In the quiet silent seconds I turned off the light switch
And I came down to meet you in the half light the moon left
While a cluster of night jars sang some songs out of tune
A mantle of bright light shone down from a room
Come down in time I still hear her say
So clear in my ear like it was today
Come down in time was the message she gave
Come down in time and I’ll meet you half way
Come down with fire
Lift my spirit higher
Someone’s screaming my name
Come and make me holy again
I’m the man on the silver mountain
I’m the man on the silver mountain
Who’s that writin’, John the Revelator
Who’s that writin’, John the Revelator
Who’s that writin’, John the Revelator
Wrote the book of the seven seals
Elephant seal dives deep in the sea,
Deep in the sea, deep in the sea.
Elephant seal dives deep in the sea
To gobble up fishes and squid.
Aye, Calypso, the places you’ve been to
The things that you’ve shown us
The stories you tell
Aye, Calypso, I sing to your spirit
The men who have served you so long and so well
All this beauty
It lights up my life
I ride the waves
To far off seas
And I lay on the golden sand
I reflect the sun
I make you dream
Forty thousand headmen couldn’t make me change my mind
If I had to take the choice between the deaf man and the blind
I know just where my feet should go and that’s enough for me
I turned around and knocked them down and walked across the sea
Fifty thousand men were sent
To do the will of one
His claim was phrased quite simply,
Though he never voiced it loud:
“I am he, the chosen one.”
Fortune has me well in hand, armies wait at my command
My gold lies in a foreign land buried deep beneath the sand
The angels guide my ev’ry tread, my enemies are sick or dead
But all the victories I’ve led haven’t brought you to my bed
You see, everybody loves me, baby, what’s the matter with you?
Won’t ya tell me what did I do to offend you?
Barely cold in her grave
Barely warm in my bed
Settling for a draw tonight
Puppet girl, your strings are mine
Master of puppets I’m pulling your strings
Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can’t see a thing
Just call my name, ‘cause I’ll hear you scream
Master! Master!
Just call my name, ‘cause I’ll hear you scream
Master! Master!
Got no soul
Only a haircut
He’s no man
Barely a boy
Why can’t she understand
That i am her true love
She loves a puppet
Damn, I’m feeling like a puppet
A goddamn puppet
Being pulled in a million different ways
Man, I think I’m 'bout to break
Marionette, your dress is all wet
Did someone leave you outside in the rain,
Or is it the pain
that makes all the puppet tears
roll down your cheek
Or does the roof leak?
I’m fixing a hole where the rain gets in
And stops my mind from wandering
Where it will go?
This machine
Is there to please
Strip the soul
Fill the hole
A fire to feed
A belt to bleed
Strip the soul
Kill them all
Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
Where have you been?
It’s alright we know where you’ve been.
And the cat’s in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man in the moon
When you comin’ home son
I don’t know when, but we’ll get together then, Dad
We’re gonna have a good time then
I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth
The north side of my town faced east, and the east was facing south
And now you dare to look me in the eye
Those crocodile tears are what you cry
It’s a genuine problem, you won’t try
To work it out at all you just pass it by, pass it by
A man lives at the corner of the street,
And his neighbors think he’s helpful and he’s sweet,
'Cause he never swears and he always shakes you by the hand,
But no one knows he really is a plastic man.
He’s got a plastic heart, plastic teeth and toes,
He’s got plastic knees and a perfect plastic nose.
He’s got plastic lips that hide his plastic teeth and gums,
And plastic legs that reach up to his plastic bum.