You Changed My Life (Studio Outtake - 1981)

[Verse 1]

I was listening to the voices of death on parade

Singing about conspiracy, wanted me to be afraid

Working for a system I couldn't understand or trust

Suffered ridicule and wanting to give it all up in disgust

[Chorus]

But you changed my life

Came along in a time of strife

In hunger and need, you made my heart bleed

You changed my life

[Verse 2]

Talk about salvation, people suddenly get tired

They got a million things to do, they're all so inspired

You do the work of the devil, you got a million friends

They'll be there when you got something, they'll take it all in the end

[Chorus]

But you changed my life

Came along in a time of strife

In hunger and need, you made my heart bleed

You changed my life

[Verse 3]

Well, the nature of man is to beg and to steal

I do it myself, it's not so unreal

The call of the wild is forever at my door

Wants me to fly like an eagle while being chained to the floor

[Chorus]

But you changed my life

Came along in a time of strife

In hunger and need, you made my heart bleed

You changed my life

[Verse 4]

I was eating with the pigs off a fancy tray

I was told i was looking good and to have a nice day

It all seemed so proper, it all seemed so elite

Eating that absolute garbage while being so discreet

[Chorus]

But you changed my life

Came along in a time of strife

In hunger and need, you made my heart bleed

You changed my life

[Verse 5]

You were glowing in the sun while being peaceably calm

While orphans of man danced to the beat of the palm

Your eyes were on fire, your feet were of brass

In the world you had made they made you an outcast

[Chorus]

But you changed my life

Came along in a time of strife

In hunger and need, you made my heart bleed

You changed my life

[Verse 6]

There was someone in my body that I could hardly see

Invading my privacy making my decisions for me

Holding me back, not letting me stand

Making me feel like a stranger in a strange land

[Chorus]

But you changed my life

Came along in a time of strife

In hunger and need, you made my heart bleed

You changed my life

[Verse 7]

My Lord and my Savior, my companion, my friend

Heart fixer, mind regulator, true to the end

My creator, my comforter, my cause for joy

What the world is set against but will never destroy

[Chorus]

But you changed my life

Came along in a time of strife

In hunger and need, you made my heart bleed

You changed my life