The Solution

Lyrics by Howard Anshell

 

So now it’s WAR!
Are you ready to cut me down,
Just because I have a song that’s different from your own?
Lock me up, or beat me down,
Till I’m afraid to speak…
It’s too damn dangerous out there
When people try to think!
You try to devastate me
With your critical look,
Full of passages
From what you call “a good book”.
It’s all you ever read,
So you know it
Must be right—
It gives you leave
To spread the grief
At what makes you uptight!
It’s very simple—
I know he’ll get along fine,
If you go your way,
And I go mine!
You can’t find the power in your life
Except for what you take—
What nature didn’t create is
Oh, so easy to fake!
All faced off against the fearsome
Kids you worked so hard to raise;
All tied up in that nice neat little package
You slaved your soul to make!
But for all your polish
And your bright shiny chrome,
You just can’t shake the feeling
That you’ve never been at home!
You find your answer here,
Then you find the
New improved model there—
Change your beliefs as easy as you
Dye your hair!
I’ve got a message, and it’s
Just short of divine:
Concentrate on your own mess
Before you mess with mine!
Your long nose and your long arm seem to
Always butt in here—
Whatever my private life, you feel obliged to
Interfere!
You think all your ills would be solved
If I’d just disappear –
If all the world could see
What seems to you
So clear!
But I’ve got news you should attend,
So I’ll just clue you in:
People have done
What they love to do
Ever since the world began!
You can knock them,
You can jail them,
But in the end you’ll see:
You can’t
Smash a spirit that’s demanding
To be free!
See if you can maybe
Read my lips this time –
Go live your
So-called life,
And leave me to mine!