Without Warning

He is a farmer, and one morning

They came to take his farm away

The corporation is taking over

There goes the food on down the road

Without warning, he heard them saying

They'd come to take his love away

They say he is too bold, and his clothes are too old

And his hair is turning gray

Identity, the angels came and they took it away

Memory, from moment to moment

Then it fades away

I want to live in peace

And make it better, but I won't lie

Well, I know that you care for meaning and money

It's too bad you'll never care about me

He got a job, and with a reprimand

The boss said maybe he could stay

And do his lousy job, but he should hide his sex

Make his weird friends stay away

With a bus ticket going one way

They told him leave his own hometown

From the welfare line and on to doing time

His only crime was being poor

Identity, the angels came and they took it away

Memory, from moment to moment

Then it fades away

I want to live in peace

And make it better, but I won't lie

Well, I know that you care for meaning and money

It's too bad you'll never care about me

The thunder flashing in the evening sky

He met a victim of circumstance

Whose body was too tight

And so they danced all night

Sidestepping memory to take a chance

Without deceiving, without believing

Is it even in the end?

With the devils on the one hand

And the angels on the other

What is this compared to heaven?

Identity, the angels came and they took it away

Memory, from moment to moment

Then it fades away

I want to live in peace

And make it better, but I won't lie

Well, I know that you care for meaning and money

It's too bad you'll never care about me

Oh, oh, I know you'll never care about me

I know you'll never care about me

Welfare food lines

Street run yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

On hard times

I know you'll never care about me

Oh, oh, you'll never care about me

Oh, you'll never care about me

You'll never care about me

I know you'll never care about me

I know you'll never care about me

I know you'll never care about me

Care about me