Oblivion

Cry to me, those were your very words
You said cry to me, cry to me
There you stood, laughing at my tears
You said, silly boy, forget your childhood fears
But you don't realize how strange it makes me feel
Now we're exchanging parts
Stop, you're breaking my heart
Who's the crybaby now
Cry to me, cry to me, you're the crybaby now
Cry to me, cry
Who's the crybaby, who's breaking my heart

Lie to me, you know that i know you too well
So don't you lie to me, lie to me
I watch you from afar, crying up your sleeve
When they turn away,
So they'll still believe you don't need no one
But i'm the only one that sees how you're torn apart
Stop you're breaking my heart
Who's the crybaby now
Cry to me, cry to me, you're my crybaby now
Cry to me, cry to me, who's the crybaby now
Cry to me, cry to me, you're my crybaby now
Who's the crybaby, who's breaking my heart

So what can you say now
What can you feel
When you've got a heart made of leather and steel
And you won't break down
You took self defense and turned it into art
Stop, you're breaking my heart
Come on

There was a time
When all i thought that i wanted
Was someone to touch me
Like i thought everyone was touched
What did i know, what was i thinking
What did i know, what was i thinking

I remember
There was someone that i wanted
Now she's a face at the reunion of '66
What did she know, what was she thinking
And did she know that i convinced myself
I couldn't survive

Sometimes you have to wait
You're pushing but that stone won't move
And you hesitate to give yourself away

There was a time
When all i thought that i needed
Was someone to tell me
I was making the perfect move
What did i know, what was i thinking
What did i know, what was i thinking

All i wanted was a holy exemption
I had a license to tell everyone
Where it's at
What did they know, what were they thinking
And did they know that i would only hear
The things i desired
So i would wait
I'm pushing but that stone won't move
And i hesitate to give myself away

And there was a time
When all i thought that i wanted
Was to live in a world
Where everyone knew what love is for
What do i know, what am i thinking
Nobody knows that the hour is getting late

So i will wait for it forever
I will wait for it
Though i know the hour is getting late
I will wait for it forever
I will wait for it
Though i know the hour is getting late

If you do not hunt, you do not eat
If you do not hunt, you do not eat
When will the sun come, when will the sun come,
When will the sun come

If you do not hunt, you do not eat
If you do not hunt, you do not eat
Who is the best boy, who is the best boy,
Who is the best boy

Bring me my longbow, sing me the holy song
Bring me my longbow, sing me the holy song
Fill the cup, fill the cup, pass out the water
Fill the cup, fill the cup, bless our provider

If you do not hunt, you do not eat
If you do not hunt, you do not eat
Burn out the tall grass, burn out the tall grass,
Burn out the tall grass

Women cry, children cry, throats are dry
But the family must survive

Maybe it's just those same old things
Maybe it's just a waste of time
This reminds me so much of the day you said goodbye
And as you walked away still i would not admit
You were right, you were right

But then now it's a different state of things
Maybe it's more than i can take
'cause it seems like the world's against me now
And i need someone to show me how
But i still can't admit you were right, you were right
And i was wrong

Maybe i could change
Maybe i could change the world
Maybe i could change myself
Maybe i could change the world
Maybe i could have your love
I've been holding my hopes so high
But can't you help me now, my arms are so tired

And maybe they made the world that way
Maybe it's just a waste of time
Just like me, they turn the other way
And just like me, can't bring themselves to say
Now i know the mistakes that i have made
And if i try and if it's not too late
Then i can maybe admit you were right,
You were right, and i was wrong

There's too much music, too much light
These endless broadcasts into the night
Petty seizures of money and drugs
By some official or unauthorized thugs
Now it's gone, the whole world's gone
There's the army at the front door, guerrillas in back

Why do i always have to take up sides
I had no plans to be conscripted today
I am no use to them anyway
So what the hell's going on
When they took my bed for the good of the state
I had to rest my head and took to levitation
Welcome to my revolution

Every morning they confer with the press
Just to point a few fingers
Fix the blame for this mess
The spokesmen waffle and the jerk-offs complain
In a stream of rhetoric
Piss themselves down the drain
Then it's time to go home
Time to go home
What will they say when it's gone
The whole world's gone
So they call a cease fire to bury the dead
And just delay it for an hour or so
Loose talk of cowards and leaders that lied
What does it matter once we're vaporized
Say what the hell's going on
Then it got so bad i couldn't breathe the air
So i became my own church and begged for sanctuary
Welcome to my revolution

This is the dream that i have every night
I wake up screaming to the left and the right
Is this my vision of the end of the world
The faces looked smoldered, the edges are curled
Tell me what is the reason we can't look at ourselves
And realize everybody creates his own hell
And if we put it together to make them all real
And then forget how to think, forget how to feel
Until it's gone, the whole world's gone
Are we damned if we do and damned if we don't
Could we be suckered into thinking that
Or get too greedy, afraid of the loss
And wind up fighting for a worthless cause
What if we died and had to come back
How may times would we have to go 'round
What if tomorrow was the end of the line
Don't want to feel like i wasted my time
So what the hell's going on
When the noise gets so dense
You can't hear yourself think
We got the spirit world on a telephone link
So welcome to my revolution