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Caterpillar crawling up the big phone pole
Is there somebody that you want to talk to? You know that pretty soon you’ll be able to fly How is this going to affect you? Do you think it might wreck you? Your friends might reject you Say you took it too far You said you want to be want to be want to be want to be Hooked on glossy pictures and drugs I’ve never seen We’ll treat you with advice from a fashion magazine One day she just walked into that magazine I wonder if she’ll ever come back And they all said she would crack They said her mind was one track, Said she took it too far You said you want to be want to be want to be want to be Closer to the stars ... Every time you move your lips Let me give you a few tips Yesterday you were too young Tomorrow you will be too old To regret all the things you’ve done who’re you trying to hustle ? Somebody you wanna show your muscle? Second hand excuses never went too far What’s this scene you’re making? Your ideas have been taken We’ll seek when you awaken alone in someone’s car You just stood there shaking, stood there shaking They said you were faking You said you want to be want to be want to be want to be Closer to the stars... Closer to the stars |
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The aim of my time is to fill up my mind
And when it gets too full I forget Now if I'm late and I'm making you wait Then there ain't one thing around that's even funny Seein' things clearly and I thank you so dearly Everything's so true to life when you're not living When it's all a drag that's when you give it all the way put it all in bags, just call it charity You just can't go back You just can't go back Everybody's going their own way Each one is gonna make his day It's more than amusement now You're just killing time (Just killing time) You just can't go back (Just killing time) You just can't go back (Just killing time) You just can't go back Fifteen years later caught in time's incinerator Yesterday's worries are today's But the good times are so near just sitting back and drinking beer You know I'm halfway down the road but I know that I still ain't there Seeing things clearly I thank you so dearly Everything's so true to life when you're not living When it's all a drag that's when you give it all the way put it all in bags, just call it charity You just can't go back (Just killing time) You just can't go back Everybody's going their own way Each one is gonna make his day It's more than amusement now You're just killing time |
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I said "Hey brown girl I seen tears through the window of the junk shop downtown"
Selling trinkets from your far off homeland, did the Promise land let you down? I said "hey young boy I notice that you ain't afraid to walk next to me" "Old man, you look like you're dying, is that all you want is a quarter from me?" Sometimes I feel like a stranger, I feel like a stranger I'm just another face in a faceless crowd, I'm just another king in a headless crown I'm so alone. Y'know I live here in this city, but this place it just ain't nobody's home Now how many times do I got to tell you? There's no such thing as a man made world Now how many times do I got to tell you? There's no such thing as a man-tamed girl Sometimes I feel like stranger, I feel like a stranger I want to buy some flowers for my mother, if I only had a chance You see, I got a happy family, but that's oh so far away You see, I've got it all here inside me, but I just can't seem to get it out But I know with a little imagination we can work this whole goddamn thing out Oh don't make me feel so strange, I feel like a stranger |
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Folks tell jokes in clouds of smoke
Making sure life won't decay Fancy flags fly in your face Fall polluting in my space Pounds of sounds from shotgun rounds Music of the hit parade No your fathers, fathers, fathers He's got nothing left to say On the day you walked away Another world, another day |
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The bank keeps draggin' me down, gonna rip it from my heart
Drown and shut out the sound, comedy's about to start World's been draggin' me down, prepare your inner child I keep draggin' me down, let me run before I walk It's only water, it's only rain, it's only teardrops, it's only pain But it's draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down Stop draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down My mom's been draggin' me down Everytime I stop to think Mom you're pushing down, my hands are startin' to stink World's been draggin' me down, don't die I'm warnin' you I keep draggin' you down Can't even help myself It's only water, it's only rain, it's only teardrops, only pain World is draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down Stop draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down Ahh, ahh, c'mon make me smile Hey, hey, I'll be- I'll be alright in a while Hey, hey, it's not like I have some special infection I just want that good 'ole-fashioned affection One, two, draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down Stop draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down It's only water, it's only rain, it's only teardrops, only pain Stop draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down Stop draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down Draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down Draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down Draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down Uuuhh |
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What are you doing here in my nightmare? (In my nightmare)
Stepping back into the stupidness gets me nowhere (Gets me nowhere) Look at you now - You look like an angel in hell Look at you now - Drown in your wishing well Look at you now - All those strories and there's no one to tell Look at you now Do you think you can find a place for your dreams in my nightmares? And you're tied to the tracks but the train broke down Wake me up and let me go (from) somebody I used to know From somewhere in my nightmare. Don't you remember the years we got nowhere? (We got nowhere) Look at you now - You look like an angel in hell Look at you now - Drown in your wishing well Look at you now - All those strories and there's no one to tell Look at you now Do you think you can find a place for your dreams in my nightmares? And you're playing with a different joker, but there's always one more sucker And you're tied to the tracks but the train broke down Trapped at the top of the merry-go-round But it won't let you down. Look at you now - You look like an angel in hell Look at you now - Drown in your wishing well Look at you now - All those strories and there's no one to tell Look at you now Do you think you can find a place for my dreams? |
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Now you're mad and leaving home
'Cause you say there's no one there for you to talk to Isn't it nice to go outside When you know there is no place you have to walk to You can live alone inside a crowded room And it's never, never too late, never too soon Put on your frown to go downtown You have come a long long way Even though you have no idea where you're going You ain't done a godamn thing all afternoon Your confidence is sinking like a lead balloon And it's never, never too late, never too soon I can't come down I can't come down I can't come down I can't come down I can't go on I can't go on It's not like I'm asking you to hold up the sky All the things you held so high Are you surprised to find that now they add to nothing Now you're growing old and bored Do you think that maybe you could teach me something There is nothing that you really can assume And it's never, never too late, never too soon Now you're mad I know you're mad Now you're mad I know you're mad Why don't you just tell someone It's not like you're the only one It's not like I'm asking you to hold up the sky I can teach you how to drive You can teach me how to lie Hush my darling don't you cry This could be your lullaby |
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Sirens are a-screaming, shots ring out at night
Movie cameras rolling in And there goes my hero with his head between his legs And all this time I believed in him Now, what is the sound of snow falling down On the tombstone in the dead of the night? And who is the hound at the downtown dog pound Who speaks English when the watchman's not in sight? And where will you be in 1993? Still sitting in the same chair Sinning is for sinners and I'm just a beginner But I've never really been touched there Hey ain't it strange how some things never change Ain't it strange how nothing stays the same? You were thinkin' I was distressed about some universe oppressed But I was just depressed about my last pinball game I've learned to accept and not to expect The respect and neglect that I get I've tried not to forget about what hasn't happened yet And on this I place my last bet Hey did you give what you get Did you get what you give? of your ?? Winning is for winners And I know spring follows winter But I've never really been touched there You know it's hard to be nice when hate becomes your vice And you can't find peace anywhere Love's just not for lovers Get off your high horse brother Drop your fist and get out of here |
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In a town without a name
there is no shame no blame to claim one fine day the pilgrims came and made new rules for an old game And I'm waiting for the garbage man To take you away And I'm searching for my playground So I can go and play So they built a big smoke stack Built a railroad track They made the dirt roads black And they did it behind your back And now you pay their tax hoping something cracks And I'm waiting for the garbage man To take you away And I'm searching for my playground So I can go and play From out of the dust came corrosion and rust That made you look so cheap There's nothing to have here And nothing to hold here And nothing that you can keep Now understand this is no man's land And its all that's left that's free Where the kings of nothing rule my friend And you can't make me leave There's a billboard in the sky Reflecting water in your eyes This big city, this ghost town Will come crawling to the ground And I'm waiting for the hurricane To blow you away And I'm searching for my twister to twist you into shape Now my speach is said and done The circus came, I had my fun And the wasteland has been won And the building has begun And I'm waiting for the earthquake To shake you down And I see my mother nature Trying to drag you around From out of the dust came Corrosion and rust That made you look so cheap There's nothing to have here And nothing to hold here And nothing that you can keep Now understand this is no man's land And its all that's left that's free Where the kings of nothing rule my friend (Then you can't make believe?) |
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Make ure chillin
guts start spillin its piece of a puzzle piece of a trouble is it somethin else? ure sellin yourself Im so wanting without a clue gotta find something better something better to do something so exciting Im into something new you piece together the whole thing gives u something to use maybe I should practice it one more time maybe Im afraid what it might do maybe it might upset someone maybe that's what its supposed to do pull it from the bottom it begins to change find another existance thats what ure trying to say? Im not pushin u out Im not pushin u off Im not pushin u out Im not pushin u All of the lands are terribly restless with tellin u what to do but u go bak to the land where ure defensless they act just like me and u look what u've dont to me look what I've done to u look what they've done to us now were like noone else theyre laughin at u talkin about u all these new things all these new things I found in use and Im workin so hard when I think it is real everybody does once just to see how it feels its not a sensation and its not for sale so what can u call it now? keep em gotten theyll spoil u rotten keep em gotten keep em gotten just another freak be another freak be a freak |
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This will be over
I hope you don't mind the pain I wanna cut you And let you force it out clean It'd be a shot quick I think I know how this works Things will be better Because they can't get much worse And we will carry on Carry… carry on Now, I can't carry the weight of your hang-ups They're dead weight, they're made out of lead And I can't carry the guilt and frustration Of something someone else said Now I'm just learning to carry myself Carry myself on my own Now I'm just looking to carry myself Carry on, carry on, carry on Whenever I see you I know you think I don't know That I could be you And your thoughts they don't show I want to trust you I want to trust you so bad I want to bust you Stealing the few things we had And we will carry on Carry on Now, I can't carry the weight of your hang-ups They're dead weight, they're made out of lead And I can't carry the guilt and frustration Of something someone else said Now I'm just learning to carry myself Carry myself on my own Now I'm just looking to carry myself Carry on, carry on, carry on (Now's the place to lose your faith Keep the faith that reinstates the habits That are forming what you feel) This will be over |
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You've got eyes but they can't see
What's inside a tv and they never look at me You won't know and you're never claim to show That special feeling inside Oh how time flies when its got nowhere to go Up to the skies and it only goes to show I've waited here for you a long, long time I think i'd better go Long way home (x4) So now you studied the changes Have you lost your way Through all the strangeness And you got no more to say Long way home (x8) |
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Dying on a bed of roses in the middle of the night
Woke up in a cold, dark basement looking through candlelights Up all night, silly kid come crashing down (just one more taker) Like a ghost of a thousand miles crawling over me Here's to falling off the world's dark side Drifted it alone on a morning's tide Riding on an all-night train through a crystal gate When the moonlight shines a path for a brighter day When the ballrooms are all banging and the evening is so still Could you see it in your heart to let me in? Did he hand you the reigns of the morning news? He lulled you asleep 'til the Aussie cat mews When the leaves from the trees come crashing down (don't time pass slowly) When the seasons don't change, they're spinning around Here's to falling off the world's dark side Drifted it alone on a morning's tide Riding on an all-night train through a crystal gate When the moonlight shines a path for a brighter day When the ballrooms are all banging and the evening is so still Could you see it in your heart to let me in? Let me in |
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Shipwreck sailors searching for some fools gold
They're the local drunken boys Been out drinking all night feeling alright We watch them kill each other in a fight Ship of fools, drunken hearts Making yet another new start Ain't it hard to play that part When you've got a drunken heart I can't change the world by complaining You can't change it with a kiss (Be no?) concentrating contemplating No time to find out what we miss Ship of fools ... |
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