EMPEROR OF THE SILVER ISLANDS Lyrics

I'm just a modern bum

Just your average rolling stone

I'm just a vagabond

I'm just a wandering scarecrow

Kill or be killed

Kill or be killed

Kill or be killed

Kill or be killed

Making meals of all your friends

Making love with enemies

'I don't need multitudes of pests

That don't match my energy'

Kill or be killed

Kill or be killed

Kill or be killed

Kill or be killed

They all say they love you dearly

Biting knives between their teeth

Or maybe it was just a rose

They both look the same to me

Kill or be killed

Kill or be killed

Kill or be killed

Kill or be killed

See the thing is,

First they ask why you're not hanging around anymore

Then you show up and they ask why you don't disappear

That's pretty deep man

They call your singing screaming

They call your painting doodles

You think so?

They call your poetry a load of malarkey

Damn

God damn it

Can't a fella get a little bit of solitude around here?

Lord

It sounds like you're saying what everyone else is thinking

But you're putting it to words, you know