I heard your revolution song playing on the radio
I heard it fall under fists decided by the drums of war
Why do you try to scream in the crowd when no one wants to hear
Why don't you go and wave the white flag because no one seems to care
What the hell are we doing this for?
We keep singing while the innocent die
What difference do we really make?
We keep singing while we can't stop the crying
And it seems so sad and I feel the same
Yea, I miss you
No longer vital,
No longer relevant today
We're so suicidal
All we're doing is making enemies
And ya say we'll settle the score
We keep singing while the innocent die
What difference do we really make?
We keep singing while we can't stop the crying
And it seems so sad and I feel the same
We keep singing while the innocent die
What difference do we really make?
We keep singing while we can't stop the crying
And it seems so sad and I feel the same
Yea, I miss you
(left, left, left right left)
What the hell are we doing this for?
We keep singing while the innocent die
What difference do we really make?
We keep singing while we can't stop the crying
And it seems so sad and I feel the same
And, I miss you
Yea, I miss you
Hey there, baby, you're looking kinda pretty to me
You're the kind of girl that I could get down to keep
The wolves will try to bite us
Just as sure as the setting sun
Tell me, baby, do you think they'll ever leave us alone?
Hey there, baby, you're looking kinda pretty to me
All I want to is drag my lips across your skin
The wolves will try to bite us
Just as sure as the day is long
I swear to God that I'll never let them tear us apart
You've done a number on me
The error of my ways I've finally seen
You are a moral compass that I can depend on
I swear to God that I'll never let them tear us apart
You are a moral compass that I can depend on
I swear to God that I'll never let them tear us apart
Hey there, baby, you're looking kinda pretty to me
You're the kind of girl that I could get down to keep
The wolves will try to bite
Just as sure as the setting sun
Someday they're gonna have to leave us alone
Things are good now but all things must end
There will be a darker time when you need a friend
I'll tell you now that I'll be there for you
When you need someone to pull you through
These few years have been the worst for me
If it's as bad as things can be
Then I'll take my chances and I'll step in time
To the beating of this heart of mine
Whatever road you go down
My heart will be there with you
If I had a dollar for each piece of me
That I gave away for the world to see
Then I'd turn this pain into a fantasy
And we'd sail away across the seven seas
Whatever road you go down
My heart will be there with you
Things are good now but all things must end
There will be a darker time when you need a friend
Can I go and count on you when I need someone to pull me through?
Whatever road you go down
Do you know how it feels to be lonely and empty inside?
Do you know what its like to pray to God that you could die?
I've been accused of things like finding happiness
But I could stand before the judge and say that I'm innocent
What about love? Just a little love
Jesus Christ came to Earth to prepare for his hour of pain
2000 years since then we've been killing people in his name
Messiah or a prophet, he goes unheard the same
So I turn the other cheek to these days of hurting and pain
What about love? We ain't so innocent
Just a little love? We ain't so innocent
These days people ask me what happened to my punk
It was something I once believed in but it faded as I grew up
We all start so innocent and develop to bitter with rage
I'm so Goddamned angry now I wonder if I'll ever be the same
What about love? We ain't so innocent
There's a place deep inside our souls
Where we can run to when we think we can't take no more
I've seen it done and I someday I'll be able to find it too
Now you're saying that there ain't no point
You're out of will and you won't make it through the night
I'll climb in with you and I'll hold your hand
Come death or dawn I'll see you through the night
I believe in the strength of self
And I believe if we search we'll find a way
I know at times it can seem like its all too much
I believe that you're with us now
You're looking down from somewhere out in the night
An inspiration while we fight the fight
While we march like ants
I believe in the strength of self
And I believe if we search we'll find a way
I know at times it can seem like its all too much
It's a struggle sometimes. But I know we're gonna make it alright
I believe in the strength of self
And I believe if we search we'll find a way
Do you remember those days when time was all that we had?
Oh my god, what I'd do for some of that now
I'd sit on the roof top and drink back some booze
You times forgotten, I love you
Just because I haven't written doesn't mean that I forgot
Just because the days are shorter doesn't mean those days are gone
We spent Spring time in the warehouse and summers in the park
Lighting firecrackers and swimming after dark
Do you remember those days when time was all that we had?
Oh my god, what I'd do for some of that now
I'd sit on the roof top and drink back some booze
You times forgotten, I love you
That summer after high school we went cruising in your car
Running through the graveyard to escape the Medford cops
By the Fall we were all drifting off the sale the seas alone
I think of you from time to time. I think of you as home
Do you remember those days when time was all that we had?
Oh my god, what I'd do for some of that now
I'd sit on the roof top and drink back some booze
You times forgotten, I love you
You times forgotten, I love you
This life we're living here. Characters come in and out of it.
This life we're living here is a tale/stage
Do you remember those days when time was all that we had?
Oh my god, what I'd do for some of that now
I'd sit on the roof top and drink back some booze
You times forgotten, I love you
Every man wants to rewrite what's true
But you take what you've got cuz its all you can do
I could go on with the things that I can't stand
But you've got your own problems, man
It's the same old song and the same old place
A broken mirror the same old face
You lonely people, I'm just getting through life like you
A cigarette or a bottle of booze for two
Tell a tale if it eases the pain for you
I could go on with defending where I stand
Two can play no one wins so there's nothing to gain
It's the same old song and the same old place
A broken mirror the same old face
You lonely people, I'm just getting through life like you
It's been a long time since I heard them say your name
Things are different. I don't live the same.
You probably found a new distraction in your life
It's the same old song and the same old place
A broken mirror the same old face
So she says no matter what I say or do
I'll never find a way to make it through
But I can see it so damn clearly and its sad
I might be the only chance to show her we ain't so bad
So sail away
And when you're out there
I'll be here and I'll be singing
When the ship goes down I'll be here singing
I'll be here waiting for when you come around
So she says that being friends ain't all that bad
But those words cut so deeply
And you know I can't settle for that
So sail away
And when you're out there
I'll be here and I'll be singing
When the ship goes down I'll be here singing
And it seems like I don't dream no more
And I ain't had a drink in much too long
And I feel so low cuz I can't let myself get high
I can't make no oath but, babe, I'll try
And the pills I took went to my brain
I swear to God they'll keep me sane
We go round and round again but I won't let you down, my friend
I just want to see your eyes again
If you're looking for me
I'll be right here on the outside, baby
Living out my days in lonely exile
Nobody's got what I'll give to you
You can look around a lifetime two
when you come to grips with the fact that
I would die for you
then I know what you'll decide to do
If you're looking for me
I'll be right here on the outside, baby
Living out my days in lonely exile
One by one
And it seems like I don't dream no more
without waking up in the midnight hour, baby
I just can't seem to go and get you off my mind
Here's a postcard from hell: I'm doing fine
If you're looking for me
I'll be right here on the outside, baby
Living out my days in lonely exile
I ran into my neighbor yesterday
She's fighting off the cancer the best she can
She's living on a hope and prayer
Come along this time next year
when we greet a friendly September
She could be beneath the ground somewhere
If you wonder why I fake my smiles
I wonder why I should stay alive
When there ain't no incentive left to fight
And if you wonder why I fake my smiles
I'm thinking about my suicide
Cuz there ain't no incentive left to fight
I got a friend who has got to fight to stay alive
She's just a kid and she should be living life
but the cells just keep on multiplying
If I could go and take her place
then I gladly would and goodbye to you I'd wave
So she could get back to living life
If you wonder why I fake my smiles
I wonder why I should stay alive
When there ain't no incentive left to fight
And if you wonder why I fake my smiles
I'm thinking about my suicide
Cuz there ain't no incentive left to fight
Day by day and year by year
the end is drawing near
all that we can say is "such is life".
You could be a saint to me
Or I could be a passing memory
the best that we can do is stay alive
If you wonder why I fake my smiles
I wonder why I should stay alive
When there ain't no incentive left to fight
And if you wonder why I fake my smiles
I'm thinking about my suicide
Lonely nights shaped me
And a dead end job saved me
Death or jail was not a choice for me
I spent hours in my room dreaming
Of a better day to come to me
I'm still waiting on my hopes and dreams
I come from no future and reach for the light
These days I'm hanging on without a net
Looking back on life plagues me
And the passing of my time haunts me
I still have a road laid out for me
I come from no future and reach for the light
These days I'm hanging on without a net
I got nothing to catch me if I should fall again
I don't want everything. I want it all.
The kids on the streets come and they meet
Underneath the street lights
They're killing their lives on a heroin high
All of them doing time
I gotta get out. Gotta make a new life
Said the teenager in me then
Years down the line I see them sometimes
The guys that I knew back when
I came from no future and reach for the light
These days I'm hanging on without a net
Death or jail was not a choice for me
Death or jail was not a choice for me
I'm still waiting on my hopes and dreams
Even if we all fall flat this year we'll get up and persevere
Even if we all fall flat this year we'll get up and persevere
Honey, I ain't proud of the things I've done
Or the way that I've treated you
But history just repeats itself and these are the things I do
I put the knife in my own heart
I put the knife in my own heart
It was always me.
It was me right from the start
Even if we all fall flat this year we'll get up and persevere
Even if we all fall flat this year we'll get up and persevere
And if you should fall a bit behind
I'll carry you on. I'll carry you on from there
An idle mind ain't no friend of mine
And the bottle's my enemy
The face in the mirror is the face of fear cuz I fear where we'll go from here
I put the knife in my own heart
I put the knife in my own heart
It was always me.
It was me right from the start
Even if we all fall flat this year we'll get up and persevere
Even if we all fall flat this year we'll get up and persevere
And if you should fall a bit behind
I'll carry you on. I'll carry you on from there
There's nothing I can say that ain't been said before
There ain't nothing I can do to stand out from the crowd
The wheels are turning now but they're driving to the west
There's nothing I can do to rise above the rest
These simple chords are all the same
I can't find a melody that hasn't yet been sang
I strummed these chords of mine and I took them for a ride
Well this is all I've got. Its all there is that's keeping me alive
Take it from me. You got it
It don't pay to bleed. If you want it
And if that's my epitaph then that's alright with me
Its alright with me
There's nothing I can do to numb or dull the pain
There's nothing I can do to make you understand
I'm just a pauper with a million dollar heart
I'm got the goods to sell but to sell I gotta die
Take it from me. You got it
It don't pay to bleed. If you want it
And if that's my epitaph then that's alright with me
Give me something to lean on
I'll give you everything I have
And I'll give you something to lean on too
Something that you've never had
We're stumbling in the darkness
The darkness of this cold hard land
But I'll hold on tight and I'll lead the way
If you'll just give me your hand
And I'll love you a life time through
Give me something to count on
Baby, give me your word.
And I'll give you something to count on too
My life, my heart, my world
And I'll love you a life time through
I could love you a lifetime through
We're just two wounded soldiers here
Maybe if we fixed our wings we'd fly right out of here
Give me something to lean on
I'll give you everything I have
And I'll give you something to lean on too
Something that you've never had
And I'll love you a life time through
You were a spoiled kid from a drugged out town
You took a drag and it dragged you down
No hope can save you now
No one paid a mind to you
Starved for attention, what could you do?
You're fucked up and you're dragging all of us down
Jealousy - you've been falling down
A midlife crisis at 23.
You lit a match to that bridge to me
When you cry I won't hear a sound
Jealousy - you've been falling down
I don't care no more
Jealousy - you've been falling down
Now you're out for this once on your own
You're out there looking for a place to call home
And you're scared cuz there ain't nobody there.
Do you wonder how things might have been
If things went differently back remember when we were friends?
Or do you even care?
Now you're out and you're looking for home
You wait for good times that I hope never come
And I'm scared because I can't stand in the way
If you're out and you're looking for me
If there is something I could get you in need
Call me out
You surround yourself with statues, babe
Cuz it seems the only way to keep you sane
But I know you well enough to say that you and them
Just ain't one and the same
We could sit here at this bar all night
And put down empty bottles til we're blind
But I'll still go to bed alone the same
I suppose we're better off there anyway
I'm sorry baby if I hurt your pride
I'm just a low man fighting fears
I'm sorry baby if I made you cry
It's just the way I show I care
I can find so many ways to say
All the things that I don't even mean
But I can't find the words I want to say
And I can see by your eyes that I should leave
I'm sorry baby if I hurt your pride
I'm just a low man fighting fears
I'm sorry baby if I made you cry
It's just the way I show I care
If one of us would break
If one of us would break
You surround yourself with statues, babe
But they're the ones who get your time and your eye
I can't tell you what I want to say
So I'll leave with this moment on my mind
I'm sorry baby if I hurt your pride
I'm just a low man fighting fears
I'm sorry baby if I made you cry
It's just the way I show I care
I'm sorry baby if I hurt your pride
I'm just a low man fighting fears
I'm sorry baby if I made you cry
Nights, they say, are so low
And the days seem to long
They tell you time heals all
So you just gotta be strong
Things are changing and you're alone
When it seems like a true friend can't be found
I'll be around
We've been around and around
And no solution was found
I still recall the times that we had and the times that we shared
It wasn't all bad
Things are changing and you're alone
When it seems like a true friend can't be found
I'll be around
I just can't hold the line anymore
Nights, they say, are so low
And the days seem to long
They tell you time heals all
So you just gotta be strong
Things are changing and you're alone
When it seems like a true friend can't be found
Hello, my brother. It's been so long
I can still see the pain that's in your eyes
It's a familiar void that has survived the years
Since the days when we were both alive
Those letters scarred on your neck can't run as deep
As the scarring in your heart
It's been so long. We go on and on
Many lifetimes apart
Raise your glass to the morning after and the feeling of dejection and loathing
Pass the bottle around my way. It's worth the empty feeling I suppose
Hello there, my brother. I'm calling you long distance on the line
I don't know how to deal with this but you will since your innocence went on high
I gave my heart to a girl. I gave it to the world. Neither one can appreciate my soul
You can understand, you say. But can you take this hurting away?
Raise your glass to the morning after and the feeling of dejection and loathing
Pass the bottle around my way. It's worth the empty feeling I suppose
Hello my brother. I can still see the pain that's in your eyes.
Tear out my eyes.
Raise your glass to the morning after and the feeling of dejection and loathing
Pass the bottle around my way. It's worth the empty feeling I suppose
Won't you send down a star and tell me you're out there and where you are?
If I could change one thing I'd go back to that night and say goodbye
When you died
If it all comes to an end tonight
I won't be alone
You're out there in the sky so far that you can't hear me pray tonight
Don't cry. We all die.
If it all comes to an end tonight
I won't be alone
We hold on to yesterday
We watch it slip away
Fade away. Fly away.
If it all comes to an end tonight
Woke up to that familiar face again
That desperate feelings back again
It seems to me that I'll never win
It's a constant battle till the end
A little heartache, a little pain
Woke up to that familiar face again
And I cry out loud
And I cry out loud
I came up a dollar short again
I showed up to work late again
What did I look by?
Is there hope my friend?
Are we all working towards an end?
And I cry out loud (she keeps on coming back)
Somebody save me tonight
And I cry out loud (she keeps on coming back)
Woke up to that familiar face again
That desperate feelings back again
What all salvation needs, a combination
Woke up to that familiar face
And I cry out loud (she keeps on coming back)
Somebody save me tonight
And I cry out loud (she keeps on coming back)
And I cry out loud (she keeps on coming back)
Somebody save me tonight
And I cry out loud (she keeps on coming back)
I know that you must be hurting
Everything that you know is crumbling
And everything that you've loved is washing away
If you can, believe me.
This is all just a passing moment
You'll leave behind and you'll go on to conquer the world
I want you. I need you
And now you want to take it all away
I'll make you feel like you're the only one in the world
Everything just falls apart
Everything just falls apart
Everything falls apart again
I don't know how long I can live this way
I face the pressure each and every day
I'm standing here like I'm all alone in the world
The phone rings but I don't pick it up
You're the only one I want to talk to
And we can live like we're the only ones in the world
Everything just falls apart
Everything just falls apart
We've been trying for many months for them to see our point of view
We keep coming up empty handed no matter what we do
We're standing at the cross roads and they kick us when we're down
We all know how it feels to be faced with being face to face with the ground
I've been listening to all they say and it tears me up inside
Another day, another excuse for them to find a way to lie
Should we run of fight for what's ours? It varies by the day
We could scream from the depths of our hearts
and it would keep falling on deaf ears anyway
We all come from different paths and a different point of view
We all got our battles to fight and a right to see them through
We'll converge from different paths and,
I'll tell you now, we'll somehow make it through
I've never needed anyone like the way that I need you
And after all these months behind us I still have a lot to do
I ain't got the words to express myself to you
Maybe we could check our baggage and then get a room with a view
We all come from different paths and a different point of view
We all got our battles to fight and a right to see them through
We all come from different paths and a different point of view
We'll converge from different paths and,
I'll tell you now, we'll somehow make it through
I got up today with the sun going down
I sat back today and watched the wheel go around and around
I still remember
I won't surrender
Now we're free
You can throw your stones but you'll break no bones on me
I remember yesterday I went looking for more
And it turned out all along I had what I was looking for
So I won't go out tonight to find myself
Because all I need is here in me.
I have all I need. A place to be.
I still remember
I won't surrender
Now we're free
You can throw your stones but you'll break no bones on me
Because all I need is here in me.
I have all I need. A place to be.
I still remember
I won't surrender
Now we're free
You can throw your stones but you'll break no bones on me
You want to legislate your moral code?
I don't care if you believe in God but don't force your faith on me
Don't force your faith on me
Dropping bombs on the Middle East won't reserve you no special seat
When you reach them pearly gates
With your heart so full of hate
You bible thumpers and you Doomsday priests,
What would Jesus say about you and say about me?
He'd say "won't you take that dagger from my heart?"
I thought it was about what's right and wrong
The same old people sing the same old song
And you pass judgment around
And I pass judgment around
The Ten Commandments in a court of law
And a decision ain't ok with God
Don't force your faith on me
Don't force your faith on me
You bible thumpers and you Doomsday priests,
What would Jesus say about you and say about me?
I'm sitting here and wondering why
I write in a notebook to ease my troubled mind
I can talk through a beat up guitar
cuz I can't find the words to say that are really on my mind
Its a lonely life when you can't do nothing right
I can close my eyes and hear the words not come out right
so its off to bed to grab some winks
cuz its easier than sitting here having to think
Give me diamond. I'll give you stones
Give me a chance and I'll see to it that my hopes are blown
I'll throw them away
All I do is all I know
But I want so bad to find that there's an easier road
And I can't help but wear my heart on my sleeve
I can't help but beg you, baby please
I'm only acting in my best interest
but the words come out, they sound so disastrous to me
Give me diamond. I'll give you stones
Give me a chance and I'll see to it that my hopes are blown
I'll throw them away
All I do is all I know
It's a lonely life when you trust no one.
When your guards are up and your radar's down
I saw you standing by the back of the club
By the pool table with your hat pulled down
I'd burn the world for the chance to see
What your eyes told you when you looked at me
I had a feeling of what you went through
But you wouldn't even let me look at you
Oh, baby, won't you take this pain away?
Where ever she's at she's drinking coke and jack
And probably go-go dancing by the railroad tracks
Waiting there for the train to take here away
I still think back to the cold sharp pain
Of seeing off with another man
I swear that hurting just hasn't dulled
Since she reached inside me and she cut my soul
Oh, baby, won't you take this pain away?
Where ever she's at she's drinking coke and jack
And probably go-go dancing by the railroad tracks
Telling her tale to someone that wants to believe
Where ever she's at she's drinking coke and jack
And probably go-go dancing by the railroad tracks
And paying no mind to all that she's taken from me
Oh baby, can we get together?
Oh baby, we don't live forever
Do you really care what they think?
Do you really fear what the future brings?
Where ever she's at she's drinking coke and jack
And probably go-go dancing by the railroad tracks
Waiting there for the train to take here away
Where ever she's at she's drinking coke and jack
And probably go-go dancing by the railroad tracks
Won't you let down your guard and take this pain from me?
Hanging on the corner by the Main Street laundromat
Frankie's out of prison and he swears he's never going back
Two nights later he's a murderer.
They caught him down the projects hiding at his girl's
Hey there, Frankie. Is this all you've ever known to be?
Davey was a smart kid raised on hate and fear
A highschool dropout, he ain't going anywhere
I ain't see Davey in a lot of days
Last I heard he got put away
Hey Davey. Davey, when you coming back home to me?
God help me cause when I look around
I see a lot of people that are waiting on better days.
Seamus made an effort to get out and beat his name
He found himself a girl and he went West free of shame
The town ain't gonna let him get away
The last I heard he passed away
Seamus, I remember when you used to make us laugh
God help me cause when I look around
I see a lot of people that are waiting on better days.
I think you really ought to know right now
You all had a small impact on me
I think you really ought to know
if it weren't for you then I wouldn't be me
Nathan was a good kid that couldn't seem to find a way
I'd see him from time to time and he'd smile to disguise the pain
One March night he went and took his life
When Julian told me he had tears in his eyes
Hey Nathan. Don't you know your friends all miss your face?
God help me cause when I look around
My face ain't pretty and the timing ain't right
It seems every time we talk it starts up a fight
You got a man you think loves you right
But here's your golden ticket so don't let it pass you by
Life ain't nothing like a fairy tale
I know you're ready but your chance is here
It can't all go along to your plans
So take a leap of faith and I'll be your man
I know you got a man
But it won't get you very far at all
I'll be your man and I'll catch you when you fall
You think you're satisfied with your pretty man
You say he ain't a bad guy like I give a damn
Honey, I can give you all the things you need
So leave it all behind and come along with me
I know you got a man
But it won't get you very far at all
I'll be your man and I'll catch you when you fall
Don't leave me here waiting on a hope and a prayer
My face ain't pretty and the timing ain't right
It seems every time we talk it starts up a fight
You got a man you think loves you right
But here's your golden ticket so don't let it pass you by
I know you got a man
But it won't get you very far at all
Well, I'm looking out upon your skyline
From the shoulders of the River Charles
And I'm counting all your lights tonight
As the City life comes alive
I spent my days in Kenmore Square
And some evenings out on Harvard Yard
I smoked a J on an Allston roof
And lay out underneath your stars
I know you've been good to me
And I know I've got a place on your City streets
Out along the Esplanade
I found the courage to thaw out my heart
And by the bridge where it all began
I ended up where it went dark
I've been all over this country
And there ain't no place like home
We got home on an Autumn morning
It felt like we was gone too long
I know you've been good to me
And I know I've got a place on your city streets
I know you've been good to me
I'm just a rat on your city streets
I'm looking out on Boston, baby
From the shoulders of the River Charles
And I'm counting all your lights tonight
As the city life comes alive
I know you've been good to me
And I know I've got a place on your city streets
I know you've been good to me
I'm just a rat on your city streets
I love you, Boston.
