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Pretenders
I give to you, you take from me
We live in perfect harmony
But I know you can't give me what I need
With subtle care and rosey hues
We duke it out, we change our views
We hold so dear our unanimity
Oh...
Coros 1:
We are just pretenders (x4)
We are just pretenders, lost in this charade
We are just pretenders, characters on stage
We are just pretenders, trying to break free
We are just pretenders, hiding so no one sees
We try to find our peace of mind
Just a vestige we left behind
But ignorance takes far less energy
And if you please, I'll look to you
Because I need somebody who
forgives me for my harsh reality
Oh...but
Coros 2:
We are just pretenders (x4)
We are just pretenders, trying to break free
We are just pretenders, ________________
We are just pretenders, trying to break free
We are just pretenders, hiding so no one sees
You standing there
playing with your hair
Trying to ignore
but peeking in the mirror
Re-living the scenes
from books and magazines
Craving the life
you live in your dreams
And I'm standing here
Thinking that it's queer
But fearing that I am the same
You ask me how I feel
It's so damn surreal
I think it's finally time we ended this game
'cause we are just pretenders
Coros 1
Pretenders being you!
Lose
as directed
Little girl's eyes open wide
Two ways to go but you can't decide
Follows all rules, has no say
Ends up in somebody else's play
Close your eyes cause you just don't need them anyway
Lose as directed, don't take no chance
Don't hinge your life upon circumstance
Mystery and misery go hand in hand
So you better follow the master plan
Don't use your head, lose as directed
Little boy sitting in his master's arms
Safe and protected from any harm
Wants to be a man, wants to branch out
But he's told not to ask questions or doubt
Close your mind, it's a book of instructions now
Lose as directed don't take no chance
Don't hinge your life upon circumstance
Mystery and misery go hand in hand
So you better follow the master plan
Don't use your head, lose as directed
Lose as directed
Let's go!
Monkey see, monkey do
Just another animal in the zoo
Got four wall security
Never even have to read a recipe
But it's not exactly what you would call free
Lose as directed, don't take no chance
Don't hinge your life upon circumstance
Mystery and misery go hand in hand
So you better follow the master plan
Don't use your head, lose as directed
Lose as directed
You lose!
It's
Reciprocal
hoarding turns allure to discontent
altruism's a grind all its own
morning makes you know your inner self
but love is just as pure as you both because
it's reciprocal, it's reciprocal
it's reciprocal, it's reciprocal
when true love is metaphysical
venal desires we learn to beset
you and me we've got a special thing
but I want you to never forget
it's reciprocal, it's reciprocal
it's reciprocal, it's reciprocal
each bedtime I stir with regret
guilty and vain, hoping for retribution
charity's immune from my demands
I don't expect a thing from the weak
but you my love are measured and compared
predisposed to my profane decree
it's reciprocal, it's reciprocal
it's reciprocal, it's reciprocal
Tested
yeah, they say there's a place free of trouble and care
and you have to pass a test for to make it there
it has something to do with the road that's straight and narrow
and the only way to go it is by being being right and thorough
there's always one more hill to climb
there's always one more hill to climb
bombarded by multiple choices 24/7
navigating a tangled web of logic and passion
guided by subconscious voices, astute and sharpened
tested, tested
often times we may be wonder what we're supposed to do
stand and deliver or see the conflict through
and as we long and proceed to build our castles in the sky
our plans get confounded and determination dies
there's no preparation and no guide
just what you've done before here with your life
bombarded by multiple choices 24/7
navigating a tangled web of logic and passion
guided by subconscious voices, astute and sharpened
tested, tested oh oh oh
acting on will, the test is the reaction
opening your heart, the test is the emotion
rolling the dice, the test is the agility
burning out your mind, the test is the recovery
watch-o!
you can play by the rules or bend them to your knees
but the test isn't over til you reach your dark eternal sleep
there are no absolutes, no big wheels in the sky
you don't have to be first just gotta somehow get by
yeah bombarded by multiple choices 24/7
navigating a tangled web of logic and passion
guided by subconscious voices astute and sharpened
tested, tested
The Fast
Life
The silent stray inertia
No burden on my back
No determinance, no ballast
No chance of looking back
It doesn't matter what's ahead
It's time I'll hit it hard
No fixing my position
No sign of retard
It's the fast life, there's nothing I can do
The fast life, suck it in and follow through
The fast life, just learning as I go
You might call it careless but this fast life is all I've ever known
Like a wispy feather defying gravity
Or a rolling cobble in the middle of the stream
Propelled by a ghost force that never shows his face
Increase the ante of this perpetual pace
It's the fast life, there's nothing i can do
The fast life, suck it in and follow through
The fast life, just learning as I go
You might call it careless but this fast life is all I've ever known
Ever since the day I came out of the womb
My head was always bouncing off the walls in the room
Always scratching gravel, covering new ground
No matter how hard they tried they couldn't pin me down
It's just the fast life, there's nothing i can do
The fast life, suck it in and follow through
The fast life, just learning as I go
You might call it careless but this fast life is all I've ever known
Yeah
It's all i've ever known (2x)
Yeah, this fast life is all I've known
Hey (17x)
It's all I've ever known
The Dodo
I see a white haired man, he's got a suit on hand
he's telling people how they're supposed to live
nobody's listening to the politician
no matter what sage advice he has to give
He's got a clumsy, outdated m.o.
and he's come to a fork in the road
as we watch our foundations erode
there is only one direction to go
It's the way of the dodo
such a noble destiny
it's the waltz of desperation
passed along to you and me
The way of the dodo
(it's the gray stuff in your head)
(it's the pulse of the living and the voices of the dead)
Mediocrity
I've spent my life observing and then pondering this place.
And never has confusion ever ceased.
I've also heard a lot of exaltation for our kind
and sanctimonious reverence for peace.
The stories from our childhood condition us to think
that beauty is a basic human trait.
But how are they reconciled with daily realities
like poverty and dominance and rape.
But you have to be
stone cold dead
not to see
overwhelming incongruity.
As we search for some vestige of remedy
mediocrity Mediocrity Mediocrity.
If you just sit back
and record what you see
the tragic and exquisite
are the same to some degree.
But most events depict a common theme
there's far more disorder
than there is harmony.
I'd say you've got to be
stone cold dead
not to see
overwhelming incongruity.
It is pointless to search for teleology.
Mediocrity Mediocrity Mediocrity......
The Universal
Cynic
Catch a shooting star and put it in your pocket
then your skin will start on fire
One bird in the hand, or two birds in the bush
neither do you any good, when you're stuck in the quagmire
Show everyone you're not sure that they're telling he truth
then you can be known as the universal cynic too
Benefit your fellow man with good deeds for the day
and you'll serve your life away
pennies saved today are pennies still tomorrow
strewn upon the desk, piled up in the paper weight
Show everyone you're not sure that they're telling the truth
then you'll be known as the universal cynic too
wipe your opaque eyes and restore your crystal vision
turn another cheek and exalt in your decision
a bit of exercise for the universal cynic in you
Early to bed, and early to rise
precludes you from seeing the most brilliant starry nights
sticks and stones can break bones, words can't really hurt
unless you carry guns, and are hungry for a fight
Challenging the standards, or questioning the stablished rules
trying to understand how they can benefit you
showing everyone you're not sure that they're telling the truth
just a bit of exercise for the universal cynic in you
Leaders And
Followers
There's the image of a man
who commands a high opinion
And he hides his hatred with a sheepish grin
And beside him flanking closely
are the boisterous hollow masses
who lap up whatever trickles in
This intercourse of nature,
this vulgar social passtime,
reflects the lowest mark of our progress
And the few who ride peripheral
maintain subtle advantage
fighting hard to abstain and redress
Tell me do you know your place
in the big parade?
Are you more than they?
Leaders and followers
Leaders and followers
Recognition by proximity
And a brand new face
Just a smidgen of success pie
and a pinch of social grace
You can play with the big boys
or you can tell them what to do
but sooner or latter there's another one like you
The bouyeristic public
of which we're all a part
maintains perspective on the human play
And while many have desires
of joining in the show
many turn and go the other way
Tell me do you know your place
in the big charade?
Are you fear and shame?
Punk Rock
Song (German Version)
warst du schon mal in der wuste?schon mal den tod gesehen?
hunderttausend kinder sterben fur brot
und die zahlen lugen nicht, es ist die krankheit der menschen
doch wir tun was wir wollen, wir denken wie es uns gefallt
hast du die erfahrung gemacht? hast du die plage gesehen?
leute machen kinder, einfacht nur, um zu fiehen
im land des wettbewerbs ist kein mitleid mehr da
und wir vergessen die armen, wir machen weiter und weiter
weiter und weiter
das ist nur ein punk rock song
fur die, die sehen, daB es so nicht weitergeht
wie ameisen im haufen sind wir programmiert
aber es gibt immer mehr von dieser verfickten art
aber das ist nur ein punk rock song
hast du schon mal nicht weitergewuBt? schon mal in der scheiBe
gesteckt?
die parteitagungen und die realpolitik, die gesichter wechseln, das
gelaber bleibt
alles wird geschluckt, und so wird sich nichts andern
das ist nur ein punk rock song
fur die, die sehen, daB es so nicht weitergeht
wie flieBbandarbeiter tun wir unsere pflicht
und es gibt noch mehr von diesen stumpfsinnigen idioten
das ist nur ein punk rock song
10 million dollars on a losing campaign
20 million starving and writhing in pain
big strong people unwilling to give
small in vision and perspective
eins von funnf kindem lebt in armut
der menschheit lauft die zeit davon
das ist nur ein punk rock song
fur die, die sehen, daB es so nicht weitergeht
wie ameisen im haufen sind wir programmiert
aber es gibt immer mehr von dieser verfickten art
aber das ist nur ein punk rock song
figures don't lie they speak of human disease
but we do what we want and we think what we please
one in five kids below the poverty line
one population running out of time
das ist nur ein punk rock song
das ist nur ein punk rock song
das ist nur ein punk rock song
Runnin´
Fast
How would you like to be my friend?
I thought this trip would never end
I've been away for a long long time
I couldn't wait to see my home again
'cos I'm runnin' fast from the world out there
you know I'm runnin' fast from the world out there
Ever since I ran away long ago
I never had much money to show
for what I have contributed to humanity
I feel satisfied with them believing me alone
You know I'm runnin' fast from the world out there
Yeah I'm runnin' fast from the world out there
There's things to be said for good but mostly bad
Just keeping my distance from the freaks makes me glad
And I'm trying my best to instil what was here before
but I better get a move on
'cos I'm runnin'fast from the world out there
'cos I'm runnin'fast from the world out there
Yeah I'm runnin'fast from the world out there
You know I'm runnin'fast from the world out there
Waiting For
The Fire
two young lads on distant shores
tending to the riggers of their daily choice
their parents told them what's going on
and they're waiting for the fire
two young lads on distant shores
tending to the riggers of their social noise
the news will tell them what's going on
and they're waiting for the fire
waiting for the fire
the heat is rising and their tongues are getting drier
????????
they are waiting for the fire
Everyday
Well, coming home to Gypsy
I never thought it'd be so cruel
Her big sweet eyes and body
Are enough to make me drool
When she wraps her arms around me
I just want to melt inside
And then she whispers in my ear bone,
And tells me what she really likes
But don't be deceived
By my wife
I'm stuck here all my time
It's a lonely life
Yeah...
Everyday, everyday, everyday
It's just the same
Everyday, every way, everyday
It's the same old game
Everyday, and everyday, everyday
It's just the same
Everyday, every way, everyday
It's the same old game
Well, next week there's an auction
For everybody in the town
And Gypsy's got the best and
Smoothest figure all around
I'll put her up for auction
And then be free once more
I'll have her bags-a-waitin'
On the steps next to the door
But don't be deceived
By my wife
I'm stuck here all my time
It's a lonely life
Yeah...
Everyday, everyday, everyday
It's just the same
Everyday, every way, everyday
It's the same old game
Everyday, and everyday, everyday
It's just the same
Everyday, every way, everyday
It's the same old game
Follow The Leader
A loose cannon on your shoulder
You've got a strawberry on your hips
And you've got some phantasmical images
And you've got, you've got your rich hips
Because, you're all looking for adventure
And you've got earphones on your bicycles
There's people watching over
And you got a bong in your pocket
Follow the leader (4x)
Put some ???? on the tank
Give batman back his cape
Don't ask for a sucker
You stupid mother fucker
I've got alot of problems
'Cause I sound like Beck
What I do over in Germany
Is order a lot of Speck (en alemán, significa 'bacon')
You know what I'm talking about
When you go home for dinner
You gotta keep on your shoulder
Follow the leader (4x)
We're not the Foo Fighters
On Saturday, we like our ?????
If you go home for pizza
You kiss mother Theresa
She is in her coffin
Lady Diana's coffin
Dream of Unity
I had a dream of unity
where we would walk side by side
but today I see that it's only me
just tryin' to get by
sometimes we strive undeterred
to walk as one toward our goals
but as people stray toward more selfish ways
we see we have no control
I had a dream of unity
where we would walk side by side
but today I see that it's only me
just tryin' to get by
just tryin' to get by
Out of Hand (Short Music for Short People)
Don't wanna have to take your shit anymore
I finally decided that life is way too short
The ticking of the hourglass, The tiny grains of sand
They beckon me like gravity, like signposts on the land
and you got what you wanted without force or reprimand
The seconds are all runnig out, this burden's out of hand.
We're
a happy family
We're a happy family
We're a happy family
We're a happy family
Me mom and daddy
Sitting here in queens
Eating refried beans
We're in all magazines
Gulpin' down thorazines
e ain't got no friends
Our troubles never end
No christmas cards to send
Daddy likes men
Daddy's telling lies
Baby's eating flies
Mommy's on pills
Baby's got the chills
I'm friends with the president
I'm friends with the pope
We're all making a fortune
Selling daddy's dope
Queen
Of The 21st Century
From the time she could crawl she was all draped in macrame
She was preened and redeemed in a church that tried to show the way
She was taught to never ask for more
They had no idea of what she had in store
She's the queen of the 21st century
Just a ghost of what her parents thought a little girl should be
Analog heart, analog nerves, analog brain
but a fixture of the digital domain
From the time she could read she could see that there was urgency
No debate, just a spate of ignorance in a splintering community
She could never meet their expectations
Then she came to symbolize the nation
She's the queen of the 21st century
Just a shred of what her parents thought a little girl should be
Steeped in spite, coddled in fear, drenched in novelty
but masterful at sensual technology
She's the queen, no rules in her empire
She's the queen, just libido and desire
She's the lean, mean, fighting machine, the stuff of modernmedia lore
And she always knows the score
She's the queen of the 21st century
Just a ghost of what her parents thought a little girl should be
Fallen star, Black and Blue
Broken hearts, Wasted Youth
Rusted cars, twisted roots
Mental scars, the ugly truth
She's the queen of the 21st century
and she's a modernday polemic
a walking controversy
She's the queen!
