"Heard about your wife and kids where we slept Felt their mouths with stitches at that were slowly lit Capture uniform this time because I couldn't quit Haven't felt the ground so cold without getting sick"

"All these people drinking lover's spit They sit around and clean their face with it And they listen to teeth to learn how to quit Tied to a night they never met"

"Market fresh Stand by me Where will it ever land Scar and stains, Emily Turn our little crab I could've meant it if you let me"

"I'm just comin' here to come down I could be here I could move town Put my suits right on the guest list Saw my pa's boy Became weightless"

"And you want to get away Oh where to go to When you want to get it out Oh how to get through If you want to get it all You can own what you choose And you want to live a lie And love what you lose"

"I got shot right in the back And you were there I said I was never coming back And you were there you were there I know the eyelids are under attack 'Cause you were there you were there"

"Broken boys look good sitting on their shelves Silent waves responds expose to fear Library cards, rented faces, line up and make a train Hard parades with nothing skin Things that breathe way too thin"

"I'm sitting cold There was love You loved him Take him Trust in you"

"You come in, check my time You got fornication crimes I've seen your hope on television Where you've been, wore my word They've got tricycles in skirts This is a mouth that needs religion"

"Used to be one of the rotten ones and I liked you for that Now you're all gone got your make-up on and you're not coming back Can't you come back?"

"Heart is pounding in his chest Reaches suddenly for his gun Ship is sailing in the west Flower that could be his fun"

"You're like a missile kind Little kingdoms in your chest"

"All around this great big world All the crap we had to take Bombs and basement fallout shelters All our lives at stake."

"Well, I was only a kid, cruising around in a trance Prisoner of fate, victim of circumstance I was lined up for glory, but the tickets sold out in advance The way the big wheel spins."

"Why are we here? Because we're here Roll the bones, roll the bones Why does it happen? Because it happens Roll the bones, roll the bones."

"We go out in the world and take our chances Fate is just the weight of circumstances That's the way that lady luck dances Roll the bones."

"Take heart from earth and weather the brightness of new birth Take heart from the harvest shave the harvest from the earth."

"I had a dream of a winter garden a midnight rendezvous. Silver, blue and frozen silence what a fool I was for you!"

"No hero in your tragedy No daring in your escape No salutes for your surrender Nothing noble in your fate Christ, what have you done?"

"All of us get lost in the darkness dreamers learn to steer by the stars All of us do time in the gutter dreamers turn to look at the cars."

"I thought of time and distance The hardships of history I heard the hope and the hunger When China sang to me..."

"I let my past go too fast No time to pause If I could slow it all down Like some captain, whose ship runs aground I can wait until the tide comes around"

"We sometimes catch a window A glimpse of what's beyond Was it just imagination Stringing us along? More things than are dreamed about Unseen and unexplained We suspend our disbelief And we are entertained"

"Right to the heart of the matter Right to the beautiful part Illusions are painfully shattered Right where discovery starts In the secret wells of emotion Buried deep in our hearts"

"Dreams flow across the heartland Feeding on the fires Dreams transport desires Drive you when you're down Dreams transport the ones Who need to get out of town"

"They shoot without shame In the name of a piece of dirt For a change of accent Or the colour of your shirt Better the pride that resides In a citizen of the world Than the pride that divides When a colourful rag is unfurled"

"You can do a lot in a lifetime If you don't burn out too fast You can make the most of the distance First you need endurance First you've got to last"

"The big bang -- took and shook the world Shot down the rising sun the end was begun -- it would hit everyone When the chain reaction was done The big shots -- try to hold it back Fools try to wish it away The hopeful depend on a world without end Whatever the hopeless may say"

"So much poison in power The principles get left out So much mind on the matter The spirit gets forgotten about"

"You know how that rabbit feels Going under your speeding wheels Bright images flashing by Like windshields towards a fly Frozen in the fatal climb - But the wheels of time - Just pass you by..."

"One humanoid escapee an android on the run seeking freedom beneath the lonely desert sun"

"Suspicious-looking stranger Flashes you a dangerous grin Shadows across your window Was it only trees in the wind? Every breath a static charge A tongue that tastes like tin Steely-eyed outside to hide the enemy within..."

"I clutch the wire fence until my fingers bleed A wound that will not heal -- a heart that cannot feel -- Hoping that the horror will recede Hoping that tomorrow, we'll all be freed"

"I remember- How we talked and drank Into the misty dawn - I hear the voices We ran by the water On the wet summer lawn - I see the foot prints I remember-"

"He's noble enough to know what's right but weak enough not to choose it He's wise enough to win the world but fool enough to lose it"

"We've got nothing to fear -- but fear itself? Not pain or failure, not fatal tragedy? Not the faulty units in this mad machinery? Not the broken contacts in emotional chemistry?"

"He's got a force field and a flexible plan He's got a date with fate in a black sedan He'll play fast forward for as long as he can But he won't need a bed he's a digital man"

"The boy lies in the grass, unmoving Staring at the sky His mother starts to call him As a hawk goes soaring by And the boy pulls down his baseball cap And covers up his eyes"

"Growing up it all seems so one-sided Opinions all provided The future pre-decided Detached and subdivided In the mass production zone Nowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone"

"Leave out the fiction Fact is, this friction will only be worn by persistence Leave out conditions Courageous convictions will drag a dream to existence"

"Everybody got to elevate from the norm."

"They say there are strangers who threaten us, In our immigrants and infidels. They say there is strangeness, too dangerous In our theatres and bookstore shelves, That those who know what's best for us Must rise and save us from ourselves."

"Snow Dog is victorious The land of the Overworld is saved again"

"Living in the limelight The universal dream For those who wish to seem Those who wish to be Must put aside the alienation Get on with the fascination The real relation The underlying theme"

"And what you say about his company Is what you say about society."

"No, his mind is not for rent To any god or government. Always hopeful, yet discontent, He knows changes aren't permanent, But change is."

"A modern day warrior, Mean, mean stride, Today's Tom Sawyer, Mean, mean pride."

"Science, like nature Must also be tamed With a view towards its preservation Given the same State of integrity It will surely serve us well"

"In their own image Their world is fashioned- No wonder they don't understand"