Bandits Of The Acoustic Revolution The Provide the Paint for the Picture Perfect Masterpiece That You Will Paint on the Insides of ... Lyrics

There is a man with no face and a name I don't remember
living in a house in the middle of the woods
and he said once "son don't you ever laugh out loud for they are listening,
yes they are listening.
Oh you've got to be strong.
Oh, you've got to keep holding on,
it's just a matter of time."

They provide the paint for the picture perfect masterpiece that you will paint on the insides of your eyelids;
can you possibly see anything you want to see?
no (hell no)
"there's nothing wrong with the way I see"
and he wanted to be a soldier in the next great war
he wanted to kill and fight and maim
but not be told what he was fighting for.
and that's the way it's going to have to be my friend,
and that's the way it's going to have to be my friend.

I passed a man on the corner in the city yesterday
singing "yada yada yada and tomorrow it'll end"
and I thought I'd never live to see another sunny day
but I'm here and I fear I'll be here until the end.

So watch your mouth
or you're going to make a grave mistake.
Hold your tongue
or you're going to catch a bullet in the head.
So watch your mouth
or you're going to make a grave mistake.
Don't die for anything less than the best of life.

The things they said went to your head
but you never tried to understand:
in the end you will never take back what they take
when they take what they can because they can from you.
You follow me and you follow me but you never ask why
and I wonder what you're under
could this be another piece of the
"I don't know I just do what they say
because they say what they to do in a matter of fact way"
but don't stop because you might get burned
and you might just learn how to stand on your own two feet
and I think that it's neat how you learn to repeat
everything that you hear in the street so well.

And everyone was resting because they thought it was the end
and even if it wasn't they decided they'd pretend
and somewhere in the distance I could hear him whispering,
"You can fight all you want they will win in the end"
sometimes in the evening when I'm lying in my bed
I am taken to the forest to that isolated shed
and I wake with his words resonating in my head
and I can't stop thinking about the gist of what he said.

He said:
So watch your mouth
or you're going to make a grave mistake.
Hold your tongue
or you're going to catch a bullet in the head.
So watch your mouth
or you're going to make a grave mistake.
Don't die for anything less than the best of,
everyone settles for the rest not the best of,
I will die for no less than the best of life.