Down By Law

living -- if you can call this living
thinking will it ever go away?
dying -- there's all these people dying
i'm conscious of it every single day
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who's gonna be the next to go?
walking in a new kind of fear
laughing at all the people here
asking how could this happen here?
taking my choices away
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under the gun
well it's been a month, standing in the shadows
under the gun
well it's been a month, hiding from the sun
parking lots all up and down the interstate
and on the news it's a great debate
back to the normal? it will have to wait

the man on the street --
he doesn't know my name
but I am sure we're not at all the same
man on the street -- ou know he looks like me
but he'll never know all the things i've seen

see him and there's no enmity --
sometimes there's jealousy
but would you be him? I don't think so
no a hair is out of place -- he sets the pace
and he's a step ahead of me

the man on the street --
he doesn't look at me
and if he did I wonder what he sees
he might be kind; he might be alright
are his concerns so far away from mine?

see him and there's no problem --
thought he always looks so cold
but would you be him? I don't think so
not a stich out of place -- he sets the pace
and he's just a step ahead
he keeps a step ahead of me

he lives as expected
secure and protected
the world won't affect him
and so I reject him now

I feel so different, though I might no look so
you can wear the costume, but do you march in time?
there's so many targets in the world to see
feel the dirt of rebellion beneath your feet!

i remember a time when there was nothing but trees and green grass now i look around in concrete times and stay behind the glass crowds of people but i'm all alone staring at the bill for the telephone sometimes i miss those days, when the world was green and growing but there's too many people now too mean and too knowing they say you've got to be hard in a hard world - say goodbye to suburban boys, cause urban joy is hard to find what you gonna do? it's all around you sounds of the street start to surround you what you gonna do in concrete times? now i know these memories are just my naivete and i know that boyhood's gone and this is where you stay but so much has changed that i can see now i hear sirens and turn up the t.v. i remember knowing every house and every name on our street now i don't even know our next door neighbors, just the sound of their feet - cause your eyes are more open the older you get but the wide eyes of childhood are gone forever - you see more and less and school plays have been replaced and too many friends have joined the race the newspaper brings sad news through my door acceptance and gritted teeth when you walk outside at night guns and knives replaced the schoolyard fight and the street lights blinking on and on, keep me up for hours along with my thoughts, in a pretty concrete tower

there was a time when home was home
things couldn??짠??짙???? come to be alone
weather was fine and moods were high
some in the distance tried to fly

but suddenly a storm did wake
woke up with pain - too much to take
the ashes fly and fruits are bruised
we can??짠??짙???? deny - something we would use

Debbie wants to go far away
far away from home, no rules to break
Debbie wants to know how the angels fly
Debbie wants to live and rest a while



and now she??짠??짙창?" gone away, her parents cry
and if they only could they would retry
but debbie she has learned how angels fly
she left her life and died, but who knows why

rest a while

When i was young and self assured
I wanna get the level i adored
A faith in god that people share
They might believe but i don? even care
I shaped my ways right out of here
They try to scare me but they won? get near
But how it works - that i won? forget -
What you deserve ain`t what you get
Where the hand goes down tonight
Feel the way you will decide
Where the hand goes down tonight
They will try to drown ?
And now we?e here what have we found
Like all the others as they hit the ground
We?e different now but in the end
We?e all engaged to reincarnate in sand

well here's now some world news I'm gonna tell you
I still hide it deep inside, but I no longer can
fuck blessed for all what you once said, I can't even argue
what is it now, what will you do ? You'll cheat yourself !
but maybe I'm a fool, for I believed in true love
now all you brought to life is dying by your hell

won't waste another day
I'm here to run away - ahead

won't feel you, just see you, I'm only after
I don't mind to, but miss you, I'm only after
I denied you, it relieves you, that I'm only after
still love you, it won't help you I'm still only after you



one day we'll come to terms that reason wasn't bad
for it made us great and tall but never feel aware
but peace of mind will never come, so dark but far true
as long as we deny we need a heart instead (as well)

don't waste another day
I'm here to run away - ahead

what are those freaks to replace our bet - they quoted a lie
where have they gone now ? - control yourself and calm it down
"I am called to be your leader"
our arms aligned and then we reload

we go now to the border
stay here - no surrender
for we don??짠??짙???? wanna kill??짠??짙창???m
I??짠??짙??쩍 not aware, but I care - do remind me



but when we came forth - their hidden place - a ruin without hope
and one for all they decide to hate and not to lose
"who is called to be your leader ?"
"we killed him first -now we won't give up!"