Matthew Good - White Light Rock & Roll Review (2004) by Matthew Good (보컬) on maniadb.com

Put out your lights
You're taken over
Sit on your hands
For the new national anthem

It sounds a lot like shit
But it goes on and on

Put out your lights
The waiting's over
Sit on your hands
For the new national anthem

It sounds a lot like shit
But it goes on and on

It sounds a lot like shit
But it goes on and on

On and on, it goes on and on
On and on, it goes on and on

From Chicago to Miami
Shout New York, shout L.A.
Today we take the White House
And paint it poor man's grey

From London to Damascus
Cry Freetown in Marseilles
Today we take the blue sky
And paint it poor man's grey

My mama she done told me
There's heart and then there's hate
If one of them's inside of you
The other one it ain't

From the alleys on the East side
Where the train it throws the weight
Brother take that cheeky smile
And paint it poor man's grey

From Berlin to Havana
From Beijing to Bombay
Today we take the blue sky
And paint it poor man's grey

Go shoot down the Sun and Moon
Close your eyes, live at noon
We don't know what we are
But we're tired of it

Go and get your friends
We'll take this city
While it's sleeping

Down and out
Without a doubt
We're down and out
Without a doubt
We're down and out

We're so heavy
We can't get out from under it
There's too many of us
That don't want to fight it
That don't want to fight it

Hey
I've lost too many years to this
I walk behind the crowd
And pick up the garbage
That was our future without memory
That made the children of the system we created
And then forgave

How can you love Jove, Drusilla, and forsake Rome?

Throw away your anger
Throw away the sheath
Charge and spike your heavy guns
'Cause that ain't no kind of belief

Dream of where it left you
When you were still too young
To know the difference between the faith in your heart
And the politics of looking dumb

Ah yeah
It's all I know
This empty road
It keeps me looking for a place in your heart
It's all I know

Said brother are you weary?
Said sister are you safe?
Has this world got you thinking
That it ain't nothing but jailer's cage?

Well child there ain't no worries
And child it ain't no thing
Because this world's too old to hate you
And too young to give up spring

Ah yeah
It's all I know
This empty road
It keeps me looking for a place in your heart
It keeps me looking for a place in your heart
It keeps me looking for a place in your heart
It's all I know
It's all I know
It's all I know

In the wilderness uncountable voices
Earplugs for the birds and the animals
And blinders for your beast of burden, the will For learning
These books were made for burning
In the wilderness
Beneath the ancient sand lies crushed and tanned Those sapphire girls
May we never forget you

Alert status red
But the sun comes up instead

In the wilderness the only place to find freedom is in the dictionary
Under "F"
Men in holes, men in caves, men in chains I ask But the store clerk needn't check
Man I forget which came first
The bad idea or me befallen by it?
Not giving a shit may we never forget you
May we never forget you

Alert status red
But the sun comes up instead
Alert status red
But the sun comes up instead

In the wilderness
Senile live the zealous
Lost to the treasures that compel us
Muted down like patriots amiss
You know I'm jealous of how you can just turn them off
Those bad ideas that feel so soft
May they never forget you

Alert status red
But the sun comes up instead
Alert status red
But the sun comes up instead
Alert status red
But the sun comes up instead

Alert status red
But the sun comes up instead

Little terror, pack your stars
Here's a big wind for your sails
From the motherland

Little terror sings the company song
Here's a big hand to move you along
From the motherland

Mother, your son
Well he's a bad boy
Mostly a bad boy

Mother, your son is done
Well he's a bad boy
Mostly a bad boy
But he's the one

Mother, your son
He's a bad boy
Mostly a bad boy

Mother, your son is done
Well he's a bad boy
Mostly a bad boy
But he's the one

Line up crooked my eyes straight up at the sun
In and out of consciousness, neither is much fun
Show down with that head of yours and the book is 10 to 1

Ghetto rock for Princess Sticky Magazines
Five nights on the TV and two nights in between
To make out in the basement with the American dream

Take your time
Take your time
Take your time
Take your time

Baby
Ain't it crazy just to want it
Arrogant to flaunt it since we
Fell in love with a bad idea

Shine up crooked your eyes blazing like the sun
Make a little paradise for many to be one
Name it after liberty and build it running guns

Slumming it with Princess Sticky Magazines
Five nights on the TV and for ten grand she'll agree
To do it all on camera with the American dream

Take your time
Take your time
Take your time
Take your time

Baby
Ain't it crazy just to want it
Arrogant to flaunt it since we
Fell in love with a bad idea

Baby
Ain't it crazy just to want it
Arrogant to flaunt it since we
Fell in love with a bad idea
Since we fell in love with a bad idea

Take your time
Take your time

Ain't got a job but the future's bright
Flipped off the world, well they say it's all right
You never get what you wanna
You never get what you wanna

And modern love you just can't stand
That candy coating is just a scam
You never get what you wanna
You never get what you wanna

Oh ya, all right
North American for life
Oh ya, all right

Ya mother fucker we're number one
All out of beer so go get your gun
And we'll take what we wanna
Ya we'll take what we wanna

The price of freedom is getting steep
For every one, we spend three
Just to take what we wanna
Just to take what we wanna

George is teaching the kids to fight
Look at the world and you tell me it's all right

My baby's New Amsterdam
If she can't do it no one can
Now I get what I wanna
Ya I get what I wanna

Oh ya, all right
North American for life
Oh ya, all right
North American for life
Oh ya, all right
North American for life
Oh ya, all right

What if you woke up in the middle of the night
And in your bare feed you walked outside
And realized that you were awake, that you could fly
Out over the world
Out over the world

To places that you've only heard of
See faces that you were sold as murderers
But just like you they're only lonely boys and girls
Like all over the world
All over the world

What if you could lift them up
What if you could make it so that times weren't tough
So every morning when the world woke up
There'd only be weather on the news
Only weather on the news
Only weather on the news
Only weather on the news

And what if you were back in bed
With one of them floating over your head
What do you say to your enemies
When you don't know what it is
That could have been between ya
That could have been between ya all
That could have been between ya
that could have been between ya all
That could have been between ya

There ain't no blue skies over bad lands
Even if it ain't raining in the mornings
But you don't need to fly to understand it
Just understand understanding
Just understand understanding

Way up in that sky
I look up and I wonder
If that's you passing by
Whoa oh

It's been a while since I was your man
It's been a while since I was your man

Used to shout up from outside
Wake you when you were sleeping
Now I walk the streets, I don't recognize nobody

It's been a while since I was your man
It's been a while since I was your man

As time passed us by
We never felt like we should
We never did what we oughtta

And folks they used to smile
And now they just think that they should
They just think that they should
They think that they should
They just think that they should

We used to roll around on the floor
And get some Chinese delivered
Listen to Led Zeppelin IV

It's been a while since I was your man
It's been a while since I was your man
It's been a while since I was your man
It's been a while since I was your man
Your man
Your man

It's been a while since I was your man
Since I was your man

A hand off the heart
One on the wolf until your lambs itch
Life lives in the dark
But you joke and you kid about the light switch

Lay down, lay down, lay down, no talking
Stand up, stand up, stand up, start walking
You run and you run and you run
And there's no time to think
No time to breathe
No time at all
Just the Buffalo Seven

No time to think
No time to breathe
No time at all
Just the Buffalo Seven

A hand on the heart
One on the wolf until your lambs bleed
Life live in the dark
But you joke and you kid about the light in me

Lay down, lay down, lay down, no talking
Stand up, stand up, stand up, start walking
You run and you run and you run
And there's no time to think
No time to breathe
No time at all
Just the Buffalo Seven

No time to think
No time to breathe
No time at all
Just the Buffalo Seven

No time to think
No time to breathe
No time at all

Lay down, lay down, lay down, no talking
Stand up, stand up, stand up, start walking
You run and you run and you run and you run and you run and you run and you run
And there's no time to think
No time to breathe
No time at all
Just the Buffalo Seven

No time to think
No time to breathe
No time at all
Just the Buffalo Seven

No time to think
No time to breathe
No time at all
Just the Buffalo Seven

Saturdays
Saturdays I'm reminded of
Bombs away
Over our house when it could have been, should have been, doves

A mind to waste
Out on the street ya they sign you up
Get a taste
Beat you down when it could have been, should have been, love

Ex-pats of the Blue Mountain Symphony Orchestra

If heaven's above me
Then those starry skies they know me
If it can't get the blood off our hands
Then you and I, we'll get it off ourselves

So another day
Pissed away down the bar
Ain't it a shame
Turned your head off when it could have been, should have been, on

Ex-pats of the Blue Mountain Symphony Orchestra
Ex-pats of the Blue Mountain Symphony Orchestra