Blues for the Disillusioned - Rick Springfield

Blues for the Disillusioned

There will be no atonement

Me in my confusion

And in a careless moment

I fell in love with everything

That caused me so much pain

Send a message to my father

Signed it with a mark of cain

I waited for an answer

Like I’d seen the love you do

I teetered like a dancer

Trembled like an ingenue

I never got a message

I never got a call

I crawled out of the wreckage

Nobody there to catch my fall

I know that it was written

Your prayers would all be heard

John 16: 24

It says it word for word

Ask and you shall receive

Your joy will be complete

They set you up for victory

Then they had you your defeat

Come on down to my place

I got Playstation 99

Nixon hangs with Elvis

Sleeping Beauty sleeps with Frankenstein

Saint Joan of Arc and Lenny

Have become the best of friends

Bin Laden wears a sign that says

True love never ends

Blues for the Disillusioned

I know how you all breathe

I was there at the beginning

With Adam and with Eve

And God’s manipulation was

Was partisan at best

Although it was a worst result

To think that you’re all blessed

You’ve been living under false decrees

I guess you get that now

There’s really no such thing as

All that heaven will allow

I wanna be your angel

I wanna be your king

If you wanna be my girl

You gotta sacrifice everything

You keep on drilling

You can’t cut through his firewall

Your spirit is willing

Savor all your drugs and alcohol

Blues for the blighted

Welcome to the wallflower social club

Everyone’s invited

Sai Baba’s here with Beezlebub

I know you thought that life was fair

And you believed the creed

God doesn’t give you what you want

Only what you need

I think that’s pretty dubious

To say the very least

So I tell him that the 13 million

Kids there in the middle east

All my father’s promises

Were made when he was high

You’re kicked out of the nest

And now it’s time for you to fly

Blues for the disillusioned

Blues for the disillusioned

Blues for the disillusioned

Blues for the disillusioned

Blues for the disillusioned

Blues for the disillusioned