Mental Jewelry
Album - 31 dicembre 1991 - Debaser id 24764

(I I)
I have never taken life
Yet I have often paid the price
And you, you are a victim of this age
And the guilt that hangs around your neck
Has got me locked up in a cage

You've got to learn to live until no end
But first you must learn to swim
All over again
Oh no because...

Pain lies on the riverside (yes)
And pain will never say goodbye (no no)
Pain lies on the riverside

So put your feet in the water
Put your head in the water
Put your soul in the water
Join me for a swim tonight

I have forever, always tried
To stay clean and constantly baptized (oh)
I'm aware that the river's banks they are dry
And to wait for a flood
Is to wait for life

I've got to learn to live until no end
But first I must learn to swim all over again
Yeah yeah yeah because...

Pain lies on the riverside (yeah)
And pain will never say goodbye (no no)
Pain lies on the riverside

So put your feet in the water
Put your head in the water
C'mon put your soul in the water
Join me for a swim tonight
For a swim tonight
(Oh my Lord)

I've got to learn to live until no end
I've got to learn to swim
All over, all over, all over again
Yeah yeah yeah because

Pain lies on the riverside
(oooh nah nah nah nah)
And pain will never say goodbye (no no)
Pain lies on the riverside

So put your feet in the water
Put your head in the water now
C'mon put your soul in the water
Join me for a swim tonight

For a swim tonight
To swim (all over, all over, all over, all over again)
To live (all over, all over, all over, all over again)
Live (all over again)

If I told you he was your brother we could reminisce
Then you would go about your day
If I said you ought to give him some of your water
You'd shake your canteen and walk away

The perception that divides you from him is a lie
For some reason you never asked why
This is not a black and white world
You can't afford to believe in your side

This is not a black and white world
To be alive I say the colors must swirl
And I believe that maybe today
We will all get to appreciate
The beauty of gray

If I told you she was your mother
We could analyze the situation and be gone
If I said you ought to give her some of your water
Your eyes would light up like the dawn

The perception that divides you from her is a lie
For some reason you never asked why
This is not a black and white world
You can't afford to believe in your side

This is not a black and white world
To be alive I say the colors must swirl
And I believe that maybe today
We will all get to appreciate
Yes we all will get to appreciate
The beauty of gray
The beauty of gray (now)
The beauty of gray
The beauty of gray (now)

(vocal improv)

Look into your eyes
No daylight
New day now

It's not a black and white world
To be alive I say the colors must swirl
And I believe that maybe today
We will appreciate
The beauty of gray

This is not a black and white world
To be alive I say the colors must swirl
And I believe that maybe today
We will all get to appreciate
Yes we all will get to appreciate

The beauty of gray
The beauty of gray (now)
The beauty of gray
The beauty of gray (now)

The beauty of gray
The beauty of gray (now)
The beauty of gray
The beauty of gray (now)

The beauty of gray
(The beauty of gray)

So many people
I know only a few
Yes I may say I love this man and that man
But what keeps me from loving you?

Date of birth, geography
The color of my skin, ideology
You got ten fingers, two legs, one nose
like me
just like me

And it's as simple as that
you see

And if I don't know who to love
I love them all
And if I don't know who to trust
I trust them all
And if I don't know who to kill
I may kill myself instead

From the mouth of a baby
Will come the world-saving words
that will save us all
And from the lungs of a child
will come the everlasting breath of God

Increasing peace and honesty
and not carrying on despite of me
Don't you know
this ain't about no race, no creed
no race, no creed

And it's as simple as that
you see

And if I don't know who to love
I love them all
And if I don't know who to trust
I trust them all
And if I don't know who to kill
No suicide
I'm already dead

You say "Hold on to the reigns"
I say "Let them go tonight"
My brain waves
Confused between what is and ain't
She cries "Groundless and free"

Tired of the water
Tired of the wine
Tired of the future
Tired of time
Tired of the madness
Tired of the steel
Tired of the violence
Tired of me

Used steel
Used steel am I
What was pliable in love
Is now hard and crystallized
The intellect is fine
For counting money
And recalling times
That she cried,
"Groundless and free"

Hope is a letter that never arrives
Delivered by the postman of my fear

What do you say to the child
whose god is in the t.v?
And what do you say to the man
who blames the world on t.v?

They don't even know how
to sing my song
But they won't even try it
with me, with me, with me

Who is standing over playng like the teacher
harnessing the learned
Who try but can't leave her
I want to beg the liars
to lay down their sirens
that play like the angels
to my deep desire

Free my son
Let him walk right through the rain
Free my son
Make him waterboy
Free my son
There he stands down on the shore
Tree my son

What do you say to the man
who treats her like a mother??
And what do you say to the man
who treats him like a father??

Come and see my heart
Come inside and learn"?
Come and see my soul
It's like yours
I say it's just like yours"?

Who is making over
Idolizing princes
Banishing the dreamers with
barbed-wire fences
and telling all the children who run to her feet
that they have no vision and love's all diseased

Free my son
Let him walk right through the rain
Free my son
Make him waterboy
Free my son
There he stands down on the shore
Free my son

Free my son
Let him walk right through the rain
Free my son
Make him waterboy
Free my son
There he stands down on the shore
Free my son
Free him with love

Free my son
Let him walk right through the rain
Free my son
Make him waterboy
Free my son
There he stands down on the shore
Free my son

The world is burning down
Can't you smell the smoke in the air?
War, disease, and famine
This demon, she is everywhere
.
Poets and preachers and politicians
They've all had their say
And we got 10,000 years
Devoted to nothing
But tomorrow and yesterday
.
If all of the ignorance in the world
Passes a second ago
What would you say?
Who would you obey?
I am here to say that
.
Peace is now
.
Mr. President
I hereby pardon you of all your crimes
For they are just as much mine
.
Selfishness and separation have led me
To believe that the world is not my problem
The world is not my problem
I am the world
And you are the world
.
If all of the ignorance in the world
Passes a second ago
What would you say?
Who would you obey?
I am here to say that
.
Peace is now