Waiting around here/ Waiting for signs/ That will convince me/ Impress me/ With a firm form/ With a face-slap/ That will hurt me/ Convert me

It's hard to be a lover when your bed is burning/ It's hard to build a life when your family's dying/ It's hard, it's hard, it's harder...to breath

Eyes peeled for signs/ Eyes open wide/ That will see me/ And steal me/ Into a driven man/ Into a vision/ That will control me/ Makewhole me

Went walking into the wind/ Stinging my face/ Crying for those who lost/ The human race/ The big kids just don't play fair/ So I stay where/ I'm safe out in the country.

People treat you better when you're lookin good/ But I know somethin', Somethin' that could/ Make you happy/ True love can't be/ Found in mirrors or the movies

You're a contact high/ Cosmetic bong rip/ Powder round your eyes/ You're an escape/ Lost in your curves/ Lost in your fake/ Let's bypass the hearts/ Let's bypass the minds/ We're on reality break...

Your soul is old/ Your mind, youthful/ Your body; the battle/ Of what is truthful/ Your life feels stuck/ But your heart is useful/ For finding the light/ That is crucial

Christine/ The feeling stealing/ Your heart/ The pain, the healing,/ The art/ The rich fiction of/ Civil War/ Christine, do not play any part/ No, Christine, please do not

Your eyes are gold/ Your lips sew threads/ Your body curves/ From heels to head/ Your hair; a crown/ Of brown and red/ Your tongue is slow/ When you said,

"Love me/ And please call me your/ Sweetheart/ Kiss me to the core/ For starts"/ The philosophy/ Of the heart/ Christine, know you make your own mark/ Yes, Christine, in that put stock.

Lookin' for books/ And readin' the looks/ On the faces of the masses/ Eyes let down/ Feet in the ground/ For what humanity passes

It feels so wrong/ It feels so wrong/ Even in a song/ It feels so wrong

From steel heat/ Layin' dead on the street/ Doin' it for the Benjamin/ Mama drops tears/ For all his peers/ The next soldiers to be sent in

What led them there?/ Down that narrow pathway/ What led them there?/ The Man won't say but I know it's where/ Big Brother meets/ With profiteering/ Civil dissent into mugshot halo/ Civil dissent into mugshot halo

The kids all shout/ "Christ, let us out!"/ From the stress that you are giving/ Minimum wage/ Just doesn't pay/ We want our shot to start living

What led them here?/ Down that narrow pathway/ What led them here?/ The Man won't say but I know it's where/ Big Brother meets/ With profiteering/ Civil dissent into mugshot halo/ Civil dissent into mugshot halo.

Oooo, Mama, what's happening to me?/ I fooled myself into thinking/ Anyone cared what I had to say/ Oooo, Papa, what's happening to me?/ Carpooling with peasants & kings/ I knew would bring loneliness headache/ I am the great divide/ I am the doorway/ I am the empty spaces between us all.

Falling for Winnie Cooper/ And ladies struggling with life/ I feel their pain in deep eyes/ I feel love and wonder why.

Won't you bring me into the light?

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