by Jethro Tull on album Thick as a Brick

See there! A man is born And we pronounce him fit for peace There's a load lifted from his shoulders With the discovery of his disease We'll take a child from him Put it to the test Teach it to be a w

by Jethro Tull on album WarChild

Walking through forests of palm tree apartments Scoff at the monkeys who live in their dark tents Down by the waterhole, drunk every Friday Eating their nuts, saving their raisins for Sunday Lions and

by Talking Heads on album Talking Heads

Take A Look At These Hands. Take A Look At These Hands. The Hand Speaks. The Hand Of A Government Man. Well I'm A Tumbler. Born Under Punches. I'm So Thin. All I Want Is To Breathe [I'm Too Thin Won't

by King Crimson on album In the Court of the Crimson King

The wall on which the prophets wrote Is cracking at the seams Upon the instruments of death The sunlight brightly gleams When every man is torn apart With nightmares and with dreams Will no one lay th

by King Crimson on album In the Court of the Crimson King

The wall on which the prophets wrote Is cracking at the seams Upon the instruments of death The sunlight brightly gleams When every man is torn apart With nightmares and with dreams Will no one lay th

by Soundgarden on album Superunknown

Heard it from another room Eyes were waking up Just to fall asleep Love's like suicide Dazed out in a garden bed With a broken neck Lays my broken gift Just like suicide And my last ditch Was my last

by Soundgarden on album Superunknown

Heard it from another room Eyes were waking up Just to fall asleep Love's like suicide Dazed out in a garden bed With a broken neck Lays my broken gift Just like suicide And my last ditch Was my last

by The Allman Brothers Band on album Eat a Peach

I recall once upon a time Livin' was so easy and I felt so fine My, my, my right before my very eyes Satan came with fire to burn me And wouldn't listen when they warned me Dagger in my back She's cal

by Genesis on album Selling England by the Pound

Said the unifaun to his true love's eyes "It lies with me!" cried the Queen of Maybe For her merchandise, he traded in his prize "Paper late!" cried a voice in the crowd "Old man dies!" The note he le

by R.E.M. on album Out of Time

I sat there looking ugly, looking ugly and mean I knew what you were saying, you were saying to me Baby's got some new rules Baby said she's had it with me It seems a shame to waste your time on me It

by R.E.M. on album Around the Sun

You see there's this cat burglar who can't see in the dark. he lays his bets on 8 more lives, walks into a bar. slips on the 8 ball, falls on his knife. says, "I don't know what I've done, but it does

by R.E.M. on album Around the Sun

You know where I come from You know what I feel You're Yul Brenner Westworld Reporting from the field. I threw it into reverse Made a motion to repeal. You kicked my legs from under me And tried to ta

by Talking Heads on album Talking Heads

Baby your mind is a radio Got a reciever inside my head Baby I'm tuned to your wavelength Lemme tell you what it says Baby, transmitter Oh! picking up something good Hey, radio head The sound of a bra

by Talking Heads on album Talking Heads

Hey! And she was lying in the grass And she could hear the highway breathing And she could see a nearby factory She's making sure she is not dreaming See the lights of a neighbor's house Now she's sta

by Aerosmith on album Toys in the Attic

Got me the strangest woman Believe me this trick's no cinch But I really get her going When I whip out my big ten inch Record of a band that plays the blues Well a band that plays the blues She just l

by Aerosmith on album Toys in the Attic

Uncle Salty told me stories of a lonely baby with a lonely kind of life to lead my mammy was lusted, Daddy he was busted they left her to be trusted till the orphan bleeds but when she cried at night,

by Elton John on album Honky Château

There's a river runnin' sweat right through our land Through our land Driven by a man with a bull whip in his hand In his hand And I've taken just as much as I can stand I can stand Oh, we've got to f

by Elton John on album Honky Château

Now I know "Spanish Harlem" are not just pretty words to say I thought I knew But now I know that rose trees never grow in New York City Until you've seen this trash-can dream come true You stand at t

by Elton John on album Honky Château

There's a river running sweat right through our land Driven by a man with a bullwhip in his hand And I've taken just as much as I can stand Oh we've got to free our brothers from their shackles if we

by Elton John on album Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy

There was a face on a hoarding that someone had drawn on And just enough time for the night to pass by without warning Away in the distance there's a blue flashing light Someone's in trouble somewhere