When I Grow Up

Heros come and go that's the only thing I know

Now I'm waitin' for a my idol to show up

Been waiting here so long,someone to come along

And show me what to be when I grow up

I could be a power ranger or a terminator

Or maybe some kind of superman

Save the world, save the girl, make somebody's day

Save the air, the sea and the land

When I grow up d'ya think I'll find a little peace of mind

in knowing that I done all I can

Who's gonna wash my socks and shirts and underpants

If I'm out there saving the day

Guess I'd better bring along my mom just in case

To help me scare the bad guys away

When I grow up d'ya think I'll find a little peace of mind

in knowing that I done my very best

(bridge)

Please don't make me take the fall

Maybe I could just stay small

Can't you see what we've become

Just take your filthy money and run

(ride)

But every time I see a hero I could be

Just another tin god to me

Oh, Dennis Rodman, Eminem, Snoop Dog and O.J.

KMartha Stewart in the kitchen

Mike Tyson, Phil Spector, pick your Kennedy

Colonel Sanders choking his chicken

And if'n I'm already over thirty three

How old will I be when I grow up

Don't wanna grow up

Invincible

Have you heard the news that I've got nothing to lose

I'm the man who has everything

I've got wealth and riches and the world is at my

beckon call should I want anything

Can't you see I've never been lonely

And you know I've never been hungry

I've had everything all of my life I'm invincible

I'm protected and respected

People like a money machine

You can try but ya can't take me down I'm invincible

Do you think I give a rat's behind about the

Bleeding hearts who think that life's unkind

If you think there ain't no justice in this world

Just wait and see what else I have in mind

Can't you see I've never been lonely

And you know I've never been hungry

I've had everything all of my life I'm invincible

I'm protected and respected

People love the money machine

You can try but ya can't take me down I'm invincible

Watch me pocket all of the dough

Nothin' nobody can do (I'm invincible)

Take it from somebody who knows

I'm takin' it all from you (I'm invincible)

You can spit and holler and moan

Don't make no diff'rence to me (I'm invincible)

Look at everything that I own

Look at all that you need (I'm invincible)

No Sympathy

I don't want no sympathy

Don't need no one to pity me

But I'll take a quarter, a nickle or a dime

Don't have no cares to worry me

Pressing responsibilities

And I don't need a purpose, a reason or a rhyme

Don't have no job to burden me

Don't have no home to smother me

And I don't gotta any place at any place at any given time

I'm right where I wanna be

It's all part of the irony lurking in the shadows of your mind

Ten thousand pages handed down through the ages

While history changes and you wait, but the change never comes at all

Yet I never lose the will to survive

Lost in the mazes of the back streets of the city

Where no one is out there who gives a damn whether you live or die

And you're not even sure you're alive

Don't waste no time to think at me

Here in the pit of society

Just look away and keep walking by

(break)

Standing alone in the street

Amid the clamor and the cheer still I only hear my own heart beat

The dark sun beating down

As I'm watching the crowd I'm confused by the sound of laughter

And I know how it feels to have a life

A warm bed and a home and I think that I know what I'm missing

In one fleeting moment I let it all slip away

As I watched through my tears tell me what the hell was I thinking

(repeat)

AND GOD LAUGHED

Sitting on a nebula

Checking his agenda

Sipping his morning cup o' joe

Yesterday he finished fixin'

A busted galaxy

One down eight billion to go

Stars and planets not to mention

All the things that need attention

Dark matter energy and time

Light years of endless space

Distances too far to trace

Dimensions that boggle the mind

(break)

Through his cosmic looking glass

He spies a little cluster of stars

So very far away

Zooming in he saw the sun

And all the planets all around

In a corner of the Milky Way

A long way from no-man's-land

Earth is but a grain of sand

Somehow he heard the people cryin'

Lookin' for the answers

To their petty problems

Why are they all on me relyin'

And god laughed at the little creatures praying

God laughed

God laughed at the ludicrous displaying

God laughed at the tiny ants marching by

(Ride)

Everybody's busy

Always in a tizzy

And so there goes another day

Fussin' and a-fightin'

Kickin' and bitin'

It's enough to make me wanna pray

Look into the mirror

Nothin' could be clearer

Tell me what you think that you see

Think you're really somethin'

But you're really nothin'

Nothin' you can guarantee

And god laughed at the egos all inflated

God laughed

God laughed at the the circus he created

God laughed at the tiny robots clamouring by

I Dream

There was a single page of history

And where it went remains a mystery

It was like driving through a small town

Blink your eyes and it's no longer around

We saw the times they needed changin'

And so we did some re-arrangin'

We rallied 'round our new conception

With visions through a new perception

Ahhhh, it breaks my heart

When I think of how it all came apart

Ahhhh, where did you go

When greed reared its almighty head

And I know we could have made a difference

With a better organized resistance

But change it never comes on golden wings

It's just the way the pendulum swings

Listen to me Mr. New Age man

I dream, therefore I am

So you got stuff but it's never enough

And me, well I'll always be free

I dream therefore I am

HOME

LYRICS

CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE

( The Ego That Ate the World ! )

So you're the center of the universe

Everybody's waits 'cuz you're always first

Your favorite topic of conversation is you

You'd think at your age you would realize

Sooner or later you'd be cut down to size

Then you'd have to take your ego trip somewhere new

How can anybody be so long-winded about themselves

When they got nothing to offer the world

Standing naked for the whole world to see

You ain't no different from him, her or me

'Cept that one head's too big and the other's too small

Your life's a mirror of old Oedipus Rex

The perfect stage for your Napoleon complex

You'd give up your Mazaradi just to be tall

Everybody's got a season a rhyme and a reason

But yours is a big mystery to me

Everybody knows the answer but never the question

Everybody's got something to say

***********************

You're always tellin' people what you're worth

Cuz you're the center of the universe

The occupation with your size fixation

Where cars and guns will be your compensation

Going Down

Feeling so old, I'm hungry and cold

Ain't never been so down

I keep losing weight, how much more can I take

My head is spinning 'round

Ain't never been so down

Well I never lost perspective

And I think I know I never lost my head

Was it something I forgot to do

Or maybe only something that I said

Now she's gone

I don't know why

I'm going down

PAY THE LADY

Went down to the yoga center just to clear my head

It was one of those days might as well have stayed in bed

I had just closed my eyes when I felt a little tap on my shoulder

He said, "Sorry, you can't stay, not until you pay the lady"

She resides in a mansion the size of the Grand Hotel

And she hobnobs with people of influence, wealth and fame

She got butlers an' maids an' chaufers an' gourmets

Lots of em'ralds and jades and a car for every day of the week

And keeps the rif-raf at bay, that is unless they pay the lady

The psychic said there was someone special in my life

I said "How did you know? did somebody tell?"

She said something would happen, don't know what it is

Could be good, might be bad, that'll be fifty bucks, in cash please

When she flashed her nails my way, thought I'd better pay the lady

We're poor lost souls and we've got nowhere to go

All we want is a place to call home

We'll atone for our sins if you'd kindly take us in

And we promise to behave from now on

Heard the Maharishi had a private 707

And for ten Gs he would fly you straight to heaven

We don't need gods or gurus but the ones inside of ourselves

Enlightenment ain't free anymore,

No matter how they lie about it, it's for shore

But you can let your head down and pray

And you don't have to pay........... nobody

EVOLUTION

a. Before Time

b. Chaotic Space

c. Dharma

( Instrumental )

Note:

Before Time is a paradox. How

could there be a "before" if time hadn't started yet?

Chaotic Space was taken from Star Trek Voyager. I have read many books on these phenomena including Steven Hawking and have never seen this term. It was originally going to be "Cosmic Chaos" but I like the sound of Chaotic Space.

Dharma is a word with several meanings including one's unity with nature, divine law fulfilled (Hinduism & Buddhism) or Cosmic Order. Take your pick!

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