World Machine

It seems true love is so rare
Seems all i've known is deceit
Your laughter fills the air
Once more i'm sensing defeat

And i suppose you're leaving me now
I was so sure now i'm so full of doubt
And i suppose you'll be leaving this place
Just like the smile you wiped from my face
This time

I always gave my best
Your memory serves you so badly
Some people kill for less
Yet i'd still die for you gladly oh, so gladly

But i suppose it's my turn now
To play a scene that's familiar somehow
I turn the page and you walk away
Not even love could bring you to stay
This time
Walk away
You don't need me

Once more i'm learning
In the depths of my despair
Your lies confirming
True love is so rare

And i suppose it's my turn now
There's no more love only feelings of doubt
Gone with the hope your words have erased
Gone with the smile you wiped from my face

Love is a ship we all hope to steer
Through troubled times cross an ocean of tears
A midnight sea that swells in your eyes
Takes just one look to know i'm still mesmerized

But i suppose you're leaving me now
I was so sure now i'm so full of doubt
I turn the page and you walk away
Not even love could bring you to stay
This time

Leaving me now
Leaving this place
I watch you walk away with an easy grace

Some folks try
To multiply
From sunrise to sunset
Leave behind
More of their kind
So no one will forget
But that ain't where i'm coming from - today
Those easy girls don't turn me on - anyway
I wanna know where my pride has gone
The party's over
Caught in a dream
Inside this world machine

Teachers teach
And preachers preach
Of spiritual evolution
But this big i am
From uncle sham
Just adds to my confusion
I've seen his face, i've heard his song - before
But i don't care what time he's on - anymore
I must have been on the streets too long
The party's over
Caught in a dream
Inside this world machine

I find myself outside your door
Trying to make it like before
But you don't follow what i say
And i can tell by your smile
You're no longer a child
That part of you was buried yesterday . . .
. . . who knows
Why they come and where they go
In this world machine?


It's the chosen fools
Who make the rules
That don't apply to me
With their fast-car games
And counter claims
Not my reality

And i don't know if i belong - today
I don't know why my friends have gone - away
I must have been on the streets too long
The party's over
Caught in a dream
Inside this world machine

(don't knock the system - we'll knock some sense in you
Don't beat the system - there's nothing you can do)

Tell - me something
Why do i always find it hard just to get along
Try my best - for nothing
Every little thing i do is wrong

Feel it in my brain
Driving me insane
Round and round
The same old tune

"daddy's on the phone
You know you're not alone
Turn that down
And clean up your room."

Sons and daughters
(don't fall in)
In hot water
Sons and daughters
(they don't do)
What they oughta

Tell (tell) you something
Music is the key to set me free
To the beat (on the street) i'm jumping
Forgetting all the things they said 'bout me

Here it comes again
Chugging like a train
Round and round
An impeccable groove

I know it's getting late
But i won't histate
Can't slow down
Got to do what i do

Sons and daughters
(always in)
In hot water

Wasting time
Is a crime in their eyes
But i'm still young
So much time to decide - what to do ...

(i don't need confirmation
For my boyhood extrapolation
Though i'm not sure of my direction
I have the groove for my protection)

Here it comes again
Chugging like a train
Round and round
An impeccable groove

I know it's getting late
But i won't hesitate
Can't slow down
Got to do what i do

Sons and daughters
(don't fall in)
In hot water
(when they fall by the way)
Sons and daughters
(they don't do)
What they oughta

Tell me something
Where you staying tonight
Your folks
Have waited up for you
Now they've locked the door
And turned off the light.

I leave as i enter
Another boy caught in-between
Now all i can muster
Are whispers to your screams
Don't you remember
How you eased my disgrace
Don't you remember
The love you saw in my face

Perfected in silence
A physical presence
Perfected in silence
A physical presence

I sought affection
But now i realize
A cold rejection
The movement in your eyes
But i can remember
When you shook against me
I can remember
When i saw what love could be

Perfected in silence
A physical presence
Perfected in silence
A physical presence

Ain't what she did
It's the way that she did it
When i couldn't give
Only she could forgive it
Ain't what she did
It's the way that she did it
As long as i live
It's for me to re-live it . . .
Silence . . .

Part of the answer
Is that there's really no escape
Part of the answer
Is that life can have such perfect shape
Don't you remember
All the nights you shared in my disgrace
Don't you remember
That the love that filled this empty space was . . .

. . . perfected in silence
A physical presence
Perfected in silence
A physical presence

I know you live on my street
I sometimes wonder
Why we don't meet
I've seen your face in the sky
Twenty-five stories high
You never come down to earth
Communication (communication)
Could hardly be much worse
Don't keep me here in the dark
I want to be your friend
Your fears are way off the mark

Every generation
Sees it their own way
Never learning their lessons
Making the same mistakes again

It's not the same for us - as history fades away
It's not the same for us - you must hear me when i say

Look out on this brave new land
Think of the future
The future that lays in our hands
Our leaders live in the past
We can change it
There's something to hope for at last

Every generation
Sees it their own way
Why don't we learn our lessons
Don't make the same mistakes again

(chorus)

What dreams are you chasing now?
What are you living for?
The problems that we're facing now
Nobody faced before
Please don't reject me
In anger or in sorrow
You've got to accept me
If we're to make a better tomorrow

It's not the same - it's not the same for us