She's a box car rollin' by
Like a black star in the sky
She's a failure once or twice
Like a trailer spinnin' out upon dizzy ice
Flowers fly when we grow old
Snakes get high, or so I'm told
She's an eagle out on the road
Like my favorite Beatle everyone bought and sold
All of my love and half my kisses
Superstar go do the dishes
I just want the great apes to be free
Come on now, you lazy cowboy
Heads or tails, but not right now, boy
I just want the great apes to be free
She's a rain bird on the prowl
Like an urge to be yourself that you won't allow
She's a forest that we burned
Just a blueprint for a life that we had never learned
Flowers fly when we grow old
Snakes get high, or so I'm told
She's a lynch mob on the street
Take another step and I will kill the beat
All of my love and half my kisses
Superstar go do the dishes
I just want the great apes to be free
Come on now, you lazy cowboy
Heads or tails, but not right now, boy
I just want the great apes to be free
She's a bus stop, glockenspiel
She's a simulation life that you thought was real
She's an image that we blurred
It's a pixelated panther, now let it purr
All of my love and half my kisses
Superstar go do the dishes
I just want the great apes to be free
Come on now, you lazy cowboy
Heads or tails, but not right now, boy
I just want the great apes to be free
I just want the great apes to be free
I just want the great apes to be free
I don't wanna be wasting your time
Over and over
This is how we hide from modern life
Under the covers
You saved my soul with a drive
Don't you remember
What it was when it was what it was
It was only an ember
Cut a corner just to kickstart my mind
Shock me to feel it
This is how we make sense of our time
Waste every minute
Don't get angled in the mire
Don't you remember
What we were when we ran from the fire?
We were rolling forever
Nothing ends in the din
Second guessing to fit in
Nothing ends in the din
Second guessing to fit in
I don't know what this is
No, I don't know what this is
You're counting syllables
The picture teaches us how to live
Don't educate
Don't educate
Don't educate
I don't know what this is
No, I don't know what this is
You taste of cinnamon
Your history is a map how to live
Don't educate
Don't educate
Don't educate
When you don't occupy my soul
Is love never ending!
What it was just to be someone you know
Love is pretending
Don't get caught out by the times
Don't you remember
Who we were when the words could only rhyme
You kiss and you whisper
Nothing ends in the din
Second guessing to fit in
Nothing ends in the din
Second guessing to fit in
I don't know what this is
No, I don't know what this is
You're counting syllables
The picture teaches us how to live
Don't educate
Don't educate
Don't educate
I don't know what this is
No, I don't know what this is
You taste of cinnamon
Your history is a map how to live
Don't educate
Don't educate
Don't educate
All we had was a perfect idea
A beautiful plan
To waste our endeavour
All we had was a perfect idea
A beautiful plan
To waste our endeavour
All we had was a perfect idea
A beautiful plan
To waste our endeavour
All we had was a perfect idea
A beautiful plan
To waste our endeavour
Don't educate
Don't educate
Don't educate
Don't educate
Don't educate
Don't educate
Don't educate
Don't educate
Don't educate
Don't educate
Don't educate
Don't educate
Don't educate
Don't educate
Don't educate
Oh, I don't know what this is
No, I don't know what this is
You taste of cinnamon
Your history is a map how to live
Don't educate
Don't educate
Don't educate
I don't know what this is
No, I don't know what this is
You taste of cinnamon
Your history is a map how to live
Don't educate
Don't educate
Don't educate
No way
I won't deal
Go fuck yourselves
Don't tell me how to feel
Now I'm bored
Of your caucasian Jesus
Not seen
But isn't even there
And I dream
What you could never dare
My thoughts, are not who I am
I've killed, I've died
And I've tried the best I can
I run, from you
Harbingers of doom
'Cause I won't be pacified
By what you're scared to lose
And I won't efface myself
So I can be like you
Go fix yourself
Instead of someone else
Go fix yourself
Instead of someone else
Go fix yourself
Instead of someone else
Go fix yourself
Instead of someone else
Go fix yourself
Instead of someone else
Go fix yourself
Go fix yourself
Go fix yourself
Instead of someone else
Go fix yourself
Go fix yourself
Instead of someone else
Go fix yourself
Instead of someone else
Go fix yourself
Instead of someone else
Go fix yourself
Go fix yourself
Instead of someone else
Go fix yourself
Instead of someone else
Go fix yourself
Instead of someone else
Would you let me walk down your street
Naked if I want to?
Can I fire fireworks on the fourth of every single July?
Can I buy an amplifier, oh, on time?
My sweet time
Well I ain't got no money
I will pay this time
And I ain't got no money
But I will pay you before I die
And would you let me walk down your street
Naked if I want to?
Can I fire fireworks on the fourth of every single July?
Can I buy an aeroplane while i'm high in all the sky?
And I got no mercy
I will pay this time
And I got no mercy
I will pay you before I die
It began when they come took me from my home
And put me in Dead Row,
Of which I am nearly wholly innocent, you know.
And I’ll say it again
I..am..not..afraid..to..die.
I began to warm and chill
To objects and their fields,
A ragged cup, a twisted mop
The face of Jesus in my soup
Those sinister dinner meals
The meal trolley’s wicked wheels
A hooked bone rising from my food
All things either good or ungood.
An the mercy seat is waiting
And I think my head is burning
And in a way I’m yearning
To be done with all this measuring of truth.
An eye for an eye
A tooth for a tooth
An anyway I told the truth
And I’m not afraid to die.
Interpret signs and catalogue
A blackened tooth, a scarlet fog.
The walls are bad.
Black. Bottom kind.
They are the sick breath at my hind
They are the sick breath at my hind
They are the sick breath at my hind
They are the sick breath gathering at my hind
I hear stories from the chamber
How Christ was born into a manger
And like some ragged stranger
Died upon the cross
And might I say it seems so fitting in its way
He was a carpenter by trade
Or at least that’s what I’m told
Like my good hand I
Tattooed E.V.I.L. across it’s brother’s fist
That filthy five! They did nothing to challenge or resist.
In Heaven His throne is made of gold
The ark of His testament is stowed
A throne from which I’m told
All history does unfold.
Down here it’s made of wood & wire
And my body is on fire
And God is never far away.
Into the mercy seat I climb
My head is shaved, my head is wired
And like a moth that tries
To enter the bright eye
I go shuffling out of life
Just to hide in death awhile
And anyway I never lied.
My kill-hand is called E.V.I.L
Wears a wedding band that’s G.O.O.D
‘Tis a long-suffering shackle
Collaring all that rebel blood.
And the mercy seat is waiting
And I think my head is burning
And in a way I’m yearning
To be done with all this measuring of truth.
And an eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth
And anyway I told the truth
And I’m not afraid to die.
And the mercy seat is burning
And I think my head is glowing
And in a way I’m hoping
To be done with all this weighing up of truth.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth
And I’ve got nothing left to lose
And I’m not afraid to die.
And the mercy seat is glowing
And I think my head is smoking
And in a way I’m hoping
To be done with all these looks of disbelief.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth
And anyway there was no proof
Nor a motive why.
And the mercy seat is smoking
And I think my head is melting
And in a way I’m helping
To be done with all this twisting of the truth.
A lie for a lie
And a truth for a truth
And I’ve got nothing left to lose
And I’m not afraid to die.
And the mercy seat is melting
And I think my blood is boiling
And in a way I’m spoiling
All the fun with all this truth and consequence.
An eye for an eye
An a truth for a truth
And anyway I told the truth
And I’m not afraid to die.
And the mercy seat is waiting
And I think my head is burning
And in a way I’m yearning
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
A life for a life
And a truth for a truth
And anyway there was no proof
But I’m not afraid to tell a lie.
And the mercy seat is waiting
And I think my head is burning
And in a way I’m yearning
To be done with all this measuring of truth.
An eye for an eye
And a truth for a truth
And anyway I told the truth
But I’m afraid I told a lie.