Monuments burn into moments
Up into other worlds
Other ascensions
Without deep sorrow to endure
If all things must fall
Why build a miracle at all?
If all things must pass
Even a pyramid won’t last
Sha la la la la la live for today
Sha la la la la la live for today
And don’t worry 'bout tomorrow, hey
Sha la la la la la live for today
(Oh, no, no, no, no, no)
Sha la la la la la live for today
I found the secret to life
I took some time for livin’
Life’s a ball, if only you know it
And it’s all just waiting for you
You’re alive, so come on and show it
Yeah, we got a lot of livin’ to do
One day I noticed the world at my feet
Next day comes and it rolls into the street
Gathering speed
Paying no heed
That made me bleed until I was blue
But you know I never wanted to
Ah, you know I did it just for you
Don’t tell me it’s not worth tryin’ for
You can’t tell me it’s not worth dyin’ for
You know it’s true
Everything I do
I do it for you
I would do anything for you
I would climb mountains
I would swim all the oceans blue
I would walk a thousand miles
Reveal my secrets
More than enough for me to share
I would put roses round our door
Sit in the garden
Growing potatoes by the score
I’ll do anything
For you dear anything
For you mean everything to me
I know that
I’ll go anywhere
For your smile, anywhere –
For your smile, ev’rywhere –
I’d see
Oh, c’mon smile a little smile for me, Rosemarie
What’s the use in cryin’?
In a little while you’ll see, Rosemarie
You must keep on tryin’
Set my guitar on fire with a long-stemmed match
Dance while it burns and laugh when it turns to ash
I would torch everything to keep you warm
I would do anything to keep you from harm
I would do anything
To cover you body and soul, girl
I’ll protect you from the hooded claw
Keep the vampires from your door
When the chips are down, I’ll be around
With my undying, death-defying love for you
Against all Satan’s spells and wiles,
Against false words of heresy,
Against the knowledge that defiles,
Against the heart’s idolatry,
Against the wizard’s evil craft,
Against the death wound and the burning,
The choking wave, the poisoned shaft,
Protect me, Christ, till Thy returning.
All Evil it has come from here
The Camphor gets no warmer
Ye Nacoaler, our Crucified Creator
Down count to zero burning cold now
I’ll be there for the rest of my life
Tomorrow
Xiberia
Xiberia
Xiberia
I want to breathe
But out of you
Malaria Messiah
Even Siberia goes through the motions
Hold out and hold up
Hold down the window
Her eyes like windows, trickle in rain
Upon the pane, getting deeper
Though my love wants to relieve her
She walks alone from wall to wall
Lost in her hall, she can’t hear me
Though I know she likes to be near me
Sometimes
I feel the ocean in my blood
See rain from the sky above
Her salt brined tears
And now
Those tears leave a taste on my tongue
Like the warm rush you get from
Black opium
Black opium
She messed around with a bloke named Smokey
She loved him though he was cokey
He took her down to Chinatown
And he showed her how to kick the gong around
Get it on
Bang a gong
Get it on
I don’t want to work
I want to bang on the drum all day
I don’t want to play
I just want to bang on the drum all day