Lyrics - Sandbox
This album was release by Halo 1 in 1987.
Recorded in the summer in Steve Wilbur's 8 Track Garage in Dayton Ohio.
The items in ( ) are where MexManHT and I have conflicts. Can anyone help out?
1. Lips of Steel
(R. Pollard, Mitchell, J. Pollard, Fennel)
It's unreal you to tell me what I'm feeling
Strong emotions bouncing off the ceiling
Show me how far you can go
As close as I can get
As much as I will know
Stretch the truth and
Tell me I'm not dreaming
Trust your leaders
Superman with lips of steel
Show me how far you an go
We've got to get real close, now
Let's go see the show
We are on our way
We believe what you say
Ladies and Gentleman, Back by popular demand
for your entertainment and spirtual enlightment
Electric Jam Soul Aquariam
2. A Visit to the Creep Dr.
(R. Pollard)
The yellow moon looks down now
Lights the scene for the night ahead
Surround the chairs in a circle
And I just can't sit down
{chorus}
But the freak stares on
Puts on his glasses and he smokes it down
That don't matter for much now/dear/downhere
He says, "I'm gonna put your head on
and don't you screw it up."
The message was delivered
The mothers wept uncontrollably
Mad children went to the warehouse
Heavens trumpets blow
{chorus}
{chorus}
3. Everyday
(R. Pollard)
Clouds open dust and waves rise up to
obscure God's very blue sky.
People skating ginger(ly), only endure
Lines of shopping mothers grabbing the kids
Pushing upto the front
Rows of pretty little house and lawns
I want you to have a beautiful one.
Moving in circles out on the freeway
Coming and going to everyday, everyday
Moving in circles out on the freeway
Coming and going to everyday, everyday
Got a brand new car with hideaway lights
and a blue racing stripe
Costs a little extra but its worth it to me
when money burns through the exhaust pipe
I'd like to take you on a quick spin sometime
to show you what its got
I can't believe you chose to work in the line
I'm so glad that I'm not
Everyday and everyway
Everyday and everyway
Everyday and everyway
4. Barricade
(R. Pollard)
Six guns alone and a
emotional avalanche
Six bottles of rum and a
kilo full of character change
I don't have to come out on my own
Barricade
{chorus}
I walked into the (line of fire/blinding light) and took it
on chin again and I can't find my medication
or my occupation
But please don't show me the things should see (anymore)
In the finger paint I've been dabbling
with the 60 vessels of the ocean
In the critical line (cryptical lie) of the fashion world I become
the agressor of no one.
Takes a stronger wind to blow out this
candle than the other fires I've made
And the lion (lying) mouth won't blow my handle
knocking down my
barricade
blowing up my
barricade
Little child Little child
won't you dance with me
Little child Little child
Little child
won't you dance with me
{chorus}
Go away and leave alone to
work the crossroad
A nowhere (Runaway) train, I'm leaving (I need)
to find a long lost brother (railroad Bound and gagged)
Moutain day. I leave today to (I'm feeling the need)
think it over. Lost my home
don't find my home
Let me walk
I can stand on my own two feet
I don't care what you do
I don't like you
Be a clown Be a man
Be all you can be
And you don't have to
stay.
It's all over now.
5. Get to know the Ropes - The Rope
(R. Pollard)
{chorus}
I'm positive Roy
that your not the one
To look behind pillars of marble
A time to be killing (puny) and cold
I know that when we have to contend
I know you'll try to open your head
And then they'll start looking around your mind
and you won't be feeling so numb (young) this time
and one grey wintertime
the ropes fall around you
A mountain of detail that I never talked about
minor but nothing no way
{chorus}
and one grey winter (time) and
one grey winter
It keeps you from walking away with the crowd
It keeps you from walking away with the crowd
and one grey winter
It keeps you from walking away with the crowd
and one grey winter
It keeps you from walking away with the crowd
Ladies and Gentleman, Back by popular demand
for your entainment and spirtual enlightment
Electric jam soul aquariam
6. Can't Stop
(J. Pollard, R. Pollard)
{chorus}
I know I'm wasting time
Now and then I just want to run away
Please believe I (don't) mean what I say
But (cause) you know I just can't stop anyway
Gotta know one thing (babe)
Gotta listen to me
Just a little more room now
You gotta set me free
Make up your mind baby
Straight from the line baby
You never really had to look through me
You shouldn't really be that way
When we touch with our tenderness I brought (don't want) too
much and happiness blows away
{chorus}
I can't stop anyway
just not anyway
I can't stop it anyway
I can't stop it anyway
I can't stop it anyway
7. The Drinking Jim Crow
(R. Pollard)
Ahhhhhhh, I have emotional scars
Ahhhhhhh, I don't understand what your saying
Ahhhhhhh, It's an accomplice of mine (Drowning in the commerce of life)
Feeeeling somethings going to blow
and watch where you go
I'm the drinking Jim Crow
Ahhhhhhh, Did you know it a traditional game
Ahhhhhhh, and we market it as a (and got out every morning, I feel like)
nasty little nation
drinking from the fire in the well
Extracting all the venom from the snake
Be careful you know
I'm the drinking Jim Crow
May the best things be stolen (and the blessings bestowed)
and the costumes be clothes (we froze)
and the night an oasis (the master of races)
and the haunted faces (makes fun pointed faces)
and the killing of time
I'm the drinking Jim Crow
better look where you go
better look where you go
8. Trap Soul Door
(R. Pollard, Mitchell)
I built you up with everything I got
for a little more time to analyze the crime (thought)
and I don't feel hurt now that you don't write
because I'm used to this shit and you tell
me its alright.
And your so right and I'm so wrong
but we could be lonely before too long
And I don't care if the whole things going wrong
because we will be lonely before too long
Just one spark makes a hell of a fire
I'm still wrong but your still a liar
9. Common Rebels
(R. Pollard, Fennel, J. Pollard, Mitchell)
Pab Picasso's knuckle red -oh
Count the queso, liquid turn red -oh
I'm just, I never could be
so long
Commom rebels never compete - or' long
Oh lord, Top USA Show it. (time wasted, never once free - show it)
Common rebels never can sleep
Find it. (fight it)
Common rebels
10. Long Distance Man
(R. Pollard)
He's a long distance man
and he keeps on going because its not worth blowing
and he does what he can because it not worth losing and
there ain't no choosin
Any other world that you live in
don't believe in second chance
Sell another dream he won't take it
so don't fake it when you dance
Cover up your eyes in these bad times for
the sad times passing years build another tower
for your freedom he don't need them shed no tears.
for the long distance man.....
11. Hope Not (I Certainly Hope Not)
(R. Pollard)
The tension was pretty tight
leave you hangin without a fight
Give it all up cause theres no living in
the world of Artic
no giving, acquitting (are you quitting)
{chorus}
I certainly hope not ohhh noooo(*3)
ohhh ohhhh
There's so many things people say
just to help give it away (but get in the way)
I won't try to figure things out
it's complicated so when doubt (I did)
I start crying
stop lying (trying)
{chorus}
Attracted to the light
Everything will be alright (Where everything with you - all right)
Attracted to the light
Everything will be alright (Where everything will be)
Attracted to the light
Everything will be alright
12. Adverse Wind
(R. Pollard)
Stay close at can you (Stay close at hand, you know)
the bar begins where rooted boundaries end
Stay pure and heart of g
The ocean breaks against the adverse wind
I hear you crying you're only
a lifetime away
I feel you dying relying (you're lying) on what (all of) the people
say
She lives in solitude
behind the room she spins (behind the rudeness of the work she's been
these folks look envious)
pushing and holding in adveres winds