As a Man Thinks

First, the bad news...
 Face the music
 Mind over matter
 In other words...
 My imagination run amuck
 Give and take with inspiration, information, innovation, impossible situation?
 Worsening aggravation
 Change, Every change, every step, every moment defined
 As a man... as a man... as a man thinks
 Shell game in a strait jacket
 12 gauge
 In a shotgun racket
 Shinbone, shindig, shimmy for the Shinto
 Got to do this all alone
 Wait
 Better slow it down and think about it
 Embracing this moment
 Enslave or free my soul
 Just to play the game
 With no guarantee
 Is what I'll do for now
 My life's a requiem playing
 Out of key with no 'absolutes' at all
 Who promised tomorrow?
 Tomorrow may not even be here
 How long am I blameless
 'Undecided' in a frantic world?
 My velocity screaming fast
 From this truth I fear
 Where did I hear:
 'As a man thinks
 So is he'?
 But this man thinks
 'Till his moment's gone'
 Scapegoat to the end, dig it?
 Whiz-bang
 In a whirlwind minute
 Voodoo - take a turn
 Why not
 Nuke my head - feel it burn?
 Wind up where you were
 If you think about it
 Shell game in a strait jacket
 12 gauge
 In a shotgun racket
 Shinbone, shindig, shimmy for the Shinto
 Got to do this all alone
 Wait
 Better slow it down and think about it
 Better slow it down
 Take a moment right now
 Let a man think
 As a man thinks
 What a man thinks...
 (Hey there Budapest)
 (What about... let's just give it a rest)
 Scapegoat to the end, dig it?
 Whiz-bang
 In a whirlwind minute
 Voodoo - take a turn
 Why not
 Nuke my head - feel it burn?
 Wind up where you were
 If you think about it
 Shell game in a strait jacket
 12 gauge
 In a shotgun racket
 Shinbone, shindig, shimmy for the Shinto
 Got to do this all alone
 Wait
 Better slow it down and think about it
 Better slow it down
 Take a moment right now
 Let a man think
 As a man thinks
 What a man thinks...
 Bottom line?
 Get it in
 Get it off
 Get it out
 Get away
 Get a buck
 Get a clue
 Now he just wants more
 And he feels it
 Now...
 No more indecisions here
 No more time to figure things out
 No more lies
 No mortal sin
 He'll pay up square
 But he won't get in
 Too many opportunities
 Too many reasons
 Too many travesties
 Now for the good news
 It's gonna get...
 Gonna get wild
 When you wake up and realize
 You've still got it all
 (Hey there Budapest)
 (How about next time we do our damn best?)