Don't want to run with the crowd no more. I've had enough of that stuff. I don't wanna go home. I don't wanna go to the bar. I'm afraid of who might show up.
The neophyte lays down the law. And the choir boy plays five card draw. All the news that's fit to print. Rolls right off, don't make a dent. Diamond Jim, where you hiding.
Well they said he was crazy. nobody ever said that much to him. so he thought it could be true. When he left his boy was eight years old. got a picture in his wallet, gonna show it to you.
Countrified Inner-City Technological Man. (Prophet). . Countrified Inner-City. Countrified Inner-City. Countrified Inner-City Technological Man. . I don't want your surveillance.
Everybody wants an apology. Me from you, and you from me. The accursed from the blessed. The Great Northeast from the Old Southwest. Everybody wants an apology.
Well, some things I'm built for fixin'. Make more sense to throw away. The touch of something human. What I really crave. . Oh, just give me one thing.
A woman's voice can drug you. It happens all the time. You start up down the middle. End up parted on the side. . Yes, a woman's voice will drug you. And lead you all around.
American Man. Up on the mound. With the Orange Alert. And the New Wave sounds. . American Man. In the laundry pile. With the rain-check claims. And the skateboard child.
You get that. . She says shes gonna love you right up till the end. But you go away on business she got a brand new special friend. but you get that. wo oh oh oh, you get that.
Don't bite the hand that feeds you. . When the rains came you where outside - in your party dress. Well I wanted you to come inside - but baby you couldn't stand the mess.
[Verse 1]. They don't love you like I do, not nobody. They can't feel you like I do, yeah nobody. Ain't no sunshine when you're gone, cloudy days roll on and on.
Say now you talk about the things I do. But baby I, I'll try n explain the reasons why. Cause I've been thinking about. The things we said late last night.
Nothing's complete. Before every chain is linked. And your mind wasn't meant. To be sold out in the street. You are wearing a disguise. It reveals you when you cry.
I've never been a thief, but I won't say I'll never steal. I've never been a star, but that doesn't mean I don't appeal. I always read the bible, but too seldom do I kneel.
Hurry up, get along, be on your way. And make sure that your certain. It's not the wrong day. Punctual people are lost in their plight. To become unprecedented when they arrive.
Well, I'm livin' but I still ain't satisfied. I'm runnin' but I don't know where to hide. There have been lovers, places I've known. Strangers I've turned to when I've been alone.
Leaping quick on leopard's back. I face the brunt of his attack. In the land of nod i'm king. Until the alarm clock rings. . Stepping out from safety's door.
It's a fine time to be askin' for charity. We've got babies cryin'. The well's run dry. Hardly make enough to make ends meet or keep on the heat. . And you want me to talk about it.
Think of the summer when I held you here. Everything was right. All the years we spent in love. Just to end one night. . A lot of things are closin' in on me.
When you're in the shape I'm in. It's tellin' me somethin'. It's givin' me warning. It's gotta be rough, man. When you're in the shape I'm in. From all of your lies.