This is a song about an innocent who died at the hands of a desperate
man.
He trusted those who he thought he knew, he trusted those who he looked
up to.
I'll never forget the joy in his face. He'd laugh and he'd cry and
he'd ruin my place.
He'd drive me crazy, and he'd drive me wild. I used to scream and shout
all day long.
Now I hope you know this song is about a child who now has gone.
And other children like him, too. Abused and used by what adults do.
So don't tell me about politics or all the problems of our economics.
When you can't look after what you can't own, you scream and shout
all day long.
It doesn't take a genius to tell me what I am. Or lecture me with poetry,
and tell me that I can.
I don't remember what happened yesterday, I don't give a damn about
what all those people say.
It takes years to find the nerve to be apart from what you've done,
to find the truth inside yourself and not depend on anyone.
It takes years to find the nerve to be apart from what you've done,
to find the truth inside yourself and not depend on anyone.
It don't take no Houdini to tell me what I am. Parasites and literasites
they 'd burn me if they can. But I don't give a damn about what those people
say.
They pick you up and kick you out, they hurt you every day.
It takes years to find the nerve to be apart from what you've done,
to find the truth inside yourself and not depend on anyone.
It takes years to find the nerve to be apart from what you've done,
to find the truth inside yourself and not depend on anyone.
It takes years to find the nerve to be apart from what you've done,
to find the truth inside yourself and not depend on anyone.
What shall I say? I fear you will betray me.
How many ways can you prolong this tragedy?
Who told you that I would be back? You came here to seize my freedom.
I will send you falling slowly to the earth I see below me.
You never knew with open arms I came to you.
Judging me so safe to be with, mistakes you made that you can't live
with.
What you get is what you need, when you watch the blood but you don't
feed.
You make me feel like the master of bourgeois, a man whose life's become
illusion.
Won't you please let me go? Cause words lie inside, they hurt me so.
And I'm not the kind that likes to tell you just what I want to do.
I'm not the kind that needs to tell you just what you want me to.
I saw you this morning, I thought that you might like to know.
I received your message and in full a few days ago.
I understand every word that it said. And now that I have actually
heard it, you're going to regret... and I'm not the kind that likes to
tell you just what you want me to.
You're not the kind that needs to tell me about the birds and the bees.
Do you find this happens all the time, a crucial point in one day,
it becomes a crime.
And I'm not the kind that likes to tell you just what I want to do.
I'm not the kind that needs to tell you...wooh wooh.
I've lost you, I've lost you, I've lost you, I've lost you, I've lost
you,
I've lost you, I've lost you, I've lost you, I've lost you, I've lost
you,
I've lost you, I've lost you, I've lost you, I've lost you, I've lost
you.
I've kept my head gainst the wall, I've been this way for so long now.
You weren't exactly falling over yourself when last I saw you.
Well I always thought we'd get along like a house on fire
until you told me that I'd have to go. How can someone like you work
that slow?
Chorus: Whatever you think of me, you listen hard and I will make you
see.
Whatever you think of me (whatever you think), you listen hard and
I will make you see.
I don't feel anything no more, the staid up graces consuming me.
I'm not grown up and I am not a boy. I feel no pain and I feel no joy.
Well I always thought [that] we'd get along like a house on fire.
In those days when the sun was warm, I ran in the street where I was
born.
Chorus
The streets are so empty at this time of night .
I'd rather walk on my own than fly.
In a world where I'd forgotten you, I found myself forgotten, too.
That's the danger of your evil looks and all the lies of those thieves
and crooks.
We sing it's our natural selves, I've not found it stolen but I had
to prepare it for you.
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a bolt of gloom.
It's no problem of mine, but it's a problem I find, living a life that
I can't leave behind.
There's no sense in telling me, the wisdom of a fool won't set you
free.
But that's the way life goes and it's what nobody knows.
Well, every day my confusion grows.
Chorus:
Every time I see you falling, I get down on my knees and pray.
I'm waiting for that final moment you'll say the words that I can't
say. <end>
I feel fine and I feel good. I feel like I never should.
Whenever I get this way, I just don't know what to say.
Why can't we be ourselves like we were yesterday?
I'm not sure what this could mean. I don't think you're what you seem.
I do admit to myself that if I hurt someone else,
then I'll never see just what we're meant to be.
Chorus, Chorus,
Ah ha ha, ah ha ha ha ha ha. Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, ah ha ha.
Ah ha ha, ah ha ha ha ha ha. Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, ah ha ha.
Chorus, Chorus.
How does it feel to treat me like you do?
When you've laid your hands upon me and told me who you are.
I thought I was mistaken, I thought I heard your words.
Tell me how do I feel. Tell me now, how do I feel.
Those who came before me lived through their vocations
from the past until completion, they'll turn away no more.
And still I find it so hard to say what I need to say.
But I'm quite sure that you'll tell me just how I should feel today.
I see a ship in the harbor. I can and shall obey.
But if it wasn't for your misfortune, I'd be a heavenly person today.
And I thought I was mistaken, and I thought I heard you speak
Tell me, how do I feel. Tell me now, how should I feel.
Now I stand here waiting...
I thought I told you to leave me when I walked down to the beach.
Tell me how does it feel, when your heart grows cold, grows cold, cold.
Oh, I don't know why people lie and I don't know why people die.
Every time you see me you shout at me cause of all the things in the
world I can't see.
But what I think goes on in this world for a mother and a father and
a boy and a girl
is that the more you earn, the less you learn. There's a fire in life
where we will burn.
Chorus: And I never could believe it, and it never could be true.
For the things that mean so much to me (so much, so much) don't mean
so much to you.
And I never could believe the way you told me I was wrong.
If I'm right and you are sinful, then for God's sake I was wrong!
Oh, I don't know how I think this way, and yet you sit there looking
at me all day.
There's more to you than I can see, there's a shadow of another hanging
over me.
But what I think goes on in this world for a mother and a father and
a boy and a girl
is that the more you earn, the less you learn. There's a fire in life
where we will burn.
Chorus
Oh, I'd tear you out of heaven and I'd tear you out of hell.
And I'd see your life with me was because one lies there as well.
And I'd cry out in my loneliness while you sleep in your fears.
But you'll never see my face again while I need words like these...
Why you all salute me, find it all a different story.
All the sinful wheels are turning, turning in and turn towards this
time.
All she asks is when to hold me, then again, the same old story.
We traveled oh, so quickly, travel first to me, towards this time.
Oh, I'll bring them down- no mercy shown.
Heaven knows it's got to be this time.
Watching her, the things she said, the times she cried and failed to
wait this time
Oh, I'll bring them down- no mercy shown
Heaven knows it's got to be this time
Avenues, all lined with trees.
picture me and then you start watching,
watching forever...
forever - watching love grow...
forever - watching love grow...
forever - letting me know...
forever...
Any kind of fool with the will to live tries to get it right with the
one they're with.
But even though I give you special treatment, you keep getting high
juvenile delinquent.
Chorus: And this is how it feels to be, on the payroll company.
Your every seat is in the round, and all the men are falling down.
Constantly harrassed and misunderstood, I'm the lost and found of the
neighborhood.
And I am not a part of society, so don't get off the ground just be
with me.
Chorus
I would brave a rainstorm in my car, maybe you can leave but you won't
get far.
It wasn't just a dream, it was much too good, just another day in the
brotherhood.
Chorus
And this is how it feels to be on the payroll company.
Your every seat is in the round, we don't need to hang around.
(oo oo are el [or something])
Chorus:
(Confusion) You just can't believe me when (Confusion) I show you what
you mean to me.
(Confusion) You just can't believe me when (Confusion) I show you what
you cannot see. <end>
You're hiding from feelings, searching for more.
Sharing and hoping, untouched for so long.
Our lives still change from the way that we were.
And now I'll tell you something I think you should know.
Chorus, Chorus,
You just can't believe me when I show you what you mean to me.
Confusion, confusion, confusion. You cause me confusion, you told me
you cared.
By causing these changes that last to the end.
Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies.
The past is your present, the future is mine.
Chorus
You tell me you need me, I'll make it this time.
The thread won't divide us, the sensation survives.
I was sure that I told you it was good from the face.
You've caused me some problems, you're taking my place.
Why can't you see what you mean to me?
Why can't you see, why can't you see, why can't you see what you mean
to me?
Why can't you see, why can't you see, why can't you see what you mean
to me?
Why can't you see?
Nothing in this world could touch the music that I heard, when I woke
up this morning.
It put the sun into my life, cut my heart-beat with a knife, it was
like no other moment.
I don't belong to no one, but I want to be with you.
I can't be owned by no one, what am I supposed to do?
I can't see the sense in your leaving, all I need is your love to believe
in.
Don't look into the sun, it's not for me or anyone to feel the light
out of the sky.
Is it really such a sin? Cause if it is, then I'll give in. I can't
live without your love.
I don't belong to no one, but I want to be with you.
I can't be owned by no one, what am I supposed to do?
I can't see the sense in your leaving, all I need is your love to believe
in.
And for you I would do what I can, but I can't change the way that
I am.