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Scene Beyond Dreams The Words in the Tones Four There are times when all the world's asleep The questions run so deep / For such a simple man Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned? I know it sounds absurd / But please tell me who I am -- Supertramp / The Logical Song Just by chance you crossed the diamond with the pearl You turned it on the world That's when you turned the world around Did you feel like Jesus? Did you realize? You were a champion in their eyes -- Steely Dan / Kid Charlemagne It must be hard / Being an angel When the devil in your heart won't set you free -- Mike and the Mechanics / Nobody's Perfect Well they say / Time loves a hero But only time will tell If he's real / He's a legend from Heaven If he ain't / He's a bastard from Hell -- Little Feat / Time Loves a Hero Are you a saint? / Then don't be a stranger Were you sent here from Heaven to show me the way? And if you ain't / Then I see a danger You better take a minute and hear what I got to say -- Lynyrd Skynyrd / Keepin' the Faith He was the Naz / With God-given hands Making love with his ego / Ziggy sucked-up into his mind Like a leper messiah -- David Bowie / Ziggy Stardust And there we were all in one place A generation lost in space With no time left to start again So come on Jack be nimble / Jack be quick Jack Flash sat on a candlestick 'Cause fire is the Devil's only friend And as I watched him on the stage My hands were clinched in fists of rage No angel born in Hell Could break that Satan's spell -- Don McLean / American Pie I've become now what I wanted / To be all along A psychopathic poet / The Devil's bastard son And I remain on the far side of crazy I remain the mortal enemy of man No hundred-dollar cure will save me Can't stay a boy in no-man's land -- Wall of Voodoo / Far Side of Crazy There'll be times / When my crimes Will seem almost unforgivable There'll be days / When I stray I may appear to be possibly out of reach I give in / To sin Because I like to practice what I preach And I'll make it all worthwhile I'll make your heart smile Strange love Strange highs and strange lows That's how my love goes -- Depeche Mode / Strange Love Your wasted words / Already been heard Are you really God / Yes or no? Your wasted words / So absurd Are you really Satan / Yes or no? -- The Allman Brothers / Wasted Words The mother says / Now baby boy / You're gonna have to choose There's good and evil / Love and greed / And they're all inside of you And just as sure as gravity / No one escapes the law 'Cause there's just one way that we can stand / Too many ways to fall -- Arc Angels / Too Many Ways to Fall The marionette has your number He's pulling your arms and legs till you can't stand on your own Dragging your conscience on the stage And your heart gets rearranged And you cannot tell your mentor from your Maker Look at the crowd bleeding with laughter Over the way you entertain at beckon call They don't see behind the lights Or the painted background They just like to see you fall And you don't really mind / And you're just wasting time And you don't feel anything / You're a boy on a string I feel a sadness like Gapetto Watching the life that he created run away Seeing the puppeteer's intrusion And holding the remains Of puppets that had rotted away One day the curtain will not open And all of the crowds will go away Sometimes those strings will choke you But until that day... -- Jars of Clay / Boy on a String He was born in the belly of the country / Over East of Eden Confused by the big city blues / He didn't know whose life he's leading Take that boy and put him in a mansion / Paint the windows black Give him all the women he wants / Put a monkey on his back Lord, please save his soul / He was the king of rock and roll -- Robbie Robertson / American Roulette He's haunted by the memory of a lost paradise In his youth or a dream / He can't be precise He's chained forever to a world that's departed It's not enough / It's not enough -- Pink Floyd / Sorrow Everybody knows that you're in trouble Everybody knows what you've been through From the bloody cross on top of Calvary / To the beach at Malibu Everybody knows it's coming apart / Take one last look at this Sacred Heart Before it blows / Everybody knows -- Leonard Cohen / Everybody Knows If I could see something / You can see anything you want, boy If I could be someone / You can be anyone, celebrate boy If I could do something / Well, can you do something? If I could do anything / Well, can you do something out of this world? -- Supertramp / Dreamer So, give us an answer / Won't you? We know what we have to do There must be a thousand voices trying to get through -- Supertramp / Lord is it Mine Five