As I was walking through a life one morning
The sun was out, the air was warming
oh, whoaeo, I was cold
And though I must have looked a half a person
Tell the tale in my own version
It was ohwhoaeonly then that I felt whole
Do you believe in something beautiful that could never be
it's fighting for the smallest goal to
get a little self control
I know how hard you try
I see it in your eyes
call your friends cause we've forgotten
what it's like to eat what's rotten
what's eating you alive
might help you to survive
we were honest, we were on a mission
the latest in a grand tradition
but oh, whoaeo, what did we find?
It was ego who was flying the banner
me and mia, anne and anna
oh, whoaeo, we'd been unkind
Do you believe in something beautiful that could never be
it's fighting for the smallest goal to
get a little self control
I see it in your eyes
I see it in your spine
call your friends cause we've forgotten
what it's like to eat what's rotten
what's eating you alive
might help you to survive
even the nights they could get better
and even the days ain't all that bad
but after a week of fighting
more and more it seems the right thing
Do you believe in something beautiful that could never be
it's fighting for the smallest goal to
get a little self control
Won't anybody here
Just let you disappear?
Now doctors know your mom and dad but
but me and mia, anne and anna
know how hard you try
don't you see it in my eyes?
Sick to d**h of my dependence
finding food to fight transcendence
fighting to survive
more dead but more alive
cigarettes and speed for living
sleeping pills to feel forgiven
all that you can try
and all that you've deprived
One more bourgeois social lecture
telling you you've got to change your
heavenly idea
hell never seemed so clear
but don't forget what it really means to
hunger strike when you don't really need to
some are dying for a cause
but that don't make it yours
even the nights they could get better