Hybrid Blues - Skyclad

You think you’ve come so far?

You think you learned along the way?

You’re better off by far

Than where you stood just yesterday?

You say you’ve got the scars

There’s nothing left to say

You’ve got to look beyond

Go make some ripples on your pond

We are the things we sing

All wrapped up with bows and strings

You think you’re everything?

Accept the sense of substance over style

And take away the hype

Take away the sad affairs

Listen to your lies

Can’t you see it now there’s no-one there?

We are the things we choose

Come walk a mile in this man’s shoes

And if you’re still confused

Go learn to sing some hybrid blues

What have you got to lose

Except your sense of ignorance and pride?

And take away the hype

Take away the sad affairs

Listen to your lies

Can’t you see it now there’s no-one there?

I can’t tell you any more

I can’t tell you what to think or say

Take away the hard lines

Can’t you see it any other way?

But I still don’t hear that inherent cry

From «Dear old Stockholm» to the «My-Oh-My»

Make it

Lose it

Make it

Lose it

I still don’t hear that plaintive call

From the sacred mountains to the wailing wall

Faithless

Shameless

Faceless

Hopeless

Now I loved me a woman, don’t mean a thing

I loved me a woman, gave her everything

I got stones in my pathway

And I railed at the moon

There’s a light at your doorway

Guess who spoke too soon?

Singing:

«Take me

Use me

Love me»

But I still don’t hear that primal scream

Of a rich man’s nightmare or a poor boy’s dream

Have I lived too long?

Have I lived at all?

If life’s a journey, come on

Catch me when I fall

And you’re lying there, like the bride stripped bare

In the virtual madness, in my my dark despair

Singing:

«Hurt me

Hate me

Hear me

Help me»

Is this hybrid offspring just a high-class whore

Or a pale young virgin and wild old boar?

Pointless (I got the money)

Tasteless (I got the money)

Thoughtless