 Giving Up the Ghost » Ang lyrics [+ Idagdag +] |
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1. _ Ghosts of Promised Lands
I live alone inside my mind
Everyday is the day I die
I go walking up the street
Undetected in the heat
With a thousand different
Faces passing by
They're out there hanging
Posters of Jesus.
On my block they've covered
Every wall. Well I suppose
We could all use a Savior.
So I told em to do the whole
City and save us all?.
There's a young kid wailing mad on a saxophone
Someone screams, "Man! I dig the sound"
The girls around the corner can make your nights
A little warmer if you just let em take you down.
But you gotta let em take you down?right.
There are some men who would lead
Us to destruction. They deal in dirt and pain
And misery. They talk the silver tongue, one hand on
A gun and spit lies at you and me.
Most people around here got no money.
They got chains that rain straight to drains.
They work for somebody, who answers to somebody else
And nobody knows their names. It's a shame
Come on, come on and rise up! Take somebody by the hand
Come on, come on and rise up! All you ghosts of promised lands!
I'm not talking about revolution. I'm not trying to make demands.
But I want you to know, that wherever you go, you got
The whole wide world in your hands. You got the whole wide world in
Your hands
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2. _ Like a Ball and Chain
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3. _ Shaken
California, is the place to be
I should warn you, about the things I've seen
You don't fit in, you don't belong
Your so called friends, will all be gone
I believe, the things we say
Keep us deceived, they get in the way
We run around, we move to fast
That's the reason
Nothing lasts
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That's the reason
That's the reason
There can be no mistakin'
I want to know why, I'm so certain
Behind the curtain shakin'
I don't want to go out like this
'Cause everybody, with an angry fist
We take for granted, what's in our past
That's the reason
Nothing lasts
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Someone put it out to me
I want one more chance to believe
I want to run
Go stare into the sun
Watch the bay waves breakin'
The human race awaken
I want to know why, I'm so certain
Behind the curtain shakin', shakin'
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4. _ Another Love Gone Bad
Run, run you make me run
It's not much fun when I'm trying to keep up
Down, down you knock me down
I hit the ground, then you sweep me up
I keep coming back to you, baby like you want me to
Why can't we have what we had? My guess, its
Just another love gone bad
How can you be so cruel
Act so cool, rub my nose in dirt?
Why do I even try
I don't know why, I guess I like to get hurt
I keep coming back to you, baby like you want me to
Why can't we have what we had? My guess, its
Just another love gone bad
I got you stuck inside my head
But there's no place you'd want to be instead
I keep coming back to you, baby like you want me to
Why can't we have what we had? My guess, its
Just another love gone bad
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5. _ When You Return
There's too much work today
And I don't want to
Do anything today
No I don't want to
But the barn out there needs maintenance
And I ain't got the patience
I think I'd rather sit and watch it burn
Wait right here baby till you return
All our friends come by
They annoy me
They try to get me high
But they destroy me
They think they do me service
But they just make me nervous
What goes on is nobody?s concern
Ill tell you everything when you return
I can't stand it here
If you're not standing here
I can't keep it together
I can't be brave forever
You know not how a man like me can yearn
I'll keep you by my side when you return
I can't stand it here
If you're not standing here
I wish that I was tougher
But it serves me right to suffer
You know not how a man like me can yearn
I'll keep you by my side when you return
There's too much work today
And I don't care to
Do all the things they say
Cause its not fair to
Turn this house into a home
It can't be done alone
Give me one more chance that I may earn
Earn back you baby when you return
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6. _ Don't Let the Devil Take Your Mind
Well they say don't look for heroes
If you don't care who you find
All roads lead to somewhere
And although the horse is blind
There's one thing I can say for sure
You can go through Hell, you can come out pure
If you just don't let the Devil take your mind
Well there's no one man among us
Who is safe from the Sirens call
Temptation's like a crooked finger
Calling for us all
Yeah, this worlds so damp its beginning to swell
There's a baby crying from the water well
Just don't let the Devil take your mind
Take your mind, take your mind
The Devil's on your heel, he's close behind
I'm only here to relate to you
Wherever you go and whatever you do
Just don't let the Devil take your mind
The fortune teller whispered in your ear
Don't you remember?
She said: "the night has come,
Devil takes the hind most"
So get out the door, don't waste no time
Stay on the path, don't fall behind
Don't you let the devil take your mind
Take your mind, take your mind
The devil's on your heel, he's close behind
I'm just trying to relate to you
I don't care who you are, I don't care what you do
Just don't let the Devil take your mind
Now you don't need to walk on water
You don't need to be a saint
It doesn't matter what you are
Or even who you ain't
We move through life, we live and die
We do our best to not ask why
So just don't let the Devil take your mind
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7. _ I Don't Live in a Dream
I don't live in a dream
I don't live in a dream
I don't live in some land forgotten
I don't live in a dream
I don't live on the moon
Drink martinis in the afternoon
I don't pretend to make the world feel better
I don't live on the moon
I live right here with you
Walk the same earth you do
I don't believe that we're so different
I live right here with you
Your twisted heart is a cruel and wonderful thing
It tears me apart, hanging from every string
I don't live in a dream
I don't live in a dream
I don't hustle or scheme
I have no faith in politicians
I don't live in a dream
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8. _ Prayer for Spanish Harlem
Hot night, Spanish Harlem
Full moon, creeping low
I was standing at the bottom
Your blue window
I come from miles just to hold you
Been so long, baby how you been?
Do you remember what I told you?
Still the same it was back then
I hope it all comes easy, I hope it all feels right
A dozen different candles, line your bed tonight
And I hope its never over, I hope it never ends
But when I go, I hope that you will want me back again
This world that's all around us
It's for real, its not a game
And though hate and greed surrounds us
There's love in my veins
So hush now, do no more talkin'
My heart is heavy; it's a ragged stone
All I want is you with me walkin'
Cause I can't walk alone
And I hope that when we go, they take us someplace good
We can all be kings in common neighborhoods
And I hope we live together, daughter and the son
And I hope they'll take me in when my work upon this
Earth is done
Well I wish you loved in miles,
I wish that you would see
How time says: love expires
But not me, not me
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9. _ Animal
My heart is beating hard
Although it's reckless and abandon
Do your best to understand, lil honey
I do not care for most possessions
For I'm possessed
By something other than the foreign things
We buy ourselves with money
I do not have to run the race
Beside the man, inside this place
Of sharp turns and suburban satisfaction
Baby, don't mistake me for someone who doesn't ache
I'm the same as you, with a different reaction
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I was born an animal
Wild, wild animal
I was born an animal
Animal
My path is an endless path
It's a long look in the mirror
Never do I near my destination
For out here among the strange encounters
I've counted on my hands, to fight and stand
The trials and tribulations
But don't take my words as crudity
I've got a gentle soul
Deep beneath the bricks
And I, got to haul myself around it
Yeah, I'm out here trying to do my best
To stay alive among the the rapids and the lies
That many a man have drowned in
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Oh yeah...yeah...oh yeah
This times are desparate times
We spotted and surrounded
By hounds and vultures, lean and unforgiving
We walk upon two legs as men
We burn it down, just to build again
Will not make a change, to how we're living
But I believe a change'll come for us, and those who demand it
For those who can't stand it
Living wild in the gutter
And on that day the sun will burn like golden hammer
And we will understand how and learn how, to live with each other
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Ah...oh...oh yeah...ah...oh..awh...oh...oh yeah...
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10. _ Uphill Mountain
Big Joe Tuner, Elmore James
Street survivor selling walking canes
Says: "Give your babies holy names for me"
Now I don't know, but I've been told
You never grow up, you'll never get old
You can watch the world being bought and sold
All on your T.V
Sometimes it gets a little rough
Like the wheel's made of steel going an uphill mountain
Better stand tall if you're gonna stand at all
And if you're gonna fall, well you might as well fall
Build a house, make it home
Gonna make a place where I can be alone
Don't the yard look pretty when it?s overgrown?
Standing six feet tall
This ain't right, but it's a livin'
You got to take just what you are given
'Cause luck only matters with the cards and the women
And sometimes not at all
Sometimes it gets a little rough
Like the wheel's made of steel going an uphill mountain
Better stand tall if you're gonna stand at all
And if you're gonna fall, well you might as well fall
Peeping Tom said to Madame Rose:
I've seen you already without your clothes,
now what I suggest, honey what I propose is that
you see me without mine?
Tell John Henry and Cassius Clay
Swinging iron for a living is a hell of a way
But whatever you do don't let your hammer stray
I believe we'll be just fine
Sometimes it gets a little rough
Like the wheel's made of steel going an uphill mountain
Better stand tall if you're gonna stand at all
And if you're gonna crawl, well you might as well crawl
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11. _ Follow You
Girl, you're just a kid
You can't come around here after what you did
Cause I heard the news
And it ripped my heart from my guts down through my shoes
So don't open your mouth
Don't let a word slip out
I don't want to hear your pointless point of view
Stay right there,
No, don't you go nowhere
Don't make me get up, don't make me follow you
Girl, there was a time
When crossing you would've never crossed my mind
But pride is at stake
And that's the only thing that I won't let you take
Yes, I've got the nerve
You're gonna get what you deserve
I'm tired of being the one you're lying to
Don't you run
You can't outrun a gun
Don't make me get up, don't make me follow you
I said woman don't make me get up, don't make me follow you
Girl, you made me hate
And when I go to hell, you can meet me at the gate
Cause I've, I got plans
You'll need the devil himself just to save you from my hands
No I ain't your friend
But I guess I loved you till the end
And I know exactly what I have to do
There will be no help
Cause you did this to yourself
Don't make me get up, don't make me follow you
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12. _ Downhearted
Listen people what I say
I hate to come to you this way
But there's something going on in the world today
And I don't know what I can say, I'm downhearted
Downhearted
Now I don't think there can be one blame
You can't point the finger or speak a name
There's too much at stake, there?s too much to lose
And it's getting to the end of a burning fuse
I'm downhearted
So tell me am I out of line?
Am I wrong, or am I blind?
Is there any meaningful thing to say?
The blades of war are glistening,
But there's nobody listening
To the sound of the voices, hear them make their noise
The machine is too strong, gonna be destroyed
I'm downhearted
This place is crazy, it weighs too much
I'm lost inside the grid, I'm out of touch
Tell me, is there anything that I can do?
Blue policeman with a silver gun
Shot a red-defender and his only son
Ask somebody and they might say:
"Be straight laced, white faced and look the other way"
I'm downhearted
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