Lyrics
Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon there is no sense in tryin'
Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
And the fools gold mouthpiece
The hollow horn plays wasted words proved to warn
That he not busy being born is busy dying
Temptation's page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover that you'd just be one more person crying
So don't fear if you hear
A foreign sound in your ear
It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing
Some warn victory, some downfall
Private reasons great or small
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
To make all that should be killed to crawl
While others say don't hate nothing at all except hatred
Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human Gods aim for their marks
To make everything from toy guns that sparks
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
Easy to see without looking too far that not much is really sacred
While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to 100 dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked
An' though the rules of the road have been lodged
It's people's games that you got to dodge
But it's alright, Ma, I can make it
Advertising signs that con
You into thinking you're the one
That can do what's never been done
That can win what's never been won
Meantime life outside goes on all around you
You loose yourself, you reappear
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
Alone you stand without nobody near
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Startles your sleeping ears to hear, someone thinks they really found you
A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit
To satisfy, insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not forget
That it is not he or she or them or it that you belong to
Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing more to live up to
Old lady judges, watch people in pairs
Limited in sex, they dare to push fake morals, insult and stare
Money doesn't talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares
Propaganda, all is phony
While them that defend what they cannot see
With a killer's pride, security
It blows the minds most bitterly
For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally
Life sometimes must get lonely
My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards
False Gods, I scuff at pettiness which plays so rough
Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
Kick my legs to crash it off, say alright, I have had enough
What else can you show me?
And if my thought-dreams could been seen
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine
But it's alright, Ma, it's life and life only