[00:22.691] Darkness at the break of noon
[00:25.110] Shadows even the silver spoon
[00:27.827] The handmade blade, the child’s balloon
[00:30.175] Eclipses both the sun and moon
[00:32.354] To understand you know too soon
[00:38.922] There is no sense in trying
[00:39.682]
[00:41.840] Pointed threats they bluff with scorn
[00:43.960] Suicide remarks are torn
[00:46.212] From the fool’s gold mouthpiece the hollow horn
[00:48.337] Plays wasted words proves to warn
[00:55.617] That he not busy being born is busy dying
[00:56.081]
[00:58.376] Temptation page flies out the door
[01:00.508] You follow, find yourself at war
[01:02.722] Watch waterfalls of pity roar
[01:05.504] You feel to moan but unlike before
[01:07.510] You discover that you just be one more
[01:12.513] Person crying
[01:13.014]
[01:15.276] So dont you fear if you hear
[01:17.850] A foreign sound to your ear
[01:28.907] It’s alright, Ma I’m only sighing
[01:30.536]
[01:39.320] As some warn victory, some downfall
[01:41.571] Private reasons great or small
[01:44.088] Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
[01:46.383] To make all that should be killed to crawl
[01:49.297] While others say don’t hate nothing at all
[01:53.230] Except hatred
[01:54.696]
[01:58.458] Disillusioned words like bullets bark
[02:01.114] As human gods aim for their mark
[02:03.388] Make everything from toy guns that spark
[02:05.621] To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
[02:08.121] It’s easy to see without looking too far
[02:09.858] That not much is really sacred
[02:11.182]
[02:21.151] While preachers preach of evil fates
[02:23.852] Teachers teach that knowledge weights
[02:25.830] Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
[02:28.117] Goodness hides behind its gates
[02:30.706] But even the president of the United States
[02:37.259] Sometimes must have to stand naked
[02:38.086]
[02:45.061] Although the rules of the road have been lodged
[02:50.072] It’s only people’s games that you got to dodge
[02:58.613] And it’s alright, Ma I can make it
[03:04.785]
[03:07.626] Advertising signs they con
[03:09.572] You into thinking you’re the one
[03:12.479] That can do what’s never been done
[03:14.464] That can win what’s never been won
[03:16.635] Meantime life outside goes on
[03:21.693] All around you
[03:23.666]
[03:26.299] You lose yourself, you reappear
[03:28.119] You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
[03:30.520] Alone you stand with nobody near
[03:32.634] When a trembling distant voice, unclear
[03:35.296] Startles your sleeping ears to hear
[03:41.155] That somebody thinks they really found you
[03:42.731]
[03:45.170] A question in your nerves is lit
[03:47.355] Yet you know there is no answer fit
[03:49.696] To satisfy, insure you not to quit
[03:51.961] To keep it in your mind and not forget
[03:53.969] That it is not he or she or them or it
[04:00.985] That you belong to
[04:01.581]
[04:06.098] Although the masters make the rules
[04:10.095] For the wise men and the fools
[04:19.983] I got nothing, Ma, to live up to
[04:20.975]
[04:27.623] Old lady judges watch people in pairs
[04:29.218] Limited in sex, they dare
[04:31.478] To push fake morals, insult and stare
[04:34.078] While money doesn’t talk, it swears
[04:35.967] Obscenity, who really cares
[04:41.339] Propaganda, all is phony
[04:44.678]
[04:46.656] While them that defend what they cannot see
[04:48.869] With a killer’s pride security
[04:51.030] It blows the minds most bitterly
[04:53.541] For them that think death’s honesty
[04:55.619] Won't fall upon them naturally
[05:01.397] Life sometimes must get lonely
[05:02.063]
[05:06.292] My eyes collide head-on with stuffed
[05:08.646] Graveyards, false gods, I scuff
[05:11.367] At pettiness which plays so rough
[05:13.247] Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
[05:15.638] Kick my legs to crash it off
[05:22.605] Say okay I have had enough, what else can you show me?
[05:27.721]
[05:31.753] And if my thought-dreams could be seen
[05:37.213] They’d probably put my head in a guillotine
[06:04.342] But it’s alright, Ma, it’s life, and life only