LYRICS TO THE MUSIC OF CHARLES MANSON
LOOK AT YOUR GAME, GIRL
There's a time for livin'
The time keeps on flyin'
Think you're lovin' baby
And all you're doin' is cryin'
Can you feel? Are those feelings real?
Look at your game girl
Look at your game glrl
What a mad delusion
Livin' in that confusion
Frustration and doubt
Can you ever live without
The game
The sad sad game
Mad game
Just to say you love is not enough
If'n you can't be true
You can tell those lies baby
But you're only foolin' you
Can you feel are those feelin's real
Look at your game girl
Go on look at your game girl
If'n you can't feel
And the feelin's ain't real
Then you better stop tryin'
Or you're gonna play cryin'
Stop tryin' or you're gonna play cryin'
That's the game
Sad sad game
Mad game
Sad game
OLD EGO IS A TOO MUCH THING
It's inside
It's in the back
The front
No it's in the back
No it's in the front
No it's in the back
They shoved it in the back
They put it in the back
All the love in the back
Get in the back
All the love get in the back boy
And they call it your subconscious
Remember Freud?
In the front is your computer
And I call it old ego is a too much thing
Old ego is a too much thing
It'll make you fool yourself
It'll make you fool yourself
You'll think you're somebody else
Look out oh, the trouble it brings
Makes you want to jump on up and fight
And you can't stand not to be right
It'll make you lie
Make you cheat
Just so you won't be beat
It'll make you get on out of sight
You get afraid you gonna act like a clown
And you get mad when somebody puts you down
Your heart's a-pumpin' and your paranoia's a-jumpin'
Look out ego is a too much thing
When everything seems goin' so fine
Old ego puts itself on in a bind
Your certainty turns to doubt
Then you start flippin' out
Then you ease on out of your mind
I AM A MECHANICAL MAN
I am a mechanical man, a mechanical man
And I do the best I can
Because I have my family to look out for
I am a mechanical boy
I am my mother's toy
And I play in the backyard sometime
I am a mechanical boy
(Garbled)
The past is an illusion
Postulated mocked up through confusion
(Garbled). . . in your illusion
You live in your illusion
Ban won't wear off
I had a little monkey
And I sent him to the country
And I fed him on gingerbread
Long come a choo-choo
And knocked my monkey cuckoo
And now my monkey's dead
Ban won't wear off
'Cause my monkey's dead
Ban won't wear off you
'Cause my monkey's dead (my data is running out)
There's a feather bed in your head go in and lay down
I wonder how a brown cow
Could say moo
Down the road come my jungle partner
London bridge is falling down
Your karma's turning
Your love is burning
Hey you're goin' the wrong way
I see you out there Joe
And you think your name is Joe
I see you out there Sam
And you think your name is Sam
You ain't Joe
You ain't Sam
You just am
Have you got a level?
PEOPLE SAY l'M NO GOOD
People say I'm no good
But they never, never do they say
Why their world is so mixed up
Or how it got that way
They all look at me and they frown
Do I really look so strange
If they really dug themselves
I know they'd want to change
Everybody says you're no good
'Cause you don't do like they think you should
Do you expect them
Do you expect you to act like them
Look at them man
Look at the fix they're in
I don't care
I don't care what they say
Just let them sit there and burn
The young might not be so dumb after all
And from the young you might even learn
Everybody says you're no good
Because, because you don't do
You don't do like they think you should
Do you expect them to act like you
Do you expect them
Do you expect you to act like them
Do you expect to see
Do you expect the fool to see what a fix he's in
Do you expect the fool to see what a fix he's in
With your cardboard houses
And your tin-can cars
You sit there and you wonder
You wonder where you are
Those diamond rings they're all the same
You sit there and you wonder
And you say who's to blame
Take a look at yourself
Take yourself off the shelf
You can belong to nobody
With your can cough medicine
And your wonder drugs
You got more sickness than you got cures of
Cancer of the mind
YOUR HOME IS WHERE YOU'RE HAPPY
Your home is where you're happy
It's not where you're not free
Your home is where you can be what you are
'Cause you were just born to be
Now they'll show you their castles
And diamonds for all to see
But they'll never show you that peace of mind
'Cause they don't know how to be free
So burn all your bridges
Leave your old life behind
You can do what you want to do
'Cause you're strong in your mind
And anywhere you might wander
You can make that your home
And as long as you got love in your heart
You'll never be alone
Just as long as you got love in your heart
You'll never be alone
You'll never be alone
ARKANSAS
Far and far down Arkansas
There lived a squatter with a stubborn jaw
His nose was droopy red and his whiskers grey
He could fiddle all the night and all the day
Came a traveler down the road
Ask if he could find an in
Can I find an in
Come on can I find an in
Far far down Arkansas
Here comes a government man
Talkin' to my pa
He told 'em I gots to go to school
I got to learn to be a gosh durn fool
Far far down Arkansas
I was a squatter with a stubborn jaw
My nose is droopy red
And my whiskers grey
'Cause the magical mystery tour
Has taken me away
Taken me away
Far and far down Arkansas
I was my mother
And I was my pa
A gov'ment man and a-whiskey still too
And everywhere I'm a-lookin' at you
Far and far down Arkansas
Are you stubborn
Look at your drooping jaw
Look at your drooping jaw
Smile
ALWAYS IS ALWAYS FOREVER
Always is always forever
Cause one is one is one
Look inside yourself for your father
All is none all is none all is one
It's time to call time from behind you
The illusion has been just a dream
Valley of death and I'll find you
Now is when on a sunshine beam
So bring only your perfection
For there love will surely be
No cold, pain, fear, or hunger
You can see you can see you can see
GARBAGE DUMP
Oh garbage dump oh garbage dump
Why are you called a garbage dump
Oh garbage dump oh garbage dump
Why are you called a garbage dump
You could feed the world with my garbage dump
You could feed the world with my garbage dump
You could feed the world with my garbage dump
That sums it up in one big lump
When you're livin' on the road
And you think sometimes you're starvin'
Get on off that trip my friend
Just get in them cans and start carvin'
Oh garbage dump my garbage dump
Why are you called my garbage dump
Garbage dump my garbage dump
Why are you called my garbage dump
There's a Market Basket and an A & P
I don't care if the box boys are staring at me
I don't even care who wins the war
I'll be in them cans behind my favorite store
Garbage dump oh garbage dump
Why are you called a garbage dump
Garbage dump oh garbage dump
That sums it up in one big lump
I claim all these garbage dumps
In the name of the garbage pickers of America
The garbage pickers of America
The garbage pickers of America
Oh but it smells
Oh pew ... yew
DON'T DO ANYTHING ILLEGAL
Don't do anything illegal
Beware of the eagle
That's right in the middle of your back
Don't be illegal
It's you in a sack
They got you in a sack
And they keep you lookin' back
Don't do anything illegal
Beware of the eagle
It's got you by the neck
Don't do anything you shouldn't
And you never can say aw heck
I don't wanna do that, Mommy
I got to see your ID my friend
I got to see your ID my friend
I got to see where you begin
I got to see your ID my friend
Everytime I go to the store
I got to have an ID with me
I got to have an ID with me
ID so they can see
What they wanna be
Free. I'm free
I got to see you ID my friend
When you come out of your hole
And you're up and down the highway
You got to have an ID
And say don't you and you can't go sideways
SICK CITY
Restless people from the sick city
Burned their homes down to make the sky look pretty
What can I do I'm just a person
This is the line that we always seem to hear
You just sit
Things get worse and
Watch TV and drink your beer
Walkin' all alone
Not goin' anywhere
Walkin' all alone
Nobody seems to care
Restless as the wind
This town is killin' me
Got to put an end
To this restless misery
I'm Just one of those restless people
Can never seem to be satisfied with livin'
In the sick old sick sick sick old sick city
It may be too late for me to say goodbye
And it may be too late
To watch the sick old city die
Goin' on the road
Yeah I'm gonna try to say
Sick city so long goodbye and die
CEASE TO EXIST
Pretty girl pretty pretty girl
Cease to exist
Just come and say you love me
Give up your world
Come on you can be
I'm your kind oh your kind and
I can see, walk on walk on
I love you pretty girl
My life is yours
And you can have my world
Never had a lesson I ever learned
But I know we all get our turn
And I love you
Never learn not to love you
Submission is a gift
Go on give it to your brother
Love and understandin' is for one another
l'm your kind I'm your kind
I'm your brother
I never had a lesson I ever learned
But I know we all get our turn
And I love you
Never learn not to love you
Never learn not to love you
Never learn not to love you
CLANG BANG CLANG
Clang bang clang
Went the big iron door
They put me in a cell
With a concrete floor
Nine other men in that cell with me
Moanin' their fate with destiny
Clang bang clang
Clang bang clang clang
Early in the mornin'
At the crack of dawn
They wake us to the tune of a bong bong bong
Line up for chow
Munchin' hard bread
Drinkin' black coffee with that noise in my head
Clang bang clang
Clang bang clang bang clang
The judge said to me, now boy
You had it
I ONCE KNEW A MAN
I once knew a man
So love he was to be
I once knew a man whose heart open you could see
Sadder than the dream
Is that he should pass us by
Sadder than the scheme
Is in the name is written in the sky
Lonelier than I
Could I have a dream of a place to go
Much further than before
Time as it seems would be passive
If it were knocking at your door
Why wonder why dream in the night
Why argue hate and fight
The love that grows in the hearts of the
Men that I see is happiness coming home forever
In the path I should wander alone
And a dream would not be mine to say
And a dream no the dream
Never to more than seem should I obey
The love in my heart says
Give yourself away
The love in my heart says
Your's is today
Now is forever lasting constant in the mind
Illusions with memories scheming in lies in the mind all the time
One and one are one in two parts and that is not to find
Of the man who lives behind the gun
Of the man that lives behind the gun
Where has his love gone and come from
He Is your brother
He is your loved one
EYES OF THE DREAMER
It's all in the eyes of the dreamer
It's all in the eyes of the man
All the things that we've done in life
And all the things that we've planned
Can the world be sad as it seems
Where are man's hopes
Where are man's dreams
Oh, the eyes of the dreamer
In the eyes of the man
All the songs have been sung
And all the saints have been hung
The wars and cries have been wailed
And all the people have been jailed
The world it's yours my friend
It's yours to begin or to end
Oh the eyes of the dreamer
In the eyes of the man
Take nothing from nothing brother
And it's all Just the same
For the loser is the winner
And there ain't no blame
It's just the end of the game
The moment is ever constant in the mind
Everywhere I look the blind leads the blind
Here's your chance to step out of time
There ain't no reason and there ain't no rhyme
For the trouble you bring is the trouble you bring
And a thing is a thing just a thing is a thing
In the eyes of the dreamer
It's in the eyes of the man
It's all in the eyes of the dreamer
All in the eyes of the man
All the things that you've done in life
And all the things that you plan
Is the world as sad as it seems
Where are your hopes
Where are your dreams
In the eyes of the dreamer
All in the eyes of the man
And you are the man
PEACE IN YOUR HEART
We'll make us some money
Make the world look funny
As they glance on through a burning asshole
Down to the castles of the vampire dreams
And you know Frankenstein I am
Mean man in a can
Way down on that lonesome road
Where nobody goes, it's a terrible thing
It's just the peace in your heart you know
It's just the peace in your heart that you're playing like a part
Of another world someplace somewhere
As if there was another dream way beyond what you see
Moving right in your mind right there
You've got Christ on twice
Got the rivers on boats and then you're floatin' down the stream
Yeah youre floatin' like an old goat on Bill Grogan's goat
Wasn't feeling mighty fine in the rain
Bill Grogan's on goat and it's tied to the railroad train
You coughed him up a can and you threw away the man
And then you flagged him on down again
Around and round again around and round again
Once on friend like a brother coming in and then
I'm back on my round Again
All down people all down on the down you know what is down on the slide
And everyone told you and everyone told you and everybody told a goddamn Lie
They were lying and the cheat laying in the graves
Way down in the Devil's Hole
He was down with the soul where you do what you're told
Or you die and you never get back again
Yeah on a riverboat ride down to the world you say what you are
Like you said something to some dollar bill
on somebody on somebody else's star
You was ringin' em thing and then am swingin' em ding ah na na
Riding Harley on a Charlie on a Ho Minh Chin trail
Down in a outlaw bout on a mafioso
Motherfucker till ya godfathers met on a telephone ride
You seeing how much you got to spend
He said you keeping my money from acting kinda funny
And ya calling me back to play like your honey
And it comes around and you jump like easter bunny in my mind
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
I been down through that old hat dreams on fine and you
You been playing behind yourself you double dirty crossing you dog
You lied and snitched and ran off
Left your father in a grave,
In a grave
He had died and burned in the fire lying there Nuremburg
Freeing bird purest word down on it studersburg(?)
Dreams on the sky said to fly higher than your eye
Beyond everything you ever thought a dream
In your mind I can shine
Way beyond thought
Way beyond to my lizard
And my spiders on my rock
And my deepest down deeper
Than my Devil's Hole
And I cried down again
I said goddamn you lost your soul
You sold out you damn fool
What you end up with
Somebody's rule
You got to play evil
And down in sin
You got to be there
Truss it back again
Cut it on down
Bring it around
And let me go on
To my home where I love
Down on anywhere's OK
I'm just livin' in my own motherfuckin' dream
You've been walking every goddamn day
In my motherfuckin' day death row
Down on the hole
Fix the green submarines you jellybean jerkin' jeans
Down through everybody's mind can't you see
Geneva on the M.X. riding on the world free
How come you wont let me back in and live what I earned. I earned my way
Out of this goddamn can. I told you I didn't break your motherfuckin'
Law. you goddamn fool. 1776, you think I'm gonna die for that again?
Fuck you! you carry it back. you carry that motherfucker back one time.
And then bring it on back to my city in my rhyme and play like you're
Something over me, fool. I'll take my pistol and teach you a rule.
Down through my outlaw swing on a noose
You think I was playing fancy fantail with your bridge party and your
Mother Goose
You better get down on your spiritual mind
Try back through samurai
Moving on a shallow wish know I
Arrows arrows
Sweet purple bug brain
All slave to the one self of all god is all in the wisdom of the one
That lives down inside of you, fool
Don't keep trying to take me back to school
Teach me whose motherfuckin' rule
I read that book crook
I took another look
To seeing the cement was even dying under your feets
And the walls had great cracks
And then you play like your wisdom was God's on some summer mind's
Walker
And then you told somebody you drank another bottle of scotch
Then I took up on my Cutty Sark
And I flew around the world on a drunk ride.
IN YOUR MUSIC MIND
Spoken Intro: I wanted to make you a tape in the proper perspective, but it seems like my surroundings is always mired in some sort of confusion. And on the reverse side of that, it would be that I appear to be confused. So I'll leave it up to you to uh, think...
In your music mind
How long is forever
Think in your music mind
Down through all you've ever heard
Coming through your ear now
I can reminisce and remember
I can reminisce and remember
I can reminisce and remember
My feelings spent with you
All my music
How can i feel my soul again
All my music
Can you feel my music now within
Growing every day
Growing every day
Growing every day
'Cause i'm on the line
On the frontiers of electronic fears
You can see me
Here on this tape
I keep moving my mind in the sound
That would split through
The blind into beyond eyes in you
In through and back to you
Around and under and back over and through
And coming back again
On the frontier
Of making new sound
Think in new waves of dreams coming back
Just old dreams.
I'M DOIN' FINE/STARS/FRIENDS
If you enjoy what you do
When you do it, it's called survive
If you do what you do for yourself come through
See the one you alive
And see the one
And see the one
The one inside each one of some of say the none
The none is on side the sum of some
The summer sun is the sun
And it keeps going around through around
And I keep looping back from around
To around and around and I kow you know me baby
Yeah you know me baby
Yeah you know my sound.
Down deep down inside your soul man
Down deep deep down you know you know
You know you know you know you know
And I bring it on through
You know that everything you know to be is true
You know...
If you're brand new and you start over today
And you're doing one day at a time
Works on better and did me a square and think about
I'm doin' fine, I'm doin' fine always been wherever I was
And was doin' fine... way behind
I keep doin' fine...
But I'd do better if I had some of all that you know I'm lonesome for
Of all of you know we had
All the love was always there
Beyond the good and the bad
From a hobo sleepin' in the dirt
To the queen runnin' round with no shirt
Trying to find a win
Trying to find a win
Trying to find a win
All they want I just wanted for fun
You can have it, it was always in the one
Kings and queens and things on strings
Universal hole I see through
Stars I know stars
Things on wings that fly so far
But I see stars
Stars in Kentucky
Stars in Tenessee
Way up high on the Brushy Mountain
I've been free with me now
I've been free with thee now
Well it's early this morning and I'm waiting
For something that they call a visit
So I can go out and see my friend
Did you ever have a friend?
One that wouldn't bite you in the back
One that wouldn't lie to you
Or cheat you or uh, push you off the track
Did you ever have a friend
Who you could count on and you knew
That when you was in trouble
That that friend would come on through.
If your mind keeps on moving in the back
And you know that my train is on the track
Yes you know that I went I'm comin' back
Then you see it's forever on no slack
You know it's through all ways and hallways
Of call ways of always and all ways
And always as far as far as far can go...
So when you're out by the roadside drinkin' that shine
Movin' on that highway and climbin' on my mind
Waiting on a whorehouse
Dreaming on door mouse
You see the poor cows
Down by the lower lots
He's on in San Jose
Down by the river side
In Knoxville town
They killed that
And knocked it down
They moved it through and the river moved it around
And walked on down
Walkin' on now now...
Walkin' on now now now...
Walkin' on now now now...
Walkin' on down...
Out by the cornbread
Over by the woodshed
Over by the who said
By what someone told you
Someone told you they told you something that somebody said.
DREAM TRAIN/MY OKLAHOMA ANGEL LOVE
When the day is done I go to bed
I place my hands beneath my head
Close my eyes twilight blue
And board my dream train back home to you
Back to you Luke the Drifter, Hank Williams
There was a time
When I was lonely and I was up and down the lonesome highway
And Lefty Frizzell... ten years ago on a cold dark night
The scaffold was here in eternal light
Someone was killed somewhere in the county jail
And it was a jailhouse rock for some other jammer
Who was jamming some cock up somebody's nosehole
(laughs)
Now Elvis, the epitome of fake phony jive on freak
You made a laughing stock of country music
You took away my cowboy feet
You thought you had someone's heartbeat
But Lefty Frizzell and Hank Williams was riding that train
And then there was Woody Guthrie he used to sing
He'd sing them fools right to insane
Listening to the radio
My Oklahoma angel you know I know
We played the music down deep in the hole
You gave me just a little of your soul
And now left me down in the hole to get old
But it's all right angel love
My Oklahoma angel love
I remember when you taught me this song
Woke up this morning and I grabbed my shoes
Way out running to get the news
I looked in the paper the first thing I saw
Was an interruption
And then from that interruption that you see in the sound on this tape
We're gonna move around and try to get back in the groove, try to get
This done pretty soon.