If ever you find yourself beaten and broke And can't feel the wind for the weight of the yoke And fear that the night will not turn into day Remember the darkness will show you the way It's a long way away, it's a long way away And I'm all alone, alone, alone All alone, alone, away
Inside the mind of a man is a massacre Made up of many a miniature message And misses the most of it So convoluted, design for disaster It's making the best of a universe Far too expansive to cope with And he never chose nor was chosen By metrics that make any sense And the senses are numbed by emotional stresses
There must be a Better place to Be somebody Be somebody else
Who got time on a string, on a finger? Nothing to remember But the passage of it Who got time to let anything linger? Where it hovers Surely you will learn to love it Who got time for this love shit anyway? Gotta survive Isn't that mess enough for him?
There must be a Better place to Be somebody Be somebody else
Set a course It's a bet upon an endless Roulette wheel odds are ungodly As are the odds of the body Making it through and surviving the gravity shift The gravitized self which is lost From the lost thoughts of a being chip-ch-chopped To a bite size in the light eyes Beggin' don't leave the messenger The messages and Sos and other S's In the language where it goes
There must be a Better place to Be somebody Be somebody else
And somebody gotta keep watch where the watch stops He talks about his pops in polarity Fingers fantasize of rocks there will never be "Land ho! " Likely Lest a hole in the mantle of Heaven He's demanding the evidence for something That maybe never was for anyone He's missing something pretty He's missing where the air tastes gritty He's missing the splendor and misery Of bodies, of cities, of being missed
There must be a Better place to Be somebody Be somebody else
Flesh is weaker than the metal, it is true But the metal's being moved into a thing it doesn't do Circuitry is only serviceable as much as it is you So why don't you use it? 'Til you use it up, abuse it It is strong, it can take it if you can't Your sinews are more intuitively designed for dance Well, it set up a random course safely away from suns Four-hundred and twenty-three By a hundred and twelve by fifty-one
There must be a Better place to Be somebody Be somebody else
Inside the mind of a man is a mystery Made up of these centuries Of mistakes he believes Are important to be Part of his Dna, calls it history Species with memories longer Don't bother with sweating the old shit Maybe it's this time-bound conscience That keeps him out pushing through nothing With only the hope brought on by this belief that
There must be a Better place to Be somebody Be somebody else
Are you ready to go? Are you ready to go yet? Let's go Are you ready to go yet? Let's go Are you ready to go? Are you ready to go yet? Let's go Are you ready to go yet? Let's go Are you ready to go? Are you ready to go yet? Let's go Are you ready to go yet? Let's go
There must be a Better place to Be somebody Be somebody else