We'll start over again
Grow ourselves new skin
Get a house in Devon
Drink cider from a lemon

Johnny take a dive with your sister in the rain
Let her talk about the things you can't explain
To touch is to heal
To hurt is to steal
If you want to kiss the sky
Better learn how to kneel

I'm a street-walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm
I'm a runaway son of the nuclear A-bomb
I am a world's forgotten boy
The one who searches and destroys

Many have I loved, many times been bitten
Many times I've gazed along the open road

Troubled souls unite, we got ourselves tonight
I am fuel, you are friends, we got the means to make amends
I am lost, I'm no guide, but I'm by your side
I am right by your side

Today is the greatest
Day I've ever known
Can't live for tomorrow
Tomorrow's much too long
I'll burn my eyes out
Before I get out

From far away as Jupiter's sulphur mines
(Way down by the Methane Sea, yeah)
I have a humming bird and it hums so loud,
You think you were losing your mind, hmmm ...

I would like a place I could call my own
Have a conversation on the telephone
Wake up every day, that would be a start
I would not complain of my wounded heart

I don't care if it hurts
I want to have control
I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul
I want you to notice when I'm not around
You're so f***ing special
I wish I was special

And you may find yourself in a beautiful house
With a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself
"Well, how did I get here?"

Moving on the floor now, babe, you're a bird of paradise
Cherry ice-cream smile, I suppose it's very nice
With a step to your left and a flick to the right
You catch the mirror way out west
You know you're something special and you look like you're the best

So shut, shut your mouth
'Cause I'm not listening anyhow
I've had enough, enough of you
Enough to last a lifetime through
So what do you want of me?
Got no cure for misery and if I go around with you
You know that i'll get messed up too
With you

Veronica sits in her favorite chair
She sits very quiet and still
And they call her a name that they never get right
And if they don't then nobody else will

Well she used to have a carefree mind of her own
With a devilish look in her eye
Saying, "You can call me anything you like
But my name is Veronica"

Paint your smile on your lips
Blood red nails on your fingertips
A schoolboy’s dream, you act so shy
Your very first kiss was your first kiss goodbye

At my high school, it felt more to me
Like a jail cell, a penitentiary
My time spent there it only made me see
That I don't ever wanna be like you
I don't wanna do the things you do

It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes
Nothing remains quite the same
With all of our running and all of our cunning
If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane

Buy the sky and sell the sky
And bleed the sky and tell the sky
Don’t fall on me

And I feel just like I’m living someone else’s life
It’s like I just stepped outside
When everything was going right
And I know just why you could not come along with me
This was not your dream
But you always believed in me

I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go 'round and 'round
I really love to watch them roll
No longer riding on the merry-go-round
I just had to let it go

So goodbye yellow brick road
Where the dogs of society howl
You can't plant me in your penthouse
I'm going back to my plough ...
Oh, I've finally decided my future lies
Beyond the yellow brick road

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life
Let's waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads
I need your grace
To remind me
To find my own

You held me down
I'm at my lowest boiling point
Come help me out
I need to get me out of this joint
Come on, let's bounce
Counting on you to turn me around
Instead of clowning around, let's look for some common ground

We're not the only ones
Is that what we used to say
That this is the modern way?
I know where I'm going
I know we are in the knowing
I will stop at nothing
Just to get what I want
It's the only way of getting out of here

Mother weep the years I'm missing
All our time can't be given
Back

He was standin' in the door
I was standin' in the rain
With the same hot blood burnin' in our veins
Adam raised a Cain

I can't believe what God has done
Through us He's given life to one
But isn't she lovely made from love

And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware what they're going through

I know a girl who's lost and lonely
Sits by the phone on her own
But the phone don't ring
And the birds don't sing in her tree
She lost herself in a haze of pity
And doesn't know where to run
Needs a headshrinker now
And I think it's time we had some fun

I'm free to be whatever I
Whatever I choose
And I'll sing the blues if I want
I'm free to say whatever I
Whatever I like
If it's wrong or right it's all right