Back on the Chain Gang - Victims of Circumstance

I found a picture of you Oh ohohoh ohohoh It hijacked my world at nights From a place in the past We've been cast out of Oh ohohoh ohohoh Now we're back in the fight Yes, we're back on the chain gang Ohoh back on the chain gang A circumstance beyond our control Oh ohohoh ohohoh The phone, the tv and the news of the world Got in the house like a pigeon from hell Oh ohohoh ohohoh Sand in our eyes, descended like flies Yes, we're back on the chain gang Ohoh, back on the chain gang The powers that be That force us to live like we do Bring me to my knees When I see what they've done to you But I'll die as I stand here today Knowing that deep in my heart They'll fall to ruin one day For making us part I found a picture of you Oh ohohoh ohohoh They were the happiest days of my life Like a break in the battle was your part Oh ohohoh ohohoh Lonely heart, lonely hearts Yes, we're back on the chain gang Ohoh, back on the chain gang (chain gang)

Simple feelings Show us that there is meaning Pure hearts shining like gold Our ears ringing with words that we've been singing Don't cry This time we're alive Quiet Dreaming Grab all your things, we're leaving We won't ever belong Let's never go home now We are with this Together in the stillness We won't ever belong Let's never go home now Twilight's fading Hurry, the moon is waiting Forever wallflowers You and I Across the night Visions that we will hold tight Float on Breathe in, my love Let it be, let it be We are never broken When our eyes are open Quiet Dreaming Grab all your things, we're leaving We won't ever belong Let's never go home now We are with this Together in the stillness We won't ever belong Let's never go home now You don't have to stand alone tonight You don't have to stand alone tonight Quiet Dreaming Grab all your things, we're leaving We won't ever belong Let's never go home now We are with this Together in the stillness We won't ever belong Let's never go home now We won't ever belong

I got rid of the shackles that bound me and the guards that were always around me There were tears on the mail mother wrote me in jail But I'm free from the chain gang now All the years I was known and respected till one day I was wrongly suspected I was shackled in chains in a cold freezin' rain but I'm free from the chain gang now All the years I was known by a number how I kept my mind is a wonder But like a bird in a tree I got my liberty and I'm free from the chain gang now I got rid of the shackles that bound me and the guards that were always around me There were tears on the mail mother sent me in jail But I'm free from the chain gang now There were tears on the mail mother sent me in jail But I'm free from the chain gang now.

This must be heaven, tonight I cross the line. You must be the angel, I though I might never find. Was it you I heard singing, Oh while I was chasin' dreams. Driven by the wind, like the dust that blows around, And the rain fallin' down, but I never know. Got to be heaven, cause here's where the rainbow ends. If this ain't the real thing, then it's close enough to pretend. When that wind blows, when the night's about to fall. You can hear the silence call, it's a certain sort of sound, Like the rain fallin' down. Holes in what's left of my reason, holes in the knees of my blues. Odds against me been increasin', but I'll pull through. I never could read no road map, I don't know what the weather might do. But when that rich wind whines and I see the dark star shine, I got a feeling there's no time to lose, no time to lose. Never know now, just don't never know, no. Well it's been heaven, but even the rainbows will end. Now my sails are fillin' and the wind is willin'. And I'm as good as gone again. I'm still walkin', so I'm sure that I can dance. Just a Saint of Circumstance, just a tiger in a trance. And the rain fallin' down, well, you never know, just don't know. Listen, sure don't know what I going for, but I'm gonna go for it for sure...

I've had too much to drink tonight and I don't think I should drive I recognize that face; I'm out of place You never used to mind my company When you get lonely and I know I'm outta line But you don't want to sleep alone tonight, You still want me around I never had your confidence or the benefit of the doubt And though you never really trusted me I never let you down But you can't see beyond your memory This time you're fuckin' done But you don't want to sleep alone tonight So just ask me to stay for just one more night, But we both know how this ends 'Cause the past is never enough, that you'd ever be done with the rest Oi' Paranoia Oi' Paranoia Oi' Paranoia Oi' Paranoia I know we been through this before and it's starting to get sad For both of us, but hey, we never change; creatures of our habits And even though I know you're blaming me, just like you've always done When you don't want to sleep alone tonight, So just ask me to stay for just one more night, But we both know how this ends 'Cause the past is never enough, that you'd ever be done with the rest Oi' Paranoia Oi' Paranoia Oi' Paranoia Oi' Paranoia It's wake up, break up, get drunk, and make up It's wake up, break up, get drunk, and make up It's wake up and break up and get drunk and make up And so long; you're gone; forget what went wrong The phone rings and we have drinks and repeat And how long we'll go on before we just move on We wake up and break up and get drunk and make up And wake up and break up and get drunk and make up

The police were waitin' when the sun came up You better move your ass Or we'll really get rough I never wanted trouble But I sure got enough I'm bad at bein' subtle But I ain't that tough, no Just a victim of circumstance Didn't you know Just a victim of circumstance Doesn't it show I'm just a victim of circumstance Wherever I go Just a victim of bad reputation I go no chance of shakin' Really gets you down when you don't belong An' everyone around says you growed up wrong But why do they resent it, I ain't doin' anything They say that I'm demented an' I never could sing Then everywhere I went I caused them such alarm You know I never meant to cause anybody harm, no Just a victim of circumstance Didn't you know Just a victim of circumstance Doesn't it show I'm just a victim of circumstance Wherever I go Just a victim of bad reputation I go no chance of shakin' I've been laughed at, I've been shut out But let there be no doubt Never been afraid of chances I been takin' The police are waitin' when the sun came up You better move your ass Or we'll really get rough I never wanted trouble But I sure get enough I'm bad at bein' subtle But I ain't that tough, no Just a victim of circumstance Didn't you know Just a victim of circumstance Doesn't it show I'm just a victim of circumstance Wherever I go Just a victim of bad reputation I go no chance of shakin'