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MIND OVER FOUR LYRICS
"Half Way Down" (1993)
1. Half Way Down
2. Charged
3. Honor
4. Barriers And Passages
5. Cycle Of Experiencing People
6. Unknown Peers
7. Faith
8. My Name Is Nothing
9. Jack The Throne
10. Conscience Of A Nation
11. Then And Now
12. Funny Pocket
13. Coffee
1. Half Way Down
He sleeps blameless, tested
He dreams shameless
Holding his wisdom to his heart
He tries desperately to leave something behind
But from his sleep he does not return
And leaves not a mark on his page
Blameless the baby dies
2. Charged
All the things I've seen
It ain't no thing to me
All the pain I feel
It ain't got time to be real
Form is just illusion anyway
All the things I've been
It ain't no thing to me
All this color sound and noise
Out there breaking up the joys
All this color sound and more
Ain't no spies in the race war
Form is just tillusion anyway
All the tthings I've seen
It ain't no thing to me
Feel time slips away
Reaching the point of luck anyway
3. Honor
Spend our night in the cold
We don't mind, its out fight
It's honor among thieves
Took us here and there and everywhere
You've got to trust, who you must
Honor, to your back
Love, give much
Honor, face to face
4. Barriers And Passages
I hear some voices rising
From the film of life
I shield my ears
From the guilt of them
I hear some voices crying
From the pain of life
And I close my eyes
To the fall of them
Wanna feel the warming
Up around the bed
Gonna dance with all the madness
That is locked up in my head
But I know my time is coming
What I've done and who I've said
Pray at night the age old pligh
Before our eyes are dead
See those big holes
Drown blue skies
Clouding issues way on high
Won't I fear the nighttime?
Wanna blow away
Gonna dance with all the fire
That is burning in my day
But I know my time is coming
What I've done and who I've said
Pray at night the age old plight
Before our eyes are dead
See those big holes
Drown blue skies
Cluding issues way on high
I hear some voices rising
From the film of life
I close my eyes
To the fall of them
We have barriers and passages
It's such a beautiful life
5. Cycle Of Experiencing People
Today my child
You were born of me
Pass with blood to this world
Unprepared for what you'll see
Fill your days with a happy gaze
For before you know
Your arms will grow
Sore from a heavy heavy anger
Fill your so ul with self control
As you walk into
Today my child
You were born of me
And soon you'll meet
The ones you'll love
These are the ones
Who will feel your pain
So turn our head
And act untrue
And learn my child
That's what we all do
Make up your mind
Choices are your fate
Things you say can have a way
Of turning back upon you
No matter how you feel
Turn your head
And act untrue
Learn my child
That's what we all do
Today my child
You were born of me
Pass with blood to this world
Unprepared for what you'll see
6. Unknown Peers
All officials gathered for discussion
But that's nothing like life
All offensive figures they were crumbled
That ain't nothing like life here
He is not one of us
That is not part of us
It has no valid reason here
Knowingly the world is changing
Deep inside of you
With the speed of god's clock
Time is moving and life is coming on strong
The world is changing, and life is coming on strong
Time heals everything, or does it really
Life feels everyone, or does it really
Feel the blood is rushing down
My head is cold my eyes are loud
Fills the sttairways of my brain
Catch the bus to go insane
But I've got to hold on keep it fast
I've got to make this daytime last
For night is cold full of rain
Full of eyes that see the pain
Knowlingly the world is changing
Deep inside of you
with the speed of god's clock
He is not one of us
We did this willingly
We did not change the things that they
Do the things they do
Our voice was not heard
You can sit by
Idiling
And be robbed of our right
To choose what you might see
7. Faith
Floating in the sky
Hard to fall, falling hard
The call
Read it in a revelation
Havoc in the world
It's only temporary
Give up hope
It's only logical
Passing, slowly passing
Waiting for, a chance to believe
That you might fall
To your knees
Bed forgiveness
Asking please
Here stand I
Should I fall
Can I fall
To a world where daily we die
Then we rise again
That you might fall
To your knees
Beg forgiveness
Asking please
Wading where no man believes
Flying so high
My body in the air
Covers ground
Covers despair
This tribal news
Braking us down
Guiding force headed
Down to the ground
It fucks with your lift
Hodling books they wave high
as they talk of your soul
But they read with their eyes
They got hearts made of clay that formed them that way
They've gold in their pockets
And blood on their lies
Coming to a fork in the road
One says yes, the other no
Then fire from the sky
Fire in the eyes
Blood on the hands from a feast made of lives
Raising a toast to heaven
Gazing down on the land
That you might fall
To your knees
Beg forgiveness
Asking please
Read it in a revelation
8. My Name Is Nothing
Alone hand reaches toward the fire
The urns are steel and marble cold
Angelique tomorrow will avoid you
Cut your hair of then you cut his throat
Finding me tattered
Lifting me like a flower
All eyes look for you
You took your love away
All signs read your name
You took your life away
Finding me tattered
Lifting me like a flower
Soul father he has no color
What's in a name wings on heaven
White robes that fall graceful
Angelique many tried to second guess
The wisdom of your choice
Was it in vain if you'd seen him
With my eyes you would know
Eyes so clear skin of water
Love from heaven couldn't let him go
9. Jack The Throne
We witness a country in decline
Shadows growing on her sores
America, her city streets swell with cardboard communities
Jails are full, courts are backed up
Armies are everywhere but home
Schools are closing?
Artists are crying, no longer
Screaming bloody murder
As they mourn their fallen majesty
The young boys hold their drunk mother
They love her
They find it hard to pledge of allegiance
They find it hard tto believe that
God shed his grace on thee
Steel fibers in my soul
Raise men on pedestals
Fall, twisted missed it again
Race, human, human
The waking of dichotomy
Translucent eyes
That shatter dreams
They shatter though it matters not
Tend to delay our reason
For treason
Sad, sad, treason
Rationales, left behind
They jack the throne
With punches thrown
Korans and bibles
Sticks and stones
Laid out now I can't take it
Anymore and I won't make it
That's nice now I'm talking to mice
And I ain't got nothing coming back
Look through the window
It looks so strange
How did I get here what is this nightmare
Thirty five days
Sixty more to go
The wind plays the ocean songs
Just below the moon
Flame holds the gentle camp
Just beyond the dune
Right diminish, and relinquish
Dancing in the tide
Steel fibers in my soul
Raise men on pedestals
Fall twisted missed it again
Race human, human
I don't deal to sadness
The wound goes on and on
Son to son before
Throughout this life ignore
The fact that nothing changes
You can scream if you want to
You can cry if you want to
Nothing changes
10. Conscience Of A Nation
In the name of the father
In the name of the son
I've been trying to find my way back home
I want to go home again
I need to go home
Brings a good man down
To think of what he's done
In the name of tomorrows
In the name of yesterdays
The wake of the path I've laid
Destruction and sorrow
Brings a good man down
To think of what he's done
I've driven to prison
10,000 souls locked in side
Iron bars tell no lies
They constitute, iron eyes
Iron eyes
11. Then And Now
I've got an address in my pocket
It feels so far away
I want to write you a letter
I know what I feel but not what to say
They said your daddy's gone
Forever
Your mammas got the jesus in her eyes
I tell you boy it's a faith like that
That can make those mountains fly
Politics in 66
Served black and white that wouldn't mix
With sex and sin and nude and paisley flowers
Then and now I think of times
I nearly almost lost my mind
Under the influence of ancient powers
And I'd say
Where's the window
Where's the door
Where is the other side
Where does my freedom lie
Politics in 66
They blew the line and made them fix
They drowned out the feeling likt the power
Now that I see for tomorrow what will bring
I say
Where's the window
Where's the door
Where is the other side
Where does freedom lie
They said love is a long lost power
But now I feel that it's gone away
12. Funny Pocket
Out of his funny pocket
Was the change from last nights fare
This has gone too far
Eagle eyes spot them lies
Tangled webs, or so we weave
Move so fast out of gas
Out of food and out of need
See the guy caught inside
Take a turn but it never comes
Close his eyes moves ahead
Sure to bite the hand thatt feeds him
He may need it someday
There's a freakly little piggy staring down at me
And I'm thinking my sins ain't as bad as they seem
I don't wanna get high
I don't wanna get low
I just want to fly, by the seat of my pants
So dance baby dance
And don't ever let go
Cuz the sound of the drum
Was our call to war
If you've got to rise up from where you are
Keep your ear to the floor
And your feet on the ground
You may need it someday
Was a bo, had a toy
Kissed the girls and made them die
When the boys came out to play
Shot them up and drove away
Didn't stop to wonder why
Asked no questions
Heard no lies
Didn't have to be that way
Just the way he felt that day
It rolled out of his funny pocket
With the change from last nights fare
Mamma didn't understand
So he knocked her down and stole her money too
The blood on my tongue
Is the blood for no one
The light in my eyes
Is fading to nighttime
The rules are insane
They draw you in and hold you out
The bodies remain
They won't survive the winter
All tthe blodies
Well they dropped the time
Now get in line and take your turn
It's time to bleed
The blood on my tongue
Is the blood for no one
The light in my eyes
Is fading to nighttime
The rules are insane
They drive you in and hold you out
The bodies remain
Their love
Their life
The winter
All the blodies
Well they dropped the dime
Now get in line and take your turn
It's time to bleed
13. Coffee
Walking down a dirty side walk
An arms length from traffic
An old man pushes a cart
Full of aluminum cans and shit
Strolling past him not glancing back
I turn into Norm's coffee shop
Two large coffees please
Black
To go of course
Leave a nice tip
This is not a poem
The boredom of murder over and over
Like childhood dreams and stories
Like promises of futurse
The conversation ndrifts
Into cracks we start
The walls are colorstained motel rooms
He adds another bullet and drives away
We turn the channel
Goodnight
Look at all the little children
Dancing withoutt clouded vision
Happy just to run around
Not thinking of the world around them
This is not a poem
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