Jewel - Life's A Great Big Mystery Show - Текст песни

Went downtown just to be a martyr

   but a telephone pole beat me to it

   it was covered in barbed wire

   Saw a little boy's white teeth

   like wild horses encaged by an iron string

   

   Oh god...does not feel good unless he bleeds

   

   And daily crucifictions are hung up on street signs

   they use all sorts of names

   hope they never use mine

   these consonants and vowels

   that cannot scream nor howl

   only just hang around

   

   Oh god...how'd things get so turned around

   

   and in the office building

   9 to 5 goes on trial

   the man is startin to crack

   but the ceiling stones smile

   and the boss comes in

   to see what fragile things

   his dull and pointless tongue can tear

   

   Oh god...he combed over a baldspot with a bit of hair

   

   Cause everybody needs

   somebody else to blame

   they can't curse themselves

   they take their doctor's name in vain

   they'd rather jump through hoops

   and theraputic groups

   than in their own minds delve

   

   oh god...why don't we believe in ourselves

   

   Sometimes

   I think

   Life is just a movie

   and these

   strangers

   are folks we really know

   sit back

   relax

   enjoy some popcorn

   Life's a great big mystery show

   

   Saw tiny faces that are tattered and torn

   but there's paint upon the mansion that is hardly worn

   I'd like to go inside

   but why I don't know

   as though I could peel the paint

   and feed it to the poor

   

   oh god...can't live like this anymore

   

   my landlord..no...

   my neighbor is as tolerant as a feeding shark

   but they tell me that her bite is much better than her bark

   she goes ramblin on

   from dusk until dawn

   sayin I should try bein' like her sometime

   

   oh god...think somethin's died inside her mind

   

   cause

   sometimes...

   

   Life's a great big mystery show