Out in the parking lot the ground is beating hot There are no raindrops on my shoes I got no license plate I come from out-of-state a town where children sing the blues Guess all my running was worth the chance and now I'm glad because I've flown this acid world Yes, I've flown this acid world

I see the chimney smoke follow the the family folk all covered up in sheets of red A sad dalmatian waits against the western gate He tries to steal my piece of bread Guess I'll go hungry for the night again but I don't mind because I've flown this acid world Yes, I've flown this acid world And it's not wrong It's what I deserve

Guess all my running was worth the chance and now I'm glad because I've flown this acid world Yes, I've flown this acid world And it's not wrong, It's what I deserve

There is an orange peel beneath the piece of steel You know I've felt that way at times I've felt the thrill of sin I felt like caving in and so I did and it's no crime I'd gladly do it again someday if it would allow me to escape my acid world Yes, I've flown this acid world (flown) Yes, I've flown this acid world And it's no crime It's what I deserve I had the nerve to have flown.

Her eyes are sweet and dark as coal but they've long since given up on finding someone to trust She has a silver-plated soul beneath the damage and the dust

They say she's never known a single hour of stillness And they say she's as dangerous as a child that can inspire lust And you know that people's minds are so full of illness They never look beneath the damage and the dust

I want to lift her up (beneath the damage and the dust) I got to pick her up I want to raise her up from the dust I got to lift her up (beneath the damage and the dust) [C'mon here child]

Well she's walking downtown on a foggy summer evening Everybody watches with a blend of wonder and disgust [Well I] I want so bad to stop her grieving To raise her from beneath the damage and the dust

I want to lift her up (beneath the damage and the dust) I got to pick her up I want to raise her up from the dust I got to pick her up (beneath the damage and the dust) [Oh yeah, pick it up]

To think that she was once some mother's baby [and she got] left out in the rain like some dream that's gone to rust Well they say that loneliness can drive you crazy and bury you beneath the damage and the dust

I got to pick her up (beneath the damage and the dust) I want to lift her up I got to raise her up from the dust I got to pick her up (beneath the damage and the dust) [O pick it up]

I got to lift her up (beneath the damage and the dust) I want to pick her up I want to raise her up from the dust I got to pick her up (beneath the damage and the dust)

and you've got to help me. (damage and the dust) (damage and the dust) (damage and the dust)

I went out in the street for a walk in the night, I had to loosen my head it's been wound too tight, I've been standing on the edge of picking a fight with you.

Sometimes my world seems so damn small, I can't think of nothin' except for me at all, And my thoughts surrounded like a prison wall it's true.

I wanna get closer to you now I wanna get closer to you now

It takes all my strength to slow myself down, My thoughts are screaming I can't hear a sound, Sometimes I wish there was no one around but you.

Oh tell me you know what I'm talkin' about, Sometimes you are celled by confusion and doubt, And then it hurts so bad you just wanna shout out, "We're through."

I wanna get closer to you now I wanna get closer to you now I wanna get closer to you now I wanna get closer to you now

Please forgive these things I might have said, You see, they come from my frustration, not my head. And the last thing that I wanna do, is, Create a distance between me and you.

I wanna get closer to you now I wanna get closer to you now I wanna get closer to you now I wanna get closer to you now

Well, there seem to be two states of mind, One is visionary, the other blind. And the best that we can hope to find is to meet some where in between.

Well, the night air has pulled me back a bit, Just when I was about to quit. Tryin' to get the candle lit that lets me see what can't be seen.

I wanna get closer to you now I wanna get closer to you now I wanna get closer to you now I wanna get closer to you now I wanna get closer to you now I wanna get closer to you now I wanna get closer to you now

Breakin' these chains that hold me prisoner, I'm feelin' somethin' let me tell you what it is now. Reachin' out for true communication, I hope I'm giving you the proper indication. I'd go insane if I ain't allowed to hold you, Don't get me wrong I don't ever wanna mold you. The moon is starin' at me from behind the clouds now, I'm tellin' you and screaming out loud now, Closer I wanna get closer I wanna get closer I wanna get closer

how can I tell you I need you to understand. when you seem so cold, so cold that it's way out of hand. I'm struggling for a connection but you don't look way it seems like we've grown short on things to say

and when we're apart my life feels like a dream I can't distinguish between where I am and where I've been and the telephone is useless when the threads begin to fray, it seems like we've grown short on things to say

if I could hold you now I'd be speaking to you with my hands but it seems like the force which willed us here had other plans well I'm struggling for a connection but you don't look my way and it seems like we've grown short on things to say

Well I pray that the morning sun will burn these feelings away and that I can step out in a new scene like a man in a play a scene where all will be forgotten the anger and dismay and then we'll have so many things to say

you say that I never wrote a song for you but you could never understand what could I sing for one who was there as I grew from a child to a man a child into a man

I used to criticize you every move but you just lead me by the hand you never wavered once as I painfully grew from a child to a man a child into a man

all my silence never meant that I didn't care you just call and I'll be there

if I ever spoke the truth to you the words in me would stretch across this land they'd be pouring out like a storm for the one who loved me as I grew from a child to a man a child into a man a child to a man a child to a man

all my silence never meant that I didn't care you just call and I'll be there

well the years they spin like wheels they keep rolling on through and only God knows the plan well you eased my fears and gave me comfort as I grew from a child to a man a child to a man

all my silence never meant that I didn't care you just call and I'll be there

a child to a man from a child to a man a child to a man a child to a man

6

well you know I got a case of the shakes so hold me like you used to do tell me that I've got what it takes to make it through

sometimes it just gets so damn hard I feel like I could lose my mind I'm all torn up and scarred and your so kind

you know me better than I do you know me better than I do

well you know that we could build a fire to chase all our ugly cares away so tell me do my words inspire you to stay

you know me better than I do you know me better than I do

cause when I walk you know when I'm gonna stray and when I talk you know what I'm gonna say

the roof is coming down on me the rain is falling on my head don't you know I long to be inside your bed

help me sort out this mess the one that clutters up my mind darling I must confess I'm out of time

you know me better than I do you know me better than I do you know me better than I do you know me better than I do

you know me better than I do you know me better than I do you know me better than I do you know me better than I do you know me better than I do you know me better than I do

7

I had so many dreams that would not fly they fell like August rain before my eyes I reached out and they were gone like the moonlight in the dawn the most precious things are always in disguise

looking back I always seemed unwise but time has cut my ego down to size well that's just the way it goes when we were young, I guess we just didn't know the most precious things are always in disguise

and time has become my crucible its tempered all my vanity and glory for all that's inexcusable I want to tell you that I'm sorry

so hold me now and watch as the moon does rise it's funny that it takes so long just to realize you could wait a lifetime for a night like this a thousand years for just one kiss the most precious things are always in disguise

how did it come down to this we've gone from flowers to fists these poison words from lips which used to kiss how did it come down to this

I guess that we ain't immune after all we danced one step too far, we did fall well it drew me to you well I'm sure you can recall I guess we ain't immune after all

love grows more slowly than fear I used up all I had to draw you near when rage overtakes, my kindness disappears love grows more slowly than fear

my love for you ain't gone it still stands my love for you ain't gone it still stands when my words they fly like bricks I need to touch you with my hands my love for you ain't gone it still stands

how did it come down to this we've gone from flowers to fists these poison words from lips which used to kiss how did it come down to this

how did it come down to this how did it come down to this how did it come down to this how did it come down to this

9

Some say the world has gone insane, And some say that G-d just got up and walked away. Some say dreams have frozen, Like a river that will not thaw. But not me since I've seen Raina

Some say that all is lost, And that innocence can't be restored at any cost. Some say you lose your spirit if you lose a sense of awe, But not me since I've touched Raina.

There's so little in this world that's true. I have boundless dreams for you.

Some say there's no end to the night, And some say the reward just isn't worth the fight. But I'm no stranger to the allure of despair, I've spent a lifetime inside his jaws. But not since I've seen Raina.

10

let's cross this bridge together let's walk across the river of time I would cherish you forever like a diamond, our love will shine

from the sea to the burning desert I have looked but I could not find a love that could not bring such pleasure as you do precious girl of mine

and when it's all said and done I know that you're the only one I need in this certain way and as we go on and on my love for you keeps growin' strong and this is all I have to say

let's cross this bridge together you and I for the rest of our days

let's cross this bridge of laughter let's cross this bridge of tears let's cross this bridge together you just call, I will be near

the sun is slowly falling the night will soon be set there is no time for stalling come to your lover, come to your friend

when it's all said and done I know that your the only one I need in this certain way as we go on and on my love for you keeps growin' strong and this is all I have to say

let's cross this bridge together you and I for the rest of our days you and I for the rest of our days let's cross this bridge...

no matter how I swim I just get farther from the shore and the waves they crash around me with a dark unearthly roar

this memory of you when it ropes me to the ground your voice it speaks inside me and I can't escape the sound

and my world it moves so slow I wish I had a better place to go you see I'm breaking from the weight of the wait I can't seem to get anything to start I'm breaking from the weight of the wait this waiting for you is weighing heavy on my heart

you know my inspiration just can't get itself in gear like a boring conversation my thoughts are muddled and unclear

there's a weariness which weighs upon my body and my mind a single ounce of courage seems impossible to find

and my world it moves so slow how I wish I had a better place to go you see I'm breaking from the weight of the wait I can't seem to get anything to start I'm breaking from the weight of the wait this waiting for you is weighing heavy on my heart

if my feet are made of lead and I felt like the walking dead at least I'd be moving some

well you know I hate to wait and this cannot be my fate don't prove me wrong

and my world it moves so slow I wish I had a better place to go you know I'm breaking from the weight of the wait I can't seem to get anything to start I'm breaking from the weight of the wait this waiting for you is weighing heavy on my heart

This is a story 'bout a taxi ride I can't forget, It was autumn in Minnesota, it was rainy, cold, and wet, So I hopped into the first cab that I saw, The heater was on but the chill just wouldn't thaw

The driver of the cab he had a pock-marked face, He didn't seem too unfriendly, he was just starin' off into space, And he told me that he used to drive a truck, And that right now he was down on his luck.

We talked a bit about travellin', told him that I'd been to the USSR, He looked at me in the rear-view mirror and said, "Ain't that where the Jews and commies are?" And I knew I was in for a hell of a ride, My face was calm but I was burnin' up inside.

He told me he had a dream to go to a place free from niggers and Jews, "Austria?," I asked out loud as I stared down at my shoes, Then he said, "That's exactly right," he said, "Hey man ain't you proud to be white?" I played along with him a bit, then I said, "What do you mean? I'm not quite sure." That's when he told me how much he admired the Fuhrer. We drove on through the Minnetonka Pines, And the rain started freezin' on the highway signs.

Then I said, "Don't you think it was wrong, I mean, gasin' all them Jews?" Then he told me Hitler's only fault was that he had to go and lose. A war that should have set the white man free, To inherit the entire earth as his destiny.

Then he started fishin' for a cassette tape that he'd gotten in a special class, And on it some teacher was talkin' about destroyin' the Jews at last, And about how they were all to blame, for every problem that you could ever name.

I stared out my window, started thinkin' about my life, Thinkin' about my children, thinkin' about my wife, And I wondered how much more could I endure, Of a hatred, so naked and so pure.

When we got to my brother's house, I even tipped him a dollar or two And I was wonderin' if he'd known all along that his passenger was a Jew. I just stared at my breath in the freezin' night, That's when my brother came to the door and put on the light.

Don't tell me children, defile your dreams Our heads are still pounding from the sound of their screams And the blood is still flowing down European streams And it's you who have no right to call yourself a human being, Here I am, in a taxi cab with a cut-rate Aryan

I spent the next morning with a man who had death camp numbers on his arm, And I swore to myself I would do anything to protect him from further harm, And he told me wherever you may go, you must refute them if they say it wasn't so.