Raw lyrics

Declare yourself an unsafe building
Suffer the indignation of your world,

To climb the ladders you've gotta suss out the snakes
Remember your height Remember to never look down.

For now you've made your choice
You've gotta take your chance
Find a way out now

For I
I have declared myself unsafe
I have declared myself unsafe

Come out of the cupboard and into the real world

(Come on let's rock and roll now)

In the dirty towns on the dirty streets
There抯 a violent wind that blows
Across the generations men like me
Have been swept to these crossroads
Blown out of house, blown out of home
Blown down the road
On the wind that blows away my words
Blows away my reason
Blows away my soul
Taking my existence
Oh, the wind blows away my words

Let me put my arms around you
Give me refuge in your soul
I have drunk from fire water
Free spirits rising in the world

The new moon rises from the darkness
Lord I need a healing prayer
Give me a medicine for fever
Give me the cure, give me the cure so I can see

Raw
Burnt back to the bone
Raw
You gotta leave this child alone
Raw
I ain't got no home

There's colours on the streets
Red, white and blue
People shuffling their feet
People sleeping in their shoes
There's a warning sign on the road ahead
There's a lot of people saying they'd be "better off dead'
Don't feel like Satan but I am to them
So I try to forget it any way I can

Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world

Every day I get up from off the floor
I keep on coming back for more and more
So many times I get it in the face
I keep on running ' til my dying day

Rain on the roadway, thunder in the sky
The light of day disappears from sight

As the road opens up in front of my eyes
These wheels are burning up the miles
As the road opens up in front of my eyes
The only limitation is in my mind

People are saying money's falling off the trees
But I don't see nobody here with a piece
Nobody got it, everybody want it
Even people out there begging on the streets
From Red Square right down to the sea
Step down off the side-walk and you might see
Something going on make a poor heart bleed
Sounds like a new age world stampede

God save somebody
God save somebody

A union made in the heavens
Untouched by an outside world
Driven by the needs of lovers
To the beauty of the One unearthed
Sanctify, mystify
A vision of the light
Sacrifice the gift of life
Above the sky there抯 no higher

A love that scales mountains
(Hell or high water)
A love that is oceans deep
A love to set us free

In paradise lost they found it

I cry my soul to sleep
Somewhere in the starless night
I yearn for safety's keep
Away from hurt outside of time
Oh wherever I run I can抰 hide
From the knife in the light

I close my eyes to be free
Of all the loneliness I feel
So many against me
So many seek to harm me dear
Oh protection sweeping over me
You抮e my hope my shield

Lead me through the darkness

The future抯 deserted waiting there for you and me
No past is going to stop us blowing down this road apiece
Why we抳e come too far, too far to turn back now
We can抰 just throw it all away when something good goes wrong, oh no
Nothing has been written which says which way we have to go
I抦 not looking for commitment written in stone

I was born of nineteen fifty nine
That'll be the day rock'n'roll died
Far away on a dark and stormy night
Brought into the new decade
The sixties and her pearly gates
A hard rain fell and the times forever changed
In the back of a car with the wind in our hair
Speeding down the road going anywhere
Was it true we were really going nowhere?

Sixty eight rang like a ricochet

You say that there's no place to run to
Is that any kind of place for you to hide?
You say no one is telling you the truth anymore
Then for God's sake who's telling lies?
Now you might need something to believe in
That抣l help you to see what is right
So save it 'til later and later and later again

Save all your crying 'til later
Take a hard, hard look around

Walk forever by my side
Never lose sight of the day

When we will run through all our weakness
On through the fields
Strewn with our broken dreams
Walk forever by my side

Stay forever in the light
Never lose sight of the way
For I alone can't face the future
I need your strength
To help me make it through
Walk forever by my side

Stay forever in the light
Walk on 'til morning

Guys wearing gas masks are levelling their guns
At school children singing whilst studying sums
It抯 a clear sign of violence
And it's laced with heavy support
This whole situations been dragged through the dirt
By gargoyles and monsters and man eating birds
Who act like the jury but you never see them stand up in court

It's savage and ugly the riots unfurl

So this is Christmas
And what have you done
Another year over
A new one just begun

So this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear ones
The old and the young

And so this is Christmas
For weak and for strong
For rich and for poor ones
The road is so long

And so happy Christmas
Anda happy New Year
Lets hope It's a good one
Without any fear

War is over

Well take a look and listen to the things that I have said

Well could I really tell the truth with a rifle at my head

Yeah, I gunned down a president

Yeah I have done a crime

But now you've got to listen 'cos I'm running out of time

But it's not me that you're after it's not me that's gonna pay

But it's not me that is guilty

That's a man with the C.I.A.