And I told you to be patient
And I told you to be fine
And I told you to be balanced
And I told you to be kind

First to fall over when the atmosphere is less than perfect
Your sensibilities are shaken by the slightest defect
You live you life like a canary in a coalmine
You get so dizzy even walking in a straight line
You say you want to spend the winter in Firenza
You're so afraid to catch a dose of influenza
You live your life like a canary in a coalmine
You get so dizzy even walking in a straight line
Canary in a coalmine

nobody's right if everybody's wrong...

Yeah, I sing to know that love is near
Because anger holds the hand of fear
I sing to know that love is near
Oh courage, take the hand of fear

Better stay away from those
That carry around a fire hose
Keep a clean nose
Watch the plain clothes
You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows

A foreign body
And a foreign mind
Never welcome
In the land of the blind

You may look like we do
Talk like we do
But you know how it is
You're not one of us

...and you think you know what life's about...

Change your heart; look around you...

And the Germans kill the Jews
And the Jews kill the Arabs
And the Arabs kill the hostages
And that is the news
And is it any wonder
That the monkey's confused

Don't let your mind get weary and confused
Your will be still, don't try
Don't let your heart get heavy child
Inside you there's a strength that lies

Don't let your soul get lonely child
It's only time, it will go by
Don't look for love in faces, places
It's in you, that's where you'll find kindness

Be here now, here now
Be here now, here now

Don't lose your faith in me
And I will try not to lose faith in you
Don't put your trust in walls
'Cause walls will only crush you when they fall

Be here now, here now
Be here now, here now

Are we listening
Hymns of offering?
Have we eyes to see
That love is gathering?
All the words that I've been reading
Have now started the act of bleeding
Into one, into one

I heard the news today, oh boy...

We could build cell on cell
Mainline him straight to hell
But that would not dispel
Violent men, hard-headed women, unloved children

Unloved Children - Todd Rundgren

I live in another world
where life and death are memorized
Where the earth is strung with lover's pearls
and all I see are dark eyes.

There's a riot in the courthouse, there's a fire in the street
There's a sinner being trampled by a thousand pious feet
There's a baby every minute being born without a chance
Now don't that make you wanna jump right up and start to dance?

Please don't look at me that way,
I can hardly say what I have to say,
There is nothing that I haven't told to you
That I didn't believe you knew.…

...You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'round

And if California slides into the ocean
Like the Mystics and Statistics say it will
I predict this motel will be standing
Until I pay my bill