Don’t believe what you hear
Don’t believe what you see
If you just close your eyes
You can feel the enemy
When I first met you girl
You had fire in your soul
What happened your face
Of melting in snow
Now it looks like this
And you can swallow
Or you can spit
You can throw it up
Or choke on it
And you can dream
So dream out loud
You know that your time is coming ’round
So don’t let the bastards grind you down
No, nothing makes sense
Nothing seems to fit
I know you’d hit out
If you only knew who to hit
And I’d join the movement
If there was one I could believe in
Yeah I’d break bread and wine
If there was a church I could receive in
’cause I need it now
To take a cup
To fill it up
To drink it slow
I can’t let you go
I must be an acrobat
To talk like this
And act like that
And you can dream
So dream out loud
And don’t let the bastards grind you down
Oh, it hurts baby
(What are we going to do now it’s all been said)
(No new ideas in the house and every book has been read)
And I must be an acrobat
To talk like this
And act like that
And you can dream
So dream out loud
And you can find
Your own way out
You can build
And I can will
And you can call
I can’t wait until
You can stash
And you can seize
In dreams begin
Responsibilities
And I can love
And I can love
And I know that the tide is turning ’round
So don’t let the bastards grind you down
Prevod na srpski
Akrobata
Ne veruj svojim ušima
Ne veruj svojim očima
Ako zatvoriš oči
Možeš osetiti neprijatelja
Kad sam te upoznao devojko
Duša ti je gorela
Šta se desilo s tvojim licem
Topi se u snegu
Sad izgleda ovako
I možeš progutati
Ili možeš pljunuti
Možeš povratiti
Ili se ugušiti
I možeš sanjati
Pa sanjaj naglas
Znaš da tvoje vreme dolazi
Zato ne daj bitangama da te tlače
Ne, ništa nema smisla
Ništa nije kako treba
Znam da bi napala
Kad bi samo znala koga da udariš
I ja bih se pridružio pokretu
Kad bi postojao jedan u kojeg bih mogao verovati
Da, delio bih hleb i vino
Da postoji crkva kojoj bih mogao pripadati
jer treba mi sad
Da uzmem pehar
da ga napunim
Da pijem polako
Ne mogu te pustiti da odeš
Morao bih biti akrobata
Da pričam ovako
I ponašam se onako
A ti možeš da sanjaš
Pa sanjaj naglas
I ne daj bitangama da te tlače
Oh, to boli, dušo
(Šta ćemo sad kad je sve već rečeno)
(Nemamo novih ideja i svaka knjiga je pročitana)
A ja mora da sam akrobata
Kad pričam ovako
I ponašam se onako
A ti možeš da sanjaš
Pa sanjaj naglas
I možeš sama naći
Način da se izvučeš
Možeš graditi
A ja mogu birati
Jedva čekam
Da možeš sakriti
I da možeš grabiti
U snovima počinju
Odgovornosti
A ja mogu voleti
I ja mogu voleti
I ja znam da se struje okreću
Zato ne daj bitangama da te tlače