- A.D.D.
Mommy, what does hyper mean?
Teacher says I'll never read
She says I need to take a pill
So I can learn to sit real still
The microwaves did something to our brains
We need to take these pills to help us change
- Fall in line
shine your boots
so you can march across the desert
lift your knees look sharp as a knife
youll learn to like it youll be all that you can be no one can stop our way of life
fall in line
no back talk do what we told you
step in time
learn to show your pride
- Happy daze
wake up oceans are the shower that we need
waves crash
worries in our mind are finally freed
laughter
echoed
by seagulls in the air
high on summer
and all the carefree times we share.
- John
John takes a seat so he can wind his watch
Not working anymore but it's so good to touch
It's the only solid evidence of what he's done and seen
It helps him to remember his past life was not a dream
It used to tell the time when he was young
But time means nothing now
He has a clear view of the sun
- Kicked Out Of Kindergarten
Outside of Vons
Gabrielle and I crouched behind her dad's Plymouth Duster
Sharing Ding Dongs
With chocolate smeared on both our chins and noses
Her Dad wore a frown as he
Dragged me in to say sorry to the manager who made me walk
Around in shiny handcuffs
He grabbed the microphone announced my story
- Love Song
So you think that it's over
That your love has finally reached the end
Any time you call night or day
I'll be right there for you
When you need a friend
It's gonna take a little time
Time is sure to mend your broken heart
Don't you even worry pretty darling
- My Wall
A middle-class mom crouches on the hill
Eyes behind binoculars she sits so still
Spots a boy going under the freeway
Whispers in her radio going for the kill
Open your eyes! You're fighting kids
Who only want to make their mark
Everything else you took away
You left them in the dark
- Nova Scotia
i watch the objects form in cloudy skies
a bat, a pirate ship and then her eyes
so i pound a shot down
punch
my arm and set up a new round
till me, myself and i cant concentrate
the clouds conspire to show me what i miss
her
- Old Man
You tell me of a place where everybody knew their
Neighbors all the families helped each other and no one
Ever locked their doors you tell me no one locked their
Doors old man please stay a while I know at first I seemed
Too busy but now I'll make the time stay and tell me one
More story tell me about the time you ditched school to go
Fishing you thought the branch would hold your neighbor
Pulled you from the river he helped you wash your clothes
- One Hero
prison walls
outside your cell a bloody tyrant falls
no shots were fired
he said you were weak
you turned every
cheek and turned the brute away
[Chorus]
one hero
- Plastic
Obsolete
I can't complete
Thrown away
An 8-track tape
Time
No friend of mine
Faded works of art
Stopped my
- Riptide
I couldve lied
The truth a needle in your eye
The wound a band-aid won't heal
But I persist
And try to tell it
Like it is
- Still Believe
So the walls are closing in to sufficate you
Like you're trapped and flailing blindly in a garbage bag
You're sinking in a tar pit like a saber tooth...
You struggle but the blackness sticks to you
Like a disease that you can't wash off
So you go into the kichen for acarving knife
But you've tried to cut it out before
It only left you hurting more
- The Getaway
Please don't chase me anymore,
Nearly forgot just what I'm running for,
I meant no harm,
My gas pedal is to the floor;
People watch this on TV,
Never thought that this could happen to me,
I can't stop now and it still seems like a dream,
Never thought I'd hurt someone,
- Toss it all
I took this job cuz it was my dream
and I work hard for it
You congratulated me for not settling for a lesser life
And you followed dreams of your own and I love you
for it
But now success is bittersweet, it swept you up, and
took you far away
Now we simply take it day by day
- Tunnel's End
Yeah I 've heard that before but not someone as close as you. I've tried to stay clear of the hate that surrounds us. it hurts my ears. and I can't say you have no right to feel that way, all burned up inside. but I can try to change your mind. listen to me or should I say goodbye??? fear & resentment. and you should see the face you wear. I wouldn't be here if you didn't care. you're the same as the people around us. I feel your pain. and I can't say you have no right to feel that way, all burned up inside. but I can help you to find the things you need, the ties that bind. everytime I hear that sound of that little sigh that brings me down inside, I cry 'cause I don't know why I can't make you happy. yourself's a prisoner of lifes injustice. all that baggage is slowing you down. and I've heard that word before but not from someone as close as you. I tried to stay clear of the hate that surrounds us, it hurts my ears.