Nobody's Hero 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

The snakes and arrows a child is heir toAre enough to leave a thousand cutsWe build our defenses, a place of safetyAnd leave the darker places unexploredSometimes the fortress is t...Read Full Lyrics

Living on a lighted stageApproaches the unrealFor those who think and feelIn touch with some realityBeyond the gilded cageCast in this unlikely roleIll-equipped to actWith insuffic...Read Full Lyrics

His world is under observationWe monitor his stationUnder faces and the placesWhere he traces points of view He picks up scraps of conversationRadio and radiationFrom the dancers a...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 arrogantHe reserves the quiet defenseRiding out the day'...Read Full Lyrics

High above the city squareGlobes of light float in mid-airHigher still, against the nightClockwork angels bathed in lightYou promise every treasure, to the foolish and the wiseGodd...Read Full Lyrics

When I was a boy I thought about the times I'd be a manI'd sit inside a bottle and pretend that I was in a jamIn my lonely room I'd sit my mind in an ice cream coneYou can throw me...Read Full Lyrics

When they turn the pages of historyWhen these days have passed long agoWill they read of us with sadnessFor the seeds that we let grow?We turned our gazeFrom the castles in the dis...Read Full Lyrics

If we're so much the same like I always hearWhy such different fortunes and fates?Some of us live in a cloud of fearSome live behind iron gatesWhy such different fortunes and fates...Read Full Lyrics