Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky,
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes, all the same.
There’s a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
They’re all made out of ticky-tacky,
And they all look just the same.

And the people in houses
who went to the university,
where they put in boxes,
And they all came out the same.
There’s doctors and lawyers
And business executives,
They’re all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same.

And they all play on the golf-course,
And drink their Martini dry,
And they all have pretty children,
And the children go to school.
And the children go to summer camp
And then to the university,
They all get put in boxes
They all come out the same.

And the boys go into business,
And marry, raise a family,
And they all get put in boxes,
Little boxes, all the same.
Yeah a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they’re all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same.

With your eyes
Glazed and half-smiled
Explain to me the details of your God-given right

You point your finger
In my face but
You can’t remember what you did last night

It’s all fun and games ’til
You try to justify,
It’s all fun and done ’til
You question the choices in your life

Join all the millions
Of victims who prescribe to
this mediocre life

And all these years
Have been lost looking for something
that you’ll never find

It’s all fun and games ’til
You try to justify,
It’s all fun and done ’til
You question the choices in your life

Break through the undertow, your hands I can’t seem to find,
pollution burns my tongue, cough words I can’t speak so I

stop my struggling, then I float to the surface,
fill my lungs with air, then let it out

I give it all, this is the reason why I sing,
So give it all, ’cause it’s these reasons that belong to me

Rock bottoms where we live, and still we dig these trenches,
to bury ourselves in them, backs breaking under tension

For far too long these voices, muffled by distances,
it’s time to come to our senses, up from the dirt

We give it all, this is the reason why I sing,
So give it all, it’s these reasons that belong to me

Breathe, the air we give, the life we live, our pulses racing distances,
so wet my tongue, break into song, through seas of competition,

So please believe your eyes, a sacrifice,
is not what we had in our minds,
I’m coming home tonight, home tonight

We give it all, this is the reason why I sing,
So give it all, it’s these reasons that belong to me

Today I offer all myself to this I’m living for my dying wish,
I give it all, now there’s a reason, there’s a reason, to give it all

It was the perfect night
then you had to go and ruin it with a kiss now
I’m trapped inside here
the innocence we held once so carelessly has been suffocated in this breathless moment

[Chorus]
Believe in me and I will believe in you
You’re asking of me everything
so I’ll give it all to you

With arms raised to the stars begging them to listen
With legs littered with scars cut from these olive branches
Now, point of return now crossed and our hands left shaking
tonight we give in to tempation

[Chorus]
Believe in me and I will believe in you
You’re asking of me everything
so I’ll give it all to you

Someone stop my mind from screaming
It’s so loud I can her myself think
Life, Death, Religion, Survival
It makes no sense
Don’t try to tell me that I’m a coincidence

[Chorus x2]
Believe in me and I will believe in you
You’re asking of me everything
so I’ll give it all to you

If I never have you, then I can never lose
Now, everything here is a lie
Where is the truth?
Where is the fuckin truth?

Getting trampled under boots of progess
Ignore the pleading of the nameless faces
Now with our backs against the wall
How long til we fall?
Do away with all the underprivileged
their demographic doesn’t fit your image
Turn your blind eye when duty calls
How long til we fall?
(In With The New)
This is something that you can’t ignore
A simple thing worth fighting for
cuz now they’re tearing down our doors
So she screams out the window,
“I’ve had it up to here”
So sick and tired of wondering
where I’ll be next year…
Caring less about the homeless millions
All the petty problems that go with them
Reap the profit that reaps thier lives and
Tell me that it’s fine
Throw them out and call it relocation
Lower-income-housing quick solution
A Generation lost
Now in the whirlwind of my life
Is where you presently reside
Can I pretend you don’t exist
Maybe just for ten more minutes?
My hearts been broken into two
and rusted from years of disuse
So will you place upon it your hands
Will you help it beat again?
It seems the whole world’s turned on me
(Bound and gagged) in the land of the free
Let’s talk this over, this game is over
In with the new, out with the old
Hearts of the world have grown so cold
Let’s talk this over, this game is over

There’s something happening here
What it is ain’t exactly clear
There’s a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware

I think it’s time we stop, listen, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down

There’s battle lines being drawn
Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind

I think it’s time we stop, listen, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down

What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side

Now you better stop, listen, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you’re always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away

Now you better stop, listen, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
Now stop, children, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going…
You better stop, now, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down

On dirt like stone
The life paste, the bones of men
That sought to overthrow
Or all that remains

Oh, what they stole
Was innocence, the slate once clean
Has gone as black as coal
Time and time again

Take a look around
The tide is turning upside down
The image of the world
Reflects inside the child’s eye
This world

No self-control
No sense of time
No bleeding hearts, no long good-byes
We grow colder every day

But is it all a show?
A game we play
Society vice queens, so fucking bored
And so cliche

Take a look around
The tide is turning upside down
The image of the world
Reflects inside the child’s eye
We eat our own to stay alive

Slow and steady now
Slow and steady now
Slow and steady now
Slow and steady now
Slow and steady now, it’s time

Take a look around
The tide is turning upside down
The image of the world
Reflects inside the child’s eye
We eat our own to stay alive

Around, take a look around
Watch this world reflect
Inside a child’s eye
We eat our own to stay alive

Breathe deep and easy, swallow this pride.
Stare at my shaking hands through blown dry, blood shot eyes.
Clock strip the hours, I count the miles.
Will you be there waiting, awake until sunrise?

I have traveled in darkness, for what seems like days,
I, come from the same house, collapsed under this wing.
I know that’s your sorrow, but I know mine,
so say you’ll stay and dance with me tonight.

In the glow of twilight, our world is finally calm.
I felt it complete me, when the stars give way to dawn.
A language universal, but I speak not his tongue.
Is this a night that spins forever, or a dawn that never comes?

I have traveled in darkness, for what seems like days,
I, come from the same house, collapsed under this wing.
I know that’s your sorrow, but I know mine,
so say you’ll stay and dance with me tonight.

Tomorrow we might wake in solitude and silence?
I will give you everything if you would only have me!
Tomorrow we will sweat and toil,
Our hands will quiver caked with soil,
Tomorrow we’ll give it one last chance,
But tonight we dance,
But tonight we dance!

And for this, I travel in darkness, for what seems like days,
I, come from the same house, collapsed under this wing.
I know that’s your sorrow, but I know mine,
Just say you’ll stay and dance with me tonight

Anyway you want it
that’s the way you need it
Anyway you want it

She loves to dance
she loves to sing
she does everything
she loves to move
she loves to groove
she loves a lot of things

All night
all night
oh everynight
so hold tight
hold tight
oh baby hold tight

she said
anyway you want it
that’s the way you need it
anyway you want it
anyway you want it
that’s the way you need it
anyway you want it

i was alone i never knew
what good love could do
then we touched
and we sang
about the lovely things

All night
all night
oh everynight
so hold tight
hold tight
oh baby hold tight

she said
anyway you want it
that’s the way you need it
anyway you want it
anyway you want it
that’s the way you need it
anyway you want it

wait,
I’m not listening to you now
I wasn’t listening to you then
I know that nothing will be the same again
there’s only so much I can handle
only so much I can take
before my knees start to buckle
and my arms start to shake
have we been here before?
will we be here again?
I don’t know how much of me you expect standing here right now
I beg for you to let go
I dread the day you finally do
I fight for your attention
too little too late
or too much too soon
and how will this plague the time
we share from here on out
and how long will this taint
all these words spilling from my mouth
have we been here before?
will we be here again?
I don’t know how much more of me
you expect standing here right now
have we been here before?
will we be here again?
I don’t know how much more of me you expect