Sam Williams Iii

every now & then i feel this place is going down i'll catch the next train into town there's romance on the streets tonight & every lonely hearts alright and i think that i could find my way if i could find my way to you so many pathways i have roamed will i ever feel at home? so many streets for a burning heart but fewer roads to get a brand new start i think that i could fin my way if i could find my way to you i'm looking forward to not looking back trying to find a way to get on track sitting in this room all by myself oh lonely boy - what you gonna do? every now & then i feel i'm a burning heart in a place where nothings real pouring rain all around me but i don't care have you got a hope for me to steal?

rejoice in your naivete boy, cause it's all gone for me i know we lived on stupid dreams; it was all we had you see but when the balance totters there's no time for starry eyes clear your thoughts to earn the good life and then i'll call you wise now in the end i predict that you'll be just like me cause only the foolish or the blind don't want a new t.v. and you won't want to haunt the thrift stores when you're old and gray you'd better earn a packet now for all those lonely days i see the fire in your eyes and i wish you all the best but if you want to stay in my world put all of the that to rest there it is, i've said it, now the rest is up to you things were great when we were young; now march with me, its through if you could only see things my way, then you'd know i'm right! i believe you can hold on and live life in ways you choose confusion and my desperation are far too dear to lose if all of this meant nothing then you've wasted all that time but i can't un-tattoo my life, and that's the bottom line i'm not stupid and i know that everyone plays the game but how far you go on prefab terms is where we're not the same don't want to live my life today for when i'm 65 if we all make it that far, dear god i'll be surprised anyway the point is this: i too wish you the best but when i walk down city streets i don't feel like the rest don't worry; i won't wave a red flag or march on the city square somewhere between revolution and you, you'll find me there if you could only see things my way, then you'd know i'm right!

wake up to the darkness of another day you're determined: today you'll get away but all too soon you find that your day is set and you haven't figured how to get out yet all the images are so confusing the thoughts in your head are so bruising coffee table world is so alluring all the lines you drew once are blurring you once were the rebel - so full of hate now it seems the suit doesn't fit so great view yourself a bit uneasily this wasn't how it was going to be you know that rationales are far too easy but you've got to pay the rent and stay warm ideals battle with reality you view the world as you know it to be you built a foundation - but it's hard to stay truth be told - no one gets away you say of course things change - well i know things change but that doesn't make it easier to piss it all away

you are the happiest minute on a sunny day and a silly song, when no one is around i am a sorry sight on a saturday night you know that if i'm fine, i will soon be down but i know that you think i'm o.k. so that's all that matters anyway yeah i'm the guy that forgets your kiss on valentines you know i'm a jerk but you let me off the hook i don't know what you see in me but i'm glad that you think so you're just too good for me and yet you're perfect company and i know that you think i'm o.k. and that's all the matters anyway you are the best thing that ever came to me and when forever ends together we will be

the working man is in my head now cause in this world we're all together trapped in a world he never made it's a steel and concrete place - that lasts forever and no one smiles - it's the working class who's got time for sympathy? he sees reality, it makes him close his eyes wakes up in the morning and he feels cold makes the commute to a faraway place but in his head he's even further away and no one smiles - it's the working class who's got time for courtesy? for every working man who earns a working wage who's gonna set us free? the working man is in my head in this world we're all together remembering a girl he loved now he knows she's gone for good for him everyday is just a cycle gets home at night, turns on the color t.v. staring at programs set in faraway lands but the gray world outside his window is all he can see and no one smiles - it's the working class who's got time for courtesy? for every working man who earns a working wage who's gonna set us free? well if you've got a scream inside you better shout it before the real world takes your breath away ideals die fast now if you let them but where's the future in another factory day? it's easy to say it it's harder to live it but look around and choose remember he's like you

with a rumble of boots and a soldier's suit they march through irish land fresh-faced boys turned to grim young men, with a union jack in hand look to the roofs for trouble boy, and don't trust anyone you're a foreigner in a foreign land, and you don't belong my son get out, england, get out you know you don't belong get out, england, get out cause it's bloody and its wrong a beautiful people, proud and free you'll never keep them down how do you think they've made it through history ? balls have a name and sound you say you stand for noble things, so i don't understand the guns and the boots and the soldier's suits on green and noble land get out england, get out - you know you don't belong get out england, get out - cause it's bloody and it's wrong get out england, get out - it's time to put things right get out england, get out - cause this is not your fight don't think this is a catholic thing - you're wrong - i'm a wasp just like you but i sing a different song - there's not excuse to split a country or think that you know best - england i love you in so many ways but lets put this crap to rest

Guns of '96, the guns of '96
the ones that never miss!
96 guns in the schoolyard
there's a mama with a broken heart
wand they promise in november
but it's broken in december
the man said boy things will change this year
boy let me tell you crystal clear
that man is far away from here
and I don't want to talk about it
or hear another word about it
year of the rat?
it's the year of the gun
living in tinsletown, usa!
guns of '96
now it's fully automatic
just one word, he's gonna, let 'em have it
96 palm trees waved above the riot
now everybody wants to try it
hey brother can you spare a dime
has been replaced with a gleaming shine
with a .44 and a .45
tough kids walk the street tonight
shadows beneath a neon light
if you got a six-shooter will you feel alright ?
and the man in the blue box
stands above the fray
but you'd better lie low
or you'll be coming home the horizontal way
tough kids walk the street tonight
shadows beneath a neon light
they got a six-shooter and they feel alright

you want a perfect prefab world where the boy always gets the girl but the world's not really like that where knights in armor slay the beast and every peasant gets a feast but i don't want a world that's like that cause if the beast has a heart and the peasant has none your equalizer's come undone now what's left to do when every wish always comes true? and what's great to me won't seem so great to you there'd be no saints if every heart was overflowing there'd be nothing to learn if everyone was all-knowing well it's a worthy crusade but i won't cheer the parade of the equalizer 100 smiles make a frown mean more there's no equalizer off the lines in factory cookie cutter mentality well the world's already like that and i'm sorry if you disagree but that's the point it takes a bit of piss to put the spice in victory

i remember a time when there was nothing but trees and green grass now i look around in concrete times and stay behind the glass crowds of people but i'm all alone staring at the bill for the telephone sometimes i miss those days, when the world was green and growing but there's too many people now too mean and too knowing they say you've got to be hard in a hard world - say goodbye to suburban boys, cause urban joy is hard to find what you gonna do? it's all around you sounds of the street start to surround you what you gonna do in concrete times? now i know these memories are just my naivete and i know that boyhood's gone and this is where you stay but so much has changed that i can see now i hear sirens and turn up the t.v. i remember knowing every house and every name on our street now i don't even know our next door neighbors, just the sound of their feet - cause your eyes are more open the older you get but the wide eyes of childhood are gone forever - you see more and less and school plays have been replaced and too many friends have joined the race the newspaper brings sad news through my door acceptance and gritted teeth when you walk outside at night guns and knives replaced the schoolyard fight and the street lights blinking on and on, keep me up for hours along with my thoughts, in a pretty concrete tower

knocking down your door, it seems i couldn't even get arrested though i tried & tried - my best - well i was getting bested everybody had some kind of interest that was vested could it be the time for exclamation points is over ? could it be the time for truths in semi colons? everybody smiled - a pat on the head & oh what a nice boy never took us seriously - they were playing with their other toys but now i find i'm in demand & you'll find i've developed quite a voice could it be the time for explanation points is over? could it be the time for truths in semi colons? just question marks and periods, period my friend no question marks, period, cause i think it's time to send send it all back to you with a smile & some ribbon bow too we're the best, at worst - now every-body tells us so but you refuse to hear it - because you have got us pigeonholed well i'm the joker in your hand - we'll play til one of us has to fold

You say you've got it all figured out
you live life without a doubt
you say you're looking for something deeper
but I can't sit here watching
I won't march in time to the tune of self destruction
"well I think it's time to make it on my own
I'm gonna live life all alone"
well open your eyes, and I'll show you a big surprise
nobody makes it on their own
nothing is ever gonna change, you say
and there's no way you'll every leav this code you follow today
you say your rules are something deeper
but I see lies, and they're getting deeper
you say everything else means nothing
but I can't sit here watching
I won't march in time to the tune of self destruction
you say you've got it all figured out
I'm a bit wary of those who don't see a shadow of a doubt
come see me in 20 years, and I'll show you a host of change
in the end, your inner spirit is all that will remain
you say everything means nothing - but I won't sit here watching
I won't march in time to the tune of self-destruction

this is a puzzle i don't seem to fit all the sounds they like just seem like shit i don't know if they're dumb or i'm getting old there's a fire inside of me and i wish that they could see there's more to this than what they seem to think you've got to feel it - you've got to grow wit hit don't forget the past but get out and explore it's not that i hate them but i don't fit in though there was a day when i tried to now i'm driving with my own song in my head cutting edge traditionalist the cool guy with the biting wit but the cool crowd seems way ahead of me or behind me no matter what people say there's always pressure but i can't be a slave to others ideas i'm going to do what i want to going to play what i want to so at the end of the day i can look back and laugh

1,000 letters I have written but will never send here it is, another end and now we act like strangers, like we never met but I can't forget you said you were on the other line that day so I sat and waited for the callback that never came now where can I dispel the memories of your crime? where can I release the burn of bitterness inside? there's an astroplane of rage somewhere in the sky tonight I need to find it, to unburden, to try to set my head on right my heart feels hard even as the memories fade soon i'll be able to smile at all the times you took away they say that i'll get stronger form this dear god let them be right but I still see you when I close my eyes at night this is the last goodbye that's what you want from me this is the last goodbye so that's what you get

i think it began back in 1992 - flames and riots and my innocence was through the flames got put out but the hatred stayed so strong burning up the streets like an urban napalm white boy white boy - why you gotta act so proud? black black boy - why you gotta talk so loud? whit boy white boy - so afraid you buy a gun black boy black boy - so busy hating everyone nothing comes free/ nothing comes free and this town ain't half of what it used to be nothing comes free/ nothing comes free do you hear the sound of world burning down? i don't like fear and i don't like feeling danger now i'm driving through this ghost town like a sad lone ranger amid the ruins of all these urban sights and sounds seeing those places sometimes it still brings me down white boy white boy - you're so busy building fences black boy black boy - when you gonna come to your senses white boy white boy - anger shouldn't be your new song black boy black boy - if you hate because of color, you've got it all wrong that's when i said well, nothing comes free chorus

turn on your t.v. now my son in north hollywood i see the guns are blazing well you can't believe it but you'd best believe it boy this is your u.s.a. today turn up the radio now my son a car got jacked in compton, news at 11 just another day in the modern world but i still love this land, o.k.? well you can't believe it but you'd best believe it boy this is your u.s.a. today take a look and you might see too much reality you'll cut your mind along the way on the pieces of a broken of a broken world today see the pretty news announcer, son? she looks so good with stories of decay and destruction smiling like it was all a video game and every anchor looks the same well you can't believe it but you'd best believe it this is your u.s.a. today look too hard then you will see too much reality you'll cut your mind along the way on the pieces of a broken world today see the wars so far from here brought into my room so crystal clear words and images like these have got me on my knees turn up your t.v. now my son cause there's nowhere left to hide, nowhere left to run well you can't believe it but you'd best believe it this is the u.s.a. today

Walk along these lonely streets with the shoes up on my feet,
Ya, firmilur faces apear only when I go to sleep, but I don't go there,
And I don't know where, where I am,
And I'm so scared ya, and I want to fall asleep, '
Cause I know that's where we'll meet.
And I sit and wonder why I'm alone again tonight,
Let go there out of site heyy Jodiiii won't you take me away
Hey hey the clock tics slowly away as the night falls on the day
O yaa I havn;'t felt you in weeks it like I'm lost in out of space,
And I stay out there and I don't where ,
Where I am and I'm soo scared ya and I want to fall asleep,
'cause I know that's where we'll meet.
But I sit and wonder why I'm alone again tonight.
Let go there out of sight yaaa Jodiii won't you take me away
O hey heyyyy Jodii won't you take me away "solo" and I want to fall asleep,
Yaa, 'cause I know that where we'll meet,
But I sit and wonder why I'm alone again tonight,
Lets go there out of site, Jodii won't you take me away heyyy hey Jodi won't you take me away.

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Written By RUSSO, SCOTT / BREWER, ROBERT / MORRIS, STEVEN / YOUMAN, WADE T.
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.

When i was young and self assured
I wanna get the level i adored
A faith in god that people share
They might believe but i don? even care
I shaped my ways right out of here
They try to scare me but they won? get near
But how it works - that i won? forget -
What you deserve ain`t what you get
Where the hand goes down tonight
Feel the way you will decide
Where the hand goes down tonight
They will try to drown ?
And now we?e here what have we found
Like all the others as they hit the ground
We?e different now but in the end
We?e all engaged to reincarnate in sand

there was a time when home was home
things couldn??짠??짙???? come to be alone
weather was fine and moods were high
some in the distance tried to fly

but suddenly a storm did wake
woke up with pain - too much to take
the ashes fly and fruits are bruised
we can??짠??짙???? deny - something we would use

Debbie wants to go far away
far away from home, no rules to break
Debbie wants to know how the angels fly
Debbie wants to live and rest a while



and now she??짠??짙창?" gone away, her parents cry
and if they only could they would retry
but debbie she has learned how angels fly
she left her life and died, but who knows why

rest a while

something has happened and now I磎 insecure
and downstairs the pain grows I will loose control
I smell her armpits but I do need her soul
I could be so generous, but now it磗 time to die
no one could help her and no one will hear her cries
and I live to save her from me
I磍l keep her so precious and I磎 her god tonight
then I磍l be calm and patient , will only take the night
I could be generous to her , but now it磗 time to die
no one could help her I know it and no one hears her cries
and I live to save her from
I exist to protect her from me
now there she lies in bed
and I磎 the one who will find her it磗 time to go
that fuckin blade in my hand will bless her and take her higher
she磗 gorgeous
and all I see is blood on the ground
I磎 feeling dizzy - I think my time is out
blessed for that she did fool me
and now it磗 time for me to say goodbye to her
I hear the laughter around me
and I can磘 find the well something has happened and now I磎 insecure
and I live to protect her from
what the fuck was going wrong

one desperate morning in a desperate week
you stand before me can??짠??짙???? you see I'm in need
words are so crazy and I want to wash
away the pain from my insistence

see , you could never lie
what are you gonna try ?
see , you could never run
love - things, they have to come

what is this life for, I just want to seek
for something special I refuse to speak (about)


loaded up rifle in my hands might break
that kind of love and maybe me

after all you said to me - I hope I am released
care for your agony and go to make your aims be real,
but the one I tried to keep has gone away

well here's now some world news I'm gonna tell you
I still hide it deep inside, but I no longer can
fuck blessed for all what you once said, I can't even argue
what is it now, what will you do ? You'll cheat yourself !
but maybe I'm a fool, for I believed in true love
now all you brought to life is dying by your hell

won't waste another day
I'm here to run away - ahead

won't feel you, just see you, I'm only after
I don't mind to, but miss you, I'm only after
I denied you, it relieves you, that I'm only after
still love you, it won't help you I'm still only after you



one day we'll come to terms that reason wasn't bad
for it made us great and tall but never feel aware
but peace of mind will never come, so dark but far true
as long as we deny we need a heart instead (as well)

don't waste another day
I'm here to run away - ahead

once I thought that I could tone it down
the way that life comes 'round -
that day, that freak, somehow I can't explain
I won't ignore the same
wrong again
i'tnot gonna find a reason why I'd turn it 'round
but now I leave it all behind and wind this up
around the neck
too much time we waste to find a way that always shows us how
but sometimes it'tlike they won't let you out
and you will be your slave - wrong again
I'tnot gonna find a reason why I'd turn it 'round
and I believed that I could swim but now I'tgonna drown
to the sound of so much self - I know that I would hate myself
and so I leave it all behind and wind this up -
around the neck

please explain why others show what some don't even know
in this game we're high above ourselves and we just flow
you could stand right where you are and you don't do anything
or make a plan to change a thing that makes us all survive
stupid rage, no gain in words - that they just hear themselves
I try in vain to keep it silent when they're all awake
all they't learned is how they need a god and how they blow
all this mud - explained and told to dust before my eyes
somehow I need a Jesus for my plan
to save the world and all that shit -
I can't control myself, I'tjust a sacred cramp !
to break would be immoral, but explain to me what'tright ?I don't regret that sometimes I feel strange and what I do is wrong
I can't complete the world and when you'tl ask me all I'll do is lie
it'tstraight to happen just before my eyes
no greater love can't help the fear I hide
why can't I change a thing before my eyes
sometimes I wish that I could be so blind

what are those freaks to replace our bet - they quoted a lie
where have they gone now ? - control yourself and calm it down
"I am called to be your leader"
our arms aligned and then we reload

we go now to the border
stay here - no surrender
for we don??짠??짙???? wanna kill??짠??짙창???m
I??짠??짙??쩍 not aware, but I care - do remind me



but when we came forth - their hidden place - a ruin without hope
and one for all they decide to hate and not to lose
"who is called to be your leader ?"
"we killed him first -now we won't give up!"

oh fuck you're still alive - I'm glad to see you again
oh I'm really scared, I swear that I failed to know
I hear you say that I never seemed to love you
and when I'm asleep I don't want to hear you ?
and I don't know that I saw you drown
and I don't know what I saw
and I don't know.... you drowned
oh you never saw, I bleed to keep you unknown
no you would never know, what I felt: left all alone
and I lied to please the crowd that I belong to as well
and I lied ?.
crawl out and share the love
I can't explain the anger and that once I used to know
That I was the one who tried to escape
Tried to hold you back in my head
and I didn't want to hurt you
and I didn't want to hear you
and I didn't want to leave you
and couldn't even reach you
and I lied - so I lied - never lied

she arrives like she always has arrived
to light up the hidden and the failed
beam bright, keeps warm, alive ,
until It dries - the infusion fails

but when it dies, that damn rose, you could see it ,
but you??짠??짙????l never hear a sigh
and when it dies there??짠??짙창?" no more you can do,
than mourn and fade your smile
when it dies?.

born fine, prepared to stand the rain


rewind won't help the defaced

whatever you could say to it
whatever you could do about it
??짜??????짭eutralized

2003년 4월 19일.
같은 수업을 듣는 후배들과
'기억속에서 날아오르다'라는 이름의
한국민주화운동사료 전국순회전시회에 다녀오게 되었다.

나 초등학교 다닐적에 XXX씨가 대통령을 해먹던 그 시절에
대학생이었던 나의 삼촌은 제대할 때
신고온 군화를 신고 데모를 했었네.
두세시쯤에 학교에서 집에 돌아와
골목에서 친구들과 놀고있을 때
시내에서 터진 최루탄에 눈이 맵고 피부가 따가와
수돗물로 눈을 헹구고 방에 들어와야만 했었네.
삼촌과 꽤 나이차이가 많이 나시는 우리 아버지께서는
삼촌에게 앞장서서 데모하지만 말아달라는
걱정섞인 격려의 말씀을 하셨던 것 같네.

# 무자비하게 시민들을 짓밟았던 전투화
복종해야만 했던 군인들의 머리위엔 XXX
비리와 부정부패로 수놓인 아름다운 대한민국을 건국한...

물통에 물받아 63빌딩 모형을 만들어
서울이 물바다 된다던 구라가
순진한 국민을 혼란에 빠뜨렸었네.
평화의 댐 건설 명목으로
내 코묻은 돈 500원을 빼았아간
그 일도 나에겐 그저 저 안에 남아있는
잘모르는 기억일 뿐이었는데..
그저 커나가며 XXX은 개새끼라는 생각이 지배했을 뿐..
그저 그것은 나에게 기억일 뿐이었는데..

* 개소리 좀 하지말어 당신 통장에 삼십만원?
앨범이 적자난 내 통장에도 백삼십만원.
골프는 어찌치나 돈없으면 당신의 옛 친구들과 자치기나..
국민들을 재밌게 해주려고 한 코미디?
재밌게 웃었지만 그건 개소리지.
목숨이 없기에 현실에선 숨쉴수 없는 죽은 비둘기와
아직 숨을 쉬고 있는..

흑백사진들.. 소리가 들리는 것 같아 함성이 들려.
동영상으로 재생되는 자료보다도
더욱 슬프고 아프게 다가오는 흑백사진과 주석.
총, 비둘기의 날개짓, 피흘리는 비둘기,
시체를 땅바닥에 질질 끌고 가는 군인들..
캐터필러의 굉음, 그리고 XXX의 얼굴...

* 개소리 좀 하지말어 당신 통장에 삼십만원?
앨범이 적자난 내 통장에도 백삼십만원.
골프는 어찌치나 돈없으면 당신의 옛 친구들과 자치기나..
국민들을 재밌게 해주려고 한 코미디?
재밌게 웃었지만 그건 개소리지.
목숨이 없기에 현실에선 숨쉴수 없는 죽은 비둘기와
아직 숨을 쉬고 있는..


난 근로자가 아니기에
나 그 시절의 아픔을 제대로 겪어보지않았기에
내가 느끼는 이 감정과 혼돈의 슬픔은
배부른 시건방짐일지도 모르겠네.
무지개빛 세상을 꿈꾸며 자유와 민주화를 부르짖었던
그들이 이제 흑백필름과 사진으로 남아있지만
그들이 있기에 나 이정도의 무지개빛 세상에서 날고있는 것이리라.

# 무자비하게 시민들을 짓밟았던 전투화
복종해야만 했던 군인들의 머리위엔 XXX
비리와 부정부패로 수놓인 아름다운 대한민국을 건국한...

*개소리 좀 하지말어 당신 통장에 삼십만원?
앨범이 적자난 내 통장에도 백삼십만원.
골프는 어찌치나 돈없으면 당신의 옛 친구들과 자치기나..
국민들을 재밌게 해주려고 한 코미디?
재밌게 웃었지만 그건 개소리지.
목숨이 없기에 현실에선 숨쉴수 없는 죽은 비둘기와
아직 숨을 쉬고 있는..


내눈에 살짝 고인 이 눈물이 의미하듯 감사해.
우리는 죽음과 자유를 바꾼 이들의 영혼에
부끄럽지 않은 세상을 만들어 가야해.

living -- if you can call this living
thinking will it ever go away?
dying -- there's all these people dying
i'm conscious of it every single day
[chorus]
who's gonna be the next to go?
walking in a new kind of fear
laughing at all the people here
asking how could this happen here?
taking my choices away
[chorus]
under the gun
well it's been a month, standing in the shadows
under the gun
well it's been a month, hiding from the sun
parking lots all up and down the interstate
and on the news it's a great debate
back to the normal? it will have to wait

today's world is always on
my modem speeds life right along
my brain is off but that's ok
you can reach me any day
my darkened ?
with blinking digits
let me know the world is r?
monitor
so bright and huge
sanity
you slowly lose
turn your fax on
turn your fax on
it's automatic
automatic
turn your fax on
turn your fax on
it's automatic
automatic
color printer
makes pretty pictures
machines in life
permanent fixtures
e-mail me
anywhere
I can't escape
I don't care
turn your fax on
turn your fax on
it's automatic
automaticturn your fax on
turn your fax on
it's automatic
automatic
solitude
I forgot
quiet time
for deeper thought
i'm one with the world
and everything is spinning
out of control
turn your fax on
turn your fax on
it's automatic
automaticturn your fax on
turn your fax on
it's automatic
automatic
you can reach me
anytime
with your cell phone
i've got mine
you can page me
in the movies
silent buzz
cuts right through me
turn your fax on
turn your fax on
it's automatic
automatic
turn your fax on
turn your fax on
it's automatic
automatic...
life is automatic.....
life is automatic.....
life is automatic...
life is automatic

time to breakout
now it's time to go
try to breakout or you'll never know
so have a drink or 3 and sing with me
wild rover
roam 'til you're free
in the days of 1916, back before the dawn of time
when I was just a gleam to my grandpa before
well he found a little lassie
to whom, he took a fancy
and they had my mum and then they had some more
and he told me with a grin
as he took a sip of gin
someday son you'll breathe free celtic air
and it may not be today
but look now that's o.k.
cause someday son the soldiers will
all march away
try to breakout now
it's time to go
try to breakout or you'll never know
so have a drink or 3
and sing with me
scotland, ireland and wales must be free
try to breakout
or you'll never know
try to breakout
or you'll never really know
time to breakout
or you'll never really know
time to breakout
or you'll never really
never really know
now every boy around the world
dreams he could save the day
be the hero, get the girland walk away
now grandpa isn't here today
and the soldiers are still there
but I love an irish girl who took my name
and we'll raise our kids to know
the tales of scotland's woes
and hope that someday they will
breathe free air
and it may not be today
but look now that's o.k.
cause someday son the soldiers will
all march away

sitting in my room
just wasting time
i've spent my whole life asking
questions
and when the answers come
they hurt or wound
I don't know what it takes to bind it
I don't know what it takes to find it
is there such a thing as piece of mind?
on the telephone
I hear your voice
and I wonder what's behind it
and in your eyes
the blankest beauty
I wonder what there is inside it
I don't know what it takes
to find you
i'll give pieces of my mind
i'm always mixed up every time
pathetic ramblings, this I know
welcome to this bitter show
this poetry is not romantic
and anger is not a tonic
painting on a smile
so you'll never know
just how deeply your words
hurt me
and boys don't cry
this I know
i've been socialized to
hide it

gonna head on out of town
on a greyhound bus tonight
you can say that it's a retreat but i'm not
fighting
broken tatooed heart
like words and promises
and i've seen just too many wrongs for righting
bitterfree -- the road that lies ahead
two blue eyes, focused rage
dear god i'm seeing red
i'm free
free of you
i'm free
free to choose
you can say it's alright
life's just a roll of dice
you can say that it's just a game but i'm not playing
and friends I once believed
seem so distant now to me
and I don't even know which way i'm facing
bitterfree, the road that lies ahead
two blue eyes, focused rage
dear god i'm seeing red
there's been up that we've been through
but i've had too much bitter fruit
i'm free
free of you
i'm free
free to choose
color me a shade of blue
can you see me
pull away from you?
now I haven't got a hope
there's no place left to turn
wondering if that bridge is far behind me

pulverized
cast aside
but I survived
now fly the flag
criticized
opened wide
left to die
now fly the flag
brutalized
cut down to size
but i'll survive
now fly the flag
deified
mystified
crucified
now fly the flag
justified
penalized
but I survived
now fly the flag
learned to fight
two black eyes
but i'll survive
now fly the flag
all the things I thought i'd never be
now it looks like they're all happening to me
battlewise
streetwise
lies and lies
now fly the flag
lonely eyes
on my own tonight
but i'll survive
now fly the flag
hypnotize
petrified
but i'll survive
now fly the flag
glorified
victimized
but i'll survive
now fly the flag
all these things I thought i'd never be
and it looks like they're all happening to me
this one's for every lonely heart
when they've got you beat before you start
when it seems you're all alone
you've got nowhere to go
beaten down again
don't let the bastards get you down
get up tonight
stand up tonight
just don't let them keep you down
and fly
just fly
now fly the flag

if you're scared on the streets tonight
looking for a place to hide
this is greenwhich mean time
too many people in washington
playing power games they love to play
they're all on greenwhich mean time
it's a world I don't want to know
bowing how low can you go?
hear about the people's problems
they don't want to know
and the businessman in london
and the new york stock exchange
they're all on greenwhich mean time
corporate pollution and greed
in the driver's seat
keeping greenwhich mean time
it's a world I don't want to know
kill each other chasing gold
hear about the world's problems
they don't want to know
I think no matter what time it is
from tokyo to peru
they're on greenwhich mean time
how's the world going to improve
when the dollar continues to rule
and it's always greenwhich mean time
it's a world I don't want to know
kill each other chasing gold
hear about the world's problems
they don't want to know -- and for
every artist out there, there's a
hundred want to be a cop!

the man on the street --
he doesn't know my name
but I am sure we're not at all the same
man on the street -- ou know he looks like me
but he'll never know all the things i've seen

see him and there's no enmity --
sometimes there's jealousy
but would you be him? I don't think so
no a hair is out of place -- he sets the pace
and he's a step ahead of me

the man on the street --
he doesn't look at me
and if he did I wonder what he sees
he might be kind; he might be alright
are his concerns so far away from mine?

see him and there's no problem --
thought he always looks so cold
but would you be him? I don't think so
not a stich out of place -- he sets the pace
and he's just a step ahead
he keeps a step ahead of me

he lives as expected
secure and protected
the world won't affect him
and so I reject him now

I feel so different, though I might no look so
you can wear the costume, but do you march in time?
there's so many targets in the world to see
feel the dirt of rebellion beneath your feet!

back street boys
boys to men
I never want to hear that crap again
there's nothing good on the radio
nothing!
matchbox 20 - once was plenty
alternajunk
giving me a headache
there's nothing good on the radio
nothing!
no bands that rock get played today
mr. radio programmer
playing it safe
you spin you're dial looking for the clash
and all you hear is worthless trash
there's nothing good on the radio
nothing!
puff daddy sucks, that's for sure
almost as bad as tupoc shakur
from jewel to mariah carey
it's all so horrible
all so scary
everything on the dial sounds so lame
everything on the dial sounds the same!

there was a day
when we made promises
and there was a day
when we kept them
we were like one
no one could stop us
we ruled the world
from the throne you made
promises -- we were young and free
promises -- how it ought to be
promises -- but somewhere it changed
promises -- nothing remains the same
now when we were tight
you made such promises
the world was alright
and we believed them
but now it's through
and your stock is down
put out the fuse
the sparks are on the ground
promises -- we were young and free
promises -- how it ought to be
promises -- but somewhere it changed
promises -- nothing remains the same
hurrah for yesterday
long live yesterday
drink a toast
to yesterday
we got the most
out of yesterday
we were like one
we were like one
promises -- we were young and free
promises -- how it ought to be
promises -- but somewhere it changed
promises -- nothing remains the same
hurrah for yesterday
long live yesterday
drink a toast
to yesterday
we got the most
out of yesterday

the revolution will be compromised
if we don't move now
1,000 mental road signs
go blurring by
telling us that this is the time
this is the time
the revolution will be compromised
if we don't move now
see the kids out on the street
so much wasted energy
if they had a leader
what an army they would be
but that's not reality
there is no reason without reason
complacency to be feared
why do we get out of bed?
light a fire in your head
the revolution has been compromised

you're such a sweet girl
i'm so sorry when ni lose my cool
seems like sometimes I most appreciate that
when i'm far way from you
and I know that's not how
it's supposed to be, o.k.
and it's usually not, but
somehow it is today
you're such a cool girl
and I really think that every day
and just to prove it's true,
i'm dreaming of you
when you're a thousand miles away
and I know that's just how
it's supposed to be, o.k.
but I forget when you're
close to me
i'm sorry sometimes
don't build up walls of
toughness to protect your
self from me
i'm still the boy you love,
and you're the girl for me
those walls are going to fall
those walls are going to fall
i'm sorry sometimes

somewhere in a cold jail cell
is a man doing time,
in a living hell
for perjury
but it's o.k. for billy
somewhere is a young girl
her life is forever swirled
she's out of luck
but it's o.k. for billy
and so many pawns will fall
for every king's stone wall
I believe that we should strive
for more
obstruction, deception
and still they blindly support him
they've lowered the standards
that they could've raised
it's such a shame
this is the new breed
and i'm standing on my own
I remember when
there were democrats
who stood tall and
were cool cats
now all I see are
more suits and ties
double standards,
equivocate
but even kings can get checkmate
just be honest and show this
king the door
some say that it's just lies, but
I think it's just trust
and I believe that we should
strive for more
if he were in the g.o.p.,
you know that instantly
they'd be lining up to fire
but now they lowered the standards
that they could've raised
it's such a shame
but this is the new breed
for every little kid today
who wonders why this one's o.k.
well, kid these are double standards
and this is the new breed
and i'm standing on my own
and maybe it's naive
for someone to believe
that there's a better way
to run the show today
but somewhere is a man or woman
political in stripe
whoe doesn't want to fall in line
who'll say what's wrong is right
and it's time to put it right
the king should lose his crown
this time
who has the guts to say
this thing is not o.k.
for the sake of kings to come
but now they lowered the standards
that they could've raised
it's such a shame
this is the new breed
for every little kid today
who wonders why this one's o.k.
well, kid these are double standards
and this is the new breed
this is the new breed
well i'm standing on my own