Sunsets on Empire

Just another nigger, a spooky piece of white trash 

Just another jewboy, spic, mick, yid, raghead motherfucker living on the planet 



(USA version: Just another wake up, a hostage of a sunrise 

Just another petrified, ashen faced motherfucker living on the planet )



Just before it kicks in



Just like a silver bullet 

Take a good look at yourself in the mirror and tell me that it's worth it 

Said it'll never happen, you said you'd never get caught out 

You settled in a habit, so now you're Mr Fixit 

Just another alien, living on the planet 

Living on the planet, living on the planet 

It's just one of those days when you know that something's gonna happen 



Another betrayal, lose another friend 

You know you never need them, on your own until the bitter end 

Just another pick up, just another kill, someone else's daughter, someone else's girl 

Living on the planet 

We are in another world, Living on the planet we are, we are 

And you know there's some days when you feel that something's gonna happen 

This is one of those days which you know that something's gonna happen 

And something's gonna happen 



"Somedays you just wake up and you don't have any real sense of direction,

you just can't find the will to get up and go through with it all, your next allotted 24 hour slice of destiny.

There's just a bad vibe and rather than a world of opportunities,

it's full of threats and just too many negative variables.

I'd noticed these houses way up in the hills and I tried to imagine what it would have been

like living up there isolated from the world, every night watching the fires crawl slowly down the valley,

and knowing that one night it was gonna be your turn for the visit.

I tried to imagine what it would have been like hiding in a cellar with your family and the fear hoping

that when they do come, when the dogs don't bark, and the silence is around you,

you hope that they burn the whole house around your ears

and they don't discover you hiding in the cellar because you've got nowhere to go,

and you know that one day that something's gonna happen.

There's one day, just one day."



Just another village burning in the hills 

I saw it on the TV, just another thrill 

Someone else's problems, someone else's grief 

Someone else's children, living on the planet 

We are in another world living on the planet 

We are in another world living on the planet, we are, we are 



It's just one of those places that never exist till you've been there 

It's just one of those things that you never will see till you wake up 

And you know that somewhere there's somebody that's out there who thinks like you do 

And you hope that today is the day that it's all gonna happen for you 

And you know there's somedays when you feel that something's gonna happen 

This is one of those days which you know that something's gonna happen

There are vampires in the park Mawgojzeta 

But I only hear the sound of dancing bears 

They're shooting stars in Warsaw Mawgojzeta 

Mawgojzeta do you care?



Do you believe that anything that I could say would sort your life out?

What's the difference?

Could you trust anybody with your heart except yourself?

What's the difference?



Between sunsets and dawn, kings, queens and pawns, goldfish and clowns.

Between what's right and wrong can a love still grow strong 

What's the difference?



There are werewolves in these streets Mawgojzeta 

But you only hear me howling at the moon

There's betrayals in the Tarot Mawgojzeta is it me, or is it you?



Do you believe that everything I say is really true?

Well, what's the difference?

Don't you think everything's against us, that there's much too much to lose

Well, what's the difference?



Could you see everything I should have been and everything I could be 

What's the difference, between sunsets and dawn, kings, queens and pawns, gold fish and clowns?

Between what's right and wrong can a love still grow strong 

What's the difference?

What is the difference?



There are vampires in the park Mawgojzeta 

But I only hear the sound of dancing bears

They're shooting stars in Warsaw Mawgojzeta, Mawgojzeta do you care?

I know you believe that everything will work out alright, what's the difference?

But is it a love or this a life I need?

That's the difference 



Between sunsets and dawn, kings, queens and pawns 

What's the difference?

Between goldfish and clowns can a love still be found

Well, what's the difference? What is the difference?

Between playing away and playing at home

Well, what's the difference? What is the difference?

What is the difference?

That's the difference, that's the difference that is between sunsets and dawns 

Kings, queens and pawns, goldfish and clowns

Maybe it's you or maybe it's me, maybe it's just the weather 

I just can't decide I can't make up my mind 

Tomorrow seems like forever 



It's just a change of heart that's all it is 

It's just a change of heart that's all it is

I'm just falling apart, as a matter of fact that is all it is

That's all it is, that's all it is. Just a change of heart

That's all it is



Maybe it's time, it's maybe too late, I just can't believe it's over

If you just walk away, turn your back on me now

Tomorrow will be forever



It's just a change of heart that's all it is

It's just a change of heart that's all it is

I'm just falling apart, as a matter of fact that is all it is

That's all it is, that's all it is. Just a change of heart

That's all it is



As the springtides shift the sands swelled by winter snow

And the summer green melts to autumn gold

I'm a man for every season but I live from day to day

Is that what you want? Is that all you want?

Is that all it is?



It's just a change of heart that's all it is

It's just a change of heart that's all it is

I'm just falling apart, as a matter of fact that is all it is

That's all it is, that's all it is. Just a change of heart

That's all it is



At the end of the day please let me stay you know we belong together

I'll promise you now as I promised you then

Tomorrow will be forever

I was thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking I was thinking.

Contemplating situations and the visions blew my mind.

In the gutter I was crawling as the shells just kept on falling all around me.



(Chorus): What colour is God? Why can't you tell me, can't you tell me?

What colour is God? Why can't you tell me, can't you tell me?

What colour is God? Why can't you tell me, can't you tell me?



As the library was burning and the pages kept on turning back in history.

As the doorways they were full of refugees and lonely people staring at me, they were asking of me.

What colour is God?

What colour is God?

What colour is God?



No matter what I say or do, it never looks like making any difference.

Don't keep on looking down at me as if I don't exist as if I'm not here

Don't focus all your anger and resentment that you have,

Don't blame it on me, don't blame it on me.



(Chorus):



Black brother in an open sports car pulled over by suspicious officer,

Uniform man got a nervous partner,

Weapon was pulled from a shoulder holster.

White jogger see the roadside gangsta,

Heart beat just a little bit faster,

Rasta man speaking in the island patois,

Gonna give you the righteous answer.



Why can't you tell me, can't you tell me?

What colour is God?



(Chorus):



No matter what I say or do it never looks like making any difference

Don't focus all your anger and resentment that you have

Don't blame it on me, don't blame it on me



(Chorus):



Please, please, please tell me.

Please, please, please tell me.

What colour is God?

I want to be there in the morning, I want to wake up by your side 

If I can make it back I'll be there, if I can catch the early flight 

I'll bring you dragon's teeth from silver beaches, shells from Africa 

I'll give you China dolls and silken shawls, orchids for your hair 

Treasures drowned in sunken galleons, jewels from desert caves when I get there 



We'll see each other in the morning when the sun comes up

We'll see each other in the morning when the sun comes up

In the morning



I'll guard you from the monsters on the TV 

From the pirates in the corners of your dreams 

I'll keep you from the cold and safe from trolls, from the bad men while you play 

I'll hunt for crocodiles and snakes with smiles I'll keep them

Far away from your innocence in all it's wonder 



We'll see each other in the morning when the sun comes up

We'll see each other in the morning when the sun comes up

In the morning, in the morning, when the sun comes up

"The car finally burned out around three.

The blue beacon of a silent patrol car threw new shadows into the street

turning the window into a flickering monitor screen.

I'd seen the kids torch the vehicle before I left on a nightly surfing run to a cybersex site in Chile.

It wasn't as if they were getting rid of prints, everyone knew it was them.

They didn't give a shit. They just wanted to see the flames, to throw a bit of light on a situation.

I looked up the hill at the spread of the estate.

The streetlights glowed like campfires of an army on the eve of battle

or fireflies trapped in the canopy of an immense jungle.

Jungle, young mental jungle 

Here in the jungle, in the jungle"



Where men don't cry and husbands lie and you never have to justify a kickin' 

When mates jump in to save your skin if a chib is ever pulled out in a square go 



Jungle ride, jungle ride tell me when it's over 

Jungle ride, jungle ride tell me when it ends 

Oh here she comes round again, here she comes round again 

Here she comes round again, here she comes, here she comes 



"The glazed eyes of porcelain clowns stare skywards at clouds of goldfish madly circling

their own silent plastic worlds,

high above the children who stuff ping pong balls like pills in the mouths of slowly rotating heads.   



"Intentions true as the arrow's flight

Wins a cuddly toy to while away an evening 

Outside this ring of light he'll claim his prize 

She'll sport lovebites just to prove to all he's been there." 



Jungle ride, jungle ride tell me when it's over 

Jungle ride, jungle ride tell me when it ends 

Oh here she comes round again, here she comes round again 

Here she comes round again, here she comes, here she comes. 



"I crept along the edges of the parade, staying glued to the shadows

where the dogs slept uneasily on their chains under the caravans.

I followed the drums and the pulsing light until I came across a clearing

in the centre of which was the attraction.

And then I saw her, an angel in a chariot, her hair trailing behind her like the tail of a comet.

And I knew that she was mine. I knew that we were destined to leave this place together.

We didn't belong to this carnage and the knowledge of escape was the only thing keeping me sane

But for now I could only watch and wait for this was an arena I dare not enter" 



"On the rim of the machine the animals had gathered 

Big cats at a waterhole waiting on the weak and wounded to stagger into their territory

so they could exercise some violence and feed their starving reputations 

No climbdown in this standoff with the world 

They already know that they can never win the war but in this battle they're gonna do some damage

The pack will follow the stragglers into the dawn. Young mental jungle" 



Jungle ride, jungle ride tell me when it's over

Jungle ride, jungle ride, tell me when it ends

Jungle ride, jungle ride, tell me when it ends

Here she comes round again, here she comes round again

Here she comes round again, here she comes, here she comes

When you're down to the last skin

And the limelight splutters to darkness in the death of a Zippo 

At the backstage door the last fan has long disappeared

With a plastic bag stuffed full of memories 

If only you'd signed them, if only to testify, if only to recognise that he existed 

That for a moment he stood there 

Side by side in the gutter on the hard cold shoulder of destiny 



You say never again this is the end and it's all gonna change you're determined this time.

Year after year you pretend it's for real and it's all gonna change you're determined this time 

Well happy birthday to me 



When you're the worm in the bottle 

You're the last one to leave and there's nowhere to go to 

And the minicab driver politely suggests you go home 

If you could only remember, just where that's at 

Just where you been, just where it went wrong 

You'll eventually find it 



You say never again this is the end and it's all gonna change you're determined this time 

Year after year you pretend it's for real and it's all gonna change you're determined this time 

Well happy birthday to me 



"When you're down to the end line and they're writing you up and writing you off and it feels just like an obituary 

You feel it's all over. You want to drive on down to the beach

And just keep on swimming. But you're still treading water" 



You say never again this is the end and it's all gonna change you're determined this time 

Year after year you pretend it's for real and it's all gonna change you're determined this time 

Well happy birthday to me 



Happy Birthday

Doc: "Tattoo Shop"

Fish: "Hi Doc"

Doc: "Hey Fish, what are you doin'?"

Fish: "If you don't mind, we're gonna record this. Is that cool?"

Doc: "Oh that's cooler 'n hell. Hell yeah, 52's biggest dream man. 

You know his biggest dream was, me and him go party with you."



On the trail of torn-out twisters, two angels on a mission came

Dust devils danced before them in the path of the hurricane.

On the road to Oklahoma, through the flatlands from L.A.

From the shadows in the valley, from a country where the lizards play.

While they drove they kept the radio on, why don't you singalong, singalong, singalong.



Tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, tattoo Brother 52

Tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, tattoo Brother 52

I don't think so.



A man stands behind his shadow, a man stands behind his words.

These men are together with family to defend their rights in another man's world.

Most people stood against them, most people disagreed

With the need for all those weapons in our safe, secure society.

Paint the words and the pictures on another man's skin

We are lover, warrior, magician kings.





Doc:"Fuckin' brilliant, man.

OK, here's what happened. 52 barred the door shut from the inside.

A gunfight started on the front porch. 52 shot back.

You know...they come into his home with it, so he's protecting himself.

The guy inside the house blew his brains out. Yeah, they made it look like he killed himself.

But, no one believes he would, 'cause he's not that kind of man.

That's all, I think, he wasn't afraid of death.

You know, he believed in something to die for, that's what he did." 



Some say he had it coming, others say he was sole to blame

But who says they've got the rights if any at all to blow the brothers away.

A man got a right to wonder, a man got a right to dream,

Without looking over his shoulder to choose the manner of the life he leads.

One man's thoughts on another man's skin

We are lover, warrior, magician kings.



Doc: "What they have done, was they've come in and murdered him, for his bombs and his ammunition.

Just like that Waco Texas or any of these other things, over here in the United States.

Anybody that's stockpiling firearms and ammunitions is a threat to the government,

so the government wages war against us.

They tortured him, he went out but I'm sure he stood up like he was supposed to, you know?

They smashed all the rings shut on his fingers with a hammer.

It was all an orchestrated plan, man.

The more.. the closer I was getting to it.. to the truth,

the more they got everybody looking at me as being the guy that pulled the trigger.

And what they did when they killed 52, is they broke the whole family up. 

That's exactly what they wanted to do.

They wanted to break all of us up."

And then it was over and we took our applause 

We passed the peace pipe and thought no more

About the scenes that were missing, about the lines we had crossed 

And we smiled at each other and knew that the moment was lost 



I let you snuff out the candles, I let you blow out the flame 

And I knew that this time it would never be the same 

The smiles you had wavered, tears welled in your eyes

And I looked and I knew that this magic it was only a sign

For Sunsets on Empire it was only a dream 

I knew that it was broken when I heard you scream

I know you can't believe it. It meant nothing at all 

And we looked at each other and we smiled and the moment was gone 

Sunsets on Empire is this really the end

Sunsets on Empire left with a friend

Could have been a lover, could have been a wife

But when it comes right down to it all I want is a life 

Just a life 



You said it never mattered. You said it's just a thrill 

You couldn't beat it. Another bitter pill 

It never was a habit. A one off just for sure 

You never really thought it out but I hoped that one time

That you'd come back for more 



Sunsets on Empire that's where I am

Sunsets on Empire that's all we have 

To face a new beginning when you're so close to the end

And you looked at me gently and smiled 

Would you still be my friend?



You started to smile

Is this really the end?

Is this really the end?

Sunsets on Empire

The sun sets on Empire

We could talk for hours and we do about nothing 

And avoid talking about anything that could cause us problems 

that we couldn't ignore, and have to talk about, to sort something out 

We got to keep talking, keep talking 



So we're talking, and that's something 

I'm really happy that we're talking 

It's sure to get us somewhere, make it better 

And then we're sorted just as long as we keep talking

Everything's gonna be alright 



I got secrets then you know that 

You've got secrets I want to know about 

But if you want to know what I know

That you know then, we got to start talking 

Let's be honest. We can't ignore it. Keep talking 



When I look into your eyes I don't know what to say to you 

When I'm standing face to face, I don't know what to say to you 

They said say it with flowers so I said it with flowers 

I sent you short red roses, short red roses 

Everything's gonna be alright 



We've been talking for hours, so have we got somewhere?

Can we say it's all worked out, it's all ok?

Let's go to bed, I'm tired, to be honest 

I just want to go to sleep, I'm tired 

Let's talk about it in the morning, let's talk about it in the morning 

To be honest, I'm tired 

I'm tired