1. Change Of Ideas
Well the sheaves have all been brought, but the fields have washed away,
And the palaces now stand where the coffins all were laid,
And the times we see ahead, we must glaze with rozy hues,
For what donīt wish to admit what it is we have to lose.
Millenia in coming, the modern age is here.
It sanctifies the future, yet renders us with fear.
So many theories, so many prophecies,
What we do need is a change of ideas.
When we are scared we can hide in our reveries but
What we need is a change of ideas.
Change of ideas, change of ideas,
What we need now is a change of ideas.
2. Big Bang
This isnīt another new fashion, or a new wave plastic trend.
Everybodyīs searching for something but in the meantime letīs all just pretend.
Iīve got this feeling and I donīt know what it is.
This room is overcrowded, man, and I need air to breathe, yeah.
Big bang, big crunch, you know thereīs no free lunch.
Kneel down and pray, here comes your judgment day.
Big crunch, you know, itīs gonna be quite a show.
What comes around always goes around, yeah.
A million hopeless faces dwell within protected walls,
All waiting for a moment in life when they can heed the clarion call.
And itīs all so oppressive my mind feels like a sieve.
This cityīs overcrowded, man, and I need room to live.
Big bang, big crunch, you know thereīs no free lunch.
Kneel down and pray, here comes your judgment day.
Big crunch, you know, itīs gonna be quite a show.
What comes around always goes around, yeah.
I think of the countless shadows that have all come and gone,
All suffering in the notion of better things to come.
If you share these beliefs you know I wish you well,
īcause thereīs no room left in heaven and thereīs sure no room in hell, yeah.
Big bang, big crunch, you know thereīs no free lunch.
Kneel down and pray, here comes your judgment day.
Big crunch, you know, itīs gonna be quite a show.
What goes around always comes around.
3. No Control
Culture was the seed of proliferation but itīs gotten melded
Into an inharmonic whole, to an inharmonic whole.
Consciousness has plagued us and we cannot shake it
Though we think weīre in control, though we think weīre in control.
Questions that besiege us in life are testament of our helplessness.
Thereīs no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.
When we all disintegrate it will all happen again, yeah.
Time is so rock solid in the minds of the hordes but they canīt
Explain why it should slip away, explain why it should slip away.
History and future are the comforts of our curiosity but here we are
Rooted in the present day, rooted in the present day
Questions that besiege us in life are testament of our helplessness.
Thereīs no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.
When we all disintegrate it will all happen again, yeah.
If you came to conquer, youīll be king for a day,
But you too will deteriorate and quickly fade away.
And believe these words you hear when you think your path is clear...
We have no control. we have no control.
We have no control, we do not understand.
You have no control, you are not in command.
You have no control. we have no control.
No control. no control. you have no control.
4. Sometimes It Feels Like... *?!%+!*
Thereīs a specter in the corner of an illustrated page
And a lonesome muted stripling with a rapt remedial gaze.
The poverty of his language and the wealth of his emotion
Bring him endless murky musings and unexpected frustration
Angst and madness weave the fabric of his life.
Tomorrow might be better but right now it feels like
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Thereīs a panther wild and proud behind the doors of a redolent cage,
And an underdeveloped intellect filled with impotent and static rage.
And donīt think youīre exempt if you earn good weekly wages,
īcause youīre neighborīs going crazy and insanityīs contagious.
I know thereīs so much you want to say
But your tongue gets in the way and sometimes it feels like
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I know thereīs so much you want to say
And the tumbrel of your mind gets in the way.
Itīs the same for everybody to degrees.
We all get that foggy freeze and sometimes it feels like
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5. Automatic Man
Heīs the latest superhero with powers so profound.
He can leap a dotted line in just a single bound.
I know you must have seen him in books and magazines.
Heīs the quintessential mindless modern epicine.
His life is meaningful because he gets things done.
Bang bang heīs dead, chalk up another triumph for our hero,
The automatic man.
Itīs true you must have met him, heīs your best friend and your foe.
His opinions are determined by the status quo.
A true creature of habit, he smokes three packs a day.
When he has an original thought, he forgets it right away.
Heīs a paradigm of carefree living.
Heīs our mentor, disturb him if you can.
Heīs the answer if your peace of mind is lacking.
Heīs our savior, he is the common man.
So if you are troubled by the daily bump and grind,
Then take a careful look around and brother you will find...
The automatic man.
6. I Want To Conquer The World
Hey brother christian with your high and might errand,
Your actions speak so loud, I canīt hear a word youīre saying.
Hey sister bleeding heart with all of your compassion,
Your labors soothe the hurt but canīt assuage temptation.
Hey man of science with your perfect rules of measure,
Can you improve this place with the data that you gather?
Hey mother mercy can your loins bear fruit forever?
Is your fecundity a trammel or a treasure?
And I want to conquer the world,
Give all the idiots a brand new religion,
Put an end to poverty, uncleanliness and toil,
Promote equality in all my decisions
With a quick wink of the eye
And a "god you must be joking!"
Hey mr. diplomat with your worldly aspirations,
Did you see the children cry when you left them at the station?
Hey moral soldier youīve got righteous proclamation,
And precious tomes to fuel your pulpy conflagrations.
And I want to conquer the world,
Give all the idiots a brand new religion,
Put an end to poverty, uncleanliness and toil,
Promote equality in all of my decisions
I want to conquer the world,
Expose the culprits and feed them to the children,
Iīll do away with air pollution and then all save the whales,
Weīll have peace on earth and global communion.
I want to conquer the world!
7. Sanity
Thereīs a watch in my pocket and its hands are broken.
The face is blank but the gears are turning.
Confusion is a fundamental state of mind.
It doesnīt really matter what Iīm figuring out.
Iīm guaranteed to wind up in a state of doubt
And sanity is a full-time job
In a world that is always changing,
And sanity is a state of mind
That you believe in, sanity.
Thereīs a shadow on the wall where the paint is peeling.
My bodyīs moving forward but my mind is reeling.
Depression is a fundamental state of mind.
It doesnīt really matter how my day has turned out.
I always end up living in this world of doubt
And sanity is a full-time job
In a world that is always changing,
And sanity will make you strong
If you believe in sanity.
And sanity is a full-time job
In a world that is always changing,
And sanity is a state of mind
That you believe in, sanity.
8. Henchman
Stranded
In a life in which your struggle for acceptance
Is a never-ending chore,
Upbraided
For your actions past and present and rewarded for the ideas
Of the futureīs bright open door.
The henchman
Is the human analogue of the suffering multitudes
Who like good dogs sit and lick for their reward.
So what good advice have I got for you
To insure against your likely metamorphosis into this reprobate?
Donīt be a henchman,
Stand on your laurels,
Do what no one else does and praise the good of other men
For good manīs sake.
And when everyone else in the world follows your lead
(although a cold day in hell it will surely be)
Thatīs when the entire world shall live in harmony.
9. It Must Look Pretty Appealing
The wheat waving next to you is healthy and so fine,
As is dinner with your loved ones every day.
But your routine is changeless through the decades of your life,
Green pastures, open spaces, holy ways.
And it must looks pretty appealing,
The crowded festive nights
And the millions of others just like you.
Yeah it must look pretty appealing,
This other world of sin.
We keep dreaming of what other people do.
The person sitting next to you is dismal and deranged
On the bus ride home from work to end your day.
And the food on your table is more plastic than protein,
And your intellect depends on your tv.
And it must look pretty appealing
The pastoral retreat,
And the few pleasant people just like you.
Yeah it must look pretty appealing,
The simple way of life.
We keep dreaming of what other people do.
But we never do what other people do.
Youīre too scared of other people not like you.
10. You
Thereīs a place where everyone can be happy.
Itīs the most beautiful place in the whole fucking world.
Itīs made of candy canes and planes and bright red choo-choo trains,
And the meanest little boys and the most innocent little girls,
And you know I wish that I could got there.
Itīs a road that I have not found.
And I wish you the best of luck, dear.
Drop a card or letter to my side of town.
Because thereīs no time for fussing and fighting my friend,
But baby Iīm amazed at the hate that you can send and
You... painted my entire world.
But i... donīt have the turpentine to clean what you have soiled.
And I wonīt forget it.
Thereīs a place where everyone can be right,
Even though you remain determined to be opposed.
Admittance requires no qualifications.
Itīs where everyone has been and where everybody goes.
So please try not to be impatient,
For we all hate standing in line.
And when the farm is good and bought, youīll be there without a thought,
And eternity, my friend, is a long fucking time.
Because thereīs no time for fussing and fighting my friend,
But baby Iīm amazed at the hate that you can send and
You... painted my entire world.
But i... donīt have the turpentine to clean what you have soiled.
And I wonīt forget it.
11. Progress
And progress is not intelligently planned;
Itīs the facade of our heritage, the odor of our land. they speak of
Progress, in red, white and blue.
Itīs the structure of the future as demise comes seething through. itīs
Progress, ītil thereīs nothing left to gain,
As the dearth of new ideas makes us wallow in our shame.
So before you go contribute more
To the destruction of this world you adore,
Remember life on earth is but a flash of dawn
Weīre all part of it as the day rolls on.
And progress is a message that we send.
One step closer to the future, one inch closer to the end. I say
That progress is a synonym of time.
We are all aware of it but itīs nothing we refine,
And progress is a debt we all must pay.
Its convenience we all cherish, its pollution we disdain
And the cutting edge is dulling,
Too many folks to plow through.
Just keep your fucking distance
And it canīt include you.
Itīs
Progress, ītil thereīs nothing left to gain, itīs
Progress, itīs a message that we send.
And progress is a debt we all must pay.
12. I Want Something More
Going through a world of sad debris,
Regard quixoitic reveries of ownership.
The blossoming disease of man called tenure and accretion,
The ancient western treadmill of deception and derision.
But I want something more.
Racing through a life of tragic wastage,
I experience the loss of trust and innocence.
The billowing cyclone of time has blown away our reasons
As we trudge like blind men forward trying to avoid collision.
But I want something...
More.
13. Anxiety
Itīs a love song to the self, a story recapped every day,
Itīs a world of bogus feelings and a world of slow decay,
Itīs a world of laughter hidden by this world of fear and torment,
Itīs a game of strange compulsion, our visceral convulsion.
Anxiety for love of life, anxiety for pain,
Anxiety, a feeling that you know you canīt contain.
Anxiety destroys us but it drives the common man.
Foundation of society, anxiety. suppress it if you can.
The caste of coffee achievers didnīt perform like they planned.
The morning rush hour traffic is our play of false elan.
So run around your frantic track and lay you down to sleep;
Tomorrowīs the redemption, we strive for that exception.
Anxiety for love of life, anxiety for pain,
Anxiety, a fear that you have nothing more to gain.
Anxiety destroys us but it drives the common man.
Foundation of society, anxiety. suppress it if you can.
What are we angry for?
We all need a common cure.
That common goal for which you strive.
To have more than the other (have more than the other) guy.
The quest for truth, the quest for gold, yeah, we end up all the same
The common lie, the righteous cry, we end up all the same.
The angry crowd, those lost and found, everybodyīs all the same.
The poetīs pen, these words I lend, we all bend to
Anxiety for love of life, anxiety for pain,
Anxiety, a feeling that you know you canīt contain.
Anxiety destroys us but it drives the common man.
Foundation of society, anxiety.
14. Billy
I can recall the warm youth of a summer day, yeah.
The sweetest lemonade, the darkest game arcade,
And billy had a yearning in the corner of his mind.
It moved him secretly. it moved him powerfully.
But prescience was lacking and the present was not all
And his aptitudes were carelessly wasted.
And challenging life with the abandon of a fool,
He squandered the hours of his day.
Then darkness and disorder slapped him sharply in the face, yeah.
It hit him like a friend, struck something deep within.
He couldnīt break the chain of slow decay that seemed to drag him
Just like a fatal tie toward the other side.
And billy was a lunatic, just barking at the moon,
And his brain was totally wasted.
He then exchanged his friends for a needle and a spoon
And he threw his future away.
Bolt the door and throw away the key.
Your dim reflection is all that you can see.
So where is the justice when no one is at fault
And a human life is tragically wasted?
How fragile is the flame that burns within us all
To light each passing day?
15. The World Wonīt Stop Without You
Youīve got to quit your little charade and join the freak parade
Now that your road has been paved from conception to your grave.
Enormous things to do, othersī practices to eschew,
To be better than you is impossible to do,
But the world wonīt stop without you.
No, the world wonīt stop without you.
Your achievements are unsurpassed, you are highly-ordered mass,
But you can bet your ass your free energy will dissipate.
Two billion years thus far, now mister here you are,
An element in a sea of enthalpic organic compounds.
The world wonīt stop without you.
The world wonīt stop without you.
Youīre only as elegant as your actions let you be
A piece of chaos related phylogenetically
To every living organ system, weīre siblings, donīt you see?
The earth rotates and will revolve without you constantly.
Two billion years thus far, now mister here you are,
An element in a sea of enthalpic organic compounds.
The world wonīt stop without you.
No, the world wonīt stop without you.
I said the world wonīt stop without you.
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