Castles in the Sand

Yeah, I've seen you face in magazines

Yeah I've read all of those press room queens descriptions

I can't believe the lies they tell

But truth is not the way to sell subscriptions

After all the smoke had cleared away

Did not take me long to find out what you had to say

This is just a game

And I'm glad i finally learned to play

By the rules

Do they think we're fools

They put you down behind my back

Distorting all the honest facts about you

While searching through your lyric sheets

For secret meanings too discreet to doubt you

Isn't it a shame they never heard

They finally wrote you off as really being too absurd

While all the time you sacrificed your rhymes

To find a word they could not see

Hidden in your melodies

Like a tree that could bend with the wind

Like a river that flows around the bend

Like a dream

Like a song

They all cross right or wrong

They just keep on building castles in the sand

Then just like you they told me lies

And offered corporate alibis to change me

My songs were taken through the mill

While managers were hired to rearrange me

They led me to the slaughter like a lamb

I just kept pretending that I did not give a damn

Now this situations gotten too far out of hand

To be real

I don't wanna make a deal

Parasites reach for your heart

Each one must try do their part to drain you

You give them your best autograph

On pictures knowing well they're gonna frame you

Don't you know it happens every time

Little did they know I could read between the line

You told them times were changing

But they did not heed the signs

I'm not that green

Bobby do you know what I mean

I'm Like a tree that can bend with the wind

I'm like a river that flows around the bend

I'm like a dream

Like a song

That I've crossed right or wrong

And I'll just keep on building castles in the sand

They drove me in their limousines

My pockets bursting at the seems with money

They said i could take your place

By putting makeup on my face like honey

Now don't you know it chilled me to the bone

They even had the nerve to ask me if i could re-write like a rolling stone

Thats when I told they the should leave my ass alone

Its plan to see

I just wanted to be free

Like a tree that can bend with the wind

Like a river that flows around the bend

Like a dream

Like a song

That I cross right or wrong

And I'll just keep on building castles in the sand

And every song i write my friend

I play it with my band