INNER STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE

A Self Improvement and Soul Preservation Course Embedded in the Iconography and Symbology in the Lyrics of 14 Songs by Iggy Pop

All lyrics written by Iggy Pop

Heart Is Saved -

"Gambling on instincts

well here's what I found:

Voice from my pocket

starts pulling me down."

Instinct -

"I know who these people are.

I know what they stand for.

Corruption's built into their plan.

Nothing's on the other hand…

Get me out.

I can't accept a second rate life story."

Cry For Love -

"Bad TV that insults me freely.

Still I know what I'm dying to be…

In searching for a meaningful embrace,

sometimes my self respect took second place."

Cold Metal -

"I played tag in the auto graveyard

I looked up at the radio tower

Rag tent by the railroad tracks

Concrete poured over steel bridge

Pondered my fate while they built the interstate…

Cold metal, it rolls on by

Cold metal, gonna raise it high

Cold metal, it'll even fly

Rust buckets in the sky

Cold metal, got to be

Skeleton of the free...

Better save a tree."

Perforation Problems -

"I got a worm down in my troubled soul.

Now I'm alright but there's still holes."

Mask -

"Irony in place of balls

Balls in place of brains

Brains in place of soul

Where is the soul?

Where is the love?

Where am I?"

The Dum Dum Boys -

"The first time I saw the dum dum boys

I was fascinated.

They just stood in front of the old drug store.

I was most impressed.

No one else was impressed."

Fall In Love With Me -

"Table made of wood..."

Some Weird Sin -

"Things get too straight, I can't bear it… The sight of it all makes me sad and ill.

That's when I want some weird sin."

Lust For Life -

"I been hurting since I bought the gimmick

about something called love…

no more beating my brains

with liquor and drugs."

Winners and Losers -

"Winners and losers

in love with themselves

No Santa Claus

No happy elves

In this smoking gun existence

It gets harder to unwind

I'll just eat my breakfast

and keep my questions

starving all night."

Power and Freedom -

"This is a song about feeling like you got no power, and no fuckin' freedom...

All my life I've been polite but

I'm afraid it's creasing my butt

I'm a man I know what I want

Gonna take some nerve to get it

When you feel alone and dead

like you're living in your head

You want power

You want freedom…

The loneliness will craze you

No one cool will save you

And the system's built to waste you."

I Wanna Live -

"I'm hotter than California

I''m cheaper than a gram

I'm deeper than the shit I'm in

And I don't really give a damn."

Kill City -

"I live here in Kill City

where the debris meets the sea

It's a playground to the rich

but it's a loaded gun to me…

I'm sick of keeping quiet

and I am the wild boy

But if I have to die here

first I'm gonna make some noise…"