I've had too many crazy nights I've seen too many crazy sights I didn't want the scars to show In those moments only mothers know You know in retrospect
Up and down These days are up and down They call it elevated living A faster future for a faster breed Unforgiving unfulfilling The spirit's willing But
You can shake your hips You can seal your lips I can't make that trip And all life's fears Can invade my ears I can handle it I can laugh with a friend
I can already hear your tune Calling me across the room When the world and his wife Are on my back again Not enough pleasure Too much pain When the world
Soul in isolation I can hear you breathing down the hall Soul in isolation I can hear you crying through the walls And if I had a mind to now I could
I'm gazing up at the faces staring blankly at me I suppose it's just a sign of the times. They tell me that tomorrow will never arrive But I've seen it
A prisoner of my paradox Heaven or hell Pacing up and down my cage Too soon to tell What a suffocating state to be Working class heroes Mean nothing to
I delve into myself ceaselessly But I rarely see What I want to see Embracing the future Forgetting the past Loves lost and misfortune The chaos and the
Feel myself falling to the ground Solitary silence there's no sound Open my eyes and look around Colors and concepts that confound all around Pick myself
Must have died a thousand times I must have died a thousand times I must have died a thousand times Feeling less than human I surmise I'm less than human
It's just coincidence Well, you can talk that way But I have to say I don't believe in it It was a chill of chance I decided to dance the days away And
The Autumn leaves were falling Hearing nature talking I thought I heard her calling Hush now don't you cry Figure in the sky Can't stop myself from shaking
*************** like stars up in a clouded sky. i stand obscured from view whith shining eyes that did not lie i turn the pages for you the silent shadow
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August in the city 90 degrees The streets are full of arms and legs The audience is hangin' on the corner Just waitin' for some bones to beg The sniper
Sheltering her ego on the edge of the floodlight's arc She'll contemplate seduction, calculate the catch When she moved her presence speared me When she
No, no, no, yeah I can't figure you out to save myself It would help if you would talk to me (Baby, talk to me) You keep switchin' it up girl, I can
Chameleon - what's your color today Chameleon - this ain't your color to stay Chameleon - blows the way the wind blows Chameleon - goes where everyone