Following my lust for wander
Everywhere I've ever been
I can't escape from the sound of it
The sound of my screaming skin

My skin cries
My blood sighs
I still owe some dread on this hide

I'm a multi-cellular individual
You're way out of proportion
We've got a hemodynamic connection
Don't call me germ

Following my trust in wonder
I watch the circus begin
I can't ignore the scent of it
The scent of my screaming skin

My skin cries
My blood sighs
But I still owe some dread on this hide

I'm a multi-cellular individual
You're way out of proportion
We've got a hemodynamic connection
Don't call me germ

Allowing for my strength to muster
My losses begin to win
Tropical winds start to bluster
Raising the fur on my skin

My skin cries
My spirits fly
But I still owe some dread on this hide

I'm a multi-cellular individual
You're way out of proportion
We've got a hemodynamic connection
Don't call me germ

Swallowing my pride no longer
I take the forbidden sun
If I have been sculpted by hunger
I'm not the only one

My skin cries
My blood sighs
I still owe some dread on this hide of mine

I'm a multi-cellular individual
You're way out of proportion
We've got a hemodynamic connection
Don't call me germ

My skin cries
My spirit flies
But I still owe some dread on this hide

My skin cries
My blood sighs
And I still owe some dread on this hide of mine

My skin cries
My spirits fly
But I still owe some dread on this hide

In the beginning in the days before time
The light was alive with the essence of power
And from that power were born beings who lived on the edge of eternity
And they spread their wings and soared through the ancient air
And the beating of their wings made the winds
And from the winds came the seas
And from the seas came the life of the Earth

Fate is cast upon the sea
The winds of past
A promise be
Waters deep uncover me
A scheme of sleep
As lovers three

If you'll forgive me my ferocity
I won't forget your sweetness
Pull down the night and lay it before me
Gratify my head with curses

Night recalls tranquility
A curtain falls
And sets it free
Darkness calls eternity
Down silent halls
The shadows flee

If you'll forgive me my ferocity
I won't forget your sweetness
Pull down the night and lay it before me
Satisfy my head with curses

Forgive and Forget...

Fates are cast upon the sea
The winds of past
A promise be
Waters deep uncover me
A scheme of sleep
As lovers three

Forgive and Forget...

She moves like she don't care
Smooth as silk, cool as air
Ooh, it makes you wanna cry
She doesn't know your name
And your heart beats like a subway train
Ooh, it makes you wanna die

Ooh, don't ya wanna take her
Wanna make her all your own

Maria
You've gotta see her
Go insane and out of your mind
Regina
Ave Maria
A million and one
Candle lights

I've seen this thing before
In my best friend and the boy next door
Fool for love and
Fool of fire
Won't come in from the rain
Sees oceans running down the drain
Blue as ice and desire

Don't ya wanna make her
Ooh, don't ya wanna take her home

Maria
You've gotta see her
Go insane and out of your mind
Regina
Ave Maria
A million and one
Candle lights

Ooh, don't ya wanna break her
Ooh, don't ya wanna take her home

She walks like she don't care
You wanna take her everywhere
Ooh, it makes you wanna cry
She's like a millionaire
Walking on imported air
Ooh, it makes you wanna die

(repeat chorus)

There's no sin in this
Gettin' dressed to kill
Laughin' down the sun
Like a jackal will
With his eyes ablaze and his lips apart
He's gonna fill his cup with the love in your heart
And drink it up till the morning starts
Circulate the red light vistas
Get the girls then get their sisters
Pinch em up and give em blisters
Kiss em fierce with all his might
Forever...

Bye bye to another life (repeat)

**Coolio**
*Standing on the verge of the edge
of the ledge
Waitin for me to fall
Then I got a call that said
Wait hold up homey
you must be trippiní
You can't be puttin that simpin'
And whimpin' up in your pippin
You better stand tall
Fool you was born to ball
Took a little fall
And now you want to end it all
Youíve been chasin' dreams like
A hounddog on the hunt
Take your place in the front
With your hand on the pump
And then it's right in your grasp man
I know they laughin
but you'll be laughin later
because times are going to get greater
you's a player
And when I say player
I mean player
cause ya daddy and uncle was a player*

Who's gonna cry for ya
Who's gonna cry over you
Who's gonna cry for ya
Who's gonna cry over you

**Coolio**
*Put yourself in your position
you ainít wishin for no food and no warmth and no light
so you must be doing all right*

But wait a minute
Something's wrong
It's lunatic
It's mad insane
Busted like a water main
Indulgence in another vein
What they're sayin' round the neighborhood
Is what he's drinkin's not aged in wood
He's fillin' out he's all growed up
He's all blowed up he's gotten fat
He's fillin' out he's all growed up
He's all blowed up he's gotten fat
Sure enough at the midnight lounge
There's a dent in the seat where the vampire sat

Bye bye to another life
Bye bye to another life
The livin' dead is doin' time
Like drownin' on the circle line

Who's gonna cry for ya
Who's gonna cry over you
Who's gonna cry for ya
Who's gonna cry over you

       **Coolio (rap in background)**
*Whoís gonna cry for ya    Who's gonna try for you
Who's gonna cry over you                    Who's gonna lie for you
Whoís gonna cry for ya    Tell me would lie to you
Whoís gonna cry over you    Die for you
       Your hoping that it's true for you
(Repeat)      Do for you, fool
       But who's gonna cry?
(Repeat)
       Who's gonna try for you
       cry for you
       die for you
       die for you*

Looking for your face
Where it could never be
Iím following a trail
That only I can see
Raising waves of heat
I press on
In tiny bursts of speed

Caught in my pursuit
I pay the fetishist admission
The longing that I feel
Drives me mad in no direction
Nailed by something cute
I tear it out
With microsurgical precision

Incender
Put some gas on the ember
Lightning goes to ground

Incender
Crazy fool on a bender
Striking the ground
Burning me down

Double Take
Left with an aftertaste
I look again
Was it your  face?

Double take
Iím in an altered state
I look again
Was it really you?

Another flash of face
Igniting and familiar
Pulls me by the eye
To the perimiter
Riveting my gaze
Is that your face in the crowd?

Incender
Drop some gas on the ember
I felt a slap in the face

Incender
Crazy fool on a bender
Striking the ground
Burning me down
 

Double Take
Left with an aftertaste
I look again
Was it your face?

I feel awake
Iím in an altered state
I look it again
Was it really you?

Double Take
Left with an aftertaste
I look again
Was it your face?

Double Take
Iím in an altered state
I look again
Was it really you?

Some days are all Mondays
Sort of time on ice
It seems like
Jet planes
On snowed in runways
Under clear blue skies
Who needs it

Nothing is real but the girl
Nothing is real but her

Money goes to money
In a figure eight
Around me
Money
Who's gonna love me
If I liquidate
And drown me

Nothing is real but the girl
Nothing else feels solid

We believe in love
We believe in little things
Like Heaven up above
And Seven
It's a lucky number

We believe that something lives
Inside everything there is
Don't think about it much
I mean it
I believe it
I believe it

Wind down
Put your mind down
Like your missing school
You'll teach her to
Find out
While you're dying in your living room
How much you need her

Nothing is real but the girl
Only her eyes are solid
Nothing is real but her
Nothing is real but the girl

Some days are all Mondays
Sort of time on ice
It seems like
Jet planes
Sit on runways
Under clear blue skies
Who needs it

Nothing is real but the girl
Nothing is real but me

Money
Goes to money
In a figure eight
Around me
Money
Where will love be
If you liquidate
You're drowning

Nothing is real but the girl
Nothing is real but me

Now done is done
You have to face the horrible days
You were the one
Running sevens

Then luck was gone
The magic man without his wand
Praying for a seven or eleven

Wind down
Put your mind down
Like you're missing school
I'll teach you to
Find out
While you're dying in your living room
How much you need me

Nothing is real but the girl
Only my eyes are solid
Nothing is real but me
Nothing is real but the girl 

Passing the match test
That's some kind of tease
'Cause everything rests on the moment
The little flame sees

Let's go
Boom boom in the zoom zoom room

If you get past that brief little flash
Take down my number with your pencil mustache
Play truth or dare in the light
Of a strike anywhere
Don't follow the fallen
Already lying down there

Let's go
Boom boom in the zoom zoom room
Oh yeah, oh
Boom boom in the zoom zoom room

I'll be the cause you can champion
Your scarlet companion
And won't it be fine
Keeping my head above water
I'm no farmer's daughter
I'm no clinging vine

When we trip the light fantastic
A feeling so rare
It will follow your features
Outlined by the glare

Let's go
Boom boom in the zoom zoom room
Let's go
Boom boom in the zoom zoom room

I'll be the cause you can champion
Your scarlet companion
And won't it be fun
I'll keep my head above water
I'm no farmer's daughter
I'm no clinging vine

Passing the match test
And no one says thank you
'Cause they're gone just as fast as a breeze.

Boom boom in the zoom zoom room
Yeah, let's go
Boom boom in the zoom zoom room

Your music by the night wind sent
Awakes my quiet instrument
In the silence of your steps
I can see into the depths

Messenger of sympathies
My heart beats loud in ecstasy
When your shadow falls on me
A silhouette reality

And I chase every night after you
And I chase after you

Of all your loaded mysteries
The color of your sympathies
My words cannot express
Your awful lovliness

So come with me through smoke and mirrors
We'll bring our differences nearer
We'll float upon an inland sea
Embodied visions of a dream

And I chase every night after you

I got a chill and the night wind sent
Me a chill and the night wind's scent
Me a chill

You wander through my sleeping mind
Reading thoughts I've left behind
I always know when you've been there
Tangles of perfume fill my hair

Your music by the night wind sent
Awakes my quiet instrument
In the silence of your steps
I can see into the depths

I still can picture him
His hands in his back pockets
He wasn't much for words
But when the wise kids made a racket
He'd just have to go downtown
Throw his weight around
Before starting over

Say, did you hear I've got a band
Some guys I know from LA
We'll own the Rio Grande
I'll pay you back next Friday
You know it sure ain't big
Just some cats I dig
They said they'd do the gig

Oh Desperado
Why don't you spend your life in Colorado
A restless Shadow
Out in the blue hills
You're feeling hollow.
Oh El Diablo
Why did you spend your life in California
I should have warned you
No place to go now
But fallin' over

Some hands can make it on the run
Under the Gun
Not for the Younger
Oh Jack of Diamonds
I feel your hunger

I know you did your best
But you thought that you did not
I wish that I had known before I heard the last shot
Ya know it's not a sin
That little badge of tin
Just a memento

So sad you loved in vain
My comrades lost in battle
The music wars are done
From London to Seattle
We all pay to play
And all our yesterdays are starting over

Oh Desperado
Why don't you spend your life in Colorado
A restless Shadow
Out on the blue hills
You're feeling hollow.
Oh El Diablo
Why did you spend your life in California
I should have warned you
No place to go now
But fallin' over

I'm like a happy dog
Who's been alone too long
I wanna wag for ya baby

Raise the flag of wag
Shake and shag
I wanna wag for ya baby

Come on now throw me some bone
I'm rippin up your song
I wanna be your dog
Skinny or fat
I'm gonna go with that
And chase your pussycat

Be my happy dog
My leapin frog
And jump all over me

'Cause my little mutt's
Got that hairy butt
And he's gonna wag it for me baby

Hey come over here Mr. Licks
I like when you pick up sticks
Oh when you throw me a fit
But no matter what
You tell the tale of a pup
'Cause you're my kind of mutt

I disagree
I'm gonna itch you like a flea
Gonna teach my old dog
To do some new tricks

Don't be beggin me
Just take a seat in my lap of luxury
'Cause I'm a happy dog
Who's been alone too long
And now I'm gonna wag for you baby

Come on now throw me some bone
I'm rippin up your song
I wanna be your dog
Skinny or fat
I'm gonna go with that
And chase your pussycat

I wanna wag for ya baby
I wanna wag . . .

I wake up laughing thrown from a nightmare
I come down standing when I'm tossed in the air

Bright as Tijuana
Like a dose of Belladonna
I could cry but I don't wanna
And the dream's lost on me

I come out shooting when trouble comes knocking
I greet bad news by sending it walking

Happy or just crazy
Relaxed or lazy
Gonna keep my vision hazy
And the dream's lost on me

Cares are all buckshot and buffalo
Every dark has an afterglow
I'm not afraid of what's down below
I keep my sights on the sky

I wake up laughing thrown from a nightmare
I come down standing when I'm tossed in the air

Bright as Tijuana
Like a dose of Belladonna
I could cry but I don't wanna
And the dream's lost on me

I come out shooting when trouble comes knocking
I greet bad news by sending it walking

Happy or just crazy
Relaxed or lazy
I'm gonna keep my vision hazy
And the dream's lost on me

Not of this world entirely
Heaven sent, you're my deity
Lived through all the romance
Sadly meant for me

All I need is a sign
Make your presence known to mine
Come to me, I will be divine

I wear the spell you put on me
Like a charm no one else can see
Keeps away the wicked badly meant for me

All I need is a sign
Make your presence known to mine
Come to me, I will be divine

And when I thought my fire finally died
I felt your spell tight as ever tied

No one is above
The rituals of love
Temptation calls
And the stars fall from the blue
There is no limitation
Except for me and you

Lived through all the romance
Sadly meant for me

All I need is a sign
Make your presence known to mine
Come to me, and I will be divine
(repeat)

Dig up the conjo
Breakin the mojo
Dig up the conjo
Makin me well

Hoo doo you love
When you're in love
You're a mess
Got a gun
To your head
Hearin drums
In the night
Goin Blind
Hypnotized

Lost in the congo
Holding a bongo beating my bongo (hoo doo you love)
Kilimanjaro
Dig up the conjo

Listen to drums

With a name
Little hearts
Beat like saints come marchin in

Deep in the bayou (hoo doo you love)
Demon inside you (voo doo you love)
Put on the hoodoo
Put on the voodoo
Wood on the skin

Hey mommy do you see that man
Hey mommy I don't understand
It's only a zombie honey
Hailing a cab
Just hold my hand
And don't look at his face

Jungle inside you
Something's beside you doin the mambo
Dig up the conjo
Hoodoo you love

A Loa down the well
Come and ring the bell
The jungle's burning down

Lost in the congo
Beating a bongo
Dig up the conjo

Hoodoo you love

To confess
In the sun
Hold your breath
Something comes
It's alright half alive watch it eat
Rum and fries

Lost in the Congo Beating my Bongo

All songs © 1998 Beyond. Lyrics reprinted by permission.