Hybrid Blues - Skyclad

You think you come so far

You think you learnt along the way

You're better off by far

Than where you were jus' yesterday

You say you got your scars

There's nothing left to say

You 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 anymore

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 this 'inherent cry'

From 'Dear old Stockholm' to the 'My-O-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 passway 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 nightmare or a poor boy's dream

Have i lived too long Have I lived at all

If life's a journey catch me when I fall

And you're lying there like 'the brid stripped bare'

In the virtual madness in my my dark dispair

Singing 'Hurt me hate me hear me help me'

Is this hybrid offspring just a high-class where

O a pale young virgin and wild old boar

Pointless tasteless thoughtless