Zen Arcade

Why did you back me into a corner?
I didn't mean it, it was just an act
My friend's outside, can't he come in?
And everybody else

Stupid pride, selfish pride, stupid pride
Why does everybody have to be like that?

"out!" just an act.
His parents love him, they send him money
But he won't come back

No reaction, no response.
Forget him, just forget him.

Krsna walking down the street
Touching me with lotus feet
Going to talk to the radharani
Going to ask her for her $

Hare krsna
Hare krsna
Krsna krsna
Hare hare
Hare rama
Hare rama
Rama rama
Hare hare

You think you've made it to the top because people know your name,
It's still the same
Your daydreams aren't forever, better get your shit together
For a new game

Back to your day job
Back to your girlfriend
Back to your hometown
The biggest lie

Passing harsher judgement, but you brought it on yourself
By being you
You trade your work for no success, you tried to be a hero
But you end up nothing

Been through mass destruction once, but once was not enough
Said we want a second chance, and all they say is tough
A world where science went too far, there's no way to survive
Why can't we get this thing straightened out, i want to stay alive

They burned and bombed the east and north and there's no place left to go
The sun belt's overcrowded, so let's annex mexico
The peso's only worth a dime, but they've got all that land
No need for a civil war, we know they'll understand, right?

Is that how you like it?

Factories left unattended, crumbling to the ground
We tried to keep them running, but there's no more oil around
We used it all to fight a war that neither side could win
Vietnam was little league compared to where we've been

Now we live in caves and huts, and we don't have pay tv
And everyone is signing up for the newest industry
Standard oil goes solar power, all try to make a buck
So i'll sit around and smoke cigarettes, and i'll babble "what the fuck?"

Can you feel it feel it feel it
In your soul
Can you tell me
Tell me if it's hot or cold


Can you tell me what it is
Does it hurt you when i do this

Stop it stop it stop it
You're pulling too hard
Stop it
You're going too far

I love it i hate it i love it i hate it too
I love it
So how about you?

Can you tell me 'cause i don't know
Why don't you tell me why is it so
Confusing!

I picked up my belongings in a nylon carry-all
I hear the porter call
Said "the sky's the limit on this chartered trip away,"
I guess i'd better stay

Out there on the desert, i see trees on every wall
Nothing's ever solved
Said "the sky's the limit on this chartered trip away,"
Guess i'd better stay away

I thought i owed myself a trip away
I wanted to go to places i have never been away
I looked at the pictures, imagine where they lay
Away on a beach by the sand, where their clothes all lay away

Horizon is oblivious, chartered trip away
Said "there's no returning from this chartered trip away."

Searching for the truth but all i ever find is lies
Trying to find identity but i just find a disguise
Looking at the nightmare when i try to see the dream
Finding a reality as perfect as it seems

Somewhere the dirt is washed down with the rain
Somewhere there's happiness instead of pain
Somewhere satisfaction has no name
Somewhere i can be the same

Looking down on everything it seems a total bore
Missing all the people that i've never met before
Trying to find an unknown something i consider best
I don't know if i'll find it, but until then i'll be depressed

There was no one all around
There was no one there but me
I was staring out a window
I was standing by the sea

The waves kept on repeating
Each one crashing to the shore
And my footprints nowhere leading
As they disappeared once more

Your senses are bombarded
By the roaring that you hear
In a shell you can hear the ocean
When you put it up to your ear

Something i learned today
Black and white is always grey
Looking through the window pane
I'm not inside your brain
Something i learned today
Yield to the right-of-way
Stopping at a 4-way sign
Someone else's rules, not mine

Something i learned today
Never look straight in the sun's rays
Letting all the sunshine in
Can't remember where i've been

Don't give up,
Don't let go,
Don't give in,
Don't let on.
In your bed,
Late at night,
Red hot red,
Don't get up.