W.A.S.P. LYRICS

1. The Titanic Overture

I look at my face in the mirror
And I don't understand
Don't feel like a boy and it's not getting clearer
But I don't feel like a man

I'm seventeen and I'm somebody's son
My dad don't know where I stand
'Cause when he looks at me
He don't like what he sees
He don't know what I am

2. The Invisible Boy

[Jonathan:]
I was the boy unwanted, a prisoner I'm born to them
My brother was the one, that couldn't do no wrong
And I was there dying in the shadow of him

[Jonathan to his father:]
Red, crimson red, am I the invisible boy?
Feel the strap, cross my back
Yeah I'm the new whipping boy
Who am I
The orphan son you would never need?
Who am I
'Cause I'm the boy only the mirror sees
Who am I
The slave you gave just the air I breathe?
Who am I
'Cause I'm the boy only the mirror sees

[Jonathan:]
Oh I got the same old reruns, horror movies in my head
And I can't rest, they scare me to death
But if I'm not alive, how can I be dead?

[Jonathan to his father:]
Red, crimson red, am I the invisible boy?
Feel the strap, cross my back
Yeah I'm the new whipping boy
Who am I
The orphan son you would never need?
Who am I
'Cause I'm the boy only the mirror sees
Who am I
The slave you gave just the air I breathe?
Who am I
'Cause I'm the boy only the mirror sees

[Jonathan to the mirror:]
Oh, why me?

[The mirror:]
Why him

[Jonathan:]
Can you tell me?

[The mirror:]
It's confession again?
Come talk to me, I see in your eyes
Titanic misery, ashamed that you're alive
I'm the face that you see
When the face isn't yours
I'm the mirror my boy

[Jonathan to his father:]
Who am I?
The orphan son you would never need?
Who am I?
'Cause I'm the boy only the mirror sees
Who am I?
The slave you gave just the air I breathe?
Who am I?
'Cause I'm the boy only the mirror sees

3. Arena Of Pleasure

Some people never go crazy
What truly boring lives they must lead?

Is there no love to shelter me?
Only love, love set me free
Where is the love to shelter me?
Only love, love set me free

I don't know where I'm going, but I can't wait to get there
All I know is I'm just going

I ran away from home last night, gone forever
I was running for my life
And I've heard the words of what I should be
Live, work, die,
I am the orphan of the night

Take me down, I'm coming home,
The road to ruins inside the pleasure dome
Take me down, I'm coming home,
Arena of pleasures where I belong

I'm in the eye of my rage, where no hurricane dies

I'm in the eye of my rage,
Where the hurricane lies
Oh, a storm's in my eyes
And like the beast that's in my soul,
I'm the restless child
Ah, mama, I'm running for my life

Take me down, I'm coming home,
The road to ruins inside the pleasure dome
Take me down, I'm coming home,
Arena of pleasures where I belong

I was sixteen going nowhere.
Will I see seventeen alive?
And I was running from the nightmare
I stand at the promised land with fire in my eyes

I'm at the crossroad of my destiny and desire
Oh, God, what will I be?
But my obsession is the gasoline to feed my fire
Oh, it's burning in me

Take me down, I'm coming home,
The road to ruins inside the pleasure dome
Take me down, I'm coming home,
Arena of pleasures where I belong

Don't waste the tears
On my wasted years
Mama, I'm outta here

The poisonous snakes with double tongues
Horny hedgehogs who do their wrong
Death men and blind worms they'll be not seen
They are pawns and rooks for a crimson king
They are the government with a parliament of whores
Can you hear the screams from the fame machine
Down in Chainsaw Charlie's morgue?

4. Chainsaw Charlie (Murders In The New Morgue)

[Charlie to Jonathan:]
O.K., boy, now here's your deal
Will you gamble your life?
Sign right here on the dotted line
It's the one you've waited for all of your life

[Jonathan to Charlie:]
Ah, will it feed my hunger
If I swallow lies right down my throat?
Or will it choke me 'til I'm raw?
And tomorrow when I'm gone
Will they whore my image on?
I'll will my throne away
To a virgin heir and Charlie's slave

[Jonathan:]
Murders, murders in the new morgue
Murders, murders in the new morgue
See old Charlie
And the platinum army's
Making me their boy
Murders, murders in the new morgue
Murders, murders in the new morgue
He'll make you scream
For the cash machine
Down in Chainsaw Charlie's morgue

[Charlie to Jonathan:]
We'll sell your flesh by the pound you'll go
A whore of wrath just like me
We'll sell you wholesale, we'll sell your soul
Strap on your six-string and feed our machine

[Jonathan to Charlie:]
Ah, will it feed my hunger
If I swallow lies right down my throat?
Or will it choke me 'til I'm raw?
And tomorrow when I'm gone
Will they whore my image on?
I'll will my throne away
To a virgin heir and Charlie's slave

[Jonathan:]
Murders, murders in the new morgue
Murders, murders in the new morgue
See old Charlie
And the platinum army's
Making me their boy
Murders, murders in the new morgue
Murders, murders in the new morgue
He'll make you scream
For the cash machine
Down in Chainsaw Charlie's morgue

[Charlie to Jonathan:]
Welcome to the morgue, boy
Where the music comes to die
Welcome to the morgue, son
I'll cut your throat just to stay alive

Ah, trust me, boy
I won't steer you wrong
If you trust me, son
You won't last very long

[Charlie to Jonathan:]
I'm the president of showbiz.
My name is Charlie
I'm a blood-sucking rat's hole.
That's what they call me
Here from my Hollywood tower I rule
I'm a liar with a monster.
The chainsaw's my tool

The new morgue's our factory to grease our lies
Our machine is hungry.
It needs your life
Don't mind the maggots and the ruthless scum
Before we're done, son, we'll make you one

I'm the tin man.
No, I've never had a heart
I'm the tin man,
But I'll make you a star

I'm the tin man,
No, I've never had a heart
I'm the tin man

[Jonathan:]
Murders, murders in the new morgue
Murders, murders in the new morgue
See old Charlie
And the platinum army's
Making me their boy
Murders, murders in the new morgue
Murders, murders in the new morgue
He'll make ya scream
For the cash machine
Down in Chainsaw Charlie's morgue

5. The Gypsy Meets The Boy

[Jonathan:]
"The tarot is fate," said the gypsy queen
And she beckoned me to glimpse my future she'd seen

She said,

[Gypsy to Jonathan:]
"Do you see what I see? Be careful to choose.
Be careful what you wish for, 'cause it may come true.
When I lay the card down will it turn up the fool?
Will it turn up sorrow? If it does then you lose."

[Jonathan to the Gypsy:]
I'm the lost boy. Can you help me?
Yeah, I'm the lost boy. Can you help me?

Jonathan, Jonathan, Jonathan.

[Gypsy to Jonathan:]
Then the illusion was real. A crimson idol I saw
But the higher he'd fly, then the further he'd fall

She said,

[Gypsy to Jonathan:]
"Do you see what I see? Be careful to choose.
Be careful what you wish for, 'cause it may come true.
When I lay the card down will it turn up the fool?
Will it turn up sorrow? If it does then you lose."

[Jonathan to the Gypsy:]
I'm the lost boy. Can you help me?
Yeah, I'm the lost boy. Can you help me?

[Jonathan to the Gypsy:]
I just wanna be, I just wanna be, I just wanna be
The crimson idol of a million
I just wanna be, I just wanna be, I just wanna be
The crimson idol of a million eyes
Of a million

6. Michael's Song

[Instrumental]

7. Miss You

Lost inside a room
A priest at the door with news
Said you're gone
Now I knew
My world was broken in two
I pray that you were here
To hold my heart
I'd hide myself in your bed
And cry myself numb

Oh, God, I miss you
Tell me can you hear me
Oh, God, I miss you
Can't scream and I can't speak
Show me now
Will I ever be free from you?

Lost inside my head
I closed my eyes and fled
No pain
No gain
No death no more
I drown myself in flesh
Is there no way out
No way how
Would you even know me now?
I've found this thing that I make sing
Can you hear me now?

Oh, God, I miss you
Tell me can you hear me?
Oh, God, I miss you
I can't scream and I can't speak
Show me how
Will I ever be free from you?

Oh, God, I miss you
Tell me can you hear me?
Oh, God, I miss you
Can't scream and I can't speak
Show me now
Will I ever be free from you?
Oh, God, I miss you

Why did you go and leave
Now I'm running away from my home
No they'll never know I'm gone
You don't know how
Know how

Should I kneel here and pray
When there's no one to save
Is there no one to show me love
Where are you now?

Can you hear me now?
Can you see somehow?
Is there no love from your great beyond?
Can you hear me now?

Oh, God, I miss you
Tell me can you hear me?
Oh, God, I miss you
I can't scream and I can't speak
Show me now
Will I ever be free from you?

Oh, God, I miss you
Tell me can you hear me?
Oh, God, I miss you
Can't scream and I can't speak
Tell me how?
Will I ever be free from you?

8. Doctor Rockter

[Jonathan:]
He's the king of sting,
Mr. Morphine, my friend
Uncle Slam, the medicine man
And I'm a junkie
With a big King-Kong-sized monkey
Crawling up and down my back

[Doctor Rockter:]
Oh, I'll help you, son, to rearrange your mind
Oh, I'll help you, son, but you gotta buy this time
I'm your doctor

[Jonathan to Doctor:]
Help me please, oh Doctor, help me please
Doctor Rockter, you know I need you
Doctor please, my M.D.,
Fix me in my time of need
But can ya see the fire that's in my eyes

[Jonathan:]
It's the mirror from the wall, it's on the table
Feeding me little white lies
And I'm wasted in a wasteland, I'm a junk man
I got tombstones in my eyes

[Doctor Rockter:]
Oh, I'll help you, son, to rearrange your mind
Oh, I'll help you, son, but ya gotta buy this time
I'm your doctor

Help me please, oh Doctor, help me please
Doctor Rockter, you know I need you
Doctor please, my M.D.,
Fix me in my time of need
But can ya see the fire that's in my eyes

Ah, help me, Uncle Slam,
The beast claims another man

Codeine, Cocaine, 714,
A Tuinol blindfold just what I need
Help me, help me, help me

Help me please, oh Doctor, help me please
Doctor Rockter, you know I need you
Doctor please, my M.D.,
Fix me in my time of need
But can ya see the fire that's in my eyes

9. I Am One

Demolition, mission-man
The old boy's hating me
I've become the one they warned me about
Oh he's gonna die before me

Long live, long live, long live the king of mercy
Long live, long live
Is there no love?

I am one
The side you see is the nasty me
I am one
Love
I am one
I got something to prove
And nothing to lose
Oh, I am one

18 bloody roses, each a year that bled my soul
18 and numb, I'm somebody's son
Mama, look what I've become

Long live, long live, long live the king of mercy
Long live, long live
Is there no love?

I am one
The side you see is the nasty me
I am one
Love
I am one
I got something to prove
And nothing to lose
Oh, I am one

Is there no love to shelter me?
Only love, love set me free
Is there no love to shelter me?
Only love, love set me free

Will he take me down to the gallows
And kill the boy inside the man?
I'm just a rock-and-roll nigger
I know he don't know what I am

I don't see my face in the mirror
Any more or understand
Why am I the chosen one
I'm the crimson man

Long live, long live, long live the king of mercy
Long live, long live
Is there no love?

I am one
The side you see is the nasty me
I am one
Love
I am one
I got something to prove
And nothing to lose
Oh, I am one

Oh, baby, this stuff is great
It's better than great: you do enough of this stuff and you can be a ... of the universe.
Jonathan, I'd like you to meet a friend of mine, Tania.
Jonathan, Jonathan, what the bloody hell is going on here?
Well, if it isn't the world-renowned Alex Rodney, the best manager money can buy?
You've got all the friends money can buy?
You know damn well you're supposed to be in the studio tomorrow and here you sit with these leeches all around you. You don't stop all this debauchery I'm leaving you. You got it? This little party is officially over. Get out, everybody, get out.

Hello?

10. The Idol

Will I be alone this morning
Will I need my friends
Something just to ease away my pain

And no one ever sees the loneliness
Behind my face
I am just a prisoner to my fame

If I could only stand and stare in the mirror could I see
One fallen hero with a face like me

And if I scream, could anybody hear me?
If I smash the silence, you'll see what fame has done to me

Kiss away the pain and leave me lonely
I'll never know if love's a lie
Ooh, being crazy in paradise is easy
Do you see the prisoners in my eyes?

Where is the love to shelter me?
Give me love, come set me free
Where is the love to shelter me?
Only love, love set me free
Set me free

Kiss away the pain and leave me lonely
I'll never know if love's a lie
Ooh, being crazy in paradise is easy
Do you see the prisoners in my eyes?

Where is the love to shelter me?
Give me love, come set me free
Where is the love to shelter me?
Only love, love set me free
Set me free

I had finally made it to the top of the mountain, but when I got there, I looked around: there was nothing there.

11. Hold On To My Heart

There's a flame, flame in my heart
And there's no rain, can put it out
And there's a flame, it's burning in my heart
And there's no rain, ooh can put it out
So just hold me, hold me, hold me

Take away the pain, inside my soul
And I'm afraid, so all alone
Take away the pain, that's burning in my soul
'Cause I'm afraid that I'll be all alone
So just hold me, hold me, hold me

Hold on to my heart, to my heart, to me
Hold on to my heart, to my heart, to me
And, oh, no, don't let me go
'Cause all I am you hold in your hands,
Hold me and I'll make it through the night
And I'll be alright,
Hold on, hold on to my heart

Hold on to my heart, to my heart, to me
Hold on to my heart, to my heart, to me
And, oh, no, don't let me go
'Cause all I am you hold in your hands,
Hold me and I'll make it through the night
And I'll be alright,
Hold on, hold on to my heart

12. Hey Mama

Hey mama
Hey, why'd you need me?
Was I something left undone?
Hey mama
Hey, why'd you feed me?
You should have left me orphaned one
You could have let me know I'm loved
You could have left me be unborn

When blamed me and shamed me
No, I should never
No, never needed you
Like I do.

13. The Lost Boy

I was born the orphan scorned
And raised to be some king
This throne I've known
I've wished on no one
A fool's crown I've reigned

I claimed the world
To lose my soul
Empty so it seems
A thousand ways to lose my tomorrows
Hanging from the headlines' screams

Hey mama, hey mama
Tell me why'd you make me
Hey mama, hey mama
Oh tell me why

I'm the lost boy
Can you help me?
Where is this love to save me
Come set me free
I'm the lost boy
Can you help me?
There's a son belongs to no one
Mama, it's me

Is it just the peace I seek
The truths between your lies
Hey mama, can you read me
From behind my crimson eyes

If there's a note that I last wrote
For all the world to see
"Dead noses smell no roses"
Hanging from my crimson strings

Hey mama, hey mama
Tell me why'd you make me
Hey mama, hey mama
Oh tell me why

I'm the lost boy
Can you help me?
Where is this love to save me
Come set me free
I'm the lost boy
Can you help me?
There's a son belongs to no one
Mama, it's me

14. The Peace

Is there no soul that I can borrow
A way to be another me
Free of pain
All I want is
The peace I'm passing now
Save me from what I can't change

Show me one - ooh
Better world to come - ooh

Give me peace, give me hope, give me love
All I need in all my life
Love

Lord, when will we ever see
Wipe the sorrow from our eyes
And let me see
I lay my dreams
And the broken wings on peace
Down at your feet

Show me once - ooh
All I need is love - ooh

Give me peace in my life
Give me hope in my heart
Give me love
Give me peace in my life
Give me hope in my heart
Give me love

Can you free my soul?
Can you make me whole?
Will I ever love again?
Heal my broken heart
And maybe hope and wash
My forever tears away

Is there some soul now that I can borrow, yeah
And free me from this pain
All I want is
The peace that's lacking now
Some days of grace and pouring rain

Do you love me now
Do you want me how
To take away what I can't change

Is there love somehow
Is there hope for now
Unchain my breaking heart

15. Show Time

And so, again we meet
You've changed

I heaven't changed
You have changed!
I have not changed!

The idol, the great crimson king
You can't even see what you've become

Become what?
I have not fallen yet!

Oh, really?
You're dead, and don't even know it yet!
You just heaven't stopped breathing
It's 8:59 Jonathan
Show time

16. The Great Misconceptions Of Me

[Jonathan to the audience:]
Welcome to the show the great finale's finally here
I thank you for coming into my theatre of fear
Welcome to the show, you're all witnesses you see
A privileged invitation to the last rights of me

[Jonathan to his mother:]
Remember me? You can't save me
Mama you never needed me
No crimson king, look in my eyes, you'll see
Mama I'm lonely, it's only me, only me

[Jonathan to all:]
I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be
The crimson idol of a million
I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be
The crimson idol of a million eyes, of a million

[Jonathan to all:]
I am the prisoner of the paradise I dreamed
The idol of a million lonely faces look at me
Behind the mask of sorrow, four doors of doom behind my eyes
I've got their footprints all across my crimson mind

[Jonathan to the king of mercy:]
Long live, long live, long live the king of mercy
Long live, long live

[Jonathan to all:]
There is no love to shelter me
Only love, love set me free
No love to shelter me
Only love, love set me free

[Jonathan to all:]
I was the warrior, with an anthem in my soul
The idol of eight thousand lonely days of rage ago
And remember me when it comes your time to choose
Be careful what you wish for, it might come true

[Jonathan to the king of mercy:]
Long live, long live, long live the king of mercy
Long live, long live

[Jonathan to all:]
There is no love to shelter me
Only love, love set me free
No love to shelter me
Only love, love set me free

[Jonathan to his father:]
Red, crimson red, am I the invisible boy
The straps cross my back

Red, crimson red, no, I was never to be
Only one crimson son, no, it never was me

[Jonathan to all:]
Living in the limelight little did I know
I was dying in the shadows and the mirror was my soul
It was all I ever wanted, everything I dreamed
But the dream became my nightmare
No-one could hear me scream

With these six-strings, I make a noose
To take my life, it's time to choose
The headlines read of my demise, of my suicide
My suicide

[Jonathan to the king of mercy:]
Oh sweet silence, where is the sting
I am no idol, no crimson king
I'm the impostor, the world has seen
My father was the idol, it was never me

I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be
The crimson idol of a million
I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be, no I don't wanna be
The crimson idol of a million eyes

[Jonathan to all:]
No love to shelter me, only love
Love set me free
No love to shelter me, only love
Love set me free







W.A.S.P. LYRICS