One last hour before this place is on fire Loosing all as the flames grow higher and higher Here I stand The further I'm from you, the harder I try to
Pack up I'm straight Enough Oh, say say say Oh, say say say Oh, say say say Oh, say say say Oh, say say say Wait, they don't love you like i love you
ought to be, he sees what you can't see, can't you see that? (chorus) Maybe he's caught in the legend, Maybe he's caught in the mood Maybe these maps
Pack up, I?m straight, enough Oh say, say, say Oh say, say, say Oh say, say, say Oh say, say, say Oh say, say, say Wait, they don?t love you like I love
Porcelain and alabaster Decaying ever faster Unaware of imminent disaster Open up your eyes As you ruminate the hopeless sands of time Did you wander
Lacerate, eviscerate and perforate and mutilate We all fall down, all fall down Deprecate, repudiate, ameliorate, adjudicate The wisdom found, wisdom
If I could only get the tools The stimuli and the molecules Frozen moments in time I could be the archetype A credit to the genotype Re-program your
Back in '83, a man came to me And he told me, "Son Our way of life is done" But I was only young With an eye to the fields Speculators and yields rotten
Amid the heat and the wrack Hot boots invested and cracked Poor candidates jacked into gray light An ultra-violent call Summoning both poet and thrall
In the garden where he was cast out by the Lord Flames an omni-directional sword For he has ever failed to gather up the fruit And thus was banished with
Now get up and give in, I'll crack your knuckles again Supplicate and survive this transubstantiation And get so mean, I wanna know what it means Did
Pilgrim, those are dry and bitter tears And lonely eyes look way beyond your years Pilgrim, did you drink the mercury? Your lips turn blue and you're
Now can you hear the call in our rambling land? Susurrations that can expand Beyond all hope of light And plunge us into unrelenting night A pall, a
Oh, can't you feel the nostalgia I wonder about your Modernistocrat Horatio Alger Clever never hesitating in the baiting Ever waiting for the canticle
Oratory of hope and glory, a whisper and a rhyme An effigy, a soldier out of time Citizen and patriot, you can't be far behind The funeral weighing heavy
Dedication is the price you pay Initiated are coddled and caged Before you walk, as soon as you crawl Hope is pointless when you're stuck in the trawl
There's a point to all this dreaming To every man his just dessert's And every time I caught you leaving I had to dream awake, I had to dream awake For
You're telling me I should forget you But why You're talking like I never knew you But that's a lie And you're playing out your game again Why are you
