Zen Arcade (1984)
	Something I Learned Today Something I learned today Black and white is always grey Looking through the window pane I'm not inside your brain Something I learned today Yield to the right-of-way Stopping at a 4-way sign Someone else's rules, not mine Something I learned today Never look straight in the sun's rays Letting all the sunshine in Can't remember where I've been Broken Home, Broken Heart I look at your house I wonder what goes on inside When you have to cry yourself to sleep at night Your parents fight You don't know who's wrong or right Have to cry yourself to sleep at night A broken home, a broken heart When the two of them will have to part Broken home, broken heart Now you know just how it feels To have to cry yourself to sleep at night Indecision Time Questions like a candle that's burning at both ends Never find an answer that fits in your plans Back and forth between the good and the bad it's indecision time You're so natural, you're so free So don't decide what's best for me Nothing in your life is ever going on course You wonder if living could be much worse Go to the left, go to the right Your mind is going to keep you up all night You twist in your sleep, grabbing the sheets, sweating to death Sucking on pollution like a rattle in your mouth You're a big fucking kid, you don't know what you're about Tell me about your fellow man You wipe their shit all over your hands Hare Krsna Krsna walking down the street Touching me with lotus feet Going to talk to the Radharani Going to ask her for her $ Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare Never Talking To You Again There are things that I'd like to say But I'm never talking to you again There's things I'd like to phrase some way But I'm never talking to you again I'm never talking to you again I'm never talking to you I'm tired of wasting all my time Trying to talk to you I'd put you down where you belong But I'm never talking to you again I'd show you everywhere you're wrong But I'm never talking to you again Chartered Trips I picked up my belongings in a nylon carry-all I hear the porter call Said "The sky's the limit on this chartered trip away," I guess I'd better stay Out there on the desert, I see trees on every wall Nothing's ever solved Said "The sky's the limit on this chartered trip away," Guess I'd better stay away I thought I owed myself a trip away I wanted to go to places I have never been away I looked at the pictures, imagine where they lay Away on a beach by the sand, where their clothes all lay away Horizon is oblivious, chartered trip away Said "There's no returning from this chartered trip away." Beyond The Threshold It's a one-horse town One big desert Asphalt desert Asphalt jungle Beyond the threshold, beyond the threshold Change for the worse Change nonetheless Hey hey hey Got no place to stay I hear machines They burst at the seams But tar and feather All stick together Greetings from home I wish you were here Hear what I say but You can't hear me at all Pride Why did you back me into a corner? I didn't mean it, it was just an act My friend's outside, can't he come in? And everybody else Stupid pride, selfish pride, stupid pride Why does everybody have to be like that? "Out!" Just an act. His parents love him, they send him money But he won't come back No reaction, no response. Forget him, just forget him. I'll Never Forget You Told you everything I knew about me Didn't listen to a word I say Spill my guts, you just threw them away Never cared about me Only wanted to be your friend, Now I know that it's gotta end Never cared a thing about me, And now, I will I will never forget you I will never forgive you The Biggest Lie You think you've made it to the top because people know your name, It's still the same Your daydreams aren't forever, better get your shit together For a new game Back to your day job Back to your girlfriend Back to your hometown The biggest lie Passing harsher judgement, but you brought it on yourself By being you You trade your work for no success, you tried to be a hero But you end up nothing Somewhere Searching for the truth but all I ever find is lies Trying to find identity but I just find a disguise Looking at the nightmare when I try to see the dream Finding a reality as perfect as it seems Somewhere the dirt is washed down with the rain Somewhere there's happiness instead of pain Somewhere satisfaction has no name Somewhere I can be the same Looking down on everything it seems a total bore Missing all the people that I've never met before Trying to find an unknown something I consider best I don't know if I'll find it, but until then I'll be depressed Pink Turns To Blue Going out each day to score She was no whore But for me Celebrating every day The way She thought it should be And I don't know what to do Now that pink has turned to blue She was always by my side And never tried To leave Standing up for me And like a tree For what she believed No more rope And too much dope She's lying on the bed Angels pacing Gently placing Roses 'round her head What's Going On (Inside My Head) I was talking When I should have been listening I didn't hear a word that anyone said It might not have been so very important 'Cause I was concerned about instead (with) What's going on What's going on What's going on inside my head Masochism World Can you feel it feel it feel it In your soul Can you tell me Tell me if it's hot or cold Can you tell me what it is Does it hurt you when I do this Stop it stop it stop it You're pulling too hard Stop it You're going too far I love it I hate it I love it I hate it too I love it So how about you? Can you tell me 'cause I don't know Why don't you tell me why is it so Confusing! Standing By The Sea There was no one all around There was no one there but me I was staring out a window I was standing by the sea The waves kept on repeating Each one crashing to the shore And my footprints nowhere leading As they disappeared once more Your senses are bombarded By the roaring that you hear In a shell you can hear the ocean When you put it up to your ear Newest Industry Been through mass destruction once, but once was not enough Said we want a second chance, and all they say is tough A world where science went too far, there's no way to survive Why can't we get this thing straightened out, I want to stay alive They burned and bombed the east and north and there's no place left to go The sun belt's overcrowded, so let's annex Mexico The peso's only worth a dime, but they've got all that land No need for a civil war, we know they'll understand, right? Is that how you like it? Factories left unattended, crumbling to the ground We tried to keep them running, but there's no more oil around We used it all to fight a war that neither side could win Vietnam was Little League compared to where we've been Now we live in caves and huts, and we don't have pay TV And everyone is signing up for the newest industry Standard Oil goes solar power, all try to make a buck So I'll sit around and smoke cigarettes, and I'll babble "What the fuck?" Whatever He lives in his imagination, with those friends of his very own He doesn't get along with the outside world, he'd rather be alone Sometimes, when it's late at night, he starts to wonder why (The plans he made can never happen, so all he does is cry). His parents, they can't understand why their son, he turned out wrong He runs away from all the pain and forgets them when he's gone He'd rather be all by himself because his plans, they seem the best. He finally gets the nerve one day and now life becomes a test. Mom and Dad, I'm sorry Mom and Dad, don't worry I'm not the son you wanted, but what could you expect? I've made my world of happiness to combat your neglect. The Tooth Fairy And The Princess Don't give up, Don't let go, Don't give in, Don't let on. In your bed, Late at night, Red hot red, Don't get up. Turn On The News If there's one thing that I can't explain Is why the world has to have so much pain With all the ways of communicating We can't get in touch with who we're hating So turn on turn on turn on the news I hear it every day on the radio Somebody shoots a guy he don't even know Airplanes falling out of the sky A baby is born and another one dies Highways fill with refugees Doctors finding out about disease With all this uptight pushing and shoving That keeps us away from who we're loving