Brick By Brick

Candy

It's a rainy afternoon
In 1990
The big city geez it's been 20 years-
Candy-you were so fine

Beautiful beautiful
Girl from the north
You burned my heart
With a flickering torch
I had a dream that no one else could see
You gave me love for free

Candy, candy , candy i can't let you go
All my life you're haunting me
I loved you so

Candy, candy , candy i can't let you go
Life is crazy
Candy baby

Yeah, well it hurt me real bad when you left
I'm glad you got out
But i miss you
I've had a hole in my heart
For so long
I've learned to fake it and
Just smile along

Down on the street
Those men are all the same
I need a love
Not games
Not games


Candy, candy, candy i can't let you go
All my life you're haunting me
I loved you so
Candy, candy , candy i can't let you go
Life is crazy
I know baby
Candy baby

Uou uou uou
Candy, candy, candy i can't let you go
All my life you're haunting me
I loved you so

Candy candy candy
Life is crazy
Candy baby

Candy baby,
Candy, candy

I work so hard, so don't trip me up
Shakin' a leg like the tail o' the pup
I'm payin' dues till i register heat
Sure hope i don't end up on the street

Home, boy
Home, boy
Everybody needs a home
Home, boy
Home, boy
Everybody needs a home

So many people rise and fall
Who's lookin' after you at all?
Nobody knows anybody at all
Strangers in paradise down at the mall

Home, boy
Home, boy
Everybody needs a home
Home, boy
Home, boy
Everybody needs a home

The life we live is tricky tricky
I love my home, and my family
Who's gonna love you when the
Mountain gets steep?
We're gonna make it-in a jeep

This whole country is scared of failure.
My head keeps trying to sell me ambition.
But in my heart, i want self-respect.
There's a conflict.

Boy, i feel so outgunned today
But i'll get up and fight back, anyway
You and i aare not huge mainstream stars
But unlike them, we're really what we are

We got main street eyes
Watchin' as the big boys roll by
Under rotten television skies
We got main street eyes

I saw a kitten squashed in the street
I read about a plastic surgeon and his art collection.

We are played for suckers all the time
Phony rock and roll
It's a crime
I don't want to dip myself in trash
I don't want to give myself for cash

We got main street eyes
Tryin' to do what's decent with our lives
Under funny television skies
We got main street eyes

Walkin' around sometimes
I see a tension under the surface
People are just about ready to explode.

So hold me, and trust me
I love you, don't worry.
Keep your main street eyes
Keep your main street eyes
Keep your main street eyes
Eyes
Eyes

I'm standin' in a shadow, hating the world
I keep a wall around me, block out the herd
It's a nerve-wreck placeto be, it kills real
Quick
You gotta scrape the concrete off your dick
But we're gonna live so happily
In a faraway place, just you and me
If i don't crap out
The sun will shine and give us a hug
The world will sing like a happy bug
If i don't crap out
No and i won't crap out
I won't crap out

I'm glad i am crazy, it keeps me trying
I despise the trendies, i know
They're lying
If you want to stir up real mud
You had better pay with real blood
But the birds will sing a sweet melody
In a couple of green indifferent trees
If i don't crap out
And you're gonna know how fine you are
Gonna write your name on a violet star
If i don't crap out
We'll have a window and we'll have a door
And a reason to be living for
If i don't crap out
And the material singers will fade into dust
Like forgotten merchants of disgust
If i don't crap out
No i won't crap out
No i'll never crap out
Oh i won't crap out
I won't crap out

People are so sad and i know why
With no chance to live before you die
You get pretty sick if you hafta
Keep it inside

I wanna build a house where an ad don't scream
I wanna live in peace-quietly
I wanna have a place of love and safety
People oughta live how and where they want
People oughta have respect in front
People oughta get along pretty o.k.

So get off my dick
I'm building it brick by brick
Brick by brick

I'm building a house where i can think
And have some balance and dignity
I'm building a house where no one can hurt me
I'm huilding a house where the weak are strong
I'm building a house with a real song
I'm using faith that is immortal
I'm building it with simplicity
And the way that we feel, you and me
I'm buidling it with what i believe in

So get off my dick
I'm building it brick by brick
Brick by brick

Now i'm looking at just a little time
So be it-i want to
Be true to my simple heart
And not put nothing else above it
Brick by brick
Brick by brick
Brick by brick
Brick by brick
Brick by brick by brick

I was gently raised
Fussed over r in school
Fed and housed and entertained
Wanting to be cool
Summers in the grass
Winters warm and slow
Until the one thing on my mind was to just
Get up and go

We're the undefeated
We got what they want
We're so bored and spoiled
Life is just a bag of pot
We're the undefeated
Tv in the shade
Girls at all our parties
We have really got it made

There's a real mean world outside
Where many lives are lost
But struggle builds character
And we are growing soft
I don't want to sit and watch no tv show
I want to roam and be challenged
I want to grow and grow

We're the undefeated
We got what they want
We're so fucking spoiled
Life is just a bag of pot
We're the undefeated
Tv in the shade
Girls at all our parties
We have really got it made
What have we made?
A giant jail
A bunch of walls
That's all that we've made
Oh, my

We're the undefeated we got what they want
We're so bored and spoiled life is just a bag of pot
We're the undefeated we got what they want
We're so bored and spoiled life is just a bag of pot

We're the undefeated
Always undefeated
We're the undefeated
We're the undefeated,
Now

Pop/slash

My baby wants to rock and roll
She likes pictures and thoughts control
She's shoppin' wild and she's comin' down
Superman couldn't turn her around

She wants ta rock rock rock
Rock rock and roll
Rock it on down till she cures her soul
She wants ta rock her way right outta the hole
She wants to rock and rock and roll

She wants information and she wants it raw
She don't believe the way they lay things out
She's gotta try it till she's too fucked up
I was the same way once myself
I hadda rock...

Goin' down those empty streets
You know what other guy's got all the money
He doesn't deserve it-screw him-rock and roll

Car crash on the grey highway
Bodies murmur under blankets
The party's in full swing
The boys are high and ready for fucking new blood
Boddies are needed constantly
Escapees from all history
Voyagers in tehe animal state-whoops!-
Here come the assholes they can smell the money-
The meanest little bitch in 13 states-
She's what god creates-
...rock and roll...

Nobody knows if she'll live or die
He wishes he was the cute one
But he's just the big one
He needs to rock and roll