Bad Enough

 

Feelin’, send shivers down your spine

Hearin’, the gossip on the grape vine

Breath in, one hit at a time

Healin’, avoid another landslide

 

How bad do you want it

Is it Bad Enough

How bad do you need it

How bad, not Bad Enough

 

Fill your, pockets full of silver

Deeper, feel it turn to gold

 

Calm down, nothing lasts forever

Nothing lasts forever, not ever...

 

How bad do you want it

Is it Bad Enough

How bad do you need it

How bad, not Bad Enough

 

Not rough enough, not tough enough

Not loud enough, not fast enough

Not deep enough, not cheap enough

Not cool enough, not hot enough

 

 

Olympus

 

Dig hard, dig deep

In 'n out and underneath

No rest, no sleep

The people cry, the people weep

 

The wrong, the right

Investigate, don't let them get

Away this time, the truth be told

Read between the lines

 

The state of fear

Almost done, almost here

So close, so near

Shine a light don't shed a tear

 

Just hold the line

The daily chore, the daily grind

The truth be told, it will unfold

Just read between the lines

It's a matter of time

 

Olympus is down

Thorn in the crown

The burning remains

Olympus has fallen

 

The fools on the hill

Move in for the kill

Freedom in chains

Olympus has fallen down

 

The left, the right

Can't decide, see eye to eye

By tooth and nail

They will deny, they will prevail

 

The greed, the hate

Destroy the hope, the welfare state

Can't have what’s mine

I'll keep what’s yours

Read between the lines

It's a matter of time

 

Olympus is down

Thorn in the crown

The burning remains

Olympus has fallen

 

The fools on the hill

Move in for the kill

Freedom in chains

Olympus has fallen down

 

 

I Feel Your Pain

 

I Feel Your Pain

Knife in the back

Dig harder and deeper and

Deeper again

Off the beaten track

The rails again

 

You still remain

Tied up and locked down in chains

I Feel Your Pain

 

I Feel Your Pain

Like a heart attack

Repeating itself

Again and again

Reaching the point

Of no turning back

 

With enemies close, friends slip away

The truth of the matter remains

I Feel Your Pain

 

I Feel Your Pain,

Losing sleep, cutting deep and aching

I Feel Your Pain

Getting old, grabbing hold, again

 

I Feel Your Pain

Tied like a noose

Too tight and too loose

 

Cut through my vein

The blood and the pain

The burning remains

 

The end so close, so far away

Away from the endless rain

I Feel Your Pain

 

I Feel Your Pain

Losing sleep, cutting deep and aching

I Feel Your Pain

Getting old, grab me hold again

I Feel Your Pain

Holding on, way too long and breaking

I Feel Your Pain

I Feel Your Pain

 

I Feel Your Pain

Knife in the back

Dig harder and deeper and

Deeper again

Like a heart attack

Repeating itself

Again and again and again

The truth of the matter remains

I Feel Your Pain

 

I Feel Your Pain

Losing sleep, cutting deep and aching

I Feel Your Pain

Getting old, grabbing hold again

 

I Feel Your Pain

Holding on, way too long and breaking

I Feel Your Pain

I Feel Your Pain

 

 

Sound of Change

 

The silence here is deafening

Progress kept on hold

Evolution waiting

The new replace the old

 

The stylus dips the static snaps

The groove it recreates

The rumble and the modulation

As dolby shuts the gate

 

Hear the sound, all around you

In your ear, hear the Sound of Change

 

Block the noise, it's beyond you

Listen close, can you hear the

Sound of Change

 

Digital is deafening

The ones and zeros know

Analog is threatening

To come and steal the show

 

The vinyl spins one more song

As wow and flutter bleed

Amplitude, phase, frequency

In Hi-Fidelity

 

Hear the sound, all around

In your ear, hear the Sound of Change

 

Block the noise, it's beyond you

Listen close, can you hear the

 

Sound of Change

Turning up the gain

Sound of Change

Compression and sustain

Sound of Change

 

 

Think

 

Wait a minute, gimme a drink

Before I drown, before I sink

Made of stone, it's you know who

Now he bleeds, he bleeds for you

 

Hang on a minute, I know this place

A court jester, with a dirty face

Feel the hand, steal the kiss

The last laugh is his

 

Let me Think for myself

There's no way out

Let you Think for yourself

The walls come down

 

Split second, blink of an eye

Every word's a lie

Lamb to the slaughter, moth to the flame

Hang your head in shame

 

The Mad Hatter holds the reins

He puts the Queen of Hearts to shame

Believe the lies, ignore the truth

Never trust a fool

 

Let me Think for myself

There's no way out

Let you Think for yourself

The walls come down

 

Think

Think for yourself

 

 

Brave New World

 

In the early morning gloom

The anchor spoke too soon

The people held their

Breath in fear, it would appear

 

What used to be inapt

Is only a matter of fact

Be careful where you

Tread my friend, you might offend

 

As the past and the present hold out

The future’s in doubt

 

As the code turns red

And the line goes dead

Visions of a Brave New World

 

When it's said and done

And the time has come

Living in a Brave New World

 

As the talent thanks the crowd

He takes his final bow

His ego hits the wall of fame

The echo fades

 

When there's no more looking back

And the old men can't reflect

If life's a debt worth living for

Worth dying for

 

As the code turns red and

The line goes dead

Visions of a Brave New World

 

When it's said and done and

The time has come

Living in a Brave New World

 

When the fear is gone and

The race is run

Visions of a Brave New World

 

When all hope is lost

At what price what cost

Visions of a Brave New World

 

 

God Only Knows

 

You preach the day of reckoning

Confess away your sins

Paradise keeps beckoning

But it won't let you in

 

Bedtime story saviours

Blinded by the light

Moral misbehaviours

Converge in wrong and right

 

Betrayed and lost inside your soul

The lights are on but no one's home

 

If you believe, God Only Knows

Practice what you preach

Reap what you sow

The pain you feel, the hope they steal

The lies behind the truth

Won't heal your soul

Reap what you sow

God Only Knows

 

The silent pain is deafening

The fiction has you sold

Reason always threatening

The testament unfolds

 

So onward march the soldiers

To fight the 'good' fight

Does it ever make you wonder

Who is wrong and who is right

 

God Only Knows, reap what you sow

Feel the shame, you feel betrayed

But you can’t let it go

 

 

Time

 

Time slips away

Countdown commencing

Feel your heart beat

Race toward the line

You only hope it goes to overtime

 

Race against the clock

Time keeper ready

Synchronize your watch

Go to gate, flight delayed

Departure way too late

 

To change, the road you take

Seize the day, don't let it slip away

It's only a matter of

 

Time ticking away,

Minute by minute, day by day

Time, seconds away

Takin' it day by day by day

 

Time flies

When you're having fun

Walk don't run just

Ride out the storm

Before it all comes crashing down

 

All things must pass

There's no way back

So raise, your glass

To the final act

It's only a matter of

 

Time, slipping away,

Minute by minute, day by day

Time, seconds away

Takin' it day by day

It's only a matter of time

 

 

Only A Fool

 

Stand up

Stand up and be counted

Break the chain of command

Rise up

Rise against the familiar

The meaningless and the bland

 

They take whats yours and they take whats mine

Do you wrong each and every time

Hide out behind that bleach white smile

They swear it's the truth, then always deny

 

And they think they can Fool

Some of the people some of the time

But only a Fool

Can Fool all the people all the time

 

Give up

Bread and games for the masses

Revolution On Hold

Tied up

Beat down and broken

Only rebels break the mold

Take back your pride, take back the power

Leave it too late, the beast will devour

No time for reflection, no time for debate

Kill the election, tear down the gate

 

They think they can Fool

Some of the people some of the time

Only a Fool

Can Fool all the people all the time

 

What a Fool believes a Fool achieves

Grinds all your hope into despair

When a nation holds it’s breath it can't decide

'Cause desperate times

Call for desperate crimes

 

 

 

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