Heart of mine be still,;
You can play with fire, But you'll get the bill
That's how it is when things disintegrate
If you get close to her, kiss her once for me
I wish, I wish, I wish in vain,;
That we could sit simply in that room again.
Love is so simple, to quote a phrase,;
You've known it all the time, I'm learnin' it these days.
Your loyalty is not to me;
But to the stars above
In the home of the brave, Jefferson turnin' over in his grave
I was in your presence for an hour or so;
Or was it a day? I truly don't know.
When my life is over, it'll be like a puff of smoke
Mama, take this badge off of me
Can't you make any sound?
Betrayed by a kiss on a cool night of bliss;
In the valley of the missing link
Wealth is a filthy rag;
So erotic so unpatriotic;
So wrapped up in the American flag
Now, a very great man once said;
That some people rob you with a fountain pen.;
It didn't take too long to find out;
Just what he was talkin' about.
Sometimes the devil likes to drive you from the neighborhood.;
He'll even work his ways through those whose intentions are good.
Well, I got a harmonica job, begun to play,;
Blowin' my lungs out for a dollar a day.
He bought me with a price,;
Freed me from the pit,;
Full of emptiness and wrath;
And the fire that burns in it.
It's too hot to sleep time is running away
They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in;
Sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks
All the people we used to know;
Are an illusion to me now
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie
She got a weird sense of humor that's all her own
The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder
My conscience is beginning to bother me today.
Don't trust me to show you beauty;
When beauty may only turn to rust.
You know, the streets are filled with vipers;
Who've lost all ray of hope,;
You know, it ain't even safe no more;
In the palace of the Pope.
I gotta go;
Find out something only dead men know
