Hey, listen people we're victimized, circumsized,
Cross the line of no return
The critics feel we devastate
But socialites just masturbate
Won't those losers ever learn?
Who said the music's dead in the streets?
Don't know what they talk about
They gotta put a bullet in my head
If they want to keep me down

Power to the music in the streets
Power to the music in the streets

Mothers tell their sons of cyanide and suicide
They blame it on the devil's tongue
Suck me like a parasite, military 3rd Reich
Book burning bastards wasting blood

Who said the music's dead in the streets?
Don't know what they talk about
I want my music waking up the dead
Don't tell me to turn it down

Power to the music in the streets
Power to the music in the streets
Power to the music in the streets
Power to the music in the streets

Who said the music's dead in the streets?
Don't know what they talk about
I want my music waking up the dead
Don't tell me to turn it down

Power to the music in the streets
I want it louder
Power to the music in the streets
Feel the rhythm
Power to the music in the streets
Power to the music in the streets
Power to the music in the streets
Turn it up, turn it louder
Power to the music in the streets
				

Are you ready for suicide?
Let me run a razor cross your throat
You took a child on ride now
Led them down a long and shameful road
It rips my heart out, to see you livin
You gave them money in exchange for pain
You're the monster in the closet
They'll take your secrets with them to their grave

Locked you away behind cast iron doors
Rather see you dead on the floor
I hope that you're feelin so much pain now

Uncle Jack
Can you hear them still screamin?
Broken hearts, broken dreams
Uncle Jack
Is your evil still creepin?
Never comin back here again

What were you thinkin, are you human?
Took their innocence and made them slaves
You want forgiveness, you're so sorry
I'd rather put you in an unmarked grave

Locked you away behind cast iron doors
Rather see you dead on the floor
I hope that you're feelin so much pain now

Uncle Jack
Can you see them still bleedin?
Broken hearts, broken dreams
Uncle Jack
Tell me how are you sleepin?
Never comin back here again

Uncle Jack
Can you hear them still screamin?
Broken hearts, broken dreams
Uncle Jack
Is your evil still creepin?

Ooh why?
Ooh say goodbye
Tell me why?
				

I'm on a holiday
Hooligan's holiday
Drop dead beauties, stompin up a storm
Lines of Hell on our face
Bruised bad apples crawlin through the night
Busted loose, runaway--ooh runaway

Always--always a thrill without a motive
30 days such a haze

Everybody wants a piece of the action
Everybody wants a piece of the pie

We're on a holiday, hooligan's holiday
I'm on a holiday, hooligan's
I gotta get away, hooligan's holiday
We're on a holiday, hooligan's

Cross-eyed derelcts a-comin
Iron horse between our legs
Tattooed and black manes flowin
Everyday's a holidaze

Everybody wants a piece of the action
Everybody wants a piece of the pie
They want a piece of my

We're on a holiday, hooligan's holiday
I'm on a holiday, hooligan's
I gotta get away, hooligan's holiday
We're on a holiday, hooligan's

Modern times and new blood's pumpin
Only the strong survive (Only the strong survive)
 Everybody wants a piece of the action
Everybody wants a piece of the pie
I gotta get away

We're on a holiday, hooligan's holiday
I'm on a holiday, hooligan's
I gotta get away, hooligan's holiday
We're on a holiday, hooligan's
				

Little old man contemplates
Suicide twice a day
Life's passed him by
Little old woman scared and blind
Left alone in desparate times
Life's passed her by
Oh, life it's misunderstood them
So they close their eyes
And dream of better days
Oh, life it's misunderstood, yeah
Life's not always fair or so they say

Little boy with vacant eyes
Daddy won't be home tonight
And he don't know why
His mother, she sits alone
Tangled in the web she's sewn
She lives lie to lie

Oh, life it's misunderstood them
So they close their eyes
And dream of better days
Oh, life it's misunderstood
Life's not always fair or so they say

Strangled, caged and left alone
Doin' time in a broken home
Feelin left to die
I'm a product of your troubled ways
You made me what I am today
Now you're askin why

Oh, life's misunderstood me
So I close my eyes
And dream of better days
Ooh, life's misunderstood me
Life's not always fair
Life's not always fair or so they say

Restless soul, deep inside
I'm searchin for some piece of mind
Livin just to die
I'm an angry man and I always have
Had to fight to survive my past
Sign of those times

Life it's misunderstood me
And I know...know that you've been there too
Time, lets a restless soul fade away
Life's not always fair
Life's not always fair 
Or so they say

Yeah, life it's misunderstood me
So I close my eyes
And dream of a better day
Oh, life's misunderstood me
Life's not always fair
Life's not always fair
Or so they say

Little boy with hopeful eyes
Daddy's comin home tonight
So don't you cry
				

Oh baby I've walked a million miles
Climbing up this mountain
Lookin' for your smile
Ooh sugar
Where's my baby been
My heart is like the ocean
Waitin' for your love to sail on in Let my loveshine
Let my loveshine in
Ooh baby won't you let my loveshine in

Oh baby
Remember yesterday
You spoke to me in riddles
And your mystery remains

Ooh sugar
Be my oldest friend
You held me in my youth
And you'll hold me in the end
Again my friend

Let my loveshine
Let my loveshine in
Ooh baby won't you let my loveshine in
				

Took a Greyhound Bus down to Heartattack and Vine
With a fistful of dreams and dimes
So far out didn't know that I was in
Had a taste for a life of slime
When push came to shove
The music was the drug
And the band always got to play
Sex, smack, rock, roll, mainline overdose
Man, we lived it night and day

We loved our Mott the Hoople
It kept us all so enraged
And you loved us
And you loved us
And you loved us
We're so fuckin beautiful

Pretty little poison apples
See the scars tattooed on our face
It's your disgrace
Pretty little poison apples
Mama said now don't ya walk this way
Just find some faith

Tabloid sleeze just maggots on their knees
And diggin in the dirt for slag
Moonshine, strychnine, speedball, shootin lines
Anything to push their rags

Still we love our Mott the Hoople
It keeps us all so enraged
And you loved us
Then you hate us
Then you loved us
We're so fuckin beautiful

Pretty little poison apples
See the scars tattooed on our face
It's your disgrace
Pretty pretty poison apples
Mama said now don't ya walk this way
Just find some faith

Blueprints for disaster
Ya better not push me cause I'll bring you to your knees
Ooh to your knees
Blueprints for disaster
Ya better not love me cause I'll bring you to your knees
Mama, to your knees

Pretty little poison apples
Mama said now don't ya walk this way
Just find some faith, faith, faith, yeah

Pretty little poison apples

Pretty pretty poison apples
				

Act like Jesus crucified again
These four wall are closin in
Who and what do you think you are
A rich mother-fucker in a fancy car?
Concrete jackel suckin on the past
Goldcard junkie kissin money's ass
You're the monkey on my back
And it's time for you to go
Hammered!
You're more harm than my old vice
And I don't want to know

Hey, Mr. Big Time Hollywood
Tell your story walkin
If you think you could
Your money's runnin low
From your cocaine whores
Nothin but a rat scratchin at my door

Now I've said all I'm gonna say
Times will judge, see who fades away
You're the monkey on my back
Time for you to go
Hammered!
You're more harm than my old vice
And I don't wanna know
Hey, you're hammered
Hammer Boy

Now you're feelin low, tired and beaten
Razor blades and daggers pierce your soul
Hell ain't livin six feet in the hole
Get down on your knees in Hollywood
Time to kiss some ass

You're the monkey on my back
And it's time for you to go
Hey, you're hammered
Hammer boy
				

When you look into my eyes
Tell me what you see
I don't think you'll ever realize
The pride inside of me
I've walked my walk, talked my talk
Lived and died in my songs
Temptation cuts so deep
It's fires still burn so strong
You know I've lived a few mistakes
And I stand by them
It's me, myself, and I
Til death do us part
Til death...til death do us part

If you want to criticize
Then you can't believe anything you read
What you see is all of me...

I've talked the talk, walked the walk
Who thought I'd live this long
This life's been hard
Like a switchblade, blind faith, suicide

You know I've lived a few mistakes
And I stand by them
It's me, myself, and I
Til death do us part
Til death...til death do us part

Sometimes my words may cut too deep
And I step on a toe or two
Well I'm half dead and barely half alive
But I live by the truth

I live by the truth
Til death, til death, do us part

Til death, til death do us part
Forever and ever
Together forever and ever
Forever, til death, til death do us part
				

Mister, Mr. Push-button Junkie
Lookin for some dirt to buy
Landslide, it's a corporation landslide
Waitin for a kiss from an atom bomb
This situation's critical,
My back's against the wall...but we like it
We're walkin in our sleep and I can't feel at all
I said hey man, just gimmie some truth

See what ya wanna see
Feel what ya wanna feel
I don't wanna know, I don't wanna deal
I don't wanna be any part of your stupid mother-fuckin disease
Do what ya wanna do
Kill if ya gotta kill
Cause I just don't believe your point of view

Welcome to the numb, fools

People, did ya ever feel like you're going insane?
Sister, I'm feelin pretty safe dead in this home-made grave

This situation's critical
Have I lost my mind...and I like it
There's too much information
Can you see it in my eyes?
I said hey man, all I want is the truth

See what ya wanna see
Feel what ya wanna feel
I don't wanna know, I don't wanna feel
I don't wanna be any part of your stupid mother-fuckin disease
Do what ya wanna do
Kill if ya wanna kill
Cause I just don't believe your point of view

Welcome to the numb
Welcome to the numb

Situation's critical,
Have we lost our minds...but we like it
So much information
Can you see it in our eyes?
I said hey man, just gimmie the truth

Why don't we
See what ya wanna see
Feel what ya wanna feel
I don't wanna know, I don't wanna feel
I don't wanna be any part of your stupid mother-fuckin disease
Do what ya wanna do
Kill what ya wanna kill
Cause I just don't believe your point of view

Welcome to the numb
Welcome to the numb
Welcome to the numb
				

Smoke my hoochie
You say that I'm the Devil
Reali-THC
Marco Polo hailed it heaven
Socrates inhaled it too
Mr. President tell the truth

You're the great exaggerators
Since 1932
Telling evils of the reefer
But all thru time we've smoked the sky
Smoke the sky
Home grown vision
Complements the senses
Opens up my mind

JFK sold us freedom
Or was it just a business toke?
63 went up in smoke

He was the great seducer
Crawling from our TVs
Breathed hope into our future
And before he died he smoked the sky
Smoke the sky

When it's time we'll snoke the sky

BC hailed it heaven
I inhaled it too
Reali-THC

When it's time we'll smoke the sky
Smoke the sky

When it's time we'll smoke the sky

When it's time we'll smoke the...
When it's time we'll toke the...
When it's time we'll smoke the sky
				

A war zone in the streets
It's anarchy and siege
We hope it goes away
Graffiti on the walls in modern Babylon
Nothing left to save
Feel the rebels heed
Revolution undermines belief
My eyes have seen this shit before
We're barely hangin by the skin of our teeth
We've all raped it
The future's wasted
We can't save it now
We're droppin like flies
Bye, bye, you're droppin like flies

Hate is growing fast
In a hazy cloud of crack
But it helps us fade away
Some inner-city queen french-kisses his disease
With one foot in the grave
And this junkyard we call home
Is primed and ready for another war
My, my, my, the children have no chance
And these eyes have seen this all go down before

We've all raped it
The future's wasted
Can we take it?
Is nothin sacred?
We can't save it now

I woke up laid in a fresh dug grave
With a conscience in my brain
I'm not here to save your world
But mine won't stay the same

My, my, we're droppin like flies
Bye, bye...my, my, you're droppin like flies

We've all raped it
The future's wasted
We can't save it
Can you face it?

Selfish livin, selfish life
Can you face it?
Can you face it my son?
Oh, my son?
				

Look inside the mirror
But I don't know who I see
Smoke another cigarette
A smile holds back the tears
These contraditions
Seem to be the story of my life
A simple man with memories
Of those long lost golden days
I close my eyes and slowly driftaway
Mistakes I've made remind me
Of the roads I shouldn't choose
It never comes that easy
When you've nuthin left to lose
I can't see the answers
Tell me why am I so blind
A tired man, I'll make the best
Of another lonely day
I close my eyes and slowly driftaway

Never thought I'd make it
Just from playin my guitar
Just a little smile
Always shelters me from pain
Every time I start to slide
I wish upon a star (no matter where we are)
The sun comes out
And dries up all the rain

I'm an honest man
Who refused the shade
On a hot and lonely day
I close my eyes and dream my life away

Now I know that I can stop the rain
Close my eyes and slowly driftaway
Close my eyes and dream my life away
Close my eyes and slowly driftaway
Close my eyes and dream my life away