I Wanted To Be Wrong - Live From St. James’s Church, London / 2004

[Intro]

This is called "I Wanted To Be Wrong"

[Verse 1]

You know where I come from, you know what I feel

You're Yul Brynner Westworld reporting from the field

I threw it into reverse, made a motion to repeal

You knocked my legs from under me and tried to take the wheel

[Chorus]

I told you I wanted to be wrong, but everyone is humming a song

That I don't understand

[Verse 2]

Now I know that the sun has shined on my side of the street

The basket of America, the weevils with the wheat

The milk and honeyed congregation, scrubbed and apple-cheeked

Salute Apollo 13 from the rattle jewelry seats

[Chorus]

Mythology's seductive and it turned a trick on me

That I have just begun to understand

I told you I wanted to be wrong, but everyone is humming a song

That I don't understand

[Verse 3]

The rodeo is staged, gold circle goat-ropers and clowns

A rumble in the third act, tie 'em up and burn 'em down

We're armed to the teeth, born a little breech

Blue-plate special analysts, cells and SUV's

We can't approach the Allies cause they seem a little peeved

And speak a language we don't understand

[Chorus]

I told you I wanted to be wrong, but everyone is humming a song

That I don't understand

[Outro]

Storm into the boardroom of the conquering elite

Did you recognize the madman who is shouting in the streets?

Destroy the things that I don't understand

Destroy the things that I don't understand

[Outro, spoken]

I'd like to welcome onstage a great friend to join us

Mister Tom York