Lullaby
(专辑: Erratic Cinematic - 2017)
[Peter Finch:] "I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a
depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The
dollar buys a
nickel's worth. Banks are going bust. Shopkeepers keep a
gun under the
counter. Punks are running wild in the
street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the
air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the
way it's supposed to be! We know things are bad – worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the
house, and slowly the
world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is: 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster, and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I
won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I
want you to get mad! I
don't want you to protest. I
don't want you to riot – I
don't want you to write to your congressman, because I
wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I
don't know what to do about the
depression and the
inflation and the
Russians and the
crime in the
street. All I
know is that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say: 'I'm a
human being, god-dammit! My life has value!'" [Gerry Cinnamon:] I
got friends in high places and limited time I
got a
long list of women who pay me in kind I
got different reasons for wasting my mind I
don't need nothing when I
wanna get high But I
gotta keep rolling Just to get by I
got different voices inside my head I
got plenty of demons under my bed But I
don't get scared cos I'm already dead And now I'm walking round looking like I've never been fed I
tell a
million stories With no words said Sing me to sleep, sing me a
love song Sing me a
lullaby of days gone by Sing me to sleep, sing me a
love song Sing me a
lullaby of days gone by Sell my soul to the
devil just to get paid I'm taking one last breath as reality fades Wasting time on the
streets where heroes are made And now I'm hanging round your place trying to get laid I
got different methods For wasting my day And I'm turning twenty-nine at the
end of the
year Yeah I
wonder if they'll find me in the
blood and the
gear I'm in a
little bit of trouble cos I
got no fear It's like I'm crying out loud but nobody can hear I
got plenty good reasons For hiding my tears Sing me to sleep, sing me a
love song Sing me a
lullaby of days gone by Sing me to sleep, sing me a
love song Sing me a
lullaby of days gone by