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NON-FICTION LYRICS
"In the Know" (1992)
1. Preface
2. In The Know
3. First And Lasting Impressions
4. Acceptance
5. A Million Tears Ago
6. Next To Nothing
7. Reason To Die
8. Reason To Live
9. All My Needs
10. Peaked
11. No Comment
12. Sound Decisions
13. The Naked Truth
14. One Last Time
1. Preface
It's greed, it's nothing short of detestable greed
That moves each day from sunrise to sunset
It's what makes the world go on down
Don't fool yourself into thinking otherwise
I want, I want, I want
I'll take and take and take
I feed and feed and feed
Like a leech locked to your life
I used to think there was more
To life than selfishness
But I revealed that myth centuries ago
The longer I live, the better I get it
Talk about becoming
A product of your environment
Your looking at him
I want, I want, I want
I'll take and take and take
I feed and feed and feed
Like an animal, I envy and hate human life
2. In The Know
Pull me back to sanity
Lost hold I'm drifting
Out of orbit through my head,
For a grip, I'm sifting
Years ago or was it days
I can't remember,
I slipped out of phase
With normal life dismembered
From within my mind
I'll sneer and peer
But I'll never show
I'm in the know
Safe inside my solitary self surviving
Coma rents my body I don't need reviving
From within my mind
I'll sneer and peer
But I'll never show
I'm in the know
I can clearly see how people blur their feelings
I've got no use for such pretentious daily dealings
From within my mind
I'll sneer and peer
But I'll never show
I'm in the know
I'm in the know
In the know, in the know, in the know
3. First And Lasting Impressions
The first and lasting impressions
Are foremost, all there is
The surface is a perfect place
One I'd like to efface
What are you thinking as we converse?
I'm so self conscious
You call me vain, say I disdain
It's just the reverse
The first and lasting impressions
Are foremost, all there is
The surface is a perfect place
One I'd like to efface
The brief and crucial
Small talk scene
Where my true colours
Are rarely seen
I'm put on the spot, thick in the plot
Assign "me" my label
A name can grow, but the person no
Not if they're stable
The first and lasting impressions
Are foremost, all there is
The surface is a perfect place
One I'd like to efface
Get out of my face
4. Acceptance
I'm dying to get inside
It's so cold out here tonight
Time marches, time marches on
Don't leave me
I'll do anything to gain your trust
Grovel, imitate, just to adjust
Who am I?
I can't lie
No matter how I try and try
Myself I'll be
Unequivocally
Peer pressure, I'm finally free
Acceptance, acceptance
Acceptance, acceptance
Acceptance, acceptance
Acceptance, acceptance
5. A Million Tears Ago
I've seen that face before
Disguise that someone wore
Beneath which sadness smiled
Out joy grinned all the while outside
Sail, sail beyond the pain
A million tears ago
Such grief I could not know
Today it's all I feel
What once was worry now is real
Sail, sail beyond the pain
Sails of salvation fill and strain
How quickly and sickly
Perception can change
Disgusting, this adjusting
Why can't life remain calm
Sail, sail beyond the pain
Sails of salvation fill and strain
Sail, sail beyond the pain
Sails of salvation fill and strain
6. Next To Nothing
I've got a secret
I'd care to share with you
I've got a question
I need the answer to
Ask me who I am,
I can but try to tell
Why am I like this?
I don't even know myself
I thought I was really something
But, of myself, I know next to nothing
Characteristics
Shaped at an early age
Make me this person
Who's nature I try to gauge
Am I a leader?
Or do I follow?
Tearing my mind apart
Is such sweet sorrow
I thought I was really something
But, of myself, I know next to nothing
So much frustration,
So little time
Still searching onward
Afraid of who I'll find
I thought I was really something
But, of myself, I know next to nothing
I thought I was really something
But, of myself, I know next to nothing
Why did I do the things I did
To all the perfect ones I knew?
Knowing me, I'm apt to do it again
And again and again to you
Why did I do the things I did
To all the perfect ones I knew?
Knowing me, I'm apt to do it again
And again and again to you
7. Reason To Die
I'm trying to reason with myself, why do I try?
I'm trying to laugh all I can muster is a sigh
Smile for me 'cause I cannot
I'll stagnate and slowly rot
Abandoning reason is reason enough to die
My passion has fled from me
Some countless years ago
Existence a deep stairwell
Descending through the woe
Blame myself I always will
Love autumn's depressing chill
The gloom of a season is reason enough to die
I'm at the end of my rope
I'm floundering, grasping
But can't get a grip on hope
Oh miserable me so short on purpose and on love
Just wasting the gift
That we're all given from above
A dreary lifetime ends,
My living I can't defend
My final chapter entitled reason enough to die
Reason enough to die
8. Reason To Live
All I wanted was a reason to live,
Was I asking too much
Everybody needs a reason to live
Not just a lame crippling crutch
All I wanted was some strength
To try and try again
I've exhausted my entire supply
Crestfallen fallen
All I wanted was a reason to live, to embrace
Without direction I'm just one more poor lost case
Every time I think I've got a chance, I wake up
Nothing's better than a dead end dream
To pick me up
All that lies ahead of me
Is pitiful complacency
All I wanted was a reason to live,
Said I know
But my future's coming bleak at best
So shallow
Day to day I walk a programmed path
How 'bout you
Why can't I add meaning to my life
I wish I knew
All that lies ahead of me
Is pitiful complacency
All I wanted was a reason to live
Doesn't hurt to ask
But pain wrenches behind my sane
And solemn mask
At a point in time of no return,
By myself
I was one who couldn't seem to learn
To love life itself
All that lies ahead of me
Is beautiful discovery
9. All My Needs
Lift this cross off
Lift it off my back
Inner strength I lack
Take this world out
Out of my sight
Blinds me to the fright
Stay by my side
In all my needs
Be thou my guide
Light the idea
Dim within my heart
Embers itching to start
No exceptions
To your rule
We're all blundering fools
Stay by my side
In all my needs
Be thou my guide
Lift this cross off
Lift it off my back
Inner strength I lack
Take this world out
Out of my sight
Blinds me to the fright
Stay by my side
In all my needs
Be thou my guide
10. Peaked
You showed me the way to fail
How to sink before I sailed
Success it has been derailed
Oh yeah, you really messed me up
You really messed me up
Ceaselessly told of my worth
How you regretted my birth
Childhood void of joy and mirth
Oh yeah, you really messed me up
You really messed me up
The peak, peaked
The peak, peaked
Still I dream, out of steam
Self-esteem torn at the seems
Anger burns, try to turn
Nothing into something learned
Still I dream, out of steam
Self-esteem torn at the seems
Anger burns, try to turn
Nothing into something learned
Now you're gone and I'm reborn
Depression I've since outworn
Against your ways I'm solemnly sworn
Oh yeah, you really messed me up
You really messed me up
The peak, peaked
The peak, peaked
11. No Comment
12. Sound Decisions
Words away I pray to find my way
Time to face the truth or fade away
When the world won't budge or give nor bend
Winning may mean losing a close friend
To choose between two
What should I do to you?
My heart and mind
Fused firm I find I'm blind
I only see one route
There is no room to doubt
My sound decision
I must separate
Before debate
Decides my fate
Think clear as a bell
Do not dwell
On the knell
I only see one route
There is no room to doubt
My sound decision
I only see one route
There is no room to doubt
My sound decision
13. The Naked Truth
I hate to tell you but all good things must end
Even little lies between good friends
I wanted to believe every word you'd say
Confusing conclusions I reached every day
Swear it, make me promises
The kind that cause my heart
To race and crash into a wall
Burn it, just burn my time away
Then push me to the edge
And tell me how I'll love the fall
The naked truth
Wrapped all around me
The naked truth
Can't you be straight with me?
Convincing, you're so convincing, yes you are
But nonsense can only be pushed just so far
Delusion, an edge that you hone sharp as hell
In leaving, I gladly bid you fare-thee-well
The naked truth
Wrapped all around me
The naked truth
Can't you be straight with me?
The naked truth
Wrapped all around me
The naked truth
Can't you be straight with me?
The naked truth
Wrapped all around me
The naked truth
Can't you be straight with me?
14. One Last Time
Mercy, I can't tell you how I feel
Controversy within my set of ideals
Well they're all screwed upside down
I just can't deal
You consume me,
My every thought, my every move
You are perfect,
You could never improve
And what I swore I'd never do again
I'd beg to do for you
One last time for you
One last time for you
One last time for you
Now just show me what you want me to do
You know I love you
So you wield that upper hand
Put in my place,
Where I belong submissive man
If I could only see what a joke I really am
One last time for you
One last time for you
One last time for you
Now just show me what you want me to do
One last time for you
One last time for you
One last time for you
Now just show me what you want me to do
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