heartbeats

i can take you downtown, where everything is brown, but the people there don't care, 'cos love is all around, you might think it's ugly, but somebody once told me, acceptance is harmony, and i feel okay, at least for today, you can breathe the air if you want to, but it leaves a nasty stain on the inside of you, you can eat that food, but you don't know where it's been, you can leave this dirty old world that we're living in, but where will you go and anyway, you only have so many heartbeats, the revolution's coming, everybody thinks for themselves, there's a nation humming, a tune that i know well, in the middle of commotion, everybody's chasing their tails, there's a single-minded notion, it's all coming to us, don't make such a fuss, you can breathe the air if you wan tot, but it leaves a nasty stain on the inside of you, you can eat that food, but you don't know where it's been, you can leave this dirty old world that we're living in, but where will you go and anyway, you only have so many heartbeats, only in the morning when i reach for my mask, only then i wish this breath could be my last, you can breathe the air if you wan tot, but it leaves a nasty stain on the inside of you, you can eat that food, but you don't know where it's been, you can leave this dirty old world that we're living in, but where will you go and anyway, you only have so many heartbeats