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MIND OVER FOUR LYRICS
"Desperate Expression" (1983)
1. Introduction
2. Joker Society
3. Walking Outside
4. Shades Of White
5. Halfway Down
6. Still Nacht
1. Introduction
I feel so alone today
No more children left to play
Innocent victims of their aggression
This is the age of desperate expression
Why?
2. Joker Society
Last generation, in its teen years
Groovin' kids with limited years
Well happiness takes no orders
The president is a joker
So are his wars
His stupid embassy in others' soil
These white liars
You choose to believe
'cause you're all a part
Of a joker society
Joker society
Proud and true
People hide behind
The red, white and blue
People are starving
Desparate for money
You spend it on missiles
And put us in jail?
So the last generation
Cannot really smile
While you hide us and pretend
The end
The end
3. Walking Outside
Chapter 1
Sunshine!
Flowers!
Pretty little understatement
Talk her for a walk outside
Chapter 2
I'm walking on the edge
ready for life and death
Chapster 3
Walking on my painted
Walking walking
Walking walking
Walking outside
Epilogue
Hold on tight
Breath untied
Let her loose
Kill her lies
Kill her lies
4. Shades Of White
Shades of white
Float endlessly
Under shadows, over me
Through deep green moss
And singing air
By trees it flew
In halftone blue
Do you care?
Does it matter?
"Time is dear"
Did you utter?
"Time is money
Have to hurry"
If you find us
Please
Don't wake us
Endless paths through
Carpet grass
Painted fields and
Lakes of shimmer
Lost in time
Tumbling panorama
5. Halfway Down
Halfway down the stairs
Is a stair where I sit
There isn't any other stair
Quite like it
It isn't at the bottom
And it isn't at the top
So this is the stair
Where I always stop
Halfway down the stairs
Isn't up and it isn't down
It isn't in the nursery
It isn't in the town
And all sorts of funny thoughts
Run round my head
It really isn't anywhere
It's someplace else instead
Love is my answer
I see a vision ahead
Is it a painting of a billion dead children
Killed by their parents' ignorance
I see an event happening now on the
Other side of norhing through
The outer space in my mind
A dying family, no food to eat
Beacuse we're all so happy now
Love?
In the future
Release yourselves from the rules
Of their sick game
Enter our future
Paint your picture
Of the future
Paint it with love
Paint a picture of the future
It is your canvas now
Take it in your hearts
Do the way it shows you how
Lost in time
Grand illusion
Separate from our intrusion
Take it now, into your hands
The future of man
In the meantime
While you're driving your nice car
Going to work for somebody you'll never see
Think about the people dying
They cannot do anything
But you can do everything
Ignoring, you are guilty
Ignoring, you are guilty
Where is your love?
Where is your love?
My name is
I don't know
Too many bottles in my day
I live in the streets of youknowwhere
You never see me, but you always stare
And laugh at my misfortune
Where were you when I was working?
For years, the ghettos
Everywhere around me is violence
Hate, deception
Beacuse of anotehr race thinking
That they're better than me
Where is their love?
10 years old, he's a junkie
Started out when he was younger
His gift was to be good in music
He'll be dead before he can use it
I've got no food and I'm poor now
Where do I go for my next meal?
All these silly politicians
Never had to eat rations
No food stamps, no welfare
Just a Cadillac and the power
Where is their love?
Where is their love?
So paint the picutre
Of the future
But in this canvas
Don't forget your love
I hear the cry of sadness
Revolution madness
In the streets
In the ghetto
In the hears of our children
It is their world
Not ours
You take it from them
Give it back
And let them paint the picture
Of their future
Paint our picture
I'm dying now
6. Still Nacht
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