"We push against the rest of life / As if we can survive without the world around us / Can’t have a rainbow without the rain / Can’t have a painting without the pain / Can’t have a lover walk out without the love leaving with them."

"Turn the page on the demons in your head."

"But wishin' is for chumps / High hopin' is for fools / They'll hunt you down / and taze you bro / for playin' with the rules."

"One thing's always the same / No matter what they say / There's way too many problems / Way, way too many problems."

"Besides, God isn't dead / He's in your head / Right where he ought to be."

"Subhuman bloodless leaders / Fed on lies and fear / And tv anchor news teams / Trim all we see and hear."

"Like a fish in the water / You don't know where you've been / 'Til you jump out and take a look around / At the big picture."

"You only punch yourself out when you start swinging blind."

"Life must be eaten or at least bitten into to get past the surface."

"Not necessarily beautiful / But mutated."

"Beautiful mutants I can see in the distance / I think they're calling our name."

"Love comes in spurts."

"...Nothing is more dangerous than desire when it's wrong."

"In this land where stability is hard to find / You can rearrange the patterns so unkind."

"Laugh if you want to / Or say you don't care / If you cannot see it / You think it's not there / It doesn't work that way."

"The way that we weren't is what we'll become."

"Remember to do nothing when you don't know what to do."

"None of you would help me when I baked my bread / Now all of you would help me eat it / I can see that you are very well fed / This indicates that you don't need it."

"It's a beautiful world / For YOU / Not ME."

"God made Man, but he used a monkey to do it."

"It's a wonderful place / For you."

"It's a wonderful time to be here / It's nice to be alive."

"Why believe in things that make it tough on you."

"Love without anger isn't love at all."

"A man's not made of steel / A man is real that's how he feels."

"Twist away those gates of steel / Unlock the secret voice."

"Freedom of choice is what you got / Freedom from choice is what you want."

"In ancient Rome there was a poem / About a dog that had two bones / He picked at one he licked the other / He went in circles till he dropped dead."

"Use your freedom of choice."

"A victim of collision on the open sea / Nobody ever said that life was free."

"She sends out an aroma of undefined love / It drips on down in a mist from above."

"Guess i'm just a spudboy / Looking for that real tomato."

"They say the fittest shall survive / Yet the unfit may live / Wear gaudy colors or avoid display / Hey it don't matter / It's all the same."

"I got my head down to my lungs and move my feet."

"Something about the way you taste / Makes me want to clear my throat."

"Got an urge i wanna purge / 'Cause i'm losing control."

"Big people set the trap for you / Using you-know-what for brains / You're just another lab experiment / And you're easy to replace."

"This is the boy who burns the books / This is the way he always looks / This is the boy who smashed his car / This is the boy who went too far / Washed his eyes with yellow soap / He stole his daddy's microscope."

"It's time to seek out new traditions."

"But once again DEVO attempts to cut through the mental grease and grime with techniques of positive mutation designed to protect you from the ninnies and the twits."

"Lies, lies, lies. That's all we get from those who pretend to know but don't!"

"It's not nuclear bombs we must fear but the human mind itself (or lack of it) on this planet."

"Take a step outside yourself / Then you turn around / Take a look at who you are / It's pretty scary."