Living in an Amish paradise
A local boy kicked me in the butt last week
I just smiled at him and I turned the other cheek
I really don’t care, in fact I wish him well
'Cause I’ll be laughing my head off when he’s burning in Hell
[Can you tell that I really really don’t like CCR?]
Where do bad folks go when they die?
They don’t go to heaven where the angels fly
They go to the lake of fire and fry
Won’t see them again 'till the fourth of July
Now heaven is destroyed by Satan
He will rule the promised land
Now your soul will be freed
Through the gate, find the KEY to hell
Jesus wept - standing in blood
Praying to die - standing in blood
And I woke up high over Albuquerque
On a jet to the promised land.
I pulled out of Albuquerque praying I wasn’t late
I got a couple cups of coffee at some joint off the interstate
Well, it’s just a coffeehouse and it’s made out of wood
Expresso coffee tastes mighty good
One more cup of coffee for the road
One more cup of coffee 'fore I go.
To the valley below.
He said one more job ought to get it
One last shot 'fore we quit it
One for the road
Well, it’s one for the money,
Two for the show,
Three to get ready,
Now go, cat, go.
By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls
There’s a hidden door she leads you to
These days, she says, I feel my life
Just like a river running through
The year of the cat
They said get back honky cat
Better get back to the woods
Well I quit those days and my redneck ways
And oh the change is gonna do me good
I went as far as I could and when I stopped the car
It was right in front of this little bar
Kind of a red-neck lookin joint called the Dew Drop Inn
Let’s go down to the rides on east parade,
By the lights of the palace arcade
And watch night coming down on the Sovereign Light Café
A hotel suite in a rich man’s town, a hut in Botany Bay
A prisoner by my own device, a mountain in my way
I’m gonna have to alter my address; I can’t stay much longer with Tristesse
And they call this carnival progress; Invited by our queen tonight, Tristesse
the prisoner lives in camden town
selling revolution
Swirling pictures of never ending dreams
I can’t see what these images mean
Locked inside can’t set the rainbow free
Like perishing flowers they sag and twist and die
There’s a revolution
You say you want a revolution.
Well, you know we all want to change the world.
You tell me that it’s evolution.
Well, you know we all want to change the world.
I’m at peace with my lust
I can kill 'cause in God I trust, yeah
It’s evolution, baby
Hundreds of believers
Lured into a doomsday cult
All would perish in the name of God
Self-proclaimed messiah
Led his servants to their death
Eighty murdered in the name of God
Forty sons and daughters
Unconsenting plural wives
Perversions, in the name of God
Underground religion
Turning toward the mainstream light
Blind devotion in the name of God
Justifying violence
Citing from the Holy Book
Teaching hatred in the name of God
[think I broke a rule here…ah, well]
[Ya think? If only there was thread for non-succinct lyrics.]
And I get sick when I’m around, I can’t stand to be around
I hate everything about you!