All the gardens died in the early freeze
No more two-headed roses or candy apple trees
Chuck Taylors hanging from a phone wire
If you wanna play the prophet, man, you got to learn your lines

Compassion, compassion

I ache all Monday morning, I sin all Sunday long
Where the whores hustle and the freaks moan
I got the man scared now, the cops watch me
'Cause I raise the dead for kicks and heal the sick for free

Compassion (x3)

Flowing out of me

Yeah I walk into the sacristy after mass
And I got down on my knees when I found the cash
There was no one at the altar, no one in the pews
Just Sister Barbara Francis playing Pallbearer's Blues

Compassion (x2)

Flowing out of me
Ohh...

We were born shamed
We were born promised
We were born blamed
We were born blind

I'm nobody, nobody you know
Would you wait for me, wait for me?

I'm tired, tired of being reborn
Reborn to weep, reborn to moan
Yeah, oh lord, we on fire
Oh lord, we on fire
Oh lord, ahhhhhhhhh

We were born forgotten
We were born fast
We were born backwards
We were born last

Yeah, we were born rotten
We were born below
We were born hustlers
Let the devil know, let the devil know

Tired, tired of being reborn
Reborn to weep, reborn to moan

Yeah, we were born guilty
We were born cold
We were born saved
This I know (x4)

Tire, tired, tired, tired
I'm tired, tired of being reborn
Reborn to weep, reborn to moan
Yeah, oh lord, we on fire (x2)

Yeah, you sit around talkin' to yourself in indigenous rhyme
?Yeah, you say fear fascists ?????????????????
Yeah you think you're so tough
Hey man, turn your face to the sound

?Yeah, even pacifists  between the dream ???????????????
Yeah see you say you fear voices without sources spilling into devotions
Yeah, you think you're so tough
Turn your face to the sound
Yeah, yeah, turn your face to the sound
Oh yeah, turn your face to the sound, oh yeah

?Gasoline ??????????????? you better listen again
If I think anymore, I'm gonna think myself dead
Ah, you better watch out, son
Turn your face to the sound (x2)
Yeah, yeah, turn your face to the sound
Oh yeah, turn your face to the sound (x2)

Light would turn dark and the evil word flow
The wicked get wicked, the poison garden grow
Make me wanna drink all the blood from the lamb
Goddamn

I'm sick of the millenium, bored by the pain
I waited for the time, but the time never came
Prophets and the pimps, working for the man
Goddamn

Ohhhhh
Blessed are the fools, blessed are the fiends
I'm lonely as a bible, beat like a tambourine
Ain't you gonna let me hold your other hand?
Goddamn

Hail Mary, Hail Mary, what happened to you?
My dreams are just dreams and they never came true
Going back to the womb and back to the van
Goddamn

Praise the lord and shake your ass
Kingdom come is coming fast

In a silent, violent generation
I was born in the shadow of a stadium
This is all I got, this is all I am
God damn

Yeah Hail, Mary Hail, Mary what happened to you?
My dreams are just dreams and they'll never come true
Going back to the womb and back to the van
Goddamn

Praise the lord and shake your ass, kingdom come is coming fast (x2)
We're in God's hands (x10), yeah

Ohhhhh

Instrumental

In harems and haunted rooms
In clouds that married the moon
In scared, sacred fools
In no one and you I love
Ah love?

?In ??????????? mistake
In trigger happy faith
?In spirit in strip malls?
?In nothing, and all I love?

?In echo factories?
?In bliss industries?
In techno prison towns
?In ever and now Ah love?

You tell me I was born to live for you
Honey, I'm bound to die
Whatcha gonna do when I'm gone away
Dreaming of shadows
Girl I leave cause I love the way
The way you say goodbye
Ever since the first time I saw you cry
I'm dreaming of shadows

What can I say as the summer sky fades
In and out of blue
What can I say as the summer sky fades
In and out of blue

You tell me I was born to die for you
Honey I'll survive
What you gonna do when I'm gone away
Dreaming of shadow
?Slowest time wrapped in a blackboard night?
You fell into my arm
Ever since the first time I saw you cry
I'm dreaming of shadows
I'm dreaming of shadows

What can I say as the summer sky fades
In and out of blue
What can I say as the summer sky fades
In and out of blue

Sha la la...

Turn down the air conditioner
And roll down the window low
Drive on down this broken promised, broken promised land

?Yeah, I carried your cross around town?
Well I had a big crush on you
You put a big hex on me
I put a big curse on you

Down in San Antonio
Way out in El Paso
And up in Oak Cliff, yeah
Anywhere you wanna go, oh
Anywhere you wanna go, oh
Anywhere you wanna go, oh

Turn down the air conditioner
And roll the window low
Yeah, whatever you do come up around 2
Come up around for love

?Yeah ??????????????
??????????????????
?Only concrete????????????
?Only rock and roll to the ??????

Down in San Antonio
Way out in El Paso
And up in oak cliff, yeah
Anywhere you wanna go, oh (x4)
Go, oh (x2)

Instrumental

?Any kinda rythem?
Won't feel good
?Any kinda rythem?
Don't feel good

Wah doh, doh baby
Lion of Judah

?Any kinda rythem?
Don't feel good
?Any kinda rythem?
Won't feel good

Wah doh, doh doh doh
Lion of Judah

What are you crying for?
It's a beautiful day
And sadness only brings more sadness
You should be smiling
It's a wonderful day
And it's your heart I'm after

Still my days are lonely
Still my nights are lonesome
Ooooooh, let me be your love (x3)

Why are you sleeping?
Some day we'll grow gray hair
And wonder why we had to grow old
But I'm here
And it's your heart I'm after
And no happiness can unfold

Still my days are lonely
Still my nights are lonesome
Ooooooh, let me be your love (x3)