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All Is Fair

Man as a beast came down from the trees
Crawling around, spread his disease.
Up on the rocks, playing with fire,
Inventing his needs to quench the desire.

Blood on his hands, love on his mind,
Hell as a future, leaving heaven way behind.

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All is fair in love and war
Kiss me you fool it's love that we're all dying for.
All is fair in love and war
Head for the hills who knows what all this fighting's for?
Man is a beast.

Shame at the feast, too much to eat
Throw out the waste at the beggar's bare feet
Aim for the moon, shooting the stars
Insanity roaming the streets, but the sane drive new cars.

Blood on his hands, love on his mind
Selling the future, the debts are left behind

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How Much Is Enough
Good enough's not good enough
Don't complain that you've got it tough
With all you have your life's a bore
Can't relax you want so much more
Blind needs won't set you free
Can't you see that
Time is slipping away
But I got to say

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How much is enough? when your soul is empty
How much is enough? in the land of plenty
When you have all you want and you still feel nothing at all
How much is enough, is enough

Gravity may bring you down
But harmony could spin you round
Information ariel
Says buy buy buy material
Give take all day long
Can't you see it's
Hopeless being strong
When you live it wrong?

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So give me your attention
I know it's getting late
While we were dreaming
Something slipped away
We're drowning in possessions
Playing tricks with our minds
Lost from one another
Baby put your hand in mine
Time is slipping away
But it's not too late

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No One Has to Cry
As I wake today same as yesterday
I get in my car the poor turn my wheels
There's so much today, who's got time to listen?
As we fulfill our dreams the shame is left unseen

Why should someone lose so that I get by?
Why should someone pay just to send me high?

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No one has to cry while I can smile
No one owns the sky so blue above you
Somewhere in this world
There's a field where we all play
The secret's in your eyes
No one has to cry

There's no self-control as we play our roles
It's all dog eat dog, we're all dressed for show
As we plot and scheme full of American dreams
Who says it's fair who gets the opportunities?
There are some who live without so that I get by
They pay the price for doubting just to send me high.

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Crucified
Every time I wear this shirt I think of you.
All the dreams I have are always dreamt in blue
Every place I find myself I've been there with you
Abandoned loneliness I ask why, why, why?

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Why did you crucify me?
Strung up for your love
Was I so blind to see?
Pushed aside, sterilized, crucified.

Looking back I see my faults, was I so wring
To lock you up inside my arms? I thought I was being strong.
Now I see you built the walls that keep me in
You turned my world around, and still I cry, cry, cry.

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Brutalized, immortalized, crucified.

Abandoned loneliness
You turned my world around,
words were never said...



Falling in Love
You can hide all your secrets behind every stitch
Of the clothes that you wear.
You can cover your tracks with your big city act
That you play everywhere.

But those slow sultry shadows in back of your mind
Tell a tale on you
I can see it all falling one brick at a time
Love's finally coming to you.

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You're falling in love.
Just when you're learning to be alone
You're falling in love
Just when you're yearning to make it on your own.
Problems like these, everyone needs
There's got to be a way
To have what you want, and get what you need,
Every night and every day.

Between method and madness, your joy turns to sadness,
When choices are made.
You don't need to be choosing between love and losing
There's nothing to trade.

You can hold on to something and still let it go
When you want it to.
You don't need excuses cause everyone knows,
Love's finally coming to you.

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You're hesitating, I'm just here waiting
Wondering when you'll see
That you're already there, you got something to share,
Baby, please share it with me.



Shut It Out
It could happen to you
It could happen to me or anyone
Treading the mill, coming-of-age, and it falls undone.
Here you stand, are you lost for sure?
It could happen to you
It could happen to me or anyone.

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It's all about class, have you got a ticket?
It's all about worth, should we really buy it?
It's about time we shut it all out.
It's about time we shut it all out.

When it happens to you
It will happen to me and everyone.
Part of the chain, we're holding hands
And I'm holding on.
Dare we pick the last fruit from the tree?
If it belongs to you it belongs to me and everyone.

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Still Around
I love the breeze
The one I miss is in the breeze
You are the breeze
I love the water
The one I miss is in the water
You are the water
I love the life
The one I miss is in the life
You are my life
Now I am possessed
The one I miss is my possession

Maybe you're still around
Maybe you could still be found

I love the life
The one I miss is in the life
You are the life
I'm in distress
The one I want is my distraction

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Maybe you're still around
Maybe you could still be found
What can I do or say
To see there's no holding back?
Seeing this old place reminds me, maybe you're still around.

I love the child
The child I kiss is in the man
You are the child
I am possessed
What I want is my possession

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All The Best Things
There was a place we used to go
There was a star we called our own
And it was bright, so bright
There was hope inside our eyes
It put charm into our lives
And we were free, so free

I always felt that the more we had
Was a burden on you and me.
Happiness comes to those that can believe
That all the best things are free

There was laughter in our words
Serious thoughts, they lay unsaid
Of what we could be
All we see has no surprise
All of history in our eyes
What have we learned?

I always felt that we were kept apart
By the chase for guarantees
I always had the urge to let you be
All the best things are free

Can't you see that once again
Fate has played its hand
Shoot the breeze with love as our command.
Time and tide they say wait for no one.
Hope is when the best is still to come.

All the best things are free
Don't chase for guarantees
Can't you see
That all the best things are free.



Yesterday, Today
Any road, any bed
Another stitch in the tapestry
Any plate, any soap
Another hope, same anatomy

Any day, any job
You're still in my memory
Another note to another song
I love what you do to me

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I'll jump the train to make that step
I'll make the plane to fly away
Send it high, so high
We can turn around
Yesterday, today was tomorrow
Here and now is all that I can be
We can play beg, steal or borrow
It's okay, we can find a way

Any door, a reason why
Another window to another sky
Another heart lies just the same
We are together just to ease the pain

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One Jungle
The sailor walks across the ocean
Unsafe on waves of glass
Any time dark skies could open
And he could perish at the mast

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His stomach turns
The potion burns
He's lifting every stone
Money comes, and money goes
But man must always have a home
Money comes, and money goes
Man could never be alone.

Hunter in his leafy temple
Monkeys sing the lions ride
Jungle tempting with example
His gun always by his side

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Astronaut on a travelled plan
Searching for his other man
The plastic pawn is in his hand
And in the other is a looking glass

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Climb The Hill
I opened a door in me, like a cat with curiosity
Unwrapped the perfect present and saw a new history.
Panic politics don't get me down.
Bible thump posturing won't turn me 'round.
It seems the rules were made for some other time.
Too much money in the pipeline; too much fighting overseas.
Too much hatred in the heartland; too much talking over me.

Look around and listen; I don't exist without you in my life.
I'm having a good time by the way,
Sitting here wondering, how can I say,
Those pretty pictures don't paint the truth.
Very clever edits conceal the lie
If you want to hear the rules being made you've got to have
Your ear pressed to the ground.

Too many lost without a requiem; too many lost without a cause.
Too many win without a winner; too many want to go to war.

I'll climb the hill and look you down.
To me you're inside out and upside down
I'll climb the hill and look you down.
To me you're inside out and upside down...



Make No Plans
They're looking at me from a magazine
These eyes haunt me though I am unseen
From Tompkins Park to the dirty beach
The anger's mounting and it is in reach
Misrepresented and misunderstood
They're crawling 'round us in the neighborhood
They make a profit from the sheer decay
Kill the birthright on a summer's day.

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Crawl out of your hole, tied to the post
What have you got to lose?
Out of control, you at the polls
Make no bone circle 'round me
Out of my tree, loving and free
But why am I feeling this doubt?
Shaking I shout, make no plans for me!
Make no plans

Mean and moaning are we impotent
To stop the killing of environment?
To save the world will it be dissent?
I'm asking you, you say "no comment"

The sweet defense of the singles bar
No use hiding we know where you are
Tawana Brawley and her plastic bag
Hell's the future and we're looking back

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