Soul Asylum Say What You Will[Anything Can Happen]

1.Black And Blue

Protect and serve, slice my nerve
Gotta make sure everybody's gonna get what they deserve

Make my plea, i'm down on my knees
Street cowboy with a badge that says can do what you please
Do what you please, do what you please, do what you please

Rape me, take me, shine your lights so i can't see
Holsters, guns and uniform just don't impress

Blood stained streets, he still looks neat
Somebody's cryin' for help and he's breaking up my party

Please stop breathing down my neck
Took away something that's mine, i want you to give it back
You gotta give it back, now give it back
Walk across my face with your shiny shoes
Bow down to the badge and colors black and blue

It's a blue night, he rides tonight, a show of strength, a
polished fight
Take me home, cuz i'm not alone, i'm not alone

The squads breakin' down, but you misjudged power
Get your handcuffs ready, cuz we're coming in numbers


2.Happy

When i'm with my friends my troubles end
I'm one of the boys, so self employed

When we're together, could last forever
And i'm almost there

I'm away from the boss, at least for awhile
I'm away from the girls that cramp my style

I'm away from the jerks, i'm away from the works
And i'm almost there, i'm almost there

And it's happy time, happy, happy time
It's happy time, happy time, happy time
Got a happy head, so happy, happy time
I wish i could be this happy all the time

I'll take one of those, and four of those
And more of those, and more of those

I'm away from the jerks, i'm away from the works
And i'm almost there, i'm almost there


3.Long Day

Mine is a lonely one, i forgot to have fun, standing under the
street light
Ever so nervously, people lookin' down on me, telling me it's
all right

If it were up to me i'd tear down this whole city, what's all
this sh＊t here for？
I give you my heart, but you just say i make you feel like a
whore

All this trouble just to die, all this trouble's only temporary,
it's temporary, temporary

Took away his power but he hides a tiny flower in the corner of
his jail cell
Never been outside he just can't hide, he'd just assume be in
hell

Get off the f＊cking telephone, why'd you hate to be alone,
paranoid of death and love
Ever so patiently we sit upon our sinking ship waiting for the
black dove

All this trouble just to die, all this trouble's only temporary,
it's temporary, temporary

Sad that i could make it, glad that i could fake, sorry but i
got to go
I ain't afraid of cryin', ain't afraid of dyin'. ain't afraid of
what i don't know


4.Money Talks

Money talks these days and everybody listens
We're whipping out our wallets trying to but what we're missing

Money screams out 'i need a slave'
I'm just trying to find some worker to dig my grave

Everybody's listening, everybody's listening, all those eyes are
glistening
I need more, a little more, in a little while

I say those？？？
Machines？

I'm just trying to find somebody to pay my bail
Money screams is says 'my soul's for sale'

Everybody's listening, everybody's listening, all those eyes are
glistening

I need a maid to pick up my mess, help me in the morning, help
me get dressed
I'll pay you when i get paid, i'll pay you when i get paid

Money talks these days, money talks these days
What you gonna do when the criminal says 'your money or your
life'？
(not used？)
I need more, i'm bored, shine my shoes, wax my floor

Mew father of our powerful land of the free
I ain't doing nothing, i'll just jire someone to do it for me

No matter how small george gets he'll still talk louder than you
Dollars shrieking 'ha, ha, ha jokes's on you'

End everybody's listening, all those eyes are glistening

Rich bored, blind, and lone, better buy me a wife
I'm saving up everything to buy me a knife


5.Religiavision

Nail myself way up high and i'm gonna die for you
The mother offers up the child to the preaching of channel two

The empires rise and the babies cry, when is the lesson to be
learned
And all i hear is the commercials and now the crosses are gonna
burn

Now i ain't gonna be the cure to wash away your sins
Why so the children have to pay for the poor planning that you
did

No matter how loud you scream and cry you're gonna be sentenced
to suffer
You married your life and you married you wife and now you're
gonna have to
Learn to love her
But can you love her？

I like to watch religious tv, what you get is not what you see.
religiovision

Save me my dear goddamned lord, won't you please take me hand
Lead me to your sweet salvation in mcdonald's land

I was born a wild beautiful baby but you tried to tell me what
to be
Can you love your children knowing you must set them free


6.Sick Of That Song

I'm sick of that song about how you lost your lover
Sick of that song about how you hate your mother
Sick of that song laced with useless solutions
I'm sick of that song about how you look at life
Sick of that song about how you beat your wife
Sick of that song about sha na blah blah
I'm sick of that song about sex and drugs and rock
Sick of that song about how you love your cock
Sick of that song about your bitchin' bad luck
Sick of that song about all those women you f＊ck
I'm sick of that song


7.Stranger

stranger

I said 'hey brown girl i seen tears through the window of the
junk shop
Downtown'
Selling trinkets from your far off homeland, did the promise
land let you down？

I said 'hey young boy i notice that you ain't afraid to walk
next to me'
'old man, you look like you're dying, is that all you want is a
quarter from
Me？'

Sometimes i feel like a stranger, i feel like a stranger

I'm just another face in a faceless crowd, i'm just another king
in a headless
Crown
I'm so alone. y'know i live here in this city, but this place it
just ain't
Nobody's home

Now how many times do i got to tell you？
There's no such thing as a man made world
Now how many times do i got to tell you？
There's no such thing as a man-tamed girl

Sometimes i feel like stranger, and i feel even stranger

I want to buy some flowers for my mother, if i only had another
chance
You see, i got a happy family, but that's oh so far away
You see, i've got it all here inside me, but i just can't seem
to get it out
But i know with a little imagination we can work this whole
goddamn thing out

Oh don't make me feel so strange, and i feel even stranger


8.Voodoo Doll

I'm hung up on a wire so thin,
Tearing out what's been trapped in
My puppet strings, been pulled too tight
I can see the real me's going to be a bloody fight
I'm your voodoo doll don't you hear my call

Trying so hard to forget, got my bottles, got my pills, got my
tv set
I'm imprisoned by my passion, i;m a slave to my trade
How can you be so possessed by the profit that's been made

I live for love where love's insane, i need to numb to ease the
pain
When the end begins again, needles, needles, i'm sticking them
in
I'm your voodoo doll, heed my call

I'm strung out on pretty, pretty girls, i forgot about the rest
of the world
Pots and pans and good free sex my wife she is the best
If i get bored of her i'll have a family and get into incest

I live for love where love's insane, i need to numb to ease the
pain
When the end begins again, needles, needles, i'm sticking them
in

Think your thoughts, confirm your petty doubts,
The spell is cast in broken glass your time is running out
You're just a prisoner, sweet prisoner, you're just imprisoned
by your own devices
Come on out and bleed some blood and solve this f＊cking crisis

I live for love where love's insane, i need to numb to ease the
pain
When the end begins again, needles, needles, i'm sticking them
in
Voodoo doll, don't you hear my call

The big old world doesn't seem so f＊cked up when i'm f＊cked up
too
Voodoo doll, don't you hear my call


9.Walking

The sun's creeping up and stomping on my dreams
Works all right, party's fine, but sleeping is my scene

The traffic inside your head is tearing you apart
Stick your fingers down my throat and grab on to my heart

And i'm walking a little closer
Gonna rise up, take you away,
Sunday's just another day

Her eyes shine like oceans, her skin is like the earth
Suck the life out of her, you better take her for what she's
worth

No free ride, this bus is going charter
So get up off you ass and try a little harder, try a little
harder

Walkin' a little closer