Jam (1992)
S.T.W.
S.T.W.(Reprise)
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Lyrics
The Way That I Live
My momma said 'son you know you'll get nowhere,
you'll never get a life with your long hair'
I aint cut out for no suit and no tie,
and that's the way that I live
and the way that I'll die,
Way that I live,
way that I'll die
There aint no better
there aint no better
Way that I live
way that I'll die
Come on, step around me
Step around me
I choose my clothes 'cause I like the way they look,
Won't get caught up on no fashion hook
Won't eat that same old stuff when I want a slice of pie
and that's the way that I live
and the way that I'll die,
Say what I like, 'cause I mean what I say
Bow down to no tin God to help me on my way
You can't sell me anything I aint willing to buy,
and that's the way that I live
and the way I'll die
(gonna live before I die 'cause I'm a long time gone)
Breaking out of school and we were kicking hard.
A lot of good dreams and a lot of false starts.
Swore we wouldn't get old before our time.
So that's what's the matter boy are you wondering where it went.
The memory's better than it was back then,
you could not wait to leave it all behind
But there is one thing I know
I ain't quite ready to go away
Too much, too young.
I won't do time when I've just begun.
Too much, too young.
What about love, what of songs unsung?
Too much, too young.
I'll never go backward, I'll always go on...
I want more, give me, oh just a little bit more!
I don't want a house or a three piece suite -
those things don't matter to me,
I'm happy sleeping on your kitchen floor.
So if you ain't happy following my star,
lend me some money, give me your old car,
'cause you don't really need it anymore.
I've got some living to do,
and I ain't waiting for you.
Too much, too young.
I won't do time when I've just begun.
Too much, too young.
What about love, what of songs unsung?
Too much, too young.
I'll never go backward, I'll always go on...
I want more, give me, oh just a little bit more!
Sometimes I wonder
if I'll ever live again
well I can tell you,
if I do, I'd make that change
I've got my share of regret
but I ain't afraid to say
I've paid the price I've had to pay.
Well once upon a time
"when we were so young"
well what we were then
lies tattered and torn
well I guess that's just the way it goes
I've got to move on to-the other side.
I can see this thing is a-hurting your pride
maybe I'll be back to say goodbye - who knows.
Nobody stand in my way
I'll take tomorrow today!
Too much, too young.
I won't do time when I've just begun.
Too much, too young.
What about love, what of songs unsung?
Too much, too young.
I'll never go backward, I'll always go on...
Here in my my room, in splendid isolation
alone in the gloom, in splendid isolation,
Sometimes I, need to be, left in my own company,
So here am I, I splendid isolation
I'm falling away, in splendid isolation
I'm hoping I'll stay, in splendid isolation,
If they were right I'd agree,
but it's them they know not me
So here am I, in splendid isolation
I'm floating in a sea of my subconscious thought,
and the skeletons are crawling through my closet walls,
No one ever sees me, I don't make a sound,
and I don't know want I'm gonna do now
The motherless itch has got the best of me
transcending the things that I will never be,
But all along hallucinating life somehow,
I still don't know what I'm gonna do now
The pressure starts to push me through my loving daze,
for a moment then I thought I'd lost my wicked way,
It's not that I'm a leper when my mind allows,
I don't know what I'm gonna do now
Lennon is a memory in a student brain
gripping thought pavilions guilt in freedom chains,
the virginical construction makes the masses 'wow'
and I don't know what I'm gonna do now
Well I see the moon, the stars, the hemisphere
I see the future and it don't look clear
The past is re-appearing on my fevered brow.
and I don't know what I'm gonna do now
Yeah, I still don't know what I'm gonna do now...
in splendid isolation
in splendid isolation
my splendid isolation
this is splendid isolation
splendid isolation
She's got many more years, ahead of it all,
but there's a fire in her heart tells her so
So she's walking pretty tall into those old mansion halls,
Just to let them all know,
Come down from your soapbox,
Come down on your own
Come down from your soapbox
even though you wanna chase it,
you know you just might break through,
you'll never have to face it alone
She tells them that she's right
Stands there ready for the fight
She is stubborn, she is listening no more,
There's any empty ring of boubt
and her mind carn't put it out
The truth's not easy to ignore
(and so I say)
Come down from your soapbox,
Come down on your own
Come down from your soapbox
even though you wanna chase it,
you know you just might break through,
you'll never have to face it alone
You could be wrong
(You know that don't you)
you could be totally wrong
(it can happen you know)
You can see it in the others
but you just can't see it
When it's under you nose
no, when it's under your nose
(all the people say)
Come down from your soapbox,
Come down on your own
Come down from your soapbox
even though you wanna chase it,
you know you just might break through,
you'll never have to face it alone
Get from out of the light
Get right into the shade,
You gotta open your mind
And let your heart behave
No, never have to face it alone
Face it alone
Face it alone
She said we were meant to be
Tied up in security
So I quizzed her up about that thing
what she described near blinded me
'bout a stirrup strap, a master gland,
her perfect combination plan,
She said 'don't be afraid, we got it made,
fantasy is where we misbehave'
Got to keep it moving now,
Get it on some how
Don't confuse it,
Don't confuse it,
Don't confuse it, don't confuse sex with love
Don't confuse it,
Don't confuse it,
Don't confuse it, don't confuse sex with love
There were more than two, six on nine
one in front, three more behind
all those eyes, all those thighs
plastic dolls and plastic ties,
Up to fun, the lusty ones
drown in all that is to come,
If you got the mind, I got the time
leave your superstitions far behind
Got to keep it moving now,
Get it on some how
Don't confuse it,
Don't confuse it,
Don't confuse it, don't confuse sex with love
Don't confuse it,
Don't confuse it,
Don't confuse it, don't confuse sex with love
Not for one moment am I
suggesting everyone try,
But take a look and you'll see
there's more to your fantasy
than meets the eye.
When the room is hot, the red skin drops
put the key into the box,
Be discreet and I'll complete
right here 'neath this table top
If the waiter shows, bite your lip
and I'll give you the perfect tip
Don't be afraid, we've got it made
Fantasy is where we misbehave now,
If you've got the mind, I've got the time
I never want to see you stopping anything
and toeing the line, line!
Don't confuse it,
Don't confuse it,
Don't confuse it, don't confuse sex with love
Don't confuse it,
Don't confuse it,
Don't confuse it, don't confuse sex with love
Come on baby don't confuse it
I recall I call you up to ask you all my questions
And you replied you don't know why, and I can't take rejection
When I'm alone in company, and you're there in my sights
You smother me in mystery one more time.
Woman, woman, woman, womankind
Everyday you seem to blow my mind
Take a look at me and you will find
Everyday I love you more
Everyday I want you more.
So sweetly you persist in kind, so darkly and mysterious
Can't you see you must be blind, to not see I'm delirious
Fortunately you are not, a desperate proclaimer
That would be the worst thing on my mind.
Woman, woman, woman, womankind
Everyday you seem to blow my mind
Take a look at me and you will find
Everyday I love you more
Everyday I want you more.
It's not the same without you,
It's essential what you bring
You are deep within all time and space above.
I just can't live without you, you're my oxygen supply
I'd drift deadly through my life without your love.
Woman, woman, woman, womankind
Everyday you seem to blow my mind
Take a look at me and you will find
Everyday I love you more
Everyday I want you more.
Woman, woman, woman, womankind
Everyday you seem to blow my mind
Take a look at me and you will find
Everyday I love you more
Everyday I want you more.
Jump boy Johnny got his head out of wack
Those darn parasites put him right on the wrong track
He's beginning to crack
Momma said Johnny boy's as clean as a pin
The more she digs the more trouble he's in
Under his skin
You got to keep your eyes wide open
So you don't get used again
You got to keep your eyes wide open
That's the only way to win
No matter what they say
No matter what they do
Don't you take it on the chin
You got to keep your eyes wide open
so you don't get used, don't get used again
Fab Five Freddy, he's so tough
He's hiding in the closet with all that feminine stuff
Is he tough enough?
Freddie come Freddie go, lowers the veil
Walks like a man to cover up his trail
Such a bitch
That feminine itch
You got to keep your eyes wide open
So you don't get used again
You got to keep your eyes wide open
That's the only way to win
No matter what they say
No matter what they do
Don't you take it on the chin
You got to keep your eyes wide open
so you don't get used, don't get used again
So you're in trouble again
did it since you don't know when
Everything seemed so much worse before.
Saying that you lost the plot
You ain't happy with the things you got
All you every wanted was a little bit more.
Little girl Suzie want's to buy an Uzi
Show the little boys just how choosy she is
Just call her ms
Suzie wanna play gonna blow them all away
Had enough of everyone hear the little trigger go click
Just for the kicks
You got to keep your eyes wide open
So you don't get used again
You got to keep your eyes wide open
That's the only way to win
No matter what they say
No matter what they do
Don't you take it on the chin
You got to keep your eyes wide open
so you don't get used, don't get used again
Cos you're in trouble again
did it since you don't know when
Everything seemed much worse before
Sayin' that you lost the plot
You ain't happy with the things you got
All you ever wanted was a little bit more
Just a little bit more
Hey yeah
ra ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta
The colour of love
Isn't black or white
But it's coloured you judgement,
of what's wrong or right,
You took hold of her hand like she was diseased
Now you're turning away,
There's nothing more we have to say
Do you know what she means to me,
know how I care?
If you looked in her heart you'd see no colour there
Well I don't care, Care what you like if you see there's a
Colour of love,
Beneath her black skin, she runs red with blood,
and I'd give her my soul, if only I could
'Cause loves an emotion that trancends all colour and that creed
I'm leaving you now,
'cause you're blinded by what you can't see,
First you ask for respect, then you bathe in fear,
I say nothing is due, and my concience is clear,
and that's sincere,
Would you call my name would you say you'd be there?
would you turn around just when I needed you (needed you)
In your suburbs you burn you're content with your fate,
Stuck behind your green hedges and white washed black hate,
I'm so sick and so tired of this loveless refrain,
Well that's your shame, shame on you
If you see there's a colour of love
(colour of love)
(colour of love)
She took me all of the way and she told me she loved me
But I saw that look in her eye as I passed by the stair
The moon it was shining but I was declining to answer
sometimes in my life I'm not right but that time I swear,
I was not wrong, I was not wrong,
Gonna get be back where I belong
I was not wrong,
It's always the same when they're veiled in a secret libedo
That's caused by the strains of a life thats so stupid and strange
What her eyes could not see she could never believe like the
wind blows
Those real life emotions I could never explain,
I was not wrong I was not wrong,
Gonna get be back where I belong,
For all those who will here my song,
Will know that I, I was not wrong, I was not wrong,
You'll never find out what the truth is,
not with every single beat of your heart,
'Till it's beating your own way,
When it's beating your own way,
When it's beating your own way,
I was not wrong I was not wrong,
Gonna get be back where I belong,
For all those who will here my song,
Will know that I, I was not wrong, I was not wrong.
December morning when the ship came sailing in,
The sailor boys with all their noise had come around again,
She stood on the quayside, she was looking for a friend
He had caught her eye and now she'll try
to make him come her way (come her way),
So long, goodbye, nice to know you baby but it's time to fly,
He laughed as she cried and watched her dreams sail away,
Had one just like her on a far off Eastern shore,
and every town, that he'd sailed round was like the one before
and thought he said he loved her, his words were like his heart,
they were empty as a summer stream that dries up oh so hard
(oh so hard)
So long, goodbye, nice to know you baby but it's time to fly,
He laughed as she cried and watched her dreams sail away,
Sail away, sail away
Sail away, sail away
Oh sail away again, away again
Every day somebody sails away,
Cried when he left her, but she never knew his name,
Just a night of love to pass like ships and never meet again
She can't hold the tears, but she knows that one day
He will come around (come around again)
So long, goodbye, nice to know you baby but it's time to fly,
He laughed as she cried and watched her dreams sail away,
she watched her dreams sail away.
Tired Of Waiting For You (So Tired)
I'm so tired, tired of waiting,
tired of waiting for you,
I'm so tired, tired of waiting,
tired of waiting for you,
yes I am
I was a lonely soul, I had nobody 'till I met you,
But you, keep-a me waiting, all of the time,
what can I do?
I'm so tired, tired of waiting,
tired of waiting for you,
I'm so tired, tired of waiting,
tired of waiting for you,
I was a lonely soul, I had nobody 'till I met you,
But you, keep-a me waiting, all of the time,
what can I do?
But it's your life, you can do what you want,
do what you want,
but please don't keep-a me waiting,
I'm so down and i'm hesitating
So tired
I'm so tired, tired of waiting,
tired of waiting for you,
I'm so tired, tired of waiting,
tired of waiting for you,
Such a lonley soul, such as I am
What can I do?
What can I do?
What can I do?
so tired
so tired
so tired
so tired
so tired