所属专辑:The Essential
时长: 03:42
Darkness at the break of noon[00:00:13]
Shadows even the silver spoon[00:00:15]
The handmade blade the child's balloon[00:00:16]
Eclipses both the sun and moon[00:00:17]
To understand you know too soon[00:00:18]
There is no sense in trying[00:00:21]
Pointed threats they bluff with scorn[00:00:24]
Suicide remarks are torn[00:00:25]
From the fool's gold mouthpiece[00:00:27]
The hollow horn plays wasted words[00:00:29]
Proves to warn[00:00:30]
That he not busy being born[00:00:30]
Is busy dying[00:00:32]
Temptation's page flies out the door[00:00:35]
You follow find yourself at war[00:00:37]
Watch waterfalls of pity roar[00:00:40]
You feel to moan but unlike before[00:00:42]
You discover[00:00:45]
That you'd just be[00:00:45]
One more person crying[00:00:46]
So don't fear if you hear[00:00:48]
A foreign sound to your ear[00:00:50]
It's all right Ma I'm only sighing[00:00:51]
As some warn victory some downfall[00:00:55]
Private reasons great or small[00:00:59]
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call[00:01:00]
To make all that should be killed to crawl[00:01:02]
While others say don't hate nothing at all[00:01:03]
Except hatred[00:01:05]
Disillusioned words like bullets bark[00:01:08]
As human gods aim for their mark[00:01:10]
Made everything from toy guns that spark[00:01:11]
To flesh colored Christs that glow in the dark[00:01:12]
It's easy to see without looking too far[00:01:13]
That not much[00:01:15]
Is really sacred[00:01:16]
While preachers preach of evil fates[00:01:17]
Teachers teach that knowledge waits[00:01:19]
Can lead to hundred dollar plates[00:01:20]
Goodness hides behind its gates[00:01:23]
But even the president of the United States[00:01:24]
Sometimes must have[00:01:25]
To stand naked[00:01:26]
An' though the rules of the road have been lodged[00:01:26]
It's only people's games that you got to dodge[00:01:29]
And it's all right Ma I can make it[00:01:31]
Advertising signs that con you[00:01:35]
Into thinking you're the one[00:01:54]
That can do what's never been done[00:01:55]
That can win what's never been won[00:01:57]
Meantime life outside goes on[00:01:57]
All around you[00:01:59]
You lose yourself you reappear[00:02:01]
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear[00:02:03]
Alone you stand with nobody near[00:02:04]
When a trembling distant voice unclear[00:02:05]
Startles your sleeping ears to hear[00:02:06]
That somebody thinks[00:02:07]
They really found you[00:02:08]
A question in your nerves is lit[00:02:11]
Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy[00:02:11]
Insure you not to quit[00:02:13]
To keep it in your mind and not fergit[00:02:14]
That it is not he or she or them or it[00:02:16]
That you belong to[00:02:18]
Although the masters make the rules[00:02:18]
For the wise men and the fools[00:02:20]
I got nothing Ma to live up to[00:02:21]
For them that must obey authority[00:02:24]
That they do not respect in any degree[00:02:26]
Who despise their jobs their destinies[00:02:29]
Speak jealously of them that are free[00:02:30]
Cultivate their flowers to be[00:02:31]
Nothing more than something[00:02:32]
They invest in[00:02:32]
While some on principles baptized[00:02:33]
To strict party platform ties[00:02:34]
Social clubs in drag disguise[00:02:35]
Outsiders they can freely criticize[00:02:36]
Tell nothing except who to idolize[00:02:37]
And then say God bless him[00:02:39]
While one who sings with his tongue on fire[00:02:41]
Gargles in the rat race choir[00:02:42]
Bent out of shape from society's pliers[00:02:43]
Cares not to come up any higher[00:02:46]
But rather get you down in the hole[00:02:51]
That he's in[00:02:52]
But I mean no harm nor put fault[00:02:52]
On anyone that lives in a vault[00:02:54]
But it's all right Ma if I can't please him[00:02:55]
Old lady judges watch people in pairs[00:02:57]
To push fake morals insult and stare[00:02:58]
While money doesn't talk it swears[00:02:59]
Obscenity who really cares[00:03:00]
Propaganda all is phony[00:03:01]
While them that defend what they cannot see[00:03:02]
With a killer's pride security[00:03:04]
It blows the minds most bitterly[00:03:05]
For them that think death's honesty[00:03:07]
Won't fall upon them naturally[00:03:08]
Life sometimes[00:03:09]
Must get lonely[00:03:09]
My eyes collide head on with stuffed graveyards[00:03:10]
False gods I scuff[00:03:11]
At pettiness which plays so rough[00:03:12]
Walk upside down inside handcuffs[00:03:14]
Kick my legs to crash it off[00:03:15]
Say okay I have had enough[00:03:16]
What else can you show me[00:03:18]
And if my thought dreams could be seen[00:03:19]
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine[00:03:21]
But it's all right Ma it's life and life only[00:03:23]