Why Do They Call Me MR. Happy?

THE LAND OF THE LIVING

There are those who are silent yet who talk all of the time

 Their faces never really show the way their quiet footsteps go

 And when I greet them my mask is just the same

 I put no trust in the crooked and the lame

 If you want to walk just get up on your feet

 And if you want to talk just open your mouth and speak

 What is the ugly secret that you cherish in you heart?

 The truth you can't stand, that drives you from the land of the living

 The land of the living

 A smile is not a friendship and those heart-felt words are cheap

 They are as shallow as a puddle in the street

 Like the tear drops that you shed for the humble and the weak

 As you float over their bodies to the promised land you seek

 Where there is no one to ask you who you are or what you've done

 You're a face without a name with nothing to explain

 Oh, the dead who walk among us, what they take they don't give back

 See their hollow smiling faces as they ride upon the backs of the living

 The land of the living

 Addition and subtraction is a cold and sober art

 But there is no place for taking stock in matters of the heart

 Either you are genuine or you are not

 You either mean the things you say or cut the ties and drift away

 Inflated with self-righteousness, afloat upon the wind

 But for all your bloated virtues, I wouldn't give a sin

 My allegiance is to those who are alive

 Those who wear it on their sleeve, who do not run and do not hide

 Foolish little monkeys playing in the land of the living the

 Land of the living

THE RIVER

When I speak the words I repeat

 Are lost within this roaring

 And when I call your eyes turn to me

 But what are they exploring ?

 Hidden shapes that pass fast away

 Upon the waters streaming

 And what I see I just cannot say

 There is no one to heed me

 I could say that I am sorry

 But what forgiveness lies before me ?

 In the river

 Those who know me know all too well

 All my sins and failings

 But brother dear, how could I tell ?

 The course that I was sailing

 In the flood, before my eyes

 I see the face that I despise

 In the river

 It's mine, it's mine

 Drifting far away

 I can see you're not very strong

 As the current sweeps you past me

 And I can see your head going down

 As helpless your cries find me

 "Help me! Save me! Lend me a hand!

 Pull me out! Pull me out!

 Save me! Save me! Give me your hand!

 Pull me out! Pull me out!"

 I would save you, give my life

 But it's already sacrificed

 To the river

 It's gone, it's gone

 Drifting far away

 Mothers tell your children the truth

 Don't hide the fate that's waiting

 When you're born you start to drown

 There's no help, no safety

 First a gift of love is given

 Then the winds rise, the sails are riven

 On the river

MACHINE

I don't like to see you cry

 You're alone and I know why

 I can free your life from sin

 Open up and let me in

 Let me, let me, let me, come in

 Machine, I'm a good machine

 Machine, I'm a good machine

 On you I lean, I lean, I lean, I lean, on you I lean

 Machine, I'm a good machine

 Believe in one another

 Depend on one another

 Be good to one another

 I am the other

 I'm a good machine

 Machine, I'm a good machine

 I love it, believe me, you know it's true

 Believe me, I know it, you'll love it too

 I mean it, I see it, I know it's true

 I see it, I know it, you'll love it too

 When we walk and talk about it

 Talk together, I feel fine

 When we walk and talk about it

 Talk together, walk in line

 We walk together, talk about it

 Talk together, I feel fine

 We talk about it, walk together

 Talk together, I walk in line

 I guess I'm alright

 Oh, yeah, alright, alright

 You know I'm ok

 Ok, alright, alright

 Oh, yeah, it's alright

 Alright alright alright

 I'm ok, it's alright, I feel fine, it's o.k, it's alright, in fact it's fine

 I'm a big machine

 Yeah, yeah, yeah

 Machine, I'm a good machine

 Of thee I sing, I sing, of thee I sing

 Machine, I'm a good machine

 Believe in one another

 Depend on one another

Be good to one another

 I am the other

 I'm a good machine

 Yeah, yeah, yeah

 I love it, I made it, it's what I do

 You know it, you've seen it, it looks like you

 Don't you just love it, it's just like you

 I love it, you love it, you know it's true

 When we walk...

 Look at me and watch yourself

 Everyone is someone else

 When you speak the echoes chime

 The voice is yours but the words are mine

 All mine, all mine, all mine, all mine

 Machine

MADNESS AND DEATH

There are no words that can describe

 The joy I feel just in being alive

 And when I look inside of me I see

 Love, faith and fidelity

 Within the dark night of the soul

 There lies a hidden, warming glow

 And if that glow were blue and white

 Could you sleep dreamless through the night?

 But if that glow were red and black

 Would you want your money back?

 It's hard enough, hard enough

 Just to survive, just to be alive

 Madness, madness, madness and death

 Respect, humility, respect

 Madness and death

 All you see and all you know

 Hangs from a stick before your nose

 The bread of life, all that you wish

 Is lying at your fingertips

 If all you see is what you want

 And what you see is what you get

 Then cease your searching, low and high

 Listen to my whispered lies

 Ask for nothing

 Close your eyes

 It's hard enough, hard enough

 Just to survive, just to be alive

 SURPRISE!

 Madness, madness, madness and death

 Respect, humility, respect

 Madness and death

KILL EVERYONE NOW

Here it is lonely

 Here where I lie

 Here it is empty

 Here in my heart

 Here there is no one

 Here where I am

 Here it is empty

 Here in my heart

 Here where I lie

 Grab the handle

 Cock the hammer

 Pull the trigger

 Change the channel

 Grab the handle

 Cock the hammer

 Change the channel

 Pull the trigger

 Kill everyone now

 Please, kill everyone now

 Kill everyone now

 I guess they'll be breast-feeding in space soon

 Remember, a stitch in time saves precious bodily fluids

 There is no future without - Plastic! Plastic! Plastic!

 Chairman mao was a great cook, he fed all of china

 One billion

 Two billion

 Three billion

 Four billion

 Five billion

 Six billion

 Served, served, served, served

 Would you like fries with that, ma'am?

 How 'bout a sundae?

 Here it is lonely...

 Kill everyone now

I NEED YOU

I want to come home now 

I've been away too long 

I want to come back 

I'm too sick at heart and scared to go 

I can't pretend any more 

To you i can't pretend 

I need a friend 

I can't be alone any more 

I need you I need you 

Now cut off, apart, isolated 

In my pride, in my hatred 

My face is sad and afraid 

Black in the sun and white in the shade 

The night reflects it 

In every window i pass 

In evrey pane of glass 

I can't last, like this, i can't last 

I need you I need you now 

All those i pushed away 

They walk with me, live in me now 

And the silence of what i never said 

Screams in my ears and pounds in my head 

But when i look at you 

I know i could never lie 

You see all of me when i look into your eyes 

I need you I need you now I 

Woke up dreaming that i was dead 

Beside you on the bed 

I smoothed my hand across your hip 

And lingered with my fingertips 

From beyond, from far away 

Blessing where the shadows lay 

I whispered what i could not say 

How you took my breath away 

There is no world and i am a shadow 

You are no woman and i am noman 

There are only eyes and arms and hands 

The eyes that cut me out 

The arms that hold me round T 

he hands that reach out to pick me up 

And lift me from the ground 

Go ahead, raise me from mud 

Then in the light burn me down 

And whether i live forever, heaven sent 

Or am doomed to die, earth bound, it doesn't matter 

You may let the years drip from my face 

As the world turns round and round 

But as long as i can breath 

Can lift my voice and make a sound 

In everything i am, in everything i do 

A am your servant, i need you 

I need you I need you now 

SLOWLY MELTING

Our floating houses, on molten granite

 Our liquid planet

 It is a home for us all

 I'm firmly planted, my earth is solid

 I feel a presence

But there is nothing at all

 I wanted something, down here is something

 It's really something

 But there's nothing at all

 Slowly melting

 We're Slowly melting

 Seed to tree, earth to birth

 We are surrounded

 We flourish in the decay

 We mark the seconds and count the hours

 Cross off the days

 Of what is slipping away

 We start out loudly and go in circles

 All things converging

 We find an end to each day

 Slowly melting

 We're Slowly melting

 The sun is burning, the earth is turning

 The earth is dying

 It's slowly melting away

 We start to finish, the fuel exhausted

 And once I had it

 But now it's passing away

 If there is nothing, what is that presence?

 I'm slowly melting

 But what is slipping away?

 Slowly melting

 We're Slowly melting

LULLABY

Let the bells ring out

 Let the bells ring out

 The hero is dead and the children are in bed

 Let the bells ring out

 All around, people in the town, they be dancing in the streets

 Young and old, the lame and the whole, they be dancing in the streets

 Everybody be moving, everybody get high

 Everybody be moving, everybody get high

CATS, SEX AND NAZIS

I spy with my lizard eye and everything I see is a lie

 You know when I told you I would never lie well, that was the first time

 Take all the pleasures that you seek

 May my heart be full and still be bleak

 Cold and alone, hard as stone

 Like a fuck when there is no one home

 Beauty and fame are meaningless beside

 The ability to kill with a look of your eye

 But I defy you to see through me

 Nothing is all that you will see

 Cats, sex and Nazis

 That's why they call me Mr. Happy

 Are you a believer? - well I'm a deceiver

 But I lied when I said that honesty was dead

 I really believe all the things I say to you

 It's just that none of them are true

 Zombies eat human flesh

 Which part do you like the best?

 I like the heart the best

 Zombies eat human flesh

 If I haven't done all that I could do to hurt you

 It's because my love is true

 Or because my feelings are a lie

 And we live just to suffer and die

 I'll put a guarantee on all the beauty that I see

 The first, the best, the first of the best

 All those whose souls are the ugliest

 Hopelessly lost in their bitterness

 Love me and you shall be free to join my eternal captivity

 Just don't ask me if I believe all this bull

 My head is empty but my bowels are full

 I don't really think this way

 I did yesterday, but not today

 Cats, sex and Nazis...

 Zombies eat human flesh...

 I spy with my lizard eye and everything I say is a lie

 And what about you? What will you do?

 When the sound of my voice touches you

 When you hear me say, "This is true."

 And the sounds of my voice touches you

 This is true, this is true,

 The sounds of my voice touches you

 This is true, this is true!

 This is true, this is true!

 Cats, sex and Nazis that's why they call me Mr. Happy

 Why do I keep saying this over and over all the time?

 Because it rhymes, moron

 What do you want to hear now, a love song?

 Are you in love?

 Is it politically correct?

 Or are you just another fucking reject?

 Are you getting all of this?

 Or is there something you have missed?

 Zombies eat human flesh...

 Do you know why they call me Mr. Happy?

 Because I'm so fucking

 Smart