And every one of them words rang true;
And glowed like burnin' coal;
Pourin' off of every page;
Like it was written in my soul from me to you
Well, you're so bad and nasty;
But I love you, yes I do
Look into infinity, all you see is trouble.
Don't know if I saw you, if I would kiss you or kill you;
It probably wouldn't matter to you anyhow
I still can remember the way that you smiled
Wealth is a filthy rag;
So erotic so unpatriotic;
So wrapped up in the American flag
the cops don't need you;
and man they expect the same
I like the cool way you look at me,;
Everything about you is bringing me;
Misery.
But nothing really matters much, it's doom alone that counts
I was in your presence for an hour or so;
Or was it a day? I truly don't know.
Has the record been breaking,;
Did the needle just skip
But the enemy I see
Wears a cloak of decency
Where black is the color, where none is the number
An' here I sit so patiently;
Waiting to find out what price;
You have to pay to get out of;
Going through all these things twice.
I see people who are supposed to know better standin' around like furniture.
Train wheels runnin' through the back of my memory
My love she speaks like silence
I said, "You know they refused Jesus, too";
He said, "You're not Him"
May you build a ladder to the stars;
And climb on every rung.
The world of illusion is at my door
I see nothing to be gained by any explanation;
There are no words that need to be said
Well, I don't have to be no doctor, babe,;
To see that you're madly in love.
All the people we used to know;
Are an illusion to me now
Roses are red, violets are blue;
And time is beginning to crawl
to live outside the law, you must be honest
If I could only turn back the clock to when God and her were born
I'm glad to see you're still alive, you're lookin' like a saint.
Everybody's doin' something,;
I heard it in a dream,;
But when there's too much of nothing,;
It just makes a fella mean.
She got a weird sense of humor that's all her own
We pointed out the way to go;
And scratched your name in sand,;
Though you just thought it was nothing more;
Than a place for you to stand.
We heard the Sermon on the Mount and I knew it was too complex,;
It didn't amount to anything more than what the broken glass reflects.
I've already ripped out the phones, honey.;
You can't walk the streets in a war
Some things in life, it gets too late to learn
I just want you to know;
I can see through your masks
She's got everything she needs,;
She's an artist, she don't look back
Are you still my friend, baby, show me a sign
It was true that in his later years he would not carry a gun;
"I'm around too many children," he'd say, "they should never know of one."
Cities on fire, phones out of order
Now, don't crowd me, lady;
Or I'll fill up your shoe
Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues;
You can tell by the way she smiles
Well the desert is hot, the mountain is cursed,;
Pray that I don't die of thirst,;
Baby, two feet from the well.
Get the loot, don't be slow, we're gonna catch a trout
Took a stranger to teach me, to look into justice's beautiful face;
And to see an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
On the rising curve,;
Where the ways of nature will test every nerve,;
You won't get anything you don't deserve,;
Where we were born in time.
In the smoke of the twilight on a milk-white steed,;
Michelangelo indeed could've carved out your features.
Precious angel, you believe me when I say;
What God has given to us no man can take away.
Well my sense of humanity has gone down the drain
Gon' walk on down until I'm right beside the sun;
I'm gonna have to put up a barrier to keep myself away from everyone.
I wouldn't be ashamed to be seen with you anywhere.
I've been walking through the middle of nowhere;
Trying to get to heaven before they close the door
The night is pitch black, come an' make my;
Pale face fit into place, ah, please!
But the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency,;
All non-believers and men stealers talkin' in the name of religion
You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live,;
When I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give
All right, I'll take a chance, I will fall in love with you
When he died I was hopin' that it wasn't contagious
With haunted hearts through the heat and cold
We never thought we could ever get old
It's mighty funny;
the end of time has just begun