Sprung Monkey

I was caught
In the middle of a railroad track (Thunder) [...of a lightning attack]
I looked round
And I knew there was no turning back (Thunder)
My mind raced
And I thought what could I do (Thunder)
And I knew
There was no help, no help from you (Thunder)

Sound of the drums
Beatin' in my heart
The thunder of guns
Tore me apart
You've been - thunderstruck

Rode down the highway
Broke the limit, we hit the town
Went down to Texas, yeah Texas
And we had some fun
We met some girls
Some dancers who gave a good time
Broke all the rules, played all the fools
Yeah, yeah, they, they, they blew our minds

I was shakin' at the knees
Could I come again please?
Yeah the ladies were too kind
You've been - thunderstruck, thunderstruck
Yeah yeah yeah, thunderstruck

Yeah
Oh, thunderstruck, yeah

Now we're shaking at the knees
Could I come again please?

Thunderstruck, thunderstruck
Yeah yeah yeah, thunderstruck
Thunderstruck, yeah, yeah, yeah

Said yeah, it's alright
We're doing fine
Yeah, it's alright
We're doing fine
(So fine)

Thunderstruck, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Thunderstruck, thunderstruck, thunderstruck
Whoa baby, baby, thunderstruck
You've been thunderstruck, thunderstruck
Thunderstruck, thunderstruck, thunderstruck
You've been thunderstruck

Formed in liquid, pushed out still dripping
A world was thrown before my eyes
Now paint a picture, crayon stick figures
With blue haired people, purple skies-
Swirl

With acclimation, comes deep resentment
I'm forced in a structure I can only oblige
Integral termoil, It's time to decide
Choose my victims, draw my lines

Formed in liquid, pushed out still dripping
A world was thrown before my eyes
Paint a picture, crayon stick figures
With blue haired people, purple skies

Can this be the end that I've forseeen
A glass thats half full is half empty

Formed in liquid, pushed out still dripping
A world was thrown before my eyes
Paint a picture, crayon stick figures
With blue haired people, purple skies

Take a piece of me
Take a piece of me
Take a piece of me and watch me bleed
Take a piece of me
Take a piece of me
Take a piece of me if it's what you need

Another year is passing,
Another year is changing
Was it just numbered time?
And as the winter thaw sets in
And we prepare for spring time
As we hold our children so tight

And now the sun is out
The ice has all but melted
Awarm feeling inside starts to grow
But it seems somewhat hotter then we last remembered
Now inside something else starts to grow
My concern, my skepticism, my fear
They say record breaking heat
A record we didn't want to break

I'm now aware of many things
But I can't change your mind
Now the heat of the summer
It hits just like your head against the pavement
It's been a long year
They say record breaking heat
Those records we didn't want to break
I'm now aware of many things
But I can't change your life

Nature's crashing I don't believe
Time slips by and still no one see's it
I just wonder what's going on
If your last word is going to be sorry,
Say it now so I don't worry,
I just wonder what's going on

Something that fills them up inside,
Everybody wants the answers to questions,
To all the questions that fill them up inside,

Oh,
I just want to believe.....,
Can you hear me,
can you see me,
what's inside of me,
Oh,
I just want to believe.....,
If my life it has a purpose,
help me to believe,
Oh,
I just want to believe.....,
Can you hear me,
can you see me,
what's inside of me,
Oh,
I just want to believe..... ,
If my life it has a purpose,
help me to believe,

Everybody wants to find the circle,
The line of truth that has no end,
Because so many nights I've slept with the feeling of empty,
And I say,
right now I'm ready to believe,

Oh,
I just wanna believe..... ,
Can you hear me,
can you see me,
what's inside of me,
Oh,
I just want to believe.....,
If my life it has a purpose,
help me to believe,
Oh,
I just want to believe.....,
Can you hear me,
can you see me,
what's inside of me,
Oh,
I just want to believe.....,
If my life it has a purpose,
help me to believe,
Who am I? ,
Why do I live? Why do I die? ,
Who am I? ,
Should I care about my soul?,
Where it might go,
Should I care?,
I feel love with my friends,
I feel love in my songs,
If I could just hold love then all the answers might come,
If we're all children of God and we just turned away,
A lack of belief,
A world without faith,
It's time we turn back around,
Because we've all been smashed through the rigors of life,
We've got values misplaced of what's wrong and whats right,
It's time we turn back around,
To what we know is love.

Oh reluctant man who's afraid to touch the world
Why are you hiding?
What is the base of all your fears?
Do you find yourself in a cold, cruel world?
Dark and desperate
Scared and lonely

Selfish man who never gave to anyone else
What are you holding?
Is it worth the price you pay?
'Cause your eyes they see just what you want to see
And I hope they're not staring blindly at me

Cynical man who looks so hard to find a doubt
Can't you see the truth you're mutilating by what you're fabricating
Oh destroyer man knocking holes right through the heart
It's feelings that we're made of
It's feelings you're afraid of
You never cared before
Now you fight for so much more
There's no excuses now I can see you're breaking
A boy once in his youth
Now a man must face the truth
Well there's no excuses now I can see that you're breaking
Consider this
Break down the walls
Break down the walls
Break down the walls
Cause I can see a better place
Now I can see a better place for you
Yeah I can see a better place for you

They're coming to see
And you're running to hide
Suppressing your emotions deep inside
So that the angry man can now control your world
He's not above the killing
It's time for you to show yourself

The streets are filled with routine today
I can see it in their faces,
I Couldn't even chisel a smile to greet a stranger
When our eyes caught passing

But your eyes they turn away,
Oh could it be from shame or pity,
But I know inside what it means to be a man,
Don't have pity for me
Well don't have pity for me
Well don't have pity for me
Well don't have pity for me, cause' I'm not sorry

The professional people running to their holes
To their borrowed buildings
To their borrowed spaces
Minutes early everyday
Well you wouldn't want to miss your own funeral
Sitting back in your big old chair
Sliding down your first cup of coffee
And then you glance at the sign on the desk that says awful empty man,
Don't have pity on me
Well don't have pity for me
Well don't have pity for me
Well don't have pity for me, cause' I'm not sorry

Let's take a walk down a back street
Are you afraid of who or what you might meet,
Well your mind it holds the demons but your attitude creates them
Must everything be judged by
Material equations Added up by
A one dimensional man who thinks this world is his market
What can I make,
What can I take
And you
Have pity for me

I'm an elevator boy
Just trying to get to the top
And I'm like curtains drawn in a window
You'll never see too much

I'm not a puppet on a string
Ready to move where you guide me,
A toy without a mind can't you see me dancing like a fool
Well I'm scared but it's my fears that will take me,
Lift me, send me

Cause I'm an elevator boy
Just trying to get to the top of life
And I'm like curtains drawn in a window
You'll never see too much of me

I'm not a needle in your arm taking you higher and higher
Trading all your dignity for a moment in time
'Cause I believe, that someday you'll hear me
Yeah someday you'll see me shining in lights

As you take something from me
Money buys things, but it can't buy pride
And you break a big part of me
Well someday you'll see me shining in lights

As you take something from me
Money buys things, but it can't buy pride
As you break a big part of me
Well someday you'll see me shining in lights

I will not stop 'till I reach my dream
And I'll climb as long as it's inside of me
With it all before my eyes it's all I see
Oh I will not stop until I reach-
'Cause I,m an elevator boy

I'm an elevator boy
I'm gonna get to the top....

To the left you have
A young man whose never really cared about nothing
To the right you have
A man who spilt his blood to make a difference
I said a difference

Well these are the lines by which we play
These are the lines that we have made

And now you have
One who embraces life with adoration
Not expectations
And too bad you have one who'll take a life without a reason
I said no reason

Well these are the lines by which we play
Well these are the lines that we have made
Well these are the lines drawn everyday
These are the lines by which we all are made

Floating, falling, drowning in the grey

Oh I wish I could serve up a solution
By these extremes we all are victims
Just floating, falling, drowning in the grey
Is where you don't believe
A patterned life accordingly
A cry for help is just a silent scream

And now you have a man who's lost control
To all his vices and devices
And still we have one who resonates
All the beauty one can encompass
Well try and take it

Well these are the lines by which we play
Well these are the lines that we have made
Well these are the lines drawn everyday
Well these are the lines that we have made
These are
These are
These are
Well these are

So fragile, a young mind being molded
Impressionable as they decipher the world
A living portrait of what you've painted
Don't underestimate the mind of a child
Cause it's amazing just how they soak it up

Oh resentment in a young man's mind
Well he didn't just fall out of a rain cloud
Coarse vigor preceeding a landslide
A rigid walk by way of his wounds
It's amazing just how we soak it up
Oh it's amazing just how we soak it up

Eyes now closing as the fists come crashing down
The young child in the corner sits wondering
Oh What have I done?
Oh what have I done?
It's amazing just how we soak it up
Oh it's amazing just how we soak it up

Is life a lesson of learning
Is life a lesson we've been taught
Is life a lesson of learning
Is life a lesson we've been taught
It's amazing just how we soak it up
Oh its amazing just how we soak it up
Oh it's amazing....
Just how....
We soak it up....
We soak it up....
We soak it up....

I've got a point to make
Yes I've got somthing to say
Try to right my wrongs of yesterday
But people holding on to their anger
Behind the eyes it's hatred
Scars, how long they take to go away

Well hear me I can't believe you're sorry
I can't believe your sorry
It's just another word I've heard you say
Now that I've pushed aside my feelings
You're back again to try and steal them
Why won't you just go away?

Time can't erase all that you did to me,
What you did to my mind
What you did to my mind
Nothing can erase all that you meant to me,
Was it all in my mind?
Was it all in my mind?
What came so easily
Just tore apart my life
It blew in fast just like a haunting breeze
Now I'm left with why

How does it feel when it comes down to yourself?
And how does it feel when you look back on your life?
And tell me how does it feel when it comes down to yourself
How does it feel as you try to close your eyes?

And how does it feel when it comes down to yourself?
Does it feel like a freight-train running fast down upon your fragile life?
Tell me how does it feel when it comes down to yourself?
Because now no more I feel pain inside as I try to close my eyes
But no
Suicide or submission it's a problem a condition
Suicide or submission it's a problem a condition
Suicide or submission it's a problem a condition
Suicide or submission it's a statement my decision
Suicide or submission it's a problem a condition
Suicide or submission it's a statement my decision

"Cause I've never had nothing much to say
I just struggle for belief in such a hectic place
Something to believe, in life again to pick me up from my distraction
Be that loving friend

Suicide or submission it's a problem a condition
Suicide or submission it's a statement my decision
Sudcide or submission it's a problem a condition
Suicide or submission it's a statement my decision

'Cause I've never had nothing much to say
I just strugglefor belief in such a hectic place
Something to believe in, in life again to pick me up from my distraction
Be that loving friend

But no, you never fuckin' came
So I just take it like a needle in the arm
Like a slap on the ass from you mother's cold hand
Down bleeding wreckage of the lonly
Who have lost all hope and will to live
To love, to care, to feel anything
So I just take it like a needle in the arm
Like a slap on the ass from you mother's cold hand
Down bleeding the wreckage of the lonely
Who have lost all hope and all will to live
To love, to care, to feel anything

All along it was a lie
A foolish, foolish man
Because I believed in you

You said it's ok, that everything's ok, but it's not
You said it's ok, that everything's ok, but it's not
You said it's ok, that everything's ok, but it's not
You said it's ok, that everything is A ok, but it's not

But it's not
But it's not
But it's not
But it's not

It's all a question of what you believe in
Right or wrong
But it's not!

Who are you and what drives your needs
Is it what's inside or is it what you see
Playing partners just a distraction
Demoralizing attraction
How can I just close my eyes and pretend not to see?

But the lines draw quickly
It took time to see through all your twisted thinking
Now it's all about push!

The words you use, you plant like seeds
Into their hearts to get what you need
Cruel to fool those who might want you
Filling up the holes deep inside you
How can I just close my eyes and pretend not to see?

But the lines draw quickly
It took time to see through all your twisted thinking
Now it's all about push!

Take a step back so I can see your face
'Cause I'm not really sure who you are today
I Take a step back so I can see your face
'Cause I'm not really sure who you are today

The way you play
The way you play

You see it's all so fragile feelings
Beacuse they change what's in your mind
Uplifting degrading it's not what you hope to find
Because the measure of a man is what's in his heart not in his bed
The way you play

All packed up heading for unknown
We had egg ranch rolling, blowing down the road
A bat against the head, fighting in the streets
Lump got the bump, the old man just got bent

Brand new town, brand new face to meet
We're hungry, tired, haven't showered in a week
Well pulling on in to the hotel, motel, roach ridden', dirty old shoe smell
But at least a warm place to close our eyes
'Cause when I'm out on the road
There's no place I'd rather be
Than with my friends just having fun

I'm talkin' bout good times
Good times, good-times
Talkin' bout good times
Good times, good-times
Talkin' bout good times
Good times, good-times
Talkin' bout good times
Good times, good-times

Now on through Little Rock next thing the tire popped
Oncoming freeway, pig truck, now we're fucked
With the thunderball totalled we had no where to go
So we jumped on a plane in time for the next show
'Cause when I'm on the stage
There's no place I'd rather be
Than with my friends having fun
I'm talkin' bout good times
Good times, good-times
Talkin' bout good times
Good times, good-times
Talkin' bout good times
Good times, good-times
Talkin' bout good times
Good times, good-times

Good times
Good times
Good times
Good times

I'ts the way you feel when things are right
Both hands holding on real tight
The crowd is there to lift you high
Like Superman you could almost fly
A certain feeling when the sun goes down
And having all your good friends around
The good times never seem to end
When your on the road and you're with your friends

I'm talkin' bout good times
Good times, good-times
Talkin' bout good times
Good times, good-times
Talkin' bout good times
Good times, good-times
Talkin' bout good times
Good times

Talkin' bout good times!