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You can be what you wanted to be and leave the way you've been behind
You can see what you wanted to see was always there but you were blind
I know a place to be safe from the people you hate
I know a place but make haste for the hour has grown late

You can be what you wanted to be and leave the way you've been behind
What you wanted to see was always there but you were blind
And I know you'll agree that it gives you just a little bit of style
But it don't come for free so give the man a smile

Chorus:

Let the dope take control of your soul
Let the rock machine roll
Let it open your eyes until your hopes soar so high
Let the rock machine roll until you're tired and cold
Until your last stitch is sold
Let the rock machine roll

You can make the love you wanted to make and know a life lived for bliss
You can take what you wanted to take
It's hidden just behind this little kiss

You can be what you wanted to be and leave the way you've been behind
What you wanted to see was always there but you were blind
And I know you'll agree that it gives you just a little bit of style
But it don't come for free so give the man a smile

Chorus:

Let the dope take control of your soul
Let the rock machine roll
Let it open your eyes until your hopes soar so high
Let the rock machine roll until you're tired and cold
Until your last stitch is sold
Let the rock machine

Roll like an avalanche
Fast like a juggernaut
High like a stone tumbling down from the mountaintop
Roll like an ambulance
High like an astronaut
Don't let the pressure drop
Don't let the pleasure stop no...

High..so high...so high
You're getting number, number and a little more corrupt
You've got the number, pick up the phone and call the number up
You're going up now
Going up now to breathe

You can be what you wanted to be and leave the way you've been behind
What you wanted to see was always there but you were blind
But it don't come for free so do your best to give the man a little smile
And I know you'll agree well come on and get
High like an astronaut
Fast like a juggernaut
Roll like a stone tumblling down from a mountaintop
Fast like an ambulance
High like and astronaut
Don't let the pressure drop
Don't let the pleasure stop
No...

Let the rock machine roll
Let the rock machine roll
Let the rock machine roll

Down where it's seamy and I get a little notion
To turn off and get dreamy with a magic potion
Now you can't see me because I'm showing no emotion
But if you want to be me
It's going to take some devotion (Baby)

Chorus:

I've been living to bad effect
I've been driven a nervous wreck
But I've been given a place to rest
Down near death
Down in the depths
Of the hidden world
You've got to get on my level
In the hidden world
All you young daredevils
All you boys and girls
You've got to get on my level
Down in the depths of the hidden world

Now you watch me stagger on to another stage
You know I get run ragged before I earn my wage
And like a hungry maggot you know I like my meat
And like a careless faggot I don't care where I eat

Chorus:

I've been living to bad effect
I've been driven a nervous wreck
But I've been given a place to rest
Down near death
Down in the depths
Of the hidden world
You've got to get on my level
In the hidden world
All you young daredevils
All you boys and girls
So come on to my level
In the hidden world
The forbidden world
In the hidden world

You've got to get on my level
In the hidden world
All you young daredevils
Down in the depths
Down where Jesus wept
In the hidden world

You've got to get on my level
In the hidden world
All you young daredevils
All you boys and girls
You've got to get on my level
In the hidden world
The forbidden world
Down in the hidden world

Young girls get practice
Under the blackness
Outside the axis
Of Christian praxis

The sermon's malice
The silver chalice
Are not so sacred
As what is naked

You can't control it, no
Don't want to save my soul
Well come on
Let's rock and roll

It's my nature to take of what I see
Every creature knows the longing to be free

Deep in the city my father named me
With words so pretty my mother shamed me
Without much pity the teachers blamed me
But could not tame me

Above the steeple the owl looks down
At the holy people in their flowing gowns
As the censer waves the frankincense north and south
As the priest puts the bread in the people's mouths

Mother Nature must have made a man like me
Every creature knows to take of what it sees
Some want the preacher to show them what to be
But I look to nature and I'm longing to be free

Mother Nature is beautiful to me
Every creature knows to take of what it sees
Some want the preacher to show them what to be
But I'm made by nature and I'm longing to be free

Cause it's in my nature
It's my nature
Mother Nature
Mother Nature
Mother Nature

Just off a plane
I already feel the strain
It's not too funny in this heat
Smells like off colour meat
We're moving again
Down in the depths
You should have seen where I slept
But if you knew me before
I wasn't so hardcore
You should have seen how I was kept

Chorus
Now I'm stepping out into the light
No time to wonder if it's wrong or it's right
I've been hurting
Hurting tonight
Now I'm stepping out into the light

Up on the stage
I just can't engage
I feel slightly sick
I ask myself, "What's wrong with me?"
Life's what you make
It's not just yours to take
And with all of that sleaze
You can take what you please
But it gives you a heartache

Chorus
Now I'm stepping out into the light
No time to wonder if it's wrong or it's right
I've been kicked down
Kicked in the teeth
Now I'm stepping out into the light

Go out on a limb
Out where the lighting's dim
Out where it hurts
Out in the dirt
Out where your wallet's thin
Reach for the stars
But, baby don't fall too far
Dreams are to make
Before you awake
Where ever you are

Into the light 5X)
Now I'm stepping out into the light 2x