LIVING ON THE OUTSIDE
I go home... Wondering why I’m feeling what I’m feelin’
Lonely bones... in a city full of modern living
Inside these walls of power you can lose your voice The pressure to fit in and conform
And in this world you’re told that
you’re expendable
It’s just the way it goes, another head that rolls ’Cause everywhere you go, signs of people
lost inside some big illusion.
Holding onto hope, holding onto to what
we think we should be doing. Oh... Living on the outside...
I get lost... looking at the way we try to make a living
Its surreal... what it takes to keep on try to keep creating
Beyond my own emotions I still hear a voice, it tells me that I’m going to survive.
I tell myself, I have a choice
What’s it gonna take? What’s it gonna
take to heal this rage?
Everybody knows, somewhere there’s just got to be a new solution
Everywhere we go... you go. People squeezed into a box of
well-defined exclusion.
Hey, where living on the outside.
Livin’ on the Outside. Knock. Knock. Let me in. Heh! (Enter Amazon Warrior Poetess)
I... I... I... I want to find an entry point within
I have a few questions bout how I’ve been livin’
I’m lookin’ in da mirror don’t
recognize my own riddim
talking a lot but I’m really saying nuthin’ no time to feel... no time to think... no time
to heal... Too afraid to sit still.
Let silence fill the void, the void, the void within cuz I’m livin’ I’m livin’... on the outside
What do you see, ya see the posters going up and the people lying down.
Look beyond the firestone ride, look beyond the neon high.
Don’t you know that—everybody got a voice but who’s sayin it?
Everybody’s got a choice but who’s taking it? Tell me why? Tell me why?
I’ve livin’ on the outside.
Tell me why... yeah?
Beyond the neon high. Don’t you know that everybody got a voice but whose sayin’ it,
everybody got a choice but who’s taking it
I got to know why we are living on the outside
Naturally the people want to be... a part of a village—one community.
I want to be loved but I also want to be free... Free of living on the outside
Free of living on the outside... of me... of me... of me... of me.
Knock. Knock on the door. Everybody wants to come in.
Knock. Knock on the door. Everybody wants to come in
Knock knock... Everybody... Living on the outside. Living on the outside.
Everybody got a voice, everybody got a choice but who’s....takin’ it.
Living on it... This is my rhetorical, political (spiritual) turn off your TVs
and get yourselves in the streets.
The time is now. The time is now. Choose wisely... Knowingly
Written by Lorraine Segato, David Gray, Billy Bryans & Keir Brownstone. © 2011 More Life Music & Big World Songs.