Release Date: 1983/1985/1986 re-issue 1996
Duration: 46:11/50:55
Label: Rhino
Catalog Number: R2 72287
Originally released on Passport individually, this 2-CD set includes all tracks from the three original releases. Includes full lyrics in CD booklet and new liner notes by Brett Milano.
You got to stop, it's much too deep for me I was mistaken, yes I don't understand And my decision, if I choose not to choose There's nobody on this line but me I got a free will that I ain't even used yet I got a free will and I ain't gonna use it 'til I know what I'm doing There's an itch in my brain (and I can't get at it) There's an itch in my brain (and I can't get at it) There's an itch in my brain (and I can't get at it) And I can't stop thinking 'til I scratch it I'm still dancing, I'm just a change machine Don't have to tell me I'm only waving my arms But there's so much smoke and so little fire And there's nobody on this line but me I got a free will and it's making me crazy I got a free will and I ain't gonna use it 'til I know what I'm doing I got a free will and I'm dying to keep it I got a free will and I ain't gonna use it 'til I know what I'm doing
She's a definite thinker It don't take a genius to see There's something ticking behind those eyes What does she think of me She has the answer when I don't know what to ask And always lets me know so innocently But when she gets that certain look on her face I wonder what will be left when she's finished with me God help me, I'm in love with a thinker Save me, lips of a singer Help me, feet of a dancer Save me, I'm in love with a thinker Yes, she's a definite thinker Sometimes she tries to hide it from me But when she starts talking over my head It makes me dizzy I'm just a cipher in the master plan That's what I get for working out of my league And though she says that I have nothing to fear I wonder what will be left when she's finished with me I know I'm just a fool to her But will she turn me into a memory I have to make up the difference somehow Though she insists we have equality But every time she gets that look on her face I wonder what will be left when she's finished with me
If you do not hunt, you do not eat If you do not hunt, you do not eat When will the sun come, when will the sun come, when will the sun come If you do not hunt, you do not eat If you do not hunt, you do not eat Who is the best boy, who is the best boy, who is the best boy Bring me my longbow, sing me the holy song Bring me my longbow, sing me the holy song Fill the cup, fill the cup, pass out the water Fill the cup, fill the cup, bless our provider If you do not hunt, you do not eat If you do not hunt, you do not eat Burn out the tall grass, burn out the tall grass, burn out the tall grass Women cry, children cry, throats are dry But the family must survive
If I didn't try, how would I know, how would I know If I didn't try, how would I know, how would I know Sometimes I think I must be crazy for doing this (Think I'm never gonna win) But how would I know it's a losing cause If I didn't try, if I didn't try If I didn't try, if I didn't try If I didn't care, nothing would hurt, nothing would hurt If I didn't care, hope for the best, expect the worst Sometimes it feels like my whole life has been leading to this (Wish that I could hide somewhere) But how would I know how it feels to live If I didn't care, if I didn't care If I didn't care, if I didn't care Sometimes I think I must be crazy for doing this (You can never run away) But how would I know it's a losing cause If I didn't try, if I didn't try If I didn't try, if I didn't try
Too much, it's too much, too much Got too much water under the bridge Got too much, too much, got too much Got too much water under the bridge I got to think of something, think of something I got to think of something We got to hang together, we got to hang together We got to hang together, or hang separately Maybe we got time to burn I got a yen to hear myself talk But I don't want to make that kind of history Put your hand on the rock And maybe you've got nothing left to learn You put me in a state of shock But do you want to make that kind of history Put your hand on the rock And let it all run out You know why we got to hang together Number one ain't always number one Instant karma's always coming back And I don't want to make that kind of history Put your hand on the rock Tell ya mamma nature's on the run Bad karma's running in the back But do we want to make that kind of history Put your hand on the rock And let it all run out You know why we got to get together We got no more time to burn We got to crawl before we can walk So if you wanna make a new kind of history Put your hand on the rock And I got a few things I'd like to learn I get tired of hearing myself squawk And I wanna make a new kind of history Put your hand on the rock And let it all run out You know why we got to hang together
Maybe it's just those same old things Maybe it's just a waste of time This reminds me so much of the day you said goodbye And as you walked away still I would not admit you were right, you were right But then now it's a different state of things Maybe it's more than I can take 'Cause it seems like the world's against me now And I need someone to show me how But I still can't admit you were right, you were right and I was wrong Maybe I could change Maybe I could change the world Maybe I could change myself Maybe I could change the world Maybe I could have your love I've been holding my hopes so high But can't you help me now, my arms are so tired And maybe they made the world that way Maybe it's just a waste of time Just like me, they turn the other way And just like me, can't bring themselves to say Now I know the mistakes that I have made And if I try and if it's not too late Then I can maybe admit you were right, you were right, and I was wrong
Cry to me, those were your very words You said cry to me, cry to me There you stood, laughing at my tears You said, silly boy, forget your childhood fears But you don't realize how strange it makes me feel Now we're exchanging parts Stop, you're breaking my heart Who's the crybaby now Cry to me, cry to me, you're the crybaby now Cry to me, cry Who's the crybaby, who's breaking my heart Lie to me, you know that I know you too well So don't you lie to me, lie to me I watch you from afar, crying up your sleeve When they turn away, so they'll still believe you don't need no one But I'm the only one that sees how you're torn apart Stop you're breaking my heart Who's the crybaby now Cry to me, cry to me, you're my crybaby now Cry to me, cry to me, who's the crybaby now Cry to me, cry to me, you're my crybaby now Who's the crybaby, who's breaking my heart So what can you say now What can you feel When you've got a heart made of leather and steel And you won't break down You took self defense and turned it into art Stop, you're breaking my heart Come on
There's too much music, too much light These endless broadcasts into the night Petty seizures of money and drugs By some official or unauthorized thugs Now it's gone, the whole world's gone There's the army at the front door, guerrillas in back Why do I always have to take up sides I had no plans to be conscripted today I am no use to them anyway So what the hell's going on When they took my bed for the good of the state I had to rest my head and took to levitation Welcome to my revolution Every morning they confer with the press Just to point a few fingers Fix the blame for this mess The spokesmen waffle and the jerk-offs complain In a stream of rhetoric Piss themselves down the drain Then it's time to go home Time to go home What will they say when it's gone The whole world's gone So they call a cease fire to bury the dead And just delay it for an hour or so Loose talk of cowards and leaders that lied What does it matter once we're vaporized Say what the hell's going on Then it got so bad I couldn't breathe the air So I became my own church and begged for sanctuary Welcome to my revolution This is the dream that I have every night I wake up screaming to the left and the right Is this my vision of the end of the world The faces looked smoldered, the edges are curled Tell me what is the reason we can't look at ourselves And realize everybody creates his own hell And if we put it together to make them all real And then forget how to think, forget how to feel Until it's gone, the whole world's gone Are we damned if we do and damned if we don't Could we be suckered into thinking that Or get too greedy, afraid of the loss And wind up fighting for a worthless cause What if we died and had to come back How may times would we have to go 'round What if tomorrow was the end of the line Don't want to feel like I wasted my time So what the hell's going on When the noise gets so dense you can't hear yourself think We got the spirit world on a telephone link So welcome to my revolution
We got no razor blades, we got no victory gin I got no tiny alcove to hide myself in To say things weren't good would not be an untruth But I just met a girl from the anti-sex youth We get up in the morning for physical jerks We might pass in the hall as we're going to work I have found us a place where there's no telescreen And there's no hidden mikes and it's not too unclean While the high remain high and the middle change places The low don't want to know they tell all with their faces She might sit afront of me for the two minutes hate I might see her again if it's not already too late So they will take the book away from me So let them catch me talking in my sleep I guess I never really understood the law So Winston Smith takes it on the jaw So let's do what we want, it makes no difference now When the thought police find us, we're dead anyhow Kick us out of the party and bust us to parole Then they'll stuff us both into a memory hole So let them haul me off to 101 Public confessions of everything we've done Of everything I heard and everything I saw When Winston Smith takes it on the jaw
There was a time When all I thought that I wanted Was someone to touch me Like I thought everyone was touched What did I know, what was I thinking What did I know, what was I thinking I remember There was someone that I wanted Now she's a face at the reunion of '66 What did she know, what was she thinking And did she know that I convinced myself I couldn't survive Sometimes you have to wait You're pushing but that stone won't move And you hesitate to give yourself away There was a time When all I thought that I needed Was someone to tell me I was making the perfect move What did I know, what was I thinking What did I know, what was I thinking All I wanted was a holy exemption I had a license to tell everyone Where it's at What did they know, what were they thinking And did they know that I would only hear The things I desired So I would wait I'm pushing but that stone won't move And I hesitate to give myself away And there was a time When all I thought that I wanted Was to live in a world Where everyone knew what love is for What do I know, what am I thinking Nobody knows that the hour is getting late So I will wait for it forever I will wait for it Though I know the hour is getting late I will wait for it forever I will wait for it Though I know the hour is getting late
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
I could be jealous and grasping with greed I could pretend that I want something I don't need These are the things that go through my head But then, I could be an angel disguised as a man I could be the sun that shines in the midnight land If you would only stand in my corner Give that advantage to me Don't you feel something? You know what I'm thinking but I can't set it free We must Play this game, take the prize But not before you realize That win or lose, it's all the same Then maybe we can play this game I can't remember the reason I'm here Sometimes it seems like it's all out of habit or fear Sometimes I wish I could just go to sleep But then, I'll have a dream with a beautiful end I'll wake up and feel alive, then I'm off again If I could only keep your connection Give me whatever remains Then I might win you total liberation But I can't break these chains We must Play this game Let's pretend that we could never reach the end For it would be a crying shame If we can't learn to play this game Stand in my corner Give that advantage to me Stand in my corner Pull down a message with me The answer that evades our brains We only think we're wearing chains
Style must not be underrated Style is often overlooked Style is never in the papers I read it like an open book Style If you can't see the substance Style shows how it's organized Style is looking for your money It's in the way you paint your eyes There is always a way A way things are done I've been learning my ABC's I know what is 10, I know what is 1 in Style is a naked look Underneath your style Style of a different place Talking through your style Even the way you hide it Reveals the thing you hide Your style may never cause a riot It's still a style to have no style There is always a way To light up a lamp It's been a crazy year all around The check never came I can't let it cramp my Style is a world for sale You can't buy this style Style that you can't resist You won't cramp my style
When you cry I know you've got a good reason to cry If you can't come I know it's not just an alibi Now I hear things that are better kept under the hat Who backs it up? Look at your hand, you can count on that When you talk, it's hard to disagree And when you dance, you're talking to me When you stand, you stand for something Stand for something They can't dim your flame When you stand, you stand for something Stand for something They can't bend your stream Here I stand Outside the world of politica I would not lose that For all the gold in South Africa What you wear did not come easy What you hear sounds different to me When you stand, you're standing next to me You put your foot down every day Make sure you bring it down on the up beat So walk away those feet of clay We are fighting and dancing in the street
When we were young they would break our hearts You and I had to go undercover We knew in time we would be pulled apart We found a way we could hold on to each other Gave our souls to another world Sealed in blood with a sacred vow Now we've forgotten but beneath all this A part of you and me is still there now Go on and sing Go on and dance It'll all come back if you just give it a chance Don't you remember me? We had a secret society Refresh your memory We were the secret society I never see you in the waking world We make an effort to avoid each other But every night we penetrate the veil Where everybody acts like sister and brother You never speak the words in broad daylight They're much too delicate and too naive But everybody's been a witness sometime It doesn't change it if you don't believe So go on and sing Go on and dance Someday soon you'll hear that little bell ring And you'll remember me We have a secret society Not just a memory We are the secret society You've got to come with me You're in the secret society Until eternity We are the secret society (It's no secret)
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
Everyone asks Are we some kind of lovers? Everyone asks what you're doing with me I know this is not what they want They're afraid you've been blinded But I already know how it's going to be If anyone should ask Say we're mated For as long as this life lasts We are mated Why else would you be here right now And you know we'll still be here tomorrow Nobody else understands what I'm doing Nobody else makes me act in this way And because they can't comprehend What we mean to each other They won't leave you alone So you know what to say I hold you in my heart 'Cause we're mated In a very special part We are mated Why else would I be here right now And you know I'll still be here tomorrow I see things far ahead, maybe light Maybe beautiful children I don't have words I'm thinking of But it's way beyond what they call love
Mommy told me she has everything I want Mommy told me that I should not worry 'bout nothing else Mommy told me that I can't do what I want Mommy told me But she's only thinking about herself Can't think about nothing else I'm thinking about myself Time to leave and it's just as well 'Cause I can't help thinking there's something else Wildlife So I told he that I must have something more than she offered And she should not worry about my health I'm a big boy, not her little boy no more I'm a big boy and I must learn how to protect myself Hold my own when they give me hell She can worry about herself Tiny eagles must leave their nest Wild horses withstand the test Old lovers become estranged Little boys who can't help but change Could be nothing but who can tell?
I'll never grow up, I won't try I can live with that, don't ask why I am resigned that this is me If I can take it, why can't she? I am bad at my best, but she will not accept that I can't get away with things I might regret She makes me get started when nothing's ever through And I do the best that I can do but Mimi gets mad when I make her wait Mimi gets mad when I phone too late But then Mimi gets sad if I hurt myself Can't say that about nobody else Someone should tell her honestly She is a fool to count on me I swore there would be no delay I should have been here yesterday So I sneak in the door and there she is again She could squeeze off a shot just as soon as look at me She don't say a word and every word is true And if that's the best that I can do then Mimi gets mad every time I'm wrong Mimi gets mad when I sleep too long But then Mimi gets glad when I do my share See no smile but I know it's there There must be a dozen other boys She could give her anger to I'm the only one, it doesn't matter what I do It's not very pretty but it's absolutely true That I'm still the best that she can do so Mimi gets mad
I'm sitting here looking at your picture I see a light all around your head You got a green I ain't never seen And what a strange shade of red And everything is turning inside out And something gets ahold of me And turns me inside out There is a place where the others go You can forget everything you know But every night is the same to me Lying awake and longing to be Mystified Cannot help myself Mystified Could not stop myself You got a wishing well in your eye The surface starts to ripple Pardon me, what might your entendre be? I'm seeing double, sometimes triple Every thought wears a thin disguise It's not a thing that I can verbalize But if you knew what I was looking for You'd get off your ass and walk out that door Mystified Last night I was laying down sleeping You know I was dreaming all to myself In the evening, darling when the sun goes down Whoa! You know it's mighty hard to tell Tell me what more can a good man do? You hold the world hostage in your mind Standards and practices are well defined But if you choose to walk a different road Hold onto your hat, your head might explode Mystified
I think the last time I was warm was in my mother Now I'm listening in the darkness but there's nothing on the wire I'm locked inside the refrigerator So while I sit and shiver I rub the sticks together And if it takes forever I will find my way back to the fire Heat is not enough More light Love is strong enough More light Faith is not enough More light Everybody must be touched I think that we don't need another great communicator And there's a million extended mixers we are ready to retire We all face obsolescence sooner or later So while we sit and shiver We rub the sticks together And if it takes forever we will find our way back to the fire
You got all the time in the world You count the minutes like beads on a string Open the floor for a little debate While you sit and watch the rug unravelling You got a message from the weather man You're looking for a thumb when there's a hole to fill Who bites the bullet? Man of action will Call me. Have gun. Will travel. Think about it, ponder on that If you can't make that move, man of action will Think about it, ponder on this With a fist or a kiss I'll put your dreams in action Pressure's building up and down the line You see the difference in the smallest thing Put a new tape in your message machine Hit the shelters 'til you see what change will bring Sometimes justice seems a fragile thing You paralyze it with a lack of will Trade in your karma Man of action will Call the avenging angel Think about it, ponder on this If you can't make that move, man of action will Think about it, ponder on that Time to cut through the fat I am your first reaction Someone's got to push it on Someone's got to shake it on Someone's got to take it on Man of action will
I got the message in my mailbox Nobody goes to church no more They're closing down your little altar They've locked the sanctuary door Don't fight it Who can say that you didn't try Don't fight it Old soldiers never die Where will I go to leave my offering To think about how life's so queer And listen to the little choir The sermon I don't care to hear Don't fight it Who can say that it's not the end Don't fight it And if we don't meet again I know somewhere a monument Stands in the name of our love Somewhere are monuments Standing in the name of our love I've seen such strange times Seems like lifetimes Sometimes good and sometimes bad And I don't see how it could Have been much different Everybody gave the best they had
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