I dig down in my suitcase for a piece of paper
To write in a letter, “I’m doin’ alright.”
Because I can’t sleep I lay awake and I write.
My bleak tomorrow was your oversight.
You could’ve had me if you’d just look.
I had the courage to give you but you just shook.

So live your false freedoms. The truth you won’t know
Unless your learn to free yourself of the love deep in your soul
Just remember what I said, “I don’t cry when I go.”
A buzz I just heard says, “Leave it alone”.
But I can’t. I’ve been burned from above.

Well he was just a lad when he found out
That he would always be misunderstood.
And he had learned that people don’t want to think
When they promise all along that they would.
So he tried in vain to play their game
And help them whenever he could.

So live your false freedoms. The truth you won’t know
Unless your learn to free yourself of the love deep in your soul
Just remember what I said, “I don’t cry when I go.”
A buzz I just heard says, “Leave it alone”.
But I can’t. I’ve been burned from above.

One day he sneezed up some lightning like old man Deboree.
He cried himself some tears that shouted, “Hey, look at me!”
For the first time since a child, he had the ability to see.
I can’t. I’m burned from above.
No, I can’t. I’m burned from above.

You took everything, but your energy was my tool.
I gave myself completely, but you took me for a fool.
Well, you just have to live with that, cause that’s my golden rule.
You can’t. You’ve been burned from above.
No, we can’t. We’re all burned from above.

I feel I’ve come to sing to you. Like the Bull used his dreams.
I just have to make you feel. I don’t ever want to leave my home again.
I can see the desert brown. And the men who have to till that ground.
Still others come to strike them down. I don’t ever want to leave my home again.

You build your worlds for today. Don’t give our future much to say.
They’ve always known a better way. I don’t ever want to leave my home again.

I see green hills in clear blue skies. I see them burning before my eyes.
My god, don’t you even realize. I may never see my home again.

Their dreams have always been the stars. And they will wait until their day comes.
So will their daughters and their sons. I don’t ever want to leave my home again.

They keep contempt for you at bay. But they will not stand in your way.
Soon we must all become the same. I don’t ever want to leave my home again.

I see green hills in clear blue skies. I see them burning before my eyes.
My god, don’t you even realize. I may never see my home again.

See the moon move through the sky. First it buds, then blooms, then dies.
While sun burns all the time. I don’t ever have to leave my home again.

I see barren hills in clear blue skies. I see them growing before my eyes.
My god, don’t you even realize. You can never take away my home again.

You can never take a way. You can never take away.
My home again. My home again.

(Phonetically) Ein aud chaim. Beesh vealee.

Rags, my friend, this is the enchanted world.
Open this gate and look as your dreams turn real.
Map each step very carefully
To help you choose your path more wisely.

Chorus
And don’t be afraid of Lady Luck.
She can set you free like she almost did me.

Take care and try to trust the friends you’re with.
Their alliance may seem good but they could switch.
And treat each stranger with deserved respect,
But show them you’re not the kind who risks his neck.

Chorus

Listen at every door before you knock.
Before you break it in be sure that it’s locked.
And arm yourself for what may be there.
You just might find yourself in some ogre’s lair.

Chorus

Seek those treasures that you’ve heard about.
Stash away your gold and then start out.
Do not rest your mind ’til you’re through that gate.
Those lives you saved may suddenly turn to hate.

Chorus
Yeah, she can set you free. She can set you free. She can set you free.

Walking through a decaying meeting place.
I feel I’m running through a vast and open space.
People staring, they don their judges face.
Shall he be the same or can we let him be?

Chorus
Free, as the wind blows. As the sea rolls. As the sun shines.
To free my mind of you.

People talking ’bout all of the other ones
As if their deeds were the only good ones done.
Happens so much seems like it turns into fun.
Makes me cry for them and so I turn to be.
Chorus

All the world’s got more than they’ll ever need.
They have to swallow and so they choke with greed.
If they’d ever set their own minds to be freed.
Then they see the real love that was meant to be.
Chorus

This I know. I have faith in you.
You’ll exist no matter what you do.
But should survival ever get the best of you.
Just remember that within yourself you can be.
Chorus
To free my mind of you. To free my mind of you.

I was watchin’ the Tele the other night. Oh, let me tell you what it was about.
I saw the whole wide world putting food in everybody’s mouth.
That couldn’t happen in a million years yesterday.
But maybe, just maybe, we’re on our way.

Then while watching the late night news you know I saw a woman, child, and a man.
They were trying to form a human chain to stretch all across the land.
And all of these different kinds of people were just trying to say.
It’s time to live in peace today.

Chorus
One world. One people. One world so peaceful.
Together with love this world can be one.

I was telling my children the other day, “Don’t you ever live alone.
This universe is growing smaller and this planet’s everybody’s home.
And if we have to live on Earth we got to share it any way.”
And this is what the human race must say.
Chorus

Whether we were put here for some reason. Or maybe it was just a quirk.
With a little care and understanding, we could make this peace thing work.
I don’t say it’s easy and I don’t say it’ll happen today.
But maybe, just maybe, we’re on our way.
Chorus(twice)