Birds of Pray (Limited Edition) lyrics

You don't need no friends
get back your faith again
you have the power to believe
another dissident
take back your evidence
it has no power to deceive

I'll believe it when I see it, for myself

I don't need no one to tell me about heaven
I look at my daughter, and I believe.
I don't need no proof when it comes to God and truth
I can see the sunset and I perceive

I sit with them all night

Bring back that 'hair-down', unguarded mystery
I liked it better when your tightrope walked on me
Board up my window, prepare for a hurricane
You have a way of breaking through my barricade
You give me all-new games to play

You set me soul free
Now every word that she speaks to me is pure gold
She set my soul free

Paint a mustache on the Mona Lisa
Ride a harley through the heart of danger
Pick up a pen and fight a war for the fight to dream
I was seventeen

Gave up my house sleep the nights on concrete
Meditate with all the bums on my street
No more runnin no more hiding in the house of the dead
I think I'll grow some dreads

I believe in the sanctity of dreams
No more running from these masquaraders

Looks like I've lost my will to carry on my friend, she said
And you can hear it in my whispered cries for love
I need your blissful talks to carry me away again
So can we roll tonight run through your desert
Can we just start over?

And just run away, run away tonight
It ain't no victory, but I don't care
I don't care if it's wrong or right
We could just run away, run away tonight

In the country
That forms in the orchard swell
With oranges and peaches
A little bit of truth as well

In the city
Politicians beat they're drum
All the suits come a runnin
It's our degeneration

Life marches on
Life marches on
Life marches on

In the country
Everybody thinks we're dumb
We built the fire
Why'd you come and get you some

In the city
Skyscrapers touch the sky

Darling, I feel like a god
when I am next to you
something sacred
someone straight and true
Tell me
do you feel the same way too
Darling, your face is radiant
with the light of love
the kind that's sent straight down
from up above
and you're all I'm thinking of
thinking of
thinking of
thinking of

Don't you give me lovin like a revelation
Don't you make me burn
and make me feel the danger

I hope (I hope) she lights that candle
I hope (I hope) she shows me everything and all that light can bring
Her skin (her skin), it begs my worship
Like a mad temple crowd
I crush her, she goes down
We melt up from the ground…
Up to better times, sweet release, take me now, take me now
Up to better times, sweet release, take me now, take me now, yeah

Doubt (doubt), get right behind me

I was looking everywhere to find you
By and by, my intentions were good
But I know I don’t watch where I’m walking
When I know I should
If the nighttime turns into day before I say what I mean
God damn all these obstacles before me, yeah

Every time I see your face, it’s like Heaven opens up her gates
And I fall behind, I just close my eyes, I just close my eyes

The lighthouse lost it's light on her a long time ago
She got so used to it, this long and winding road
I'll never ever let you go

I can't believe
She whispered to me
I don't wanna breathe

This ship of fools sails west by nighttime and by day
Circumnavigates her globe like a bullet gone astray
Come on home baby, where it's safe

I can't believe
She whispered to me
I don't wanna breathe

And from a tiny river town you came
With mamma’s rock-star dreams in tow, and daddy’s brains
But the rats they fought you oh yeah tooth and nail
With the way they rigged this game, you had to fail
But that’s all behind you now, boy

And from a tiny river town you came
With nothing up your sleeve but a dirty forearm and an ace
They drug you through that slaughterhouse at will

The dust had just settled
She's wonderin', What happens now?
I don't know where I am
I ain't never seen this place before

Am I dreamin'
Or is this the real world?
Your love's too good for me

Lay with me lady
You're drivin' me crazy
I promised you all my life
These things that sustain me
Oh how they drain me
But I'll never hang you out to dry

The sun had just faded

I was lost, I am found
All the buildings are burnt to the ground
I can't stay, I can't leave
I can't do nothin', not a thing
Do you see your son down on the street?
Is that a gun or just the father that he needs?
Do you cry, do you weep?
Do you see the world as only tragedy?

In the early mornin' there were revelations in my mind

Battle flag in the bassinette
Oli in Blood on the bayonet
Croweded downtown hit the floor
What are we fighting for?
What are we fighting for?

The world got smaller but the bombs got bigger
Holocaust on a hairpin trigger
Ain't no game so forget the score
So what are we fighting for?
what are we fighting for?

(CHORUS)
What are we fighting for? (what are we fighting for?)

and to love: a god
and to fear: a flame
and to burn a crowd that a name
and to right or wrong
and to meek or strong
it is known, just scream it from the wall

I've willed, I've walked, I've read
I've talked, I know, I know,
I've been here before

hey, now we won't be raped
hey, now we won't be scarred like that

it's the sun that burns
it's the wheel that turns

light up a cigarette she said
and calm the fuck down
you got a serious side to you
that could give the whole world a frown
now nothin' really matters to me you see
check out these holes in my gown
let your eyes lose their focus a little
let your guard come down

i was thirsty for everything
but water wasn't my style
guess we might have to teach me somethin'
guess we might have to show me how

i was on a street with a common name i prayed for love
yeah i even begged i had a vision of you that carried me through

i was on a street with a common name i prayed for love
yeah i even begged i had a vision of you that carried me through

and nobody really knows what i would do for you nobody really knows
how much i love you nobody really knows,
nobody knows nobody knows, nobody knows

I talk of freedom
you talk of the flag
I talk of revolution
you'd much rather brag
and as the decibels of this disenchanting discourse
continue to dampen the day

the coin flips again and again, and again, and again
as our sanity walks away
all this discussion though politically correct
is dead beyond destruction
though it leaves me quite erect

and as the final sunset rolls behind the earth