1. |
Sorry (Child Inside)
02:31
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Too many things are eating us alive
Too many regrets inside
If I could only see you once again
I wonder if we’d cry
(Chorus)
If there was a way to go back to yesterday
I’d tell you to your face, I’m sorry
And the more I hold it in
Such a tyrant that I’ve been
Please believe I’m sorry
If we refuse to let it dissipate
It would be such a waste
Our time has come and gone by so fast
I hope it’s not too late
If there was a way to go back to yesterday
I’d tell you to your face I’m sorry
And the more I hold it in
Such a tyrant that I’ve been
Please believe I’m sorry, please believe I’m sorry
Oh when do I begin?
Rigor mortis setting in
Don’t take it to the grave so sorry
All the pain that we maintain is like a hidden ball and chain
Was it all just in vain, I’m sorry
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2. |
Bad Man
04:06
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He came out of nowhere
And appeared with saving grace
He promised you his world
Could be a better place
But he took all your money
Said he ease up the your pain
And swallowed up your sheltered dreams
Now all you do is pay
Chorus
Oh oh oh that’s what a bad man can do
Oh oh oh that’s what a bad man can do
He told me he was the chosen one
A brother of all mankind
My hands are tied and now I see
The blind, are leading the blind
He took all your children
And led them far away
Converted them into partisans
Then he laid them all to waste…
(Chorus)
Many hopes and families
Once spread across this land
Deceived to be destitute
It’s hard to understand
With the last stone now been cast
Can the damage be undone?
For the sake of all you good people
For the sake of my own son
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3. |
If I Could
05:04
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Living in a world that’s stone cold
And all of our heroes, have got old
Any day now, I’ll be there to
I will be flailing, a lot like you
I shattered the mirror, upon the wall
So ashamed at the reflection I saw
A mere man am I, I fear my time has gone
It’s just for a few, that’s why I carry on
Chorus
If I could turn back time and make it my own way
Start all over from scratch, and I wouldn’t be afraid
Go all in, and let those chips fall where they may
Throw you over my shoulder, and wish us both away
Its quiet time, the world has stopped
Except for a few, lights on at the top
A distant cry, a scream in the dark
Echo’s that ring, we’re so far apart
Tell me why? This play had to end
My role was brief, a life to defend
The curtain falls, too soon, and so hard
I act alone and never did I star
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4. |
Puppet
03:59
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You need you need you need some money
You need you need you need someone
You crave you crave you crave the attention
You need you need you need some love
You can’t you can’t you can’t be trusted
You can you can you can be sold
I see I see no consideration
I know I know I know your role
Chorus (words in parenthesis are in 3rd Chorus)
What you gonna do if (when) they leave you in the cold?
Are you gonna wilt or turn into stone (mold)?
Poor little puppet that no one else would (could) own
I can see by your witches’ strings (pseudo smile) that they are in control
I need I need I need to get running
I need I need I need to move on
You need you need you need some backbone
I need I need I need you gone
I need I need I need my freedom
I need I need to disappear
I want I want I want to leave you
To the façade that you hold dear
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5. |
Mother Nature's Guns
03:31
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Mother Nature, she’s a big persuader
So don’t degrade her
She’ll get you later
Don’t fool with Mother Nature’s guns
She’ll show no mercy on her chosen ones.
An 8.0 shaker, a real vibrator
The cracks of lightning that make the night sing
She won’t feel a thing.
Don’t you fool with Mother Nature’s guns,
She’ll inflict her fear into everyone
Don’t you fool with Mother Nature’s guns
She’ll show no mercy until her day is done.
And in her garden, she’ll beg your pardon
She'll give you seeds to plant amongst debris
Mother Nature, how we forgave her
We must save her for an eternity.
Don’t you fool with Mother Nature’s guns
She’ll show no mercy on her chosen ones
Don’t you fool with Mother Nature’s guns
She’ll eat the poison and spit into the sun
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6. |
They Were Wrong
03:12
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Nobody tells me what to do, do they tell you?
Nobody tells me what to say, did they say it to you?
Nobody wants to play that game, today or ever again.
Did they play with you, did they use you?
Did they tell you, you were wrong?
Did they throw it back at you, did they turns their backs on you?
But you were strong.
Nobody sells me words again, did they sell you?
Nobody feels the way I do, did they feel you?
Nobody hears a word I say, do they hear you?
Do they hear you? Do they fear you?
Did they tell you, you were wrong?
Couldn’t beat down on you, couldn’t cheat or clown with you
Or admit they were wrong.
Nobody tells me what to do, do they tell you?
Nobody tells me what to say, did they say it to you?
Nobody wants to play that game, today or ever again
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7. |
1963
03:03
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I been thinking about the past again
Ease my mind remembering those days when life was simple
Not so changed
Fields with grass as far as the eye can see
Narrow streets didn’t bother me
I walk those empty roads in my sleep
It happened all too fast there’s not a thing we can bring back
We’ve all been trapped.
The other night I had a dream
I was in my time machine, & going back to 1963
I wasn’t born but my house was there
The neighborhood was a little bare as people took in deep
Breaths of clean air
While I hover by, I wave to them I touched the sky
It makes me wonder why
I awake from my restlessness, look out a window & see a mess
You can’t stand in the way of new progress
It happened all too fast there’s not a thing we can bring back
We’ve all been trapped
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8. |
Anything You Want
03:39
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You can be anything you want; you can be anything you want
You don’t have to wear no suit and tie; you don’t have to be that gofer go guy
You don’t have to do that 9 to 5 thing
You won’t have to make that time clock ring
You could drive a truck or fly a plane
Do psychiatric work or just be insane
Climb telephone poles until you reach the sky
Reaping all those frills still you never get by
You can be anything you want; you can be anything you want
You don’t have to be an office clerk; you don’t have to clean that collar ring dirt
You don’t have to be a Super bowl cheat; you don’t have to walk that city beat, you’ll only get blisters on your feet, the rich get rich and the poor don’t eat
You could drive a truck or fly a plane
Do psychiatric work or just be insane
Climb telephone poles until you reach the sky
Or just stay at home & watch the neighbors paint dry
You can be anything you want x4
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9. |
The Prophecy
02:52
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I think changes are upon us
The world will soon be dark
The cities will all be wastelands
When the missiles hit their mark
He’s a time bomb & he’s growing
The world will be his toy
One day without knowing
The green earth he will destroy
Time is drawing nearer
The clock will soon strike twelve
Your mothers, sisters, daughters
Will be led straight down to hell
His mind is growing quicker
Expanding everyday
Exodus for you father
Don’t get in my way
I love to see you crawling
The pagans at my feet
My day has come to an end now
Your dignity I will keep
How could you be so dreadful?
To those who paved your streets
Your souls are full of refuse
And the sheep still kiss your feet
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Spoken: Hello my name is Henry Wong
I come from Hong Kong
He came to this country in the late 1800’s
Looking to improve his fate he took a wrong turn
Ended up in Tucson, working on the railroad
Laying spikes for Mr. Chester, he did it all day
He’s the first of American Chinese Cowboy
He’s the great one & only Chinese Cowboy
He pulled that rusty rickshaw up a hill
He could chop a thousand logs in half but better still
He could cook a batch of rice on a Coleman grill, never wrong
The first American Chinese Cowboy
He’s the great one & only Chinese Cowboy
He’s the birth of American Chinese Cowboys
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11. |
Go To Sleep
03:21
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It’s time to go to sleep and rest your weary head
It’s time to go to sleep, and join the land of the dead
Turn off the light, put your head down on the pillow
Listen to me I won’t be back here tomorrow
It’s time to close your eyes don’t let the darkness wait
It’s time to close your eyes won’t make that same mistake
Turn out the light put your head down on my pillow
Listen to me I won’t live to see tomorrow.
And in the blackness you might feel a little cold
A slight bit of emptiness and kind of a glow
Turn on the light to greet the painful morning
Can’t listen to me but feel my peaceful warming
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12. |
When The Summer Comes
02:52
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When the summer comes, will you be there? Will you be there?
When the summer comes will you be waiting for me?
But now that’s all left behind, somewhere in the backs of our mind
All the kids having fun, when the summer comes, when the summer comes, when the summer comes, when the summer…
Do you remember, last year, could never end
Do you recall, when it seemed, the best of all
But now that’s all left behind, somewhere in the backs of our minds
All the kids having fun, when the summer comes
When the summer comes, when the summer comes
When the summer comes
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13. |
Individual
05:12
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How many times do I have to tell you?
You’re living in a fantasy
Do I have to spell it out for you?
Is it that much of a mystery
Don’t you want to do your own thing?
Stop hanging on to others
Don’t you want to do your own thing?
Why live life under the covers.
Don’t you ever want to grow up? Don’t you ever want to grow up?
Don’t you ever want to grow up? Be what’s real, do like you feel
Be an individual.
Sometimes it’s just too hard for me,
To comprehend your train of thought
You’ve gone beyond the borders of reality
It all seems normal to you, but not to me
Don’t you want to do your own thing? Stop hanging on to others
Don’t you want to do your own thing?
Why play off good fortune of others
Don’t you ever want to grow up? Don’t you ever want to grow up?
Don’t you ever want to grow up?
Be what’s real, do like you feel, be an individual
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The Soakes Lonesome Richmond Hill, Ontario
I am a survivor of childhood physical, emotional and sexual abuse.
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