Song and Emotion (Tesla)

SONG AND EMOTION

I see him there most ev’ry day,

A lonely man and his guitar.

In his eyes, I see the pain,

All the faces and the places,

All the trouble that he’d seen.

There was a time,

There was a day,

They’d come from miles around.

They all knew his name.

But day’s gone by are gone,

Now only memories remain.

Then he starts to play.

Suddenly the pain slowly fades away.

Tattered, torn and frayed,

There’s a place within his heart

He’ll always save for the song and emotion.

Know he’s got to his dyin’ day.

Song and emotion.

You can hear him play.

You can still hear him say,

Better run for cover ‘cause it looks like rain again!

And now his life is but a shadow of his dreams.

The calm is over, been stormin’ for years.

He turns and leans his shoulder to the wind.

Lost again!

All along, on his way to the top,

Somehow, somewhere, something was lost.

Through it all he knew his only friend was

Song and emotion.

Know he’s got to his dyin’ day.

Song and emotion.

Where are they now, where are those people who promised him his dreams?

Where are they now for this lonely creature on the streets?

Broken, humbled by the cold reality.

Life at the top ain’t always what it seems.

Oh, better run for cover, ‘cause it looks like rain again.

You best be careful of what you dream,

Of what you dream!

Song and emotion.

Song and emotion.

Song and emotion.

Song and emotion.

Had Enough (Tesla)

HAD ENOUGH

Me and the boys are gonna rock tonite.

Drinkin’ double shots, feelin fine.  Mmmm, I like it!

I like the way, the way it makes me feel.

Now, I’m in love witcha, Lady Mary Jane.

You put my mind at ease, make me feel no pain.

Keep takin’ me, keep takin’ me higher, well, and higher.

Light my fire!

Ain’t it funny?

‘Cause the more I drink, the more I smoke, well, the better she looks.

And, honey, that’s a whole lot better, whole lot better than before.

Lord!  ‘Cause you look so good.  Yes, you look so fine.

Let’s steal away and blow each other’s minds.

Come on, baby.  Keep takin’ me higher.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, and higher!

Chorus:

  I’ve had enough!

  Ah, maybe too, too much.

  And with a little luck,

  You know I’ll get back up

  On my feet again.

Ah, too much!

Too much to drink, too much to smoke.

I wasn’t lookin’ when it took a hold on me.

And it sure got a hold on me.

Oh, and it won’t let go.  Oh no.

I’ve never been this far before.

Have I reached the point, the point of no return?

When will I learn?

(Chorus)

(Repeat chorus)

  I’ve had enough!  I’ve had enough!

  Ah, maybe too, too much.

  I’ve had enough!

Government Personnel (Tesla)

GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL

Go straight to hell,

All you government personnel,

Sittin’ awf’ly well

In your big, white house up on the hill.

You say now, give me a home

Where the buffalo roam,

Where the deer and antelope play.

You can bet your ass we’ll blow them all away.

Fuck it up until it’s bent,

Then a-wonder where it went.

Thinkin’ you was a-heaven sent, ha ha ha,

You’re nothin’ but hell!

Go straight to hell.

Freedom Slaves (Tesla)

FREEDOM SLAVES

I pledge no allegiance to your flag.

I feel I got me some damn good reasons for feelin’ bad.

Way they take away ev’ry mother’s son,

If you want freedom now, it’s got to be won.

It’s only bullets.  It’s just a gun.

Ain’t gon’ hurt no one.

I don’t know what they must be thinkin’.

Makin’ decisions on a hard night’s drinkin’.

Momma, gon’ take your little boy.

Gonna make him ‘to a man,

Make him a stranger in a strange land.

Chorus:

  Freedom slaves    What have you done

  Freedom slaves    With ev’ry mother’s son?

  Freedom slaves    Can’t ya see that we’re all freedom slaves?

  Freedom slaves    What have you done?

  Freedom slaves    And all for number one.

  Freedom slaves    It’s clear to see that we’re all freedom slaves.

No sign of justice nor liberty

By takin’ an Indian Nation, ‘cause they was all that we wanted to be.

All good people from the Kingdom of the Sun.

Welcome to freedom.  Now, there’s work to be done.

It’s only natural to know it’s wrong.

Why did it go so long?

I don’t know what next they’ll be killin’,

Rapin’ the land with pollution and spillin’.

Here’s to the tired, to the hungry, to the helpless and the poor.

Is there no glory for blisters and sores?

(Chorus)

Who are those people?

So patriotically sittin’ back of tables

On their asses, lickin’ labels, tryin’ to change me.

You’d think the way they act, the way they carry on,

You’d think that I was the devil’s Seventh Son.

But it’s only words.  It’s just a song.

Ain’t gonna hurt no one.

(Chorus)

Freedom slaves.  Freedom slaves.  Freedom slaves.

Attention!

About Face!

March!

Left, right, left, right, left, right.

Your momma, she was a....(fade out)

Edison's Medicine (Man Out of Time) (Tesla)

(Man Out Of Time) EDISON’S MEDICINE

You’re guilty of crime in the first degree,

Second and third as well.

My jury finds you’ll be serving your time

When you go straight to hell.

‘Cause he was Lord of the Lightning,

Though "socially fright’ning",

But never out to sell.

Their nickels and pence

Meant more than did sense,

And not the sensible thing.

Nor did the man outta time, man outta time.

Thought you was crazy.  You was one of a kind.

Man outta time, man outta time.

All along, world was wrong.  You was right.

All that he saw, all he conceived,

They just could not believe.

Steinmetz and Twain were friends that remained,

Along with number three.

He was electromagnetic, completely kinetic,

"New Wizard of the West."

But they swindled and whined that he wasn’t our kind,

And said Edison knew best.

He was the man outta time, man outta time.

Thought you was crazy.  You was one of a kind.

Man outta time, man outta time.

Said you was outta your mind!

You took a shot and it did you in.

Edison’s medicine.

You played your cards, but you couldn’t win.

Edison’s medicine.

I spent twelve years of hard time,

More like the best years of my life.

Never heard or read a single word

About "the man" and his "wicked mind."

They’ll sell you on Marconi.

Familiar, but a phony.

Story goes they sold their souls

And swore that you’d never know...

About the man outta time, man outta time.

Thought you was crazy.  You was one of a kind.

Man outta time, man outta time.

Swore you was outta your mind!

You took a shot and it did you in.

Edison’s medicine.

You played your cards, but you couldn’t win.

Edison’s medicine.