So long ago, I don’t remember when
That’s when they say I lost my only friend
Well they said she died easy of a broken heart disease
As I listened through the cemetery trees

I seen the sun comin’ up at the funeral at dawn
The long broken arm of human law
Now it always seemed such a waste
She always had a pretty face
So I wondered how she hung around this place

[сhorus:]
Hey, come on try a little
Nothing is forever
There’s got to be something better than
In the middle
But me & Cinderella
We put it all together
We can drive it home
With one headlight

She said it’s cold
It feels like Independence Day
And I can’t break away from this parade
But there’s got to be an opening
Somewhere here in front of me
Through this maze of ugliness and greed
And I seen the sun up ahead
At the county line bridge
Sayin’ all there’s good and nothingness is dead
We’ll run until she’s out of breath
She ran until there’s nothin’ left
She hit the end-it’s just her window ledge

[chorus]

Well this place is old
It feels just like a beat up truck
I turn the engine, but the engine doesn’t turn
Well it smells of cheap wine & cigarettes
This place is always such a mess
Sometimes I think I’d like to watch it burn
I’m so alone, and I feel just like somebody else
Man, I ain’t changed, but I know I ain’t the same
But somewhere here in between the city walls of dyin’ dreams
I think her death it must be killin’ me

[chorus]

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Jedan far

Tako davno, ne sećam se kada
Kažu da sam tada izgubio svog jedinog druga
Pa, kažu da je umrla mirno od slomljenog srca
Dok sam osluškivao kroz grobljanska drva

Video sam sunce kako izlazi nad pogrebom u zoru
Dugu slomljenu ruku ljudskog zakona
Sad se čini da je uvek delovala tako protraćena
Ona je uvek bila lepa
Pa sam se pitao kako to da se ovde zadržavala

[refren:]
Hej, hajde probaj malo
Ništa nije večno
Mora da ima nešto bolje od
Sredine
Ali ja i Pepeljuga
Zajedničkim snagama
Možemo stići do cilja
Sa jednim farom

Rekla je da je hladno
Kao da je Dan nezavisnosti
A ja ne mogu da se izdvojim iz ove parade
Ali mora da postoji izlaz
Negde tu, ispred mene
Kroz ovu zbrku ružnoće i pohlepe
A video sam sunce tamo napred
Na mostu između okruga
Govorila je da postoji samo dobro a ništavila nema više
Trčaćemo dok ona ne ostane bez daha
Ona je trčala dok nije ostala bez ičega
Došla je do kraja – to je samo njena prozorska daska

[refren]

Ma, ovo je staro mesto
Deluje kao neki slupani kamion
Palim motor, ali motor se ne pali
Ma, smrdi na jeftino vino i cigare
Ovo mesto je uvek džumbus
Nekad pomislim da bih voleo da ga vidim kako gori
Tako sam usamljen, i imam osećaj kao da nisam sav svoj
Čoveče, nisam se promenio, ali znam da nisam isti
Ali, negde tu, među gradskim zidovima umirućih snova
Mislim da me njena smrt ubija

[refren]

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There is trouble in my mind
There is dark, there is dark and there is light
Lay your hands over my eyes
As I look deep, through valleys deep and wide
Across the borderline for the empire in my mind

You are the reason I don’t sleep
You are the light that’s breaking through the leaves
And you know how hard I try
To believe I have something good inside
All the barricades, I climb for the empire in my mind

I have known love, somewhere in time
I’ve been lifted up, I’ve looked honor in the eyes
I have no reason, I have no rhyme
I cannot deny there’s a darkness that’s inside
I am guilty by design and now I realize
The temptations made me blind to the empire in my mind

There is no order, there is chaos and there is crime
There is no one home tonight in the empire of my mind

There is no distance that I don’t see
I do have a world, no limit to my reach
I wish, I would, I wish, I might
To see a line tonight, separating wrong from right
As I am only born to try and maybe that’s the reason why
I’m afraid someday I’ll find there is no empire in my mind

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Imperija u mom umu

U mojim je mislima nevolja
U njima je mrak, mrak i svetlost
Ruke mi na oči stavi
Dok gledam u dubinu, kroz doline, duboke i široke
Preko granice, ka imperiji u mom umu

Ti si razlog zbog kojeg ne spavam
Ti si svetlost što prodire kroz lišće
I ti znaš koliko se trudim
Da verujem da nešto dobro u sebi nosim
Preko svih barikada, ja se penjem, do imperije u mom umu

Znao sam šta je ljubav, nekada
Bio sam uzdignut, tražio sam čast u očima
Nemam nijedan razlog, nemam nijednu rimu
Ne mogu da poreknem da je u meni tama
Kriv sam što sam živ i sada shvatam
Iskušenja su me sprečila da vidim imperiju u svom umu

Nema reda, postoji haos i postoji zločin
Večeras nikog nema u imperiji uma mog

Ništa nije tako daleko da ja ne vidim
Ja imam jedan svet, sve mogu doseći, bez granica
Voleo bih kada bih, voleo bih kada bih mogao
Večeras, videti crtu, koja razdvaja pogrešno od ispravnog
Jer ja sam rođen samo da bih pokušao i možda je to razlog što
Bojim se da ću jednog dana uvideti da u mom umu imperije nema

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