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 I dream therefore I am I dream therefore I am I dream therefore I am |
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 has a private 707 And for ten Gs he will 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 |
Copyright ~ Tommy Bittle 2005 |
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! The Author |
