Rock

Chilling on a park bench with Perfection is a fella by the name of Okay
Satisfaction smiles on the sidewalk since Misery departed yesterdayThe sun sets over the horizon, Perfection packs his bags up for the night
Darkness makes his way up to the park bench, And suddenly Okay is not alrightCHORUS
It’s a Utopian thought in a Utopian mind
In a god damn Utopian town
But Utopia shows that Utopia knows
Utopia’s not how it soundsConfusion comes to visit in the morning, Satisfaction don’t pass by and wave
Loneliness has spread out on the park bench, Optimism slowly digs his grave

Motivation staples fliers to the phone pole, Happiness has gone away somewhere
Pessimism says there’s no use in looking, And Apathy just doesn’t really care

CHORUS

And isn’t it a nice day to sit in the park watching everything turning dark
And isn’t it a great day to sit in the park watching everyone turning dark

CHORUS

Emptiness has now consumed the park bench, A view that No One sees, where No One does
Wisdom shakes his head at Expectation, For he knows Perfection never was

CHORUS

Lady Fortune isn’t always fair
And you expanded far beyond what the market could bear

Now we’re the new player in town
Acquiring your company
You’re part of our brand new empire
Integrating in harmony

You work for Global Mega Omni Corp
The economic authority
We have a strong profit report
And sell our products affordably

We make dishwashers, printers, and fancy shampoos
We also run a whole media empire to proliferate our views

But the rumors we’re a shadow government are categorically untrue
We have a loftier set of goals that we’re trying to pursue

You’re owned by Global Mega Omni Corp
The economic authority
We own every judge in every court
Domination’s our priority

There are no other options for employment in your town
We bought all of the competition and shut them down
Don’t ever dream of leaving the company
You’re ours till the day you die, that we can guarantee

CHORUS

We’re the modern ecumenical Nation-State
The World marvels at the false realities our engineers create

And you’re a vital cog in the New World Order we provide
A convergent corporate dominion over anything that you can buy

CHORUS

I don’t know you
But I want you
All the more for that
Words fall through me
And always fool me
And I can’t react
And games that never amount
To more than they’re meant
Will play themselves outTake this sinking boat and point it home
We’ve still got time
Raise your hopeful voice you have a choice
You’ll make it nowFalling slowly, eyes that know me
And I can’t go back
Moods that take me and erase me
And I’m painted black
You have suffered enough
And warred with yourself
It’s time that you wonTake this sinking boat and point it home
We’ve still got time
Raise your hopeful voice you had a choice
You’ve made it now
Falling slowly sing your melody
I’ll sing along

I’m having a consistent problem with handling reality
Nothing seems to make any sense I’m plagued by irrationalityBut there’s a way to make the world seem like a bright and shiny place
Down at the pharmacy they have the panacea that’ll get me back in the chaseCHORUS
My doctor told me to up my dosage
And now my whole life seems so clear
No more of my downward spirals
More medication has brought me hereI wonder if I really feel this way
or if it’s just some chemical reaction
It raises questions of how I interpret
these emotional infractions

When I talk to you I wonder whether you can really hear
my voice or the sound of the person who I’ve engineered

CHORUS

BRIDGE
I’ve got my house surrounded
I know I’m in there
Come out with both my hands up
And don’t make me come in and get me
don’t make me come in and get me
don’t make me come in and get me

I’ve got a lot of time to over-intellectualize my inner conversations
It seems my pharmaceutical solutions come with built-in rationalizations

CHORUS

Flying under the radar, Falling over your feet
Fighting all your potential, Embracing defeatCHORUS
It isn’t that the world’s against you
That no one’s answering your prayers
The truth is even uglier
The world just doesn’t really careBuilding up your silence, Letting no one in
Lowered expectations, Follow every tailspinCHORUS

What’s your place?
What can you offer?
Is there space for you anywhere?

Desperate cries for attention, A captive audience
Seeking validation, Stopping making sense

CHORUS

A lonely girl
Walking on a shadowed street
Hiding all the demons
That follow at her moving feet
She looks around before falling down
She couldn’t take it any more
She left this weary worldAnd the demons come
They haunt at her door
They call out her name
Taunting her until she can’t take anymore
She hits the floor
Crying tears of goldThey used to say
She had a beautiful voice
But now all they hear
Is the silence within
She is trapped in her grave
Beneath sticks and stone
Of the words that led her thereAnd the demons come
They haunt at her door
They call out her name
Taunting her until she can’t take anymore
She hits the floor
Crying tears of gold

She used to run
Farther than the sun
But now she lies in darkness
No moon or stars to shine
Light the way for a lonely soul
She has nothing left
Left inside of her control

And the demons come
They haunt at her door
They call out her name
Taunting her until she can’t take anymore
She hits the floor
Crying tears of gold

You got a brand toy to end the deadlock
You got a new way of showing us how we should
La La Lalala
La La Lalala
The future’s in a state of hibernation
but frankly that’s better than I think that we have been
La La Lalala
La La LalalaThere’s more than one way to skin a cat
But either way you end up with a dead housepetEarly returns show a strong lead
but you never know when the incumbent will lay a
La La Lalala
La La Lalala
If you don’t know the fool at the table
Chances are more than even that the fool is
La La Lalala
La La LalalaThere’s more than one way into heaven,
but frankly I suspect the party’s better elsewhereSend in the Clowns
Send in the Clowns
They’ve been fighting our battles while we slumbered
Burn It All Down
Burn It All Down
And Serve the Democracy of the NumberedAmplitude Modulation set the frequency
by which our fathers spread their seeds among the
La La Lalala
La La Lalala
I decided long ago that I would never walk
in anybody’s shadow but it didn’t work at
La La Lalala
La La LalalaThere’s more than one way to learn the lesson
but in the end we’re all dead anyway

Send in the Clowns
Send in the Clowns
They’ve been fighting our battles while we slumbered
Burn It All Down
Burn It All Down
And Serve the Democracy of the Numbered

The line gets longer even after people realize there’s
nothing at the end of it
History’s taught me that playing the fiddle is
better than sleeping while your city burns

There’s more than one way to rock
regardless of what Sammy Hagar told you

Send in the Clowns
Send in the Clowns
They’ve been fighting our battles while we slumbered
Burn It All Down
Burn It All Down
And Serve the Democracy of the Numbered

I was made for rock n roll, rock n roll!
Yeah, I was made for rock n roll, rock n roll!
Not just for a poor old man
We go higher
We got the power
Now it’s time to sleep
But we’ve got one more beat
One more timeI was made for rock n roll, rock n roll!
I was made for rock n roll, rock n roll!
We take the song right out of our heads
And it comes right out of our mouths
1 2 3 I was made for rock n roll, rock n roll!
Yeah, I was made for rock n roll, rock n roll!
It’s getting’ late
One more date
I was made for rock n roll, rock n roll!
I’m getting tired
Now it’s time to go

What’s the way,
What’s the way out?
What’s the way,
What’s the way out?Auto pilot on a corporate jet
Gambled big and you lost the bet
Champagne lies won’t spin this around
You wanna drive us all into the groundWhat’s the way,
What’s the way out?
What’s the way,
What’s the way out?You like to think you’re still on top
But your illusions are about to pop
Yeah, you sung all your corporate lines
False rhymes not gonna work this timeWhat’s the way,
What’s the way out?
What’s the way,
What’s the way out?Golden sacks fill your den of thieves
We cast out the prophets of make believe
And before they steal whatever remains
The people are gonna take the reinsThat’s the way,
That’s the way out
That’s the way,
That’s the way out

My momma said I couldn’t go
But this trip I could not forgo
And even though it’s to the zoo
I really hope you’ll you be there too
The lions, tigers, bears (Oh my!)
No classes just the clear blue sky
So I forged my permission slip
And I hope I’ll see you on this trip

 

Morning comes and I roll out of bed
Another day, and then back home again
Spent my whole life preparing for this
Since I can’t remember whenTrying to see how much work I can ignore
Keeping one eye fixed on the bosses’ door
Spend another beautiful day indoors
Same thing day in day out foreverWish I had a way out of here
A brighter path I could follow
Wake me up, I’m still asleep
And all my dreams are so hollowAt my desk from ’bout 8 til 5
about a thousand messages in my inbox
No one cares if I answer them at all
We’re all just sitting and watching the time clockJob pays well, but I can’t help but think that I could do more
Traded security for all the things I used to adore
But hey, the commute is only 20 minutes door to door
Same thing day in day out foreverWish I had a way out of here
A brighter path I could follow
Wake me up, I’m still asleep
And all my dreams are so hollowI don’t know I don’t know
I don’t know I don’t know
I don’t know What I should do for the weekend
I don’t know I don’t know
I don’t know I don’t know
I don’t know What I’ve done with my lifeAt least my mom and dad are really proud
Brag to all their friends about their prodigal son
While I’m stuck here in a parody of life
Secretly hoping that it will all come undoneI’ll spend another afternoon just playing solitaire
And wondering what the cute new intern is gonna wear
Watching my life blow by and starting to lose all my hair
Same thing day in day out forever

Wish I had a way out of here
A brighter path I could follow
Wake me up, I’m still asleep
And all my dreams are so hollow

You give me that look that`s like laughing
with liquid in your mouth
like you`re choosing between choking
and spitting it all out
like you`re trying to fight gravity
on a planet that insists
that love is like falling
and falling is like thisfeels like reckless driving when we`re talking
it`s fun while it lasts and it`s faster than walking
but no one is going to sympathize when we crash
they`ll say you hit what you head for
you get what you ask
and we`ll say we didn`t know
we didn`t even try
one minute there was road beneath us
and the next just skyI`m sorry I can`t help you
i cannot keep you safe
sorry I can`t help myself
so don`t look at me that way
we can`t fight gravity on a planet that insists
that love is like falling
and falling is like this

Make a hole with a gun perpendicular
To the name of this town in a desktop globe
Exit wound in a foreign nation
Showing the home of the one this was written for
My apartment looks upside down from there
Water spirals the wrong way out the sink
And her voice is a backwards record
It’s like a whirlpool and it never endsAna Ng and I are getting old
And we still haven’t walked in the glow of each other’s majestic presence
Listen Ana hear my words
They’re the ones you would think I would say if there was a me for youAll alone at the ’64 World’s Fair
Eighty dolls yelling “Small girl after all”
Who was at the Dupont Pavilion?
Why was the bench still warm? Who had been there?
Or the time when the storm tangled up the wire
To the horn on the pole at the bus depot
And in the back of the edge of hearing
These are the words the voice was repeating:Ana Ng and I are getting old
And we still haven’t walked in the glow of each other’s majestic presence
Listen Ana hear my words
They’re the ones you would think I would say if there was a me for youWhen I was driving once I saw this painted on a bridge:
“I don’t want the world, I just want your half”They don’t need me here, and I know you’re there
Where the world goes by like the humid air
And it sticks like a broken record
Everything sticks like a broken record
Everything sticks until it goes away
And the truth is, we don’t know anythingAna Ng and I are getting old
And we still haven’t walked in the glow of each other’s majestic presence
Listen Ana hear my words
They’re the ones you would think I would say if there was a me for youAna Ng and I are getting old
And we still haven’t walked in the glow of each other’s majestic presence
Listen Ana hear my words
They’re the ones you would think I would say if there was a me for you

Woke up in a bathtub
Wicked pain in my side
Ice cubes floating all around me
I’m feeling like I diedI don’t know when she left me
Or what happened here
But there’s a message I gotta read
in lipstick on the mirrorThat hooker took my kidney
And left me for dead
Seems I need to be more careful
Who I take to bedThis almost happened to me once before
in 1983
Somebody slipped somethin’ in my drink
When I got up to peeIn the end I suppose there’s
only me to blame
Never drink with a woman who
won’t tell you her real nameThat hooker took my kidney
And left me for dead
Seems I need to be more careful
Who I take to bedBut I’ll miss my kidney now that it is gone
I miss it so damn much, I had to write this songThat hooker took my kidney
And left me for dead
Seems I need to be more careful
Who I take to bed