1. SOMEWHERE I'LL BE FREE

Nowhere left to go, will I really know ?
Will I understand, even if you tell me ?
I'm a frightened man, just give me a glance.
Will you help me ?
I'm stumbling in the dark, it only takes a spark.
Someone light a candle in the night for me.
All these choices, another second chance,
To get me by. Can you see them ?
There's a place I know, a place to go.
A place that I know that I can go.
See it in my dreams, a place to be,
Where I can live peacefully.
Show me the road, how far to go.
Open my eyes that I might know.
Somewhere I'll be free, someone show me.
God, please show me...
What kind of man is this...
What kind of words are these...
Some things never change.
What kind of candle burns in the rain ?
So cold and wet, I'm beginning to rust.
Too much trust, trampled in the dust.
Walked hand in hand with the devil,
I'm now dragging this cross in search of an angel.
Body bruised and soul in knots,
I've climbed the highest mountain tops.
Through the storm, I've searched for shore.
On a bed of nails I wait... it's fate.
My labour days have come and gone.
The fire in my chest is all done.
The scorched earth has blackened the sky,
And still my heart beats, it beats...


2. MANDY

Good for Mom, she found a brand new man.
Mandy stood quiet, she's kind of shy.
Mom looks so happy.
Mandy's new Daddy taught her how to hide,
Taught her how to cry, she lived a lie.
Mandy's not dead, she learned to wear her scars -
Crawled out from the grave to touch the hand of God.
Learning to love, to cut away the hate.
She had something that he just couldn't take ...
Her will to live.Momma said, "Give him a try,
I'm sure he'll make an excellent father -
Daughter you know, I'm not getting any younger."
Mandy's new Daddy wanted her to love him,
Her to touch him, he liked to hear her cry.
Strapped upon a bed, much too tired to cry.
Doctor says baby's gone, and girl, you're too young to die.
Momma says she's full of lies and far too sleazy.
Brother says, "Try harder girl 'cause suicide's easy."


3. TELL ME WORLD

Can't stand to be alone, too much time on my own.
My mind's become the hunter, I become the prey.
If home is where the heart is, there's a helluva fight ahead.
Take this warning world, get off my back or someone's dead.
Now tell me world, tell me why should I fit in ?
Why should I belong - to a world so wrong ?
Now tell me why, tell me what makes you so right
Why should I conform, I can't fake it any more.
Hey world, tell me what does it mean
If I don't fit into yours ?
Throbbing in my head, burning in my eyes,
I've got a pack of hungry wolves just waiting for me to die.
Spinning, no control, the rock's finally stolen my soul.
This fight with life takes all my might, tonight I just might blow.
My false reality is fading like a dream.
This obsession with depression is forcing me to scream.
A million lying voices, taunting me with choices,
The preachers, teachers, liars and leaches drowning me in noise.


4. DIGNITY

Don't you know, I can't do what you want me to.
Something went wrong inside of me.
I can't believe, I can't believe my ears.
You're telling me everything can be alright.
I don't want , I don't want what you think I need.
The show's over, I'm not going to bleed for you.
Who do you think you are ?
You call yourself father.
You quit that gig years ago.
Just give it up, you say you're here for me.
Where were you, did you ever feed me ?
Let it go, don't cling to could be's.
I can't wait any more for you.
You're wasting time. Well, I've run out of time.
Take your hurt and pain and get on out of here.
Can't you see it's just too late for me.
Please leave me some dignity.
Don't push me, don't you try to help me.
Don't try to heal my wounds, this is my disgrace.
Should I beg, should I beg for help ?
If you're the one with answers, how did I end up here ?
Reach out, you want to save me.
Then pull me from this chair before this world fries me.
Scream out for mercy.
Scream out for something, I scream for nothing.
This world's become a crock.

Father, father, I'm scared, alone and in pain... I'm so ashamed.
Please hold me, hold me. I can't bear the end... please take me home.


5. ROSE AMONG THE THORNS

What can I say that tells my thoughts true ?
Where are the words to show my gratitude ?
Broken, your love reaching, pulled me through.
Oh!! Your love pulled me through. Your love pulled me through.
You've touched my life in ways I never knew.
My rose among the thorns, I give myself to you.
My rose among the thorns, I give myself to you.
When my emptiness stretches beyond imagination,
Your love rushes in like a mighty ocean.
Carries me away on your sea of salvation.
Carry me away on your waves of love.
My rose among the thorns, I give myself to you.
My rose among the thorns, I give myself to you.
I give you my heart, your love made it clean.
A timeless theme, On the wings of my dreams.
I search for your voice to light up my day.
When the sun shines in the sky, I see your face in its rays.
What a beautiful sound, got a beautiful beat.
Made of joy and strife, symphony of life.
What a beautiful noise. It's a sound that I love.


6. DREAMER'S PIE

In the distance I saw him coming,
Angel or devil, started to run.
Heels clicking, calling out, Son of man,
I've been waiting for you. He said,
I was the fire raping the night as your star fell from the sky.
I'm the rain cloud over the desert, that never rains,
Wonder why... you wonder why.
You look thirsty, let me wet your lips.
You whet my desire, let me quench your fire.
Don't you see, I offer liberty,
Fortune , fame and vanity.
I've bottled God's country and so much more.
Together we can punch a hole in the sky,
With one slice of my dreamer's pie.
Sing for joy, son, don't be shy.
Did a little jig and slapped his thigh.
A toothless grin and winked his eye.
You could say I'm the lucky kind.
Fortune's been a friend of mine.
Quickly, boy, time's slipping away.
I'm offering you just one more time.
You show a lot of promise for such a tender youth.
I'm getting impatient and sort of confused.
I've got drugs and the finest booze.
Mountains move with a twinkle of his eye.
But take a slice of his dreamer's pie.
Hey, don't believe the lie.
Remember you hate dreamer's pie.
Don't you see I offer liberty,
God's country and so much more.
Fortune , fame, who needs love with vanity ?
Have a slice of my dreamer's pie.


7. MR. ZERO

Where are you going Mr. Zero ?
Chest puffed out like you're a super hero.
Stretch marks on your eyes, from all your tears, Mr. Feeble.
Your quivering thighs shake your frail little ego.
Flying towards the fire, at the taunting of the flame.
It'll be the wreck of you, death of you,
You're sure to burn. You play a dangerous game.
Mr. Zero, heed the warning, your candle's burning low.
Your blood's on my hands, but I can wash them, you know.
Sleeping at the wheel, dreaming of a better deal.
Living life a murder, running from bullet to bullet.
Your head's in a noose, laughs at those who try to cut you loose.
Mr. Zero takes a slice whenever it feels nice.
Cry if you want to cry, sleeping baby lie.
Hate if you want to hate, see if it keeps you safe.
Pray, baby, pray. See it'll make you brave.
Run, baby, run. I'll put flowers on your grave.


8. HEY MAN

I woke up this morning with a voice in my head,
Totally convinced me that I was dead.
I looked in the mirror just to see,
It yanked me back to reality.
Last night I was sure I'd stepped over the line.
But I've done that time after time after time after time.
Definitely nothing new about that.
Yah, what can be said about that ?
Hey Man up in Heaven
Shine down some of that love upon me.
Hey Man up in Heaven
Smile down on me.
Don't get freaked out by the way that I am.
Plagued with doubts, I do the best that I can.
Don't think me jaded or overly cynical,
I've just become so damned analytical.
Hear me when I tell you that I can't fly.
I know that I'm just an average guy.
Looking and wanting and needing like you,
I turn to the One above,
Tell me you don't too.


9. PUNKER SONG

Today I'm gonna change.
Time to rearrange.
Today I'm gonna win.
Turn it all around, turn it all around.
Time to try again.No more running.
A new day's coming,
I'd like to take a stand.
The sun will rise and open my eyes.
I'd love to shake his hand.You see me in the light of day,
As I am.
You think your life's so sorry...
Compared to what?Today I'm gonna change.
Time to rearrange.
Today I'm gonna win.
Turn it all around, turn it all around.
Time to try again.
Gotta do it right !


10. PHARISAICAL FRIEND

Momma says so, Daddy says so,
I'm white, you're black, he's brown.
Don't you trust him !!! She's so different !!!
Don't let them come around.
Oh, look they're prayin', it goes without sayin'
Those people have no God.
When you're livin' too near, when you're livin' in fear,
When your back's against the wall,
Brother killin' brother, cursing each other,
The hatred infects us all.
We're all made of flesh and blood.
Where'd all this madness come from?
How did we ever fall so far ?
No one can win this war.
I know his type, I hate his face.
Who let that boat in anyway ?
If I had a gun, I'd solve some problems
I'd blow them back where they came from.
Your religion's dead, my Pharisaical friend,
You can't judge a book by its colour.
Livin' in the past won't change the past,
This game's become a blood lust.
We all lose if we all choose
Lettin' hatred loose among us.


11. IN THE GHETTO

As the snow flies,
On a cold and grey Chicago morn,
A poor little baby child is born
In the Ghetto.
...And his Momma cries.
'Cause if there's one thing that she don't need,
It's another hungry mouth to feed ...
In the Ghetto.And people don't you understand,
The child needs a helping hand.
Or he'll grow to be an angry young man someday.
Take a look at you and me,
Are we too blind to see.
Or do we simply turn our heads and look the other way ...
Well, the world turns.And a hungry little boy with a runny nose
Plays in the street as the cold wind blows
In the Ghetto...
And his hunger burns.
So he starts to roam the streets at night.
And he learns how to steal and he learns how to fight
In the Ghetto. Then one night in desperation, the young man breaks away -
He buys a gun, steals a car,
Tries to run, but he don't get far...
And his Momma cries.
As a crowd gathers 'round an angry young man
Face down in the street, with a gun in his hand
In the Ghetto...
As her young man dies.

On a cold and grey Chicago morn,
Another little baby child is born
In the Ghetto...
And as his Momma cries...