Is This The Life We Really Want? Lyrics

So we left Beirut Willa and I He headed East to Baghdad and the rest of it I set out North I walked the five or six miles to the last of the street lamps And hunkered in the curb s...Read Full Lyrics

Come hold me now I am not gone I would not leave you here alone In this dead calm beneath the waves I can still hear those lost boys calling You could not speak You were afraid To...Read Full Lyrics

You wake up in the morning Get something for the pot Wonder why the sun makes the rocks feel hot Draw on the walls Eat Get laid Back in the good old days Then some damn fool invent...Read Full Lyrics

All alone or in twos, The ones who really love you Walk up and down Outside the Wall. Some hand-in-hand, And some gathered together in bands. The bleeding hearts and artists make t...Read Full Lyrics

[Man1:] "Alright, I'll take care of them part of the time, But the somebody else that needs Taking care of in Washington." [Man2:] "Who's that?" [Man1:] "Rose Pilchitt" [Man2:] "Ro...Read Full Lyrics

The part that is envious, cold hearted and devious Greedy, mischievous, global, colonial Bloodthirsty, blind, mindless and cheap Focused on borders and slaughter and sheep Bur...Read Full Lyrics

The monkey sat on a pile of stones And stared at the broken bone in his hand And the strains of a Viennese quartet Rang out across the land The monkey looked up at the stars And th...Read Full Lyrics

If you didn't care What happened to me And I didn't care For you We would zig-zag our way through the boredom and pain Occasionally glancing up through the rain Wondering which of ...Read Full Lyrics

The powers that be They like a tough game No rules Some you win Some you lose Competition's good for you They're dying to be free They're the powers that be They like a bomb proof ...Read Full Lyrics

So I stood by the roadside The soles of my running shoes gripping The tarmac like gunmetal magnets Fixed on the front of her Fassbinder face Was the kind of a smile That only a rat...Read Full Lyrics