il_brutto

if i smile that's entertainment
and if i frown don't say a word
cause it's just my way and i'm not changing


Long ago I was brought into
This life a little lamb
A little lamb
Courageous, stumblin
Fearless was my middle name.
But somewhere there I
Lost my step
Everyone walks the same
Expecting me to step
The narrow path they've laid
They claim to
Walk unafraid
I'll be clumsy instead
Hold my love me or leaave me
High.

Say "keep within the boundaries if you want
To play."
Say "contradiction only makes it harder."
How can I be
What I want to be?
When all I want to do is strip away
These stilled constraints
And crush this charade
Shred this sad masquerade
I don't need no persuading
I'll trip, fall, pick myself up and
Walk unafraid
I'll be clumsy instead
Hold my love me or leave me
High.

If I have a bag of rocks to carry as I go
I just want to hold my head up high
I don't care what I have to step over
I'm prepared to look you in the eye
Look me in the eye
And if you see familiarity
Then celebrate the contradiction
Help me when I fall to
Walk unafraid
I'll be clumsy instead
Hold my love me or leave me
High.


Sensing that this is a dark day
I remember when the sun came again
No need to fight the world myself
I have victory built into history

Cause I have seen better days
There will be better days

This is a shadow of life lying fallow
Despairing cant find its place here

Take a token from the past
And you see that nothing lasts
Things keep moving on
And you ask me
Where is home?
Well the clouds have fallen ill
And if yet more rain is spilled
Well I forgive them

Wash your fears in purest hope
It keeps you cleaner than can soap
Just remember that the dirt comes from within your living skin
Its made of everything you eat
Keeps you standing on your feet
Theres a price to pay
But dont dismay
Youll live

Because I have seen better days
There will be better days

Fearing silence you just might
Find yourself awake at night
Imagining the things that could go wrong before too long
Let the panic slip away
Dont hold too tightly to this day
Dont crush its life out and youre sure to find the cure
(usually when the lead singer of a band is the son/ daughter of a rock star,in this cast Sting, the result is usually but this a really good album. There are so many songs I could have posted. I like this song because it stands out from the rest. Most of there songs are rather sad.)

So now I concentrate on turning wrong to right
I'm going to let go things I held inside so tight
I'm going to live and let forgive things said in spite
Clear out the smoke and usher in the light
(the first picture is the singer of the song. The second is the writer of the song.)
[Chorus]


Listen, there's nothing like knowin' yourself
Like the way I know that smokin's kind of broken my health
Like the way I know my flow don't make appropriate wealth
I can't change that
But funny I'm sayin' that when it's money I'm aimed at
I give a fuck if you frame that or quote it (shit)
I meant what I said cuz I wrote it, point noted
I know I'm overly sensitive when it comes to, well
Just about everything
And I'm so hardheaded, I don't need your help
Like no advice for these records 'less it's me, myself
Like I don't ever want to breathe if it requires assistance
Just, just shut down my system
I'm a victim of choosin' bad love, bad luck Lucy
Every man touched seems to be a doozy and plus
I'm attached to this looseleaf, stand on my two feet
So it's hard enough to even have to physically move me
Go ahead, try


Sixteen military wives
Thirty-two softly focused brightly colored eyes
Staring at the natural tan
of thirty-two gently clenching wrinkled little hands
Seventeen company men
Out of which only twelve will make it back again
Sergeant sends a letter to five
Military wives, whose tears drip down through ten little eyes

Cheer them on to their rivals
Cause America can, and America can't say no
And America does, if America says it's so
It's so!

And the anchorperson on TV goes...
La de da de da

Fifteen celebrity minds
Leading their fifteen sordid wretched checkered lives
Will they find the solution in time
Using their fifteen pristine moderate liberal minds?

Eighteen academy chairs
Out of which only seven really even care
Doling out the garland to five
Celebrity minds, they're humbly taken by surprise

Cheer them on to their rivals
Cause America can, and America can't say no
And America does, if America says it's so
It's so!

And the anchorperson on TV goes...
La de da de da de-dadedade-da
La de da de da de-dadedade-da

Fourteen cannibal kings
Wondering blindly what the dinner bell will bring
Fifteen celebrity minds
Served on a leafy bed is sixteen military wives

Cheer them on to their rivals
Cause America can, and America can't say no
And America does, if America says it's so
It's so!

And the anchorperson on TV goes...
La de da de da de-dadedade-da
La de da de da de-dadedade-da