Rollins Band Album

Yeah
Out of the silence
Out of the void
Out of destruction mind
I am calm
Hot animal
I am gratefully guilty as charged

I want to break it
I want to kill it
I want to rip it limb from limb
I want to taste it
I want to own it
You get one shot
Don't miss me

Back in the lab
They shock my brain
I am electrically insane
They charge me up
They turn me loose
I am rockin' past the threshold of pain
And past abuse
Is put to use
I took the hit and lost the fear

I am?
Hot animal
I am gratefully guilty as charged

I want to break it
I want to kill it
I want to rip it limb from limb
I want to taste it
I want to own it
You get one shot
Don't miss me this time

Outside the fear
Outside the chaos
Inside relentless mind
I am?
Hot animal
I am gratefully guilty as charged

I want to break it
I want to kill it
I want to rip it limb from limb
I want to taste it
I want to own it
You get one shot don't miss me

No
No
Don't miss me

I take time thinking about the moves I'm gonna have to make
I take time thinking about the rules I'm gonna have to break
it's always push and shoving
sometimes it comes to nothing
sometimes it's more than a mere mortal man can take

I'm up for it
I'm up for it
I'm up for it
I'm up for it

the day to day can become such a trip
the mediocre can make you lose your grip
it's all on you and what you've got
you can play it cool or make it hot
I pay the price and take my shot

stay up for it
I'm up for it
I'm up for it
I'm up for it

burning out, wearing thin
can't believe the shape you're in
there's always somebody who's gonna try to make it worse
there's always a line to stand in
as long as I'm still standing
you best believe I'm gonna make other plans

stay up for it
stay up for it
stay up for it
up for it, up for it
I am up for it man

time, time, stop wasting mine, mine
don't stand their crying, crying
just make up your mind
time, time, stop wasting mine, mine
don't stand their crying, crying
just make up your mind

stay up for it
stay up for it
stay up for it
stay up for it man

I take time thinking about what I'm gonna have to do
what it takes, how it is and when I'm gonna light the fuse
all this push and shoving in the end all amounts to nothing
I'll never get a second chance looking me in the face

I'm up for it
I'm up for it
I stay up for it
I stay up for it

the day to day can become such a grind
the mediocre can make you lose your mind
it's all on you and what you've got
you can play it cool or make it hot
I pay the price and take my shot

stay up for it
I'm up for it
I'm up for it
I'm up for it

? or now in future shock
by the numbers ? ? stop
there's always somebodys who's gonna try to take your brain
as long as they're selling something
I'll be smelling something
I've seen them come and go so many times

I'm up for it
I stay up for it
I stay up for it
I stay up for it
now what else are you gonna do?

Isolation
Identity
My own extinction
Set me free
To know the no man
To go the nowhere
To be the stranger
Unknown
Unknown but to me

I'm gone
I'm gone
I'm gone inside the zero

I'm gone
I'm gone
I'm gone inside the zero

I'm gone
I'm gone
I'm gone

Population
?? Me
The sheer existence
? Me to be
No pain to feel
No wounds to heal
No expectation
Unknown
Unknown but to me

I'm gone
I'm gone
I'm gone inside the zero

I'm gone
I'm gone
I'm gone inside the zero

Gone
Gone
I'm gone

Annihilation
Identity
? Existence
?? I see
No generaton
No explanation
No destination
Unknown
Unknown but to me

I'm gone
I'm gone
I'm gone inside the zero

I'm gone
I'm gone
I'm gone inside the zero

I'm gone
I'm gone
I'm gone

hello, hello, hello
hello darkness
hello pain

welcome back my friends
so good to see you again

why did you leave me
all by myself?
without you what would I do?
how would it feel to have to be real?

sometimes I feel like I'm living in a coma
but then I realize
I'm just lonely
I'm just lonely
I'm just lonely

hello, hello
hello darkness
pain, memories, shame
all the time wasted
self pity and blame
there you'll go now you know
been so long down below yeah

and sometimes I'd like to start all over
but then I realize
I'm just lonely
I'm just lonely
I'm just lonely

hello, hello
hello memories return
bridges I've burned
the lessons I've taught weren't the lessons I learned
and somehow I got this far
but I don't, I don't, I don't know how man

and sometimes I don't even want to be alive
but then I realize
I'm just lonely
I'm just lonely
I'm just lonely

what's hard to an alien man?
well you never know what's real
just a card
in someones deck you get dealt and that's the deal
what's the matter man?
is the time not right?
what's the matter man?
are you wrapped too tight?
what's the matter man?
is the feeling gone?
what's the matter?

what's the matter man?
what's the matter with you?
what's the matter man?
what's the matter with you?

hooked up to a million tubes
addicted to anothers dream
so many ways to pay and pay
without ever getting what you need
I'm not adverse to being alone
if it means I get to keep my mind
I'm not adverse to losing it all
if I get to leave it all behind

what's the matter man?
is the time not right?
what's the matter man?
are you wrapped too tight?
what's the matter man?
is the feeling gone?
what's the matter?

what's the matter man?
what's the matter with you?
what's the matter man?
what's the matter with you?

what's the matter man?
what's the matter with you?
what's the matter man?
what's the matter with you?

don't stray or now you're gonna pay
or now you're gonna pay
or now you're gonna pay and pay and pay

what's the matter man?
is the time not right?
what's the matter man?
are you wrapped too tight?
what's the matter man?
is the feeling gone?
what's the matter?

what's the matter man?
what's the matter with you?
what's the matter man?
what's the matter with you?

the chaos that surrounds you
the facts that astound you
at last your number has found you
your number is one
I'm looking high
I'm looking low
I want to know therefore I go
your number is one

see them pull into the slow lane
the no go lane
watch them take the poison that drives them all insane
your number is one
your number is one
your mind decided
your number is one
you are undivided
for you there is but one direction
your number is one
I am looking high
I'm looking low
I want to know therefore I go
your number is one
I am looking high
I'm looking low
I want to know therefore I go
your number is one

that number is one
one
one
the only one

that number is one
one
one
the only one

keep the ? intact
keep the ? at the top of the stack
when you get to all the other stacks
take the stack down off the rack
your number is one
your mind has decided
your number is one
you are undivided
for you there is but one direction
your number is one
I'm looking high
I'm looking low
I want to know therefore I go
your number is one
I'm looking high
I'm looking low
I want to know therefore I go
your number is one

that number is one
one
one
the only one

that number is one
one
one
the only one

yeah

one
one
one
the only one

one
one
one
the only one

your number is one
one
one
the only one

that number is one
one
one
the only one

you got nothing
you got nothing to say
there's nothing in your head
but your mouth keeps flapping anyway
stop, stop, stop, stop you better
look and listen
you better stop, stop, stop, stop
look and listen
nothing on your mind
but your mouth keeps yapping time drags on and it feels like entrapment
day after day after day after day after day
you better stop, stop, stop, stop
look and listen
you better
stop, stop, stop, stop look and listen

you better listen man
oh yeah
oh, you got nothing you got nothing to say
nothing on your mind
but your mouth keeps flapping anyway
I know you know it's true
you better
stop, stop, stop, stop
look and listen
you better
stop, stop, stop, stop
look and listen
you better listen to me man

I want so much more
I want so much more
I want so much more
I'm uh get some

the pain and the strain
and it takes to remain
in a game that gets played
by the cheaters and fakes
you think there's a place
to get spit in the face
go follow your heart
'til it tears you apart
get back to me after it breaks

I want so much more
I want so much more
I want so much more
I'm uh get some

day after day
I choke on displays
of abuse
I get used
to the slaps to my face
what a time
what a place
what a day
what a war

I want so much more
I want so much more
I want so much more
I want so much more

it's better to give than receive what a lie
you'd rather get paid and laid 'til you die
it's better to give than receive what a lie
even Mother Theresa got a taste on the slide
it's better to give than receive what a lie
you'd rather sleep late, never work and get high
it's better to give than receive what a lie
I betcha Jesus Christ had that wandering eye
he wanted so much more

I want so much more
I want so much more
I'm uh get it
watch me get it

life is greed
it's not free
lust is truth
I've got proof
wasted and spent
paying the rent
wander the streets
just civilized meat
the model mile
makes my hostile smile
with blood on my teeth
and food for a week

I want so much more
I want so much more
I want so much more
I'm uh get some

I hear all the talk about soul and the spirit
I've heard it so much that I no longer hear it
life is a hurdle and you'll never clear it
death is the end of the ride and you fear it
death is the end of the ride and you fear it
death is the end of the ride and you fear it

I'm hangin' around
just treading the boards of my room
yeah, looking out the window
down at the people below

oh yeah, the night is coming on
the walls are closing in
the air has ceased to move
I'm staring at my hands
and getting used to the silence

there's nothing left to do
'cause I'm
hangin' around
just hangin' around
random from the start
oh yeah

indecision
is a stone you throw
an act of another dead man
looking through the holes in his glass house window
oh yeah
do you know what I mean?
have you ever been
have you ever felt like me?
time melts away but it feels like it's moving so slow

I am
hangin' around
I am
hangin' around
random from the start
oh yeah

yeah
hey
oh

I'll say it one more time
I'll say it again
I'm a broken record, broken record, broken record
broken record, broken record, broken man
oh yeah
I've got no leads in this case
I can't keep up the pace
I've given up the chase
another night goes by
now I can hear the silence
I see you laughing in my face

'cause I am
hangin' around
just hangin' around
random from the start
oh yeah

I am
hangin' around
I am
haging' around
waiting
waiting for something to happen man

hey

can you see me?
do you know?
just what I'm going through
what am I gonna do?
oh yeah
here I go
down

yeah
hey
oh

do you think about when you're going to die?
I think about it all the time
I watch the days and I walk the line
I wonder when I'm gonna get mine

I knew at an early age
there was no need to be afraid
there was nothing I could change
I was gonna go out strange

going out
going out
going out strange
going out
going out
going out of range

going out
going out
going out strange
going out
going out
going out of range

when you know you really know
when it shows it really shows
people say "look at that boy he's going insane"
look ma, no plans, I'm going out strange

going out
going out
going out strange
going out
going out
going out of range

going out
going out
going out strange
going out
going out
going out of range

bullet brain, go insane
gone away, not afraid
horror mind, terror mind
paranoid, feeling fine

going out
going out
going out strange
going out
going out
going out of range

going out
going out
going out strange
going out
going out
going out of range

going out strange
going out strange
going out strange

one of these days
I don't care
going out
going out
going out
strange

nighttime comes to meet me
shadows call my name
my face is lit
by streetlight glow

one world on the outside
a million worlds within
the stars stare down
like distant eyes

streets of every city
all the rivers of the night
they know me now
so alone

one more step is one less step
we walk alone
we walk alone
we walk alone
we walk alone

one heart filled with silence
one heart filled with pain
one heart filled with fire
that drowns itself in rain

one heart deep in passion
one heart in withdrawal
one heart overwhelmed
by the beauty of it all

one heart made to wait
and one heart made to crawl
one heart overloaded
by the horror of it all

eyes wide open
eyes go blind
to the ghetto on the inside
the ghetto in the mind

we walk alone
we walk alone
we walk alone
oh yeah

there is no grace to fall from
just choices that you make
there is no truth to live by
but the next breath that you take

eyes wide open
eyes so blind
to the prison on the inside
the prison in the mind

we walk alone
we walk alone
we walk alone
we walk alone
so alone

man, we got to get this together
we got to take control or we're never gonna get out of control
all that proper conduct is a con too heavy to bear
I've heard tale the truth will set you free
sounds good to me
sounds good to me

gotta find the sin within
and let the game begin
if you want to jump and shout
you gotta let that devil out
you gotta let that devil
let that devil
let that devil out

you know how it is
day to day always the same
day in, day out, same ol' freak out
you got an angel on one shoulder
devil on the other
you got an angel on one shoulder
devil on the other
angel says "hold back, hold back"
devil says "attack, attack"
angel says "hold back, hold back"
devil says "attack, attack"

you want it?
you better get it
you want it?
you better get it
or forget it
and regret it
or forget it
and regret it forever

find the sin within
let the game begin
if you want to jump and shout
you gotta let that devil out
you gotta let that devil
let that devil
let that devil out
oh let it out
oh yeah
hey

mmmm, mmmm, mmmm
yep
so many ripe apples on the low branch of the tree
you want to reach up and pull one down and take a bite
and while you know your arms are long enough
they feel a little too short
like life is a little too short
a little too short for letting temptation ruin
an otherwise riotously good time
temptation?
lets put temptation on the unenjoyment line
what do you say?

find the sin within
you gotta let the game begin
if you want to jump and shout
you gotta let that devil out
you gotta let that devil
let that devil
let that devil out
oh come on
oh yeah
hey
oh yeah
alright