i walk into the room

you don't have to scream i can hear you

bad trip, the needle sticks

you get your kicks from confrontation

i try to make it past

i don't wanna get into it right now

can't this family have one day

to get away from all the pain



and through the night i see the light

shining from the neighbor's windows

i dream of life where i'm safe

in a home where i am not alone

some day i will lay me down

on the grass where everything is greener

it always seems so good on the other side



i'm sick of all the heat

you can taste the hate in the air

running through this family, uncomfortably

it's burning me

is anybody there

in your eyes there's nothing to see

just because your dreams have died

don't drag me down, i've still got mine



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neighbor boy runs up to me, his eyes all black and blue

i say what happened to you boy, he said my daddy flew

off the hook cos i was playin too loud

i guess he couldn't hear the tv

he said son i'm a teach you a lesson

and then he .... and then he....



maybe it's not so good on the other side

maybe it's not so good on the other side

but it always seems so good, on the other side

it always looks so good .... it always seems so good