Freak Of Nature -1993
 
I can see in your eyes you’ve been crying
cause you don’t know what’s going on
everybody is telling you something
and you don’t know where you belong
there are places intown
where you don’t wanna go
there are people ‘round here
who you don’t wanna know
just give it time oh oh time
turn and walk the other way
there will come a better day
life ain’t always what it seems
you will find your golden dreams
I can hear in the words that you’ve spoken
that life ain’t agreeing with you
there are things in your mind
that you can’t seem to find
cause they’re all new to you
can’t you see that road
you’ve been riding is turning
do you know that the rebel
inside you is burning
just give it time oh oh time
turn and walk the other way ...
 
 
What am I
I don’t need no alibi
cause I know who I am
and where I stand
who are you
to tell me what to do
when you are deaf and blind
to humankind
what am I, what am I
 
Why is it I never seem to fit
the way society wans you to be
why am I the one you do deny
when you don’t dare to think
who you might be
what am I, what am I
 
I’m just a freak of nature singing an old song
doing you no wrong
I’m just a freak of nature using my wisdom
living for freedom
why is it when you can’t identify
you will call me names and play your games
 
when will you finaly break on through
and take a look inside your foolish pride
 
what am I, what am I ...
 
 
Oh please Lord have mercy
I don’t know what I’ve done
there’s a fire burning in me
I can’t tell right from wrong
I have broken vows and cursed your name
and taken what ain’t mine
I have tasted hate and I’ve seen my fate
at the bottom of a bottle of wine
 
there’s a fire burning inside of me (2)
 
won’t you rescue me, oh rescue me, recue me, yeah
 
I crawl out from the ashes
with shielded blood red eyes
there’s a neon sign that flashes
you’ve come to paradise
the smoky room, her cheap perfume
another lost romance
I have sunk so low running off
my tracks i never had a chance...
 
 
What is it that I have done
to deserve a bullet from your gun
I always thought you were my friend
well I guess that I was wrong
freezing cold won’t let me in
wasn’t there a time when I was in
never knew you’d turn your back on me
it’s only now I see
 
what I wanted is everything I didn’t get
when I needed nobody seemed to be my friend
ain’t it funny how people change
and everybody forgets your name
 
but my hate will make me stronger
my hate will not forget
my hate will fill my hunger
 
yeah ‘92 I hate you why mother
did she die when all I wanted to hear
was have a happy new year I didn’t know
that I wasn’t your friend
yeah ‘92 I hate you
 
a saddened voice, an april day mother told me
grandma passed away
didn’t fight the tears that fell
never got to say farewell
why is it you hurt me there
when you break the part I can’t repair
I always knew the day would come
but never did believe...
 
 
There are people who don’t tell the truth
there are people that resent the youth
and the people I see
don’ ever talk to me
there are people who are so afraid
there are people that believe in fate
and the people I know are incognito
can’t be trusted they can’t be won
always hiding behind a gun
they won’t help you
they won’t be nice wouldn’t think to apologize
 
there are people I don’t like
there are shadows in my life
they are people I don’t need
they will bite the hand that feeds
 
there are people who don’t like to wait
there are people that are filled
with hate and the people I meet
I won’t ever defeat
there are people who will take your life
there are people that’ll steal your wife
and the people right here they don’t ever fear
 
can’t be trusted they can’t be won
always hiding behind the gun
they won’t help you
they won’t be nice wouldn’t think to apologize
 
there are people
I don’t like...
 
 
I’m a lover of life on the edge of a knife
sitting comfort ably numb on a ticking time bomb
and I’m the one at the end before it’s begun
I’m the bullet that flies from my killer’s gun
yeah ah I’m feeling so fine (2)
I know the world doesn’t mind (2)
I’m the mental disease that is looking for peace
just an open door into eternal war
cause I believe that the Lord lives next door to me
I got a master’s degree in insanity
 
yeah I’m feeling so fine...
I know the world doesn’t mind ...
 
 
Someone’s lurking at my door
I don’t know my name no more
am I alive or am I dead, Lucifer is in my head
not aware of what I’ve done
killed somebody with my gun
took her life just seventeen
am I human or machine
 
I’m burning from within
I’m burning for my sins
I’m burning cause I’m bad
I’m burning cause yes I’m mad
lay me down into unholy ground
cause I am possessed (2) oh yes I am
 
love is what I’ve come to hate
love is what became her fate
so insane I cannot stop chain me down
and lock me up
 
I’m burning for my guilt
I’m burning , yes I’m filth
I’m burning to the core
I’m burning evermore
 
lay me down into unholy ground
cause I am possessed ...
 
Part 1:
When a child is born he doesn’t know
which way he will choose
which way he will go
cause his future and his destiny is someone else’s
fantasy
no he doesn’t know why ever he was born
 
Part 2:
The young man s’got a taste for blood
ha has killed before and kill he will again
no he doesn’t see what’s right or wrong
he only knows to carry on
and satisfy the need he knows so well
 
Part 3:
The old man sits in a prison cell for twenty years
he’s waited there to die as the final hour
strikes the bell they’re waiting for him
down in hell and death returns
the favour one last time...
 
 
Five in the morning and rain has started falling
I lie awake inside and think of you
I swore that I’d be leaving the day you left us all
but memories of you have kept me here
 
I’m nothing anymore just crumbling on the floor
without you in my life and nothing I can do
cant get me close to you and home where I belong
 
Where can I go when all the lights are out
where can I turn in the middle of the night
what can I do ‘cause I just think of you
and I know that I can’t make it through the night
 
time heals the wounded but it never ends the pain
and laughter sure don’t hang around this place
I’ve tried to be stronger
but the nights are getting longer
the part of me you took was more than half
never will your words heal me when it hurts
and warm when I’m cold
never will your song carry me along
the road that leads to you
where can I go when all the lights are out ...
 
 
If I leave would all the things I did be undone
would all your seeds drink from the rain
 
and all your flowers bloom in the sun
If I said goodbye
would sadness disappear from your eyes
would you be free from your cocoon
and spread your wings a young butterfly
am I just the key that sets you free
if I leave today will I know the way
can I make it right
see myself in a better light
in the open book can I change what I mistook
find the things I do not know
tell me now where can I go
 
memories don’t fade away
they only make it hard to forget
your dreams will all come back to you
and I am left the things I regret
 
am I leaving just to see you free
if I leave today will I know the way ...
 
fly from your broken cage to the open sky
your freedom I cannot deny fly oh fly
spread your golden wings again
let me never ever cause you pain
now I go away and set you free...
 
 
Now the house is all empty
and the fighting has ended
there’s no crying anymore
no more slamming of the door
not a trace that love was here
 
all the mirrors are broken
and the pictures on the walls
every smiling face erased
every pillar left unbraced
not a trace that love was here
 
where did it go nobody knows
it came and left and never said goodbye
where is it now why did it go
there’s not a trace that love was here
 
now the snow started falling
and the sky turned to grey
everybody stayed inside
all the flowers froze and died
not a trace that love wes here
 
the death came and conquered
to the grave walk the old
one by one they disappear
not a worry not a fear
do they know that love was here
where did it go nobody knows
it came and left and never said goodbye
where is it now why did it go
there’s not a trace that love was here
 
 
---------------------------------------------------------
Freak Of Nature : 
Mike Tramp - vocals
Jerry Best - bass
Kenny Korade - guitars
Johnny Haro - drums
Dennis Chick - guitars
 
---------------------------------------------------------
© 1993 Music For Nations
---------------------------------------------------------
Freak Of Nature - 1993