Taking the town by surprise
Stares up empty at the sky
And summer goes
Falls to the sidewalk like string and brown paper
With gangs and girly shows
The ghostly garden grows
The bedlam of the day
The seasons are changing
Everyday in everyway
Never mind their questions there's no answer for
A dream that you love someone
A dream that the wars are done
Nowhere near the mentioned murder place
But sandcastles crumble
And hunger is human
And humans are hungry
For worlds they can't share
He is bleeding from the war
When all the black cards come you cannot barter
The shadow trembles in its wrath, I've robbed its blackness blind
And tasted sunlight as my fear came clear to me
And so once again you are fightin' us all
What time is this
To trade the handshake for the fist
The wind rushed around in the dirty town
And the children let out from the schools
But for an ancient injury
That has not healed
We are stardust
We are golden
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden
And I dreamed I saw the bombers
Riding shotgun in the sky
And they were turning into butterflies
Above our nation
Fearful when the sky was full of thunder
And tearful at the falling of a star
An empty space to fill in
Well there're so many sinking now
You've got to keep thinking
You can make it thru these waves
They won't give peace a chance
That was just a dream some of us had
Oh, blackness, blackness dragging me down
Come on light the candle in this poor heart of mine
"Love is touching souls"
Out of touch with the breakdown
Of this century
You've got to shake your fists at lightning now
You've got to roar like forest fire
You've got to spread your light like blazes
All across the sky
They're going to aim the hoses on you
Show 'em you won't expire
Not till you burn up every passion
Not even when you die
Everybody's in it for their own gain
I feel like I'm sleeping
Can you wake me
Still I sent up my prayer
Everything comes and goes
Pleasure moves on too early
And trouble leaves too slow
Advice and religion-you can't take it
You can't seem to believe it
In flames our prophet witches
Be polite
Uprising in me tonight
Truth goes up in vapors
The steeples lean
God goes up the chimney
A rebel loves a cause
Any man in the world holding out his arm
Would soon be made to pay
Jesus was a beggar, he was rich in grace
Golden in time
Cities under the sand
Power, ideals and beauty
Fading in everyone's hand
Every picture has its shadows
And it has some source of light
Threatened by all things
Devil of cruelty
Critics of all expression
Judges in black and white
Saying it's wrong, saying it's right
Where some have found their paradise
Other's just come to harm
A defector from the petty wars
In the church they light the candles
And the wax rolls down like tears
Shine your light on me Miss Liberty
I saw a black crow flying
In a blue sky
We're always keeping score
We're always balancing the power
"Heart and humor and humility"
He said "Will lighten up your heavy load"
And you couldn't see a city
On that marbled bowling ball
Or a forest or a highway
Or me here least of all
While Muslims stick up Washington ...
I nearly broke down and cried
Here in Good-Old-God-Save-America
The home of the brave and the free
The eagle and the serpent are at war in me
What strange prizes these battles bring
I heard there was no sickness
And no toil or danger
Just mercy and plenty
Where peaceful waters flow
Of the darkness in men's minds
What can you say
That wasn't marked by history
Or the T.V. news today
Ghosts of the future
Phantoms of the past
Love suffers long--
Love is kind!--
Enduring all things--
Love has no evil in mind
Wouldn't they like their peace
While madmen sit up building bombs
There's evil in this land
Fuck it!
And he's not heaven sent
I've been all around the world
Mission Impossible
Fighting among ourselves
Study war no more
Lay down your arms
"They gave me a gun," he said
"They gave me a mission
For the power and the glory--
They train you to kill--
To be a pin on some map--
Some vicarious thrill--
Who you gonna get to do the dirty work
When all the slaves are free?
Hoping and hoping
As if by my weak faith
The spirit of this world
Would heal and rise
And the wrath has finally taken form
Just the strong doing what they can
And the weak suffering what they must?
This massive mess we're in!
The hero cannot make the change
Every bristling shaft of pride
Church or nation
Team or tribe
Every notion we subscribe to
Is just a borderline
And you praise barbarity
In this illusionary place--
Let me speak, let me spit out my bitterness--
What have I done to you?
That you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true?
This time you went too far
Bigger beasts abound
And they kick this world around
At this crazy speed
With violence and greed
Bless us, don't let us lose the drift
You know, Happiness is the best facelift.
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