Lyrics:<br />A Voice Yelling Out All Alone<br /><br />There was a voice yelling out all alone<br />The preacher is in the desert trying to convert<br />The scorpions before he eats them<br />In the room he feels quite curt<br />Because it’s full of people distracted<br />By all the things in front of them<br />One draws a picture of him<br />While another is picking at their brain stem<br />The parishioner tries to carry on a conversation<br />With someone who no longer exists<br />The host is trying to reach those with no signal<br />While the man at the booth slits his wrists<br /><br /><br />His friend yells at the railroad tracks<br />Which rumble over the whistle blow<br />He’s plugging wires into his mind<br />Trying to get the connection light to glow<br />For the telemarketer where did the landlines go<br />All the propaganda went straight into the wind<br />The felon can’t be heard by the parole officer<br />Because he lost all the case files he’d pinned<br />I stand in the middle of the stadium<br />And I can see my face on the board<br />But the microphone turned off<br />After the electrician cut the cord<br />Since no one would answer the phone<br />When he tried to get the bill paid<br />The young woman is trying to have a talk<br />But the newspapers are calling her just a maid<br />Which is why they fill up the gutter<br />And the editor is laying off his staff<br />That didn’t receive any of his corrections<br />Being too busy watching the line graph<br /><br /><br />The doomsday sayer waves his wand<br />Which only finds a group of mockers<br />Who did the same to the discriminated<br />And had their movement co-opted by rockers<br />Whose music only elicited a cascade of boos<br />Since it was more than a little out of season<br />By all the activists thrown into the hole<br />As their message was misinterpreted as treason<br />The pencils all crashed against the table<br />When the writer realized he had no readership<br />Something I happen to understand completely <br />No one looks at what escapes my lip<br />
