Release Date: 1989
Duration: 53:33
Label: Warner Bros. Records
Catalog Number: 25881-2
I've been wrong I had plans so big But the devil's in the details I left out one thing No one to love me No one to love me No one to love For the want of a nail, the world was lost For the want of a nail, the world was lost For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost For the want of a shoe, the horse was lost For the want of a horse, the rider was lost For the want of a rider, the message was lost For the want of a rider, the message was lost For the want of a message, the battle was lost For the want of a battle, the war was lost For the want of a war, the kingdom was lost (Such a tiny thing) You're askin' What's all this talk about horses and war? Put yourself in the place of the man at the forge And day after day you live a life without love 'Til the morning you can't take it anymore And you don't get up Multiply it a billion times Spread it all 'round the world Put the curse of loneliness on every boy and every girl Until everybody's kicking, everybody's scratching Everything seems to fail And it was all for the want of a nail Tell me what else could the answer be Don't hold back now Give me all your love Just a little more love A little tiny bit of love
Every time that I fall for that same old trick I punish myself with the same old stick I want to believe it so badly I deceive myself Forgetting reality Ignoring the fact that you're altogether someplace else Forgetting reality But I swear here and now The truth shall be mine And surrender to my prayer The weapon is time I'll play your waiting game I'm gonna win the win the waiting game I'll play your waiting game I'm gonna win this game my friend And forget you in the end Your memory seems like a living thing I never know if I'm imagining I look at your face and I know that's impossible Forgetting it's just a dream Now I'm hearing your voice saying anything is possible Forgetting it's just a dream And I still can't say why You keep invading my mind But this uncontrolled fixation Grows weaker with time A cloud of unknowing floats between you and me A trickle of love still flows between you and me But we live in different galaxies But I swear here and now Your heart will be mine You'll surrender to my love My weapon is time And your wall of resistance I will slowly undermine While your uncontrolled fixation Grows stronger with time I'll play your waiting game I'm gonna win the win the waiting game I'll play your waiting game I'm gonna win this game my friend And I'll be with you in the end I'll play, yes I will
Kindred spirits moving along the spiral I can see you up on another level It's too great a fall And I can't reach you to pull me higher But I don't seem to get much closer or any more far What would you tell me, if I could hear you speaking? If you could touch me, how would I know the feeling? I just can't imagine But I try to do it anyway I wish I was moving faster, I wish you'd drift back But it just wasn't meant to happen Very soon I'll have to Face the fact Some things never come together Parallel lines running on forever And you can't turn back There is never any starting over Parallel lines never do cross over It's a challenge Gotta make myself remember Facing the truth, well, that doesn't mean surrender What is bravado and how much is a force of will? I know that the world is full of opposites that attract But unless we ignore the physics Very soon we'll have to So I send you the gift of empathy If you'd once in your life acknowledge me I have visualized so thoroughly That when I think of me I think of we Can't face the truth It means that we must surrender Understanding won't satisfy the hunger It whittles away at the destiny we fulfill And like an animal running wild You can't call it back And it's just gonna make it harder When it's finally time to It's like a train that's stuck running on a track Parallel lines running on, running on, running on
Why are we racing to be so old? I'm up late pacing the floor I won't be told You have your reservations I'm bought and sold I'll face the music, I'll face the facts Even when we walk in polka dots and chequer slacks Bowing and squatting, running after tidbits Bobbing and squinting just like a nit wit Two little Hitlers will fight it out until One little Hitler does the other one's will I will return, I will not burn Down in the basement I need my head examined I need my eyes excited I'd like to join the party But I was not invited You make a member of me I'll be delighted I wouldn't cry for lost souls you might drown Dirty words for dirty minds, written in a toilet town Dial me a valentine, she's a smooth operator It's all so calculated, she's got a calculator She's my soft-touch typewriter and I'm the great dictator A simple game of self respect You flick the switch and the world goes out Nobody jumps as you expect I would have thought you would have had enough by now You call selective dating for some effective mating I thought I'd let you down dear, but you were just deflated I knew right from the start, we'd end up hating Pictures of the merchandise plastered on the wall We can look so long as we don't have to talk at all You say you'll never know him He's not a natural man He doesn't want your pleasure He wants as no one can He wants to know the names of all those he's better than
Time marches on I learn to crawl, I learn to walk You couldn't stop me from running Stop me from running Before I heard my name Before I learned to talk I knew I was running to something Running to something Into the arms of my god Time marches on And I awaken to the world And I'm still running to something Running to something far away Unseen by the others in the herd I'm only running to something Running to something Into the arms of my dream I can't stop running I can't stop running I have a vision of myself breaking the finish line string I still can hear it This dream is calling So I'll keep running Time marches on I start to trip, I start to fall And now I'm running from something Running from something on my tail Can't turn to look, can't hear the call I'm only running from something Running from something Running in fear I will fail Meanwhile Time marches on and on And the strength to run may soon be gone Now I watch the young ones coming And it's on their legs I'm running Into the arms of my god Can you hear it? Can you hear it? Feet don't fail me now
Must be a factory somewhere Keeps on cranking them out Seems like they travel in pairs Not worth the trouble but too full of clout Somebody must play his game They get stuck in the here and now Lending and borrowing pain His fist, your face, you kiss the ground But he don't do nothing half way Complete this equation He needs justification Distaff affirmation To keep on crankin' it out We could build cell on cell Mainline him straight to hell But that would not dispel Violent men, hard-headed women, unloved children Must be a garden somewhere Keeps on sending them down Big eyes, big teeth, big hair Ready to breed with the nearest clown She has the will to complain But something won't let her Break free of the tether Even though she knows better She just can't figure it out We can prescribe for pain Have her declared insane Even all this won't change Violent men, hard-headed women, unloved children We let them find their own way While everyone chooses To ignore the abuses We've all got excuses We keep on, keep on cranking them out And nobody has the time To look at the great design But they're all from the same bloodline Violent men, hard-headed women, unloved children
I've been hurt I've never been so hurt Yes, and only you know why But I would be far more hurt if we had to say good bye When I think that it's all or nothing I tell myself True love does not demand fidelity If there's one sacred place always in your heart for me Time has come I knew the time would come When someone would want to be more than friends But we had a love so sweet I thought the dream would never end If my love could not withstand this jealousy I'd remember the day I threw away our eternity Has no plan, things will happen we don't understand One day the glove is on the other hand And when you think that it's all or nothing Just tell yourself If our love could not withstand this jealousy We'd remember the day we threw away our eternity If it's true love, it does not demand fidelity Oh it hurt me so bad But I can't help but love you for eternity I know we got a true love
I look at you and go mad With thoughts of things that I'd do If I had just one chance to show you What this man really wants to do When we're through, you would say It's been done never that way Now I know you can learn something new every day And it feels so good If you don't think too much Don't even try to be serious Just let my hands take control And give me all of your soul You know I tried To run away but I can't hide From the moment that's suspended deep inside When you were mine And now I need to feel it One more time Won't you try to feel it Help me try to feel it Feels so good when you lean into me In the dark I can see In my mind I can feel what is reality Why can't you see Things like this are meant to be Yet somehow once again You have thrown me aside But always this feeling survives Help me try one more time Don't you know I tried
Whenever I I close my eyes Then I don't mind being the way I am But whenever I try Explaining why I know I never can Now that it's Gone, paths I used to travel Gone, things I used to handle Gone, once I had a choice what to be But then god kissed me And I lost it when I fainted in his arms Have pity on me brother I'm trapped behind the mirror I'm out here on the border Wondering why Why was it I? Maybe my mind wouldn't have come this way If I'd taken my time Answers only unwind When you can't look away Maybe 'cause I want the secret broken I want the casket open I need to see what no eyes can see And when god kissed me Then I dreamed them when I fainted in her arms Now I've got to go on sleeping Lean in a little closer And I'll tell you what I'm dreaming I'll tell you what I'm dreaming I see time without beginning Space without an ending I see bodies strong and running With minds not comprehending Have pity on your brother Please have pity on your sister Take pity on each other And on every living creature Whenever I Open my eyes I can't believe it's real It's a jungle outside People just survive They can't reach the high ideal But I Know if I can't recover, at least I Know, I know the book from cover to cover, and who Knows, I might dream forever Since I've met the world's greatest lover When god kissed me And I knew it when I fainted in his arms Let's dream together people
Every day I hear the news Seems like people worship pain All your Oprahs and Donahues They just can't explain As you reap you shall sow I looked high I looked low Now I know that I love my life I love my life I said me and my creator We got a funny love thing It's happenin' now and not later Yeah, that's why I sing First came thought then came deed I got caught now I'm freed All I need is to love my life I love my life Time, the topic of the sermon tonight is time Time, the thief of hope Time, the ameliorator of all our endeavors What will we do with time off our backs? We would make this world a perfect place We would make our lives a perfect thing, if not for time But I tell you now, time is an illusion Time is an illusion, time is not real Time is the dividing line between what is true and what is not true Between what is real and what is not real Between what is so and what is not so But who, I said who, who stands for time? Who stands at the threshold of time? Who decides what is true and what is not true? We do, you and I You and I decide what is true and what is not true What shall be our guiding light? Happiness, I say happiness But in a world, I see people in a world of misery I see a world full of sorrow Why should we be happy? Tell me why should we be happy? We need a message from above Look over there, look over here I can see it, there is beauty in the world
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