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List of My Demands

2010

I want man not to greed himself upon her and delete her pleasure.

I want my soul touched where the inner human grows love.

I want the world not to perish because its greatest inhabitants have not the clarity and foresight to see the destruction they cause.

I want prayer to have more than just the power of hope.

I want just one woman.

I want to be forged in upheaval and not be submissive of that which is essential to our kind.

I want my friend to not leave me.

I want fame not to be the ultimate goal for vital young lives.

I want to tell man that while he was looking for God, she stood beside you.

I want to be as strong and prophetic as my fragile heart.

I want to share with you this, the list of my demands....

Back

A Burlesque of Schubertian Beauty

And I've seen the women left to die
I've seen their men with blood in their eyes
I've seen their children slaughtered
Let us in

And I've seen them bow their heads like nobody knows
Broken feet walk broken roads
The rich just sending prayers
Let us in

Another bullet shot light up the world
Begging for life but your body's been sold
Does anyone hear 'em in silence
Let us in

Mother crying for the body she found
Young woman screams torn to the ground
Keep your satellite
Oh let us in

Circumcising women benefits who
Does the threat of beauty mutilate you
Defacing love in darkness
Let us in

Does anyone come when you turn out the light
Are you praying to God that he might
Protect you from what's coming
Let us in

And I see 'em holding on til their dying breath
The stoning and the bombing and they'll beat you to death
How dare you look away
Oh let us in

Starving and broken into prisons you go
If you see what they feel do you fear what they know
Schubert in my head
Oh let us in

Somebody Touch My Soul

Concentration camp beds are burning
As I stamp out the fire of men
Somebody touch my soul
Somebody touch my soul
Woman blow out another candle
As I trade in my God for love
Somebody touch my soul
Somebody touch my soul

It doesn't get any better
These shelter lines they run on forever
Somebody touch my soul
Somebody touch my soul
Have you given up your right for expression
To swallow what they're shovelling
Somebody touch my soul
Somebody touch my soul

Have we no influence over our own lives
Whose gonna save from ourselves
Somebody touch my soul
Somebody touch my soul
We're a million years of evolution
To sit in front of the television
Somebody touch my soul
Somebody touch my soul

Bad connections of parents
Have stopped driving us forward
Somebody touch my soul
Somebody touch my soul
In a world grown so fat and hungry
Our dreams are worthless and frightened
Somebody touch my soul
Somebody touch my soul

Is there anyone left to say something
Are we the generation that feels nothing
Somebody touch my soul
Somebody touch my soul
The new wars they taste like the old ones
And the old ones have lost all their meaning
Somebody touch my soul
Somebody touch my soul

You wanna fight for your right
To be another fucked up example
Somebody touch my soul
Somebody touch my soul
The only thing left to love is the silence
And I traded in my family for lust
Somebody touch my soul
Somebody touch my soul

Yesterday we prayed for the dead
Today we pray for the living
Somebody touch my soul
Somebody touch my soul
The truth is not a matter of opinion
Not even God lasts forever
Somebody touch my soul
Somebody touch my soul

Sound of the Earth Spinning

In conversation with a Swiss Astro particle physicist
He said that in our galaxy alone
There are approximately two hundred million stars
The universe is in his humble estimation
A collection of several hundred billion galaxies both high and wide
The idea that we are alone
Is little more than the furthest reach of human arrogance

Do you hear it

We have evolved too fast
Our purpose cannot keep up with our greed
Our devastation
Our non-compliance to nature
Our failure to be what we represent
And we cannot find our own evolution
We are defined only by history
And we will be remembered in tears

Do you hear it

When our children die in the war it's a tragedy
When their children die in the war it's a victory
Violence is a human characteristic
The pro-lifers are killing the abortionists

Tell me is the earth unpopular
Chinese whispers of love

At the end of another street the corporate supermarket
Puts out of business the local butcher
Baker
Greengrocer
Its inferior products are cheap
And flown in from exploited under developed countries
Leaving behind a massive carbon footprint
And an imbalance in the ecology of life
Its customers say its so convenient
There are too many people poor and in need

Can you hear it

Mankind's greatest marketing achievement is convincing us that it's all right
We're in safe hands
Life will be sustained
We are the masters of our destiny
Money is our number one objective
And the sole heir to our moment of dominance
Money succeeds us as the number one priority over life

In another corner of the world
Lawyers sue governments on behalf of their clients
Who have tripped over a tree root lifting the pavement
In response to the many lawsuits
The local government has cut down all the trees
On a leafy boulevard
A meter above the ground
Lawyers

Do you hear it

As a race we are unable to accept change as a rational concept
Extinction waits for those without the ability to adapt
And for the smallest moment in time
Extinction happens only to other animals

Society is becoming more and more suspicious
Of those of us who value silence

I am not a great man because Beethoven wrote the ninth symphony
Or because of Shakespeare
Da Vinci
Einstein
We are not them
Although we wear the same skin

Statistics delivers us fact from fiction

Life is constructed of miscellaneous things
I grant you my presumption

In an AIDS clinic the businessman said he was foolish
To have unprotected sex with a Nigerian prostitute
He hoped his wife wouldn't find out the hard way

We dwell in the womb of our mothers
When the world can no longer be bared

Love enables you to experience loss in detail

We spent that day together
It was the last day before we were to become parents
We let out all our lifeboats
Her eyes were loaded

This is the sound of the Earth spinning

So Much for Prayer

Please I'm all alone
Please the streets are so cold
Sorry
I've been a bad man
Please anybody there
Please is there room for one more
Please sir
So much for prayer

Please I'm all alone
Please the streets are so cold
Sorry
I've been a bad man
Please anybody there
Please is there room for one more
Please sir
So much for prayer

Stroking a Rose

Digging you a hole
And I don't know where it goes
I'm sharing your love
In a room full of ghosts
And I'm reading your diary
All pregnant with crows
Twenty five years stroking a rose

And when I get hungry
I can smell you aroused
And I go through your dreams
And I'm in them and proud
You were the witch
Who made a king from a man
And I come to you now
With a thorn in my hand

And I swim in the dark
And kiss where you lay
And I lick your womb
Where I was god for a day
I'm feeding on your grace
And it ain't made of man
I gave you a rose
You took a thorn from my hand

We stand and make love
And you droppin' your page
And I smell your mouth
All breath and rage
I can feel you in utero
Ravished in pose
Sentenced to love
For stroking a rose

You breathing in the word love
You climaxing the word fuck
I've been shown the art of love

You breathing in the word love
You climaxing the word fuck
I've been shown the art of love

Passive

Lethargy
Take your turn
Eloquence
Atom bomb
Superficial
Dress to kill
Happiness
Hold her still
Dinosaur
Bible school
Take my hand
Pay the girl
Sometimes I wanna live
And sometimes I'm at the bottom of the world

Prima donna
Taste the air
Low ride
Oh I've been there
Jump shot
Offend her
Magnitude
Cadenza
Give it away
Take control
Find yourself
Pay the girl
Sometimes I wanna live
And sometimes I'm at the bottom of the world

Cuckold
Manuscript
Erudite
Between her lips
Hug me
Tempted
Go home
Self-centred
I'm knocking
On your soul
Please me
Pay the girl
Sometimes I wanna live
And sometimes I'm at the bottom of the world

Whose in charge
Where's the dream
Cried all night
Make a scene
And drive
Poor
Hungry
Law
Who got the most
Jelly roll
Ancient brain
Pay the girl
Sometimes I wanna live
And sometimes I'm at the bottom of the world

Passion
In retreat
Apologise
Time to eat
Evidence
Teach me
I don't know
Love is free
Hungry toilet
Empty bowl
Put it right
Pay the girl
Sometimes I wanna live
And sometimes I'm at the bottom of the world

Punishment
Cohort
Swear words
Room for thought
Grey area
Bottle of wine
Been alive
Summertime
Clean your room
I don't know
Sex and breath
Pay the girl
Sometimes I wanna live
And sometimes I'm at the bottom of the world

What am I
Hide your grin
Free your love
Bow to him
Bottleneck
Lucky guess
Cigarettes are cool
Death by stress
Email
Find a pearl
Do you know the way
Pay the girl
Sometimes I wanna live
And sometimes I'm at the bottom of the world

In silence
What was said
Dignity
Share your bed
Sunglasses
Busted heads
Speak to god
Take your meds
Hostile
Life's a whirl
Sunset
Pay the girl
Sometimes I wanna live
And sometimes I'm at the bottom of the world

After the Pain Shall Come the Song

Came on like a rosary in silence
You were the gift encore
You had a smile to light up mankind
You tied a ribbon around the war

You showed me another view of the world
You wore the rags of summers long
Don't cry for me I'm just the artist
After the pain shall come the song

Is this the road to Ecuador
Is this the road to Ecuador
Don't cry for me I'm just the artist
You tied a ribbon around the war

Is this the road to Ecuador
Is this the road to Ecuador
And I'm gonna cry myself an island
You tied a ribbon around the war

Who knew this road would be so long
Who knew this road would be so long
Don't cry for me I'm just the artist
After the pain shall come the song

And Famous

And I'm dead and famous
Kiss my attitude
Turn up the candles
Guns
God and booze

But we're ordinary and famous
Lonelier than you

Another 27 years old
Immortal gorgeous as peers
Another rock and roll epitaph
Can't save us in tears

All jacked up and famous
Lonelier than you

Once I killed a whale
Dripped with blood and love
Looked into her dying eye
Swear I heard god

Fame is gonna kill ya
Lonelier than you

Laud me like the Blues
Earned my hedonism for free
I don't know what I'm doing
Felt someone pray for me

And I'm all jacked up and famous
Lonelier than you

I invented a cure for death
Critics say it's just a song
You wanna be like me
Make you forever young

But we're ordinary and famous
Lonelier than you

Media in depth to us all
Setting traps for youth
Reading into rubbish
Believing it's the truth

Fame is gonna kill ya
Lonelier than you

Once I banged a drum
Now they tattoo what I said
And we all need something to look up to
Even if its dead

Wasted and famous
Lonelier than you

She's a God

She's a poem
She's a bum
She's everybody you need when you got no one
Got no one

She's an activist
See her at birth
She knows the gorilla wont survive mankind's earth
Mankind's earth

Nude on your wall
It's all about you
If you pull the wings off her flower she'll make you feel it too
Feel it too

She smells like sex
Cunt for a girl
Don't care for persuasion
She's a God
Make her king of the world
Make her king of the world

She's not a fighter
She makes men free
She's not an artist
But she don't need to be
She's a woman

Fragile

And I'm fragile and thin
Why does a caged bird sing
She knows what it is to be free but you're not listening

And why do we fight
Flowers grow into the light
And so many people scared in the dark tonight

And when I grow old
My mind be filled with gold
And it took me a life to learn I can't save the world

Wait here comes the pain
Sorrow will bring on the rain
And sometimes you gotta fall from the sky
To get up again

And where have all the heroes gone
Palestine or Jerusalem
Throw your pomegranates at the wall
Oh where have they gone

And I'm scared of the dark
And I can't find my guitar
And you wouldn't want my liver
And you sure wouldn't want my heart

And why was I born
I thirst on pages torn
And I'm hurt and I'm as fragile as a swan

And whose gonna turn you on
The truth is almost gone
And I'm tender and I'm fragile
And I'm nobody's son
And I'm done

List of My Demands

Here's the list of my demands
Let the hostages go
Let little boys be free
Just say you don't know
Make love to life
Soak my pillow in her
Lay down your holy book
For hate find a cure
Learn ignorance will make you cold
Fools wait in line to be king
Let the beauty of mankind shine
Let these people sing

Here's the list of my demands
If you want me to fight
Stop talking about yourself
Make children feel safe at night
Let us all get what we deserve
Let your prejudice go
When your dreams are all you got
Get off your knees and grow
First love this big old world
And all we ask is that you try
Overrule the weakness of war
Take a day off and cry

Here's a list of my demands
For a world's forgotten voice
Promote dignity
Serve no man without a choice
Don't take what you don't need
To the family of earth take it slow
Address the world's forgotten pride
Petty things let 'em go
Hold hands across the market
Pick the truth out of lies
Find peace just for mama
Turn it up close your eyes