You might have seen me
Down on some bad hiway,
And you might know all about me
From the things people say,
You can draw your conclusions
From some late night T.V. show
But there's one thing
I think you should know,
That I'm free,
Yes I'm free,
And everybody wants to be like me

Sometimes, sometimes,
I hate to turn the radio on,
Yea sometimes, sometimes,
I hate to turn the radio on,
It seems like every time I do,
Some blessed body is hurtin' someone

Take your big screen TV,
And throw it right on out the door,
Yea you can take your big screen TV,
And throw it right on out the door,
I've seen all the news I can stand,
And I don't think I can stand to see no more,

'Cause there's a war goin' on,
In the streets of some third world country tonight,
Yea there's a war goin' on,
Down in the streets of some third world country tonight,
It seems like everywhere you look,
Somebody is wanting to fight,

All the evil that I see,
Is the rage that lives inside of me,
Yea all the evil that I see,
Is the conflict I find inside of me,
And there's a war goin' on...

I can feel it in the wind,
I can feel it in the ground I stand on,
There's something coming down,
There's something done gone wrong,

And I don't belong here,
Exiled from the land of dreams,
I don't belong here,
I feel like such a stranger,

Smoke blinds my eyes,
From a volcano,
And I can't get my breath,
When it's from a loaded gun,
And I,
I just can't say that I belong here....

Fire in an abandon shack,
Took a road and the don't look back
A hundred old people tired of being used,
A thousand hungry children in worn out shoes,

And I don't belong here,
Exiled from the land of dreams,
I don't belong here,
I feel like such a stranger,

Fire and destruction come,
From a volcano,
And I hold myself to blame,
When it's from a loaded gun,
And I,
I just can't say that I belong here....

Kingdom falls and a kingdom comes
All in the time it takes to come undone,
Kingdoms give me a license to kill,
Put my face on a dollar bill,

But I don't belong here,
Exiled from the land of dreams,
I don't belong here,
I feel like such a stranger,

Thunder is a fire that burns,
From a volcano,
And I feel the curse of Cain,
When its from a loaded gun,

Remember how the winter
Was so hard
Nearly tore this old place apart,
At nighttime it's still cold
When the wind blows,
When the sun shines
It seems all like a dream...

I must be as tough
As some old soldier
Wounded in the heat
Of the fight
I can feel the pain
And hear the screams
Of the dying
But I'm as alive
As the day I was born...

Oh Dear Sweet Teresa,
Won't you look at me now
I feel just like
Some old faded picture
Torn at the edges of a smile

I've got everything you need to make you happy,
But you've got someone else telling you a lie,
This material world you love can't go on forever,
You gonna cry my name with tears but it don't matter
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You can be baptized all day in the Jordan River,
Fall down on your knees, but it don't matter,
You can bring me sacrifices on a silver platter,
And you can cut yourself till you bleed, but it don't matter,

It's a matter of the heart when you 1 say you love me,
But I see a hundred miles of bad road between you and me,
That old wound in my side is there to remind me,
The price I had to pay for loving you,

It's a matter of the heart when you say you love me,
Hear me now and listen to what I say,
You can't stay in y house when you belong to another,
You gonna cry my name with tears but it don't matter,

You don't think about stormy nights,
You don't think about hard times,
You never think about hard times,

You got a belly full of indigestion,
From all the rich things you consume,
Some day its gonna all fade away,
Into a prophetic gloom,

Hard times is a sweet euphemism for the horrors of that day,
You better think about your blind naked neighbor,
Goin' on his merry old way,

You got a head full of man made notions,
All dressed up in a King James costume,
Your revelations are self induced,
And your languages are so confused,

The abomination of desolation is a truth u cannot ignore,
You think His warnings are old fashioned poetry,
Locked behind stained glass décor,

Buildin' you a tower reaching into heaven,
Tryin' to figure out just who hung the moon,
Was I an amoeba or a freak of nature,
Can you tell me now or is it too soon,

Freudian myth and evolution got you in a technological swoon,
Psychoanalyzed till you're inside out,
Hypnotized and regressed back to the womb,

Does salvation and blood atonement mean anything to you,
It's not in vouge to talk hell fire and judgement,
Except for a radical few,

Fallen Angel, its such a beatiful night,
The whole world is watching you,
Turning on the light,
Fallen Angel, I can't believe where you've been,

Kings and Princes have fallen under your spell
Working that voodoo child
That you know so well,
Elected officials at your beck and call,
Hollywood celebrities,
I think you want it all,
Fallen Angel, I can't believe where you've been,

I can still remember you from a long time ago,
You had every advantage then,
But you wanted more,
You were thr glory of the morning stars,
They all sang your song,
It still remains such a mystery,
What made you go so wrong,
Fallen Angel, I can't believe where you've been,

You followed me out into the wilderness,
But you can't follow me home,
You might have made a lot of friends out there,
But I've made a few of my own,
Fallen Angel, I can't believe where you've been.

In the heart of man,
There's a place,
Where nothing grows,
It's a wilderness of poverty.

But somewhere inside a man,
There's a voice,
Just like the voice,
Of one, crying in the wilderness.

We all are standing on the fault line.
Sitting at the edge of a volcano,
Scientists say we are at the eve of destruction.

Got a greenhouse above to affect you,
A nuclear warhead to select you,
Got a virus down below, going to infect you.

Who is your king and your master?
For what is your thirst and your hunger?
And where in the world are you hiding all your treasure?

The tragedy of living for your senses,
Foolishness of rules and regulations,
Stupidity of knowledge without wisdom.

What you gonna do when the storm breaks?
What you gonna do when the earth begins to shake?
Where you gonna run when you got no place to hide?

There's one train leaving the station today,
And I'm sorry to bid you fare well,
There's one train leaving the station today,
And I'm sorry to bid you fare well,

When that old train goes rolling down the track,
It's going to be hard for me to go back,
'Cause I know this old town is going to seem lonesome,
And I'll think about you every day,

When you get home tell your momma I said hello,
Tell all the kinfolks that I miss 'em so,
And there's one train leaving the station today,
And I'm sorry to bid you fare well,

Your bags are packed and the ticket's in your hand,
There's a trace of a tear in your soft blue loving eyes,
And there's one train leaving the station today,
And I'm sorry to bid you fare well.........

My trials, seem so endless,
And temptation, she's been my mistress,
Yes, and I've courted danger, my whole life,
I've courted danger my whole life through.

But from the depths of my soul,
There comes a crying,
A deep down sighing, for the right things,
Yes, the right things that I know.

I know they're out there somewhere,
All the answers to the questions we hear,
I'll show just what I mean,
From the miles that I have seen.

I walked the ragged edge of despair,
I hung out on the corner of hope,
Seen people in the pit of confusion'
I spent the night in the house of seclusion,
Woke up to the Light of the day,
Somebody opened my eyes,
The Word of Truth, He don't tell no lies.