A Tree
At a time like this I sure could use some sleep
Entirely
At a time like this I sure could use my tree
Most certainly
Don't make that bothersome squeek
Eyes are opening to dreams.
These are my days
These are my dreams
Glass ground, Water rising down
Bent low pine tree by the sea
Running backwards through feel-free fields
Mom not calling, Dad not calling,
There's my tree.
These are my days
These are my dreams
And I ran and I ran and I ran and I ran and I ran.
To my tree
1975-2050
It's so dark and all I see, suddenly so bright
Am I supposed to know the dark dice rolls my life?
Attention span. Cataracts. Coke bottle bottom glasses
I got myself a black belt, so I can kick your ass.
Look Dad, I'll tell you again, work is no fun
I stick around to make you happy, could you really be
Even if I tried, in my parents eyes nothing's worth it
But looking back, you were there, my only friend.
No matter where I go, what I do, is what I choose.
No matter where I go, as long as you like what I do.
No matter where I go, what I do, is what I choose.
No matter where I go, as long as I get to be with you.
And all I want is to be alone
I use the chance to leave my family
Religion finds me, takes me by the hand
My new 9 to 5 is 16 rounds a day
I forgot everyone I ever knew
I forgot everything I ever had
But you were there, gurudev,
You were like a dad.
No matter where I go, what I do, is what I choose.
No matter where I go, as long as you like what I do.
No matter where I go, what I do, is what I choose.
No matter where I go, as long as I get to be with you.
So music drives me over the sea.
A band, I play in. Yet alone I pass my days
I fell in love with a handsome, celibate man
Three years in waiting, despite his lifelong plan
One day he asked me to be my man
Next thing I knew my wishes came true
Don't let it go. Don't let it go. Don't let it go.
Don't let it go. Don't ever let it go.
No matter where I go, what I do, is what I choose.
No matter where I go, as long as you like what I do.
No matter where I go, what I do, is what I choose.
No matter where I go, as long as I get to be with you.
It doesn't matter where I went or what I said
It doesn't matter where I went or what I did
All that really matters to me is that you're happy
Would you please hold my hand, I'm ready.
Mine's My Truth
I've always known my God is my own
But I'd love to know, Why do you
Sit in your churches reciting your verses
While sending our children back to us in hearses?
Why justify
A sinful war for a lie?
I always saw Love as the law
But you want more rules to hide you
Your crucifix is a bundle of sticks
Soaked in money and blood of the poor for the rich
Lies
You use to hide your eyes.
You found no use for everything around you.
No matter how I cry they don't hear me
Would you please be the one to listen to me?
I Against I
(Originally by Bad Brains)
In a quest for the test to fulfill an achievement
Everybody's only goin' just to see themselves
When the fact of the matter is that you just don't care
To extend a helpin' hand to anyone else.
Can you tell me why did you have to lie
And try to make me all confused about the USA?
When the fact of the matter is that you just don't care
To comprehend or overstand a single word I say.
I don't wanna have I go against I
I got a brass continental and an S.U.V.
I got a plasma T.V. with a Video, too
I got a rest-home in Jamaica for my fantasy
I mean my family
'Cuz I'm a big gun
I said whose gonna tell the youth about the truth?
About the drugs, mugs, bugs and the police thugs?
About the rotten, stinkin' rackets and the fantasies?
Around the nations, around the nation?
I don't wanna have I go against I
The same old story
No factual glory
Almighty watching
Almighty watching
