Just Want To Live (Until I Die)

So you want to be a big radio star
Buy a big house and move out of your car?
Got news for you -
You know the grass grows greener on the graves of the dead
History is cleaner with the documents shredded
Good as new

And you and I know it’s hard to grow
 In a garden made of imitation corporation pesticide
And you know you can’t eat from a plastic teat
Full of chemicals and lies and made of polyvinyl chloride

So you want to live to see your children grow up
See them grow up in a world that doesn’t suck?
Join the club
‘Cause while the bureaucratic fat-cats feed at the trough
The racketeering CEOs are ripping you off
Where’s the love?
But you and I know that history shows
That when the captain of the ship gives you the slip you know the thing goes down
And as the lifeboats burn, the lesson’s learned a little late - it cannot wait
As everyone gets burned alive or drowned

Life isn’t fair; man I don’t even care
Just wanna live until I die
Been here a while? Just wear an innocent smile
And pray you live until you die

Everybody wants what everybody else got
Thinking it’s something they need, but it’s not
You need to know
Happiness is not in what you buy or you do
It’s not in your job, or your new pair of shoes
Let it go
‘Cause you and I know it’s hard to throw anything away
You’re thinking you can take it to the other side
You can pack your case, and run your race
But when the race is run you find your giddy-up has done got up and died
And time is not on our side

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I’ll go it alone, if that’s what it takes - I’ll drop-kick into the unknown

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Life isn’t fair; man I don’t even care
Just wanna live until I die
Man where you been? Wearing that shit-eating grin
Just pray you live until you die
Just wanna live until I die
Just wanna live

Till You’re Mine

Every ocean needs the river, every desert needs the rain
every flower needs the sun, it’s always been the same
you and I we are no different; we need love to grow
you can’t stop the rain from fallin’ girl, so let it go
and tell me

How many mountains have to fall
how many more miles left to crawl
how many rivers to run dry
how many more stars fall from the sky
till you’re mine?

Every galleon needs a pirate king to sail upon the sea                                                                     and every pirate needs a love to bring him to his knees
I’ve been sailing troubled water since the day you held my hand
the thought of life without your love is more than I can stand
so tell me

How many mountains have to fall
how many more miles left to crawl
how many rivers to run dry
how many more stars fall from the sky
till you’re mine
till you’re mine?

And I can’t help loving you girl
like the river’s loved by the sea
so won’t you let your sweet waters flow down
over me, over me?

How many mountains have to fall
how many more miles left to crawl
how many rivers to run dry
how many more stars fall from the sky
till you’re mine
till you’re mine
till you’re mine?

 

Desolationville

Had a dream of Desolationville
woke up feeling like a ghost
every man has got his demons to kill
guess that I’ve had more than most

Twenty years of mercenary war
long the desert dreams of rain
sold my innocence in blood and gold
and now all that’s left is pain

Oh, talion oh talion
spin the wheel ‘til everything is gone
gone, gone

And I never made my mother cry
never told her what I’ve done
built an garrison to ward my heart
in a war that’s never won

nothing feels the way it used to feel                                                                                                  salt is sand upon my tongue                                                                                                          every morning breaks like a cheap toy                                                                                             the Devil's work is never done 

Oh, talion oh talion
spin the wheel ‘til everything is gone
gone, gone

Close my eyes, darkness is over me
the dreams all gone, blown away
and I float down to the sea

Oh, talion oh talion
spin the wheel ‘til everything is gone
gone, gone

Come Down, Quetzalcoatl

I believe in Prophecy, Mohammed is my man
yeah I believe in Jesus Christ, ghosts, and Peter Pan
and I'll stand with my brother, be he Christian, Muslim, or Jew
'cause if God lives in everyone, the Devil lives there too
Oh, the Devil lives there too

I was born in easy times, to white-bread mom and dad
they held me up and held me down, neither good nor bad
on Sunday we went to the Church, I walked among the graves
saints and sinners, seemed to me - not a one was saved
Oh, no one there was saved

Come down, Quetzalcoatl
Oh come down and make a stand
we all need a God of flesh and blood
and you were once a man
come down, Jesus come down
we don't need the cross no more
our priests and politicians they just use it to wage war

Oh Montezuma I have seen the Serpent-King
his visage was a deathly pale
his tongue a living thing
He spoke to me in riddles, and I did not understand
but oh my brother, pray for me
a demon walks this land
oh, evil walks this land

Come down, Quetzalcoatl
Oh come down and make a stand
we all need a God of flesh and blood
and you were once a man
Come down, Jesus come down
we don't need the cross no more
our priests and politicians they just use it to wage war

If I Was A Younger Man

When I was a younger man in better days
furies couldn’t catch me, I was way too fast
now the stars are moving to the final phase
and I cast my eyes over the past

I don’t have regrets over the things I’ve done
only things I’ve yet to do within my sight
oh to walk the ancient paths of Pharaoh’s sons
or to see the Taj in the moonlight

If I was a younger man I would
If I was a younger man I would
If I was a younger man I would
If I was a younger man I would

When I was a young man, and I had someone
I had many lovers, I had many friends
not a cherished memory would I trade but one
if I only could see you again

If I was a younger man I would
If I was a younger man I would
If I was a younger man I would
If I was a younger man I would

Old man, have no regrets. The end of time has come.
Old man, have no regrets. Return to All-In-One.

If I was a younger man I would
If I was a younger man I would
If I was a younger man I would
If I was a younger man I would
 

Madeline

Wait up for me, Madeline
lay your bible down again
your prodigal is coming home to stay
light a fire and burn the note
all those letters that we wrote
the past is past, there's nothing more to say

And I know what you're thinking
you can save my soul
but God's already listened to that song
All those people waiting for the sun to rise
never know it's here until it's gone

Madeline we've walked this land
there's no stone there's only sand
and everything we build just blows away
meet me at the wishing well
there's a way out of this hell
it's do or die, now - listen what I say

There's a tree that's growing in the dirt of home
Maddie, get an axe and cut it down
these walls don't just speak
I wish they'd shut their mouths
It's just another memory to drown

There's been times, I know
close your eyes and we can go . . .

So wait up for me Maddie, dear
know our time is drawing near
so ease your heart and lay your fears to rest
wear your dress of purest white
you will see me in the light
I love you more than you could even guess

There's a breeze that's blowing from the hill of souls
let it blow your angel from the sky
on the wind I hear them sing
I'll fly away
Glory hallelujah, by and by . . .

Easy On You

           
You can sell me a lie
 you can hang me out to dry
left of center right on track
you can give me the grip
take a number let it slip
I’ll be waiting I’ll be back
‘cause everybody knows I won’t attack
so tie me down and tease me

but I won’t make it easy
I won’t make it easy
on you

‘cause you’ve bound up my feet
let me down and incomplete
made my right hand feel it’s wrong
yeah you’ve kept me in tow
to keep up the status quo
your magpie pipers keep playing their song
and everybody knows I’ll beat your gong
on the down-n-sleazy

but I won’t make it easy
I won’t make it easy
on you

Because my heart’s been wrung out singing songs
love-sick tunes
all to a painted sky a plastic moon

So you wake up today
pull your head out of the clay
sylvan snipers at your command
when the science gives out
when there’s certainty in doubt
hidden vipers bite the hand
‘cause everybody knows that I’m the man
there’s only one to please me
so I won’t make it easy
I won’t make it easy
I won't make it easy on you

A Man Is A Song Written In Bone

A man is a song that is written in bone
but the marrow’s a cancerous chord
he sings of his love and his God up above
but he brings you to war

And there in the trenches he’ll make you believe
in lust that a beast wouldn’t claim
and he’s high on his hill or he’s down in the dirt
it’s one and the same

So wring out the ransom like blood from a stone in your hand
and as for the hearts that are broken, well, don’t give a damn
and smoke your love like a cigar
and fill up your ashtray with arrows to shoot out the stars

A woman’s a cherry that’s ripe with deceit
with a center that’s cold as a stone
she sings of her child with a love that is wild
but she won’t let him go

And her bug-eyed believers deliver the blows
but we all know who’s holding the chain
and the moths fly in clouds and are finally allowed
to die in the flame

So wring out the ransom like blood from a stone at your feet
and clutched in your claw is a heart that you gnaw with your teeth
so you take the money and run
and stuff your old prom dress with arrows to put out the sun

I know what it means to be taken by thieves
who give you your wages for blood
so you take the paycheck and pray for your soul
but they won’t give it up

And a man is a song that is written in bone
with a sad and forgotten refrain
and he sings his own song, but the words come out wrong
and he loses his way

So wring out the ransom like blood from a stone at your feet
and don’t give a damn for your heart which is broken in three                                                         see that you divvy it well
for all to be sated, that’s one for the vapor you sell
two for the money, and three for the Devil in hell

Fallen

Used to have a girl with flowers in her hair
don’t know where she is now, and I don’t even care
she has flown, far away from me
she’s flown
and even though I dream about her still
she’s still gone

Used to have a car, a house and a job
I don’t know what happened to them
but I wasn’t robbed
No, I’ve strayed from the path and won’t return
and even though I walk in worlds of ice
I still burn

And I heard the mountains cry
I saw the angels fall
these things were mine, I lost them all
I lost them all

Used to have a God, kept me from sin
prayed until I cried
but now my Gods are fallen and dead
left me here to find my way
and even though I don’t believe in God
I still pray

And I heard the mountains cry
I saw the angels fall
these things were mine, I lost them all
I lost them all

I heard the mountains cry
I saw the angels fall
these things were mine, I lost them all
I lost them all