Koda's Place

Angela and Tony

Angela was Prom Queen
Head Cheerleader
Beautiful,
Voted Most Popular
The kind of girl you just couldn't help but like.

A couple years out of high school
I guess she was feeling too visible
That's when she started searching
For some major change in her life.

I first met Angela in Big Sur, California
In a hot tub
She was twenty-two
Still looking for that change to do.

I think we might have fallen in love
If it hadn't been for her "relationship" with Tony
They lived together, breathed together,
They were really quite inseparable.

Angela and Tony
As close as anyone can get
Angela and Tony
You know what they say about the shoe that fits

I was talking with Tony on the phone the other day
He's twenty-six now, and goes to school at Berkeley.
He was standing at the window describing the view
As the sun went down behind the bridge
Casting a golden light across the bay
And on all the buildings as the lights came on in the city.
He hasn't seen Angela's face in two years now,
But as he stood there stroking the hair on her chin
He realized just how close she really is.

Angela and Tony
As close as anyone can get
Angels as Tony
You know what they say about the shoe that fits.

Another Night Without You

My heart beats
My lungs breathe
My mind thinks
I can't stop thinking about you

I can't sit
My palms sweat
I can't take
Another night without you

Just trying to make it through
Another night without you
Just trying to find a way
To make it through another day
Can't you feel my emotions calling
Can't this feeling get through to you
Can't you tell that the sun is falling
On another night without you

Ants

The darkness shines in the city
like reflections on a pool
and the ants have eaten the sidewalk
and I just can't get to school

There's a hole in my head
that I'll fall out of if I lean
toward wondering
if it's the whole of me

There's a page in the history books
that was never ever there
and I wonder why the ants
when they eat my body leave my hair?

AAAAaaahhhh, AAAAaaaahhh

I was walking through the meadow
when a muffin ate my leg
so I went down by the stream to wash it
and got ate by a steak

Where are all the . . .
I know I saw them here
and why are all the meadow muffins
floating like raisins in the air?

There's a darkness coming
shining like my skull
flying in the moonlight with the ravens
beneath the crowded mall

All the little girls
walking on the way to school
all the ants
like their pretty underwear
But the girls they just step on them
but the ants get their revenge
They eat up all the history books
and now there is no then

AAAAaaahhhh

Baby

Baby's got trouble
She can't sleep at night
Wish I could help her
Make her feel alright
Baby doesn't want a baby
But they've taken all her rights
Oh Babe . . .

Baby's not happy
She's mad enough to fight
Say's she's got to do something
But all she does is cry
Bay loves babies
But the timing's just not right
Oh Babe . . .

Baby's getting desperate
There's no telling what she'll do
Says she should have done something
To keep the stupid laws from going through
Baby won't you call me
You know I'd do anything for you
Oh Babe . . .

Bad Accident

All the traffic is slowing
the cars are all scrunching up
The storm was bad and the lights are down
Something is definitely wrong up ahead
There's a flashlight running through the darkness
Neighbors stand clinging to their front doors
There's a car on its side in the intersection
Another wrapped around a tree
With a man gesturing reassuringly to someone inside
A pair of blankets come streaming through the shadows
And collapse over a lump on the ground
A little girl is standing alone, crying
With one shoe gone, her hair and arms hanging straight and limp
An old man is pointing, shouting uselessly
At a shirtless teenage boy with a bleeding face
Who sits silent in the gutter, watching the blood drip, drip
There's a spot of blood or oil, I can't tell which
On the inside of a mangled car door
And something recently human laying piled on the floor.
I don't know if I should stop.
Could I help, or would I just be in the way?
Why did I have to see this?!
Why do such things have to happen at all?!!
God I hate bad accidents!

Been Such a Long Time

It's been such a long time
since I've seen your face
It's been such a long time
I just don't know what to say
It's been such a long time
am I still someone to you
or has it been such a long time
that now I'm just someone you knew

I thought of you often
as nights slowly turned into years
learned to live without you
all the while wanting you near.
Now you say that you'd like to see me
You act like we've always been friends
But it's been such a long time
and I don't want to forget you,
again.

Cold Wind Blowin'

There's a cold wind blowing
Across my memory.
Something in your eyes
Has called this feeling back to me.

Such an old, cold feeling
When I can see your doubt.
I've seen that look before
It's time to ride another storm out.

Well I'm in no hurry
To get where we're going
It took our whole lives
Just to get where we're at.
I'm not going to worry
Which way the wind's blowin
Long as we keep it at our backs.

The sun shines on your smile
In my future fantasies.
Life provides these trials
Then they pass just like the breeze.

But now, there's a cold wind blowin'
Such an old, cold wind,
And I have no way of knowing
If we'll work it out again.

Electromagnetic Love

"Hello?"
"Hi."
"Are you ready?"
"For you, always."

What happens in the wire
When we make love on the phone?
Do the electrons going your way
Embrace those coming mine?
And what about all those voices
Moving through the satellite?
How many of them
Are making electromagnetic love?

Electronic devices, vibrating
Lips, stimulating ears.
Wordless breath echoing from your pillow,
Breathless words sighing through the sky.

Electromagnetic waves
Emanating through the universe
Conveying more than words can express.

I wonder if the aliens out there
Monitoring the modulations
Are getting off on electromagnetic love?

Head

It's as if my mind were melting
Through dimensions of paper-thin universes
All wadded up in a ball
Dissolving into pools of radiant color
Rippling inward and outward
At the same time . . . I think.

Oh God! I think!
What god?
What subatomic quantum leap
From nerve to mind
Forms this consciousness inside my head?

And she said something . . . about . . .
Walking along a beach
On an alien planet
And the yellow clouds were so bright
They lit up the pink sky
As raindrops the size of plumbs
fell
Into the blood-thick sea.

Slow motion waves caress the black rock
Like the breath
Of Death.

Why?

And my head makes me WANT things
Like Money,
and . . . SEX.

Ohhhooohhhh!!! It's ALL in my HEAD!

Higher and Higher

I've got a car
I drive in my dreams
It's a ship made of water
That sails above the sea
Higher and higher
Through canyons of cloud
Higher and higher
High as dreams will allow

I've got this feeling
That Life is a dream
That there are far more dimensions
That sleeping eyes can see

Higher and higher
Stars fade beneath my feet
Higher and higher
We're all luminous beings

Higher and higher
From one world to the next
Waves of elation
Flowing out through my chest

Higher and higher
Higher and higher

Hike Like a Tree

I was sitting on the couch at the party
Feeling stressed because my life was going nowhere
So I went out back, and laid on the lawn
Underneath a BIG tree.

And the tree seemed so calm
With it's leaves flowing in the cool night air
And I wondered aloud, how it could find such peace
Living it's life in just one place

I talked to the tree, and it talked to me
Silently, with emotion
And it told me how to let the world come to me
How to hike like a tree

So I stretched my limbs
And raised my mind high into the sky
I saw the traffic moving through the city
And the birds flying by
I saw all the people at the party
And the moon swimming through the clouds
And watched as the turning Earth swept up the stars
As they came spilling out from the sea
For a hundred years or more
I saw towns and people come and go
I let the world come to me
As I hiked like a tree

I was lying on the lawn
When a friend touched my arm
Wondering what had become of me
"Well, for the last century or so," I said,
"I've been hiking like a tree."

Illusive Destination

This world is no place for dreamers
We're all economic slaves
Who spend our whole lives dreaming
Of the freedom we hope to buy someday

This world is filled with dreamers
Who's eyes scan the horizon everyday
Searching for some illusive destination
That seems to have been lost along the way

We forget that Time is an endless journey
We run, but Now leaves us standing still
Still pursuing that illusive destination
Always have, guess we always will

It's All Over Now

The neighbors' barbecue
Doesn't smell the way they used to
The swimming pool is filled
with the house
This whole neighborhood's gone to hell

Yeah, It's all over now
Nothing can be done about it
. . . now.

It's a good thing we built all those bombs
We couldn't care for survivors very long
It's a good thing we killed all the children
'Cause they'd never, ever, understand
. . .not like we do, right?

The worse thing about all this to me
Is that now there's nothing good on TV
'Cause the rich men made their money
And the poor aren't slaves no more
And no one has to ask what it all was for

Yeah it's all over now
Nothing can be done about it
. . . now.

The only thing more insane than this nuclear war
Was continuing to prepare ourselves to have it

I Want You Here

I sigh at the thought of your smile
As you hug your self 'cause I'm not there
There's far more between us than miles
Darling I want you here

The nights spent alone pass so slowly
I still hear your voice in my ear
The phone felt so cold when you told me
Darling I want you here

Just Because

Just because I'm breathing
I want to know why there's air
Just because I'm dreaming
I want to know why they're there
Just because there's nothing
It doesn't mean there's nothing there
Just because it's over
It doesn't mean that I don't care

Just because I don't think the way you do
It doesn't mean that I'm not true
to the kind of dreams we knew
Just because I'm still learning who to be
It doesn't mean that I'm not me
I'm still who I want to be

And if you find that I'm not perfect
If I'm not who you thought I was
Well, who I am is simply different,
Just because
I don't feel the way you do
It doesn't mean that I'm not true
To the kind of dreams we knew
Just because

Late Autumn

The nights are cold now
The leaves are down
The clouds hang lower
The lawns are brown
Another year wasted
Another dream in the dirt
I guess it’s all in the growing
I guess not all trees were meant to bear fruit

My breaths are clouds now
Sighs, filling the sky
I’ve been so long living with this longing
So long
to another year gone by

But it’s no use complaining
This smile was the goal of all that work
Late autumn has a way of explaining
How not all trees were meant to bear fruit

Love Can't Find Me Here

I caught myself
Half-way through a sigh
And found myself
In a corner of my mind
Nervously waiting
Behind the walls I keep up all the time

Love can't find me here
Love brings only fear
"Cause Love hurts when its gone
These walls were hard to make strong
No, Love can't find me here

I lost myself
And half of One was I
Destroyed myself
Now these walls are all I feel inside
These walls were hard to make strong
And I hope I don't have to wait too long
For Love,
that can't find me here

Movement In Still Pictures

White clouds moving across a blue sky
Within the spaces between green trees
Heat waves make the image shimmer
Makes me think of movement in still pictures.

Sun setting paints the sky with rainbows
Colors that from somewhere else aren't there
Moonlight changes whites to yellows
Makes me think that what I see
isn't necessarily what's real.

Time is an infinity of infinitely short times
Strung together in an infinitely long line
Each moment can be cut in half-
An infinity of times-
which means all time adds up to no time.

Space is an infinity of infinitely small spaces . . .
When I try to line up two to make a line
I find that there can be no space
like there can be no time.

Matter occupies both time and space
What's the matter
if there is no time to find its place?

What happens to the world when I close my eyes?
What's left of me when there's nothing to think or see?

White clouds moving across a blue sky
Within the spaces between green trees
Heat waves make the image shimmer
Makes me think of movement in still pictures.

Mystical Cat In the Dryer

The mystical cat
He's kind of lazy and fat.
Ain't no denyin’
That he knows where it's at.
He drives around
In a number nine cloud,
He moves real slow
And he don't talk to loud.

Hey cat
Everything he does he does to the max
Hey cat
Everything he does he does to relax

He lives in a twin-towered
subterranean adobe penthouse
That sits in the middle of a big blue lake
that glows and sparkles at night.

He trains his snakes to mesmerize the chickens
and then devourer 'em with smiles on their faces.
He snaps his fingers into flame to light his cigarettes,
but what really impresses the pussys
is the way he keeps his whiskers wet.

Here kitty, kitty, kitty.
It's time for your bath!
Oh! Look at what happened to you!
(I wonder how that happened?)
We'd better do something about that!

Cat in the dryer
Goes 'round and 'round
Keeps getting higher
Keeps coming down.
Cat in the dryer
poor thing got wet
So I put him in the dryer
Can't have no wrinkled pets!

Cat in the dryer
(meow! SLAM! no, not quite done yet)
Must be getting tired
Keeps falling on his head!

Now don't do this to your kitty 'cause you'll kill him.
The humane society doesn't do it this way
And that's not how you should do it either.

But tell me something . . .
What's stiff as a board on the inside
And soft and fluffy on the outside?

No, no. That's not it.
What's round, and soft, and furry . . .
Kind of crunchy inside . . .
And screams like hell when you touch it?

Well, that'll show that cat--
You can't get away with wearing MY sunglasses.

Nervous

I'm not nervous.
I'm always this way.
I'm OK, I'm OK, I'm OK,
I'm, arrahh, I'm not nervous!
I just can't sit still.
Ain't nothing wrong with me!
I just need a few more pills!

No, I'm not nervous.
I'm perfectly calm.
It's just this buzzing in my ears . . .
It drives me crazy!

Just relax man,
You'll do fine.

How many times
Do I have to tell you?!
I'M NOT NERVOUS!

Nothin’ Special

It’s not the way she holds me
It’s the way that I feel held
It’s not the way she touches me
It’s what those touches tell

There’s nothing special about the way she looks
Until she looks at me
Then the whole damned world can go to hell
While heaven holds me in her gaze

I don’t call that nothin’ special

It’s not the things she tells me
It’s that she tells me all she feels
It’s not just the fact she loves me
But the way she makes our love real

Yeah, to you she’s nothing special
But you don’t see the soul I see
Yeah, so what, she’s nothing special
But she’s everything to me

I don’t call that nothin’ special

Now Is Always New

Just the fact that existence is
Just the concept that could cause all this
With nowhere to come from
And no way to even think
Life perceives this instant

And now is always new
Life is always coming true

Odd White Thing

A woman walking down the street
Finds an odd white thing, cylinder shaped.
Turns it over in her hands
The reflection of her face
In the odd white thing
Is such a captivating face.

She takes it home and puts it on the shelf.
Strange desire to keep it to herself
Cause her reflection just won't erase
From the odd white thing
That may have come from space.

In the morning, takes it to work
In the pocket of her shirt
So she can look down all through the day
At the odd white thing
And see her captivating face.

Such a captivating face.

Can't look away before too long
Her body's rigid and her mind is gone
They call the doctor, who comes away
With the odd white thing
It shows a new odd face.

Such a captivating face.

He takes it home and puts it on the shelf.
Strange desire to keep it to himself
Cause his reflection just wont erase
From the odd white thing
That may have come from space.

Out There

I can't hear you
But I can tell
you're singing with me
I can't touch you
But I can feel
you dancing with me

I haven't met you
But I can't forget you
'cause I know that you're out there
Waiting for me . . .
seems like eternity

Outside alone, in the night
Moonlit clouds up in the heights
It's the same Moon we see
That shines its light on you and me
Makes me feel, how you're out there still
You're out there, thinking of me now

I know I've got to be all me
all by myself
Still I know how I long to be one
with someone else

I haven't met you
But I can't forget you
'cause I know that you're out there
Waiting for me . . .
You're out there, thinking of me now

Outside My Window

Outside my window
in the gathering dawn
The leaves in the gutter
Have put their coats of frost on
The world's growing colder
As the Earth slowly warms

In nearly all the world's cities
People starve in the streets
Our forests are dying
And if we keep polluting our seas
There'll be no air to breath

Outside my window
There's a hole in the sky
And millions of people
Are all going to die
But billions of babies
Will be taking there place

All the wars and disasters
Starvation and AIDS
Can't seem to keep up
With our poor planet's needs -
Can't cure it's human dis-ease

But the earth still turns
And our star still burns
And we all know that together there's a way
To pull the self-righteous down
Turn the whole thing around
And we've all got to do it TODAY
. . . but we're too busy today . . .

Outside my window
There's a bird on the wire
He must know what I'm thinking
'Cause he hasn't sung for a while
We're holding our breath
Hoping the worst won't come true
And outside my window
The world is turning blue

Over Reacting

They tell us that they think it's safe
Enough to risk the total race
For all we know
When they get done
The earth may be another sun!

But all they have to say is we're over reacting

I've seen the films and read the news
Hey, take a chance
Hope we don't lose
Small price to solve the power crunch
Two-hundred-thousand years ain't much!

But all they have to say is we're over reacting

It's quite a kick to risk our lives
To live with fission garbage piles
Till they perfect the fusion thing
Our three-eyed kids will sadly sing

All you've got to say is we're over reacting!

Purple Tiger

Little pigmies in the forest
Wearing green shoes and yellow hats
In pursuit of purple tigers
They hope they bring one back
that's nice and fat . . .

Purple tiger in the forest
He's feelin' like a snack
He sees the pigmies comin'
and says "I'll take that one in back . . .
he's nice and fat"

Purple tiger follows the pigmies
as they go dancin' up the path
He tries to sneak up on them
But it's a 'sprise attack . . .
"We put him in a sack!"

They take him to their party
Where he's an honored guest
They start the kettle brewin'
Guess you can guess the rest . . .
"Now we wear purple vests!"

The Road Is My Home

Here I am on this lonesome highway
Thinking ‘bout my home
Been thinking that it’s time for leaving
Here I’m already gone
Left my troubles on the shelf behind me
And headed out the door
Sometimes it seems I’m not pretending
That I won’t be back no more

And mile after mile
The road goes on
Guess I’ll be here a while
‘Cause now the road is my home

White lines lead me past the lonely farm house
And city lights at night
And when I reach the open spaces
My spirit fills the sky
Moon rising over snow-capped mountains
Sun setting on the sea
Sometimes it seems I’m not pretending
That this world belongs to me

And mile after mile
The road goes on
I call this living in style
‘Cause now the road is my home

Sea of Dreams

She stands by the riverside
As leaves rain down from the sky
Wishing the seasons
Had all passed her by

She thinks of times as a child
When her spirit was free to run wild
When the leaves on the water
Were ships on a sea of dreams

(little girl's voice)
This one is Peace, and when it sets sail
All the people are happy.
This one is Truth, and it lets everyone be friendly.
And this one is Love, my favorite,
'Cause when Peace and Truth and Love all sail together
Everyone lives happily ever after!

She turns from the riverside
Remembering a far away time
When she watched the old woman
Walk away from the sea of dreams

So Sexy

Oh, you're so sexy
You make me hurt inside
You know my knees get weak
Just to see you walkin' by!

Oh, you're so sexy
You make me want to cry
If you wrapped those arms around my neck
I'd loose my breath if I didn't die!

Oh, you're so sexy
You know I just can't wait
The way you squirm down on the seat
It's enough to make me stand up straight!

Oh you're just so so so so sexy!

Someday

Someday I'll drive this road again
Someday I'll remember my old friends
And the way we always looked forward to someday
'Cause we knew that someday
things would be as they should

Someday this world will live as one
All this ignorance and greed will all be done
When someday comes and the old will teach their youth
To speak the same language
and seek the same truth

Someday I'll see you standing at my door
We'll be feeling like we've both stood there before
You'll hold my hand and smile through the tears
I'll close my eyes
to wipe away the years

Yeah someday, I'll drive this road again
Someday I'll remember my old friends
And the way we always looked forward to someday
'Cause we knew that someday
things would be as they should

I wonder if today's somebody's someday? . . .

The Silence

Down in the valley
A mist feels the air,
lonely campfires glow.
A shot rips the night
But she thinks she's alright
They won't find her in the snow.

The leaves and the wind
Say a storm's coming in
But she's too tired to feel the cold.
She can't close her eyes
Or the nightmare will arrive
Of when the soldiers crushed her soul:
Raped her, killed her husband, and all her friends
Left her empty
With the silence rushing in.

Baby, she cries.
Oh baby! . . . goodbye.

Her hand wipes her nose
As she shivers in her clothes
And stares up at the stars through air so thin . . .

And so, one more endless night begins,
Empty, with the silence rushing in.

Silent Ending

Oh Allah,
Save me from Buddha
Buddha,
Save me from Allah
Christ,
Save me from all this religious shit

Oh God,
Let me find my way on my own

I remember contemplating suicide
And wondering what might have happened
Had I had died
Is this what dying's like for me?
Like sound that goes forever
on a breeze?

I can feel the massive planet spin
Next to the stars it becomes dwarfed again
Whole solar systems start to look like atoms
And turn into my hand
as I come back again

Oh heaven, save me from you
Grant me some small delay
I can feel the world departing
Silent ending
Nothing left to say

Space Junk

Well, there's supposed to be some words here
about this time we were out collecting garbage
between Jupiter and the third belt.
Trouble is we haven't got 'em all figured out yet,
but it's about this time we were picking up stuff like
spent fuel tanks and potty bags --
Hey, get that one --
when we spotted this asteroid -- it was kind a glowin', ya know?

Well, we went over to check it out
and found out it had been invaded
by a bunch of college kids from the First Orbital University.
They had this old reactor glowing like a sun,
and they hauled in all this water to make a beach
and get this, they were all naked, surfing!

Well, I was gonna give 'em a ticket
for all this radioactive waste they were leaving behind,
but the guys were looking pretty down
and the girls all started being really nice,
and when you find the only beer in two hundred million miles
the only thing you can say is
LETS PARTY!

Yeah, that was a bodacious time to be sure.
The girls all wanted to go for rides in this old garbage scow
and we did whoop-d-loops through the asteroids like this--

and they turned us on to this mind-blowin' vacuum vapor stuff--
Oh yeah, potent!

But you've got to be careful when you're drivin' on that stuff, or, oohhHH!

Time for a Change

We have all been occupied
By our need for occupations.
We've put our freedom to suicide
Just so we can stay alive.

We have all been hypnotized
To believe things must always be the same.
If only we could open our eyes
We would see that it's time for a change.

A power greater than force
Is the strength of cooporation.
Remember we've got a choice
It's up to us to build a world with living in.

Don't you think its time
to trust your judgment?
Don't you think it's time
to think about new ways?
Don't you think it's time
for more than complaining?
Don't you think it's time
for a change?

We have all been hypnotized
To believe things must always be the same.
If only we could open our eyes
We would see that it's time for a change.

Too Far

Too long in the city
Too far from the sea
The people are so many
Far too busy to be free

Too far from moonlight on the mountains
Too far from sunsets on the sea
I long to hear the waves come crashing
To feel emotion rise in me

Too far
From the source that flows through me
Too far
From the self I meant to be

Too much wasted time in traffic
Too much to lull my head
Too long working for too little
Far too far in debt

Too far from goals I've dreamed of
Still so far they're still in sight
Too long searching for the answers
To know it all can work out right

Too far
From the source that flows through me
Too far
From the self I meant to be

Too Many Tears

We've been together for such a long time
It's hard recalling when we were not.
We'll be friends forever, we've known that from the start
But we keep falling apart.

I know how much you love me when you say it's no one's fault
Still it's me that makes you cry.
These words spoke in anger just tear out our hearts
And too many tears have fallen from your eyes.

You are the fountain that fills up my life
I'd be so empty if you were gone.
I do all I can to make everything right
But then I say something wrong.

We go to the bedroom and each take our side
We don't touch all through the night.
I stare at the ceiling and listen to you cry
It's time to set our lives right

"Cause too many tears
Have fallen from your eyes
So let me hold you tonight
We'll pretend it's alright
And hold back the fears
And hope for more years
Without too many tears.

Train Bound for Hell

I'm standing in an old rail station
abandoned to myself
Been kicking stones across this nation
now I don't feel so well
I feel like I'm waiting
for a train bound for Hell

I haven't got a dime
I'm hungry all the time
And the world's so cold out there
Cold like these old stone walls

I'm standing in an old rail station
empty like myself
Yet the place seems filled with empty faces
There are empty spaces to be filled
The station master yells, All aboard,
the train bound for Hell

I can see myself
Looking out the window
Of an empty train
bound for Hell

Under the Sky

Breathing in the darkness
of the dry desert night
My body soaking in the rain
of infinite starlight

My hands reaching into the ground
My mind turning into heart
My soul more than the self I was
My self one with the great expanse

The Earth is alive
and I am it's eyes
here in this moment
under the sky

One with the warm wind moving
One with the cougar and the mice
With the pines and the great rock mountains
One with my own life

I am the Earth
Being Human
Being everything
Under the sky

Venus and the Moon

The sun pulls the shade down
on another day.
Silver-slivered moon
floats buoyant in the haze.
To the west
two strangers rendezvous
Lovers always,
Venus and the Moon

Desire,
pulling time and space together
Two bodies borne
on the wings of a wish.
It goes on,
almost forever
What drifts apart
stands side by side again.

Yeah! I care.
But I can't make your decisions for you.
Hey! I'm here.
You know I'll always be here for you.

We'll be
Lovers always,
Like Venus and the Moon.

Whatc'ha Gonna Do?

Whatc'ha gonna do
When they come to your door
With a pair of hand-cuffs
And an invite to the war?
Why do you think they don't draft old people?
'Cause they've got enough sense not to go
But when they point the gun at you
Well, what are you gonna do?

Whatc'ha gonna do
When they lay you off
And you loose your house, your spouse
And everything you've ever got?
Do you think the people in the street have always been there?
Come on man, you know that's not true
But if it ever happens to you
Well, whatc'ha gonna do?

Maybe you should think about it?

Whatc'ha gonna do
When it comes time to vote
And the choice is cut off one hand
Or to cut off both?
Do you think democracy is real man?
When's the last time you changed a law?
When you figure out its a bunch of bull
Well, whatc'ha gonna do?

Whatc'ha gonna do
When it comes time to march?
Are you gonna stay home and watch it on TV
Or go out and do your part?
The world ain't gonna change by itself man!
You know its up to me and you
So when you hear the call
Whatc'ha gonna do?

Well? WHATC'HA GONNA DO!!!

When I Lost You

I couldn't understand
How the Earth kept turning
How the flowers and the grass still grew
Why the stars in the sky kept burning
Didn't they know it all ended
When I lost you

You told me you loved me
Through eyes so wet and blue
But he had your commitment
And that meant that we were through

I couldn't understand
How you could ever love me
If you loved him like I do you
I couldn't understand
How you could ever leave me
Not loving me the way you do

I touched your hand and your body trembled
As our eyes fell to the floor
Tears ran as you hugged me briefly
Then my world ran out that door

And I couldn't understand
How the Earth kept turning
How the flowers and the grass still grew
Why the stars in the sky kept burning
Didn't they know it all ended
When I lost you

When We Are One

In the Ocean
Where the stars fall in the sea
Our emotion
Becomes all there is of me
Our devotion
like flower petals covers me
Our love motion
Takes us beyond the galaxy

I am One
When we are One

Work

I go to work, and then come home
Feed the kids, give the dog a bone
Then I go to work, and when I get home
I do the laundry, and cut the lawn
Sometimes it seems, I have to say
It's a little hard to keep up the pace

I go to work, pick up my check
After bills and taxes, almost nothing left
Prices going up, can't get a raise
You call this living the civilized way?

Well it really makes me angry

Well I don't want to go to work no more
I don't want to do it, that's for sure

I go to work, and do my job
Make lots of money, for some slob
Then I come home, to stacks of bills
Nothing but the tube to get my thrills

Makes me want to do some damage!

Well I don't want to go to work no more
I don't want to do it, no no no no!

I know, I won't go to work, I'll just stay home
Feed the kids the dog, strap the mower on
Then go to work, and have some fun
I'll use the boss, to feed the lawn

… ehh, maybe not

But I don't want to go to work no more
I don't want to do it!
I don't wannu!
Oh, don't make me