Release Date: 1993
Duration: 78:48
Label: Rhino
Catalog Number: R2 71185
When you hit your note It's like you had no choice I can't resist distraction's web When you use that voice On a crowded stage I play soliloquy I'm at the center of the earth When you gaze on me The familiar ring of the native drums Sometimes I hardly recognize it Inspiration comes With the tip of my mind Holding back the sea I have no choice but to prevail When you gaze on me I've got the ghost of a new machine Where I can find reality routine Every time you fix your gaze on me When you gaze on me I feel a ring of fire When you gaze on me And I lose all desire Fix your heart on me I'll show you what I've memorized Fix your gaze on me I need to see your eyes [Uh - good God!] Out in the cold the assassin waits Armored by love no sword can penetrate Every time you fix your heart on me I'm a new machine Where I can find reality routine Every time you fix your gaze on me
You're always finding out About the things that people never talk about I didn't ask to know But now I'm compensating as I go I know the script I'm in I'm only thoughts of heaven trapped in flesh and skin And from the world of men I try to tighten up the code again And the code is a play A play is a song A song is a film A film is a dance Boot me up on the Zen Machine Log me onto the Zen Machine Load me down Everybody get ready Hook me into the Zen Machine Sharing time on the Zen Machine Load me up Everybody get ready Sometimes it's clear to me Then for a moment I'm in timeless ecstasy There are no reasons why And everyone's a passer-by But when they've gone to bed A fire's burning on the screen and in my head And on a windy day You can smell it from a mile away And the smell is a note A note is a taste A taste is a hue A hue is a touch
Brother John saw visions of God So they put him in chains For acting too odd As the crowd shouted, "Off with his head" The priest said, "Have mercy Let's burn him instead" Trapped Trapped in a world that he never made I woke up with my head on the floor In a windowless cell A room full of doors I got lost, now I'm so far behind Took so much advice Forgot my own mind Trapped Trapped in a world that I never made We can't be slowed down by a big bunch of lip And nobody cares about your paranoid trip You know death and the devil sure got it easy today Souls come so cheap some people give theirs away You've got to break out, you've got to prove you're alive What makes you think that the weak survive And if you don't have the stomach For all this radical crap Then have the guts to stand for something Or you're gonna be trapped Trapped Trapped in a world that you never made
Well, I wanna shake that thing wit'cha all night long Yeah, you're a princess baby, you can do no wrong Said you're a beacon of light when the sun is gone Yeah, you're a princess baby, you can name that song Well, they just couldn't touch you with a ten foot pole And they just couldn't catch you, 'cause you're on a roll You got so much juice, you make the telephone ring You make me jump right up, I wanna shake that thing Wit'cha all night long You're the princess of the universe You're a princess baby, you can do no wrong You're the princess of the universe Well, I ain't seen nothing like it since the Sha got the rope You got a legion of liggers that would shame the Pope You just say the word and they run like hell You gotta take a cold shower, so your head don't swell But you can do no wrong You're the princess of the universe You're a beacon of light when the sun is gone You're the princess of the universe Well, you ain't got a man who can touch what you got But you're looking for a subject that can fill that slot When the count is down, I want to step in time And when your fingers pop, I want to tow that line
Did you see the color of the water coming out of the tap? Did you hear the chatter of the hammer when you're trying to nap? There's nothing on the counter at the A&P store The bank don't even bother now to open the door It ain't pretty, pity Abandon City Everybody over the side The hour is late, they're closing the gate, no time to decide Abandon City Yeah, you better run for your lives There's nothing to spare The cupboard is bare The bees have all left the hive Someone's doing a non-stop performance of "The Rape of the Lock" No one's got the nerve to take a tiptoe after seven o'clock And everybody's looking for a piece of the rock And I just want to get my cadillac out of hock Too much nitty gritty
There's a hammer in my heart Pounding out your name There's a hammer in my heart Here it comes again I hear a certain sound And it just won't go away It sends a message out What's it gonna be today? It wakes me up at dawn And as the day goes on I try to turn it off but the beat goes on It never lets me rest I can't get a minute's peace I lay awake in bed Wondering will it ever cease? It's like a top ten song I hear it all day long I try to turn it off but the beat goes on
Swing to the right Try to face the fact that I ain't that young no more Hair's short again and a suit is in, Better brush up on how to tie a Windsor knot Swing to the right Credit's hard to find and a dollar doesn't go so far What's more important when the count comes in A sell-out who's alive or a corpse that can't be bought? Stop the hand of time Think I see a sign Tables turning 'round Hear a different sound Stop the hands of time Looking out for mine Swing to the right Don't want to hear what the povertous expect from me Let 'em eat cake if they feel that way I gotta work why should I have to pay for that? And I don't want to be left holding the bag for them 'Scuze me for living but I have to say, I've got some worries of my own, like staying fat
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Under the rising sun dirty yellow children play And in the red pagoda mamasan is praying Blood wasted saving face, ancestors are looking on As they wave their silver samurai underneath the big gun Hiroshima, no one could imagine Not the victors nor the victims Pitiful survivors nor the pawn of a man who had the button under his hand No one would believe it God, God is on our side, he placed the power in our hands To teach the yellow peril, this is Christian mercy Harry, Harry give 'em hell, give 'em hell one more time again We'll show those axis powers how to make an oven [fry them] Hiroshima, Nagasaki Don't you ever forget, don't you ever fuckin' forget This is the official voice of the United States of America addressing the peoples of the islands of Japan. Tomorrow morning, on August 15th, 1945 at exactly 8:15 am, we will bomb your cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima with a blast that will level these cities. This is the only alert you will receive.
They tell me I've paid back the debt I owed Forty-four months since the slammer door closed They give me a suit and put me back on the road And my thoughts are racing Where do I go? What am I supposed to live on? What happens when the twenty-five dollars is gone? That leaves me lots of time to wonder why I was born But the countdown is on Everybody's dancing The music sounds entrancing But you can't find the beat It's the ticking of a thousand human time bombs Who are back on the street Oh the names have been changed But the story's the same History will repeat Add it all up and then divide it by zero 'Cause you're back on the street I can't stand the strain of this job no more I must have forgot what I took it on for I make lots of money, yet still I want more And my head is blazing I think that I'll check out the shops downtown Sometimes it helps to buy things when I feel brought down At this hour I might dodge those hippie low-life's around But the countdown is on Once you had to stand out Looking for a handout Free love and body heat And that money's just a crumpled green ball in your pocket When you're back on the street Back on the street again Said you're back on the street again The countdown is on And nobody knows when Spreading like a cancer Looking for the answer In everyone you meet And each in his way has a hustle to play When he's back on the street
It's only human to despise the weak It's only human to despise yourself when you're weak I don't know why but that's the way that it's always been And I play by the rules I don't understand at all It's only human to be lazy and vain It's only human to expect a world that's just as vain I don't know why I want to believe that it's not that way But I'm Johnny come lately, it's not my place to say There's no escape, tell me why do they try so hard? And I pretend that I'm invincible, that I can go it all alone But I'm only human, trying to get by And praying to heaven I might find out why am I human Mere flesh and blood Afraid to go on without someone to hold me up It's just a human thing to fear the unknown But isn't it a tragic thing to live and die alone Oh Lord look at the world, have you ever seen so much misery? Like a ghost ship of fools, lost and floating out to sea And they climb and they fall yet they struggle on the same fault But they're only human, trying to get by And praying to heaven they might find out Why are we human Mere flesh and blood We're afraid to go on without someone to hold us up
No place to hide And no where to run Nothing you can do because a change must come You can't stop it You got your tail in the air Your head in the ground Money, money, money makes your world go 'round You can't stop it You can't stop, you can't stop, you can't stop, you can't stop You can't stop love in action You just joined the clan Your head's full of sand You need a bunch of friends to make you feel like a man But you can't stop it Yeah, you could be the last trace of the master race The Nazis really send you to another place Still you can't stop it You can't stop love in action
Moses went into the desert Moses came back with the law Jesus went into the desert God only knows what he saw Hitch up your ass and your camel Fill up your skin at the well Roll up your tent, whisper your prayers Are you ready to ride through hell Caravan moving through the night sleeping in the light of day Caravan spinning through the void on our way to anywhere Caravan time is just a joke change is all we understand Caravan life is a mirage, only a mirage dancing on the desert sand How I recall all the mountains How I remember the farm Oh how I miss the big city With a pretty girl on my arm Sell my best friend for some water Cut off my leg for some shade Sunburn these thoughts from my memory If I live I will be remade The sand is like a razor Slashing at my face Everyone's in panic but you can't see any place It's a sand storm, taken by surprise Hide beneath your wrappings and cover up your eyes Well I lost my kit and camel Maybe I will die Feel so lost and helpless and I think I'm gonna cry It's a sand storm, nothing you can do No one knows if it will last No one knows if you will make it through It's been so long without water Vultures are filling the air Where is that bloody oasis Must be around here somewhere Time for some strong meditation Time for the ultimate change Time to make peace with your maker Everything has been prearranged
The last of the new wave riders Will be the first of the new age masters Pick up your arms was the call So I packed up my Fender and ran down the hall Back to the fields and forests Now I am one of them "Turn on the power" cried the army of sound And the hum of the amps shook the trees and the ground And like a single man we cranked up the knobs And a thousand guitars sang our national anthem We captured the whole human race There was nowhere to hide, playing filled every space Jamming the world back into place Everyone a star We hit the supreme overload And the great amplifier began to explode The smoke is slowly clearing away And the whole universe is a giant guitar (Here comes that silver surfer now)
One world Whoa, it's our world Yeah, yeah, one world Whoa, it's our world Yeah, yeah When I walk on the street I feel glad I was born Music comes a'ringin' out of every door I see faces I know and they give me a sign We got something between us and it feels all right I see Chrissy the clipper, she colors my hair Nikki and Margaret make the clothes that we wear And there's Gene who runs the club where we dance all night When you live in our world everything's all right Politicians and dictators and the guys with the dough They think they run the world but they just don't know 'Cause down here on the street we got it under control From Berlin to San Francisco, from New York to Tokyo
Name your price A ticket to paradise I can't stay here any more And I've looked high and low I've been from shore to shore to shore If there's a short cut I'd have found it But there's no easy way around it Light of the world, shine on me Love is the answer Shine on us all, set us free Love is the answer Who knows why Someday we all must die We're all homeless boys and girls And we are never heard It's such a lonely world People turn their heads and walk on by Tell me, is it worth just another try? Tell me, are we alive, or just a dying planet? What are the chances? Ask the man in your heart for the answers And when you feel afraid, love one another When you've lost your way, love one another When you're all alone, love one another When you're far from home, love one another When you're down and out, love one another All your hope's run out, love one another When you need a friend, love one another When you're near the end, love one another We got to love one another Light of the world, you got to shine Love will be a means, yeah, yeah Shine on us all Know that love can save the day Just give it one more chance Lord you just can't let it stop Lord Love is the answer Got to be free to let love into your life Let it shine
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