Sackcloth and Ashes - The Mr. T Experience

I'd heard rumors, I'd heard talk About the trail you'd left broken hearts About the sea of tears too wide to cross A little bad press has never scared me off So I burned a path to figure out How to get me some of what you got I've got a red hot heart If the talk is true yours is the same We should be together Let our passions fan love's flame Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah When I looked for you, I almost passed you by You were so cool and calm, I thought my friends had lied But I thought so much reserve must make you wild inside It was there and then, that I knew, I had to get some of what you got I've got a red hot heart If the talk is true yours is the same And we should be together And let our passions fan love's flame Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I thought I'd won your heart when I held your hand in mine I thought it was true love the way we complemented each other But my right is your wrong And when you're right then I'm left with nothing Your light and your heat have all been spent Leaving only smoke and ashes Only smoke and ashes baby I've got a red hot heart And your heart's as blue as the blood in your veins I say there's fire down below You say it's only smoke and ashes baby I'm crying all the time Salty stinging tears And mourning for the past carbon-dated years But knowing now for certain, that you were always right Because if a breeze could blow you out of my life It's only smoke and ashes baby Only smoke and ashes baby I've got a red hot heart And your heart's as blue as the blood in your veins I say there's fire down below You say it's only smoke and ashes baby I was blinded by devotion My unwavering love for you So blinded that I thought, all your lies were true But now I know for certain, since you've gone away It was just a smoldering fire, I mistook for a blaze Only smoke and ashes baby I've got a red hot heart And your heart's as blue as the blood in your veins (Your heart's as blue) I say there's fire down below You say it's only smoke and ashes baby (Only!) Only smoke and ashes baby Baby, baby, baby, baby Baby, baby, baby, baby Baby!

Is this how I die? Ridiculed and laughed at Wearing clown shoes Is this how I die? Furious and reckless Sick with booze How did I live? I taste every wasted minute Every time I turned away From the things that might have healed me How long have I been sleeping? Is this how I die? Frightened like a child Lazy and numb Is this how I die? Pretending and preposterous And dumb How did I live? Was I kind enough and good enough? Did I love enough? Did I ever look up and see the moon and the stars and the sky? Oh, why have I been sleeping? They say we are asleep until we fall in love We are children of dust and ashes But when we fall in love we wake up And we are a god and angels weep But if I die here tonight I die in my sleep All of my life I spent searching the words of poets and saints and prophets and kings Now at the end all I know that I've learned is that all that I know is I don't know a thing So easy to close off Place the blame outside Hiding in my room at night So terrified All the things I could've been But I never had the nerve Life and love, I don't deserve So alright! Alright! I've had my time Close my eyes Let the death bells chime! Bury me in burgundy I just don't care! Nothing's left I looked everywhere! Is this how I die? Was there ever any other way my life could be? Is this how I die? Such a slough of feelings inside of me But then why am I screaming? Why am I shaking? Oh god, was there something that I missed? Did I squander my divinity? Was happiness within me the whole time? They say we are asleep until we fall in love We are children of dust and ashes But when we fall in love we wake up And we are a god and angles weep But if I die here tonight I die in my sleep They say we are asleep until we fall in love And I'm so ready To wake up now I wanna wake up Don't let me die while I'm like this I wanna wake up God, don't let me die while I'm like this Please let me wake up now God, don't let me die while I'm like this I'm ready I'm ready To wake up

Is it efficient Or does it kill With the skill of a cluster bomb? It'll take time But you know it will If I happen to live that long If you would listen to me Things wouldn't seem so gloomy Now you keep jamming up the gears And I can't see through the smears And everything's exactly as it appears More I love you more I love you more than I did before But now it's either or Or neither nor And when I think about you I start turning green And it shakes me up inside Cause it used to be the color of your eyes Everywhere I go I see your ghost The spirit of '91 You said you loved me more than toast But less than a staplegun Is this the wrong direction? That's such a stupid question Now when you make a sacrifice You're supposed to get a wish Why does this only work in theory not practice? More I love you more I love you more than I did before But now it's not allowed You're not around I see you going out And everything goes black And I start to fall apart It reminds me of the color of your heart I miss you more than mud Lost you more than blood Knead you more than dough I love you more than toast More I love you more I love you more than I did before But now we're in a war And what's it for? I read your horoscope And everything is clear And it feels a little weird Cause it used to be the color of your tears.

Ba ba ba ba ba Ba ba ba ba ba Ba ba ba ba ba Ba ba ba ba ba My life 'til now Has been filled with doubt Here I am 'Cause there's no Other place I can go But I can see you're a lot like me So maybe you know Somewhere people like us can go Where we won't get kicked out 'Cause we've got a lot to talk about After years of research I think I've figured it out It's the little things that get you down It's the bigger things that you can't get around And it's way to flat on the middle ground But everything else is wide open So let's go Ba ba ba ba ba Ba ba ba ba ba, together Ba ba ba ba ba Ba ba ba ba ba Teacher please Don't be such a tease Give me some kind of sign Not detention this time The things that we used to do Have been turned into a zoo By people who say All the things that we used to say And if we say them again We're gonna sound just like them After years of remorse I think I've taken it in It's the little things that get you down It's the bigger things that you can't get around And it's way to flat on the middle ground But everything else is our oyster Everything else is a picnic Everything else is terrific So let's go Ba ba ba ba ba Ba ba ba ba ba Ba ba ba ba ba Ba ba ba ba ba, together Ba ba ba ba ba (yeah) Ba ba ba ba ba