Friday, March 21, 2008

Stand and Deliver

don't need no anger
to color your songs
you have all that you’re needin'
you don't have to do wrong
you can run with the others
turn your words into fights
or you can stand and deliver
something so right

you have something special
i can hear when you sing
so you don't need to answer
when the trouble boys ring
you can swear like the others
with their four letter words
or you can stand and deliver
what they never could

(chorus)
and the coal dark of night calls the soul
come to me she says
it's better than you've been told
that sweet song of satan
fill you up with those lies...lies...lies
what do you know of heaven?
until you've been tried

don't need no suitcase
to get where you're goin'
if you ride with the bad man
that is all you'll be knowin'
you can be like the others
take a stance so tough
or you can stand and deliver
say enough is enough

(chorus)
and the coal dark of night calls the soul
come to me she says
it's better than you've been told
that sweet song of satan
fill you up with those lies...lies...lies
what do you know of heaven?
until you've been tried

(2008 db michel)