I've Suffe

Vanilla ice man cometh, goeth
Sampling, dealing, music stolen
To pre-pubescent girls appealing
Re-mix record contract sealing
Borrowed lyrics sung with feeling slumping
Record sales are healing

Concert hall promoters kneeling
Keeping grateful deadheads relling
Quite suppressed yet quite revealing
Influence is far from stealing

I've suffered a head i've suffered a head injury
I've suffered a head i've suffered a head injury

Techno-pop kids, stardom's rockets
Money in their label's pocket

Unrelentless, thoughtless selling
Busting charts, atop they're dwelling
Lacking substance story telling
Lost the message in this yelling

Robbing fortunes from the willing
Endless posing, mindless chilling
Plastic icing airtime filling
Instigating art-rock killing

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She never wanted to talk
She never wanted to argue
But that's the way it goes
When there's nobody listening

Eyes straight on the front line
Knee deep in the river flow
Keep your chin up, keep your back straight
Rescue's on the way

Always the keeper of secrets
Always the source of confusion
But that's the way it goes
When there's nobody listening

Eyes straight on the front line
Knee deep in the river flow
Keep your chin up, keep your back straight
Rescue's on the way

Nobody said this was going to be easy
But i'll tell you what i'm gonna do

Can i take you to an oceanside
Can i take you to an oceanside
For a few hundred years
I'm telling you that's all i ever heard about it
Can i take you to an oceanside

Never a word of intention
Never a hope of reunion
But that's the way it goes
When there's nobody listening

Eyes straight on the high wire
Knee deep in the river flow
Keep your chin up, keep your back straight
Rescue's on the way

Nobody said this was going to be easy
But i'll tell you what i'm gonna do

I wish that i could give breath
To the women i've created
In paragraphs and paragraphs
I've written to this date
And set them all upon my desk, choose one to ignore
Just to even the score

All the biggest plays i missed
'cause i was sitting over on the sidelines
All the precious faces that
Refused to date someone outside the guidelines

Well, high school begins with worship for the leisure class
You swear you'll overcome it
But your envy doesn't seem to pass
How similar the shopping but at different stores
We've got to even the score

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I hear the driving of the nail
I hear the rain i hear the hail
I hear the laughter of the
People dancing 'round him
As he forces his poor family to set sail

If you don't care you will not cry
If you don't dare you will not try
And now i'm drowning in the dark
With thoughts of building my own ark

I feel my baby's on the rise
Sits there examining her thighs
In he comes all drenching clean
And lays upon her hard and lean
She comes when he never even tries

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I'm sitting and wishing i were young
The best lines they'd flow right off my tongue
I'd believe that school is social banging in
And banging out and hanging in
And hanging out until we're hung

(repeat chorus)

Of the envious
I am one