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FAITH AND FIRE LYRICS
"Accelerator" (2006)
1. Ready
2. Villanelle
3. Everything
4. Radio Superstar
5. Breathe
6. Faith And Fire
7. Fallen
8. Ashes
9. Avenue Z
10. Accelerator
11. Angel
1. Ready
Raise the flag, gonna pack my rags
(in a) carpet bag 'cause I'm ready.
I am the man, shake your hand, destroy your land,
I am ready.
Retribution, my solution, electrocution -
'cause I'm ready.
Vote for me or not for me
It was meant to be - y'all ready?
And if you criticize me or patronize me
my hand is on my gun.
What the paper's sayin' while the band is playin�,
I'm tellin' you I won.
Don�t stop me - I�m feelin� so much better, all right...Yeah.
Hey, while I where this hat, the pig gets fat,
you can hear him scratchin' already.
Like my father before, fuck the poor!
All we need is war so get ready.
I'm a drunken fool, slept through school,
now I make the rules and I'm ready.
Gotta say some things& do some things -
don't you pull my strings 'til I'm ready.
And if you criticize me or patronize me,
my hand is on my gun.
What the paper's sayin' while the band is playin�,
I'm tellin' you I won.
And I�ll stand before you now
that I growed up to be President
no matter what it takes.
You've lost the right to choose;
there ain't no way I can ever lose
with these New Knighted Snakes.
All hail the newborn king!
I can't believe this is happening
to such a mediocre man.
Better pour myself a drink -
my daddy sez if I try to think,
we gonna fuck the master plan.
Step right up & vote for me, pull the lever on WWIII.
2. Villanelle
Would you think me to go gently, knowing what I know,
while the lightning strikes so far from here?
{Villanelle, O Villanelle}
But a riddle, evidently, is poetry in Hell,
and the answer's always far from clear.
{Villanelle, O Villanelle}
Is the measure of a man all that slips from out your hand
while you're waiting for your life to turn around?
For the measure of your life
falls from one edge of the knife,
and from the other fall the years upon the ground.
{Villanelle, O Villanelle}
From the moment we stop burning,
One angel knows the sound
of a soul that's giving up the fight.
{Villanelle, O Villanelle}
Do we leave or keep returning to another patch of ground
just to rage against the dying light?
{Villanelle, O Villanelle}
Is the measure of a man all that slips from out your hand
while you're waiting for your life to turn around?
For the measure of your life
falls from one edge of the knife
and from the other fall the years upon the ground.
{Villanelle, O Villanelle}
3. Everything
Well-isn't it a great big world?
And-don't you wanna be someone?
Well-do you don't you wanna make your stand?
Yeah-if you wanna walk like a man,
you only gotta raise your hand & walk on...
Yeah- everything is gonna be allright
Hey-you wanna live your whole life long -
Alone - and never get to sing your song?
Well-that ain't the way it's s'posed to be.
aHey-I'm only tryin to make you free,
& if U wanna walk with me - c'mon...
Yeah- everything
is gonna be allright
You'll be my eyes, and we shall be lovers,
and I'll be your voice, forsaking all others,
and we shall be one, in a place of our own.
Yeah- everything is gonna be allright.
4. Radio Superstar
Good morning losers, are you staring at the light?
(Radio Superstar)
Coast to Coast, day & night, gonna make you feel all right.
(Radio Superstar)
I am the one,all across the nation.
What do you want? It's the same on every station;
Will you turn me on?
Turn me on, Radio Superstar.
Turn me on, Radio Superstar,
Does anybody wonder where you are?
Don't worry 'bout the money, kid,
we got it out the ass.
(Radio Superstar)
Passing lane on the highway to hell w/both feet on the gas.
Yes! (Radio Superstar)
We rule the waves, controlling all transmissions.
ya don't hear your favorites, thank your politicians.
Will you turn me on?
Turn me on, Radio Superstar.
Turn me on, Radio Superstar,
Does anybody wonder where you are?
I am the one, all across the nation
What do you want? It's the same on every station.
Will you turn me on?
Turn me on, Radio Superstar.
Radio Superstar, does anybody wonder where you are?
5. Breathe
Good morning losers, are you staring at the light?
(Radio Superstar)
Coast to Coast, day & night, gonna make you feel all right.
(Radio Superstar)
I am the one,all across the nation.
What do you want? It's the same on every station;
Will you turn me on?
Turn me on, Radio Superstar.
Turn me on, Radio Superstar,
Does anybody wonder where you are?
Don't worry 'bout the money, kid,
we got it out the ass.
(Radio Superstar)
Passing lane on the highway to hell w/both feet on the gas.
Yes! (Radio Superstar)
We rule the waves, controlling all transmissions.
ya don't hear your favorites, thank your politicians.
Will you turn me on?
Turn me on, Radio Superstar.
Turn me on, Radio Superstar,
Does anybody wonder where you are?
I am the one, all across the nation
What do you want? It's the same on every station.
Will you turn me on?
Turn me on, Radio Superstar.
Radio Superstar, does anybody wonder where you are?
BREATHE
Time is a line, liquid & fine
can such an invention divine the divine?
Time is a game, a rope and a chain,
learning old lessons again & again
Remembered in pieces of dreams we recall,
forgotten like plans that amounted to nothing at all,
& we breathe & we move without cause or direction.
Will you walk alongside me as long as it takes,
while the world keeps on spinning the near into far?
Will you place your hands over my heart when it breaks,
'til we wake to the dream of how perfect we are?
& we breathe & we move
&we fade fade into failing old memories.
Will you walk alongside me as long as it takes
while the world keeps on spinning the near into far?
Will you place your hands over my heart when it breaks
'til we wake to the dream of how perfect we are?
& we breathe & we hear & we see
without tearing our eyes out
Time & again - you rise & descend
to stare at your life through a darkening lens.
In time we all must be rendered to dust,
from mountains to valleys from iron into rust.
Awake for the fear of the dreams that may come,
pretending to sleep while your counting the beat of the drum,
& we breathe & we move without cause or direction.
6. Faith And Fire
What's the matter here? Have we lost our faith and fire?
We had the key to forever, but we never ever learn.
Is the music that you hear getting harder to remember?
Does your heart go cold whenever the memories return?
Stop looking at me - like I've got the the answer.
(Ain't no mystery) you get off the floor & out the door,
(with ballzaplenty, yeah)
Get up! there's a full moon in the sky,
& there's reason that were all alive for what it's worth,
& flying on this planet Earth,
C'mon! Is there a woman in your life?
Is there a man you'd love to pull aside & tell him why
the feeling in your heart won't die?
Forgive me for suggesting that you're looking like flower.
You've been waiting in the window just little bit too long.
Are you dead or only resting? Well, I'm giving you the power,
& if you drink it deep within you,
It'll leave you feeling strong.
Stop looking at me � like I've got the the answer.
(Ain't no mystery) you get off the floor & out the door
(with ballzaplenty, yeah)
Get up! there's a full moon in the sky,
& there's reason that were all alive for what it's worth,
& flying on this planet Earth,
C'mon! Is there a woman in your life?
is there a man you'd love to pull aside & tell him why
the feeling in your heart won't die?
7. Fallen
Saw you standing in Gomorrah with a sign across
your chest
(& it read) "Salvation for the righteous, Damnation to
the rest."
Saw you marching down the neutral ground,
with a cross upon your back,
Like a sad avenging angel preparing to attack.
Fallen, fallen,
A sacred heart on Icarus wings.
Your God's a cop-killer bullet, he's a suicide pill,
and if Hell don't getcha, Baby Heaven will.
Fallen, fallen,
far from the one who made everything.
Nobody hears & nobody cares in the big black hole
where they bury your prayers.
Now I'm dancing up the alley, saving souls, forgivin� sin,
the faithful up above me, they're laughin in the wind.
My queen is right beside me, gettin high & looking fine,
with a word I'm gonna turn this twisted river into wine.
Fallen, fallen,
A sacred heart on Icarus wings.
Your God's a cop-killer bullet, he's a suicide pill,
and if Hell don't getcha, Baby Heaven will.
Fallen, fallen,
far from the one who made everything.
Nobody hears & nobody cares in the big black hole
where they bury your prayers.
Saw you standing in a doorway with a Bible in your hand,
& something evil in the other, you nasty little man.
There's a moral to the story; The Devil's never far behind.
When I come again in Glory, your sorry ass is mine.
8. Ashes
I see you all - from the street where I lay,
shot through with a roaring thunder-
still it sounds far away.
Heart pale as the moon, body thin as the wind,
remove me, the dust on your windowpane.
What is my name but a sign on a wall?
No time for fear or anger, no answer when I call.
I rise like smoke to the sun, erase the light like a cloud.
Disturb me, the ash beneath your feet.
Now tomorrow's too late for me
In the 9th moon of the year.
Set a course to a blinding sun with sails afire.
If I asked you to wait for me, the wind is all you'd hear.
I am nowhere and everywhere and I wait for ever.
I heard it all, while the Summer turned to Fall.
Heard you cry out in blind confusion
at the foot of the castle wall.
I reach for your hand through the fire
while silence explodes into light,
cold as the stones beneath your feet.
9. Avenue Z
Got time to kill, money to burn.
& burn it will 'cause I just don't learn.
Gonna raise yer hand, drink yer health,
Gettin� ready for the night.
There's crazy Mary, crack-smokin' ho,
8-ball Ray & Puerto Rican Joe. How you doin�? Get in line
for the bathroom on the right!
Exiled to Brooklyn, What the hell am I doin' here?
An adopted son of Kensington drowning in my beer.
Walk with me to Avenue Z - imagine my surprise...
They�ve got the sand & the sea at Avenue Z -
You won't believe your eyes & I�m back again...
Walk with me (There's a place I know)
to Avenue Z (where the freaks all go.)
you won't believe your eyes.
They�ve got the sand & the sea (Another night in hell,)
at Avenue Z (belly up in the wishing well.)
imagine my surprise, 'cause I'm back again
Well, well, well...
There's Ramon, better back him up
('cause) there's cross-eyed Liza with an empty cup
She seen him coming 'bout a mile away
& he doesn't stand a chance.
There's Doug & Ricky, don't they ever sleep?
Drugs liquor & women, that's way too deep,
but they're ready to roll 'cause they just got paid,
everybody gettin high.
San Juan up above me, got Bollywood below
got a sleeper cell across the hall;
don't ask me how I know...
10. Accelerator
I stand straight with my back to a disaster,
before the wound that drove a nation insane.
Before me rises an ancient tower
bearing man's first arc across a river (& I said)
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah (Accelerator)
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
I've been lookin to find my way home,
still looking - still looking.
I've been lookin to find my way home,
still looking - still looking
Saw a young girl sleeping in Saint Patrick's' Cathedral,
a black Flying V at her side.
She has run away to the hardest place in this world.
Almighty God, don't send her too soon into the next
(& He said)
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah (Accelerator)
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
I've been lookin to find my way home.
still looking - still looking.
I've been lookin to find my way home,
still looking - keep looking.
11. Angel
Did it have to take so long - my time was nearly gone,
been walkin' somewhere since the day that I was born.
The men I've had to be- not one of them was me;
I've found myself in clothes I should have never worn.
Then in a place where love had never walked before,
the room was filled with a blinding light.
One voice on every breath, one face in every door,
can this be wrong when it feels so right?
I'd gladly live my whole life over
to stand beside my angel.
In dreams I tell the world I love her
when I stand beside my angel.
I never spent the time, not a dollar not a dime;
I never gave a lot for memories.
I kept it all within or cast it to the wind;
I never took myself too seriously.
Then in a place where love had never walked before,
the room was filled with a blinding light.
One voice on every breath, one face in every door,
can this be wrong when it feels so right?
I'd gladly live my whole life over
to stand beside my angel
In dreams I tell the world I love her
when I stand beside my angel.
(And will she love me �til the stars fall from the sky,
because they could not match the jewels behind her eyes?)
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