Tension (Live)

[Chorus]

Tension

Tension

Tension, it's all that I know

I got tension in my health food

I got tension in my exercise

I got tension and it's everywhere that I go

[Verse 1]

After the bad guy killed off all the under-developed characters

The good guy put a bullet right through his head

And the screenwriter stood up and he told us

That all the loose ends had been ties

He said "Justice is irrelevant

"Violent problems need violent solutions

"'Cause in America, we like our bad guys dead"

Preferably after some kinds kick-ass car chase or something

[Chorus]

Tension

Tension

Tension, it's all that I know

I got tension out in traffic

I got tension in my office

I got tension and it's everywhere that I go

[Verse 2]

Well they roped all of my problems

When they pointed their fingers at drug addiction

'I think it's 'cause they know that if you're the one doing the pointing

Nobody's looking at you

But you know, this war on drugs is funded

By tobacco and alcohol commissions

It's not really that what drugs you're strung out on they care about

So much as whose

People still dig drugs

Shit, I live in East Nashville

Smells like a skunk farm over there

[Chorus]

Tension

Tension

Tension, it's all that I know

I got tension in my court house

I got tension in my White House

I got tension and it's everywhere that I go

[Verse 3]

When rock-n-roll first came around, seemed like preachers all went crazy

Pretty soon, though, that wasn't enough to get anybody in the door

So, now they jump on just about any scandal that they have to to try and save me

Because they know that I don't buy that bullshit about the "Devil's music" anymore

Gay people gettin' married

Hooo

That's what scares people that don't have shit-all-else to be scared of these days

[Chorus]

Tension

Tension

Tension, it's all that I know

I got tension in my traffic

I got tension in my office

I got tension, and it's everywhere that I go

And I go

Yeah I go