Rollins Band

Turned On - 1990

1. Lonely
2. Do It
3. What Have I Got
4. Tearing (Me Apart)
5. Out There
6. You Didnīt Need
7. Hard
8. Followed Around
9. Mask
10. Down And Away
11. Turned Inside Out
12. The Dietmar Song
13. Black And White
14. What Do You Do



1. Lonely


I hate the world that I think hates me
Punch holes in the wall you know that hurts me
Feel dark and cold alone it burns me
Wish someone would come and touch me
Walkinī alone in the prison yard
Seeinī eyes that seem to see me so hard
Crawlinī like a snake right back in to my room
Feelinī like a dead man rolling around in my tomb
Thereīs nothinī like findinī someone when youīre lonely
Makes you wanna feel so all alone
Thereīs nothin like finding someone when youīre lonely
Makes you feel so...
Walk in to a crowded room I start to freeze
Words fall short now turns to what itīs time to leave
Never happy, never sad, I can face
Canīt stop lookinī I keep walkinī from place to place
Thereīs nothin like finding someone when youīre lonely
Makes you wanna be so all alone
Thereīs nothinī like finding someone when youīre lonely
Makes you feel so...
Aww, yeah!
Hear no sounds they seem to keep me sane
Knife in eyes and point me at my prey
Reachinī out of my soul itīs senseless
Reachinī out of my mind itīs useless
I feel the mute frustration when I see your eyes
Mute is a way but Isolation iyt hurts to try
I reach out my hand - it turns to stone
I get up, walk out the door, Iīm better off alone



2. Do It


Donīt think about it - Do it
Donīt talk about it - Do it
Do it, do it
Donīt lie about it - Do it
Do it, do it
Talk about your sick man, so good you got to do it, do it
D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-do it, do it
Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it
Donīt lie about it - Do it
Why give a fuck about it, man - Do it, do it
Thereīs a law, but who cares - Do it, do it
Donīt rip me off, man, just do it, do it, do it, do it
Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it
Donīt talk about it- Do it, do it
Donīt lie about it - Do it, do it
Donīt cover it with a lie, man - Do it , do it
Just do it, just do it
Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it



3. What Have I Got


Iīve got a wantless need
Iīve got a thoughtless mind
Iīve got a wantless want
I canīt unwind
Iīve got a heart that hates
Iīve got hands that like to break
They tell me . hold on
They never let me go
I am a clenched fist lookinī for a wall to kiss
I am a locked door lookinī for a foot to kick me to the floor

What have I got? Iīve got everything
What have I got? Nothinī much at all

Self rejected, well protected, to lock myself inside myself to get free
Self-hated, frustrated, my hands turn to fists
Violence - so hard to resist
I get so mad I do things that I regret
So stupid, so stupid, not stupid enough to ever forget

Got no need, got no brain - inside my mind I feel no pain, no
I feel the pounding in my head
Start lookinī, start lookinī - you better look out
Iīm not feelinī too nice today

I canīt stop, I canīt stop - it pulls me together then it tears me apart
Just like that



4. Tearing (Me Apart)


The way you look at me is tearing me apart
And the way I let you feel is tearing me apart
I think as we do it, do it to eachother, itīs tearing us apart
Look at you and me - tearing eachother apart
I donīt mean to do it, you donīt mean to do it
So we better stop it now, because weīre tearing eachother apart

Tearing me apart
Tearing you apart
Tearing us apart

Itīs hard to be alone, but itīs harder to be with you
But you know that Iīm a liar, a liar with your pants on fire,
Tearing you apart
Slam down the phone right in your face, tearing myself apart
So close, too close, not close enough
Tearing eachother apart
When I see you I wanna tell you but then I lose the words
And it tears me apart

Better walk away, better walk away, better walk away
Before you cry away
Well Iīve got a hole inside and I keep it deep inside
Deep inside and in there Iīm gonna hide
Iīve gotta get away to see if Iīm okay
Iīve gotta get away to see if Iīm okay
Sometimes things donīt work out, sometimes things donīt work out
And it tears me apart



5. Out There


Walkinī shattered, confused, disturbed and alone
Feeling like someone just ripped your heart out and replaced it with a stone
Wandering as somewhere someone out there feels like you do
Open your eyes to realize that the only one holding on to you is you

When youīre out there, youīre out there
When youīre out there, out there, out there, out there, Ohhhhh
Iīve been out there

When youīre sitting in your room, lights out, door locked listening to the air
Phone starts ringinī you uplook it, dosenīt matter who it is, you donīt care
Wonderinī why life can fill you with so much pain
And sometimes all you wanna do is crawl away and die
Feelinī so carved out and hollow that you donīt even have a tear
They left you cryinī

Lost, lost in the crowd, lost in my room alone
Lost in your eyes, lost in your arms
Lost in my-self, I donīt know -
Where I went
I got lost, just like.
hated, alienated, thrown down, turned away, turned inside
solitary confinement turns to solitary refinement
I found myself alone
Mmmmmmm, so alone
Reachinī out I canīt touch - I open my eyes, I canīt see
Putting my feet out on the ground I feel Iīm falling
Ohhhhhh, out there, Iīm out there, out there, so cold, so cold, so cold

Out there, Iīm out there, Iīm out there, Iīm out there
Ohhhhh...

So cold, so cold, co cold, so cold
When Iīm out there, when youīre ou there, when Iīm out there...



6. You Didnīt Need


The last person you blame is yourself and you feel like a victim and it feels
great to be put upon by love.

You turned me and you put me out
You put me in and you locked me out
The way you feel is gonna cross me back
You didnīt see that I was bleedinī
You looked at me and I saw right through you
You looked away when I spoke right to you

You didnīt need to do that to me

When I touched you, did you feel it?
Did you ever feel anything at all?
Do you ever lie awake at night?
Do you ever think of me?
Iīve got my arms wrapped around myself
Youīve got your arms around someone else
Iīll lie to myself
Iīll tell myself Iīm not there, down, down, down
Iīm not down
Some people are left alone

I didnīt want it but I get it anyway
I didnīt want it but I couldnīt get away
I canīt deny it, I miss you
Even though it hurts inside
When I breathe I kiss you
I keep on lyinī, lyinī

You didnīt need to do that to me

I lock my brain tryinī to remember
Anything I did to you
I lock my brain tryinī to dismember
Every thought I taxed for you
Iīm sorry I still feel this pain inside
You punctured my face like a scar
Itīs simple, I canīt hide, I canīt hide, I canīt hide, No!

Some people have been left alone
Some people are let alone
It hurts so much when youīve got nothing to say
It hurts so much to have to walk away
Walk away, walk away, walk away, walk away, walk away, walk away, walk away



7. Hard


Itīs hard to get high
And itīs hard to get through
And it hard to hear me, but Iīm talkinī to you
And you see these hard eyes you know what I mean
And these eyes got hard
Now I canīt see
I mean hard, man so good to find
Iīm not hard, man, the iron mind
Go! Oh yeah!
I got hard, and I stayed hard
You canīt keep me down because Iīm hard
I keep movinī because Iīm hard
I keep burninī because I am hard
Oh yeah!
Iīm goinī over not gettinī back
Hard sense makes a point
Oh yeah! Hey!
No one stops the rock around this ranch, boy, yeah!
Real pain is what I reach for
The real thing is what I came for
I am - because Iīm hard
I will - because I am hard



8. Followed Around


Iīm being followed around again, around and around again

Finding myself in all the dark places
Canīt see their eyes, canīt make out their faces
Feeling like the only one talking on the telephone line
Tried so hard but I still canīt lose my mind

Iīm being followed around again, around and around again

Self-doubt, put your hands on my shoulder
only gets colder
And while youīre standing here youīre gettinī older
And if youīre looking for the end of my eyes,
come and make them ...., itīs right on the corner

Iīm being followed around again, around and around again
Lookin in their eyes I see the one I despise, around and around again
Lookin in their eyes I see the one I despise, around and around again

Iīm being followed around again, around and around again
Yeah!
Iīm being followed around again, around and around again



9. Mask


It becomes hard to face
It becomes hard to see the face
The face that sees you without flinching
The face that you put on when youīre all by yourself
I wear a mask, I wear a mask
The mask is intact
You see no cracks on the outside
Iīm smooth, expressionless
You canīt read me
Behind the mask I die over and over
I scream from behind the mask
Now the mask is cracking
My truth comes out, my mask falls to the floor
I see the face that I got
I see myself, ugly, so ugly, itīs ugly



10. Down And Away


Well I close my eyes and I look inside
Well I realize Iīm a bad case
Well Iīm at the last place that I wanna be
I open my eyes and I wanna get away
Push me, Pull me, and I wanna run, I wanna hide
And I canīt get away, I canīt get away

And I canīt get in, I canīt get out
I canīt get to myself, so I canīt get to you
And I canīt get close when I get close to you
And I canīt get through myself so I canīt get to you

Thereīs an ego followinī the way I feel
The closer I get, the farther away I feel
I canīt get in and I canīt get out
Why donīt you touch me so I can feel it
I want you to touch me so I can feel it
Iīm dead as I look to your eyes
Iīm a prisoner trapped in life
I am the loser in the game I play
I am the garbage that I throw away
Iīm alone in the place I stay
And I canīt understand why I canīt get in and I canīt get out

The closer I get the farther away you feel
The closer you get the farther away I feel
The closer I get the farther away you feel
The closer you get the farther away I feel

I canīt get close, I canīt get close, I canīt, I canīt get it
I canīt get close to you

Iīve got thrown in a hole
Down and away, down, down, down, down and away
Down and away, away, down...
down, down, down
Away...
Down... down and away
Down, down, down and away...
away...



11. Turned Inside Out


Turned inside out for all to see
Touch this, feel this
See yourself, see the monster
Feel the beast
Laugh, laugh, laugh out loud
Say Freak...
freak...
Take this
Break this
Youīre a criminal
Could that be you? Could that be you? Could that be you? Could that be you?
Freak, freak, freak, freak, freak
Turned inside out for all to see
Turned inside out for all to see, see, see
See it till your eyes blind you
See it till your eyes blind you, killer, killer, killer
Freak...
Get up get up, get up, get up, get up
Entertain me, entertain me, entertain me, entertain me
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing
Turned inside out for all to see
Turned inside out, out, out, out, for all to see
Laughing, laughing, laughing, lauging, as you fall
Ohhhh, you fall
Is that you? Is that you? Is that you?
Freak, freak, freak, freak, freak, freak, freak
Turned inside out for all to see, for all to see, for all to see



12. The Dietmar Song


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13. Black And White


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14. What Do You Do


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