1. ALL OF ME

I caught a glimpse of myself today
Wasn't a pretty picture, I must say
Well, I threw a dagger of poison words straight for my heart
Was it deserved?
Well, it's too late to make up some excuse and say it wasn't me
Well, what's the use?
Oh, you've seen too much
Ooh, let me introduce you to

This is my anger
This is my shame
These are my insecurities, that I can't explain
This is my fortress, crumbling 'round my feet
Take a good look, baby: this is all of me

They found that nerve deep in my soul
Poised and ready to explode
And no one else on earth but you could get close enough
To light that fuse
And you crawled up underneath my skin
Crept now through my veins and through my head
Ooh, you got so deep
You might as well get to know the rest of me

This is my anger
This is my shame
These are my insecurities, that I can't explain
This is my fortress, crumbling 'round my feet
Take a good look, baby: this is all of me

We all live under the same roof
We go by the same name

It saddens me to think that I cannot turn back the hands of time

This is my anger
This is my shame
These are my insecurities, that I can't explain
This is my fortress, crumbling 'round my feet
Take a good look, baby—

This is my anger
These are my doubts
These are my emotions, all strung out
This is my fortress, crumbling 'round my feet
Take a good look baby: this is all—this is all of me

This is all of me
Oh, this is all of me
This is all of me....

2. FALL FROM GRACE

I… I fall for everything
Under the sun, over the moon
Coming undone, broken in two

You… you fall for anything
Living the lie like all the rest
Walking the line out on the edge

Every saint is a sinner someday
No one is safe

You can fall from grace in so many ways
One step forward, two back
You can't run away from that empty space
You will find your place
When you lose your way
We all will fall from grace

I… feel like I never land
Out of the grey, into the black
Wasting away, starting to crack

Life… life is just history
Learning to die, reaching for stars
Coming to life, wearing the scars

Every saint is a sinner someday
No one is safe

You can fall from grace in so many ways
One step forward, two back
You can't run away from that empty space
You will find your place
When you lose your way
We all will fall from grace

And it's a sweet salvation
When you know you've hit the bottom
And you can finally pick yourself back up

Fall from grace, in so many ways
One step forward, two back
You can't run away from that empty space
You will find your place
When you lose your way
We all will fall
We all will fall
We all will fall… from grace

3. THE GIVING TREE

I was temporarily blind by a neon dollar sign
It pacified my mind and whispered things are fine
Said, "Boy, if you wanna heal just sign this paper deal
You'll never have to beg, no, you'll never have to steal"

But when that giving tree stops giving
I've gotta get back to living, living like I did before
With a mattress on the floor and no food in my kitchen
I gotta get back to living like I did before
Living like I did before

Trading one pound of gold for now ten pounds of flesh
You gotta sell this old soul for whatever you can get
Trading one pound of gold for now ten pounds of flesh
You gotta sell this old soul for whatever you can get (whatever you can get)

Down in the city streets grows a giving tree
Out of solid stone, mortared by my bone
And watered by my tears, strengthened by my fears
It's gonna grow strong, it's gonna live long—gonna haunt me for years

But when that giving tree stops giving
I've gotta get back to living, living like I did before
With a mattress on the floor and no food in my kitchen
I gotta get back to living like I did before
Living like I did before

Trading one pound of gold for now ten pounds of flesh
You gotta sell this old soul for whatever you can get
Trading one pound of gold for now ten pounds of flesh
You gotta sell this old soul for whatever you can get (whatever you can get)

It's beautiful fruit seems ripe at ground level
It's dangerous roots lead straight down to the devil
Lead straight down to the devil
Lead straight down to the devil
Lead straight down to the devil

When that giving tree stops giving
I've gotta get back to living, living like I did before
With a mattress on the floor and no food in my kitchen
I gotta get back to living like I did before

Trading one pound of gold for now ten pounds of flesh
You gotta sell this old soul for whatever you can get
Trading one pound of gold for now ten pounds of flesh
You gotta sell this old soul for whatever you can get

Trading one pound of gold for now ten pounds of flesh
You gotta sell this old soul for whatever you can get
Trading one pound of gold for now ten pounds of flesh
You gotta sell this old soul for whatever you can get

(one pound of gold, ten pounds of flesh)
(sell this old soul, 'ever you can get)
Like I did before

(one pound of gold, ten pounds of flesh)
(sell this old soul, 'ever you can get)
Like I did before

(one pound of gold, ten pounds of flesh)
(gonna sell this old soul for whatever you can get)

(one pound of gold, ten pounds of flesh)
(gonna sell this old soul for whatever you can get)
Like I did before....

4. MAD MAD WORLD / THE GOOD GOD IS A WOMAN AND SHE DON'T LIKE UGLY
(feat. Chuck D)

["Mad Mad World":]

I was standing with my paper there, minding my own news
For everything that someone said someone else had a different view
I watched the whole thing there unfold upon my TV screen
"A new world order is on its way," well, just pass the popcorn please

You don't mean to tell me no one else is gonna get hurt
When there's folks at home who eat dog food and they can't afford a shirt

Sure find out real fast just who's a sitting duck
When it's a…

(mad, mad world)—shake your hands and say good luck
(mad, mad world)—I cannot believe this stuff
(mad, mad world)—getting madder every day
(mad, mad world)—get involved and they'll blow you away

Sure find out real fast when you're a sitting duck
Well, it's a mad, mad world

A little man sits up way high, way up above the crowd
Can you make them dance real fast, can you make them cheer out loud?
Money doesn't talk and yet it sounds like a big machine
A voice on high says you reap what you sow, just keep your own nose clean

(mad, mad world)—shake your hands and say good luck
(mad, mad world)—I cannot believe this stuff
(mad, mad world)—getting madder every day
(mad, mad world)—get involved and they'll blow you away

Sure find out real fast just when you've had enough
Well, it's a mad, mad world
(mad mad world) …

["The Good God Is A Woman And She Don't Like Ugly":]

[Chuck D.:]
She'll knock you right off this planet
To those opposed and take it for granted
Who knows it grows from those that planned it
Who ran for office and they can't stand it?
Who robbed and stole and took full advantage
And hide the shock with all them antics?
Whose souls exposed cause I dig granite
We rock and roll, they don't understand it
And damn the wack cuz they don't want it
Your gold and diamonds so what you bought it
You don't know what I know, you just sport it
Bodyguards scared but you still flaunt it
People died in them mines and they just caught it
Sly slick the wicked, do you support it?
Kicking ask me the questions, y'all know I taught it
Want war? Shut up! Cuz you ain't fought it…!

C'mon!
Terrrible
Power to the people
Put your hands in the air

Terrible
C'mon
C'mon!

["Mad Mad World":]

(mad, mad world)—shake your hands and say good luck
(mad, mad world)—I cannot believe this stuff
(mad, mad world)—getting madder every day
(mad, mad world)—get involved and they'll blow you away

Sure find out real fast when you're a sitting duck
That it's a mad, mad world
Well, it's a mad, mad worl
Well, it's a mad, mad world
Mad, mad world....

5. PARTY OF ONE

Waiter said this table's set for three
Well, that's too bad cuz no one's joining me
Maybe I prefer to dine alone
What you don't understand about a party of one?

I used to keep a lot of people around
Who had their hands over my eyes, ears and mouth
Just like the money and the buzz they were gone in the morning
Now I'm a party of one

Want to get away on a holiday
So I packed my bags and I flew away
I'm in the air and I'm so turned on
Honey, can't you see I'm a party of one?

I used to keep a lot of people around
Who had their hands over my eyes, ears and mouth
Just like the money and the buzz they were gone in the morning
These days I wake up and there's no one in sight
Sometimes it gets so lonely I don't mind
I live alone but at least my roommate knows me
I'm a party of one

Don't get to comfortable cuz you gotta go
You have some nerve showing up here, oh!
(na na na na na na na na)
Oh, talk to the hand
(na na na na na na na na)
Talk to me on my level
(na na na na na na na na)

I used to keep a lot of people around
Who had their hands over my eyes, ears and mouth
Just like the money and the buzz they were gone in the morning
These days I wake up and there's no one in sight
Sometimes it gets so lonely I don't mind
I live alone but at least my roommate knows me
Now I'm a party of one

I'm a party…

Help me, no!

I'm a party of one
Help me out of this box
Get me out of here
I'm a party of one....

6. LIVE OR DIE

Daddy told me that his daddy said his daddy said, "Son,
Don't be going down with any bullets left in your gun"
He looked me in the eye, said, "Boy, make up your mind"

Live or die—grab it by the horns and baby take that ride
Live or die—give it up or give it everything inside
Fall of fly—won't do a bit of good of asking why
There's only two choices in life—live or die

I just wanna go out going hundred miles a minute, oh
Take every second of this life and spend all I can in it
No, I ain't got time to sit and bitch and whine

Live or die—grab it by the horns and baby take that ride
Live or die—give it up or give it everything inside
Fall of fly—won't do a bit of good of asking why
There's only two choices in life—live or die....

Daddy told me that his daddy said his daddy said, "Son,
Don't be going down with any bullets left in your gun"
He said, now

Live or die—grab it by the horns and baby take that ride
Live or die—give it up or give it everything inside
Fall of fly—won't do a bit of good of asking why
There's only two choices in life—live or die

(die)—never let a minute be a wasted time
Live or die—use it or lose it, make up your mind
Fall or fly—get on board or get left behind
There's only two choices in life—live or die

Oh now, live or die
(die)
(die) Oh now, live or die
(die) Now, live or die
(die) There's only two choices in life
(die)

There's only two choices in life....

7. CALIFORNIA DREAMIN'
(WITH PATTI RUSSO)

All the leaves are brown, and the sky is gray
I went for a walk on a winter's day
I'd be safe and warm if I was in L.A.
California dreamin' on such a winter's day

Stopped in to a church I passed along the way
Well, I got down on my knees (got down on my knees)
And I began to pray (I began to pray)
You know the preacher likes the cold (preacher likes the cold)
He knows that I'm gonna stay (knows I'm gonna stay)
Oh now, California dreamin'
(California dreamin) On such a winter's day, oh yeah....

All the leaves are brown (all the leaves are brown)
And the sky is gray (and the sky is gray)
I went for a walk (I went for a walk)
On a winter's day (on a winter's day)
If I didn't tell her, I could leave today
Oh now, California dreamin' (I thought you went away)
Oh now, California dreamin' (on such a winter's)
Oh now, California dreamin'
(California dreamin) on such a winter's day....

(dreamin')
Oh now, California dreamin'
(such a winter's day)
Oh now, California dreamin'
(Cali-for-ni-a, thought the sky was grey)
California dreamin'
(such a winter's day)
Oh, California dreamin'
(California dreamin)
(dreamin')
And the sky is gray
And the skies are gray....

8. ANOTHER DAY

She'll be the first to say she was blind
To how much life can hurt sometimes
She learned the hard way that life ain't fair
It's times like these you gasp for air

She looks at pictures in the magazines
It's all smiles and lipstick, and beauty queens
That simple life makes her cry because
She remembers when hers was

And one more tear falls in the river
She watches it wash away
And one more prayer flies up to heaven
Just begging for a change
And one more song no one else is singing
She's got to sing it anyway—alone
Another sun becomes a moon
She makes it through another day
She makes it through another day

For me I think the hardest part
Is just watching while she falls apart
I try but we both know it's true
There ain't a damn thing I can do

And one more tear falls in the river
She watches it wash away
And one more prayer flies up to heaven
Just begging for a change
And one more song no one else is singing
She's got to sing it anyway—alone
Another sun becomes a moon
She makes it through another day
She makes it through another day

Every now and then I hear her laugh
It makes me think she might be coming back
Tell her we miss her
She's gone, gone
She's gone again

And one more tear falls in the river
She watches it wash away
And one more prayer flies up to heaven
Just begging for a change
And one more song no one else is singing
She's got to sing it anyway—alone
Another sun becomes a moon
She makes it through another day
She makes it through another day
She makes it through another day....

9. FORTY DAYS

Some say it's wrong, some say it's right
Some say it's politicians playing both sides
Some say it's greed, some say it's change
Some say it's all just the price we'll have to pay

And I feel a storm coming in
And I see the earth bending in the wind

It's gonna rain, yeah
Wash it all away, yeah
And it ain't gonna stop
No, it ain't gonna stop
For forty days

Some say it's fate, some say it's chance
Some say it's the blood of our fathers on our hands
Some say it's a lie, some say it's the truth
Some say it's all coming down on me and you

And I see a fire in the sky
And I hear the thunder out on the edge of night

It's gonna rain, yeah
Wash it all away, yeah
And it ain't gonna stop
No, it ain't gonna stop
For forty days

Some say the stars will fall down from heaven
Some say the angels will cry and ask us why

It's gonna rain—
Yeah
It's gonna rain
Oh, it's gonna rain
It's gonna rain, rain, rain, rain, yeah
Wash it all away
(it's gonna rain) for forty days
(it's gonna rain) for forty days
(it's gonna rain) for forty days
(it's gonna rain) for forty days
(it's gonna rain)
(it's gonna rain)
(it's gonna rain)
(it's gonna rain) … [etc.]

10. OUR LOVE AND OUR SOULS
(WITH PATTI RUSSO)

[Boy:]
Damn car broke down again, the heat just did the same
I can feel that cold winter wind creeping in again
Sometimes it all comes down at once
Sometimes when it rains, it pours
But I wouldn't trade my troubles for any one of yours, oh no, no

[Girl:]
Oh baby, money's just money, it comes and it goes
Things are just things, baby, so breakable
Ain't nothing last forever 'cept our love and our souls

[Boy:]
'Cause I ain't that hungry and I have a home
I ain't fighting for my life and I'm not alone, ooh
So may I pray every morning
As I make up the bed
"Lord, all I need today is my daily bread"

[Girl:]
Ooh darlin' don't you worry
'Cause money's just money, it comes and it goes
And things are just things, baby, so breakable
Ain't nothing last forever 'cept our love and our souls

Aaaah
Aaaah…

[Both:]
Money's just money, it comes and it goes
Things are just things, baby, so breakable
Ain't nothing last forever 'cept our love and our souls
Girl: Our souls....

11. STAND IN THE STORM
(FEAT. LIL JON, JOHN RICH AND MARK MCGRATH)

[Meat Loaf with Mark McGrath:]
This town splits right down the middle
There's rich and poor, black and white
Right down thru the saints and the sinners
And the ones who might

This world is tough as a splinter
There's ones that flinch and ones that fight
Round here you can sure tell the difference
'tween the rocks and the rolling types

I know I'm gonna stick with ya
When the hard times hit

[Chorus:]
Somebody's gotta stand in the storm
In the lightning, when it pours
Be strong enough to lean on
Show you what a backbone's for

Somebody's gotta stand in the storm
Somebody's gotta stand…

[John Rich with Mark McGrath:]
Well, nobody likes a white flag quitter
Leaves you there, tucks and runs
Life's comin' and it hits like a hammer
Kicks like a shotgun

I ain't out here looking for trouble
I'm no stranger to an uphill fight
You need a hand when it all starts slipping?
You can bet I'm-a hold on tight

Well, you know I'm gonna stick with ya
When the hard times hit

[Chorus:]
Somebody's gotta stand in the storm
In the lightning, when it pours
Be strong enough to lean on
Show you what a backbone's for

Somebody's gotta stand in the storm
Somebody's gotta stand in the storm

[Lil Jon:]
What?
What?
Okay
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

So tough, I keep it rough
Won't back down, I laugh at these clowns
Me and my crew, we keep it Trump-tight
Live yours boy—this is my life
I stick my chest out so there's no doubt
I had enough, no trust, win I must
As I stomp through the rain
The pain rushes through my vein
But I still maintain
Nahhh!
Checked out, I'm off duty
Insane like Busey
Now who wants test weee…?
Now see I'm the best at it
You just like the rest at it
I'm sick like a meth addict
But ain't no intervention
Just your apprehension
And then your dissension
Shots to your dome
Send you home
Screaming no backbone

'Cause I will show you what a backbone's for, baby
Let's go!

[Chorus (Lil Jon ad-libs):]
Somebody's gotta stand in the storm
In the lightning, when it pours
Be strong enough to lean on
Show you what a backbone's for

Somebody's gotta stand in the storm
In the lightning, when it pours
Be strong enough to lean on
Show you what a backbone's for

Somebody's gotta stand in the storm
[Lil Jon:] Somebody
Somebody's gotta stand in the storm

[Lil Jon:]
Show you what a backbone—
Show you what a backbone—
Show you what a backbone's for....

[Meat Loaf (Lil Jon ad-libs):]
Somebody's gotta stand in the storm
Somebody's gotta stand in the storm
Somebody gotta
Somebody gotta, yeah

Somebody's gotta stand in the storm....

12. BLUE SKY

Have you a heart that beats?
Have you a breath to breathe?
And have you veins that bleed?
Have you a brain that dreams?

Is it so hard to see that we're all the same machine?
Don't we all live and die under the same blue sky....


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