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Are we breathing outOr breathing inAre we leaving lifeOr moving inExploding outImploding inIngrained in goodOr stained in sin
Are we breathing outOr breathing inAre we leaving lifeOr moving inAre we breathing outOr breathing inAre we breathing in
We are a billion fragmentsExploding outwardLike broken glass, we damageEven in defeatWe are tiny piecesFalling now and settlingLike snowflake crystalBuilding on the city street
Snowflakes fallingSnowflakes fallingSnowflakes fallingSnowflakes falling
Are we the partsAre we the wholeAre we the thoughtsAre we the soulThe parts of meAnd this is trueThe parts of meBelong to you
Are we breathing outOr breathing inAre we leaving lifeOr moving inExploding outImploding inIngrained in goodOr stained in sin
Are we the partsAre we the wholeAre we the thoughtsAre we the soulThe parts of meAnd this is trueThe parts of meThe parts of youBelong to youAnd youAnd youAnd you...
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How dare you wear robes and resideHow dare you cover your head to hideYour face from GodHow dare you smile from behind your beardTo hide the fact your heart's afearedAnd wave your rodHow dare you be the one to assessMe, in this God-forsaken messYou, a man, in a purple dressA man in a purple dress
You are all the sameGilded and absurdRegal, fast to blameRulers by lost wordMen above men, or pratsIn your high hatsYou priest, you mullah so highYou pope, you wise rabbiYou're invisible to meLike vapour on the sea
How dare you? Do you think I'll quietly go?You are much braver than you knowFor I can't dieYour staff, your stick, your special capThey'll protect in Hell? What crap!Believe the lieHow dare you be the one to assessMe, in this God-forsaken messYou, a man, in a purple dressA man in a purple dress
When you place your frownBetween my God and prayerHowever grand your crownOr dignified your hairMen above men, or pratsIn your high hatsYou priest, you mullah so highYou pope, you wise rabbiYou're invisible to meLike vapour on the sea
I lovingly mock you noble lordsWe all dress up to grand awardsI do that as wellI dare condemn your fashion senseAt least you're not astride a fenceThat would not sellBut I will deliver this addressYour soul's condition don't impressYou, a man, in a purple dressA man in a purple dress
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In the etherI hang suspendedI wait for youAnd I know you're nearIn this high heavenMy world's upendedI feel no passionI feel no fear
I'm dizzy with loveBut you never appearIn the gloom of this roomOf this cell down here
I know this placeIsn't truly realAnd that like my loveIt expands and spraysThe light will find meWill bend toward meYet I'm maroonedIn a billion days
I'm drunk with youAnd I can't explainWho or where I amOr how I'm in pain
Rocking and rocking meRhythm is shocking meJust like a child in your fistYou are knocking meRocking and rockingAutistic, caged I amRocking and rockingAnd rocking enraged
I am drunk with youAnd I can't explainWho or where I amOr how I'm in pain
In the etherIn the ether
In the etherI wait for youHanging in this mistThat I know's unrealThere is nothing thereThere's no you, no meEven though it's crazyI still appeal
This is heavenly hellI appear insaneI have no ideaWho there is to blame
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We're not strong enoughWe're not young enoughWe're not alone enough, or cold enoughEmotionally we're not even old enough
Late at night, we're in a video-game dreamThere is no lover in this numbered sceneWe summon every childhood ghost we've ever seenThen suddenly we hear that Mike Post theme
Everything is all right (bong de bong)We've prayed today (la-da-da-da-dah)Everything is OK (bong de bong)We've played today
Late at night on the underground trainThrough endless suburbs in endless painThen deep in the tunnel under the London rainSuddenly we hear Mike Post again
Everything is all right (bong de bong)We've prayed today (la-da-da-da-dah)If there really is a God (bong de bong)We should be laid today
We watch those filmsThat make men cryYoung lovers kissThen fight and dieWe start to yearnWe climb the vineWe have to faceThe truth some time
We're not strong enoughWe're not young enoughWe're not alone enough, or cold enoughEmotionally we're not even old enoughFor love...
But late at night we find the racing tameWe're faced with women and a reality gameWe feel alive; we feel new and blindWe're hearing Mike Post in the air this time
Everything is all right (bong de bong)We've prayed today (la-da-da-da-dah)If there really is a God (bong de bong)We should get laid today
There comes a time in every little punk's lifeWhere he has to right a song for his common-law wifeWe make our women wait until they wanna screamBut we can always whistle that Mike Post theme
Everything is all right (bong de bong)We've prayed today (la-da-da-da-dah)If there really is a God (bong de bong)We should get laid today
We watch those filmsThat make men cryYoung lovers kissThen fight and dieWe start to yearnWe climb the vineWe have to faceThe truth some time
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Two thousand yearsTwo thousand yearsTwo thousand yearsTwo thousand yearsHave I waited
To ask if I have loved youTo know if I have served youTo find if I've obeyed youTo know if I've betrayed you
Two thousand yearsTwo thousand yearsTwo thousand yearsTwo thousand yearsTwo thousand yearsHave I waited
Then find I can't be perfectNot even a perfect snakeTo know that we are hatedYou suffer for my sake
Two thousand yearsTwo thousand yearsTwo thousand yearsTwo thousand yearsHave I waited
And so I have a chance to loveAs you intendedYou really lived and die for meIs the waiting really ended?
Two thousand yearsTwo thousand long, long yearsTwo thousand yearsTwo thousand long, long yearsHave I waited
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You jumped out of an alleyWith surprise in your Black Widow's eyesI was prepared to be unpreparedBeen preparing for lies
I fell right in love with youInto a thousand parts I blewI fell right in love with you
I was caught in a cornerIn recoil from a broken romanceTaking breath after one sudden deathI had a firm grip on my pants
I fell right in love with youThrough a hundred hearts you flewI fell right in love with you
Strange that when infatuation callsWe think we've got real love in our lifeIt pumps like the pressure in a station hallAs the express-train thunders on by
I fell right in love with youAs the blood came blowing throughI fell right in love with you
Across the room, I saw your eyesBlack-windowed, looking back at meYou held a gun, as children criedYou touched some wires and shattered me
I was blown into a blueThere'd been nothing I could doI fell right in love with you
I rose up to the stationSmelt your scent by the doorYou stood waiting so patientJust one wave - then no more
I fell right in love with youThere'd been nothing I could doI fell right in love with you
Across the room, I saw your eyesBlack-windowed, looking back at meYou held a gun, as children criedYou touched some wires and shattered me
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And when the world beganI'd been asleep foreverI opened one eye'Twas then it was IGot the whim to wake
And when the weight of spaceRolled like it was an oceanOne became oneFather and sonWatched the sunrise break
And as the ocean warmedAnd from this dream we wokeOne sang to greet the dawnOne pursed his lips and spoke
Wake up and hear the musicWake up and hear the music playWake up and hear the musicWake up and hear what the people say
I heard the heavens singPredicting Marty RobbinsI knew I'd findMusic and timeWere the perfect plan
I watched my son sail onA little ship a-bobbin'I had to growI needed to knowExactly who I am
And as the ocean warmedAnd from this dream we wokeOne sang to greet the dawnOne pursed his lips and spoke
Wake up and hear the musicWake up and hear the music playWake up and hear the musicWake up and hear what the people say
Wake up and hear the musicWake up and hear the music playWake up and hear the musicWake up and hear what the people say
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It's not enoughWhatever you give
A little bit moreYou always needA little more manA little more seed
It's not enoughIt's not enoughWhatever I giveIt's never enough
I gave you cashI gave you loveAll that I heardWas "It's Not Enough"
I work so hardIt gets so toughWhatever I giveNever feels like enoughIt's not enoughIt's not enoughWhatever I giveIt's never enough
When I'm on my kneesI keep taking your stuffMake sure that you knowIt's never enough
You said you'd go as farAs to turn to my friendWho once warned me of youSaid you'd hasten my endHe'll choose you over meBecause I have lentEvery ounce of my juiceMy essence is spent
You'll always wantA little more pinkI'll always needA little more ink
It's not enoughIt's not enoughWhatever I giveIt's never enough
However I praiseHowever I puffThough you may smileIt won't be enough
Right at the endWhen I start to bluffAn' the lift's going downAn' I start acting tough
It's not enoughIt's not enoughWhatever I giveIt's never enough
I'll find someone elseTo finish filling me upI'll smile and admitYou were never quite enough
Like Brigitte BardotIn Godard's Les MeprisI can't love you enoughTo make you completeYou appear in my dreamsWith some new courtierYou need me there to seeWhat you need to convey
It's not enoughIt's not enoughWhatever I giveIt'll never be enough
No hysterical sceneYou will never play roughI'm the one who will screamBut it won't be enough
It's never enoughIt's never enough
It's not enoughIt's not enoughWhatever I giveIt'll never be enough
I'll never hold youHow can I scold you?
It's not enoughIt's not enoughWhatever I giveIt'll never be enough
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When I'm in troubleYou stand by meWhen I see doubleYou stand by meYou take my sideAgainst those who liedYou take my sideGimme back my pride
When I been losingYou stand by meWhen I been boozin'You stand by meYou take my sideAgainst those who liedYou take my sideGimme back my pride
I suppose I could make it all my ownI know I'd arrive all skin and all boneYou are the strongest back I've ever knownYou carried me, carried me, carried meYou carried me home
When I'm cryingYou stand by meWhen I am dyingYou stand by me
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If you don't hear me, how can I tell youIf you don't listen, why should I speakIf you're indifferent, how can I reach youJust 'cos you're angry don't assume I'm weak
Howling Wolf, and old Link WrayDave Van Ronk and Doris DayBobby Darin, Brownie McGheeElvis, Buddy and Eddie C.
Music makes me, makes me strongStrong vibrations, make me longLong for a place where I belongYou will find me in this song.
Who will walk through the mirror doorWill there be music, or will there be warWill we be rich, or will we be poorWho will walk through the mirror door
Who will walk through the mirror doorWill there be music, or will there be warWill we be rich, or will we be poorWho will walk through the mirror door
A thousand angels, a million childrenFire and fear in a suicide eyeGolden stairway to a Zeppelin heavenRolling thunder under New York sky
Frank 'n' Ella, Ray 'What'd I Say'Johnny Cash and Johnnie RayAmadeus and Ludvig VanHenry, Johann and the doo dah band.
We are here in celebrationThis music's gonna make us strongWe climb up high, to the golden stationCurtis Mayfield ain't waiting long
(Get on board...)
Who will walk through the mirror doorWill there be music, or will there be warWill we be rich, or will we be poorWho will walk through the mirror door
Who will walk through the mirror doorWill there be music, or will there be warWill we be rich, or will we be poorWho will walk through the mirror door
Howling Wolf, and old Link WrayDave Van Ronk and Doris DayBobby Darin, Brownie McGheeElvis, Buddy and Eddie C.
Frank 'n' Ella, Ray 'What'd I Say'Johnny Cash and Johnnie RayAmadeus and Ludvig VanHenry, Johann and the doo dah band.
Keep on climbing