New Religion - Live at the L.A. Forum, Los Angeles, CA, 9/2/1984; 2010 Remaster

I've been now sauntering

Out and down the path sometime

Come on, it takes me nowhere, which I know

Faces everywhere pulling grins and signs and things

Telling me, "Not there, man, it's no go"

I need a reason

I can't think without one now

Too much learning, got to show

Call it treason

Maybe catch her, don't know how

Too many things, too much to know

I'll bring my timing in, seagulls gather on the wind

Lady screaming, lady, leave me out

'Cause sometimes people stare

Sitting down, electric chair

Steaming crowds, they gather, and they shout

Don't know why this evil bothers me

Take another chance, boy, carry the fight

You can take him if you're fast

So why is he trying to follow me?

Didn't I say if you're holding on

You'd be laughing at the last?

How many reasons do they need?

I get along fine with them friends of mine

But you have to make a choice

I might just believe this time

You're singing out of tune, but the beat's in time

And it's us who makes the noise

I'm talking for free, I can't stop myself

It's a new religion

Oh, I'm something to see, I can't help myself

It's a new religion

Okay, my reasoning might be clouded by the sun

But someone sees the departmental lie

You know this peacetime jabbing fist 'n stabbing knife

Only get one look before you die

Don't know why this evil bothers me

Take another chance, boy, carry the fight

You can take him if you're fast

So why is he trying to follow me?

Didn't I say if you're holding on

You'd be laughing at the last?

I get along fine with them friends of mine

How many reasons do they need?

But you have to make a choice

You're singing out of tune, but the beat's in time

I might just believe this time

And it's us who makes the noise

I'm talking for free, I can't stop myself

It's a new religion

Oh, I'm something to see, I can't help myself

It's a new religion

Gotta take pay for the saints 'n' sinners in regulation hats 'n scarves 'n things

Walking in formation down the lane they carry their cross make a church bell ring

Army majors pull a mean cool truth there lying in a swimming pool

Searching for the undeniable truth that a man is just a fool

Don't know why this evil bothers me

Take another chance, boy, carry the fight

You can take him if you're fast

So why is he trying to follow me?

Didn't I say if you're holding on

You'd be laughing at the last?

I get along fine with them friends of mine

How many reasons do they need?

But you have to make a choice

You're singing out of tune, but the beat's in time

Just be right this time

And it's us who makes the noise

I'm talking for free, I can't stop myself

It's a new religion

Oh, I'm something to see, I can't help myself

It's a new religion, yeah

I'm talking for free, I can't stop myself

It's a new religion

Oh, I'm something to see, I can't help myself

It's a new religion

Oh, I'm talking for free, I can't stop myself