Cruel To Be Kind Lyrics - Resident Alien - Space Hog

Well I done my time in the jail of your mind 

and I dug all I could toward the good of your kind 

but they say it's better to be twisted black and blue 

chopped down like an old wooden tree and planted new 

than it is to spend a life time in the jail of your mind 

But you don't have to be cruel to be kind 

and you don't have to be a fool to be blind 

and you don't have to be a down and out 

to be down sometimes 

Her dreams were full of dreams like leaves in the wind 

that were scattered to the edges of the world and back again 

Oh there's more to me than you can see from here my friends 

here there are no why's so why do you pretend 

I hear my critic laugh and he's my only friend 

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And now that I'm free from the jail of your mind 

and I feel rather tied like a crying child 

I wanted to be better than the rest 

new kind of man, lot more than blood and flesh 

but now I'm left on my own in the jail of my mind 

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