Mindfields

What you've got, you had to steal
That's the reason
For how you feel
Considerin' what you've done so far
I'm rather amazed
At where you are

Lift your head up, baby
Pull yourself together
Nothing's worse than dying slow
There's no reason, darlin',
Reason whatsoever
That we can't end this game of touch and go

Chorus
It's such a cruel world
When you have to think twice,
And you're caught up in this roundabout
It's such a cruel world
When your back's against the wall and there's no way out

You're not giving it up, but you're giving it out
Seems too me,
You got a little too much doubt
Augmentation,
Is what you need
Your generosity
Looks alot like greed

You might call me crazy
If you don't understand it
There's no way for you to know
You say love is hazy,
And you don't demand it
But can't we end this game of touch and go

Chorus
It's such a cruel world
When nothin' goes right
And the plans you made
Start falling 'round you
It's such a cruel world
Well, just throw me the rope, baby
And pull me out

You've got that kind of love,
It flows like a fountain
But sometimes love can be unkind
My kind of love, you know
It's higher than a mountain
But love can be so hard to find

Lift your head up, baby
Pull yourself together
Nothing's worse than dying slow
There's no reason, darlin', reason whatsoever
That we can't end this game of touch and go

Chorus
It's such a cruel world
When you have to think twice
And you're caught up in this roundabout
It's such a cruel world
When your back's against the wall and there's no way out

It's such a cruel world
It's such a cruel world out there baby
It's such a cruel world
It's such a cruel cruel world and there's no way out

Get you right
Wanna get you right

Oh i
I see darkness in your future baby
Oh i
In a tunnel black as night
Oh i
See a rich man with his hand out baby
Oh i
Know a seer with no sight
Oh i
Watch fire burn those bridges baby
Oh i
Feel a wrong turn into right

Ashes to ashes
That's how it ends
(you go from) heartache to heartache
As you make amends
(just) bigger and bigger
But two steps back
You want something from nothing
And you're so exact

You think you're a rich man
Now you misbehave
You're not a free man running
Just a comfortable slave

So selfish
You got more than you can use
But you still don't see
You're so selfish
And you're running out of room

Deeper and deeper
As you forge ahead
Higher and higher
But you've been mislead
Harder and harder
You grind the stone
Faster faster faster
Till you're skin and bones

Too much ambition
Without relief
That ain't heaven
But it's what you teach

So selfish
You got more than you can use
But you still don't see
You're so selfish
And you're running out of room

The world was made in seven days
Your heads are bowed to gods in praise
Civilized man can only be saved
When courage and wisdom are finally raised

Who's got the answer
Give me the cure
Don't rush to judgement
Until you're sure

So selfish
You got more than you can use
But you still don't see
You're so selfish
And you're running out of room

Time...is the enemy of a young man's dreams
I'm stranded...in the heartland, or so it seems

I'm hitching a ride for a chance at the good life
I'll have my own place. out on fifth avenue
I'm leavin this time gonna walk on that fine line
I'll be the first one who finally breaks through

One road to the promised land
I have to get there any way i can
One road to the promised land
Gonna find out just who i am

Freedom...do you know what i mean
Flatlands...are all i've ever seen

Stuck in a small town where you live, then you die
Ain't nothin but fool's workin nine until five
I'll sleep in the subways till i get what i need
I'm not gonna stay here, just lie here and bleed

One road to the promised land
I'm gonna get there any way i can
One road to the promised land
Show the world just who i am

One road to the promised land
I thought by now i'd be a different man
One road to the promised land
Guess i found out...just who i am

What would you say
If i asked you to stay with me forever
But forever's in too soon
The touch of your hand
And the look in your eyes are the only things i know
I know that are true

We only have this life
To forgive and forget
But the only thing that matters
Is we have no regrets

There's nothing i wouldn't do for you
There's nothing i wouldn't give to you
You know it's true
Oh can't you see
You're the last love for me

Time passes fast
And the hours go quickly
But the fire inside our hearts
It never dies
The sound of your voice
And the way that it moves me in a special way
Oh i can't describe

Please take my hand
And we'll walk the endless road
No one has to lead us
'cause we know which way to go

There's nothing i wouldn't do for you
There's nothing i wouldn't give to you
You know it's true
Oh can't you see
You're the last love for me

And if i ever really hurt you
How sorry i would be
There's something i've been trying to tell you
Darlin' it's time you know
You'll always be a part of me

There's a rumor of a midnight man
So silent in disguise
And every time he looks your way
You see it in his eyes
Like a window to the storm
He just invades your paradise
Don't you buy what he is selling
It's just lies...

When he says... these hearts are willing
Story goes... these dreams are free

Only takes a moment
But you must acclimatize
Don't you buy what he is selling
It's just lies...

Over your left shoulder i have seen the angry beast
Heard the war horn screaming, as they gather for the feast
Seen a star-crossed angel with the death-card and a shield

We're walking through mindfields... you see an angel and she takes you by the hand
We're walking through mindfields... her lips are moving like she's praying
We're walking through mindfields... she speaks so softly and you want to understand
What she's saying

There's a stairway leading to the sun
I walk it in my sleep
And a ship of fools above the sky
Who've gotten into deep
With a doorway into nowhere
And the path is way too steep
Don't lose your angry soul
It's yours to keep...

Where it ends... it's the beginning
And it stays... right to the end

The reason is unclear my friend
It almost makes me weep
So don't lose your angry soul
It's yours to keep

After you've gone

You're just a mile away
One thousand five tiny steps from here
But if i brought you near
Would you believe when i say,
It seems like yesterday
That i could reach out and touch your face,
But as i fall from grace
Into whose arms can i lay

It's always much too late
We get the signs
We can't communicate
Or turn back time

So what will be now, do you feel somehow
Not so together and not quite as strong
Now i believe
Alone doesn't have to mean lonely, after you've gone

If it's a healing wind
That cools the flame burning in my sight
It must accelerate
For two wrongs they don't make a right

And all these solitaires, lone victories
Wars fought in isolation, with none to please

The future's still uncertain, the past is done

The first time i saw her
She was wearing scarves of white
That little spark between us
Took only seconds to ignite
And then it occured to me
Suddenly i was standing there alone
On the spanish steps of rome

I kept searching through the ally
Searching through the catacombe that night
I closed my eyes and threw a coin in the fountain
Then i looked and she was nowhere in sight
I wandered through the holy city
Like a beggar beneath the moon lit dome
Near the spanish steps of rome

I heard a voice as i looked through my fingers
And saw the old monsignor
He gave me his blessing and said
"don't try and please her"
And then i heard her singing like some diva
Perched upon her throne
On the spanish steps of rome

Now i know i should have listened
When he warned me not to follow
I noticed that the statue's eyes
Were all sunken and hollow
She let those young wolves do the dirty deeds
While she lay there inside her home
On the spanish steps of rome