Look over there on the cover of that magazine
A bleach blonde beauty doing that bikini atoll thing
Avert your eyes with lies and distractions
Got a pistol in your pocket gonna shake some action

Must be exhausting being so consequential
Going down fighting coming up ineffectual
Come together before the congregation
Here is your saviour, now where's the salvation

Two grand for a kiss, a buck twenty for your soul
Sign away your life cos you're never coming home
Dead on your feet or alive on your knees
Lie down in the dirt you get up with the fleas

Must be exhausting being so consequential
Going down fighting coming up ineffectual
Come together before the congregation
Here is your saviour, now where's the salvation

Ride out the storm living under my rock
Keep my head down in case I get shot
In a world thick as thieves I'm gonna lay low
Act like nothing's wrong, like a regular GI Joe
A regular GI Joe
A regular GI Joe
A regular GI Joe
A regular GI

Coming under heavy fire
Hit the deck, incoming round
Coming under heavy fire
A moral dance on shaky ground
Coming under heavy fire
Landing zone way up ahead
Coming under heavy fire
Choppers down, load up the dead

Look over there on the cover of that magazine
A bleach blonde beauty doing that bikini atoll thing
Avert your eyes with lies and distractions
Got a pistol in your pocket gonna shake some action

Must be exhausting being so consequential
Going down fighting coming up ineffectual
Come together before the congregation
Here is your saviour

Must be exhausting being so consequential
Going down fighting coming up ineffectual
Come together before the congregation
Here is your saviour
Here is your saviour

Coming under heavy fire
We're coming under heavy fire
Coming under heavy fire
We're coming under heavy fire
Coming under heavy fire
Where is your saviour?
We're coming under heavy fire
Where is your saviour?
We're coming under heavy fire
We're coming under heavy fire

I walk down broadway in the bitter cold
See my reflection and it makes me feel so old
A boulevard in deep recession
A winter sky in deep depression

Give me back my broken life
Give me serenity beyond this strife
Give me absolutely absolution
From all this trouble, disarray and confusion

This is a call to innocence
This is a call to arm yourself

When the night comes in
There's a crack in the universe
When the night comes in
There's a crack in the universe
When the night comes in
This is a call to innocence
This is a call to arm yourself

I got nothing, I'm prepared to negotiate
Deviating when I should be going straight
Should I roll or should I play?
Talk about the one that got away

This is a call to innocence
This is a call to arm yourself

When the night comes in
There's a crack in the universe
When the night comes in
There's a crack in the universe
When the night comes in
This is a call to innocence
This is a call to arm yourself

When the night comes in
There's a crack in the universe

When the night comes in
There's a crack in the universe
When the night comes in
There's a crack in the universe
When the night comes in
This is a call to innocence
This is a call to arm yourself

The night we ran from that small town dance
To your old man's car and a fumbled romance
Our breath was heavy our hearts were young
Afraid of nothing and scared of no one

Now the daytime is too fleeting
And the darkness comes too soon
In a town that dreaded sundown
Underneath the waning moon

When you're dancing with the wrong girl
When you're dancing with the wrong girl
It's the best of both worlds
When you're dancing with the wrong girl

The night you ran off in the rain
I caught you up I tried to explain
I will admit it I was four sheets to the wind
But to break your heart was clearly not my intention

Now the daytime is too fleeting
And the darkness comes too soon
In a town that dreaded sundown
Underneath the waning moon

When you're dancing with the wrong girl
When you're dancing with the wrong girl
It's the best of both worlds
When you're dancing with the wrong girl

Let's go dancing
Let's go dancing
Let's go dancing
Let's go...

When you're dancing with the wrong girl
When you're dancing with the wrong girl
It's the best of both worlds
When you're dancing with the wrong girl

All you need is Jesus and a '44
A contradiction in faith and a sprung dance floor
The pulse of a nation at war with it's own
Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1791

If you won't take my silver
Then you must take my lead
All you need is love now
And the goddam second amendment

Sleep with the enemy
Feral as you wanna be
Cowboys and indians
Say hello to my little friend
Who rides the tiger
(He's afraid to fall off)

You're the best girl that I ever did see
Dissolving into darkness, fade into misery
I have the right to broken arms as I beat on my chest
Stare at my reflection pull the trigger myself

If you won't take my silver
Then you must take my lead
All you need is love now
And the goddam second amendment

Sleep with the enemy
Feral as you wanna be
Cowboys and indians
Say hello to my little friend
Who rides the tiger
(He's afraid to fall off)

You're the best girl that I ever did see
Dissolving into darkness, fade into misery
I have the right to broken arms as I beat on my chest
Stare at my reflection pull the trigger myself

Where is the woman that I love?
Send out the ravens before the doves
Don't tell my father, my mother
My daughter, my son
Where is the woman that I love?
Where is the woman that I love?

Where is the woman that I love?
When all is said and all is done
Don't tell my father my mother
My daughter my son
Where is the woman that I love?
Where is the woman that I love?
Where is the woman that I love?
Where is the woman that I love?

Why don't you come back to the war
Why don't you come back and even the score
Why don't you come back to the war
'Cause I believe that what we've got is worth fighting for

Where is the woman that I love?
I'll make sorry good enough
Don't tell my father, my mother
My daughter, my son
Where is the woman that I love?
Where is the woman that I love?

Why don't you come back to the war
Why don't you come back and even the score
Why don't you come back to the war
'Cause I believe that what we've got is worth fighting for

I'm running through this midnight jungle
We do crazy things when we're haunted
All those memories lost in time, like tears in the rain
I gotta get her back so I can explain

Where is the woman that I love?
Send out the ravens and the doves
Please help me my father please help me my mother
I'm done

Why don't you come back to the war
Why don't you come back and even the score
Why don't you come back to the war
'Cause I believe that what we've got is worth fighting for

Vulnerability is a liability
There ain't no plage for it in this life
The only guarantee is a dead certainty
That no one gets out of here alive
Animosity will never let you be
It will never let your soul relax
Feeling like a needle in an old jukebox
Your heart's skipping all over the tracks

So let this great world spin around around around around

You gotta testify or say goodbye
Tell me no secrets, tell me no lies
Get up on the stand look me straight in the eye
You gotta testify or say goodbye

Time to make a proposition
Go tell all the opposition
You can't keep a good man down
Everyone's got their own solutions
To their private revolutions
Don't let 'em run you out of town
No time to hesitate
Don't make that same mistake
Stop dragging yourself around
Don't you know that when you go
You can't take it with you 'cause...
There ain't no pockets in a shroud

So let this great world spin around around around around

You gotta testify or say goodbye
Tell me no secrets, tell me no lies
Get up on the stand look me straight in the eye
You gotta testify or say goodbye

I wanna make my name on the overnight train
Raising gain rolling down the line
I saw a punk kissing freddie on sunset blvd
Just goes to show that not all love is colour blind
Well, I heard the thunder, saw lightning strike the sky
Fire in the jungle the red rivers running high
Pin the tail on the devil pick a card any card
Texas hold 'em in the delta snake eyes in the junkyard

There's no justice
There's no peace
Save all your pity
For the ones who need relief

Thinking about you could get me killed
For the crime of murder in the first degree
Thinking about you could get me killed
You're a good deed in a big bad world

Don't go sweet on no government honey
While the rich get it on with the poor man's blood money
It's a sad diagnosis of a bad bad situation
We got rock 'n roll tuned to battle stations

There's no justice
There's no peace
Save all your pity
For the ones who need relief

Thinking about you could get me killed
For the crime of murder in the first degree
Thinking about you could get me killed
You're a good deed in a big bad world

We all want something, they want it more
One for the money and two for the score
I'll give you what I want, I'll tell you what I know
Quid pro quo... that's the way it goes

There's no justice
There's no peace
Save all your pity
For the ones who need relief

There's no justice
There's no piece
They got you where it hurts
Now you're dying by degrees

Thinking about you could get me killed
For the crime of murder in the first degree
Thinking about you could get me killed
You're a good deed in a big bad world

Ladies & gentlemen
Please take the time
Consider my loyalty
Before judging my crime
Analyze my demise, my destiny
I can be a real good friend or even better enemy

I've gotta get out of this place
I've gotta plan my prison break
It's too late, it's too late
To reconcile my fate
It's all over now

You know it's over
True blue kid
Young enough to know better and too old to run away
True blue kid
When the lights go out tonight I won't fight another day

Ladies & gentlemen
My perception is poor
Trying to drink myself
Into the person I was before
An emotional investment down payment no interest
Only hank williams understands my loneliness
Ladies and gentlemen
Hope you enjoyed the show
No more for the cheap seats
Goodnight I gotta go
It's all you've had, now you've had it all
The taxi is waiting, sweet bird of youth has flown

I've gotta get out of this place
I've gotta plan my prison break
It's too late, it's too late
To reconcile my fate
It's all over now

You know it's over
True blue kid
Young enough to know better and too old to run away
True blue kid
When the lights go out tonight I won't fight another day

You know it's over
True blue kid
Young enough to know better and too old to run away
True blue kid
When the lights go out tonight I won't fight another day

True blue kid
I'm feeling like a comic dying on my feet
True blue kid
No visitations, no parole, no spiritual release

I gotta go...

I guess I was bad
Didn't do what ishoulda done
My daddy caught me drinking
Told me to be a good son
My momma wept
My little sister hid
Underneath her bed
Where all the demons lived
That weren't inside her head
That weren't inside her head

I've been a saint, a sinner, a healer, a heathen
Street walker, sky writer, gambler and dealer
I've been lost, found, confused, abused
Taken for granted... and used
From the hands of the enemy
I've broken loose
With a license to defy
I've got a ticket to rise

Stole my daddy's car
I was way too high to drive
That day sitting in that ford
I never felt, felt so alive

I've been a saint, a sinner, a healer, a heathen
Street walker, sky writer, gambler and dealer
I've been lost, found, confused, abused
Taken for granted... and used
From the hands of the enemy
I've broken loose
With a license to defy
I've got a ticket to rise

From the hands of the enemy
I've broken loose
With a licence to defy

I've been a saint, a sinner, a healer, a heathen
Street walker, sky writer, gambler and dealer
I've been lost, found, confused, abused
Taken for granted... and used
From the hands of the enemy
I've broken loose
With a license to defy

He was king of the north
She was queen of the south
Kinda stuck in the middle
There's a lot of it about

Some things never change
And I'm really glad they don't
And the cavalry never came
Now I'm losing hope

I can't keep holding on
When you're the one that's letting go of me
Letting go of me
Kiss tomorrow goodbye

From place to place
From room to room
From bed to bed
Midnight 'til noon

Some things never change
And I'm really glad they don't
And the cavalry never came
Now I'm losing hope

I can't keep holding on
When you're the one that's letting go of me
Letting go of me
Kiss tomorrow goodbye

He was king of the north
She was queen of the south
Kinda stuck in the middle
There's a lot of it about

The lights are on
You're not home
I know all those little white lies
You're not fooling anyone
You got more front than jesse james
Make a hit then run
You're an outlaw 'cause you know the songs
Now the singing is all done
So just...

Fade
Fade away
Just fade
Fade away

Midnight on the border
A fear that grips your soul
Hiding in the shadows
A past that won't let go
Always roaming with a hungry heart
While you're waiting on the world
If you exorcise your demons
Would your angels wanna go, so just...

Fade
Fade away
Just fade
Fade away

Like an old tattoo - let it fade away
Like a passing breath - let it fade away
Like the scars we choose - let them fade away
Like the dreams of youth - let them fade away

Na na na
Na na na...