Desperate People - Living Colour, Vernon Reid, Corey Glover

Yeah-eah

Oh, oh, oh, hoah

I see you cryin' in the sunshine

I hear you laughin' in the rain

You say you can’t tell any difference

Between the pleasure and the pain

You say you never ever dream at nighttime

You say you only dream when you’re awake

And say that T.V. looks like your life

And the life you lead is fake

Desperate people

Desperate people

You get your sunshine from a tab of paper

Then you’re sittin' in a spinning room

The clock is tocking, it’s laughing at you

Your life’s a mystery without a clue

The crowd you’re in thinks you’re so amusin'

They’re oh so flattering and so sincere

They stand and laugh as they watch you crumble

And when you cry for help they don’t hear

No

Desperate people

Desperate people

You feel the earth revolving

You see the sun dissolving

You hear the night calling out to you

You have no direction

And you have no protection

What you gonna do when your trip turns blue?

When you come crashing down

And there’s no help around

You need friends, you need help

But first you have to help yourself

Yeah

Yeah

The music stops and the party’s over

Yeah, the money’s gone and your crowd is too

Can’t break the chains that have kept you under

Ow, has the monkey got the best of you?

And I see you cryin' in the sunshine

And I hear you laughin' in the rain

You say you can’t tell any difference

Between the pleasure and the

Pain

Desperate

Desperate

Desperate

Desperate people