you will take control
Where will all the older people go?
There used to be when kids could play
Without the scourge of drug's decay
Now our kids are living dead
They crack and blow their lives away
Chorus
You've got to fight
You've got to fight
You've got to fight
For your neighborhood...
You've got to fight
Well like a descendant, I drifted far, far and wide
Isolation, separation, no where to hide
Maybe there's somewhere I can go
Where there's sunshine and the wind won't blow
Nothingness
All I have to feel is my lonliness
Nothing in the attic 'cept an empty chest
And nothing lasts forever
Although there are many, I look for no one, no one but me
I search for things that are taking me high and far out of reach
But this is the place I call my home
I live with the lies and the fear all alone
Nothingness
All I have to feel is my lonliness
Nothing in the attic 'cept an empty chest
And nothing lasts forever
Nothingness
All I have to feel is my lonliness
Nothing in the attic 'cept an empty chest
And nothing lasts forever
Nothingness
Lonliness
Empty chest
And nothing lasts forever
Nothing lasts forever
Nothing lasts forever
Nothing lasts forever
Back in black, I hit the sack,
I've been too long, I'm glad to be back
Yes I'm let loose from the noose,
That's kept me hangin' about
I been livin like a star 'cause it's gettin' me high,
Forget the hearse, 'cause I never die
I got nine lives, cat's eyes
abusing every one of them and running wild
[Chorus]
'Cause I'm back! Yes, I'm back!
Well, I'm back! Yes, I'm back!
Well, I'm baaack, baaack...
Well, I'm back in black,
Yes, I'm back in black!
Back in a band, i got Cadillac,
Number one with a bullet, I'm a power pack
Yes I'm in a band with a gang,
they gotta catch me if they want me to hang
'Cause I'm back on the track and I'm beatin' the
flack,
Nobody's gonna get me on another trap
So look at me now, I'm just a makin' my pay,
Don't try to push your luck, just get outta my way
[Chorus]
'Cause I'm back! Yes, I'm back!
Well, I'm back! Yeah, I'm back!
Well, I'm baaack, baaack...
Well, I'm back in black,
Yes, I'm back in black!
Let's go!
[Solo]
[Chorus]
Well, I'm back! Yes, I'm back!
Well, I'm back! Yes, I'm back!
Well, I'm baaack, baaack...
Well, I'm back in black,
Yes, I'm back in black-ow!
Aww yeah! Let's go!
Keep on goin'! Yeah yeah!
Yeah... aww yeah yeah!
Here we go!
[Chorus]
Well, I'm baaack... (I'm back!)
Baaack... (Well, I'm back!)
Baaack... (I'm back!)
Baaack... (I'm back!)
Baaack... (I'm back!)
Baaack...
Yes, back in black,
(And during the few moments that we have left
We want to talk right down to earth in a language
That everybody here can easily understand...)
Look in my eyes, what do you see?
The Cult of Personality
I know your anger
I know your dreams
I've been everything you want to be
I'm the Cult of Personality
Like Mussolini and Kennedy
I'm the Cult of Personality
The Cult of Personality
The Cult of Personality
Neon lights, a Nobel Prize
When a mirror speaks, the reflection lies
You won't have to follow me
Only you can set me free
I sell the things you need to be
I'm the smiling face on your T.V.
I'm the Cult of Personality
I exploit you
Still you love me
I tell you one and one makes three
I'm the Cult of Personality
Like Joseph Stalin and Gandhi
I'm the Cult of Personality
The Cult of Personality
The Cult of Personality
Neon lights, a Nobel Prize
When a leader speaks, that leader dies
You won't have to follow me
Only you can set you free
You gave me fortune
You gave me fame
You gave me power in your God's name
I'm every person you need to be
Cult
Sonality!
I'm the Cult of
I'm the Cult of
I'm the Cult of
I'm the Cult of
I'm the Cult of
I'm the Cult of
I'm the Cult of
I'm the Cult of
Personality!
(Ask not what your country can do for you...)
