A Perfect Circle - Emotive lyrics
- Annihilation
- Imagine
- Peace Love And Understanding
- What's Going On
- Passive
- Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie
- People Are People
- Freedom Of Choice
- Let's Have A War
- Counting Bodies Like Sheep To The Rhythm Of The War Drums
- When The Levee Breaks
- Fiddle And The Drum
Annihilation
From dehumanization
To arms production
For the benefit of the nation
Or its destruction
Power, power
The law of the land
Those living for death
Will die by their own hand
Life's no ordeal
If you come to terms
Reject the system
Dictating the norms
From dehumanization
To arms production
To hasten the nation
Towards its destruction
Power, power
The law of the land
Those living for death
Will die by their own hand
Life's no ordeal
If you come to terms
Reject the system
Dictating the norms
From dehumanization
To arms production
To hasten the nation
Towards its destruction
Power, power
The law of the land
Those living for death
Will die by their own hand
Life's no ordeal
If you come to terms
Reject the system
Dictating the norms
From dehumanization
To arms production
To hasten this nation
Towards its destruction
It's your choice
Your choice
Your choice
Your choice
Peace or annihilation
Imagine
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
Peace Love And Understanding
As I walk on
Through this wicked world
Searching for light in the darkness of insanity
I ask myself
Is all hope lost
Is there only pain and hatred and misery
And each time I feel like this inside
There's one thing I wanna know
What's so funny 'bout peace love and understanding
What's so funny 'bout peace love and understanding
As I walk on
Through troubled times
My spirit gets so down-hearted sometimes
So where are the strong
And who are the trusted
And where is the harmony, sweet harmony
'Cause each time I feel it slipping away
Just makes me wanna cry
What's so funny 'bout peace love and understanding
What's so funny 'bout peace love and understanding
So where are the strong
And who are the trusted
And where is the harmony, sweet harmony
'Cause each time I feel it slipping away
Just makes me wanna cry
What's so funny 'bout peace love and understanding
What's so funny 'bout peace love and understanding
What's so funny 'bout peace love and understanding
What's Going On
Mother, mother
There's too many of you crying
Brother, brother
Far too many of you dying
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some love in here today
Father, father
We don't need to escalate
War is not the answer
Only love can conquer hate
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some love in here today
Picket lines and picket signs
Don't punish me with brutality
Talk to me, so you can see
What's going on
What's going on
What's going on
What's going on
Father, father
Everybody thinks we're wrong
But who are they to judge us
Simply 'cause our hair is long
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some understanding here today
Picket lines and picket signs
Don't punish me with brutality
Talk to me, so you can see
What's going on
What's going on
What's going on
What's going on
Passive
"Dead as dead can be", my doctor tells me
But I just can't believe him, ever the optimistic one
I'm sure of your ability to become my perfect enemy
Wake up and face me,
don't play dead 'cause maybe
Someday I will walk away and say,
"You disappoint me",
Maybe you're better off this way
Leaning over you here, cold and catatonic
I catch a brief reflection of what you could and might have been
It's your right and your ability
To become my perfect enemy
Wake up (we'll catch you) and face me (come one now),
Don't play dead (don't play dead) 'cause maybe ('cause maybe)
Someday I will (someday I'll) walk away and say,
"You disappoint me",
Maybe you're better off this way
Maybe you're better off this way
Maybe you're better off this way
Maybe you're better off this way
You're better of this... you're better off this...
Maybe you're better off!
Wake up (why can't you?) and face me (come on now),
Don't play dead (don't play dead) 'cause maybe ('cause maybe)
Someday I will (someday I'll) walk away and say,
"You fucking disappoint me!"
Maybe you're better off this way
Go ahead and play dead
I know that you can hear this
Go ahead and play dead
Why can't you turn and face me?
Why can't you turn and face me?
Why can't you turn and face me?
Why can't you turn and face me?
You fucking disappoint me!
Passive aggressive bullshit
Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme
I need more, I need more
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimmie
Don't ask what for, don't ask what for
Sitting here like a loaded gun
I'm waiting to go off
I've got nothing to do but
Shoot my mouth off
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme
I need more, I need more
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme
Don't ask what for, don't ask what for
I know the worlds got problems
I've got problems of my own
They ain't the kind that can be solved with an
Atom bomb
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme
I need more, I need more
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme
Don't ask what for, don't ask what for
You know I gotta go out
Get something for my head
If I keep on doing this
I'm gonna end up dead
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme
I need more, I need more
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme
Don't ask what for, don't ask what for
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme
I need more, I need more
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme
Don't ask what for, dont ask what for
People Are People
We're different colours
And different creeds
And different people
Have different needs
It's obvious you hate me
Though I've done nothing wrong
I've never even met you
What could I have done
La la la la la la, la la la la la la
People are people, so why should it be
You and I shouldn't get along
People are people, so why should it be
You should hate me
People are people, so why should it be
You and I shouldn't get along
People are people, so why should it be
You should hate me
You're punching, kicking
And you're shouting at me
I'm relying on your common decency
So far it hasn't surfaced
But I'm sure it exists
Just takes a while to travel
From your head to your fist
I can't understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand
La la la...
People are people, so why should it be
You and I shouldn't get along
People are people, so why should it be
You should hate me
People are people, so why should it be
You and I shouldn't get along
People are people, so why should it be
You should hate me
I can't understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand
I can't understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand
I can't understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand
Freedom Of Choice
We're victims of sedition on an open sea
No one ever said life was free
Sink, swim, go down with the ship
Just use your freedom of choice
I'll say it again: In the land of the free
Use your freedom of choice, freedom of choice
In ancient Rome, there was a pawn
Who followed along, and watched it fall
He cast a stone, he felt secure
He felt that he would never be heard
Freedom of choice
Is what you've got
Freedom of choice
Given it a voice, you don't want it
Seems to be the rule of thumb
But don't be tricked by what you see
You've got two ways to go
I'll say it again: In the land of the free
Use your freedom of choice, freedom of choice
Freedom of choice
Is what you've got
Freedom of choice
In ancient Rome, there was a pawn
Who followed along, and watched it fall
He cast a stone, he felt secure
He felt that his voice would never be heard
Freedom of choice
Is what you've got
Freedom from choice
Is what you want
Freedom of choice
Is what you've got
Freedom from choice
Is what you want
Freedom from choice
Is what you want
Freedom from choice
Let's Have A War
There's so many of us, there's so many of us
There's so many
There's so many of us, there's so many of us
There's so many
There's so many of us, there's so many of us
There's so many
There's so many of us, there's so many of us
There's so many
There's so many of us, there's so many of us
There's so many
There's so many of us, there's so many of us
There's so many
Let's have a war
So you can go and die
Let's have a war
We could all use the money
Let's have a war
We need the space
Let's have a war
Clean out this place
It already started in the city
Suburbia will be just as easy
There's so many of us, there's so many of us
There's so many
There's so many of us, there's so many of us
There's so many
There's so many of us, there's so many of us
There's so many
There's so many of us, there's so many of us
There's so many
Let's have a war
Jack up the Dow Jones
Let's have a war
We can start in New Jersey
Let's have a war
Blame it on the middle class
Let's have a war
We're like rats in a cage
It already started in the city
Suburbia will be just as easy
There's so many of us, there's so many of us
There's so many
There's so many of us, there's so many of us
There's so many
There's so many of us, there's so many of us
There's so many
There's so many of us, there's so many of us
There's so many
Let's have a war
Sell the rights to the networks
Let's have a war
Let our wallets get fat like last time
Let's have a war
Give guns to the queers
Let's have a war
The enemy's within
It already started in the city
Suburbia will be just as easy
It already started in the city
(There's so many of us, there's so many of us, there's so many)
Suburbia will be just as easy
(There's so many of us, there's so many of us, there's so many)
It already started in the city
Suburbia will be just as easy
(There's so many of us, there's so many of us, there's so many)
It already started in the city
Suburbia will be just as easy
It already started in the city
Suburbia will be just as easy
Counting Bodies Like Sheep To The Rhythm Of The War Drums
Don't fret precious, I'm here
Step away from the window
And go back to sleep
Safe from pain, and truth, and choice
And other poison devils
See they don't give a fuck about you
Like I do
Countin' bodies like sheep
Countin' bodies like sheep
Countin' bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums
Countin' bodies like sheep
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Countin' bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Countin' bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Countin' bodies like sheep
Go back to sl...
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Countin' bodies like sheep
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Countin' bodies like sheep
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Countin' bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Countin' bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Countin' bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums
Just sleep, just sleep, just sleep
Go back to sleep
I'll be the one to protect you from
Your enemies and all your demons
I'll be the one to protect you from
A will to survive, and a voice of reason
I'll be the one to protect you from
Your enemies and your choices, son
One in the same I must isolate you
Isolate and save you from yourself
When The Levee Breaks
If it keeps on raining (If it keeps on raining)
If it keeps on raining (If it keeps on raining)
The levee's goin' to break (The levee's goin' to break)
The levee's goin' to break (The levee's goin' to break)
If it keeps on raining (If it keeps on raining)
The levee's goin' to break (The levee's goin' to break)
When the levee breaks
When the levee breaks
When the levee breaks
You'll have no place to stay
We don't matter (We don't matter)
We don't matter (We don't matter)
Taught me how to weep and moan (Taught me how to weep and moan)
Taught me how to weep and moan (Taught me how to weep and moan)
We don't matter (We don't matter)
Taught me how to weep and moan (Taught me how to weep and moan)
When the levee breaks
When the levee breaks
When the levee breaks
You'll have no place to stay
(???)
When the levee breaks
When the levee breaks
When the levee breaks
You'll have no place to stay
Fiddle And The Drum
And so once again
My dear Johnny, my dear friend
And so once again you are fighting us all
And when I ask you why
You raise your sticks and cry and I fall
Oh my friend how did you come
To trade the fiddle for the drum
You say I have turned
Like the enemies you've earned
But I can remember all the good things you are
And so I ask you please
Can I help you find the peace and the star
Oh my friend, what time is this
To trade the handshake for the fist
And so once again
Oh America, my friend
And so once again you are fighting us all
And when we ask you why
You raise your sticks and cry and we fall
Oh my friend, how did you come
To trade the fiddle for the drum
You say we have turned
Like the enemies you earned
But we can remember all the good things you are
And so we ask you please
Can we help you find the peace and the star
Oh my friend, we have all come
To fear the beating of your drum