The Good Don't Last
Introduction
The Good Don't Last
We could have been God's dream
We could have lived
the LIFE!
Could have done great things
Man, it would have
been so nice
It could have been me
Could have been you
We
could have done anything we wanted to do
Ant I don't know how it
happened
But we got it all wrong
The bad don't mean
anything
And the good don't last too long
We could have
watched 'Black Like Me'
Instead we watched the big guns
And
everybody knows the words
To "seasons in the sun"
Could have
had give
Could have had take
We could've made anything we wanted
to make
So we made 'Wheel Of Fortune'
And all the popular
songs
We made a land where crap is king
And the good don't last
too long
Now there's darkened doorways creaking in my bed
I
got the Mannix theme song playing in my head
Put this one to
bed
The Radiant Is
No Words
No denying
The Radiant is
Is still
here
Watching
And multiplying
And it's not going
to
Disappear
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In the Mouth of Madness
Hey there, would you like to ride
On the best event
since suicide
Hey, people come and board the train
Come
anesthetize your frazzled brain
Hey you, Mister fancy
pants
Don't play it safe - come take a chance
Hey, Mrs. I don't
really care
Come along with us, there's room to spare
Come
fill your heart with gladness
We have no sense - no sadness
Here
in the mouth of madness
Hey, Mister, don't you walk away
Why
save yourself for a rainy day?
If you miss it you will fall
behind
Don't think too much - just lose your mind
You'll be
a Gypsy man
You'll never feel sadness
Here in the mouth of
madness
We've got no self control
Come be the first to shout
it, NOW!
We're gonna make you whole!
Hey there would you
like to ride
On the best event since suicide
Hey, people come
and board the train
Come anesthetize your frazzled brain
Hey!
this is your last chance
To lose control and live the dance
Hey,
people we're about to go
Don't fill the crowd be in the
show
You've got no self control
Now you don't feel
sadness
You're in the mouth of madness
You be a Gypsy
man
You've got no sense - no sadness
You're in the mouth of
madness
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Cakewalk On Easy Street
Wednesday
It's suppository time again
Ain't it
grand?
Friday
I get my leg back on again
I'll get to
stand
'Cuz it's a cakewalk on easy street
It's a new kind of
day
It's a good time
The best you ever had
It's the
new-fangled way
Air-raid
Sirens in the night again
Not
far away
I'm failing
At everything I try to win
But that's
O.K.
'Cuz it's a cakewalk on easy street
It's a new kind of
day
It's a cakewalk on easy street
I have nothing bad to
say
'Cept all my friends have gone away
Half of me is plastic
and wood
But at least I've got my arms - that's good
'Cuz
it's a cake walk on easy street
It's a new kind of day
It's a
good time
The best you ever had
It's the new-fangled way
It's
a cakewalk on easy street
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June
June
Came upon us much too soon
Then was
gone
Gone
Like the mountains of the moon
At dawn
Then
the sun came up on a sleepy day
And never went down at night
And
the crowd kept on singin' Waste Away
but it just didn't feel
right
And the prince and the drummer and the fire girls
Couldn't
get our guitars in tune
And I knew it was over when the sound man
said
"I wish we were still in June"
June
Telephones in
private rooms
Hot bath
Bathe
In the smell of the buzz'
perfume
Man, I want to go back
CHORUS
And I
knew
It couldn't be true
It wasn't free
It wasn't for
me
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah etc.
June
Came upon us much too
soon
Then was gone
CHORUS
And we knew
It couldn't
be true
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Strange World
Mary was on Face The Nation
Sunday morning ten
o'clock
It's a very strange world
In a very strange
time
Jimmy makes a handsome living
Juggling weapons in the
park
It's a very strange world
In a very strange time
And
so it goes slowly down the road
And so I say - I got no friends
today
The bomber got his manifesto
Published in the New York
Times
It's a very strange world
Got some interesting
minds
Advertising pays more than a lot
While the teacher's
selling pies in the parking lot
It's a very strange world
With
some well hidden crimes
I didn't know life could get so
cold
I didn't see - I thought they were all like me
It's a
very strange world
But I think I like it
I didn't know life
could get so cold
I didn't see - I thought they were all like
me
And so it goes slowly down the road
And so I say - I got no
friends today
Mary went to Face The Nation
Sunday morning
ten o'clock
It's a very strange time
In a very strange
world
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Harm's Way
Burned by their fields on a cold stainless day
Blown by
the wind - they got nothin' to say
I can't look the other
way
Just to stay out of harm's way
Toes in the dirt - here's
a fork in the road
Blood on my shirt and a lump in my throat
I
can't look the other way
Just to stay out of harm's
way
Pretty maids in a row
Tried to hide from the
cold
With their heads held up high
They're just waiting around
to die
The word resigned comes to mind
The leaders race
while we fall behind
But they can't touch the sky
They're just
waiting around to die
No they can't touch the sky
They're
just waiting around to die
Touched by the gold as the moment is
framed
No one will look and so no one is blamed
I can't look the
other way
I won't stay out of harm's way
The Venus slowly
rises in the night
The people softly lit by restless
moonlight
And as the Jackal preys upon the Netherworld
You can
hear as she surprises and sings...RISE!
And as the Jackal preys
upon the Netherworld
You can hear her as she rises and
sings...RISE!
Touched by the wind as the movement
returns
Now we begin all the lessons to learn
I can't look
the other way
I won't stay out of harm's way
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Flow
Flow
Sunlight
gliding
Children sighing
In their dreams
Never
hiding
True believer
You are ever
Forever
The great
deceiver
Will never boil your blood
Or swallow
you
whole...yeah...
Shocked outrageous
I have slipped in
the slime
Touch me - I'm contagious
Seeping into your
mind
True believer
You are ever
Forever
The great
deceiver
Will never swallow your soul
No
never...yeah...
True believer
You are ever
Forever
A Constant Flow of Sound
Now we
come and go
We get around
A constant flow of sight and
sound
A constant flow of sound
Shock on the gate
We're so
sorry
Guests are not allowed
We're gone forever
Headlong
together
We're gone - we're so far gone
The true believer
Has
burst the ocean wide
We're gone - we're so far gone
To where the
last of the long lost people are hiding
Lock your
doors
Everything's delivered
Turn on the news
All things
considered
Looks like we're out of time
We're gone
forever
Headlong together
We're gone - we're so far gone
The
true believer
Has burst the ocean wide
We're gone - we're so far
gone
To where the last of the long lost people are hiding
Into The Source
Go
forth
Into the source
Go
Evading force
Go
forth
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Into Fire
They rage into the night
Cloaked in gowns of
thunder
And the rising tide
Your flesh will start to burn with
the hunger
Your soul will open wide
All the devils that
tormented you
All the angels that you never knew
Into the depths
you will plunder
You will plunder
Into the fire!
Bathed
in tainted blood
As the death count grows higher
It's the dawn
of the day
Licensed with the will of desire
It's a crime that
doesn't pay
It's the temple of all sacrifice
It's the burning
that will leave no ice
Throw yourself upon the flaming pyre
It's
getting higher
Into the fire!
They rage into the
night
Cloaked in gowns of thunder
And the rising tide
Your
flesh will start to burn with the hunger
Your soul will open
wide
People remember what you see
'Cause what you did - did THIS
to me!
Into the depths you will plunder
You will plunder
Into
the fire!
Neal Morse:
"Dave says of this writing/recording session, "By far, that's the most fun I've ever had in the studio!". This was also recorded at Kevin's in April of '97 and was written and recorded in 4 hours. Ryo brought the charts (he had written the music that day) and while the rest of the band was cutting the track, I was in the corner scribbling down lines like "Throw yourself upon the flaming pyre". In the 3rd hour Dave, Ryo and I wrote the whole lyric. I remember Dave throwing in critical words when I was stuck like, 'tainted', to which came a resounding "ooohhhh, that's good!" from the rest of us, and the line "bathed in tainted blood" was born. collaboration at it's finest! Note: that's Ryo on the top background vocal part. While Dave, Ryo and I were doing the backgrounds we were laughing so hard we were crying! Maybe you had to be there..." Note:
"Into Fire" is the result of JVC requesting a Heavy Metal song as a bonus track for the Japanese release of "The Kindness Of Strangers"
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