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Lyrics - Forever Since Breakfast

Special thanks to Rick Rosencrans for the transcribing

[brackets indicate lyrics on record but not on lyric sheet]

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LAND OF DANGER

Oh, baby -- this is the land of danger (each and every home a battlefield)
Oh, baby -- this is the throat of a stranger (searching for the blood
that's now congealed)
Oh, baby -- this is a thick muddy mystery (tearing at the pages of our past)
Oh, baby -- this is the straight path of history (human motion -- land and
ocean)

Try to run, try to hide
It's been a long, long, long, long long, long [long] time
[It's been a long, long, long, long, long time]

Oh, baby -- this is the fresh flesh of anger (calling out for action in the
streets)
Oh, baby -- this is a slow running canker (opened up by victories and defeats)
Oh, baby -- this is the night of the dancer (dancing on a time bomb in my head)
Oh, baby -- this is the ultimate cancer (human notion -- fear in motion)

Try to run, try to hide
It's been a long, long, long, long long, long [long] time
[It's been a long, long, long, long, long time]

[Don't tell me everything's gonna work out anymore
Don't tell me everything's gonna work out anymore]

[Of danger, of danger, of danger, of danger]

[Don't tell me everything's gonna work out]

LET'S RIDE

She looked up in the noonday sun, said, "Fighter jets are so unreal"
But we've got a job to be done, come on

When I was just a boy, I saw the kings of the big gold cities
But as they died I dried up inside -- let's ride

Let's ride on airplanes and buses
Let's ride to the end of the line
Let's ride on fast motorcycles
Let's leave the routines of living behind

We pulled into a tick-tock town and all the people looked so happy
Another trip down the elephant slide -- let's ride

Let's ride on subways and steeples
Let's ride to the end of the line
Let's ride on prescriptions and bottles
Let's leave the routines of living behind

[Let's ride on airplanes and buses
Let's ride to the end of the line
Let's ride on fast motorcycles
Let's leave the routines of living behind]

LIKE I DO

In my life I've seen people rushing painfully
Trying to be happy -- but they're never happy
Pushing to clear a path, hurting without knowing
Like I do, like I do, like I do, like I do

Everybody wanting something, with no regard for anybody at all

Years go by and mistakes are repeated over
Until they're corrected -- but they're never corrected
In my life I've seen people rushing painfully
Like I do, like I do, like I do, like I do

[Everybody wanting something, with no regard for anybody at all]

SOMETIMES I CRY

Sometimes I cry because you don't love me no more
And sometimes I'm dyin' -- I'd be lyin' if I tried to ignore
The hurtin' inside that started when you walked away
And each night reminds me -- it's behind me, but I need you today
[I need you today]

Every moment speaks hovering silently in the air
The wind hammers like a drum
Every highway leads into a darker sea of despair
Turn you back to where I come from

[Sometimes I cry because you don't love me no more
And sometimes I'm dyin' -- I'd be lyin' if I tried to ignore
The hurtin' inside that started when you walked away
And each night reminds me -- it's behind me, but I need you today
I need you today]

Everything she said twisting around and turning inside my head
More confused than yesterday
When I go to bed the trucks on the freeway sing me a song
This rock just ain't a safe place to hide under anymore
[Ain't a safe place to hide anymore]

[Sometimes I cry because you don't love me no more
And sometimes I'm dyin' -- I'd be lyin' if I tried to ignore
The hurtin' inside that started when you walked away
And each night reminds me -- it's behind me, but I need you today
I need you today]

SHE WANTS TO KNOW

She wants to know which way the wind blows
And which way to go, I'm never gonna tell her
And she wants to know why I'm been hiding myself out on the road alone
Where no one knows my number

She wants to know why I can't take it slow
And why I can't settle down, but I'm never gonna burn out
She wants to know why I've been lyin' to myself -- playing a loser's game
Fightin' a losin' battle

Far away, that's where I'll be
Shine a light down hard on me

[She wants to know which way the wind blows
And which way to go, I'm never gonna tell her
And she wants to know why I'm been hiding myself out on the road alone
Where no one knows my number]

[Far away, that's where I'll be
Shine a light down hard on me
Down hard on me
Down hard on me]

FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH

In the mirror's care now -- comb your silken hair now
You wanna stay young, you wanna stay young
Buy you pretty lace, yeah -- and makeup for your face, yeah
You wanna stay young, you wanna stay young

I hope you know that all of these girls are a lot like you
Cry indigo tears and fall on your knees to the fountain of youth

In her social grace now -- gaining so much praise now
You wanna stay young [you wanna stay young]
Pills and beauty creams, yeah -- protect a little girl's dreams, yeah
You wanna stay young [you wanna stay young]

I hope you know that all of these girls are a lot like you
Cry indigo tears and fall on your knees to the fountain of youth

[I hope you know that all of these girls are a lot like you
Cry indigo tears and fall on your knees to the fountain of youth]

THE OTHER PLACE

Change has got to come and I'll be the first to admit it
When pushin' comes to shovin' I'll be the first one to get it

Don't you understand anything?
You won't like it at all when the fire that burns in the predator's eyes
Take[s] another disguise with a different face
And it all gets down to the people in our town [they] don't wanna be found
in the other place

Who am I to argue the words of our prominent leaders?
A little boy stepping in front of his mom when his dad starts to beat her

Don't you understand anything?
You won't like it at all when the fire that burns in the predator's eyes
Take[s] another disguise with a different face
And it all gets down to the people in our town [they] don't wanna be found
in the other place

Changing is an awful task with rules laid out for you
But things are different now and a new world is dying to push through

[Change has got to come and I'll be the first to admit it
When pushin' comes to shovin' I'll be the first one to get it]

[Don't you understand anything?
You won't like it at all when the fire that burns in the predator's eyes
Take[s] another disguise with a different face
And it all gets down to the people in our town [they] don't wanna be found
in the other place
And it all gets down to the people in our town [they] don't wanna be found
in the other place]