eMOTIVe lyrics

As I walk on through this wicked world,
Searching for light in the darkness of insanity,
I ask myself, Is all hope lost?
Is there only pain, and hatred, and misery?

And each time I feel like this inside,
There's one thing I wanna know,
What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?,
What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?

And as I walked on through troubled times,

From dehumanization
To arms production
For the benifit of the nation
Or its destruction

Power, power
The law of the land
Those living for death
Will die by their own hand

Life's no ordeal
If you come to terms
Reject the system
Dictating the *norms*

From dehumanization
To arms production
To hasten the nation
Toward its destruction

Power, power
The law of the land

Don't fret precious I'm here, step away from the window
Go back to sleep
Safe from pain and truth and choice and other poison devils,
See, they don't give a fuck about you, like I do.

Count the bodies like sheep
Count the bodies like sheep

Counting bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums

Count the bodies like sheep

Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep

Counting bodies like sheep

And so once again,
my dear Johnny, my dear friend,
and so once again you are fighting us all...
And when I ask you why,
you raise your sticks and cry and I fall.

Oh my friend how did you come,
To trade the fiddle for the drum.

You say I have turned
like the enemies you've earned.
But I can remember all the good things you are...
And so I ask you please,

We're victims of sedition on the open sea.
No one ever said life was free.
Sink, swim, go down with the ship.
Just use your freedom of choice.

I'll say it again in the land of the free
Use your freedom of choice, freedom of choice.

In ancient Rome
there was a pawn
who followed along
and watched it fall
he cast a stone
he felt secure
he felt that he would never be heard.

Freedom of choice

gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme,
i need more, i need more.
gimme gimme gimme.
dont ask what for, dont ask what for.

sitting here like a loaded gun.
im waiting, to go off.
ive got, nothing to do but,
shoot my mouth off.

gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme,
i need more, i need more.
gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme,
dont ask what for, dont ask what for.

i know the worlds got problems,

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky

Imagine all the people
Living for today...

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
No religion too

Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you will join us
And the world as one

Imagine all the people

There's so many opposites,
So many opposites,
So many, there's so many, there's so many

Let's have a war,
So you can go and die,
Let's have a war,
We could all use the money,
Let's have a war,
We need the space,
Let's have a war,
Clean out this place

It already started in the city,
Suburbia will be just as easy

Let's have a war,
Jack up the Dow Jones,
Let's have a war,

Dead as dead can be, my doctor tells me
But I just cant believe him, ever the optimistic one
Im sure of your ability to become my perfect enemy
Wake up and face me, dont play dead 'cause maybe
Someday I will walk away and say, You disappoint me,
Maybe youre better off this way

Leaning over you here, cold and catatonic
I catch a brief reflection of what you could and might have been

We're different colors,
And different creeds,
And different people,
Have different needs,
It's obvious you hate me,
Though I've done nothing wrong,
I've never even met you,
What could I have done?,

People are people so why should it be,
You and I shouldn't get along?
People are people so why should it be,
You should hate me?

People are people so why should it be,
You and I shouldn't get along?

Mother, mother,
There's too many of you crying,
Brother, brother, brother,
There's far too many of you dying,
You know we've got to find a way,
To bring some loving here today

Father, father,
We don't need to escalate,
You see, war is not the answer,
For only love can conquer hate,
You know we've got to find a way,
To bring some loving here today

Picket lines and picket signs,

If it keeps on raining, levee's going to break,
If it keeps on raining, levee's going to break,
And the water gonna come in, have no place to stay

Well all last night I sat on the levee and moan,
Well all last night I sat on the levee and moan,
Thinking about my baby and my happy home,

If it keeps on raining, levee's going to break,
If it keeps on raining, levee's going to break,

Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
living for today...
Imagine there's no countries,
It isnt hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...

You may say Im a dreamer,
but Im not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,