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.
Insanity is smashing up against my soul; You can say I was on anything but a roll; If I had a conscience, well I just might blow my top; What would I do with it anyway ; Maybe take it to the pawn shop
to live outside the law, you must be honest
Everybody is making love
Or else expecting rain
Maybe they'll get me and maybe they won't; But not tonight and it won't be here; There are things I could say but I don't; I know the mercy of God must be near
I wouldn't be ashamed to be seen with you anywhere.
Well, it's always been my nature to take chances; My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances
Reality has always had too many heads
Roses are red, violets are blue; And time is beginning to crawl
Well I don't dare close my eyes and I don't dare wink; Maybe in the next life I'll be able to hear myself think
The drinks are ready and the dogs are going to war
My so-called friends have fallen under a spell.; They look me squarely in the eye and they say, "All is well."; Can they imagine the darkness that will fall from on high; When men will beg God to kill them and they won't be able to die?
I'm in the streets; With the tombstone blues
Don't trust me to show you love; When my love may be only lust.
Put my tears in a bottle
Screw the top on tight
You're the other half of what I am, you're the missing piece
Cities on fire, phones out of order
It was gravity which pulled us down and destiny which broke us apart
Sometimes I feel so low-down and disgusted
I don't mind a reasonable amount of trouble
How long can I stay drunk on fear out in the wilderness?
Was that the thunder that I heard?; My head is vibrating, I feel a sharp pain
My love she speaks like silence
I'm just sitting here beating on my trumpet
there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden
Oh ev'ry foe that ever I faced
The cause was there before we came.
I ain't lookin' for you to feel like me,; See like me or be like me.
Ever since you walked right in, the circle's been complete
Too many thoughts get in the way in the day
Well it's way past midnight and there are people all around; Some on their way up, some on their way down
In the home of the brave, Jefferson turnin' over in his grave
Just do your thing, you'll be king; If dogs run free.
Well, I'm livin' in a foreign country but I'm bound to cross the line,; Beauty walks a razor's edge, someday I'll make it mine.
There was music in the cafes at night; And revolution in the air.
I like the cool way you look at me,; Everything about you is bringing me; Misery.
He bought me with a price,; Freed me from the pit,; Full of emptiness and wrath; And the fire that burns in it.
I'll see you later when I'm not so out of my head,; Maybe next time I'll let the dead bury the dead.
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.
Man's ego is inflated, his laws are outdated, they don't apply no more
Put your hand on my head, baby, do I have a temperature?
Don't the moon look good, mama, Shinin' through the trees?
How did I meet you? I don't know.
Gonna take dancing lessons do the jitterbug rag; Ain't no shortcuts, gonna dress in drag; Only a fool in here would think he's got anything to prove
I wish, I wish, I wish in vain,; That we could sit simply in that room again.
Well, you're on your own, you always were,; In a land of wolves and thieves.
And the dirt of gossip blows into my face,; And the dust of rumors covers me.
Oh my name it is nothin'; My age it means less
Thought I'd shaken the wonder and the phantoms of my youth
I hear that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
