BURNT CHURCH: The Lyrics
©2004 Jeff Parker and Paul Roessler
Sad Song About Love
I’m only one person in this world, nothings up to me
Can’t make a difference in any ones life it’s easy to see
Can’t make you smile if you wanna frown
Can’t prop up the walls when they wanna come down
And I do what I want to So you can do what you want to
If you leave me alone yea that’s what I’m sayin’
Chorus:
Don’t tell me about love ‘cause it won’t mean nothing to me
Don’t sing another sad song about love ‘cause you’re wasting your time on me
Don’t really care for nothing at all, what you think about me
Just passing the time it’s my God given right, here in the land of the free
And the weak and the weary are gaining some ground
You can tell by the cars that they driving around
They can have what they want to If I can have what I want to And you
leave me alone yea that’s what I’m sayin’
Chorus:
Don’t tell me about love ‘cause it won’t mean nothing to me
Don’t sing another sad song about love ‘cause you’re wasting your time on me
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I can be, like a mountain, in my mind I can be, some one that you’ve never seen
I can be, like a soldier of fortune up on a hill
I can be, your savior, if that’s what you want me to be
I can dream, of everything, I can be.
Born and bred to be the one I’ve taken this opportunity
The same that’s given every man, woman, and child across this great land of ours
From sea to shining sea , oh, but I’m a little bit better
‘Cause I’m your man And I have a great smile It will make you believe me
Oh I wouldn’t lie any way oh I swear to my God
We’re all about truth and justice here One nation under God,
our God Freedom to worship, our God
Freedom to speak to, our God
Freedom to eat And apple pie my, my, my, my
It’s a really great country But you know that ‘cause you live here
And I’m here to tell you it’s great
And I’m grateful for all that I’ve taken
The time is now to make a plan that will keep prosperity in our hands
Across the land , across the land I’m the man, I’m the man
I can be, like a mountain, in my mind I can be, some one that you’ve never seen
I can be, like a soldier of fortune up on a hill
I can be, your savior, if that’s what you want me to be
I can dream, of everything, I can be.
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You were born with a boot upon your neck
To a stolen life of toil and sweat
(I'm the Man)
While your masters live in towers tasting flowers you have gathered
Everybody come and follow me and we'll burn down the halls of your enemies
Everybody on your knees and pray, I can upgrade your living hell to purgatory
All the Godless and the Robbers and the Tyrants all will fall
(I'm the Man)
You've been kept down, You've been held down, You've been struck down...
Everybody come and follow me and we'll burn down the halls of your enemies
Everybody on your knees and pray, I can upgrade your living hell to purgatory
Sensory overload insomnia
Explosions my eyes are red
Watch a world falling down around me
The gospel the TV set
No doubt about it
In my head
Kick out before you're dead
Don't try and fight it
Just get ready
To survive
Scratching to stay alive
We're in an Emergency
Feel the surge of your animal instincts
Your family and all you have
Make a stand for your god and country
Pledge allegiance to kill a man
We're in an Emergency
In my head...
Give Me One Night
It was six a.m., fly's buzzin', I ain't slept and we're pinned down
Lying there in the stink and the vomit and what's left of my platoon
is scattered around, yeah...
You and I, we're soldiers, it's our duty yeah we're from a long line
You're strong and you'll get through it, you have it in you what it
takes to survive
Chorus
Just bring me one night where I can sleep with a smile
A blanket of black roses so I can hide for a while
Just bring me one night that can find me
Where I won't feel a thing...
I'm sorry Dad, I couldn't do it. I saw her sadness she was only a child.
I couldn't shoot then I heard an explosion; my men are dead and I'm still alive
Chorus
Just Bring me one night where I can sleep with a smile
A blanket of black roses so I can hide for a while
Just bring me one night that can find me
Where I won't feel a thing...
Where I won't feel a thing...
I don't want to feel a thing...
Evil Weed
You know they say it's evil....smokin' the weed
Old J.C. was an influential man
you know he changed water to wine
with a wave of his hand
I ain't much for churchin' been a while since I prayed, When I'm
feeling the need to get spirit ch'all I'm pokin' on some hay
ya dig
I'm stupid, I'm twisted, coughin', hackin' to my god seeing Jesus in
the smoke flowing out of my lungs
I heard the Hallelujah choir singing in my head
Then I heard the voice of god, this is what he said, he said:
No Hate No Greed No War if we all smoked weed
Oh all that we have to endure the mother Mary Jane could have cured
I'm so confused. Why wasn't Jesus the weed-smoking king of jews?
We'd all be Hebes smoking the weed
Now Jesus he's stoned eyes half closed from smoking ganj he says:
"When I'm stoned I've got a smile for everyone. This is my religion.
No reason fightin' 'bout the right or wrong of it
Y'all go on home and smoke some major chronic"
You know they say it's evil...Killing in the name of god...
Fish out of Water
Hey spare a quarter for a blind man an angel who fell
I fought bravely in the war between heaven and hell
I stood toe to toe against the foul and the strange
The things that I saw they burned out my eyes
I lost the will to live and the strength to die
So many gone the brave and the pure
I think that we won I never was sure
Now castaway here with a shipwrecked head after we
Slaughtered our enemies strangers and friends
We died at our own hands mended our wounds
Buried ourselves in deep ancient sacred tombs
I guess I oughta know the closest thing to pure evil you ever touched
Was yourself and no one else and you liked it
You liked it so much...
The streets of this planet they choke me like ghouls
I wake up drowning in stinking fetid pools
Left sad behind stranded but a detour for the well dressed unconscious fools
So many gone the brave and the True
I think that we won now I don't know about you
Now castaway here with a shipwrecked head after we
Slaughtered our enemies strangers and friends
Entitled
Summer's come and gone
Broke down and Tired
True Blue I was lost in a dream
Knew a simple song
Been gone too long to want it
If I could believe
Alone
With nothing else around
I know that I could belong with no one
With everyone
Entitled to Love
Sun is burnin' on
World is turnin' round
Your smile I would like to believe
My happiness
Lost it with my broken heart
If I could believe
Alone
With nothing else around
I know that I could belong with no one
With everyone
Entitled to Love
You can't turn my love around me
When I believe it
Real Eyes
Now that you've seen it how are you feeling baby?
No way to cheat it now that you know
Now you have real eyes
Now that you realize
Now you have.....
When I woke up to find out that I'd forgot all my lies
My mind is rearranging no matter how hard I try
to hang on to everything the story that I knew
Feelin crazy and I want to react but I don't know how to act
Now that you've seen it how are you feeling baby?
No way to cheat it now that you know
Now you have real eyes
Now that you realize
The sun came out today and everything was allright
I didn't want it that way cause I was taught how to fight
For everything worthwhile for every inch of the way
But I was growing tired thought the inside had already died
The sun came out today and everything was alright
I held my head in my hands and I began to cry
It's alright, It's alright dry your eyes don't want to cry no more In this life
A voice came from behind
Was I going out of my mind?
Hey I Can
Gonna do it I'm really gonna do it gonna Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey
Cause I can
I've been through it all
Loneliness and war
But I can
Now I'm finally free of all that I believed
Now I can
I've got real eyes, I opened up my mind
Yeah I can
End Of The World
Couldn't see what my life would be without you
Couldn't live anymore if I pushed you away
And all the reasons I gave to myself to doubt you
If I was given just one last day
I know I'd find all the reasons to stay
I wouldn't care if it was right or wrong
Wouldn't have time for that
Wasting time taking back the words I use
To hurt you
Wouldn't care how much money we had
even time spent apart I'm glad
To have known and have missed you
Oh what a gift to have laughed and cried with you
Celebrate life for today, yeah that's all we have
Wouldn't have any time to regret what I'm missing
All that really would matter to me
Show my love and I'd make you feel it
My darkness would shine so I could see
Through oceans of human emotion
I've traveled to find you
The most curious times are in each other's arms
That the wonder of what we've found
I'll be loving you till the end of the world
A lasting kiss on your velvet face
Chasing the sun away
I'll be loving you till the end of the world
The stars that reveal our final breath
There where the silence falls
I'll be loving you till the end of the world