Cruel (Live) [Plugged Tour 1998]

[Verse 1]

So don’t give me respect

Don’t give me a piece of your preciousness

Flaunt all she’s got in our old neighborhood

I’m sure she’ll make a few friends

Even the rainbows down let us pray

As you cock-cock-cock your mane

No cigarettes, only peeled Havanas for you

[Chorus]

I can be cruel

I don’t know why

Why can’t my balloon stay up

In a perfectly windy sky?

I can be cruel

I don’t know why

I don’t know why

[Verse 2]

Dance with the Sufis

Celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain

Lover brother Bougainvillea

My vine twists around your need

Even the rain is sharp like today

As you sh-sh-shock me sane

No cigarettes, only peeled Havanas for you

[Chorus]

I can be cruel

I don’t know why

Why can’t my balloon stay up

In a perfectly windy sky?

I can be cruel

I don’t know why

I don’t know why

[Bridge]

Ah, ah-ah ah-ah-ah, ah ah-ah-ah, yes

Ah, ah-ah ah-ah-ah, ah ah-ah-ah, right

Ah, ah-ah ah-ah-ah, ah ah-ah-ah, yes

Ah, ah-ah ah-ah-ah, ah ah-ah-ah, right

Ah, ah-ah ah-ah-ah, ah, you think you own it

Ah, ah-ah ah-ah-ah, yeah, go again

Ah, ah-ah ah-ah-ah, ah ah-ah-ah, yes

Ah, ah-ah ah-ah-ah, ah ah-ah-ah, girls

Ah, ah-ah ah-ah-ah, ah ah-ah-ah, you're better than them

Wanna go

When you go

Again, I say, go

[Breakdown]

Deeper, deeper than you go

Deeper than you can

Deeper than you can go

Deeper than you can

I said, you can

Right in my eye

Deeper, deeper than you go

You go deeper still

Deeper, but still you go

When you said you can

I said, you can

When you try and

Tear it out and tear it out

And tear it out and you go

Deeper, deeper than you go

Deeper than you can

Deeper but still you can

Deeper than you can

I said, you can

Tear it out and tear it out

And tear it out again

Hey, and you know, you know

You're gonna lie, boy

Way here

I said here, yes

[Chorus]

I can be cruel, darling

I don’t know why

Why can’t my balloon stay up

In a perfectly windy sky?

I can be cruel

I don’t know why

I don’t know why

[Outro]

Why, why

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