In a darkened room Beyond the reach of God's faith Lies the wounded The shattered remains of love betrayed And the innocence Of a child is bought and sold In the name of the damned The rage of the angels left silent and cold Forgive me please for I know not what I do How can I keep inside the hurt I know is true Tell me when the kiss Of love becomes a lie That bears the scar of sin too deep To hide behind this fear Of running unto you Please let there be light In a darkened room All the precious times Have been put to rest again And the smile of the dawn Brings tainted lust singing my requiem Can I face the day When I'm tortured in my trust And watch it crystalize While my salvation it crumbles to dust Why can't I steer the ship before it hits the storm I've fallen to the sea but still I swim for shore Tell me when the kiss Of love becomes a lie That bears the scar of sin too deep To hide behind this fear Of running unto you Please let there be light In a darkened room

Handed down from fathers to sons Was the hatred of weakness and the love of guns A talk of peace but not in our time To save our souls and stop the crime Onwards and upwards but going nowhere So how many now truthfully swear That they do no evil - see no wrong The ad-mass agents, the writers of song The bankers, the poets, the modern day seers Clouding an issue that was never quite clear Sent through the ages of boy to man The living testament of making a stand Killing the wicked then raising the dead Eating propaganda and shit spoon fed Grasping for wisdom, but thick all the same So how many innocents now can claim That they play with fire - and get burnt And through the same mistakes never get learnt Hoping for a time it will fall to place Faith shall show as our saving grace Handed down from God with love Was the whole wide world and some above But not content to share the land Greed was shown the winning hand And those whose greed was the strongest of all Took upon themselves to lead the call That some must work while other rest Without the question of what is best The leaders, the losers and the kings Pass the rifle butt that tyranny brings Passed on over to the chosen few Was the promise of freedom with a breadline queue Ghetto's, gateaux and eating it too Forcing it all down with a cola brew The first amendment and the hunt for reds A conscious contradiction with something said That they see no evil - with eyes shut tight A cocaine culture that offers no fight Dragged from birth - drugged to death The common excuse is 'just being yourself' Hand us down before it's too late The strength and wisdom to change our state Governed by evil and all it will bring I can't wait for the day they do the lamppost swing And no mercy should they be shown For you cannot reason with the devil's own They say, they hear no evil - hands clasped tight To shut out the victims' screams of ol' uncle sam fights He sweats and he strains as his boney frame comes - Into the womb of an innocent one

There was no denying the fire in his eyes It was more than Pueblo whiskey It was more than a lonely night Two hundred miles from home Perfectly alone There were no apologies in his pocket It was right there on his hand A golden wedding band Their hearts began to pound Oh, but he stood his ground She lights a candle for a cowboy And wonders why she's so alone He was a man of his word It was one she'd never heard He was the only man who ever said, "No" She said, "Is there nothing I can do to please you?" Then he said, "You make love and sound so easy And it's hard to turn away And even harder to stay and either way I go Oh, it's gonna be a long ride home" She lights a candle for a cowboy And wonders why she's so alone He was a man of his word It was one she'd never heard He was the only man who ever said, "No, no, no, no" And as he walked out the door She loved him all the more She lights a candle for a cowboy And wonders why she's still alone He was a man of his word It was one she'd never heard He was the only man who ever said... He was the only man who ever said, "No"

Let me tell you, buddy There's a faster gun Coming over younder When tomorrow comes Let me tell you, buddy And it win't be long Till you find yourself singing Your last cowboy song Yippee-ki-yi-yay When the roundup ends Yippee-ki-yi-yay And the campfire dims Yippee-ki-yi-yay He shalt be saved When a cowboy trades His spurs for wings When the wrap my body In the thin linen sheet And they take my six ounce Pull the boots from my feet Unsaffle my pony She'll be itching to roam I'll be halfway to heaven Under horsepower of my own Yippee-ki-yi-yay When the roundup ends Yippee-ki-yi-yay And the campfire dims Yippee-ki-yi-yay He shalt be saved When a cowboy trades His spurs for wings Yippee-ki-yi-yay I'm glory bound No more jingle jangle I lay my guns down Yippee-ki-yi-yay He shalt be saved When a cowboy trades His spurs for wings