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| DEAR
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loving, over and over again it ain't nothing girl, till you've felt the pain up against the wall, why does love always have to hurt your scratches run across my back and then a tear dear lover, i can't take the pain no more dear lover, i pick my heart up from the floor dear lover, i can't believe its come to this dear lover, give me one last painful kiss there ain't nothin', in this world for free now so how high of a price will you pay hear the screams so loud, wake up to the broken glass it's a scene from bad to worse, and many more tears children are taught to hate, parents just couldn't wait some are rich and some are poor, others will just suffer more have you ever been ashamed and felt society try to keep you down? i begin to watch things change and see them turn around turn around, they'll try to keep you down turn around, turn around don't drag me down ignorance like a gun in hand, reach out to the promised land your history books are full of lies, media-blitz gonna dry your eyes have you ever been afraid, and felt society try to keep you down? i begin to watch things change & see them turn around ignorance like a gun in hand reach out to the promised land your history books are full of lies, media -blitz gonna dry your eyes you're eighteen wanna be a man your granddaddy's in the ku klux klan taking two steps forward and four steps back gonna go to the white house and paint it black i'm heading down a lonely highway i'm running down a one-way street i wanna know are you going my way is there some place quiet where we can meet and friends they come and friends they go but you were always by my side and where it all ends i don't know don't cry no more just hold on tight there was a time when i was desperate living in a town without a name and when things got so dark and desolate you taught me how to hide my shame and kings and queens and millionaires may never know what i have known and thank the stars i'm the lucky one, thanks for the lessons that i have been shown i feel rich, i feel power, and security and when i'm weak, you are strong once in a lifetime, twice in eternity and guess what? nothing else matters anyway when i was young, i was so full of fear i hid behind anger, held back the tears it was me against the world, i was sure that i'd win the world fought back, punished me for my sins i felt so alone, so insecure, i blamed you instead and made sure i was heard and they tried to warn me of my evil ways but i couldn't hear what they had to say i was wrong, self destruction's got me again i was wrong, i realized now that i was wrong and i think about my loves, well i've had a few i'm sorry that i hurt them, did i hurt you too i took what i wanted, put my heart on the shelf how can ya love me when you don't love yourself it was me against the world, i was sure that i'd win the world fought back, punished me for my sins and they tried to warn me of my evil ways but i couldn't hear what they had to say i grew up fast, i grew up hard something was wrong from the very start i was fighting everybody, i was fighting everything but the only one that i hurt was me i got society's blood running down my face somebody help me get outta this place how could someone's bad luck last so long until i realized that i was wrong through these eyes i've seen love and i've seen hate i've seen the violence and the tears through these eyes, i got my schooling on the streets i've seen the things in life you don't wanna see through these eyes i've seen the shape of things to come and i've watched them all fall apart through these eyes i've seen the broken homes they cry i've seen the poor man's face as he stands in line and though my heart has made me weary on a road less travelled on through the heart it hurts so dearly, and the pain it lingers on through these eyes, i've looked the devil in the face and i've seen god's holy grace through these eyes, i've tried to walk the straighter line i found myself again, i nearly lost my mind this ain't the way it's supposed to be there's a dark cloud following me, i'm disillusioned & i'm down on the world again there's movies going on in my head and all i can see is the color red. i'm relentless & i'm down on the world again give me tomorrow's broken dreams now i'm feeling like a loaded gun there's a world of guilt written on my face i'm feeling ashamed for the human race, i've been forsaken & i'm down on the world again i feel so alone in this crowd thoughts of despair are getting loud i'm disrespected & i'm down on the world again love and tolerance have abandoned me and i feel the gloom hovering over me, i'm resentful & i'm down on the world again give me tomorrow's broken dreams now i'm feeling like a loaded gun give me tomorrow's holy schemes now so hopeless when there's no place else to run. at last we meet again, dear god hear the angels sing the funerals are nicer, when we know you're there when the angels sing sometimes i try so hard to understand the things you do i like to question you when it all comes down hear the angels sing stand up strong feel the pain when the angels sing love and death don't mean a thing till the angels sing the prisoners pray when they're on death row when the angels sing the junky cries for love, but its all run out when the angels sing the sins of the world, and its cold on the streets and you're all alone and the tears they start to fall when it all comes down hear the angels sing stand up strong feel the pain when the angels sing love and death don't mean a thing till the angels sing little by little, day by day i watch the children play 'cause life and death don't mean a thing till the angels sing when the angel of death, comes a looking for me hear the angels sing i hope i was everything i was supposed to be when the angels sing there's gotta be a heaven, cause i've already done my time in hell and a little baby's born, when it all comes down hear the angels sing spent my whole life looking for something what it was, i'm not really sure i looked for happiness but only found sorrow then i realized how to unlock that door yea, yea, yea so you think you've got it figured out it don't come easy, maybe just for fools some say life is a struggle, it's a game, just gotta know the rules, gotta know the rules loads of people go through life thinking take what you can and leave the weak behind never stop to think what can you give now too afraid to learn what you might find yea, yea, yea spent my whole life doing things my way doing unto others, knowing its wrong when's the last time you looked in the mirror? when's the last time you liked what you saw?-yea, yea, yea pretty much been alone now, for almost five years i could always find a way, to hide these bitter tears and still i am waiting, and wishing somehow i wish i knew then, what i know now its no bed of roses, it ain't no crown of thorns better than lonely, i've been there before gotta bad reputation, for playing with love gonna play again now, and beat the odds above and still i am waiting, and wishing somehow i wish i knew then, what i know now are you tired of being alone? or have you fallen out of love? do you care enough about yourself? i have worn you're crown of thorns here i come, i'm on a run who wants to fight temptation that's no fun c'mon and play the games, don't you feel no shame that's what eve said to adam before she came you can smile now cry later on you know that it might be wrong but it feels so good, like you know it would there's damnation and disgrace, and guilt rears its ugly face yet you beg for more, just a little more stand in line, don't you lose your mind try like me to seek your pleasure three at a time there's souls for sale, your gonna burn in hell and if tomorrow never comes, its just as well feel the pain! i feel it too have your hedonistic ways got the best of you play the games, don't feel no shame that's what eve said to adam before she came DOWN HERE (WITH THE REST OF US) you work hard now, to put the food on the table you're working for the man who don't even know your name that's the way that it goes when you're down here with the rest of us you might lose now, your beautiful children your happy home yea, and your beautiful wife that's the way that it goes when you're down here with the rest of us you'll suffer hard now, as you bury your loved ones you'll suffer hard now, when you lose your best friend that's the way that it goes when you're down here with the rest of us that's the way that it goes and i know how you feel no ones immune now, from a world of problems no ones exempt now, from a world of pain that's the way that it goes when you're down here with the rest of us i try hard now, to do the right thing yet i wonder, why i still do what's wrong that's the way that it goes when you're down here with the rest of us that's the way that it goes and i know how you feel. under my thumb the girl who once had me down under my thumb the girl who once pushed me around it's down to me the difference in the clothes she wears down to me, the change has come, she's under my thumb ain't it the truth babe? under my thumb the squirmin' dog who's just had her day under my thumb a girl who has just changed her ways it's down to me, yes it is the way she does just what she's told down to me, the change has come she's under my thumb ah, ah, say it's alright under my thumb a siamese cat of a girl under my thumb she's the sweetest, hmmm, pet in the world it's down to me the way she talks when she's spoken to down to me, the change has come, she's under my thumb ah, take it easy babe yeah it's down to me, oh yeah the way she talks when she's spoken to down to me, the change has come, she's under my thumb yeah, it feels alright under my thumb her eyes are just kept to herself under my thumb, well i i can still look at someone else it's down to me, oh that's what i said the way she talks when she's spoken to down to me, the change has come, she's under my thumb say, it's alright. say it's all... say it's all... take it easy babe take it easy babe feels alright take it, take it easy babe |
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