Oh, why does she sing Her sad songs for me, I'm not the one To tenderly bring her soft sympathy, I've just begun To see my way clear And it's plain if I stop I will fall I can lay down a tear for her pain Just a tear and that's all Oh, what does she want me to do? She says that she knows That moments are rare I suppose that it's true Then on she goes to say I don't care Oh, she knows that I do Maybe she just has to sing For the sake of the song And who do I think that I am To decide that she's wrong She'd like to think I was cruel But she knows that's a lie for I would be No more than a tool If I allowed her to cry all over me Oh, my sorrow is real Even though I can't change my plans If she could see how I feel Then I know that she'd understand Oh, does she actually think I'm to blame? Does she really believe that some word of mine Could relieve all her pain? Can't she see that she grieves Just because she's been blindly deceived by her shame? Oh, maybe she just has to sing For the sake of the song And who do I think that I am To decide that she's wrong Oh, but nothin's what it seems Maybe she'll start someday to realize If she abandons her dreams Then all the words she can say are only lies Oh, why can't she see that to gain is only to lose? All that she offers me are her chains and I got to refuse Oh, but it's only to herself that she's lied She likes to pretend There's something that she should defend with her pride And I don't intend To stand here and be the friend From whom she must hide Oh, maybe she just has to sing For the sake of the song And who do I think that I am To decide that she's wrong

You feel the beating thunder rolling underground Under your feet and things are moving all around You try to reach for something just to hold your body to your brain But when it hits you, you're gonna feel no pain Feel the room shake Hear my heart break I'm in love with the sound I'm in love with the sound The love that we make We make for our sake For the sake of the sound For the sake of the sound I feel the heat and fire buring all around Out on the street I hear the pavement break and pound I want to be the one that makes your swan sing "take my soul away" Oh Hallelujah, I wanna hear you say Feel the room shake Hear my heart break I'm in love with the sound I'm in love with the sound The love that we make We make for our sake For the sake of the sound For the sake of the sound Feel the room shake Can you hear my heart break I'm in love with the sound I'm in love with the sound The love that we make We make for our sake For the sake of the sound For the sake of the sound

We have been stuck in here a day, seeking Answers for all eternity, or something Hear the meaning, speaking in me Have faith in me, have faith in me I cannot say that I am fine And take all you say at face value I've talked to you more than I have Have faith in me, have faith in me I've talked too much today You don't trust me So I keep on talking in every way Across the sea I hear you calling me For the sake of revenge you command me This ain't over, no it's never over 'Till the fat lady sings, you love me I am tired, yet I am swimming You will not let go of me, you are drowning As you're quietly pulling me under We will never make it unless you let go There's no crime, yet I stand accused And I see the solution naked before me You reduced me to a weapon, unlike you Have faith in me, have faith in me I cannot hear, though I incline my ear Why do I even try I've told you all 'bout what I am Have faith in me, have faith in me I'm feeling weak today Please, don't crush me I keep on walking, far away I keep on crawling, all in vain I'm feeling slow today So don't rush me We live this wretched serenade You keep me playing, anyway Across the sea I hear you calling me For the sake of revenge you will command me This ain't over, it's never over 'Till the fat lady sings, you love me I'm so tired, yet keep on swimming You will not let go of me, you're drowning Now you're quietly pulling me under Oh so quietly pulling me under

Well, daddy joined the air force Said it was a good source Danger, love and money But it only led to divorce Ended up in Abilene Workin' at a Dairy Queen Put me in the Army On the day that I turned 17 Here I am standing In the desert with a gun Thought of goin' AWOL But I'm too afraid to run So I got myself a new plan Stealing from the Taliban Make a little money Turnin' poppies into heroin Sergeant didn't like it So they put me in a hole I said it's easy shootin' When they don't know where to go Threw me on a lily pad Sent me home to NORAD Knew I'd be in trouble But I didn't think it'd be this bad A stranger wearing all black Met me on the tarmac Told him I was sorry But I ain't never going back He said you ain't in trouble, son Learned to fire without a gun Got a new assignment Now you working for the Pentagon Gonna take a trip Wouldn't tell me what it's for Gotta to serve your country Gonna help us win the war MIT, PhD's Night and day, they testing me Ain't what I was thinking But I'm being all that I can be I ain't no genius But I knew it wasn't right Eating uppers in the morning And LSD at night Send me off to deep space Help them win the arms race Ola me, oh, mighty But this shit has got a funny taste I think I hear the countdown Hundred feet above the ground Told me when I'm leaving But nothing 'bout coming down Sitting on a bad dream Thousand pounds of gasoline Ain't leaving nothing But some rubble in my slipstream Mama always said I should be aiming for the moon Never would have guessed That I'd be passing by soon How the hell did I get here? Blasting through the atmosphere Drop my rocket boosters And I'm shifting into high gear Bowie on my system And a bottle on my knee Armstrong ain't got nothing on me Hey yo, here we go KMAG YOYO Someone wanna get me Got to come up where the sun don't go I think I see a bright light Something 'bout it ain't right Laid down in a spaceship Woke up in a fire fight Tripping from the morphine Came down in a bad scene God, don't let me die here I ain't even 19 I won't ever ask you, Lord For anything again Swear it on the Bible Torah, Koran Lying in a rhino track 'Bout to have a heart attack IED got to me Someone call a medi-vac I need some fixin' Now how long has it been Never wanna go and try And shoot a gun again Slippin' out the back door Wanna join the Peace Corps Tell me I'm a hero Now someone else can fight this war

I got a woman, she's wild as Rome She likes to lay naked and be gazed upon Well, she crosses a bridge then sets in on fire Lands like a bird on a telephone wire Wine bottles scattered like last night's clothes Cigarettes, papers, and dominoes Well, she laughs for a minute 'bout the shape I'm in Says, "You be the sinner, honey, I'll be the sin" I'm gonna holler, and I'm gonna scream I'm gonna get me some mescaline She brings me roses and a place to lean A drunken poet's dream There's some money on the table and a pistol on the floor Some old paperback books of Louis L'Amour She says, "Honey, don't worry 'bout Judgement Day All these people goin' to heaven They're just in our way" I'm gonna holler, and I'm gonna scream I'm gonna get me some mescaline She brings me roses and a place to lean A drunken poet's dream Now, all my life, I laid around While the colors all turned blue Well, I close my eyes And I finally found it Brought me back to you I got a woman, she'd wild as Rome Aw, she likes to lay naked and be gazed upon Well, she crosses a bridge then sets in on fire Lands like a bird on a telephone wire I'm gonna holler, and I'm gonna scream I'm gonna get me some mescaline She brings me roses and a place to lean A drunken poet's dream A drunken poet's dream A drunken poet

We've been datin' since high school We never once left this town We used to go out on the weekends And we'd drink till we drowned But now she's actin' funny And I don't understand I think that she's found her Some other man She left me for Jesus And that just ain't fair She says, that he's perfect. How could I compare She says, I should find him And I'll know peace at last But if I ever find Jesus I'm kickin' his ass She showed me a picture All I could do was stare At that freak in his sandals With his long purty hair They must think that I'm stupid Or I don't have a clue I bet he's a Commie Or even worse yet a Jew She left me for Jesus And that just ain't fair She says, that he's perfect. How could I compare She says, I should find him And I'll know peace at last But if I ever find Jesus I'm kickin' his ass She's givin' up whiskey And taken up wine Why, she prays for his troubles And has forgot about mine I'm a gonna get even I can't handle the shame Why the last time we made love She even called out his name She left me for Jesus And that just ain't fair She says, that he's perfect. How could I compare She says, I should find him And I'll know peace at last But if I ever find Jesus I'm kickin' his ass It could have been Carlos Or even Billy or Ted But if I ever find Jesus He's gonna wish he were dead Ahhh, man