Incubus - Make Yourself lyrics
- Privilege
- Nowhere Fast
- Consequence
- The Warmth
- When It Comes
- Stellar
- Make Yourself
- Drive
- Clean
- Battlestar Scralatchtica
- I Miss You
- Pardon Me
- Out From Under
Privilege
Isn't it strange that a gift could be an enemy?
Isn't it weird that a privilege could feel like a chore?
Maybe it's me but this line isn't going anywhere,
maybe if we looked hard enough, we could find a backdoor.
(find yourself a backdoor).
I see you in line, dragging your feet
you have my sympathy.
The day you were born, you were born free.
That is your privilege. (chorus)
Isn't it strange that the man standing in front of me
doesn't have a clue why he's waiting, or what he is waiting for?
Maybe it's me, but i'm sick of wasting energy.
Maybe if i look in my heart I could find a backdoor.
(Find yourself a backdoor).
I see you in line, dragging your feet
you have my sympathy.
The day you were born, you were born free.
That is your
That is your privilege.
(Find yourself a backdoor).
I see you in line, dragging your feet
you have my sympathy.
The day you were born, you were born free.
That is your privilege. *2
Nowhere Fast
Will I ever get to, to where it is that I've been going?
Will I ever follow through with what I, with what I have planned.
I guess it's possible that I have been a bit distracted
and the directions for me are a lot less in demand,
in demand.
Will I ever get to where I'm going?
If I do, will I know when I am there?
If the wind blew me in the right direction
would I even care?
I would. (chorus)
I take a look around; it's evident the scene has changed.
And there are times when I feel improved, improved upon the past.
Then there are times when I can't seem to understand at all
and yes it seems as though I'm goin nowhere...
really fucking fast, nowhere fast.
Will I ever get to where I'm going?
If I do, will I know when I am there?
If the wind blew me in the right direction
would I even care?
I would, I would.
Will I ever get to where I'm going?
If I do, will I know when I am there?
If the wind blew me in the right direction
would I even care?
I would, I would, I would, I would, I would.
Consequence
Blink and you miss a beat
Keep one of your eyes open at all times.
Think that you're on the brink?
The shit hasn't even begun to hit the fan.
Consequense you'll see will be
Stranger than a gang of drunken mimes.
Situation has a stink,
Better clear the air before your son becomes a man.
Before your son becomes a man.
Blink, everything's been augmented,
You've been left so far behind.
I think, for sure, next time you should
Wear a pair of eyes in the back of your head.
Consequense you've seen has been
Stranger then sci-fi of any kind.
Situation baffles me.
I guess it's true you too are one of the walking dead.
You better think fast, think fast
'Cause you never know what's coming round the bend.
You better not blink, or breathe.
For consequense is a bigger word than you think.
Its bigger than you or me.
You or me.
You or me.
You better think fast, think fast
'Cause you never know what's coming round the bend.
You better not blink, or breathe
For consequense is a bigger word than you think.
Its bigger than you or me.
You or me
You or me
The Warmth
I'd like to close my eyes, go numb
But there's a cold wind coming from
The top of the highest high-rise today
It's not a breeze 'cause it blows hard
Yes and it wants me to discard
The humanity I know, watch the warmth blow away
So don't let the world bring you down
Not everyone here is that fucked up and cold
Remember why you came and while you're alive
Experience the warmth before you grow old
So do you think I should adhere
To that pressing new frontier
And leave in my wake a trail of fear
Or should I hold my head up high
And throw a wrench in spokes by
Leaving the air behind me clear?
So don't let the world bring you down
Not everyone here is that fucked up and cold
Remember why you came and while you're alive
Experience the warmth before you grow
So don't let the world bring you down
Not everyone here is that fucked up and cold
Remember why you came and while you're alive
Experience the warmth before you grow old
Before you grow old
Where did it go?
Where did it go?
Where did it go?
Where did it go?
When It Comes
It's comin' around again
they're letting it out again, again
It's comin' around again
they're letting it out again, again
It's comin' around again
they're letting it out again, again
It's comin' around again
they're letting it out again
When it comes, it comes abrupt and it feel
it feels like trading brains with an imbecile...
For real
Yes, I feel emphatic about not being static
and not buying philosophies that are sold to me, oh, no
At a steal
Just when you thought it was safe to think, in comes mental piracy
What I'm looking for (for)
cannot be sold to me... (me)
I wish they all would stop trying...
'Cause' what I want ('cause what I want)
and what I need (and what I need)
is and will always be free
It's comin' around again
they're letting it out again, again
It's comin' around again
they're letting it out again
When it comes, it comes unannounced
And it feels like a matador is taunting me with his reddest red cloth
and I am the bull
Yes, I feel emphatic about not being static
and not eating the bullshit that's being fed to me no more...
'cause now I'm full
Just when you thought it was safe to think, in comes mental piracy
What I'm looking for
cannot be sold to me...
I wish they all would stop trying...
'Cause' what I want (what I want)
and what I need (what I need)
is and will always be free
It's comin' around again
they're letting it out again, again...
They're letting it out again, again!!
Stellar
Meet me in outer space
We could spend the night; watch the earth come up
I've grown tired of that place; won't you come with me?
We could start again
How do you do it?
Make me feel like I do
How do you do it?
It's better than I ever knew
Meet me in outer space
I will hold you close, if you're afraid of heights
I need you to see this place
It might be the only way that
I can show you how it feels to be inside of you
How do you do it?
Make me feel like I do
How do you do it?
It's better than I ever knew, yeah
How do you do it?
Make me feel like I do (do)
Oh
You are stellar
You are stellar
How do you do it?
Make me feel like I do
How do you do it?
It's better than I ever knew, oh
How do you do it?
Make me feel like I do
How do you do it?
Make me feel like I do
Yeah
Make Yourself
If I hadn't made me, I would've been made somehow
If I hadn't assembled myself, I'd have fallen apart by now
If I hadn't made me, I'd be more inclined to bow
Powers that be, would have swallowed me up
But that's more than I can allow
Bow yeah, bow yeah
If you let them make you, they'll make you paper mache
At a distance you're strong, until the wind comes
Then you crumble and blow away
If you let them fuck you, there will be no fore-play
Rest assured, they'll screw you complete
Til your ass is blue and gray
You should make amends with you
If only for better health, better health
But if you really want to live
Why not try, and make yourself
Make yourself
Make yourself
If I hadn't made me, I'd have fallen apart by now
I won't let them make me, It's more than I can allow
So when I make me, I won't be paper mache
And if I fuck me, I'll fuck me my own way
Pow! I'll, fuck me in my own way
Pow! I'll, fuck me in my own way
Pow! I'll, fuck me in my own way
Fuck me in my own way
You should make amends with you
If only for better health, better health
But if you really want to live
Why not try, and make yourself
Make yourself
Make yourself
Make yourself
Make yourself
Drive
Sometimes, I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear
And I, I can't help but ask myself how much I'll let the fear
Take the wheel and steer
It's driven me before
And it seems to have a vague
Haunting mass appeal
And lately I'm beginning to find that I
Should be the one behind the wheel
Whatever tomorrow brings I'll be there
With open arms and open eyes, yeah
Whatever tomorrow brings I'll be there
I'll be there
So if I decide to waiver my chance to be one of the hive
Will I choose water over wine
And hold my own and drive?
Oh, oh, oh
It's driven me before
And it seems to be the way
That everyone else gets around
But lately I'm beginning to find that
When I drive myself my light is found
Whatever tomorrow brings I'll be there
With open arms and open eyes, yeah
Whatever tomorrow brings I'll be there
I'll be there
Would you choose water over wine
Hold the wheel and drive?
Whatever tomorrow brings I'll be there
With open arms and open eyes
Whatever tomorrow brings I'll be there
I'll be there
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Tomorrow do, do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Tomorrow
Clean
Today, everything was fine fine fine
Until roundabout quarter to 9
Suddenly found myself in a bind, a bind
Was it something I said
Something I read and manifested that's getting you down
Don't you dare come to bed with that ambiguous look in your eye
I'd sooner sleep by an open fire and wake up fried
Say what you will
Say what you mean
No, you could never offend
Your dirty words come out clean, clean
Tomorrow, what price will I pay
Could I make it all up to you by serving coffee for two in bed, would you then give me
the time of day
I need a map of your head, translated into English so I can learn to not make you frown
Feel better if you vent, put your frustrations into four letter words and let them out on
mine
The most weathered ears in town!
Say what you will
Say what you mean
No, you could never offend
Your dirty words come out clean
Clean (x6)
Say what you will
Say what you mean
No, you could never offend
Your dirty words come out clean
Say what you will
Say what you mean
No, you could never offend
Your dirty words come out clean, clean
Battlestar Scralatchtica
(...) Oh, better, better... so good.
I Miss You
To see you when I wake up
Is a gift I didn't think could be real.
To know that you feel the same as I do
Is a three-fold, utopian dream.
You do something to me that I can't explain.
So would I be out of line if I said
I miss you.
I see your picture,
I smell your skin on the empty pillow, next to mine.
You have only been gone ten days
But already I'm wasting away.
I know I'll see you again
Whether far or soon.
But I need you to know that I care
And, I miss You.
(I miss you)
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Pardon Me
Pardon me while I burst
Pardon me while I burst
A decade ago, I never thought I would be
At twenty-three on the verge of spontaneous combustion
Woe is me
But I guess that it comes with the territory
An ominous landscape of never-ending calamity
I need you to hear, I need you to see
That I have had all I can take
And exploding seems like a definite possibility to me
So pardon me while I burst into flames
I've had enough of the world and its people's mindless games
So pardon me while I burn and rise above the flame
Pardon me, pardon me
They'll never be the same
Not two days ago, I was having a look in a book
And I saw a picture of a guy fried up above his knees
I said, "I can relate,"
'Cause lately I've been thinking of combustication
As a welcomed vacation from
The burdens of the planet Earth
Like gravity, hypocrisy, and the perils of being in 3-D
But thinking so much differently
Pardon me while I burst into flames
I've had enough of the world and its people's mindless games
So pardon me while I burn and rise above the flame
Pardon me, pardon me
They'll never be the same
Never be the same, yeah
Pardon me while I burst into flames
Pardon me, pardon me, pardon me
So pardon me while I burst into flames
I've had enough of the world and its people's mindless games
So pardon me while I burn and rise above the flame
Pardon me, pardon me
They'll never be the same
Pardon me
Never be the same, yeah
Out From Under
To resist is to piss in the wind
Anyone who does will end up smelling
Knowing this, why do I defy?
Because my inner voice is yelling
There is a fist pressing against
anyone who thinks something compelling
Our intuit we're taught to deny
and our soul we're told is for selling.
Get out from under them
resist and multiply!
Get out from under precipice
and see the sky!
Get out from under them
Resist, unlearn, defy!
Get out from under
precipice and see the sky!
To resist is to piss in the wind
Anyone who does will end up smelling
Knowing this, why do I defy?
Because my inner voice is yelling
There is a fist pressing against
anyone who thinks something compelling
Our intuit we're taught to deny
and our soul we're told is for selling.
Get out from under them
resist and multiply!
Get out from under precipice
and see the sky!
Get out from under them
Resist, unlearn, defy!
Get out from under
precipice and see the sky!