I've been watching your performance since
   I was just a boy
   You're so diplomatic and you're actin so coy
   I see you on the TV at nite when I'm in bed
   Can a
   Blindman understand the color red?
  
   I see you at the podium how gracefuly you sway
   You're talking real clear
   but are you hearing what you say?
   Your lips keep movin talking as you walk
   But
   Everybody knows you're not walkin what you talk
   I see you eating out I don'te mean to be rude
   but you're so
   Busy reading menu's you forgot to order food...
   you're so
   Living in the image of a long forgotten dream
   You're
   Acting out the action of a bad movie scene
  
   Your champaign slogan says you want to make a change
   You
   wanna help the hungry and the mentally deranged
   Stop being arrogant come down off you shell
   'cause you
   Can't help no-one if you can't help yourself
  
   Shut your mouth and open your mind
   Steppin on your own shoe
   Steppin on your own shoe
   Shut your mouth and open your mind
  
   Shut your mouth and open your mind
   Steppin on your own shoe
   Steppin on your own shoe
   Shut your mouth and open your mind
   I'm tellin you
  
   Yeah...woah
   I'm tellin you
   Yeah...woah
   I'm tellin you
   Yeah...woah
   I'm tellin you
   Yeah...woah
  
   You pretend that you listen
   you don't hear what we say
   You're so far from the truth
   you an't see the light of day
   You messed up your mind cuz you took the easy road
   and acting understanding only made you grow old
  
   I wish that I could tell you
   the things I want to say but
   first yu gotta chip out the lies in your way
   There's too many like you
   and no matter what you say
   Whoever wrote the lines forgot to throw them away
  
   I'd really like to tell what you don't wanna hear
   man, everything you're living for
   is grounded in fear
   As long as you keep talking out the
   of your neck you'll
   never understand why your life is a wreck
  
   Just listen to this song
   it's as close as you get to get to
   Any sense of hope you get your soul outta dept
   It effectively elaborates
   the pattern that you weave
   We all see the ace taht you keep up your sleeve
  
   Shut your mouth and open your mind
   Easy does it boys
   he's just lost and he's blind
   Shut your mouth and open your mind
   Check it out boys he's just hard to find
   shut your mouth and open your mind
   Take it easy boys he don't know what he's sayin
   Shut you muth and open your mind
   Easy does it boys get down
  
   Scatting
  
   .....Yeeeeaaaaaaahhh.....
  
   I'm tellin you
   Yeah...woah (Steppin n your own shoes)
   I'm tellin you
   Yeah...woah (Steppin on your own shoes)
   I'm tellin you
   Yeah...woah
   I'm tellin you
   Yeah...woah
  
   Shut your mouth and open your mind
   Shut your mouth and open your mind
   (Ceck it out check it out check it out boys)
   I see you at the podium how gracefully you sway
   You're
   talkin real clear but are you hearin what you say?
   Your lips keep movin talkin as you walk
   But everybody knows
   you're not walkin what you talk
  
   I'm tellin you
   Yeah...woah
   I'm tellin you
   Yeah...woah
   I'm tellin you
   Yeah...woah
   I'm tellin you
   Yeah...woah
   Yeah yeah yeah yeah