You can shine your shoes and wear a suit,
You can comb your hair and look quite cute,
You can hide your face behind a smile,
One thing you can't hide is when your crippled inside,
You can wear a mask and paint you face,
You can call youself a new race,
You can Wear a coller and a tie,
One thing you can't hide is when your crippled inside,
Well you know your cat has nine lives babe,
Nine lives to it's self,
But you only got one and a dog's life ain't fun,
Mamma take alook outside,
You can go to church and sing a hymn,
Judge me by the colour of my skin,
You can live a lie untill you die,
One thing you can't hide is when you crippled inside.
Well, I don't wanna be a soldier mama, I don't wanna die
Well, I don't wanna be a sailor mama, I don't wanna fly
Well, I don't wanna be a failure mama, I don't wanna cry
Well, I don't wanna be a soldier mama, I don't wanna die
Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no
Well, I don't wanna be a rich man mama, I don't wanna cry
Well, I don't wanna be a poor man mama, I don't wanna fly
Well, I don't wanna be lawyer mama, I don't wanna lie
Well, I don't wanna be a soldier mama, I don't wanna die
Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no
Well, I don't wanna be a beggar mama, I don't wanna die
Well, I don't wanna be a thief now mama, I don't wanna fly
Well, I don't wanna be a church man mama, I don't wanna cry
Well, I don't wanna be a soldier mama, I don't wanna die
I'm sick and tired of hearing things
from uptight, short sighted, narrow minded hypocritics
All I want is the truth,
Just gimme some truth
I've had enough of reading things
by neurotic, psychotic, pig headed politicians
All I want is the truth,
Just gimme some truth
No short haired, yellow bellied son of tricky dicky,
Is gonna mother hubbard, soft soap me,
With just a pocketful of hope,
Money for dope, money for rope
I'm sick to death of seeing things
from tight liped, condecending, mommies little chauvinists
All I want is the truth,
just gimme some truth
I've had enough watching scenes of
schizophrenic, ego-centric, paranoic, prima donnas
So Sgt. Pepper took you by suprise
You'd better see right through that mother's eyes
Those freaks was right when they said you was dead
The one mistake you made was in your head
How do you sleep?
How do you sleep at night?
You live with straights who tell you you was king
Jump when your momma tell you anything
The only thing you've done was yesterday
And since you're gone you're just another day
How do you sleep?
How do you sleep at night?
A pretty face may last a year or two
But pretty soon they'll see what you can do
The sound you make is muzak to my ears
You must have learnt something in all those years
How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?
How can I go forward when I don't know which way to turn?
How can I go forward into something that I'm not sure of?
Oh no, oh no
How can I have feeling if I don't know if it's a feeling?
How can I feel something if I just don't know how to feel?
How can I have feelings when my feelings have always been denied?
Oh no, oh no
How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?
How can I give love when I just don't know how to give?
How can I give love when love is something I aint never had?
Oh no, oh no
You know life can be long
And you have got to be so strong
And the world is so tough sometimes I feel I have had enough
Oh no, oh no
How can we go forward when we don't know which way we're facing?
How can we go forward when we don't know which way to turn?
How go forward into something we're not sure of?
Oh no, oh no
John Lennon
