Rocks In The Head Lyrics

Who's gonna walk on water
Christen my eyes / Show me how to see ya
Come on, hold out your hand / Rap me 'round your finger
To be interior designed / Let me be conditioned
To do the crawl on the floor / Looking for the mission

Speak with my tongue / Tell me who to follow
Come on, show me who walks / On Blessed Virgin water
One that can rise above our kind / That sinned like all my brothers
One that'll christen my eyes / And bring me to my senses

Who will fall and who will rise / Who might have to advertise
Who will be the president / Who will tell you anything

Now, who gonna, who gonna / Who gonna walk, walk on water
Who gonna, who gonna, who / Gonna walk, walk on water
Who gonna, who gonna walk / Who gonna walk, walk, walk, walk

Come to my cause / Give me destination
Tell me, who can I trust / That doesn't take commission
Who does the miracle for real / And tells me there's no heaven
One that will take all control / And dim my television

Christen my eyes / Show me who to follow
Come on, show me who walks / On Blessed Virgin water

Hey now, who will fall and who will rise / Who might have to advertise
Who will be the president / Who will tell you anything

Now, who gonna, who gonna, who / Gonna walk, walk on water
Who gonna, who gonna, who / Gonna walk, walk on water
Who gonna, who gonna, who gonna / Walk, walk on water
Who gonna, who gonna, who gonna / Walk, walk, walk, walk
Speak with my tongue yeah and / Christen my eyes
Who's gonna go walking on / Who's gonna go walking on water


Before my time is up
Before the gods read my lifelong / Sentence
Before I get my share / Before I walk alone
Before they take away my last / Temptation
Before my heart's deprived / Before they call my name

On the back fences of my dream line / I never lost my mind
I gave it all I had / To get away with the whole damn
Big Bang / For the right reasons / For what you can't take back

Until the drums stop beating
Until the crossroads burn out
I ain't a man until I've done it all

Before my time is up / I'll hang my name
On every trial I'm due for / And even if I can't get justice
I'll take you down to hell /
I'll leave no stone unturned / I won't regret my actions
And even if my last words fail me / I'll be a better man
Before my time is up

I believe that the road goes somewhere / Beyond the empty eyes
Beyond the wasted land / When it all fades away to nothing
I wanna know I tried / To take a real hard stand

I gotta laugh at the whole damn / Big bang
I've got to cry sometimes / Got to love somebody
Before they read me my lifelong sentence / Before I get my share
Before I go alone

Until the drums stop beating
To where the crossroads burn out
I ain't a man until I've done it all

Before my time is up / I'll hang my name
On every trial I'm due for / And even if I can't get justice
I'll take you down to hell /
I'll leave no stone unturned / I won't regret my actions
And even if my last words fail me / I'll be a better man
Before my time is / Time is / Time is up

Even if my last words fail me / I'll be a better man
Before my time is up

Before, before my time is up...


Times changed
Everybody knows / That times changed /
Some boys look older / And the young ones smile in jest
Lads born to be the chosen one / While the wise man sings in the
Cuckoo's nest

I walked the West End late last night / After seein' an old friend of mine
We talked about this place and the way / It was
When a bloke could get a break before / These

Times changed / These times changed
These times changed / These times changed

I heard a D.J. spin in Brixton / Some of that fresh massive attack
Here in the house of mass consumption / Where the ecstasy goes fast
On the screen is this month's fashion
Lots of leather and a tattooed breast
Better this than some guru / Who's trying to teach you how to live
When you know

Times changed /
You know times changed /

I saw a bastard slap his girl around / I said man have you gone mad
What's gotten into you / That's makin' you so bad
You think love is anything when you / Can't get work
You think life is on T.V. / The he turned up some of that
Speed metal / And said this is what I think

I rode the East End early yesterday / I was hit by the way it's changed
>From the days of Krays in my / Teenage years
When we all knew our place / Now the welfare state is a state of wealth
For some the hope is gone / And a cardboard box in Westminster is
Hard to call a home / But you know

Times change / Times change
Times change / Times change

Everybody knows / Everybody knows
They know that times changed...


You can't call it love
It's the same rain the same pain / The same picture in the same frame
Cold close smoldering hearts / And it can't burst into flames then
Again it can't go out

My passion is a nightingale with a / Sword throat
A dolphin in the Thames it's a / Wasted love
It's a telephone ringing in an empty house / It's a motherless child

You can say it's a good thing
You can say it's a bad thing
You can call it anything you want

But you can't call it love
No you can't call it love

I'm lost among the stars
Another wishful one is waiting in / The wings
To pick up where the last one put / You down
To dry your eyes and fashion your / New crown
Of foxgloves and steel strings

You can say it's a good thing
You can say it's a bad thing
You can call it anything you want

But you can't call it love
No you can't call it love
No you can't call it love

The same town's still standing / But the changes come creepin' through
My dreams / But it's a little late for praying
When your world is already on its knees / And on and on and on and on

My nightmare's a devil's dog on a / Rolling log
Got no control, no sense of time, it's / Just a rhyme
And a banshee hollers in the dead / Of night
It's a homeless ghost

You can say it's a good thing
You can say it's a bad thing
You can call it anything you want

But you can't call it love
No you can't call it love
No you can't call it love
Can't call it love...


Mirror mirror
Yes you can float your boat to China / It could take you all night
It could take a long time / To forget about me

You might find another lover / He might even sail you
But you will still remember / How we made love time the first
Time ever was sacred / We were deep in love time the way love
Does a reflection / Now you can tell a lie real good
And maybe I'll believe every word / on the wall
Look into my crystal ball / Let me in your darkest hour
Mirror mirror take a look into me now / I can feel your stormy weather
I can feel your wind blow / Every time you come close
Why do you deny me

I might find another lover / She might even save me
But I will still remember / How we made love time the first
Time ever was sacred / We were deep in love time the way love
Does a reflection / Now I can tell a lie real good
And maybe you'll believe every word

Mirror mirror on your wall / Look into my crystal ball
Let me in your darkest hour / look into me now
Mirror mirror on your wall / Look into my crystal ball
Let me in your darkest hour
Mirror, mirror, mirror take a look into me now
Take a good look into me now

You can float your boat to China / It could take you all night
It could take a long time / To forget about me

I will feel your stormy weather / I will feel your wind blow
Baby when you come close / Come and make love...


Perfect world
White girl, in a perfect world / You'd trust in your lover
Will boys ever be boys again
Blonde boy, in a perfect world you'd / Know if you loved her
Will girls ever be girls again

Black boy, in a perfect world there'd / Be understanding
Still you're perfect cause you love / Your girl
Black girl, in a perfect world there'd / Be no demanding
Still you're perfect cause you love / Your man
It don't make no difference/ Boys of London girls of Memphis
We are all a revolution / In this jaded institution

In the New York Times / To the L.A. coast
They go bump to bump / In the perfect world
For the perfect boy / And the perfect girl
They go bump to bump / In the perfect world

Black girl, in a perfect world you'd know / That I love ya
And everyone would understand
White boy, in a perfect world you'd / Need no protection
And love would still be something / In heart

White girl, in a perfect world there'd / Be understanding
And boys would be boys again
Black girl, in a perfect world you'd know / That I love ya
And everyone would understand

It don't make no difference/ Boys of London girls of Memphis
We are all a revolution / In this jaded institution

In the New York Times / To the L.A. coast
They go bump to bump / In the perfect world
For the perfect boy / And the perfect girl
They go bump to bump / In the perfect world...

Love is
As cold as it seems / When truth brings you heartache
It's so hard to believe / When love hits the wall /

My faith in you / When it could have ended
And your trust in me / We could have lost it all
Love is / Everything I need to live
Love is / Everything that we forgive
Love is / Every crime of passion
That's what love is

Where would I go / What would I do
What would it mean / To meet a perfect stranger
Why do we hurt / Who draws the line
When do we learn to look inside / What love is
So many years / You can't take for granted
You can't take away / All the things you are

Together so long / I know where my heart is
Somewhere in me (oh yea) / I'll find a way to show

Love is / Every lesson we have learned
Love is / Every soft unspoken word
Love is / Every crime of passion
That's what love is

Where would I go / What would I do
What would it mean / To meet a perfect stranger
Why do we hurt / Who draws the line
When do we learn to look inside

Everything I need to live /
Everything that we forgive /
Every crime of passion / That's what love is

Love is / Every lesson we have learned
Love is / Every soft unspoken word
Love is / Every crime of passion
That's what love is...


Blues man's road
The old boys drinkin' / Tellin' the stories
'Bout the way it used to be / A steel string box
Was every blues man's woman / Everybody knew Lucille
>From the Delta to the chain gang

I was born to the rhythm / Raised on volume
Wired to a different sound
Plain damn reckless until three in / The morning
Dreamin' of the place I'd found / Where the sugar tastes a little sweeter

Ain't nothing meaner / Than the old boy howlin' on his / Guitar alone

Tellin' the story 'bout the blues / Man's road
Well he taught me everything I know / We all knew that blues man's road
That's why they call this thing rock / And roll

We were white city slip kids playing in / The streets
The songs of the black man's band / With our tail drags dragging
Mojo's working / Got the blast from the big boss man
Where the sugar tastes a little sweeter

Ain't nothing meaner / Than an old boy howlin' on his / Guitar alone

Tellin' the story 'bout the blues / Man's road
He taught me everything that I've / Ever known
We all knew that blues man's road
That's why they call this damn thing / Rock and roll
The story 'bout the blues man's road / Taught me everything I know
Yes we all knew that blues man's road
That's why they call this damn thing / Rock and roll


Everything a heart could ever want (Willow)
She comes home late / And I've waited long
Then she sings me lines / From the songs I used to sing
When I was young

'Cause she's that kind of girl
A woman child / A free young spirit
In a jaded world / And she knows me
Shows me / Lets me see

She's everything a heart could ever / Want (Willow)
When I call her name (Willow) / Will she still hear me when
She's everything a heart could ever / Want (Willow)
When she looks at me (Willow) / Her eyes just say it all

She always puts me right / When I turn up wrong
Never walks away / Her smile tells me
I'm goin' on and on and on

It gets real damn hard / To let your children grow
And when you make mistakes / It's the time you got to let 'em
Know you know you know

I wanna know her / Show her / I wanna let her see

She's everything a heart could ever / Want (Willow)
When I call her name (Willow) / Will she still hear me when
She's everything a heart could ever / Want (Willow)
When she looks at me (Willow) / Her eyes just say it all
She's everything a heart could ever / Want (Willow)
She's sometimes strange (Willow) / So please, please, please don't change
It ain't an easy thing / To let a young bird fly
And when they spread their wings / For the very first time
You just wanna die

Everything a heart could ever want
I know she's everything a heart could / Ever want
She's everything a heart could / Ever want...


Days of light
Fridays waiting at the gates of heaven / The weekend starts at seven
We get forty-eight hours of fun

For five days working on the line / For five days
Time to change the look on my face / I'm waiting for the starter's gun

Maybe feeling tired / Maybe feeling empty / Maybe living on your own

You know 'round about seven on a / Friday night
Forget about your worries gonna / Be alright
Everybody's heading for those days / Of light
Hot and heavy nights of true love ways
Tomorrow these will be the good / Old days
Everybody's working for those days / Of light

Mondays waiting for the week to / Start up
Back to work and feeling hard up / Things are gonna change someday

So dream on everybody's free to / Dream on
Work hard love well live long / There's really not a better way

So live it all you can / Even when it hurts you
Got to give it all you've got / And know

Everybody's putting on a braver face
Everyone's running in the same race
Everybody's working for those days / Of light
Everyone's looking for the same release
Everybody's hoping for a mind of peace
Everyone's working for those days / Of light

'Round about seven on a Friday night
Forget about your worries gonna be alright
Everybody's working for those days of light
Hot and heavy nights of true love ways
Tomorrow these will be the good / Old days
Everybody's heading for those days / Of light
Everybody's putting on a braver face
We're all running in the same race
Everybody's working, got to keep on
Working for those /...


Unforgettable Opera
Time and time again / Someone comes to take you to the
Edge of something new / Why is it so hard for you to fall

I have stood alone / Watched you from a distance of a
Friend who understands / One who'd always be there if you

Knew what you were looking for / And you know it when you've found it

With the key in your hand / It's time to walk a naked stage
Of glass from hot sands / Where a sound within your heart / Will rage
And it rocks in the head moving ever on / Life is an unforgettable opera

The time will come again / When staring in your eyes a place that
You have seen before / Always something to remind you

It's not a game of chance / Some you lose and some you just can't
Win them all at once / Time will give you everything

It's a rhythm that will never stop
It's like a clock that ticks between us

And the key's in your hand / Your time to walk a naked stage
Of glass from hot sands / Where a sound within your heart / Will rage
And it rocks in the head moving ever on / Life is an unforgettable opera

Take the key in your hands / It's time you walked that naked stage
Of glass from hot sands / Where a sound within your heart / Will rage

With the key in your hands / It's time you walked that naked stage
Of glass from hot sands / Where a sound within your heart / Will rage
And it rocks in the head moving ever on / Life is an unforgettable opera