Wretches and Kings

There's a time When the operation of the machine becomes so odious Makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part You can't even passively take part And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels Upon the levers, upon all the apparatus And you've got to make it stop To save face, how low can you go? Talk a lot of game but yet you don't know Static on the way, make us all say "whoa" The people up top push the people down low Get down And obey every word Steady getting mine if you haven't yet heard Wanna take what I got, don't be absurd Don't fight the power, nobody gets hurt If you haven't heard yet then I'm letting you know There ain't shit we don't run when the guns unload And no one make a move unless my people say so Got everything outta control, now everybody go Steel unload, final blow We the animals take control Hear us now, clear and true Wretches and kings we come for you So keep pace, how slow can you go Talk a lot of shit and yet you don't know Fire on the way make you all say, "whoa" The people up top and the people down low Get down and I'm running it like that The front of the attack is exactly where I'm at Somewhere in-between, the kick and the hi-hat The pen and the contract, the pitch and the contact So get with the combat, I'm letting 'em know There ain't shit you can say to make me back down, no So push the button let the whole thing blow Spinning everything outta control, now everybody go Steel unload, final blow We the animals take control Hear us now, clear and true Wretches and kings we come for you Steel unload, fire blow Filthy animals, beat them low Skin and bone, black and blue No more this sun shall beat onto you From the front to the back and the side to side If you fear what I feel put 'em up real high Front to the back and the side to side If you fear what I feel put 'em up real high Front to the back and the side to side If you fear what I feel put 'em up real high Front to the back and the side to side If you fear what I feel put 'em up real high Front to the back and the side to side If you fear what I feel put 'em up real high Front to the back and the side to side If you fear what I feel put 'em up real high When the operation of the machine becomes so odious Makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part You can't even passively take part And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels Upon the levers, upon all the apparatus And you've got to make it stop And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it That unless you're free The machine will be prevented from working at all

Just as you're waiting there, you sit up in your evil chair; Looking down on me, well, you never really give a shit I've been searching for you. I've stuck up for you Too many times. Well I got my real answer And now I am my only war. Each time I thought ahead, I had answers. You come again. Evil answers throw me back down in the hole. Just when I would think to pass, Nothings gonna give. But each time you walk on by, Do you really think I...? It never really feels too good when I'm Holding everything inside of me; now that you would Well, I've been searching for ya; stuck up for you too many times. Well, I got my real answer. Now, I am my only war. Each time I thought ahead, I had answers. You come again; Evil answers throw me back down in the hole. Just when I would think to pass; Nothings gonna give. But each time you walk on by, Do you really think I watch? Each time I thought ahead, I had answers; You come again. Evil answers throw me back down in the hole. Just when I would think to pass; Nothings gonna give. But each time you walk on by, Do you really think I... care?

I remember in the day, I was just a girl Thinking how cool this is My man is calling from jail I know I was naïve, a fool in love And looking back it was doomed to fail, life was too tough Feels like a million years ago But I don't look back, 'cause I wanna go forward We were so young We could have been kings and queens We could have been anything We could have far in the world, when I was your girl Two diamonds from the gutter We could have been kings and queens We could have lived all our dreams If I could have set you free, I would, believe me But we didn't get it right this time Maybe in another life Maybe in another life Maybe in another life Maybe in another life Come to your mama's house, I'd stay too late I get in trouble, and they're sending out the search party I think you ended it, 'bout fourteen times Just for the thrill of gettin' back together after the fight Feels like a million years ago But I don't look back, 'cause I wanna go forward We were so young We could have been kings and queens We could have been anything We could have far in the world, when I was your girl Two diamonds from the gutter We could have been kings and queens We could have lived all our dreams If I could have set you free, I would, believe me But we didn't get it right this time Maybe in another life Maybe in another life Maybe in another life Maybe in another life And I don't look back, 'cause I wanna go forward But I hope you're well, got what you wanted You still cross my mind, are you OK? I pray you'll get it right next time So maybe in another life Maybe in another life Maybe in another life Maybe we'll be better next time We could have been kings and queens We could have been anything We could have far in the world, when I was your girl Two diamonds from the gutter We could have been kings and queens We could have lived all our dreams If I could have set you free, I would, believe me But we didn't get it right this time Maybe in another life

Well take it easy While the world goes crazy As it's just another day And we've all been through the mangle And our pockets are empty But we'll live like kings and queens Hear the choirs of noise sing Take a load off my mind soothe me Live like kings and queens Well easy sleazy In and out and back again Feel a power running through me And i'm alive and kicking I accept submission To the pleasures of the flesh And the joy of pain Satisfy me satisfy Live like kings and queens I said: "take it easy "Sanity has come" I can never undo The wrong of the beginning There's so many hungry But i'm gonna turn a blind eye 'Cos i've got to live now Rejoice and kill your heart 'cos i say... Live like kings and queens