Theatre Of Pain

Can't break the chains
Can't solve the pain
Can't rhyme problem with reason

Not taking sides
Just asking why
Does the pain eat the children

Who wrote the bible
Who set the laws
Are we left to history's flaws

And if you're out there
Then let me hear (hey)
And take a look in the mirror

Fight fight for your rights
Fight fight for your rights

Can't name no names
Of who's to blame
For cries out in the sky

We're all slaves to time
No color's right
Throw our hate into the fire

Martin luther
Brought the truth
The color of our blood's the same

So break the chains
And solve the pains
And we all become one race

Fight fight for your rights
Fight fight for your rights

Oh, people, people
Is the scar too deep
You can't hold a man's soul
By the color of his keys
A tear of blood runs from my eye
But somehow i can never
Make you...cry...

You know i'm a dreamer
But my heart's of gold
I had to run away high
So i wouldn't come home low

Just when things went right
It doesn't mean they were always wrong
Just take this song and you'll never feel
Left all alone

Take me to your heart
Feel me in your bones
Just one more night
And i'm comin' off this
Long & winding road

I'm on my way
Well, i'm on my way
Home sweet home
Tonight tonight
I'm on my way
I'm on my way
Home sweet home

You know that i seem
To make romantic dreams
Up in lights, fallin' off
The silver screen

My heart's like an open book
For the whole world to read
Somtimes nothing--keeps me together
At the seams

I'm on my way
Well, i'm on my way
Home sweet home
Tonight tonight
I'm on my way
Just set me free
Home sweet home

When it smiles at me
And i saw your eyes
All i ever wanted to be
Was in you arms tonight
You looked too young
To know what looks so nice, yes you did
But when you smiled i had to take the chance
Had to take the chance

Tonight, i'll be with you tonight
Tonight, i'll love you through the night
Tonight
Tonight, i'm in love with you baby
Tonight, tonight
Tonight, come on, come on

I don't know myself, baby if it's all alright
All i ever wanted to feel, be with me tonight
Looks too young to know what looks so nice
Yes you did
But when you smiled i had to take the chance
Had to take the chance
To be with you tonight
I'll be with you tonight
Tonight, i'll love you through the night
Tonight
Tonight, i'm in love with you baby
Tonight, tonight
Tonight, be mine tonight

You look so young
To know what looks so nice
But when you smiled i had to take the chance
Had to take the chance
To be with you tonight
I'll be with you tonight
Tonight, i'll love you through the night
Tonight
Tonight, i'm in love with you baby
Tonight, tonight
Tonight, be mine tonight
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Be mine tonight

Be mine tonight...

Black angels laughing in the city streets
Street toys scream in pain and clench their teeth
The moonlight spotlights all the city crime
Got no religion,
Laugh while they fight

Save our souls for the heavens
For a life so good it sure feels bad
Save our souls for the heavens
Save our souls for the promised land
Sweet tarts play the game and shoot to thrill
Runnin' free through the trash, dressed to kill
The midnight show-stoppers, it's a funny money game
A hundred thousand bleeding hearts, put us in our graves

Save our souls for the heavens
For a life so good it sure feels bad
Save our souls for the heavens
Save our souls for the promised land

It's been the hard road, edge of an overdose
No matter how high you're still too low
I've been the dancer, the wicked romancer
It's a never-ending nightmare, edge of disaster

Sometimes i feel turned around
And upside down
And sometimes maybe i drink too much
But my heart's still in touch

I remember standing tall telling you
I'm gonna be a rock-n-roll star
When someone said "sit down, boy"
"you already are"

So raise your hands to rock (rock)
Uh-huh

Summertime was always right
Just me and you
Sixteen and dealing with
Those summertime blues

I was young and restless
Living on the edge of a dream
When someone somewhere said
"ya just gotta believe"

And raise your hands to rock (rock)

(talk)
Did you ever seem to have one of those days
When everyone seemed to be on your case
From your teacher all the waydown to your best girlfriend
Well, that used to happen to me all the time
But i found a way to get out of it

Sittin' in the classroom thinkin' it's a drag
Listening to the teacher rap--just ain't my bag
When two bells ring you know it's my cue
Gonna meet the boys on floor number 2

Smokin' in the boys room
Smokin' in the boys room
Teacher don't you fill me up with your rules
Everybody knows that smokin' ain't allowed in school

Checkin' out the halls makin' sure the coast is clear
Lookin' in the stalls--nah, there ain't nobody here
My buddies sixx, mick & tom
To get caught would surely be the death of us all

Smokin' in the boys room
Smokin' in the boys room
Teacher don't you fill me up with your rules
Everybody knows that smokin' ain't allowed in school

Put me to work in the school bookstore
Check-out counter, and i got bored
Teacher was lookin' for me all around
Two hours later you know where i was found

Smokin' in the boys room
Smokin' in the boys room
Teacher don't you fill me up with your rules
Everybody knows that smokin' ain't allowed in school

Smokin' in the boys room
Smokin' in the boys room
Smokin' in the boys room
Smokin' in the boys room
Teacher don't you fill me up with your rules
Everybody knows that smokin' ain't allowed in school

One more time

Smokin' in the boys room
Smokin' in the boys room
Teacher i ain't foolin' around with your rules
Everybody knows that smokin' ain't allowed in school

Some like the violence
Some like submission
Some use aggression
Some use a bullet in the head to be brave
Some like the evil
Some need the power
Some bleed in vain
Some get a bullet in the head instead

Some got the go
Some play the role
Some scream out in horror just for show
Some got no reason
Some got no hope
Some like it loud, some like it loud
We like it loud
We like it louder, louder than hell

Some got the honey
Some hold the pistol
Some need no money
Some hang on the string of obscene

Some got the go
Some play the role
Some scream out in horror just for show
Some got no reason
Some got no hope
Some like it loud, some like it loud
We like it loud
We like it louder, louder than hell