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I remember, but i don't remember
I was captured, i was hypnotized
Look away from the cool fire
Look away, you could burn your eyes

Take it easy, 'cause it's much too easy
To surrender, to be drawn inside
Look away from the cool fire
Look away 'cause you might go blind
Look away from the cool fire

Look away, look away
It's satan who is calling
Look away, look away
Listen to my warning
Look away, look away
From the light of the cool fire

All my fortunes, all my strength and power
Taken from me before i realized
Look away from the cool fire
Look away 'cause you might go blind
Look away from the cool fire

Look away, look away
Hear me calling brothers
Look away, look away
Listen to me sister
Look away, look away
From the light of the cool fire

I will believe what i want to believe
Nobody needs to do my thinking for me
I know the score, i'm always out of line
It's as if i was born at the wrong place and time
And nobody understands just what's in my mind
But when i face the light, somehow it all seems right

You know it feels like
Heaven's falling down on me
And i can hear them angels calling
Calling me

Speak your mind, you know you've got a right
You're not afraid, you're going with me tonight
Everybody stops to whisper and stare
'cause we're not afraid to do the things
They wouldn't dare
But they would never know the secrets we share
And when you squeeze my hand
I know you understand

This cannot work if lovers are fools
Schemers and dreamers who don't follow the rules
We got to run while our legs are still young
We got to run 'til our heaven comes
And when we face the light, somehow it all seems right

Don't you know it feels like
Heaven's falling down on me
And i can hear them angels calling
Calling me

Consider the riddle that is man
From his perch at the top of darwin's ladder
Though the rules he little understands
Plays at life as if it really mattered
When before all our eyes
A parading of lies
And reality splatters

But we have dreams, wonderful dreams
While we live in dreams, terrible dreams
We're only waiting, waiting for

Entropy, mindless entropy
Beseech it not,
For it has no thought of anything
All things are equal to
Entropy, heartless entropy
It knows not love, for it shows no love
For anything, anything

Breathes there a soul so dull
It has not striven to attach some meaning
To the chaos that invades the human skull
At the thought that some force is intervening
And this thought we call god
Keeps us straight as a rod
While all else is careening

But we have dreams, beautiful dreams
But we live in dreams, perverted dreams
While we are waiting
There's no stopping

Entropy, skulking entropy
That lustless rapist who plants its seed in
Everything, everything, everything

Yes, there is a thing call wisdom
But we've never had it
We are too preoccupied with
How to iron-clad it
There was never a chance
There was never a chance
Let us dance!

What about our fearless leaders?
What about our necks?
What about the church of jesus?
How 'bout drugs and sex?
What about our precious freedom?
What about free will?
What about our precious freedom?
What about free will?
What about our precious freedom?
Entropy will win!
What about the rule of reason?
Entropy will win!
What about our precious freedom?
What about free will?
What about our precious freedom?
What about free will?
Entropy!
We're all up against it
Entropy
We're all up against it!

Entropy can't take away your freedom
Precious freedom
There's no freedom
No shelter
No heaven help us!

Entropy crushes everything
Entropy smashes everything
Entropy cleanses everything
Everything!

i had such great expectations
Of the world's benevolence
Of benevolence
But i prefer hallucinations
'cause they tend to make more sense
Than experience

'cause it was just another sneak attack
Of temporary sanity
It was a pleasant stay, but now i'm back
From temporary sanity
My temporary sanity

I began to grow dependent
On a thing called "common sense"
It was common sense
But my world grew so resplendent
That the strain was too intense
Without self-defense

'cause it was just another sneak attack
Of temporary sanity
It was a pleasant stay, but now i'm back
From temporary sanity
My temporary sanity

The pool spreads across the pavement
Where the sniper made him lie
And he looks just like my youngest
And i'm watching him die
I must remind myself i've seen this
It's all ancient history
One long trail of twisted bodies
As the strong crush the weak
We must be crazy
We are crazy
This is our natural state
As our children die around us
We just sit here and wait
For a little temporary sanity
Some temporary sanity

There's a chance that we would still get the picture
If reality just came up and bit ya
But the news team would never report it
Because there's too much evidence to support it
If we were stupider, the problem would vanish
But our brains are much more than we can manage
We say we want something so bad we can taste it
But once we get it, then we turn 'round and waste it
We got a twisted fixation with marketplace
And every suffering soul is just another face
We think we're being manipulated from outer space
It's the collective guilty conscience of the human race
We get joyful when we look upon a lesser man
A specimen that we can be sure that we are better than
There is no shortage of supply of pride and vanity
There is no other explanation but insanity

You're listening to prozac
While the message goes unheard
It's the final word

We must be crazy
We must be crazy
There's no explanation
So we must be crazy

Sacrifice!
Christ-like sacrifice!
Pass that cup to me
I will bear the price
If the puny and insignificant
Are to have a glimpse of peace
Then someone much like i myself
Almost exactly like i myself
Must rise above the rabble
By helping them to their knees
As this is how i see myself

I might as well anoint myself
For the greater good of us all
You'll thank me in the end
For the loss of the weak and small
You'll thank me in the end
Though it may seem painful at first
You'll thank me in the end
And you'll wonder how things could get worse
You may not reach the end

Speak my name as your last breath is spent
When you were lost in your ignorant haze
And afraid of the dark
I led you out again!
When you dreamed that god was love
And life was a lark
I woke you up again!

For my sacrifice
Who will bear the price?
The extraordinary problems
That occur from day to day
Require somebody like myself
Let's say exactly like i myself
So that ordinary labors
May proceed with least delay
So we've elected me myself
Since we can think of no one else
When you're in the mood to complain
You'll call me in the end
Then for things that i'll do in your name
You'll blame me in the end

But if i use the right choice of words
Your family and friends
You'd betray like a cowardly turd
Then refuse to watch the end
Then we'll go through the whole thing again

And when i'm standing astride your backs
With my head in the stars
You'll take me in the end
While i'm bending you over and
Screwing you hard in the arse
You'll love me in the end

Pass that whip to me
Let us raise the price
Sacrifice!
Never knowing love
Just so you can believe a power above
This is my sacrifice!
You'll thank me
You'll thank me in the end
You'll like me in the end
You'll love me in the end
You'll praise me in the end
You'll thank me

Can you hear it?
Ear against the ground and you'll hear it
I can tell a change when i hear it

We are tigers
Kings of jungles
Trapped in cages
We forget we once were free!

And the average swain
Would be contented in his chains
Were it not for complainers like me

Throw the book
I'm up against it
Up against the rules
Bring the experts
Up against them
Up against the fools
Bring on city hall
I'm against them all

Lamp of freedom

No, you can't change
Human nature
Wheels of power
Keep revolving endlessly
With a fanatical faction
A charismatic attraction
There's a piece of that action for me

Call the press
I'm up against it
Up against the flacks
Bring the shrink
I'm up against it
Up against the quacks
Revenuers
Up against it
Up against the tax
Name some names
And i'm up against them
Bullies, big and small
I'm against them all

All we need is some vitality
Like an [...] individuality
But i guess they [...]
[...] make it all alone

Bring the girls
I'm up against them
I'm up against their lips
Bring the boys
I'm up against them
Up against their hips
Bring the priest
I'm up against him
Up against that cross
Bring the mob
I'm up against it
Up against the boss
Bring the cops
I'm up against it
Up against the jaw
Throw the book
I'm up against it
Up against the law

Politicians, all - i'm against them
Fascist lackies all against the wall

Fist of freedom
Guns of freedom

Bring the lackies
Up against it
Up against the wall
Bring the bishop
Up against it
Up against the wall
Bring the chairman
Up against it
Up against the wall
Put the general
Up against it
Up against the wall!

Just give me one good reason
I know somehow, there's got to be one
I wasn't born every minute of every day
I never feel this way

I fought hard to keep my freedom
But when i think of things that we've done
I give what i keep, and i keep what i give away
Is this a good sign, i'm on a thin line

One good reason is all i need
Say the word and i'll cut you free
What was nothing just yesterday
Could be something that's here to stay
One good reason and i might go either way

Give me some indication
It's not my imagination
Something is born every minute of every day
Something could come my way

I just need one good reason
To make me stay instead of leaving
I never knew how to be any other way
Maybe there's still hope
I'm on a tight rope

One good reason is all i need
To take the heart that is tempting me
Make a move that could change your life
Never know if it's wrong or right
One good reason is all i need tonight

It just takes one good reason
My body sweats, my hands are freezing
I don't make decisions like this every single day
What do i have to say
Just give me one good reason
Give me one good reason

She looks good
But she's not all together right
All the parts are not screwed on tight
There's a touch of tragedy

When she moves
I can see the secret showing through
She'd deny it if she thought i knew
But she could never hide from me

Anyone would think there's nothing wrong
She looks so satisfied
But i've known about her much too long
She can't conceal what she feels inside

I'm going to show her that
Piece by piece
Inch by inch
I can put her back together again
I'll supply the love she lacks
And give her back
Exactly what she needs
Bringing it piece by piece

All i need to find a way around her defense
Is just a little common sense
I don't have a strategy
I'll be there, like i have so many other times
She'll reveal to me a certain sign
That only i can see

Anyone would think there's nothing wrong
She seems like she's complete
But it's obvious it's been too long
Since she believed what she needs is me

Anyone would think there's nothing wrong
But she's not fooling me
Everybody wants to lead her on
But i believe what she needs is me
(what she needs is me)

The rain washes away and purifies
It washed down the flesh we catered for
And we who sell so much and wanted more
The crows will come and peck away our eyes
Perhaps [...]
It drove us to these tides from which we swing
Like [...] starlings on the wing
Like horse's droppings on a country road
Oh brothers learn from us, so it begins
And pray to god that he'll forgive my sins

The girls who flaunt their breasts as bait there
To catch some sucker who will love them
The youth so sly, they stand and wait there
To grab their single earnings off them
The crooks, the tarts, the tart protectors
The muggers and the maggots
The psychopath, the [...]
I pray that they forgive my sin
Someone has taken [...] crowbar
And caved their ugly faces in
I only ask to know it's over
Pray that they forgive my sin

Sometimes things fall apart
That's god's love in disguise
And when i break your heart
That's my love in disguise

When you awake in pain
It should come as no surprise
I'm not sure i care
But it still must be there
My love in disguise
And all you want are sweet lies

I see my problem now
Her love was in disguise
Some fear that won't allow
Her love to shed this guise

Ian, don't be a fool
Look what she's done
She'll do it again

Pale, pure, and virgin things
So frail, it turns from my eyes
It hides while i become
So hurt my heart is numb
When love is in disguise
The best you have is sweet lies

Ian she'll be our downfall
Don't believe your eyes
Lies! and she'll leave you all alone

Possessiveness and jealousy
We recognize easily
That which we claim to prize
No one can recognize

The poor young sap is unaware of
Things that we are all aware of
The knife she hides behind her back
Misery! he gets his share of

The flowers must pollinate
The beasts are forced to mate
Woman and man decide
Yet we're not satisfied
God's love is in disguise
And all we want are sweet lies
Sweet lies

Long live the glorious revolution

When worlds collide, the best of us
Won't be here with the rest of us
They'll drop before the paint has dried
When worlds collide, when worlds collide

The young today, i must confess
Have lost the path of righteousness
By settling for something less
The smarty pants, they fail to see
The posture of morality
Is just like common currency
That's the way it works for me

So i dress like a brushing bride
Because my every move is sanctified
By claiming god is on my side
When worlds collide, when worlds collide

When worlds collide, the virtuous
Will have to take the shuttle bus
But we in limousines shall ride
When worlds collide, when worlds collide

These kids today, they have no pluck
Don't know the value of a buck
They think all politicians suck
But managing economies
Is one of my best qualities
Especially to friends like these
I can favor the ones i please

And if the mandate should be denied me
Then there's always something kept aside
If you have grease then you can slide
When worlds collide, when worlds collide

When worlds collide, the devious,
The cunning, and mischevious
Will mourn the moral men who died
When worlds collide, when worlds collide

The youth today, i must relate
Have not learned to appreciate
The pleasures of the city-state
They waste themselves on drugs and sex
And boogieing in discotheques
I'll take them by their bleach-blond necks
And conscript those i don't reject

Then i'll serve them butchered and fried
For our commander can sleep satisfied
While someone's licking one's backside
When worlds collide, when worlds collide

I look at you and go mad
With thoughts of things that i'd do
If one chance i had to show you
What this man really wants to do

When i'm through, you would say
It's been done never that way
And i know you can learn something new every day

And it feels so good
If you don't think too much
Don't even try to be serious
Just let my hands take control
And give me all of your soul

You know i tried
To run away but i can't hide
From the moment that's suspended deep inside
When you were mine
Now i need to feel it
One more time

Won't you try to feel it
Let me try to feel it

Feels so good when you lean into me
In the dark i can see
I can feel in my mind what is reality
Why can't you see
Things like this are meant to be
Yet somehow once again
You have thrown me aside
But always this feeling survives

We're free
We're male
We're twenty-one

Free, male, and twenty-one
Free, male, and twenty-one
It's not enough to be twenty-one and free
It's not the same as male and twenty-one

Free, male, and twenty-one
This is such a fine distinction
The career that we've begun
I just made twenty-one
I'm old enough to run
For congressman or clerk of the public works
Or dogcatcher or something just as dumb
If i should choose to run

I make no exaggeration
Just a statement of the facts
Now i'm second generation
And i am manly to the max
And no one can decree
Just who i have to be
The choice is up to me
And if i could be anything, i'd be

Male and twenty-one
It's nice to be a man
I use it all i can

I never had a choice for a higher voice
But i have to say i'm glad to be a man
Since this is what i am
Sigmund freud may have a crisis
With his own identity
But there's nothing wrong with me
Because i enjoy being a boy
And all that it will say upon my resume'

Free, male, and twenty-one
Free, male, and twenty-one
Free, male, and twenty-one
Free, male, and twenty-one

If i could change
Change anything, everything
Everything in the world
Then i would make
Half of the world
Free, male, and twenty-one
Free, male, and twenty-one
Free, male, and twenty-one

And i don't believe in heaven
What a let down it would be
And i hope there's not a hell
But there must be a god 'cause he made me
Free, male, and twenty-one
There's got to be a god 'cause he made me
Male and twenty-one
Free, male, and twenty-one