CLOCKWORK HEROES
You have no identity
Just live your life in mediocrity
Newsstand gossip is all your mother reads
What a fake reality
Can’t escape what you’re trying to do with your life
Clockwork heroes
Turn out to be zeroes
Do you hear-o
You’re a zero
Your whole life is romanticized
Media hype: all a bunch of lies
Only fools wear your disguise
Pull the wool over your eyes
What have you really done with your life?
Clockwork heroes
Turn out to be zeroes
Do you hear-o
You’re a zero
NO WAY OUT
Your budgeting’s amorphous
No cutbacks for defense
Scientists and children
Feel the consequence
Our president in office
Has more will than wallet
We need more than rhetoric
To reduce the deficit
No way out, no way out
No way out for you
Your convoluted logic
That winds taxing more
You’ve analyzed the numbers
And marched them off to war
The horse race of the moment
Obscures a single step
In this de facto climate
No single promise kept
No way out, no way out
No way out for you
EZ STREET
Futures, options, commodities
Capitol Hill inquiry
House banking committee
Doesn’t want the scrutiny
Virtual stock strategies
Global market uncertainty
Investors borrow heavily
Bankruptcy quarterly
Living high on Easy Street
Windfall profits, no receipts
Junk stock, bonds, securities
A purgative economy
Higher taxes, royalties
Dim prospects for industry
German mark holds the key
To European currency
Dollar ceded to the Yen
Dow rebounds with ten point gain
Living high on Easy Street
Windfall profits, no receipts
SEE HER TONIGHT (originally by the Damned)
Well, she’s not so clear
She’s got nothing to say
Don’t happen at all
It’s not her day
Don’t like art & plastic’s a con
Can’t stand fools who think it’s right to be wrong
She’s so cool, see her tonight
She’s no fool, see her tonight
She don’t fit in any so-called scene
She don’t like going where she’s already been
Afraid rock ‘n’ roll’s going to end up like art
And don’t like ending what can’t even start
RECORDED 22 FEBRUARY 1996 - RELEASED 24 JULY 1997
