Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?

Say a prayer for the pretender, who started out so young and strong only to surrender.

I look around for the friends I used to turn to pull me through. Looking into their eyes, I see them running, too.

I want to find myself a girl who can show me what laughter means, and we'll fill in the missing numbers in each others paint-by-numbers dreams.

So it's not really whether you talk about politics, but how well were you able to do it. Peter Gabriel and Sting get away with it...U2...the examples are there, of people being able to carry these subjects in the music, and the audience is absolutely able to embrace subjects that aren't just the stuff they already know about. And they're actually able to learn stuff.

When you turn out the light, I've got to hand it to me. Looks like it's you and me again tonight Rosie.

It's not like I'm looking to describe something that's only true of my own circumstances. It's beyond. It's way inside, you know. It's reaching inside to something that you have in common with many.