They Provide The Paint For The Picture-Perfect Masterpiece-Streetlight Manifesto

[00:02.46]STREETLIGHT MANIFESTO [00:04.15]"They Provide The Paint For The Picture Perfect Masterpiece That You Will Paint On The Insides Of Your Eyelids" [00:08.16]* [00:15.87]There is a man with no face [00:18.24]And a name I don't remember [00:19.43]Who lives in a house in the middle of the woods [00:21.31]And he said once "Son, don't you ever laugh out loud for they are listening, [00:23.52]Yes they are listening [00:25.60]Oh you've got to be strong [00:29.60]Oh, you've got to keep holding on [00:33.07]It's now just a matter of time" [00:39.35](Head for the hills, go!) [00:42.97]* [00:56.05]They provide the paint for the picture perfect masterpiece [00:58.11]That you will paint on the insides of your eyelids; [01:00.02]Can you possibly see anything you want to see? [01:01.77]No (Hell No!) [01:02.89]"There's nothing wrong with the way I see" [01:04.02]And he wanted to be a soldier in the next great war [01:05.83]He wanted to kill and fight and maim but not be told what he was fighting for [01:08.19]And that's the way it's going to have to be my friend, [01:10.32]And that's the way it's going to have to be my friend [01:12.63]* [01:19.93]I passed a man on the corner in the city yesterday singing [01:22.24]"Yada yada yada and tomorrow it'll never end" [01:24.05]And I never thought I'd never live to see another sunny day [01:26.04]But I'm here and I fear I'll be here till the end [01:28.29]So watch your mouth [01:29.29]Or you're going to make a grave mistake [01:30.35]Hold your tongue [01:31.16]Or you're going to catch a bullet in the head [01:32.54]So watch your mouth [01:33.34]Or you're going to make a grave mistake [01:34.53]Don't die for anything less than the best of life [01:36.97]* [02:04.11]The things you said went to your head [02:05.86]But you never tried to understand: [02:07.67]What they'll take you will never take back what they take when take what they can [02:10.29]Because they can from you [02:11.79]You follow me and you follow me but you never ask why [02:13.28]And I wonder what you're under could this be another piece of the [02:15.41]"I don't care I just do what they say because they say what to do in a matter of fact way" [02:19.65]But don't stop because you might get burned [02:21.28]And you might just learn to stand on your own two feet [02:23.58]And I think that it's neat how you learn to repeat everything [02:26.51]That you hear in the street so well [02:29.50]You learn to repeat everything that you hear so well [02:33.51]You learn to repeat everything that you hear so well [02:35.99]* [02:43.49]And everyone was resting because they thought it was the end [02:45.29]And even if it wasn't they decide they'd pretend [02:47.29]And somewhere in the distance I could hear him whispering [02:49.16]"You can fight all you want you'll never win in the end" [02:51.53]* [03:07.44]Sometimes in the evening when I'm lying in my bed [03:09.26]I am taken to the forest to the isolated shed [03:11.31]And I wake with his words resonating in my head [03:13.37]And I can't stop thinking about the gist of what he said: [03:15.37]So watch your mouth [03:16.31]Or you're going to make a grave mistake [03:17.42]Hold your tongue [03:18.24]Or you're going to catch a bullet in the head [03:19.55]So watch your mouth [03:20.30]Or you're going to make a grave mistake [03:21.42]Don't die for anything less than the best of, [03:23.60]Everyone settles for the rest not the best of, [03:25.61]I will die for no less than the best of life