Todd Rundgren

[fox69]

"Fair Warning"

"Fair Warning"



You know, wishing won't make it so
Hoping won't do it, praying won't do it
Religion won't do it, philosophy won't do it
The supreme court won't do it,
The president and the congress won't do it
The un won't do it, the h-bomb won't do it,
The sun and the moon won't do it
And God won't do it,
And I certainly won't do it
That leaves you, you'll have to do it

I know that you've been wondering
If I'm the same man inside
Never tried to fool you
'cause I've got nothing to hide
I gave you fair warning I could never be tied down
'til I've seen paradise with my very own eyes
Love owns us all, time owns us all, life owns us all
But the world doesn't own me
Dontcha follow me now
I ain't afraid to say I may have been wrong
I have to go now
I'd rather live by a dream than live by a lie
And that's why
There ain't no cure for what I've got baby
We just have to suffer
I feel no pain, I can't complain,
Things could always be rougher
But I picked up this banner
And I just can't put it down (no)
I can't let the world die just 'cause no one would try
Dontcha follow me now

Everybody's got to find his own place in the sun,
Everyone
So shine on me now
I'd rather live by a dream then live by a lie
You can say what you will about me
Talk is cheap and I don't mind
When you lay your life down in them grooves
You know you're bound to get scratched up sometime
It's only just a song, pay me no mind
I have to go now
You've got to walk that road alone
If you walk it at all
Don't follow me now
I gave you all fair warning
Now it's goodbye
And every once in a while why don't you think of me
'cause it's a long, long time and a long way to go
Can't you see the light shining in my eyes
'cause it's just one victory
'cause your dream goes on forever
Don't you know that I've been trying
To get my trip together
Be a real man
I got to be a real man
1, 2, 3, do it one more time
Be a real man
Everybody be a real man
Go then, don't believe, and I don't know
'cause I got to be a real man
You can be a man, a real man
I'll swim that river, climb that mountain
You and me, we all gotta be, real men

 

[fox69]

"Family Values"

"Family Values"



"It doesn't help matters when prime time TV
Has Murphy Brown. I know it's not fashionable
To talk about moral values, but we need to do it..."
It started on a Labor Day
A chance for us to get away
Everyone in the house
And year by year things moved around
But everybody still got down in the house
And seldom do we have a plan
But everybody lends a hand
Everyone in the house
Making sure we have our fun
While gettin' done what must be done in the house

Pardon me, did you say something?
What are you looking at?
Tell me, what's your problem?
Are you counting heads?
Are you counting things?
What are you looking for?
Listen there's no problem

'Cause we got them, we already got them
We got family values

"Some people say Judeo-Christian values are code
Words. Well they are code words. Code words for..."
Politics and money scams
Endless verbal traffic jams
Keep it out of the house
'Cause you'll get what you give to me
A little r-e-s-p-e-c-t in the house
'Cause you know some of us have been around
And some of us still get around
But we all in the house
So don't get on our evil side
'Cause we like it rough and we're nationwide

Pardon me, did you say something?
We're all entitled to have our own opinion
And you're standing there like you smelled something
But you're entitled to even bad opinions

"Many of our generation glamorize
Casual sex and drug use, evaded responsibility,
And trashed authority."

We gonna have a good time everybody
Because the family is all in the house!

"Our policy must be premised on, it must reinforce
Values such as family, hard work, integrity,
Personal responsibility..."
Made him love mom
Saw what that did to him
Made him love dad
Saw what that did to him
Made him love god
Saw what that did to him
Made him love death
Saw what that did to him

"I know it's not fashionable
To talk about moral values..."
Shut up!

 

[fox69]

"Fascist Christ"

"Fascist Christ"



Founding fathers and mothers left us a mandate
We've got to separate the church and the state
So get your head straight before it's too late
And you drop it in the plate, you must appreciate

Jesus and money make a man speak in tongues
Scream out his lungs, roll in the dung
And when the song is sung, he moves up another rung
And the deaf and the dumb are the ones who get stung

Here comes the sex police, they're at your bedroom door
Movin' in next door, searchin' from floor to floor
You know what they're lookin' for
Someone's always keepin' score every time you dip the oar

Love isn't fun no more
Fascist christ, come to the rescue
Gimme that old time religion, here it comes
Let's get fundamental about this strange philosophy

In which god and man are enemies
In which there is no serenity unless you happen to believe
Precisely what they want you to believe, and no diversity
Come join the army and learn the noises

That drown out the others' voices and please the devil
Who rejoices when mankind has no choices
And power exploits us, and peace avoids us
Guess who to the rescue on a holy mission

To uphold the tradition of the Spanish Inquisition
And preempt your decision by forcing your confession
Now let that be a lesson
Who do you think you're messin' with?
Somebody took our god away

 

[fox69]

"Feel It"

"Feel It"



I look at you and go mad
With thoughts of things that I'd do
If one chance I had to show you
What this man really wants to do

When I'm through, you would say
It's been done never that way
And I know you can learn something new every day

And it feels so good
If you don't think too much
Don't even try to be serious
Just let my hands take control
And give me all of your soul

You know I tried
To run away but I can't hide

From the moment that's suspended deep inside
When you were mine
Now I need to feel it
One more time

Won't you try to feel it
Let me try to feel it

Feels so good when you lean into me
In the dark I can see
I can feel in my mind what is reality
Why can't you see
Things like this are meant to be
Yet somehow once again
You have thrown me aside
But always this feeling survives

 

[fox69]

"Fever Broke"

"Fever Broke"



Numb is the word when I get like this
Still out of touch, still couldn't feel a kiss, a kiss
Bells going off, but I can't say why
Trapped in the house with the walls and the roof on fire

On fire
Flames rise higher
Fever broke
Fever broke as you watched over me

Land of opportunity, this is the
Kiss
Don't quit your day job

 

[fox69]

"Fidelity"

"Fidelity"



I've been hurt
I've never been so hurt
Yes, and only you know why
But I would be far more hurt if we had to say good bye

When I think that it's all or nothing
I tell myself

True love does not demand fidelity
If there's one sacred place always in your heart for me

Time has come
I knew the time would come
When someone would want to be more than friends
But we had a love so sweet
I thought the dream would never end

If my love could not withstand this jealousy
I'd remember the day I threw away our eternity

Has no plan, things will happen we don't understand
One day the glove is on the other hand
And when you think that it's all or nothing
Just tell yourself

If our love could not withstand this jealousy
We'd remember the day we threw away our eternity

If it's true love, it does not demand fidelity
Oh it hurt me so bad
But I can't help but love you for eternity
I know we got a true love

 

[fox69]

"Flaw"

"Flaw"



You could be my everything, you almost have it all
You'd be perfect but you've got one fatal flaw
We could live so happily, the envy of them all
But that'll never happen cause you've got one fatal flaw

And all my friends they look at me
Say 'she's a ten' and I agree that you are a mad love maker
I know I should accpet it all and overlook the little faults
But this one's a real deal breaker

And all my friends they look at us
Say 'he won't bend when he could just live happily ever after'
It's not that I'm afraid of it, but every time you force a fit
There's crying instead of laughter

So why you gotta be such a lyin' ass motherfucker?

And you sure had me fooled
You really sent me back to school
And you made me feel like a royal tool
Still I can't help having a soft spot for you

If we put it down on paper and we're careful how we draw
It looks perfect but it's got one fatal flaw
And you may overlook the obvious, pretend you know it all
You refuse to see it but it's got one fatal flaw

 

[fox69]

"Flesh"

"Flesh"


Oh the law is the law
For no man wrote the law
They who would change the law just abuse it
Oh the law is the law
There is no justice outside the law
But if you know the law, you can use it

If you will, then you will
For nothing can withstand your will
As your faith is so you are
Where your mind is there you are
Just as action follows thought
You can be whole again

Be healed again
And make your body follow

You are thy flesh and flesh will obey
You are thy flesh and flesh must obey

Whoa your life is your life
No one else can live your life
And the debts of your life
You must pay them
If a man knows the law
He gets help from the law
Only fools fear the law that can save them

 

[fox69]

"Free, Male And 21"

"Free, Male And 21"


We're free
We're male
We're twenty-one

Free, male, and twenty-one
Free, male, and twenty-one
It's not enough to be twenty-one and free
It's not the same as male and twenty-one

Free, male, and twenty-one
This is such a fine distinction
The career that we've begun
I just made twenty-one
I'm old enough to run
For congressman or clerk of the public works
Or dogcatcher or something just as dumb
If I should choose to run

I make no exaggeration
Just a statement of the facts
Now I'm second generation
And I am manly to the max
And no one can decree
Just who I have to be
The choice is up to me
And if I could be anything, I'd be

Male and twenty-one
It's nice to be a man
I use it all I can

I never had a choice for a higher voice
But I have to say I'm glad to be a man
Since this is what I am
Sigmund Freud may have a crisis
With his own identity
But there's nothing wrong with me
Because I enjoy being a boy
And all that it will say upon my resume'

Free, male, and twenty-one
Free, male, and twenty-one
Free, male, and twenty-one
Free, male, and twenty-one

If I could change
Change anything, everything
Everything in the world
Then I would make
Half of the world
Free, male, and twenty-one
Free, male, and twenty-one
Free, male, and twenty-one

And I don't believe in heaven
What a let down it would be
And I hope there's not a hell
But there must be a God 'cause he made me
Free, male, and twenty-one
There's got to be a God 'cause he made me
Male and twenty-one
Free, male, and twenty-one

 

[fox69]

"From Hunger"

"From Hunger"



It's never your fault, sweet mother
That I was raised in the days
Of the house-husband craze
But the taste of your loving udder
Was replaced by another
Dried cow puss and rubber
And now a hunger still thrives
A hunger that I've never satisfied

I'm fumbling through life
From hunger
I writhe for someone
With a place I can hide my eyes
I'm searching for a mighty heart
Housed with a mighty crest
And from this base of operation
I would pacify the nation

But then who would rely
On a boob such as i
I'll be anyone's twit
For a mouthful of tittie

And still that hunger will thrive
A hunger that I've never satisfied

I'm fumbling through life
From hunger
I writhe for someone
With a place I can hide my eyes
And I've got big eyes
For someone
With a place I can hide these eyes
And that ain't all