Shot to the skull or a strike to the brain As you withdraw, you give death a bad name Can you be stopped or can evil be slain? Is there something to be lost to surrender the pain? You're just a shade of something betrayed Watch as you fade into the reservoir Can you exist? Shade of the oculist No consciousness, less than a metaphor What was once dead is now coming for you The television said it's the right thing to do Give me a name, more than a flame (more than a flame) Can it contain more than a metaphor? Show me your face, give it some breathing space Feel my embrace, empty the reservoir Was it for profit or was it for gain? You gave it your all, you gave life a bad name Sentries trembling, voices assembling (voices assembling) Nothing resembling what it had been before Contamination, death to America Reanimation, what are you waiting for? Give me a name, more than a flame (more than a flame) Can it contain more than a metaphor? Show me your face, give it some breathing space Feel my embrace, empty the reservoir Shot to the skull or a strike to the brain The cadaver on the cross, you give love a bad name Can you explain all our divided pain? What still remains after the rigor mortis Poured gasoline, ghost in a dead machine God save the queen, lessons and metaphors (Hung from a tree) Edge of the canopy (All this debris) Signals and semaphores (Round them all up) Drink from the Holy Cup (Battered in blood) What are you waiting for? Jump from the fire into the frying pan Voice of the choir, now you are born again Gathered in song, calling all next of kin Can't do no wrong, perfect American (Follow your dream) Into the black and white (Anthropocene) Live it up, give a fight (Shot through the heart) God bless America (Failed from the start) What are you waiting for? (Shut to the skull or a strike to the brain) What are you waiting for? What are you waiting for? (The cadaver on the cross, you give love a bad name) What are you waiting for?

Shot through the heart and you're to blame Darlin', you give love a bad name Fuck you An angel's smile is what you sell You promise me heaven, then put me through hell Chains of love, got a hold on me When passion's a prison, you can't break free Whoa, you're a loaded gun Yeah, whoa, there's nowhere to run No one can save you The damage is done Shot through the heart and you're to blame You give love a bad name I play my part and you play your games You give love a bad name You give love a bad name You paint that smile on your lips Blood red nails on your fingertips A school boy's dream, you act so shy You're very first kiss was your first kiss goodbye Whoa, you're a loaded gun Whoa, there's nowhere to run No one can save me The damage is done Shot through the heart and you're to blame You give love a bad name I play my part and you play your games You give love a bad name You give love Shot through the heart and you're to blame Darlin', you give love a bad name I play my part and you play your games You give love a bad name Shot through the heart and you're to blame You give love a bad name I play my part and you play your games You give love a bad name Shot through the heart and you're to blame You give love a bad name I play my part, you play your games You give love a bad name

You gotta learn today to look at things right on (oh yeah) Black is black, white is white, that's a proven fact It even goes the same when it comes down to a woman That's been the greatest gift that god could give man Which is me and you Y'all can understand where I'm comin' from If you got somebody that you love I don't believe in playin' hard to get For something that I might already have Listen to me Ooh We gotta stop fussin' over the ladies Beatin' em and mistreatin' em And leaving them with a baby We gotta start them right Huggin' and lovin' and bein' real nice Although at times they be tempting And sometimes they get you old and grey But a woman was made to love One change in this sound like a sleigh What I'm tryin to say, y'all If you can't give her love Give her up, give her up And If you can't give her up, make up your mind, oh Give her up or give her her freedom I don't mean that a woman run wild And let her get out every once in a while, ooh Don't get up, get her up at home Because you don't want to hurt, just leave her alone There's a lot of men I don't know That would like to be you, so soon Who would accept a ready made family And do the things for you woman that you should be doing Hey, hey If you can't give her love, why don't ya give her Give her up, give her up And If you can't give her up, you got to give her up Or give her her freedom Ooh baby, oh my, my my baby

Oh, I love her and just can't live without her And I've got the urge to tell the world about her But our love's a secret and can't see the light of day But I went and wrote this love song anyway. Her name is her eyes are Her hair is just like and she measures But someday I'll fill in the lines when she and I are free And we'll walk in the sunshine and me. --- Instrumental --- Oh, it really is a scandal and disgrace To have to call your woman what's-her-face But her husband thinks he owns her heart and soul for life And he'll kill the man who messes with his wife. Her name is her eyes are Her hair is just like and she measures But someday I'll fill in the lines when she and I are free And we'll walk in the sunshine and me. Yes, someday I'll fill in the lines when she and I are free And we'll walk in the sunshine and me. Her name is

What do you call the ashes of a girl If not sacred? When the embers are cradled by the wind, Do the gods cry for what could have been? If it is cruel hands that have taken a life, Why then do we forget the injustice? Instead let us collect as sisters in mourning. Let our fury echo through the pages of history. Do not let this death be quiet Like all the thousands before it. Time cannot devour What we will not allow to be forgotten. So do not forget her name. Remember her. Remember every girl like her who was lost to us. Every girl who prayed to a God that abandoned her. Call your rage something holy. Call it the best incarnation you have ever known. Make the goddess of justice we all deserve. The kind of divinity we can all truly believe in. Carve a temple made of a fire which never dies until we are all ... safe. Let the wind take these embers, these ashes and Build a goddess of wild fire in her name.