Release Date: April 5, 2004 (UK)/April 6, 2004 (US)
Duration: 74:14
Label: Sanctuary (US/UK)
Catalog Number: 06076-86357-2
All of these songs are about a paucity of truth. At first they may seem to be about other things, but that is just a reflection of how much dishonesty we have accepted in our daily lives. We are raised from birth to believe things that cannot be proven or that are plainly not true. People will often brag of their honesty, when there is so much they have simply chosen to ignore or leave unexamined.
I'm gonna find it, I'm gonna find the truth Cause it ain't here, it's nowhere near I gotta find it, I gotta find the truth If I lose my mind, well I don't care The truth is in plain contradiction The truth is not in this situation The truth is it's my only salvation The truth is not here I tried to find it looking in the works of man And if it's there it's sure not clear I thought I saw it somwhere [sic] in a starry sky And if it's there, I'm stuck down here The truth is like chasing a phantom The truth is so seemingly random The truth is not easily handled The truth is not here The truth is stranger than fiction I gotta find the truth If I have to stand all day in the bright sunshine I gotta find it, I'm gonna find the truth If I have to dance all night, leave my body behind Because the truth is never gonna look for me I will never get to see what I have not earned And the truth is, if that day should never come That doesn't mean I was wrong To try to capture that bird Sweet bird of truth, come to me
I've been living with a lie for so long now, baby I gotta set my soul free, I can't take it no more That's why I gotta Sing and shout it, tell the world about it The truth is sweet I made a promise to myself not to let nobody else Have any sway on the way I lived my life I didn't see the need to compromise but now I've come to realize That living is more than just surviving And I've been lying to myself, I gotta cover up what I feel But now it's time I must admit this is real, this is real The truth is sweet Just like honey from a bee, the truth is sweet So many people in the world let it all pass them by They won't admit they need rescued from their lonely lives That's why we gotta sing and shout it tell the world about it The truth is sweet When you've been hurt so many times it's enough to make you blind To anything that feels like true happiness Nobody wants to be the foolish one but after all is said and done You constantly settle for less It's like a broken carousel, it just goes round & round & round But now it's time you admit you've lost ground Hear that sound? The truth is sweet Just like a baby's kiss, the truth is sweet Go on admit it, you know you want it to be true Go on admit it, you say you don't but you know you do Go on admit it, you've been disguising what you feel You could be living in a fantasy But then that fantasy could turn out to be real Sweet and true like my love for you And everybody in the world's gonna wake up some day Singing love is the answer, love is the answer What's left to say?
Come to me, she said, my girl I must teach you of the world It is full of hungry men Who will drag you to their den But their feelings they won't share And of yours they do not care And they think that they're so smart But they're not Men are stupid, men are stupid And that's just the way it's got to be Happy anniversary Come to me my boy, he said Better get this in your head All the girls will use their sex To get a yoke around your neck Then they'll try to make you change And when they fail, hold you to blame And they don't care what's real or true Like we do Women are evil, women are evil And that's just the way it's got to be Happy anniversary You'd like to change it but there ain't no way Cause you're a slave to your DNA It's so unfair but it's the game we play We're only slaves to our DNA Men are stupid, women are evil Happy anniversary And is that the way it has to be? Happy anniversary
I didn't just pull into town. This happened right before my eyes. There's something missing in the sound, That so used to satisfy. It may rock, it may roll, but tell me Whatever happened to your soul? It's just a murky, jerky groove. It motivates but it don't move And all the pimps and funky divas Crank out their empty testifying They mixed it all in a bowl but then they Forgot to add a pinch of soul Tell me, whatever happened to soul, brother? Tell me, what did they do with the soul, soul brother? Tell me, where did they go with the soul, brother? Can I get a witness? We're only here to entertain And just pretend to be in pain And if you wanna see me get down Just watch me wave my hands around It's just a distraction I'm told, I use it To hide my total lack of soul Can't find a little a bit of soul Cause it's so hip to be a ho And all the brothers act like crooks And all the kids in the suburbs write the radio hooks And if you want to be a star Just grab your crotch and squeeze it hard And make your mom and daddy proud As you dry hump for the crowd It may be tired and old, but then it's Your only substitute for soul
When I found we could have some brains I was the first in line, cause we were, like Dragging our knuckles along the ground Ever since, I've been convinced that every Sacred thought is mine, and you were still Dragging your knuckles along the ground I think I'm there, dude (don't get ahead of yourself) I think I'm there, dude Already there And when they asked us who will lead I thought it surely must be me But I stood up too fast Because as soon as I was boss The next one in line took my head clean off Cause I stood up too fast I was barely in my teens when I decided I was tired Of always like dragging my knuckles along the ground So with all due haste I based until I got so freakin wired Forgot I was dragging my knuckles along the ground I thought I was there, dude (you got ahead of yourself) I thought I was there, dude Already there And when they asked for volunteers I must have thought they said 'drink beers' And I stood up too fast I can imagine things that can't possibly exist And then I add them to an ever-expanding list And when I've solved every significant test there is I'll just move on no matter how many clues I've missed Its easy to be smart but it's a struggle to be wise You shouldn't be always throwing your weight around It's much better to be humble than to have a big hat size Or you'll be just begging somebody to take you down And you'll be nowhere, man (you got ahead of yourself) And you'll be nowhere, man Already there And right before your very eyes I have ignored my own advice Cause I stood up too fast And nobody has the slightest choice But to put up with my droning voice When I stood up too fast
O Holy Father Divine Provider Grant me my prayer All I desire It's been a long, long time since you faced the truth You haven't heard the voice of god since your wasted youth Faith of your father, holy faith In the dollar almighty and the tithing plate And you'd like to rub my face in it Your god, your god And you'd like to rub my face in it Your god, your god, your god is Mammon Pew after pew in the house of the lord Nod their heads at the sermon while they mind the store And their holiest book is a PDA It's got god's cell number if you find time to pray And you'd like to rub their face in it Your god, your god Even though you have no faith in it Your god is Mammon, your god is dead And you rage and fume at the godless ones Cause they don't understand how the company runs And they think it's the money that you care about You pretend to be offended when they figure it out Tell me what kind of heaven do you think awaits When your ass is too fat to fit the pearly gates? It's like the eye of a needle and a limosine Paradise is set aside for the less obscene You only care for the power that the lucre brings And you have no love for any living thing, save Mammon And you'd like to rub our face in it
I remember the world of tomorrow I remember the world of tomorrow I'm supposed to drive a flying car I'm supposed to have a house on Mars I'm supposed to live 200 years I'm supposed to live, I'm supposed to live in The future is now I remember the world of tomorrow I remember the world of tomorrow Where's the office building two miles high? And the ocean liner 12 blocks wide? Where's the supertrain that’s solar powered Average speed 600 miles an hour? I'm supposed to get my eyesight back I'm supposed to gain all things I lack I'm supposed to live devoid of fears I'm supposed to live, I'm supposed to live in The future is now Where's the better world that was declared At the 1964 World's Fair? Where's the only orb that's got a plan? It's at EPCOT Center Disneyland We're supposed to all drive flying cars We're supposed to all have homes on Mars We're supposed to live 200 years We're supposed to live, we're supposed to live in The future is now
I saw you on the street today I could not catch your eye or you'd have heard me say That you look just the same But then I realized We are not even friends and I was so surprised When the teardrops came I'm living in the past Living in the past Living in the past, I know But the past is gone I can't remember when You didn't cross my mind and pull me back again Into my reverie And that's why I'm living in the past And I gaze out the window as the world drifts by And my eyes will glaze and I slip away And my todays are gray, the seconds tick away But if I close my eyes it's only yesterday And I see rainbows surrounding you and me But that was in the past I know it was the past
Life is always strange You just get used to it Once in a while something reminds you Then your forget about it I heard it at the coffee shop And on the radio They're talking at the trolley stop And everywhere I go It's all over, all of the suffering It's all over, all of the other things I know it's all over now But for the wondering We could change our minds But what's the use of it? If there's a thing we haven't tried Too tired to think about it I can't pick up the telephone Somebody wants to know The thing that can never be known A place we'll never go It's all over, no more imagining It's all over, is that a tragic thing? I know it's all over now But for the wondering
You could be my everything, you almost have it all You'd be perfect but you've got one fatal flaw We could live so happily, the envy of them all But that'll never happen cause you've got one fatal flaw And all my friends they look at me Say 'she's a ten' and I agree that you are a mad love maker I know I should accpet it all and overlook the little faults But this one's a real deal breaker And all my friends they look at us Say 'he won't bend when he could just live happily ever after' It's not that I'm afraid of it, but every time you force a fit There's crying instead of laughter So why you gotta be such a lyin' ass motherfucker? And you sure had me fooled You really sent me back to school And you made me feel like a royal tool Still I can't help having a soft spot for you If we put it down on paper and we're careful how we draw It looks perfect but it's got one fatal flaw And you may overlook the obvious, pretend you know it all You refuse to see it but it's got one fatal flaw
They say I don't think enough about the afterlife Of what's below and above, it's all so black and white They say there's only one kind of love You have to choose just right They say there's ony one kind of love in the afterlife Kiss it all goodbye You don't get another try But I can see... I don't know how That I won't be what I am now, no And I won't have some other heart That could find peace though we're apart, no It's not enough anymore to be good in this life They say you've got to be sure so you can sleep at night The only love that endures gives up without a fight The only love that endures in the afterlife Kiss it all goodbye It was just a clever lie If I could never see your face Then I would have to fall from grace, I know Or for eternity be blind to your presence in my mind? No And they could promise me a seat At the right side of the throne But all would still be incomplete Within the holy host, alone Without the guiding light so sweet That has forever led me on For me there's no eternal rest You and I have unfinished business If I could still hold one thought clear Then you will instantly appear, I know I could not repose in bliss Never more to know your kiss, no
Faithful friend, at journey's end The shore that I land on is you The rock that I stand on is you Fortunes fade and beds unmade You're like a mountain to me Forever changeless to me Everything changes So look me straight into the eye Swear to god and tell me I'm not living a lie But if I'm wrong and you know why Tell me now, don't let me go on living a lie Fate is cruel you're made a fool And when I've fallen from your grace I will find comfort in your face Everything changes I can hear the howling hounds not far behind But I keep the destination clear in mind And the certain sanctuary I will find When I get home to your arms Trusting hearts are torn apart Jealousy follows in their wake Under the pressure they break Everything changes And everyone wants to divide us Fan the flames and tell us we are living a lie But they don't care if we survive And I refuse to say that we are living a lie
Nearly everyone I know claims to have heard your voice And every time they do, I know I should rejoice Because one day I'm sure you'll break your silence And speak just to me But I feel like time's running out And my heart, my heart is filling with doubt And god said I don't dwell upon you, I dwell on something else And I am not really here so get over your self I've tried to follow every rule they said you handed down And spread the sacred testimony all around And still the others seem to have your ear but never will I Have I displeased you somehow? I can't, I can't help feeling left out And god said There's no anger in me, you must mean someone else Cause it's not me that you see, you're looking at yourself And I won't give you a prize instead of someone else Cause I don't play favorites, so get over yourself Is it my fear, is it my pride, is it my vanity? Should your name just be denied to save my sanity? What is the price I need to pay to have What others seem to grasp so easily? Pity your servant your slave Who'll kiss, kiss your feet to be saved Save me, save me... And god said You are not serving me, you're serving something else Cause I don't need to be pleased, just get over yourself You can't suck up to me, I know you all too well But I don't dwell upon you, so get over yourself Cause you're not praying to me, you're praying to yourself And you're not worshipping me you're worshipping yourself And you will kill in my name and heaven knows what else When you can't prove I exist so get over yourself
Duty calls the faithful few The infidel must pay his due For your family we will provide You will fill them with empty pride And for you many virgins wait Say your prayers, accept your fate Liar And with every lying breath You send them to their death We need not the authority Of some god of morality Nor the aid of some skeptic land Who puts truth before our demands And to those who defy our law We will bring them our shock and awe Liar And you send them to their death With your every lying breath
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