Welcome to the cruel world - 1994

The Three Of Us

(Instrumental)



Whipping Boy

Well you can need me
well I want you to
and you can feed me
how I like that too
but don't you lead me
I won't follow you
listen here
I don't fear
I don't want to be your
whipping boy
You can tease me
how I want you to
and you can squeeze me
baby I like that too
but don't you lead me
I won't follow you
listen here
I don't fear
I don't want to be your
whipping boy

You can hold me
baby I want you to
and you can scold me
yes I like that too
but don't you lead me
I won't follow you
listen here
I don't fear
I don't want to be your
whipping boy

Well you can need me
well I want you to
and you can feed me
baby I like that too
but don't you lead me
I won't follow you
listen here
I don't fear
I don't want to be your
whipping boy



Breakin' Down

You don't believe that I love you
and even if that was true
why just to keep our unhappy home
I'm gonna try to pretend that I do
but I'm breakin' down
I'm breakin' down
I'm breakin' down
I'm breakin' down
My baby she left me
said she ain't comin' back around
I'm breakin' down
And if I thought that it was okay
for a grown man to cry
I would have filled up the whole mighty ocean
when she said goodbye
and I'm breakin' down
I'm breakin' down
I'm breakin' down
I'm breakin' down
you know my baby she left me
said she ain't comin' back around
I'm breakin' down

One day you said everything was just right
I don't see how it changed overnight
one day you said everything was so strong
the next day you turn to me and say
it's been wrong all along

Oh and now you won't eve look at me
you pass me by in the street and you won't even speak
I never meant to cause you any harm
how could two people start so close
and end up so far
I'm breakin' down
I'm breakin' down
I'm breakin' down



Don't Take That Attitude To Your Grave

You say what's mine is mine
and what's yours is mine too
now you've got more than you can spend
but all of the money
in the whole wide world
is not gonna help you in the end
now while there's still time to be saved
don't take that attitude to your grave
might be too late for you I'm afraid
don't take that attitude to your grave
don't you take it there
I hear helicopters
over my house every day
shining their lights and flying low
treat a child like a criminal
from the day that he is born
and you're gonna reap just what you sow
now while there's still time to be saved
don't take that attitude to your grave
might be too late for you I'm afraid
don't take that attitude to your grave
don't you take it there

So you can move your court case
way across town
you can move it across the whole wide globe
but it ain't gonna help your court case
up in the sky
when you go to put on your white robe
now while there's still time to be saved
don't take that attitude to your grave
might be too late for you I'm afraid
don't take that attitude to your grave
don't you take it there

And you dare the children
to stay off of drugs
now I dare you to stop letting them in
and how dare you point your finger
at a gang out on the street
while it's you who is committing the sin
now while there's still time to be saved
don't take that attitude to your grave
might be too late for you I'm afraid
don't take that attitude to your grave
don't you take it there
they don't want it there
you know your mother taught you better
don't take that attitude to your grave



Waiting On An Angel

Waiting on an angel
one to carry me home
hope you come to see me soon
cause I don't want to go alone
I don't want to go alone
Now angel won't you come by me
angel hear my plea
take my hand lift me up
so that I can fly with thee
so that I can fly with thee

And I'm waiting on an angel
and I know it won't be long
to find myself a resting place
in my angel's arms
in my angel's arms

So speak kind to a stranger
cause you'll never know
it just might be an angel come
knockin' at your door
knockin' at your door

And I'm waiting on an angel
and I know it won't be long
to find myself a resting place
in my angel's arms
in my angel's arms

Waiting on an angel
one to carry me home
hope you come to see me soon
cause I don't want to go alone
I don't want to go alone
don't want to go
I don't want to go alone



Mama's Got A Girlfriend Now

Papa, he left home today
Said he ain't comin' back again
Said he ain't gonna be nobody's second best
Just cause mama's got a special kind of friend
Papa, he left home today
Said he ain't comin' back no more
Said he ain't gonna take no damn back seat
And how could mama do him so low

But mama's got a girlfriend now, boy
Mama's got a girlfriend now
Mama's got a girlfriend
Mama's got a true friend
Mama's got a girlfriend now

You see Mama don't watch your damn football
And your beer drinkin' just won't do
You're just stayin' out late
And you're preachin' the hate
And you never have been true

You see mama she want her somebody
who will let her be herself
So she's leavin' you and your stinky damn ways
cause she's found somebody else

And Mama's got a girlfriend now boy
Mama's got a girlfriend now
Mama's got a girlfriend
Mama's found a true friend
Mama's got a girlfriend now

Papa he left home today
He was wavin' his hands and cryin'
You could tell by the sound and the tone in his voice
that his heart was slowly dyin'
But mama said "Boy if I ever
catch you round here again
You ain't never gonna have
nobody else not a woman or a man"

And mama's got a girlfriend now boy
Mama's got a girlfriend now
Mama's got a girlfriend
Mama found a true friend
Mama's got a girlfriend now
Mama's got a girlfriend now boy
Mama's got a girlfriend now
Mama's got a girlfriend
Mama's found a true friend
Mama's got a girlfriend now



Forever

Not talkin' 'bout a year
no not three or four
I don't want that kind of forever
in my life anymore
forever always seems
to be around when it begins
but forever never seems
to be around when it ends
so give me your forever
please your forever
not a day less will do
from you
People spend so much time
every single day
runnin' 'round all over town
givin' their forever away
but no not me
I won't let my forever roam
and now I hope I can find
my forever a home
so give me your forever
please your forever
not a day less will do
from you

Like a handless clock with numbers
an infinite of time
no not the forever found
only in the mind
forever always seems
to be around when things begin
but forever never seems
to be around when things end
so give me your forever
please your forever
not a day less will do
from you



Like A King

Well Martin's dream
has become Rodney's worst
nightmare
can't walk the streets
to them we are fair game
our lives don't mean a thing
like a king, like a king, like a king
Rodney King, Rodney King, Rodney King
like a king, like a king, like a king
how I wish you could help us Dr. King
Make sure it's filmed
shown on national T.V.
they'll have no mercy
a legal lynch mob
like the days strung up from the tree
the L.A.P.D.
like a king, like a king, like a king
Rodney King, Rodney King, Rodney King
like a king, like a king, like a king
how I wish you could help us Dr. King
So if you catch yourself
thinking it has changed for the best
you better second guess
cause Martin's dream
has become Rodney's worst
nightmare
like a king, like a king, like a king
Rodney King, Rodney King, Rodney King
like a king, like a king, like a king
how I wish you could help us Dr. King



Pleasure And Pain

I'm leaving here on the morning train
and I will never see this world again
I've felt pleasure
and I have felt pain
and I know now
that I can never be the same
How I wonder why the world can be so cold
and if only good die young
then left with me cruel here to grow old
and I felt pleasure
an I felt pain
and I know now
I can never be the same

And if someday I find my peace of mind
I will share my wealth with all of human kind
I've felt pleasure
and I have felt pain
and I know now
that I can never be the same

So if the sun does shine or rain does fall
I give thanks I've had my sight to see through it all
and I've felt pleasure
and I have felt pain
and I know now
that I can never be the same



Walk Away

Oh no
here comes that sun again
that means another day
without you my friend
And it hurts me
to look into the mirror at myself
and it hurts even more
to have to be with somebody else
and it's so hard to do
and so easy to stay
but sometimes
sometimes you just have to walk away
walk away

With so many people
to love in my life
why do I worry
about one

But you put the happy
in my ness
you put the good times
into my fun
and it's so hard to do
and so easy to stay
but sometimes
sometimes you just have to walk away
walk away
and head for the door

We've tried the goodbye
so many days
we walk in the same direction
so that we could never stray
they say if you love somebody
than you have got to set them free
but I would rather be locked to you
than live in this pain and misery

They say time will
make all this go away
but it's time that has taken my tomorrows
and turned them into yesterdays
and once again you my friend
are nowhere to be found
and it's so hard to do
and so easy to stay
but sometimes
sometimes you just have to walk away
walk away
and head for the door
you just walk away
walk away



How Many Miles Must We March

Exactly how much will have to burn
before we will look to the past to learn
we walk along this endless path
which has led us in a circle
so here we are right back
we can't let the future become our past
if we are to change the world
won't you tell me
tell me please
how many miles must we march
how many miles must we march
When I was a baby I was not prejudiced
hey how about you
this was something
that I learned in school
something they taught us to do
we can't let the future become our past
if we are to change the world
won't you tell me
tell me please
how many miles must we march
how many miles must we march

There must come a day
when a box is not somebody's home
the unfinished work of our heroes
must truly be our own
we can't let the future become our past
if we are to change the world
won't you tell me
tell me please
how many miles must we march
how many miles must we march
how many miles must we march
how many miles must we march
how many miles must we march
how many miles must we march



Welcome To The Cruel World

Welcome to the cruel world
hope you find your way
welcome to the cruel world
hope you find your way
it's a cruel world
try to enjoy your stay
Yes it is a cruel world
when you're tryin' to get by
it's a cruel world
when you've seen the look in their eye
makes life hard living
but I'm so scared to die

Welcome to the cruel world
welcome
welcome

Don't know how
we've lasted here so long
there must be more good than bad
or we'd already be gone
and if you get up to Heaven
before I do
I'm gonna tell ya
It's gonna be cruel there too

You can't hide from this cruel world
cause there is no place to run
you can't hide from the cruel world
there just is no place to run
it's been cruel from the beginning
it will be cruel when we're done

So when I'm gone
I will gladly say goodbye
when I am gone
I will gladly say goodbye
and if you want to feel me
put your hands up to the sky

Welcome to the cruel world
welcome
welcome
hope you find your way
try to enjoy your stay



I'll Rise

You may write me down in history
with your bitter twisted lies
you may trod me down in the very dirt
and still like the dust I'll rise
does my happiness upset you
why are you best with gloom
Cause I laugh like I've got an oil well
pumpin' in my living room
So you may shoot me with your words
you may cut me with your eyes
and I'll rise
I'll rise
I'll rise
out of the shacks of history's shame
up from a past rooted in pain
I'll rise
I'll rise
I'll rise

Now did you want to see me broken
bowed head and lowered eyes
shoulders fallen down like tear drops
weakened by my soulful cries

Does my confidence upset you
don't you take it awful hard
cause I walk like I've got a diamond mine
breakin' up in my front yard

So you may shoot me with your words
you may cut me with your eyes
and I'll rise
I'll rise
I'll rise
out of the shacks of history's shame
up from a past rooted in pain
I'll rise
I'll rise
I'll rise

So you may write me down in history
with your bitter twisted lies
you may trod me down in the very dirt
and still like the dust I'll rise
does my happiness upset you
why are you best with gloom
cause I laugh like I've got a goldmine
Diggin' up in my living room

So you may shoot me with your words
you may cut me with your eyes
and I'll rise
I'll rise
I'll rise
out of the shacks of history's shame
up from a past rooted in pain
I'll rise
I'll rise
I'll rise