Home of the Brave (Live) - Toto

Everything's gonna be alright boys Help is on the way Hold your head up high now There's no need to cry now We're not runnin' anymore Leave the politics behind boys They're not workin' anymore There's so much more at stake here It's make or break here Haven't we been here before? C'mon Tell me what we're waiting for? You gotta remember Oh you don't have to be afraid You still have the freedom to learn And say what you wanna say You gotta remember No don't let 'em take away The land we call The home of the brave Who sings the song of the people You don't hear it anymore I heard it late last summer To the beat of a different drummer It never sounded quite like that before So you're trying to shake this feeling That trouble's right outside your door You lie awake each dark night Like a time bomb wound up too tight A storm in waiting, just offshore Oh c'mon Tell me what we're waiting for You gotta remember Oh you don't have to be afraid You still have the freedom to learn And say what you wanna say You gotta remember No don't let 'em take away The land we call The home of the brave You gotta remember Oh you don't have to be afraid You still have the freedom to learn And say what you wanna say You gotta remember No don't let 'em take away The land we call The home of the brave Oh you don't have to be afraid You still have the freedom to learn And say what you wanna say You gotta remember No don't let 'em take away The land we call The home of the brave

You thought the leaden winter Would bring you down forever But you rode upon a steamer To the violence of the sun And the colors of the sea Blind your eyes with trembling mermaids And you touch the distant beaches With tales of brave Ulysses How his naked ears were tortured By the sirens sweetly singing For the sparkling waves are calling you To kiss their white-laced lips And you see a girl's brown body Dancing through the turquoise And her footprints make you follow Where the sky loves the sea And when your fingers find her She drowns you in her body Carving deep blue ripples In the tissues of your mind The tiny purple fishes Run laughing through your fingers And you want to take her with you To the hard land of the winter Her name is Aphrodite And she rides a crimson shell And you know you cannot leave her For you touched the distant sands With tales of brave Ulysses How his naked ears were tortured By the sirens sweetly singing The tiny purple fishes Run laughing through your fingers And you want to take her with you To the hard land of the winter

Somebody's shouting Up at a mountain Only my own words return Nobody's up there It's a deception When will I ever learn? I'm alone here With emptiness eagles and snow Unfriendliness chilling my body And whispering pictures of home Wondering blindly How can they find me? Maybe they don't even know My body is shaking Anticipating The call of the black footed crow I'm alone here With emptiness eagles and snow Unfriendliness chilling my body And taunting with pictures of home Here in this prison Of my own making Year after day I have grown Into a hero But there's no worship Where have they hidden my throne? I'm alone here With emptiness eagles and snow Unfriendliness chilling my body And screaming out pictures of home

You used to be on fire, now you chill me to the bone We used to fly like angels, now we're sinking like a stone You say you're trying to help me but that ain't the way it feels I think you're trying to kill me with those stiletto heels Paint the town black babe and let that pendulum swing I been stabbed in the back babe And if you don't love me, I'll never feel a thing And oh, one thing I know, there's only one place left for me to go Going back to the kingdom of desire Going down to the valley of the gun I'm gonna stand too close to the fire I'm gonna fly too close to the sun They say the king of love sleeps on a velvet bed My sheets feel like sandpaper, and my pillow feels like lead But as sure as Atlantis sank into the sea I'm sinking like a stone babe, that's how it's got to be Paint the town black babe and let that pendulum swing I been stabbed in the back babe And if you don't love me, I'll never feel a thing And oh, if I don't have you, there's only one thing left for me to do When you dig up God's little acre, you lose all peace of mind You stare into the distance, looking for a sign But that sign it never comes babe, your wishes won't come true You keep praying for the rain while the sun beats down on you And oh, one thing I know, there's only one place left for me to go Repeats 2x I'm gonna fly too close to the sun, yeah I'm gonna fly too close to the sun