The Very Best of Impellitteri

Cyberflesh, cyberflesh, cyberflesh

I don't know if I can look at you anymore
Cause you just take my mind with visions I adore

From his domain he's dialing up the net and his eyes begin to feed
There's a photo of the line and a video selling lust and vanity
With a touch of his fingers and a credit card
The magic begins to brew
Inticing the passions of a million men
It's got a hold on you

Chorus:
Falling into the world of cyberflesh, cyberflesh
Vision's will stay awake in you, cyberflesh
Burning into your mind the thrill of lust, cyberflesh
Pulling you down into the whole, cyberflesh

When you open your eyes up to the game
It will lock you on the screen
It's a picture in your mind that awakens you
No one can intervene
Memories of the image will be haunting you
Waiting to appear
Selling pleasure for your eyes and a fantasy
Across the new frontier

Chorus

Like the movers and the shakers, I can feel the pressure burn
Like you, I'm caught up in the race
I'm addicted to the rush, under stress, a prisoner
And I don't even know my name

Sometimes I feel like I've been wasting precious time
Life passes by when you're slaving to the grind
What really matters when I cross the finish line
Am I wasting my life?

When I'm reaching for the answers I can never trust my lust
I'm only reaping what I sow
If I'm a lover of the money, I will never have enough
Can't take it with you when you go

Right now I feel like I've been wasting precious time
Life passes by when you're slaving to the grind
What really matters when I cross the finish line
I know I'm wasting my life

Caught up in a rat race, playing in the devil's game
Living in the fast lane, and I'm burning the flame
Caught up in a rat race, playing in the devil's gave
Living in the fast lane, and I'm feeling the strain
On my life, my life, on my life!

I can't take it any longer
I can not take much more, oh, no!
I won't waste it any longer
My life is mine no more

I'm caught up in a rat race, playing in the devil's game
Living in the fast lane, and I'm burning the flame
Caught up in a rat race, playing in the devil's gave
Living in the fast lane, and I'm feeling the strain

I'm caught up in a rat race, playing in the devil's game
Living in the fast lane, and I'm burning the flame
Caught up in a rat race, playing in the devil's gave
Living in the fast lane, and it's time for a change
In my life, my life, in my life!

Rat, rat, rat race!
Caught up in a rat race

There's blood on the boards where passionate words
Bleed down from the stage to arena
The pilgrims are back with money they stashed
A gift to the gods of the hour
Never too loud drummer kicks the band right in the ass
No one shot gun, they're all drivers - this is the master class

Rock & Roll heroes
Forever immortal
The masters of music
Idols and legends

The man with the voice has opened his throat
Spits out the words of the story
His fingers are speeding, shredding the strings
Stripping them down to the wire
Photographs on cotton T-shirts - 30 bucks a pop
Ball hats, sweatshirts, come and get your pictures autographed

Rock & Roll heroes
Forever immortal
The masters of music
Idols and legends
Rock & Roll heroes
Forever immortal
The masters of music
Idols and legends

[solo]

I want my Rock & Roll heroes
I want my Rock & Roll heroes
I want my Rock & Roll heroes
I want my Rock & Roll heroes

Rock & Roll heroes
Forever immortal
The masters of music
Idols and legends
Rock & Roll heroes
Forever immortal
The masters of music
Idols and legends

[Instrumental]

[Instrumental]

Standing like a statue waiting for the train
In front of the cigarette vendor
Slicking back his hair looking at the machine
Reflecting like a mirror

Pulling up his collar to avoid the breeze
Of the oncoming bullet
Taking inventory of the things he needs,
He's checking out his wallet
Standing before our eyes straight and tall

*Here comes your hero, stand in line,
Straight as an arrow, stand in line

The mother's son, as perfect as his pompadour
A Spanish-American lover
Heading from the East into West LA
He has to dance La Bamba

So sophisticated is the French cologne
He borrowed from his father
Just another pistol, waiting for someone
To come and pull the trigger
So let his bullet fly through the air...

He'll take you home, stand in line,
If you deserve him, stand in line

(Repeat *)

That perfect stranger, stand in line
IF you deserve him, stand in line

(Repeat *)

I was a young boy when I heard the music call
staring at the concert stage my spirit craved it all
blinded by the spotlight, seduction rules the game
sold my soul to rock and roll,
there's no one else to blame

I still feel the power
I still feel it knocking at my door

hungry days
I remember hungry days

now I'm a young man I see a different light
shining down upon me, there's no fear, no end in sight
music is the magic and money is the slave
standing on the solid rock now
nothing seems the same

I still feel the power
I still hear it knocking at my door

hungry days!
I still remember hungry days
searching for my only fantasy
hungry days, oh, remember hungry days
time forever slips away

Living in the city where the poverty prevails
Sleeping on the side walk you can hear the sirens wail
Dining with the rats down on 42nd street
Begging for some money, hungry for something to eat

Wasted and falling through the cracks
Dying while lying on your back

VICTIM OF THE SYSTEM

Freezing by the fire while you're chilling to the bone
Faceless in the crowd
And there's no place you call home
Crazy from the heat and lost in deep despair
Is there no solution, doesn't anybody care?

Can't get your feet back on the ground
Can't you hear your voice, you can't be found

Victim of the system, there's no place you can go
Stranded by your country, left here on your own

Victim of the system, isn't a pity
Victim of the system, living in the city

solo

Wanted and falling through the cracks
Dying while lying on your back

Victim of the system there's no place you can go
Left here by your country, left here on your own

Victim of the system isn't it a pity?
Victim of the system living in the city

I'm sucking on a 40 with friends who just adore me
Oh how they love that old English accent
They of the black persuasion, missed out of being African
Hard to hold back that bottled up tension

Hide in the color of the white man's skin
We'll do the evil deed, he'll fall for our sin
Shoot to kill, can't blame that white
His mom and dad will make it right
Hide in the color of the white man's skin
Do the evil deed, he'll fall for our sin
No judge or jury would convict a white
Your deceptions are black and white

Broke out that golden carriage
To ride to Greenwich Village
Your turn to drive somebody said to me
Because you're of that white persuasion
You will never draw attention
Who we take down and who is left bleeding

Hide in the color of the white man's skin
We'll do the evil deed, he'll fall for our sin
Shoot to kill, can't blame that white
His mom and dad will make it right
Hide in the color of the white man's skin
Do the evil deed, he'll fall for our sin
No judge or jury would convict a white
Cause the color is black and white

[solo]

Hide in the color of the white man's skin
We'll do the evil deed, he'll fall for our sin
No judge or jury would convict his kind
The money and the power would make them all blind
Hide in the color of the white man's skin
Do the evil deed, he'll fall for our sin
Shoot to kill, can't blame that white
Mom and Dad will make it right
Hide in the color of the white man's skin
Do the evil deed, he'll fall for our sin
Shoot to kill, can't blame that white
Mom and Dad will make it right
No judge or jury would convict his kind
The money and the power would make them all blind
Hide in the color of the white man's skin
The deception - It's the perfect crime

Beware, beware of the devil

The devil looked into my eyes when I was seventeen
He said, "I'll give you all the world if you will follow me."
He dealt the cards, I drew the king, with this he was not pleased
And then he raised the stakes when he said to me: (I am the devil)

"I am the dealer, I've come for your soul
Lay down your cards and I'll take control
I will bet your life if you dare to try, my friend,
The luck of the draw tonight"

The dealer tried to conquer me but I would not concede
Now everything he offered me was tempting to believe
I took a look inside my hand, I saw the royalty
And then I called his bluff when he said to me: (I am the devil)

"I am the dealer, I've come for your soul
Lay down your cards and I'll take control
I will bet your life if you dare to try, my friend,
The luck of the draw
I am the dealer, I tell you no lies
Show me your cards and fate will decide
I will bet your life for eternity, my friend,
The winner takes all tonight"

[solo]

"I am the dealer, I've come for your soul
Lay down your cards and I'll take control
I will bet your life if you dare to try, my friend,
The luck of the draw
I am the dealer, I tell you no lies
Show me your cards and fate will decide
I will bet your life for eternity, my friend,
The winner takes all"

"I am the dealer, I've come for your soul
Lay down your cards and I'll take control
I will bet your life if you dare to try, my friend,
The luck of the draw
I am the dealer, I tell you no lies
Show me your cards and fate will decide
I will bet your life for eternity, my friend,
The winner takes all tonight"