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JOHN CONNELLY THEORY LYRICS
"Back to Basics" (1991)
1. Intro
2. Bizarre Noise
3. Aggressive
4. In Memory
5. Hardwire
6. Hold Your Head Up
7. Charlie Brownstone
8. Harlan's Nightmare
9. Back From The Past
10. 7/8 Solution
11. Joe's Tune
12. L.H.A.
1. Intro
2. Bizarre Noise
A way to see
Maybe I don't see things as you do
A way to hear
You have to listen before you can move
Observers always change what
They observe
Everything is always happening at once
A result is always dependent upon observation
All things co-exist as a potential viewpoint of perception
What is this surface tension of a crop
Of falling water anyway
3. Aggressive
I have a feeling that my words
will not be heard they'll be ignored
they years have passed me by i'm growing old and tired
the time of dreams is gone by
no longer blind to the pain
of a lifetime blown
my life spent on the road
4. In Memory
Living in a world of iron bars that
you have forged
living in a cage of self restraint
life in chains molded from your
expectations
a life bulit on a lie
stop and think about yourself
maybe you're not as alone as you think
feel the weight of life upon yourself
if you're tired then stop and sit down
with me
outcast from your hopes, exiled from your dreams
why do you live this lie
placing choices you should make upon the backs of others
giving up your sense of self
after i've gone please don't grieve me
i'll still live on in your memory
5. Hardwire
Another day another lie to yourself
build a fantasy to live
reality a myth the truth rearrangened
ignoring whats real
you carry decipt within
when you lie to yourself
you're living in your own world
and it makes your life hell
view the world through the prisms of your dreams
your mind shapes what you see
eyes staring blind at what you don't want to percive
to be part of your beliefs
live out your days in a world all your own
you think it's all that is real
existence in a dream, the hardwired brain
to this fantastic dream
6. Hold Your Head Up
And if it's bad
Don't let it get you down, you can take it
And if it hurts
Don't let them see you cry, you can make it
Hold your head up, Oh, hold your head up
Oh, hold your head up, Oh, hold your head high
Hold your head up, Oh, hold your head up
Oh, hold your head up, Oh, hold your head high
And if they stare
Just let them burn their eyes on your beauty
And if they shout
Don't let it change a thing that you're doing
Hold your head up, Oh, hold your head up
Oh, hold your head up, Oh, hold your head high
Hold your head up, Oh, hold your head up
Oh, hold your head up, Oh, hold your head high
Hold your head up, hold your head up
Hold your head up, hold your head up
Hold your head up, hold your head up
Hold your head up, hold your head up
Hold your head up, hold your head up
Hold your head up, hold your head up
Hold your head up
And if they stare
Just let them burn their eyes on your beauty
And if they shout
Don't let it change a thing that you're doing
Hold your head up, Oh, hold your head up
Oh, hold your head up, Oh,
7. Charlie Brownstone
( the lyrics weren’t in the booklet but it goes something like this)
Hey…you remember me
I was the kid with the blanket
I still remember the day when Charlie went nuts
So did pepperment patty and her friend kiddie boy
You remember his teacher *werid noise*
Heh…Charlie got fed up with trying to understand her words and wasted her in front of the whole town *noise of a gun shot*
Lucy pulled that football one time too many…he got a hatchet in her skull
Franklin…he’s in 24/7 seven spies
8. Harlan's Nightmare
visions crowding my mind
imagination storm
i don't understand whats happening to me
loss of self control
another mind in me
help me, god i am afraid of this diesease
scream, yes i would
if there was a way
fear, rips through my mind
release me from this pain
my body moves without me
this feels too strange
i can't control myself my mind is not my own
going out into the world
compelled by things unseen
i have no voice yet i must scream
hands grasp and restrain me
relocating me
locking me away my freedom is no more
how can i get through to you
how can i explain
i'm a prisoner in my mind and in these walls
9. Back From The Past
young and confident, ones set out into the world
the ignorance of youth, the arrogance not to care
and as time goes by a process soon begins
the bright hopes of youth start slowly wearing thin
middle age setting in and hopes begin to fade
opportunites passed by, back to work there's bills to pay
nose to the grindstone put your shoulder to the wheel
put away the dreams of youth and start to act your age
now many years are passed, my eyes are etched in pain
facing the end of life a disillusioned man
looking back upon my youth and at a waste of life
surely better to fight your dreams than let them
slowly die
10. 7/8 Solution
11. Joe's Tune
Born into this place
my life will soon become a waste
all you do is wait to die
cover my eyes so i can't see
and burn my thoghts internally
when i try to speak
words come out but the meaning is weak
just more sounds that fill the street
cover my eyes so i can't see
and burn my thoughts internally
block my ears so i can't hear
sounds were never so crystal sclear
what lies further down the street
lost souls their home concrete
it doesn't really matter when there's nowhere else to go
why paint a picture when there's no one else to show
12. L.H.A.
(this song is also in Nuclear Assault's album Third World Genocide except it is long)
Well people with short hair and business suits
they caused the S&L disaster
we'll be paying for that for the rest of our lives
but i'm a long haired asshole
and people with short hair and business suits
they run the C.I.A.
they break the laws they're supposed to protect
but i'm a long haired asshole
and people with short hair and business suits
they run all organized crime
they dress real neat, and smell so sweet
but i'm a long haired asshole
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