"Treason", "Hips Swingin'", "Understand?", "Entrapment", "Bughouse", "Wonder Beer", "Never Follow", "Too Much Of You", "Vagabond Dog", "O.K. Wait", "The Sniper Song", "Which Side You're On"
Personnel: Haggerty/Spicer/Kezdy/Pezzati.
Why me?
Why am I down?
Why feel
I'm not whole?
Why feel
so far below?
I'm free to go
Why dream?
Why partake?
Why be half
of a weak embrace
of time
and place
and lose space?
Deep down inside
I know the reasons, reasons
In faces I see lies
While they try to hide their eyes
Man, it hurts inside
It's like treason, treason, treason, treason
Soft ground
politics
Inside
dealing tricks
I can't
pick a side
you decide
What plan?
What design?
Can they
have in mind?
Have they
lost their minds?
Have I lost mine?
It's never just black or white
I know the reasons, reasons,
What I feel makes me alive
Ggoes beyond what they decide
Can't fight what gives you life
That's treason, treason, treason, treason
Check me out ya know I'm a major world power.
Watch me as I swing my hips around.
Ohh I seem to have bowled you right over (how 'bout that).
Don't you worry ya know it happens all the time.
'Scuse me ya know I speak for the people of the world
We don't really like it when you swing your hips around.
Just can't believe you work in the interest of all the people.
We don't really like it that you have so much fat.
Hey you little South American Spanish-speakin' country
Watch me as I whip some political advisors right on ya,
You'll still have a bit of your own personailty left.
Don't you worry you know this kind of thing happens all the time.
'Scuse me 'scuse me but I speak for the people of the world
We don't really like it that you swing your hips around.
Just can't believe you work in the interest of all good people
Don't really like it that you have that excess fat.
So it's come to my attention
Some things you don't understand
Wandering through a cycle
When the power lay in your hand
Well there's an old expression
About how to play the game
Where Triumph and Disaster
Are imposters just the same
(Chorus:)
I understand
Do you understand
Understand?
So some they ask me
And this is what I say
The only thing worth having
Is what can't be taken away
(Chorus X2)
Well I can show you
Just what I mean
(X2)
Well it's my world
I see with blinding sight
Don't read from a Book
I decide what's wrong and right
So when all is evil
Don't leer into the sky
The power of creation
Is inside you and I
(Chorus X 2)
You appear stage left all searching for your plan of life
Youth of course on your side as they play the drum and fife
Tryin' to get you marching to the worn out song they preach
About how things you hope for are so very out of reach
Can't they even remember
When they had hopes
And dreams?
Adolescence fled; the adolescents sang; while you -- you had no chance
Then before you even knew your wife she got in line to be your first romance
In the sunset of your best years you piled on the debt
You think this can't be happening here -- not here, not now, not yet
You're gonna regret this.
It's your big fall...
Well OK -- life's not what it used to be
We're tryin' to become something that maybe wasn't meant to be
We're now so totally up for grabs -- I hope someone's left to see
Will the end justify the means? Well it beats the heck outta me
In the next round
What will we be?
Weird world
got no shame
problems
with no name
screams all (of) the time
problem is
they're mine
(chorus)
I'm going to cut that bastard up
and it still won't be enough
the unwritten laws we learn
from living off the cuff
weird world
not insane
cuts me
all the same
screaming
wounded, blind
i stagger
down the line
(chorus)
cut it
cut it up
Drunk again -- not a weekend
Isn't life a fuckin' ball?
Should have read all the writing on the wall
Pissed again -- one more loose end
Ever see such a fuckin' gall?
But I'm laughing at angels as they fall
Drunk again -- not a weekend
My insides feel black and blue
Will this healing elixir pull me through
Drunk again -- where is Lou Reed?
Come on Iggy -- tell me true
Wish Roy Orbison could tell me what to do
(chorus)
So I'll drink
To the wonder, while I wander
If there are gods they must be drunk
Rev'ling in the madness you and I
So I'll wonder, while I wander
If there are gods they must be drunk
Rev'ling in the madness you and I
Drunk again not a weekend
Give me needles -- sleep on pins
As I long for the sweet Bacchanalian din
Damned again -- since that weekend
From too much adrenalin
hide my eyes and take two more aspirin
(chorus)
Drunk again -- not a weekend
Pagan alchoholiday
Cheer and beer hounds -- that still keep me at bay
Drunk again -- till the binge ends
My glass fortress my mainstay
And the wonder of each new sordid day
Follow me
I'll take you there
You needn't think
You needn't care
On the way
We'll find some others
Baptize with lies
And make them brothers
No I will never follow
I will never follow
Your truth diseased and hollow
No I will never follow
Forget your thoughts
Forget your will
Tell that voice inside
To just keep still
If it gets too be too much
Just turn your eyes away
The free individual
Is from a bygone day
No I will never follow
I will never follow
Your truth diseased and hollow
No I will never follow
I'll be your destroyer
Your world's great annoyer
I'll be your destroyer
No worn propaganda for me
Follow me
I'll take you there
You needn't think
You needn't care
We'll all go gentle
Into that good night
There'll be no more raging
Against the dying of the light
No I will never follow
I will never follow
Your truth diseased and hollow
No I will never follow
I'll be your destroyer
Your world's great annoyer
I'll be your destroyer
No guns, knives, nor lawyers
No I will never follow
I will never follow
You can't take my will away
My dreams will never say die
Guess we all want something
something we haven't got
There's a feelin' that I get when,
I see all those that just have not.
Someday this place'll be
Where man is all the same
All lookin' like salesman
They'll even change our name
and...
(chorus)
(Although) I see one people
(We're all) one human race
Communication will save us
I see a plain, plain place
I see you think that you're a savior
You think you're Jesus Christ
From what I've seen of our shepherds
Your type had best think twice
Your master plan to save me
Just doesn't suit me right
You'd like to suit me up?
Well you had best think twice again
(Chorus)
Yeah we all want something
Something we haven't got
How much'll you give up?
Allow yourself to be forgot?
Scores of plastic people
Not just a chosen few
Every (single last) one of us
Yeah what they really want is you
What they want's too much of you
When what they want is you
What they gotta have is you
Cold and darkest
thoughts while passing the time
bold and headless
concepts formend in my mind
answers are found
I'm awed by decisions I've made
convinced, I move forth
because fortune favors the brave
Heart, soul
heart, soul
It's all in the back of my mind
I know the flaws
I'll grind them down with my hand
and use my claws
I'll always be a freeman
Shake the big men
shake them 'till they come down
king of the hill
and I've still got my feet on the ground
straight, edge
straight, edge
and I still've got my feet on the ground
when I'm long dead
after I've been taken down
when I've been betrayed
and my words can no longer be found
when memories die
and my bones are deep in the ground
I'll still be a part
of the truth to which I am bound
What was the aggressive
is now a bit more so
edging, and more daring
and tolerance is low
seeing, rather caring
my children will be mad
their offspring, so, insane
to shadow what I had
(Chorus)
I am one
I am one
I'm feeling so far gone
I am done
I am done
They'll shoot me on the run
O.K. wait, O.K. wait
I gotta step back and say
Wow, what a fuck up
what a damned way
I was just, was just, was
just thinking on a bit of the choice they have
and what they'll do with it
I'm gone, so gone, so gone
I'm gone, so gone, so gone
Banging on the inside
Fighting to get out
It's not all this trash
That blows 'round my feet
It might be this day
It might be this heat
And it's all of these idiots
That are bothering me
With their drivelling prattle
And their useless critiques
So now I know where snipers come from
A man weighted down by too heavy a load
So now I know where snipers come from
Peering down through my scope with an amoral code
The view is fantastic
From my aerie on high
I laugh at your pleading --
thrill at your cry
Semi-auto archangel
Unto death do us part
Vespiary of mercy
Putting lead in your heart
Banging on the inside -- fighting to get out
Bred for success
But we didn't like the breeding
Did you check their faces
When we started bleeding
Can you tell which side they're on?
How can you tell which side they're on?
`Achieve what we have'
`We hear your common voice'
How can we believe them
When they all drive Rolls Royces?
Can you tell which side you're on?
How can you tell which side I'm on?
I can't tell which side I'm on
Can you tell which side you're on?
It's gettin' kind o' hard (kind of hard)
To tell 'em apart
Too many faceless ones
Crawlin' after you. (after you)
And if you ask alot of questions
And all that it reveals
Is the best choice we're given
Is the best of two evils
Then can you tell me which side you're on?
How can I tell which side I'm on?
I can't tell which side they're on
How can I tell which side you're on?
Can you tell which side I'm on?
I can't tell which side I'm on
Can you tell which side you're on?
I can't tell which -- .....