Chinese Democracy lyrics

CHINESE DEMOCRACY

It don't really matter
Gonna find out for yourself
No it don't really matter
Gonna leave this thing to
Somebody else

If they were missionaries
Real time visionaries
Sittin' in a chinese stew
To view my dis-infatuation

I know that I'm a classic case
Watch my dis-enchanted face
Blame it on the Falun Gong
They've seen the end and you can't hold on now

'Cause it would take a lot more hate than you
To end the fascination
Even with an iron fist
More than you got to rule the nation
When all I've got is precious time

It don't really matter
Guess I'll keep it to myself
Said it don't really matter
It's time I look around for
Somebody else

'Cause it would take a lot more time than you
Have got for masturbation
Even with your iron fist
More than you got to rule the nation
But all we got is precious time
More than you got to fool the nation
But all I got is precious time

It don't really matter
I guess you'll find out for yourself
No it don't really matter
So you can hear it now from
Somebody else

You think you got it all locked up inside
And if you beat 'em enough they'll die
It's like a walk in the park from the cell
Now you're keeping your own kind in hell
When your great wall rocks, blame yourself
When their arms reach out for your help
And you're out of time

SHACKLER'S REVENGE

I've got a funny feelin’
There's something wrong today
I've got a funny feelin’
And it won't go away

I've got an itchy finger
An’ there'll be hell to pay
I'm gonna pull the trigger
An’ blow them all away

Don't ever
Try to tell me
How much you care for me
Don't ever
Try to tell me
How you are there for me

I don't believe there's a reason
(I don’t believe it)
I don't believe there's a reason
(I don’t believe it)

I've got a wicked demon
His hunger never fades
I've got an empty feelin‘
I won't be home today

Don't ever
Try to tell me
How much you care for me
Don't ever
Try to tell me
How you are there for me

I don't believe there's a reason
(I don’t believe it)
I don't believe there's a reason
(I don’t believe it)

No one is stoppin’ you
From doin’ what you want to do
No one is stoppin’ you now
Stoppin’ you now

I don't believe there's a reason
(I don’t believe it)
I don't believe there's a reason
(I don’t believe it)

BETTER

No one ever told me when
I was alone
They just thought I'd know better,
better

No one ever told me when
I was alone
They just thought I'd know better,
better

The hardest part
This troubled heart
Has ever yet been through now

Was heal the scars
That got their start
Inside someone like you now

For had I known
Or I'd been shown
Back when how long it'd take me

To break the charms
That brought me harm
And all but would erase me

I never would
Or thought I could
No matter what you'd pay me

Replay the part
You stole my heart
I should have known you're crazy

If all I knew
Was that with you
I'd want someone to save me

It'd be enough
But just my luck
I fell in love and maybe

All that I wanted was...

Now I know you better
You know I know better
Now I know you better

So bittersweet
This tragedy
Won't ask for absolution

This melody
Inside of me
Still searches for solution

A twist of fate
A change of heart
Cures my infatuation

A broken heart
Provides the spark
For my determination

No one ever told me when
I was alone
They just thought I'd know better,
better

No one ever told me when
I was alone
They just thought I'd know better,
better

All that I wanted was...

Now I know you better
You know I know better
Now I know you better

I never wanted you to be so full of anger
I never wanted you to be somebody else
I never wanted you to be someone afraid to know themselves
I only wanted you to see things for yourself

All that I wanted was...

Now I know you better
Now we all know better

All that I wanted was...

If I were you
I'd manage to
Avoid the invitation

Of promised love
That can't keep up
With your adoration

Just use your head
And in the end
You'll find your inspiration

To choose your steps
And won't regret
This kind of aggravation

No one ever told me when
I was alone
They just thought I'd know better,
better

No one ever told me when
I was alone
They just thought I'd know better,
better

STREET OF DREAMS

All the love in the world
Couldn't save you
All the innocence inside
You know I tried so hard to make you
Oh, to make you change your mind

And it hurts too much to see you
And how you left yourself behind
You know I wouldn't want to be you
Now there's a hell I can't describe

So now I wander through my days
And try to find my ways
To the feelings that I felt
I saved for you and no one else
And though as long as this road seems
I know it’s called the street of dreams
But that's not stardust on my feet
It leaves a taste that's bittersweet
That's called the blues

I don't know just what I should do
Everywhere I go I see you
Though it’s what you planned
This much is true
What I thought was beautiful
Don't live inside of you
Anymore

I don't know just what I should do
Everywhere I go I see you
Though it’s what you planned
This much is true
What I thought was beautiful
Don't live inside of you
Anymore

What this means to me
Is more than I know you believe
What I thought of you now
Has cost more that it should for me

What I thought was true before
Were lies I couldn't see
What I thought was beautiful
Is only memories

Oh oh oh
What’d I tell you
Oh oh oh
That’s
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Inside of you

IF THE WORLD

If the world would end today
And all the dreams we've had would all just drift away, ooh
You know there's nothing more to say
If the world would end and our love slip away, ooh

I never knew the way that you look at me
Would ever mean so much to me
But in my heart I found the feelin's that I've never shown
And now they've got the best of me

If the world would end today
And all the dreams we've had would all just drift away, ooh
You know there's nothing more to say
If the world would end and our love slip away, ooh

Oooh
La la da da, la da da da da da
La la da da, la da da da da da

I never thought all the love I was lookin' for
Could ever be so close to me
But you're the only one I have ever loved that has ever loved me
And now you've got the best of me

If the world would end today
And all the dreams we had would all just slip away, ooh
You know there's nothing more to say

If the world would end today
And all the dreams we had would all just drift away, ooh
You know there's nothing more to say
If the world would end and our love slipped away

If the world would end and our love slipped away

THERE WAS A TIME

Broken glass and cigarettes
Writin’ on the wall
It was a bargain for the summer
An I thought I had it all
I was the one who gave you everything
The one who took the fall
You were the one who would do anything
The one who can't recall
Where she was while she was sleepin’
In another woman's bed,
Or the doctor’s or the lawyer’s
Or a stranger that she met
If there's nothing’ I can gain from this
Or anything at all
It'd be the knowledge that you gave me
When I thought I'd heard it all

It was a long time for you
(It was a long time)
It was a long time for me
(It was a long time)
It'd be a long time for anyone
(It was a long time)
Looks like it's meant to be

Social class and registers
Cocaine in the hall
All the way from California
On the way to your next call
To those non-negotiations
To simulate a cause
For the betterment of evils
And your ways around the laws
That keep you up and sitting pretty
On a pedestal or bed
And now you're sleeping like an angel
Nevermind who gave you head
If there's something I can make of this
Or anything at all
It'd be the devil hates a loser
And you thought you had it all

It was a wrong time for you
(It was the wrong time)
It was a wrong time for me
(It was the wrong time)
It was the wrong time for everyone
(It was the wrong time)
Looks like I’ve got to see for myself

If I could go back in time
To the place in my soul
There all alone
Lonely tear drops, ooh
Are calling you
But I don't want to know it now
'Cause knowing you
It won't change a damn thing
But there was a time

Yeah, there was a time
Didn't want ta know it all
Didn't wanna know it all
N’ I don't wanna know it now
Yeah, there was a time
Didn't want ta know it all
Didn't wanna know it all
N’ I don't wanna know it now

Oh, I would do anything for you
There was a time
I would do anything for you
I would do anything for you
There was a time

There was a time
I would do anything for you
Yeah there was a time
I would do anything for you
Didn't want ta know it all
Didn't wanna know it all
N’ I don't wanna know it now
I would do…
Didn't want to know it all
Anything for you
Didn't wanna know it all
N‘ I don't wanna know it now

There was a time…
There was a time

CATCHER N' THE RYE

When all is said and done
We're not the only ones
Who look at life this way
That's what the old folks say
But every time I’d see them
Makes me wish I had a gun
If I thought that I was crazy
Well I guess I'd have more fun
(Guess I'd have more fun)

Oooh
The Catcher in the Rye again
Won't let you get away from him
(Tomorrow never comes)
It's just another day…
Like today

You decide
‘Cause I don't have to
And then they'll find
And I won't ask you
At anytime
Or long thereafter
If it's cold outside
As I’m imagining
It to be

Lana nana na na na
Lana nana na nana

Oooh
The Catcher in the Rye again
Won't let you get away from him
(Tomorrow never comes)
It's just another day…
Like today

When all is said and done
We're not the only ones
Who look at life this way
That's what the young folks say
As if they'd ever change
That's not who am I to say
But every time I'd see them
Makes me wish I had a gun
If I thought that I was crazy
Well I guess I'd have more fun
It's what used to be's not there for me
And ought to find someone that belongs insane like I do

On an ordinary day
Not in an ordinary way
All at once the song I heard
No longer would it play for anybody
Or anyone
That needed comfort from somebody
Needed comfort from someone who cared
To be
Not like you
And unlike me
And then the voices went away
From me
Somehow you set the wheels in motion
It haunts our memories
You were the instrument
You were the one
How a body took a body
You gave that boy a gun

You took our innocence
Beyond our stares
Sometimes the only thing
We counted on
When no one else was there

SCRAPED

Don’t you try to stop us now
I just refuse
Don’t you try to stop us now
‘Cause I just won’t let you

Sometimes I feel like
The world is on top of me
Breaking me down with
An endless monotony
Sometimes I feel like
There’s nothing that’s stopping me
All things are possible
I am unstoppable

Some may convince you
No one can break through
I’m here to tell you
You’re worth
More than they tell you

Don’t you try to stop us now
I just refuse
Don’t you try to stop us now
‘Cause I just won’t let you

Sometimes I feel like
My life’s a catastrophe
Can’t understand why
It seems like it has to be

Sometimes I feel like
It’s all opened up for me
Nothing’s impossible
I am inconquerable

No one can make you
Do what they want to
You know you’re stronger
Than the lies that they tell you

Don’t you try to stop us now
(I’d give anything to know)
I just refuse
Don’t you try to stop us now
(I wouldn’t have never made it so far)
‘Cause I just won’t let you

Believe in yourself

Some may convince you
No one can break through
You know you’re stronger
Than the lies that they tell you

Don’t you try to stop us now
(I’d give anything to know)
I just refuse
(How you live with yourself)
Don’t you try to stop us now
(I would have never made it so far)
‘Cause I just won’t let you
(All by myself)

Believe in yourself

RIAD N' THE BEDOUINS

Riad N' the Bedouins
Had a plan and thought they'd win
But I don’t give a fuck ‘bout them
‘Cause I am crazy

Oh, my salvation
N’ all my frustration
Caught in the lies
No one had wove as well
Somewhere in time
Where only I can tell
Ooh

Riad N' the Bedouins
Say that’s a war that you can’t win
But I have had enough of them
And who can blame me

Sands of time and desert winds
Nomads and barbarians
I won’t bend my will to them
You aggravate me

Oh, my salvation
N’ all my frustration
Caught in the lies
No one had wove as well
Somewhere in time
Where only I can tell
Ooh

Oh, sweet salvation
Like all my frustrations
Caught up in lies
No one had wove as well
Somewhere in time
Where only I can tell

Oh, sweet salvation
And all my frustration
Caught in the lies
If you had wove so well
Somewhere in time
Then only I can tell
Oh

Riad N' the Bedouins
Had a plan, and thought they'd win

Riad N' the Bedouins
Crossed the line and lost again

SORRY

You like to hurt me
You know that you do
You like to think
In some way
That it’s me
And not you
(But we know that isn’t true)

You like to have me
Jump an’ be good
But I… don’t want to do it

You don’t know why
I won’t act the way
You think I should

You thought they’d make me
Behave and submit

What were you thinking
‘Cause I don’t forget

You don’t know why
I won’t give in
To hell with the pressure
I’m not cavin’ in

You know that I
Got under your skin
You sold your soul
But I won’t let you win

You talk too much
You say I do
Difference is nobody cares about you

You’ve got all the answers
You know everything
Why nobody asked you
It’s a mystery to me

I’m sorry for you
Not sorry for me
You don’t know who in the hell to
Or not to believe

I’m sorry for you
Not sorry for me
You don’t know who you can trust now
Or you should believe
You should believe
You don’t know who you can trust now
Or you should believe

You close your eyes
All well an’ good
I’ll kick you ass
Like I said that I would

You tell them stories they’d rather believe
Use and confuse them
They’re numb and naïve

The truth is the truth hurts
Don’t you agree?

It’s harder to live
With the truth about you
Than to live with
The lies about me

Nobody owes you
Not one goddamn thing
You know where to put your
‘Just shut up and sing’

I’m sorry for you
Not sorry for me
You don’t know who in the hell to
Or not to believe
I’m sorry for you
Not sorry for me
You chose to hurt those that love you
An’ won’t set them free
Won’t set them free
You chose to hurt those that love you
An’ won’t set them free

You don’t need
Anyone else to be
Sorry for you
You’ve got no heart
You can’t see
All that you’ve done for me
I know the reasons
You tear me apart

IRS

Love
Is it true?
What they say of you

Gonna call the President
Gonna call up the Private Eye
Gonna get the I.R.S.
Gonna need the F.B.I.

There’s not anymore that I can do
All the reasons that you give
I follow you
So when you [inaudible],
Baby, every time,
It's true

Wouldn’t be the first time I've been wrong
Wouldn't be the last I'm sure I've known
Through all the rumors I can tell,
Some things didn't work so well

Well anyway, it feels the same

When you first told me you were gone
So long ago, but I feel it head on
Through all the emotions and having a fit
And that's the truth and here's the worst yet
Wouldn't even matter the things that I say
You made your mind up and are gone [?] anyway
There's no use now in dragging it on
Should've seen it coming all along

Well it’s true... ooh
I had
My doubts of you

Gonna call the President
Gonna call myself a Private Eye
Gonna get the I.R.S.

Gonna need the F.B.I.

Gonna make this a federal case
Gonna wave it right down in your face
Read it daily with your morning news
With a sweet hangover, and the headlines true now

I feel your doing this all for my health
I should've looked again then at somebody else
Feel like I done way more than wrong
Feelin' like I never gonna get ya outta this song
Feelin like I'm just too tired to care
Feelin like I done more than my share
Could it be the weight that I've carried on
Like a broken record for so long

And I do
Ooh, oh
I'm gonna call the President,
I'm gonna call a private eye
Gonna get the I.R.S.,
Gonna need myself the F.B.I.

Ooh, what shall I do
If I gave my heart to you
It's such a crime you know it’s true

Gonna call the president
Gonna get myself a private eye
Gonna need the I.R.S.
Gonna get the F.B.I.

Gonna make it a federal case
Gonna wave it right down in your face
Read it daily with your morning news
With a sweet hangover, and the headlines true

There's not anymore that I can do

MADAGASCAR

I won't be told anymore
That I've been brought down in this storm
And left so far out from the shore
That I can't find my way back, my way anymore
Oh no I, won't be told anymore
That I've been brought down in this storm
And left so far out from the shore
That I can't find my way back, my way anymore
Oh no... I.. I..

Forgive them that tear down my soul
Bless them that they might grow old
And free them so that they may know
That it's never, too late

For the many times, what seemed like, a memory
I searched and found the ways you used to lure me in
Ooh, I found the ways,
Why it had to be
Mired in denial, and saw heart break / Mired in denial and so afraid

If we ever find it true,
That we had the strength to choose,
The freedom or the chains,
We held together

SAMPLES ->

I'm gonna tell you a story
Stand up for righteousness!
What?
Stand up for justice!
What?
Stand up for truth!
How can a person grow up with all this around them?
You got to call on that something
Where does it come from?
That can make a way out of no way
All this hatred?
What we've got here is..
Fear!
That power that can make a way out of now no way
Failure to communicate
I tell ya I seen the lightning...I've heard the thunder roll!
Everybody's acting like we can do anything and it don't matter what we do. Maybe we gotta be extra careful because maybe it matters more than
we even know..
Sometimes...
Hatred isn't somethin' you're born with
I feel discouraged
It gets taught
Sometimes I feel discouraged
I felt this fear
He promised never to leave me, never to leave me alone, no never alone, no never alone!
Let's get something straight, alright?
Promised never to leave me!
This whole thing was fucked up
Never to leave me alone!
All men betray. All lose heart!
I don't want to lose heart!...I want to believe
Black men and white men
Together at the table of brotherhood!
I have a dream
Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty!! WE ARE FREE AT LAST!!

I won't be told anymore
That I've been brought down in this storm
And left so far out from the shore
That I can't find my way back
My way anymore
Oh no I, won't be told anymore
That I've been brought down in this storm
And left so far out from the shore
That I can't find my way back
My way anymore
Oh no...

THIS I LOVE

And now I don’t know why
She wouldn’t say goodbye
But then it seems that I
Had seen it in her eyes

Though it might not be wise
I’d still have to try
With all the love
I have inside
I can’t deny

I just can’t let it die
‘Cause her heart’s just like mine
And she holds her pain inside

So if you ask me why
She wouldn’t say goodbye
I know somewhere inside
There is a special light
Still shining bright
And even on the darkest night
She can’t deny

So if she’s somewhere near me
I hope to God she hears me
There’s no one else
Could ever make me feel
I’m so alive

I hoped she’d never leave me
Please God you must believe me
I’ve searched the universe
And found myself
Within her eyes

No matter how I try
They say it’s all a lie
So what’s the use of my
Confessions to a crime
Of passions that won’t die
In my heart

So if she’s somewhere near me
I hope to God she hears me
There’s no one else
Could ever make me feel
I’m so alive

I hoped she’d never leave me
Please God you must believe me
I’ve searched the universe
And found myself
Within her eyes

So now I don’t know why
She wouldn’t say goodbye
It might just be that I
Had seen it in her eyes
And now it seems that I
Gave up my ghost of pride
I’ll never say goodbye

PROSTITUTE

Seems like forever and a day

If my intentions are misunderstood
Please be kind
I’ve done all I should
I won’t ask of you
What I would not do
Oh, I saw the damage in you
My fortunate one
The envy of youth

Why would they
Tell me to please those
That laugh in my face?
When all of the reasons
They’ve taught us
Fall over themselves
To give way

It’s not a question
Whether my heart is true
Streamlined
I had to pull through
Look for a new
Beginning on you
Oh I got a message for you
Up and away
It’s what I gotta do
Forgive what you have
For what you might lose

What would you say
If I told you that I’m to blame?
And what would you do
If I had to deny your name?
Where would you go if I told you
I love you
And then walked away?
N’ who should I turn to
If not for the ones
You could not save

I told you when I found you
If there were doubts you
Should be careful and unafraid
Now they surround you
And all that amounts to
Is love that you fed by
Perversion and pain

So if my affections
Are misunderstood
And you decide
I’m up to no good
Don’t ask me to
Enjoy them
Just for you

Ask yourself
Why I would choose
To prostitute myself
To live with fortune and shame?
Oh yeah
When you should
Have turned to the hearts
Of the ones
That you would not save

I told you
When I found you
All that it amounts to
Is love that you fed by
Perversion and pain