Everybody here wears masks It's such a mess We all wear masks Has anyone here seen the wheels to my wagon Such a mess We all wear masks To hide our faces We all stay in our places Has anybody here seen the wheels to my wagon There's a guy sittin' next to me Don't know if he has the invisible enemy Or if he just smoked too much weed Anybody here seen the wheels to my wagon Lifelong friend doesn't wanna see me cuz we disagree politically Such a mess Has anybody here seen the wheels to my wagon There are no days off when you're in lock down Just endless days that are off Such a mess Anybody here seen the wheels to my wagon And now the buildings are burning and the cities are crumbling Such a mess

When the phone didn't ring, I knew it was you Mitigate your baser tendencies He's got the noives of a daytime burglar Hygiene tips for hobos So sad to see the old man goin' down So sad to see the old man goin' down If things had been different I would've understood If things had happened earlier It could've been good If time were a trolley And could go in reverse I would ask you to call me Before I wrote this verse If the transcript was honest And no one ever deceived I'd have been on my best to do what I believed If molecular structures tend to Spin out of control Anything ever meant to last Must have a soul So sad to see the old man goin' down So sad to see the old man goin' down Then the universe notwithstanding Is just one big black hole Nonetheless, you can't hold onto it You can only watch it roll I know physical particles Are a part of anything that exists I have read the articles Consulted with physicists If we were honest with each other As we always should be No one could ever hurt their brother Everyone would be free If you had met me when the world was younger If you had met me then You might have never known the hunger You might have never known the sin So sad to see the old man goin' down So sad to see the old man goin' down Nevertheless, I am obsessed with something Greater than the whole If the universe is imploding It'll be the greatest story ever told Evolving from apes to apes with smart phones Looking more like apes every day With vaping taking the place of cigarettes It's quicker that way Greed is the slithy toad of humanity I suffer fools with a grin on my face I see the things others see In a different reality In a different space Oh well, such is life when you're oblivious You need a diaper on your mouth Focus on fantasy with a total disregard for the obvious I've often dreamed of heading south So sad to see the old man goin' down So sad to see the old man goin' down Lock me up and throw away the key facts I'd have better luck tryin' to redirect the wind You can find me hangin' out down by the train tracks There's a glitch in the matrix, a message from within Blame it on the weather Or it could just be whatever I succumb to the tyranny of the majority Manufactured dread naughts with triple-gun turrets Serve us plates of kiviak, it's a delicacy You hear the innocent stories You judge the day by your mood Reminisce about past glories Good memories are as important as clean air And good food Still it makes me feel sad for the kids When it rains on Halloween Makes me wonder if it was something I did Or if it was something forthcoming I shoulda seen So sad to see the old man goin' down So sad to see the old man goin' down Erg, dyne, nanosecond A hamburger, some wine in a delicatessen Front page news always forgets to tell you Who's gonna hafta pay the dues I play with my hurdy gurdy Sounds dirty, but it's not It dawned on me some time after I turned thirty You can do anything you want to Just don't get caught Do you suppose the primordial ooze Got a little loose with the booze And then lightening struck Protons, neutrons, electrons, and morons A general generational passing of the buck When the whistle blower blows his whistle And all the lemmings jump the cliff When all the wacky theories begin the fizzle You're just left wondering what could have been and What if So sad to see the old man goin' down So sad to see the old man goin' down Time only exists to keep from having everything Happen all at once Albert Einstein said that I worship the parameters of the time-space continuum I only take a break to have lunch I said that Tried in the court of public opinion Henceforth to have no choice Heretofore, to be no more Than a critic with out a voice Do I really care about all this, meh Later on I retroflect I'm amped, in the court of the king I earn respect Just one thing I ask of thee Will you walk to the end of the road with me I'm totally normal Cuz I'm stark raving mad In a deranged world, ya see So sad to see the old man goin' down So sad to see the old man goin' down So sad to see the old man goin' down So sad to see the old man goin' down So sad to see the old man goin' down So sad to see the old man goin' down

I'm a traveler In a travelin' band Wondering when has it ever been easy A cast of billions Echos in an empty hall And they've got their minions Digging a valley Across the mystic elliptic A micro-biologic shtick You don't want any part of it Ooh And it's hectic But I've come to expect it You could go ballistic Speaking in logistics I could probably get elected But I don't know how to fix it It's a study in statistics On the perimeter of the noble state of consciousnesses A mummy in a myriad of modern day madness Decapitation Would seem like a vacation compared to this With thing-a-ma-jig tootsie-pop hecatomb fires Burning out of control on the front lines Swimming in the shallow end of the gene pool A total lack of candor But I meander Ooh It's hectic But I've come to expect it You could go ballistic Speaking in logistics I don't wanna be elected Cuz I don't know how to fix it Loneliness is just a test of wills I guess The longer you resist, confess The basis of the quest A coalition of the comb-less And all their unruly hair U-u-u-u-h-h-h-h! An active collection of Red Rose figurines Calling to the stars with stark juxtaposition Ooh Patterns of mitochondrial DNA Wandering about eternity It's hectic But I've come to expect it You could go ballistic Speaking in logistics It's just statistics Men build walls to hide behind It's outta sight to speak in 60's terms Those who study the past are doomed to retweet it But history can't be trusted Even for a TV game show host The Dalai Lama's got nothin' on me Mitigate your baser tendencies I'm rooting for my kids to win the lottery Did you win yet No And it's hectic But I've come to expect it You could go ballistic Speaking in logistics Take the ticket Dopes with an agenda You spontaneously combust me A little MP3 incongruity The only thing I don't Is know Ooh Forging ahead on an exploratory effort Just like 20th century exiles Ooh Somebody gotta cut through All this mumble jumble Just stay out of the papers Some things I've done I wouldn't tell anyone Ooh And it's hectic But I've come to expect it You could go ballistic Speaking in logistics I could probably get elected But I don't know how to fix it A Peter Pan type A personality And the dish ran away with the spoon These are the kinds of things you don't wanna hafta think about When you're lost in your thoughts Spending my life chasing a ghost You don't have to entirely cross the bridge To get to the other side entirely Trading dimes for dollars is easy Ooh And it's hectic But I've come to expect it You could go ballistic Speaking in logistics I could probably get elected But I don't know how to fix it Sometimes bad things happen Don't spend any time wishing they hadn't Don't know which side of the wall my head is on I think it's rolling down the front lawn Standing in front of an old friends home Wondering if he still lives there And what his wife's name is Ooh Death is such a terrible waste of one's precious memories I can buy peace and harmony In a little vial at the pharmacy Ooh And it's hectic But I've come to expect it Take the ticket You could go ballistic Speaking in logistics I could get elected I'm not too old I'm not too old I'm not old I'm not old Like you probably want to view me I'm just skeered Of a nu-kler bomb Some things you don't know the price of Until it's fully paid for And the carnival magicians Are on the sidelines lookin' on Ooh On a flat screen in a heebie-jeebie dream state Even the two of spades can take the trick If the time is right The light at the end of the tunnel is burned out Somebody has to change the bulb A tragic waste of perfectly good human metabolism With a hole in the frontal lobe In the umbrella of the nightfall Beautiful things fall apart Ooh And it's hectic But I've come to expect it You could go ballistic Speaking in logistics I could get elected But I don't know how to fix it It's study in statistics Aaaaahhhh It's hectic It's hectic But I've come to expect it You could go ballistic Speaking in logistics I could get elected But I don't know how to fix it It's just statistics Oh, and I forgot to tell you one more thing

Nature abhors a vacuum It's a hundred seconds to midnight I got my apocalyptic stash I got how-to videos I got smoke and mirrors Magic wands and a high-wire act I got more on my hands than anyone could ever hold It's like a virus out there among us Spreading like a west coast wild fire without a compass Resting its fingers on my soul But my dreams are calling me so I must go This actually really is my first rodeo I am a citizen of the planet Earth Been here since my birth Where else would I be? And that's the point that I'm tryin' to show I really don't have any place else to go Where else could I be? My allegiance to the truth collides With coincidence, leaving me circumspect I'm a graduate of the university of higher love With screen saver environmental awareness But that was a loaded gravitas Even in the age of sundials It's how it always was I feel just like Michael Collins I have a handful of dust and a crystal ball And some cubic zirconium to throw against the wall Put the money in the jar I just couldn't unsee that, it's what it was Morally flexible men leading all of us I am a citizen of the planet Earth Been here since my birth Where else would I be? And that's the point that I'm tryin' to show I really don't have any place else to go Where else could I be? Goin' off the rails on crazy train If bees die, it will all be in vain For one thousand flowers blooming in the rain Democracy dies in darkness It's a vortex of insanity The truth is hidden in plain sight for all to see Synopsing alone in the house one day Wondering if you really know me Or if you just googled my name I study the stars and the zodiac I have encyclopedias I can unpack I got everything I need I know how to play the game I am a citizen of the planet Earth Been here since my birth Where else would I be? And that's the point that I'm tryin' to show I really don't have any place else to go Where else could I be? I'm never bored, I've got two thumbs Discretion is the better part of valor Your secret notes should have been heavily redacted From the town clerk to the President It's safer that way by nearly 70% And by the way, it was me I was the one who let the dogs out Living in a little bubble with fellow idiots I must be permitted to doubt, and to consider this Wondering if things will ever be corrected A genetic predisposition to Read the scripts like actors do To bring peace to your village I'm willing to go down swingin' I am a citizen of the planet Earth Been here since my birth Where else would I be? And that's the point that I'm tryin' to show I really don't have any place else to go Where else could I be? Smoke pot, smoke pot, everybody smoke pot Smoke pot, smoke pot, everybody smoke pot We can do what we came here to do Number nine I believe you said all you had to An untimely death Seviceable villain Ohhh, bury my body Number nine She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah Let's bury Paul Turn me on, dead man Uh huh Is he dead? Did you Grandfather? Dread you!

We have nowhere to go but somewhere we haven't been yet Love is a grand piano Love is an interstate Love is an El Camino Love is a roller skate Love is an unscratched "Born To Run" LP Love is a Milky Way bar Love is the way that you look at me when you look at me Love is a really fast car When the world stops, I wanna be somewhere with you Love is a rainbow meadow Love is til the end of time Love is a fear of the unknown Love is the meaning of sublime Love is a wine bar in southern Cal-i-for-ni-a Somewhere on Santa Monica Boulevard Love is G-l-o-r-i-a Love is an electric guitar When the world stops, I wanna be somewhere with you When the world stops, I wanna be somewhere with you

Whatever it is that's goin' through me I wish it would hurry up, it's gettin' to me At night I drift in and out of a nasty dream I can't seem to shake, I need a new theme I have watched as my soul has washed up on the shoals And the rocks of the sores of insanity Crack open the window a bit please When I can hardly breathe I get panicky I know I shouldn't feel this way Cuz I've peeked down the dark hallway of the end of my days And in many ways I can see very clearly Why it all seems so crazy I know I shouldn't feel this way Having been born in the late 1950's But anyways I do and there's nothing I can change It sticks with me When I look at the wheelings and dealings in my life And what it has got me I still believe I am nineteen in my mind But I can't fool my body So just bill me Just bill me Torn between eternal life And the need to make a mortgage payment Negative numbers don't phase me in the least On the inevitable monthly statement I gotta find a way to make the things I say More interesting But it's hard not to sound trite and platitudeness When you've tried everything and done all the rest It's not braggin' on myself I've led a quiet life of trial and tribulation (and experimentation) Curious on the jagged edge of strife and gratification I am loved and I return love In varying degrees of sensual acme Always looking over my shoulder And in back of me In case I think there might a detractor there to attack me (A-a-a-h-h) People can look at me, but they can't see What really lies beneath And I look at people closely But they don't know how far I can reach So just bill me Just bill me I take so much time To teach all the young ones so carefully, and so wholly And thinking of them all the while and not of myself Is all that controls me There's something wrong about the way things go When all the hard times are behind me But now I move so slow I wish I could keep up the pace that I used to When I didn't know I was leanin' on a lamppost Lookin' out at the world around me In total disbelief that the high-tech government surveillance equipment Hasn't found me Your social etiquette kind rhymes with a pile of shit (ew!) I try to put the best light on a subject But it just doesn't ever seem to fit I gotta thank a few friends for slappin' me around And makin' it all much clearer Cuz I certainly haven't learned anything Comin' from when i look into a mirror So just bill me Just bill me Forbidden love is like a wooden club that beats you To your knees You can spend all your time beggin' forgiveness From the demons that defeat you If you please You can never cleanse your soul From any sins you might've committed You can only outwit your friends so many times Before they quit it It's lonely standing only with yourself And no one else around Looking deep inside yourself To see if there's any answers to be found Huh? Look away in shame and then in disgust And then in just plain denial Is your sanity insane or just a jury Deliberating on some trial (Court adjourned!) If there's any little thing, anything at all That I could change But once again it'd be a shame Cuz after all these years There's nothing left to rearrange So just bill me Just bill me Bill me Yeah, go ahead and bill me Just bill me Just bill me

She's a mother of criminals She's a mother of criminals She's a mother of criminals She's a mother of criminals She's a mother of criminals She's a mother of criminals We don't need your explanations We don't wanna read your signs We don't buy your incantations We don't wanna know what's on your mind She's a mother of criminals She's a mother of criminals She's a mother of criminals She's a mother of criminals She's a mother of criminals She's a mother of criminals Your children resemble simian ancestry Proud to teach them to be just like you Exposing your best quality Is the one thing, you can say that's true She's a mother of criminals She's a mother of criminals She's a mother of criminals She's a mother of criminals She's a mother of criminals She's a mother of criminals Ouwwuh! Uhn! Uhn! You can always tell a killer By the blood in their eyes You can always tell a petty thief Their words are but lies And you can always tell a vandal They got no future to despise And you can always tell the mother of a criminal She never cries She's a mother of criminals She's a mother of criminals She's a mother of criminals Ew-ew-uhhhu-h-h-h-h-h-h-h She's a mother of criminals She's a mother of criminals She's a mother of criminals Ouwwuh! She's a mother of criminals She's a mother of criminals She's a mother of criminals Ya-oh! Ouwwuh! Ew-ew-uhhhu-h-h-h-h-h-h-h She's a mother of criminals She's a mother of criminals She's a mother of criminals Ouwwuh! Hey-oh!

It's time to shake the tree It's time to shake the tree Please to do so My body's achin' and my vision's impaired When I look in the mirror I get a little but scared The sky is falling the Earth begins to shake My motor's racing somebody stole the brake Why can't anybody see? Why can't anybody see? Why can't anybody see? It isn't easy bein' me It's time to shake the tree It's time to shake the tree Please to do so Have you see this the story goes I'm a genius, but nobody knows You've been conquered into liberty Take this brother, may it serve your needs But all I want, is to shake the tree Jus' sayin', it's like an epiphany And also, can you do the monkey? I have to book the gigs Wear all different kinda wigs Got a day job, keeps me busy Practice chops until I'm dizzy Got a wife and a couple a kids If they could see me now They'd flip their lids I'd mail 'em a letter from the road But I forgot my area code When I step up to the mike Sometimes I forget the first line Maybe it's because I've had a little Too much of the red wine Jus' sayin' it isn't easy But I can't complain cuz I'm a little bit crazy Why can't anybody see? Why can't anybody see? Why can't anybody see? It isn't easy bein' me It's time to shake the tree It's time to shake the tree It's time to shake the tree! If there's a place baby I could go To get away from all of these things, you know I would go there in a minute if I could But it's one step forward and two steps back I should be drivin' a Cadillac But it never seems to fall out of the tree It's time to shake the tree It's time to shake the tree It's time to shake the tree It's time to shake the tree! I had a friend ask me to pray for him He was in on it too Cuz he was prayin' for his favorite team to win I told him I could pray for him To make the right decision But I couldn't help him Cuz they're last in the division When I give up myself I give up a lot of me Some people say i should schedule a lobotomy Take a vacation, centralize my dichotomy Here's a thought Remember anything that was ever taught to me I bought a body guard Cuz this stranglehold almost got to me Hey, is that another shot of scotch for me Because, It ain't easy bein' me

The winds of change are blowin' strong And every day is better than the last The winds of change are blowin' strong And the future looks much brighter than the past Every ride is reelin' in the right direction Every side is sick of senseless sexless seduction Satisfying feelings are for love and affection Ratifying rituals of rich reward reaction Leveraging the lifting up of left behind sunbeams Digging out of dirty drifting snowdrifts drifting downstream Taking out the ticking from the trash of ticking time bombs Making out and making love And maybe making time for Moms The winds of change are blowin' strong And every day is better than the last The winds of change are blowin' strong And the future looks much brighter than the past The risk of riding roughshod in a rickshaw on a ridge rolls Off the road across the bay where people pay their bridge tolls Mountains in the continental pass of passe payphones Texting moldy messages of microscopic ringtones Wake up to the day up in the way a giant wave breaks Surf it to a fishing net of interplanetary lakes Betcha can't be bad if, baby, being bad is b-a-w-h-h-h You're so much cooler when your ruler is the king of ha ha The winds of change are blowin' strong And every day is better than the last The winds of change are blowin' strong And the future looks much brighter than the past Sit upon a stool and sip a steeping hot sip of tea Listen to the symphony, stop wishing for some sympathy Cuz sympathy is simple, it's more difficult to stand tall The kooky crazy kid who learns to walk before he can crawl Never learns to look back like a lazy river raft ride Hide behind a hobby horse because you find you have to hide You show your hand to early if you let them read your face Don't throw away the ace of hearts baby, don't throw away the ace The winds of change are blowin' strong And every day is better than the last The winds of change are blowin' strong And the future looks much brighter than the past Yeah, the future looks much brighter than the past Cuz every day is better than the last And the future looks much brighter than the past Cuz every day is better than the last So the future looks much brighter than the past