I feel it too, try not to talk
Try not to think of why we're here
You guide me, hit me
Somewhere inside of me

And no one here to verify
No camera shooting what your eyes say
This way I might forget about today

Ooh how, good how
Wonderful it is
It almost makes me wanna think
There is a reason for all this

I used to be a disbeliever, love was unreal
Just like moviestars and crashing cars
And shooting stars and Star Wars
But it's true

Ooh how, good how
Wonderful it is
It almost makes me wanna think
There is a reason for all this

There's a reason so well hidden
Why I was torn apart from you
Like a song I've never written
Like a joke without a clue
No I don't want to close my eyes and think of you

How I'd like to get you back, but He won't let me
How I'd like to sing the songs we knew by heart
Farewell sounds really cheap for pain you left me
And it's growing mushrooms in my heart
No I don't want to close my eyes and think of you

I wanna try to get some sleep
But it is hard, can't take the lead
I'm gonna try to get some sleep

I'm gonna try to get some sleep
Join the great subconscious club
I'm gonna try to get some sleep
But I'm afraid to wake up

Do you realise I don't know what to do
Did you become just an idea, are you still real
Do you still have that snapshot that I gave you
Oh don't answer me, it wouldn't change the way I feel
Do you feel as if you're having a ball
Oh I guess, I hope you don't feel anything at all

I'm gonna try to get some sleep
Join the great subconscious club
I'm gonna try to get some sleep
But I'm afraid to wake up

I'm gonna try to get some sleep
Join the great subconscious club
I'm gonna try to get some sleep
But I'm afraid to wake up

Try to get some sleep

Lost in time I can't count the words
Said when I thought they went unheard
All of those harsh thoughts so unkind
'Cos I wanted you

(And) now I sit here I'm all alone
So here sits a fucking mess, tears fly home
A circle of angels, deep in war
'Cos I wanted you

Weak as I am, no tears for you
Weak as I am, no tears for you
Deep is I am, I'm no ones fool
Weak as I am

And what am I now but loves last home
I'm all of the soft words I once owned
If I opened my heart, there'd be no space for air
'Cos I wanted you

With this tainted soul
In this weak young heart
Am I too much for you

I was feeling awful
And I had too much to drink
And I could only get a bit better
If I just knew what to think

I wanted to caress you
And to hold you in my arms
I wanted you to touch me
While you strangle me with charms

Raise your glass for love
For Julian

I took you to my bedroom
With just one thing to do
And only seconds later
You were me and I was you

And in silence there together
With the moon ?? that ??
My mother woke me up
And asked me whether I was fine

This one goes out to you
My Julian

You were too beautiful to look at
And to talk with far too kind
So all that's left is a picture of you
Scratched, inside my mind

Raise your glass for love
For Julian
My Julian

I have a brother I love more than me
He and his wife had a little baby
He hates sudden noises
He can't stand bright light
I suppose he'd have rather stayed inside

Little man, I wonder, are you happy, are you sad?
The one thing I'm sure of you're the smallest man I ever met
And you will see beauty
And you will feel pain
You're the little spark of hope inside my brain

I am so sorry about the world we put you in
I am so sorry I'll never be like you again

Little man, so much to learn and so much to forget
So much to give before I go to bed
I think that your first words
Just may be your best
And I hope that 'I love you' will be your last

Oh how I hope that you grow up to be happy
Oh how I hope that you will shed a tear for me

You wonder who you are and that is not unusual
'Cause no one's ever sure
Little man, will you remember me?

Don't call me sinner
Don't call me nerd
Don't call me chaotic
Because you heard

I have strange feelings
I have weird thoughts
But don't call me an artist
Because I'm not

I am an animal, a saint
A grown up child without a name
I am a black man, I am gay
I say we're basically the same
Don't label me

I'm not a colour
I'm not a sex
I'm not a partner
I'm not an ex

Don't call me nigger
Don't call me queer
Don't call me retarded
Although I am

I am an animal, a saint
A grown up child without a name
I am a black man, I am gay
I say we're basically the same

Don't label, don't you see
A wooden table is actually a tree

Which is basically the same
Which is basically the same
Which is basically the same as you as me

Asleep, asleep, I fall asleep
I'm never waking up
I wish I could accept me
But I think I'm giving up

There's so much love and beauty
Yet to come, I am aware
But what about the other things
I can no longer bear

Asleep, asleep, I fall asleep
I'm never waking up

Please, just let me be at peace
I want to feel the peace
I want to be the peace

Asleep, asleep, I fall asleep
I'm never waking up

There must be something more I can buy in the store
And I can not ignore the resemblance
With a tune I have heard in a dream that referred
To a beautiful world in which everyone wants

Ooooooooooooooooooooooh

Surprise, surprise, bright light into my eyes
And in the red sky I saw angels fly by
And the angel of death standing next to me said
Now there's only one thing left to do for you, sing with me

Ooooooooooooooooooooooh
Ooooooooooooooooooooooh
Ooooooooooooooooooooooh

And they danced and they drank and they thought it was love
And they played and they thanked the great lord up above
For the money he gave them the sex and the booze
The American dream in which no one can lose
They didn't stop singing with tears in their eyes
Their mouths filled with chocolate and strawberry pies
They were all so excited, they were all very dumb
They had chosen to party the day they dropped the bomb

They dropped the bomb
They dropped the bomb

And they danced and they drank and they thought it was love
And they played and they thanked the great lord up above
For the money he gave them the sex and the booze
The American dream in which no one can lose
And they didnt stop singing with tears in their eyes
Their mouths filled with chocolate and strawberry pies
They were all so excited, they were all very dumb
They had chosen to party the day they dropped the bomb

They dropped the bomb
They dropped the bomb

There's a chair in my head on which I used to sit
Took a pencil and I wrote the following on it

Now there's a key where my wonderful mouth used to be
Dig it up, throw it at me
Dig it up, throw it at me

Where can I run to, where can I hide
Who will I turn to now I'm in a virgin state of mind

Got a knife to disengage the voids that I can't bear
To cut out words I've got written on my chair

Like do you think I'm sexy
Do you think I really care

Can I burn the mazes I grow
Can I, I don't think so

Can I burn the mazes I grow
Can I, I don't think so

Where can I run to, where can I hide
Who will I turn to now I'm in a virgin state of mind
Virgin state of mind
Virgin state of mind
Virgin state of mind

Go on my love
I know you will show
But if there was a way
I would keep you home
You fight for the tears
In the eyes of our child
As she stares at the head
Of her brother who died
For our future, our land
For the freedom to dance
Wherever the music might lead us my friends

You died all alone
And I no longer pray
Because if there was a God
He'd let you stay
So tomorrow I'll burn
Our house to the ground
And we'll join you up there
We no longer care
'bout the future, our land
Or the freedom to dance
Wherever you are we're already there.

Here come old flattop he come grooving up slowly
He got joo-joo eyeball he one holy roller
He got hair down to his knee
Got to be a joker he just do what he please

He wear no shoeshine he got toe-jam football
He got monkey finger he shoot coca-cola
He say 'I know you, you know me'
One thing I can tell you is you got to be free
Come together right now over me

He bag production he got walrus gumboot
He got Ono sideboard he one spinal cracker
He got feet down below his knee
Hold you in his armchair you can feel his disease
Come together right now over me

He roller-coaster he got early warning
He got muddy water he one mojo filter
He say 'One and one and one is three'
Got to be good-looking 'cause he's so hard to see
Come together right now over me

Well my time went so quickly, I went lickety-splickly out to my old '55
As I drove away slowly, feeling so holy, God knows, I was feeling alive.

Now the sun's coming up, I'm riding with Lady Luck, freeway cars and trucks,
Stars beginning to fade, and I lead the parade
Just a-wishing I'd stayed a little longer,
Oh, Lord, let me tell you that the feeling's getting stronger.

And it's six in the morning, gave me no warning; I had to be on my way.
Well there's trucks all a-passing me, and the lights are all flashing,
I'm on my way home from your place.

And now the sun's coming up, I'm riding with Lady Luck, freeway cars and trucks,
Stars beginning to fade, and I lead the parade
Just a-wishing I'd stayed a little longer,
Oh, Lord, let me tell you that the feeling's getting stronger.

And my time went so quickly, I went lickety-splickly out to my old '55
As I pulled away slowly, feeling so holy, God knows, I was feeling alive.

Now the sun's coming up, I'm riding with Lady Luck,
Freeway cars and trucks, freeway cars and trucks, freeway cars and trucks...

There are colours on the street
Red, white and blue
People shufflin' their feet
People sleepin' in their shoes
But there's a warnin' sign on the road ahead
There's a lot of people sayin' we'd be better off dead
Don't feel like Satan but I am to them
So I try to forget it anyway I can

Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world

I see a girl in the night
With a baby in her hand
Under an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she puts the kid away and she's gone to get a hit
She hates her life and what she's done to it
That's one more kid that will never go to school
Never get to fall in love never get to be cool

Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world

We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder gentler machine gun hand

We got department stores and toilet paper
Got styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer
Got a man of the people says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn got roads to drive

Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world

Hey, Stranger
Would you come in through my door
If not now I'll leave it ajar
And then maybe you could come back
I'll be waiting here for you
I'll be hoping here for you
I'll be praying here that you'll believe it's true
That in all these lonely years
I would have loved your company
But I never could give in
To this fragile side of me
You see I've always been a man of great ambition
But success just turned his back & never came
And now I find I became a man
Of even greater solitude
And I wish I'd spend more time making friends
With guys like you
Oh, Stranger
How can I make you stay?
For a little while
Oh, Stranger
Please, don't go away

I'm living on
I'm singing on
Just let me sing one song for you

Hey, Stranger
This is my song
It is old & it is wrinkle
I tried it for too long
I tried it time after time
To forget about myself
And to hide in it a while
But a while's been goin' on
Since I can't remember when
And got catched up by the life
Of a lost & lonely man
I think I'm-a sung away a little faster
Then I planned

Hey, Stranger
This is my life
I can't use it anymore
For I share it with no one but myself
I can't fool you anymore
Let me hide with you a while
Let me try a little while
And then maybe
You'll believe it's true
That in all the years I spent
With the glory of a fool
Making diamonds outta tears
On the highest bid to go
I've been searching for a friend
To tell my troubles to
But I could never understand
How to get out of that cell
Please don't send me back to hell

I need a lover who won't drive me crazy
Some guy to thrill me and then go away
I need a lover who won't drive me crazy
Some girl who knows the meaning of
'Hey hit the highway'

Well I've been walking the streets up and down
Racing through the human jungle at night
I'm so confused, my mind is indifferent
Hey I'm so weak won't somebody shut off the light

Electricity runs through the video
As I watch from this hole I call home
All the stony's are dancing to the radio
And I got the world calling me up here
Tonight on the phone

I need a lover who won't drive me crazy
I need a lover who won't drive me mad
I need a lover who won't drive me crazy
Some guy who knows the meaning of
'Hey hit the highway'

Well I'm not wiped out by this poolroom life I'm living
Gonna quit this job, go to school or head back home
Well I'm not asking to be loved or be forgiven
Hey I just can't shaken in this bedroom
One more night alone

I need a lover who won't drive me crazy
I need a lover who won't drive me mad
I need a lover who won't drive me crazy
Some girl who knows the meaning of
'Hey hit the highway'

I need a lover who won't drive me crazy
I need a lover who won't drive me mad
I need a lover who won't drive me crazy
I need a lover who won't drive me mad