standing just outside the circle of light
at night when you're asleep
self hatred's going to creep in
and try to blame it on the devil
the one who's bed you sleep in
and don't tell me what they did to you
as though you had no choice
tell me, isn't that your picture?
isn't that your voice?
if you don't live what you sing about
your mirror is going to find out
oh yeah
i'd like to go to all the pretty parties
where all the pretty people go
and i ain't really all that pretty
but nobody will know
cuz everybody loves you
when you're a star
and nobody questions
what it takes to go that far
and life is a sleazy stranger
and this is his favorite bar
you can call it magic
when a man pulls a rabbit out of a hat
but the reason i don't call
is cuz i wonder if there isnt a better word than that
and you can call me crazy
but i think you're as lazy as white paint on the wall
and i know you'll only speak to me in dial tones
if i call
when you sit right down in the middle of yourself
you're gonna wanna have a comfortable chair
so renovate your soul before you get too old
cuz you're gonna be housebound there
when you're old you fold up like an envelope
and you mail yourself right inside
and there's nowhere to go
except out real slow
are you ready, boy, for that ride?
your arrogance is gaining on you
and so is eternity
you better practice happiness
you better practice humility
you took the air, you took the time
you were fed and you were free
now you'd better put some beauty back
while you got the energy
you'd better put some beauty back, boy
while you got the energy
imagine that i'm at your mercy
imagine that you are at mine
pretend i've been standing here
watching you watching me
all this time
now imagine that you are the weather
in the tiny snow globe of this song
and i am the statue of liberty
one inch long
so here i am at my most hungry
and here i am at my most full
here i am waving a red cape
locking eyes with a bull
just imagine that i am onstage
under a watchtower of punishing light
and in the haze is your face bathed in shadow
and what's beyond you is hidden from sight
i've been trying to find some meaning in this crumbled mess youve made. i can't seem to get passed that cold line that you played. i've been workin hard to meet the expectations that you reccomend. while you've been tooling my competence of the game at hand. i'm walking backwards retracing my steps searching for what i missed from what i have left. i'm working out my internal puzzle to find a piece for you. ive calculated a conclusion of peace and love for you. i see you lost in a dark cloud of white your tongue drips with the taste of delite. and you're so lost now in a cold snow blizzard. you talk a lot about truth but fairy dust doesn't make you a wizard. your lips are moving and i hear sounds but i swear its like turning the knob on a faucet that just spits brown. and i can't tell if you speak or smell of it but i'm chokin on the taste of your spunnion breath shit. mr nice guy all in tune with your rocks. mr lies a lot cant think straight on them rocks. so where are we going it's like nowhere fast cuz youre drowning outside in a sea of trash.