Stax Songtext
von Bruce Hughes

Never lost a battle just by giving it up
Letting all the losers take a drink from your cup
Tell your ghetto people that you′re more than pocket change
Weather in the morning like a desert mirage
Hiding in the corner of your neighbor's garage
Waiting for the cops to finally show their face

Send a signal in a postcard
Through the needle in a schoolyard
Watch the monkeys take wing
Listen to the junkyard
Hyenas sing
That′s not funeral lemonade

Fairly typical situation
Get in the car and drive 'til I can't
See the stars over your house no more
Blacklight in the bathroom making a glow
I didn′t know my teeth were so blue
Feel everything become brand new


Did you forget what you′re supposed to
I forgot what I'm supposed to
Did you forget what you′re supposed to do
Guess I forgot
It's alright, it′s alright
And everybody say one, two
Everybody say one, two
I want to

Feel it's only a sign
That everything you once knew
It′s only a matter of time
Before it splits in two
Dust and beauty
Delusions of grandeur
And nothing's left but past and future
But it's more than you used to know

Never lost a battle just by giving it up
Letting all the losers take a drink from your cup
Tell your ghetto people that you′re more than pocket change
Weather in the morning like a desert mirage
Hiding in the corner of your neighbor′s garage
Waiting for the cops to finally show their face

Fairly typical situation
My imagination's all over the place


Dust and beauty, that′s what the future is
Dust and beauty, that's what the future is
And everybody say one, two
Everybody say one, two
I want to
Feel it′s only a sign
That everything you once knew
It's only a matter of time
Before it splits in two

Dust and beauty, that′s what the future
Dust and beauty, that's what the future
Dust and beauty, that's what the future is
Dust and beauty, that′s what the future is
Dust and beauty, that′s what the future is
Dust and beauty, that's what the future