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Alive
Sometimes it feels like the world has gone into a tailspin
Everyone rushing to places they never get
I've been running away from this town for 1200 years now
But it feels as if I never left
Sometimes it feels like I'm floating outside my body
Hovering high up above as it hurtles through the maze
Then at the end of the day I untie my shadow
And watch it as it rises into space
Let the sunlight in
Let it burn my eyes
Let those hard winds scour
I need to feel alive
There are times when I believe that I am nothing but a corpse in motion
Days when I feel like a bolt of light caught in one spot
At other times a galleon adrift in the depths of illusion
Forever fated to be lost
Let the sunlight in
Let it burn my eyes
Let those hard winds scour
I need to feel alive
Let the sunlight in
Let it burn my eyes
Let those cold winds fall
'Cos I need to realise that I am alive
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Looking For The Mahatma
Another smack down in the wadi
Another brother for whom to feel sorry
Just a face upon a picture
Somebody's father, somebody's sister
Another martyr, great defender
Sucker punched by a hidden agenda
Raise a glass up to the leader
Strike up the band to the great deceiver
It takes a village to make genocide
Why do we care, it's not our tribe
The dead babies, boy that's tough
But who's counting, we've got enough
Lighten up now, don't be so cynical
Think of the damage as collateral
They're for the common good, the dead babies
If I believe that I'm crazy
I need a messiah to take me higher
I need a messiah to take me higher
I need a messiah to take me higher
I'm looking, looking for the mahatma
Last seen sitting in a salad bar
Looking for the mahatma
He got away but he couldna got too far
Looking for the mahatma
Last seen sitting in a salad bar
Looking for the mahatma
He got away but he couldna got-got, couldna got-got, couldna got-got too far
Break the barrier, cross the border
Serve it up, the new world order
Everywhere across the nation
Give it up to the corporations
Damn the child, forget the family
It's time for a whole new homily
Making money, it's the bitchest
It's survival of the richest, yeah
There's a word now - globalism
Listen up for the new catechism
All together now, in harmony
Compassion is so last century
Oh, drop those histrionics
You gotta wait: trickle-down economics
You're poor because you're lazy
If I believe that I'm crazy
I need a messiah to take me higher
I need a messiah to take me higher
I need a messiah to take me higher
I'm looking, looking for the mahatma
Last seen sitting in a salad bar
Looking for the mahatma
He got away but he couldna got too far
Looking for the mahatma
Last seen sitting in a salad bar
Looking for the mahatma
He got away but he couldna got-got, couldna got-got, couldna got-got too far
We need a hero, a new saviour
No more of that artificial flavour
A new Satchmo, a new Fonzy
Martin Luther, MK Gandhi
Oh that Gandhi, I think I saw him
At a party at the Hilton
He looked different, spoke Spanish
I tried to reach him but he vanished
I'm looking for the mahatma
Last seen sitting in a salad bar
Looking for the mahatma
He got away but he couldna got too far
Looking for the mahatma
Last seen sitting in a salad bar
Raghupati raghava rajaram, patita pavana sitaram
Raghupati raghava rajaram, patita pavana sitaram
I need a messiah to take me higher
I need a messiah to take me higher
I'm looking, looking for the mahatma
Last seen sitting in a salad bar
Looking for the mahatma
He got away but he couldna got too far
Looking for the mahatma
Last seen sitting in a salad bar
Looking for the mahatma
He got away but he couldna got-got, couldna got-got, couldna got-got too far
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Don't Laugh At The Sun
I'm caught in the thought again
How must it feel to be freewheeling like a tree frog
Running riot upon a limb
Head to the wind, chasing a pink gin while juggling a molotov
I take a look in the mirror > there, staring at me's
A beady-eyed, mealy-mouthed mangy dog
Looks me straight in the face he tries scratching his
Beard, weird, with his rear paw then cries aloud
Ha, don't laugh at the sun
It sees what you've done
Ha, don't howl at the moon
Just because you're feeling blue
I lie awake in my bed at night
I hear a sound underground, of a love that can't be drowned out
Three hundred melodies
What a noise, in one voice, this girl can put a clown down
Will they cry duplicity
When they come for me, so deliciously they played it
Maybe it's time for the motorbike
Take a long ride, can you hide from the shame
Ha, don't laugh at the sun
It sees what you've done
Ha, don't growl at the moon
Just because you're feeling blue
Ha, don't laugh at the sun
It knows what you've done
Ha, don't growl at the moon
Just because she's leaving soon
Ha, don't laugh at the sun
Ha, don't laugh at the sun
It sees what you've done
Ha, don't scowl at the moon
Just because you're feeling blue
Ha, don't laugh at the sun
It knows what you've done
Ha, don't scowl at the moon
Just because she's leaving you
Ha, don't laugh at the sun
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Fireflies
Grim tales by fairy lights
We sat mesmerised, mesmerised
Dancing iridescence in your eyes
Like fireflies
Partners in devilment
We grabbed each day, unafraid
But the cold hands of consequence
Broke the spell and wrecked the game
The sun went out today
For reasons you won't say
And I just can't look away
From those fireflies
Naked rage or self-defense
Will we ever know, who'll let go
No remorse or penitence
Can save the raft from the undertow
The sun went out today
And the colours burned into gray
But I just can't look away
From those hurting eyes
We hurt, we grieve
(Could we ever imagine this would be)
We don't concede
We hide, we blame
(We believed that the world would stay the same)
Our illusions won't efface the pain
It remains
The sun went out today
For reasons I can't say
And the colours died in the pale
Oh, the sun went out today
And I just can't look away
From those fireflies
Tall tales and satellites
All that remain
Turn back the day
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