Distant Early Warning Lyrics

Midway hawkers calling "try your luck with me"Merry-go-round wheezing the same old melodyA thousand ten-cent wonders, who could ask for more?A pocketful of silver, the key to heav...Read Full Lyrics

I've got a livin' that's rough, a future that's toughYou know what I meanBlankers and boasters, all the bluffers and posersI'm not into that scene You can tell me that I got no cla...Read Full Lyrics

Now it's come to thisIt's like we're back in the Dark AgesFrom the Middle East to the Middle WestIt's a world of superstitionNow it's come to thisWide-eyed armies of the faithfulFr...Read Full Lyrics

A modern-day warriorMean, mean strideToday's Tom SawyerMean, mean prideThough his mind is not for rentDon't put him down as arrogantHis reserve, a quiet defenseRiding out the day's...Read Full Lyrics

Our first stop is in BogotàTo check Columbian fieldsThe natives smile and pass alongA sample of their yieldSweet Jamaican pipe dreamsGolden Acapulco nightsThen Morocco, and the Ea...Read Full Lyrics

Aw, hey now, baby,Well, I like your smileWon't you come and talk to meFor a little while Well, you're making me crazyThe way you roll them eyesWon't you come and sit with meI'll te...Read Full Lyrics

Well, you can stake that claimGood work is the key to good fortuneWinners take that praiseLosers seldom take that blameIf they don't take that gameAnd sometimes the winner takes no...Read Full Lyrics

I knew he was different, in his sexualityI went to his parties, as a straight minorityIt never seemed a threat to my masculinityHe only introduced me to a wider reality As the year...Read Full Lyrics

There's something happening hereWhat it is ain't exactly clearThere's a man with a gun over thereTelling me I got to bewareI think it's time we stop, children, what's that soundEve...Read Full Lyrics

Grim-faced and forbiddingTheir faces closed tightAn angular mass of New YorkersPacing in rhythmRace the oncoming nightThey chase through the streets of ManhattanHead-first humanity...Read Full Lyrics