Like a deserted town in winter
The sun has gone and I linger on
The coloured lights on the pier
Have disappeared and the radio plays a sad song
Like a ship lost at sea I'm drowning
As the world closes in
Strength where are you now
Are you with me on this precipice
CHORUS
You can stay if you want to
But I must drift away
You can do what you want to
I'm leaving the ghosts behind
Frozen like a memory
1 close my eyes and then it's gone
As night turns into day
The clock is waiting to have its say
In a minute it's years
And the end is closing in
Strength where are you now
It was late in the winter
When the weather was bitter
With the storm rolling in
Bringing death and disaster
The silence of night
Like gun fire was shattered
No shelter was left
For the poor and the wretched
Drums rolled and crashed
And the angels were singing
On the cliffs as I watched
The distant sail sinking
Master and slave to their death
Were sent flying
Under the waves luminous corpses would grin
Like the sharks who were waiting
No prayers were answered
No preference of class no deals could he done
Grown men would cry
Like a child for its mother
The violence of nature
Could not be appeased
Throw down a line
Shine me a light
I'm your prodigal son
And what I've seen ain't right
Throw the first stone
Show me a sign
I'm your prodigal son
Tell me what has been done
The night that we sailed
There were crowds on the quay side
Full of fear & excitement
Of an unknown tomorrow
The old world left behind us
We sailed to the horizon
The voyage was uneventful we had sailed there before
Until the night one mile from the headland
In a moment of truth
A pathetic twist of fortune
I'd heard a voice in my head I'd ignored it
Was it a warning & how would I know
All the hopes & the dreams on the rocks they were
shattered
No invitation was offered to debate the outcome
As I left that ship I was leaving a graveyard
They say it's a long time until tomorrow
When your shining light has blown a fuse
Now I can't wait to leave the ashes
That have ruined me and everything
And weren't you always going to be by my side
And wasn't the sun always going to shine
I'll throw your letters into the fire
I'll put the ghost out in the hall
Whatever you wanted I'd forgotten in the madness
But maybe I'll remember before too long
And weren't you always going to be by my side
And wasn't the sun always going to shine
You can forget about the rent you can steal what you want
What's that you say girl?
You did it all for me?
But you didn't want to
Lose your nobility
It sounds so wrong when you say it
It sounds so wrong when you say
I'm not playing your fool
But that's the story of love
(Repeat three times)
Here comes the holiday
With all the invites to the rest home for retards
The Hollywoodesque Cabaret
And wouldn't you know it feels so automatic
And such a subtle response
I never expected to feel so dejected
And with all the spite in the world
I never wanted to be who'd have thought I'd be
Sold Out, like a miner I'm digging for gold
Sold Out, I could never believe what I was told
Let's do the Cadillac stomp
Syphilitic rumba is on my agenda
just like a novel I'd read
It's as crass as a TV commercial
Such a subtle response
I never expected to feel so dejected
With all the spite in the world
1 never wanted to be who would have thought I'd be
Sold Out, like a miner I'm digging for gold
Well you sent me some words that you picked up from the
classics
the old friends that serve you
run for & deserve you
Time was so wonderful
when he was on your side
& all times through paradise
I could have tried
Consider it for yourself
you have stretched me like elastic
over words that mean nothing to
anyone that can count up to two
You were immaculate I thought
but I'm standing in the dark
& all times through paradise
You know that I get weary & I can't go on
sometimes it seems like I might be the only one
& you know when it feels like that
I just want to run
So if you say let's run
I think I better run
But when you say let's stay
I don't think I could even walk away
Many times I get confused
I can't find an open door
everywhere I look all I see just drags me to trhe floor
So if you say let's run
I think I better run
But when you say let's stay
I don't think I could even walk away
How can I pretend I know better
how can I be sure
because people are just like glass they shatter
maybe one day we all get a step closer too.....
I've taken a chance
it's more than I have before
when I look at you girl I don't need no more
I can't understand these feelings of mine
because of you it's going to be allright
You know that chance girl it don't often come
this world it gets you & keeps you on the run
I've messed around & wasted my time
but someone like you is so hard to find
These days will soon be passed
but memories I know will last
of the times I spent with you
Babe I know what I've been told
but there is something here that I can hold
Let's get disguised
let's all hide our eyes
let's fantasise that we are moving
drag out your chains
let's all be citizen Kane's
& go dance on the edge of disaster
your saviour is sent
& the price of cement
will keep you out of disco's in china
because,you can't tamper with the temple of the lord uh
huh...
Your animal eyes will help you survive
you've a talent for inventing disaster
So drag out your bombs
& we'll sing the swan song
& dance from here to the ever after.....
because,you can't tamper with the temple of the lord uh
huh...
Let's get disguised
& all hide our eyes
let's fantasise that we are moving
With the left going left
& the right going right
I'm aiming this right at your heart
because,you can't tamper with the temple of the lord uh
Like a snake calling on the phone
I've got no time to be alone
There is someone coming at me all the time
Yeah babe I think I'll lose my mind
'Cause I'm stranded on my own
Stranded far from home, all right
I'm riding on a midnight train
And everybody looks just the same
A subway light it's dirty reflection
I'm lost babe I got no direction
And I'm stranded on my own
Stranded far from home, all right
Stranded - Yeah I'm on my own
Stranded - I'm so far from home
Stranded - You gotta leave me alone
'Cause I'm stranded on my own, stranded far from home.
Come on!
Look at me looking at you
There ain't a thing that I can do
You are lost, your mind is stuck in a whirl
Yeah honey such a stupid girl
Now I'm stranded on my own
Stranded far from home, come on.
Stranded - Yeah I'm on my own
Stranded - I'm so far from home
Stranded - You gotta leave me alone
'Cause I'm stranded on my own, stranded far from home.
All right
Livin' in a world insane
They cut out some heart and some brain
Been filling it up with dirt
Yeah baby dunno how it hurts
To be stranded on your own
Stranded far from home, all right
Stranded - I'm so far from home
Stranded - Yeah I'm on my own
Stranded - You got to leave me alone
Come on!
Stranded - I'm so far from home
Stranded - Yeah I'm on my own
Stranded - You got to leave me alone
'Cause I'm stranded on my own
When I rise in the morning
open my eyes in the cold dark rain
my coat is no protection
it won't stop me from going insane
in all of these feelings
babe it's so hard to find
an escape from the confusion
yes that is very hard to find
I guess you can feel it
I close my eyes
I can't stand the strain
There is a rage I can't cage here
I'm trapped inside this brain
in all of these feelings
babe it's so hard to find
an escape from the confusion
yes that is very hard to find
Now I want someone to tell me what to do
& someone to tell me if it's true
Won't you please be my
Won't you please be my somebody
When you laugh I cry
C'mon give me love before I die
Just one look in your pretty green eyes
babe you got me standing hypnotised
One more drink & then I'm gone
I'm talking but I can see
there is no one in front
my eyes can't deny
I'm staring at an empty sky
Listen to what I say
take a look at the things that I've done
I don't need anyone
& you don't come around
& love it lies on the ground
Midnight in the lepers home
all the creatures they start to roam
little girls in uniform
are talking on the telephone
to some one from the twilight zone
& your simple love will always save me
while the world around me is going crazy
So listen to what I say
take a look at the things that I've done
I don't need anyone
& you don't come around
There is a photograph in a haunted room
filled with memories that have gone too soon
& as I pass by every day
I say why does it make me feel this way...
There is life in the setting of the sun
& you know I think that it should go on
but as it turns around I have to say
Why does it make me feel this way....
Laughing sun & laughing moon
I know they sould be & I want to be to
but as it turns out I have to say
Here I am in a pyscopathic world
trying to avoid disaster
& cutting up tomorrow's papers
Talking about all the change that's going to come
& how to avoid disaster
if it was easy you could ask me
if it were mine I'd try.....
Falling out the window full of drink in my head
like a Jamaican festival
baby thinks that I'm an animal
Spend my time trying hard not to think
no panic about the inevitable
& if it was easy you could ask me
if it were mine to decide
I'd rather not be crucified.....
Here I am in a pyscopathic world
trying to avoid disaster
I got success on my mind
she's a pretty nice girl
she is not being unkind
Got me a brand new pair of walking shoes
I'm all slicked back
& got nothin' to lose
I got friends who live in the jungle
lost themselves in the worthless tangle
each of them is a rolling stone
& all of them own their own homes
now some roll left & some roll right
& some of them can't sleep at night
uh huh.... they got the idiot blues....
Me I'm gonna rattle my own pots & pans
& take me off to the distant land
I hope this land don't go up in smoke
& if I go that I don't go broke
there is some time left to contemplate
so I'll put my meat right on the plate
I'll put that plate right on the train
that can carry me back to the promised land
singing....
You make me feel just like a savage
Honey, running through the jungle after you
I'm like a wild man on a rampage
Yeah, I found the safari, babe, but where are you?
I feel like a horrible creature
But honey, I don't want to scare you
Yeah, you look so good that I could eat you
But I won't kiss a steak so I won't eat you
I'm wild about the way out clothes you wear
Your pretty dresses your teased up hair
You laugh at me since I'm staring at you
Honey, you laugh at me but you're lovin' it too!
'Cause you're wild and I'm wild about you
You're wild and I'm wild about you
Come on!
Oh baby, you're so wild
I'm gonna make you mine
I'm comin' to getcha
Right now
Yeah, you make me feel just like a savage
Honey, running through the jungle after you
I'm like a wild man on a rampage
Yeah, I found the safari, babe, but where are you?
I feel like a horrible creature
But honey, I don't want to scare you
Yeah, you look so good that I could eat you
But I won't kiss a steak so I won't eat you
I'm wild about the way out clothes you wear
Your pretty dresses your teased up hair
You laugh at me 'cause I'm staring at you
Honey, you laugh at me but you're lovin' it too!
'Cause you're wild and I'm wild about you
You're wild and I'm wild about you
Come on!
Yes you're wild - but what can I do?
Yes you're wild - I can't stand it!
Yes you're wild - I'm goin' insane!
Ghost ships are sailing on empty seas
the light that was in the darkness
it does not shine on me.
Like an old man I run to find the shore
& the light that was in your eyes
doesn't shine there anymore
So wait until tomorrow and then we'll see
I don't know about tomorrow..........
Cold is the wind that blows in my mind
Crazy in this mood that has to be mine
I would run but I am tired
& I feel that I must be hypnotised
So wait until tomorrow and then we'll see
I don't know about tomorrow..........
Ghost ships are sailing on empty seas
the light that was in the darkness
it does not shine on me.
Like an old man I run to find the shore
& the light that was in your eyes
doesn't shine there anymore
So wait until tomorrow and then we'll see
I'm talking to you but you're in a trance
You're Talking to me but I ain't got a chance
'Cause you'd rather sit with your radio
You lie in the sun and you read magazines
You think that you know everything on the scene
But you're hagning 'round only fooling yourself
This time I let you go
Next time I let you know
It's high time that I told you so, this time
So we sit around and I stare at the wall
And you don't care if I go on and on
As long as I say what you want to hear, girl
So you read your books and I crawl 'round the floor
The radio's on but you want more
So we take a walk through/to the discoteque
This time I let you go
Next time I let you know
It's high time that I told you so
This time, this time
This time I let you go
Next time I let you know
It's high time that I told you so
This time, this time
And so you think you got nothing to do
You turn out the lights now you want something new
So you like wait with the radio
I'm talking to you but you're in a trance
You're Talking to me but I ain't got a chance
'Cause you'd rather sit with your radio
This time I let you go
Next time I let you know
It's high time that I told you so
This time, this time
This time I let you go
Next time I let you know
It's high time that I told you so
This time, this time
This time I let you go
Next time I let you know
It's high time that I told you so
Send someone out to get me in
I think it's starting to rain
Don't be rough
don't ask too many questions of me
I don't think I can stand
It's very late in the evening
& I see the sun it refuses to shine
if you believed everything you have said to me
why don't you understand
& I say to myself
this world ain't doing me too much good
I've lost my reasons
I stand out in the falling rain
I've been ten days in overdrive
I crawl the nearest wall
I don't know where it is I am going to
or where I've just come from
one more drink
might make me feel better
it is a friend when you are down
but one more drink will only bring me closer to
Locked in a room full of words
I know one I'd mentioned with the curs*
The simpleton who sweetly smiles at his young lover now
beguiled
The sycophantic morons lie at Romeo who is the bride,
let's ride
Stoned as I walk down the hall
The adman waits to hear the curse and call*
The angels scream in discontent as to the river they
are lent*
The actors bow and pay the rent, the government may
close them in*
Let's swing for the crime everyone in double time
And we hope that you had a good time
Yeah you can smile as you sign on the line
Because life on your knees can be fun
Surprised now you're not the only one
Led like a lamb into this gloom
Yeah Freud is in the back room with his goons
Now they've got new experiments, the metal groans the
lens are rent*
The anti-hero's mock dissent, we mark it now by mass
content
We swing for the crime everyone in double time
Scream like you're birthday to cry*
Is changed by the words that you learned
But Jack the ripper is inside
And Moriarty has imbibed
They leave the marry all the while*
Laugh at how they're circumcised*
They swing for the crime everyone in double time
And we hope that you had a good time
Yeah smile as you sign on the line
Because life on your knees can be fun
You say that you got the answers
you heard them all on the telephone
& now you're telling everybody
a major coup in the business zone
We got new thoughts new ideas it's all so groovey
it's just a shame that we have seen the same old movies
So you think that you got a first in fashion
new uniforms we all look the same
A new vogue for the now generation
a new profit in the same old game
We got new thoughts etc etc...
& you think you can run & hide what you've done
I found out I was in another town
didn't know they had to send out
I was waiting by the telephone
looking out from the top floor
Now this rain is not something I adore
but I was standing there hoping to open up the door
I looked around
put a hand into my pocket
& found a book that I had lost
I was dressed in black
feeling out of time
just waiting for that shiny caddillac
baby send one out to bring me back
There was no one there to tell me
& I myself I couldn't see
that the hour hadn't come
So it's left with only roses
& an uphill climb in sight
no more dancing in the wasteland
I was too wasted anyhow
I placed one hand on my forehead
I shook the other one and sighed
in the now dead room
& the only child
listen....
No one was there to tell me
& I myself I could not see
I'D BEEN WAITING All THE MORNING
SLOWLY DOING TIME I WAS FEELING FINE
SITTING OUT ON THE VERANDAH
I TOOK SOME WINE TO TURN MY MIND FROM YOU
AND THAT IT DID DO
SHE WAS THERE BUT UNDISCOVERED
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS 1 WAS SOON TO BE
BUT SPANISH QUEENS LIKE THEIR POSSESSIONS
SO THE TREASURE IT WAS LOST TO ME
C'EST LA VIE
CH ... I'M STILL WAITING I'M STILL SEARCHING
I STILL BELIEVE IN SOMETHING SOMEWHERE SOMETIME.
I AM READY WILLING AND ABLE
TO BELIEVE IN SOMETHING SOMEWHERE SOMETIME
LATER ON IN THE ILLUSION OF CONQUERING MY OWN CONFUSION
SMASHING AWAY IN THE DARKNESS
WITH NO IDEA JUST WHAT IT All MEANS
WAS IT UNREAL AND HOW DID YOU FEEL
WHAT DID I STEAL EXCEPT MY OWN IDEALS.
Night time, neon sign, synthetic grin
Fast cars, drag bars, ice in my gin
Discotheques were all the rage, dancing til two
Champagne and misery where are you?
Let's have another drink
Let's have another drink
Loud music, crowds grooving, drunk at the door
Life in the mirror cracked, sick on the floor
Coffee addict, automatic pistols were drawn
Be my suicidal heart-throb cest de l'amour
Let's have another drink
Let's have another drink
Everyday is a holiday and everynight it's party time
'Cause all the world is mine, all the world is mine
Night time, neon sign, synthetic grin
Fast cars, drag bars, ice in my gin
Discotheques were all the rage, dancing til two
Champagne and misery where are you?
Let's have another drink
Let's have another drink
Yeah yeah
Uh huh....
Well it's one more sink or swim
another night & day
one more empty page
with a million words
& nothing to say
so I sit surrounded by the gloom
a room of empty faces
& a melodramatic tune
I wonder just how long can this go on
& I hope you come & see me before I go...
On the corner
I was looking for the sun
I don't know what I call this
but I sure don't call it fun...
I wonder just how long can this go on
& I hope you come & see me before I'm gone...
Standing by the water
threatening to jump in
there was only one thing stopped me
the fact is I can swim...
I wonder just how long can this go on
Well I might as well be certified crazy
the way I'm going I might as well be insane
One day down & the next I am floating
high as a kite
my feet don't touch the ground
From a penthouse apartment
to the depths of the ocean
In a greasy mood I go out on the town
seems like I could be forgiven for thinking
that my time has come
lord I am ready to drown
Still I trhink it's better
to stand out in the rain
than go slipping on down the drain
Well if you see me around
when your world is crumbling
give me a call & I'll be along
I know that we are all islands
but I'll swim across
& we can talk about it all
Still I trhink it's better
to stand out in the rain
I used to send you postcards from the subway after hours
I quit my job there now I play for flowers
I've grown right out of that
& now there is no turning back
I sold myself to a gentleman of letters
he let's me out once a month to say my prayers
I file my teeth for flash
& sell myself for cash
I want the big hits on the underground
I want to shake to the psycho sound
of big hits on the underground
everybody needs them?
My mind is clean
but my outlook is dirty
I tell myself I only do it because I'm pretty
I'm talking about making the grade
now my soul is saved...
I want the big hits on the underground
I want to shake to the psycho sound
of big hits on the underground
Before Hollywood before Babylon and Babel
On a desert isle I was sitting at a table
Reading into the absurd
some of us never learn
In the struggle to survive
Something must Die...
On a foreign shore
In the shadow of a cathedral
With a cripple's eye
I stole manna from the temple
In a cinematic dream
somebody lent to me
I began to realise
Something must die
So who am I and do I make a difference
Does life go on and on and is there any answer
In a tenement electric luxuries of silence
Of the human mind and all it's evolution
Is this perverse
And does it really hurt
In the struggle to survive
Something must die......
So who am I and do I make a difference
Don't send me roses send me fire
fill me up I'm falling more than I fell before
Save your scars don't leave them burning
take your time don't wait for the rest to come
& come on love we can face another day
I can hear the angels coming to chase the night away...
Easy now & watch for warning
close your eyes & wait for the light to shine
we can take it all together
take my head & give it to a stranger
So come on love we can face another day
I wish that today could last forever
I'm standing at the edge of a lonely sea
here comes tonight & it brings it's sorrow
I will stand waiting for tomorrow
Always Always
I look through the mists & I see you walking
I remember last night when we were talking
yesterday's gone there is no repeating
tomorrow don't come there is only waiting
I was talking to a friend of the people
Was kissing babies like a diplomat
was on remand & on my best behaviour
shaking hands & getting in on the act....
The business people were getting drunker than usual
The conversation slipped below the skull
Exchanging glances with a reporter from Teen Hits
I'm an apprentice whore on my way to Babylon
I was a bit like you
You showed me what to do
I was introduced to the sound of confusion
Got propositioned by a passing nun
I was indisposed & unavailable for comment
I'm on the borderline
with nowhere to go
I was a bit like you
I know a place where we can go
& I can take you there if you try
imagination
I know where we all belong
& we can get back there if we try
imagination
you know what I mean
come on let's dance
I want to sing
I want to set my soul on fire
I can prove it
going grooving
just give me the madness & I'll be free....
I know the sunny days are gone
but we can get them back if you try
imagination
Not everybody like to sing
but we can change their minds
if you got
imagination
you know what I mean
come on let's dance
I want to sing
I want to set my soul on fire
I can prove it
going grooving
I don't live this life for me
in orstralia land so free
everyone lazing in the sun
nobody cares so let's have fun
We got no problems got no war
& you don't need your brain no more
No sir
Orstralia goes in once again
we must remeber all our friends
& to make sure always
that we support the CIA
We got no problems got no war
& you don't need your brain no more
No sir
Hang your washing on the line
it's Ok the weather's fine
your hubby goes out commits no crime
I know someone who can sell you a breakdown
he's a sure & a certain man
& all his time is spent inside of
a laboratory looking out
& if dreams were made to crash on seashores
he's a rock you can be sure
if it's to dust that you are returning
the door is open you can step inside
if you only want to try
there is no obligation to buy
the first time....
Picture yourself in the garden of eden
then take a walk to the other side
if it's to dust that you are returning
the door is open you can step inside
if you only want to try
there is no obligation to buy
She says I don't wanna talk about it
I say I can't speak no more
what chance this weather
to ever understand it
I got the voodoo
I got the shadow at the back door
& when your creatures come to defend you
it could be friday 13
could be the end of the world....
I say I see no way around it
She say I can't get past that door
I see no reason to indulge in this madness
like a volcano it's time to explode
& when your creatures come to defend you
it could be friday 13
I could fill a room with empty pockets
I could build a palace from lost ideals
Forgotten to say what it is that I wanted
Now I go to sleep and dream of nothing
So the weatherman says there'll be a change in the
weather
& this is fine in my time of life
If someone could tell me something l hadn't heard before
I wouldn't be knocking at your door.
Like a grain of sand that's how I feel tonight
In a foreign land
washed up and out of sight..........
I woke up this morning and felt like a zombie
Couldn't find the shoes underneath my bed
My tongue was covered in fur
So I shoved it in my pocket
At least I'm alive I think I'll survive
Like a grain of sand
that's how I feel tonight
In a foreign land
Don't talk to me about what you done
Ain't nothing has changed it all goes on
And they'll keep laughing till the end
I've seen them drive around in cars
All look the same get drunk in bars
And don't talk back we got no social rights
Oh perfect day
What more to say?
Don't need no one to tell me what I don't already know
We got no high times always flat
If you go out you don't come back
It's all so funny I can't laugh
Oh perfect day
What more to say?
Don't need no one to tell me what I don't already know
Don't talk to me about what's you done
Ain't nothing has changed it all goes on
And they'll keep laughing till the end
Oh perfect day
What more to say?
I don't need no one to tell me what I don't already
know
Don't need nothin'
Don't need no one
You're a man in a cage
I see you everyday
You're the one who has everything
But your thoughts are disturbed
You don't like what you've heard
You condemn what you don't understand
And you think you're happy, better than the rest
But you're a prisoner like everybody else
Watch the light as it moves
Feel the eyes in your room
You are free you can do anything
And you think you're happy, better than the rest
Still you're a prisoner just like everybody else
(whistling)
Lock your heroes away
Put your mind out to play
Take a walk to the edge of town
As you're dragged to the ground
Close your ear to the sound
But you're safe 'cause it can't happen here
And you think you're happy, better than the rest
But you're a prisoner like everybody else
And you think you're happy, better than the rest
But you're a prisoner just like everybody else
And you think you're happy, better than the rest
But you're a prisoner like everybody else
Yeah and you think you're happy, so better than the
rest
But you're a prisoner just like everybody else
I'm flying higher you can't see me
I'm getting ready for the parade
I've sold my shares in heaven
& I'm not going to be the same again
you can confuse abuse & lose me
lord I am ready for that trail
I am ready to cross that ocean
I'm not coming back again
so, All the saints can come & find me
I got friends up there I can tell.....
I've done enough research into the madness
of sitting on the shelf
I am champagne flying blindly
into someone who is myself
you can take your glue like madness
& give it to someone else
I have done my time on the island
now it's time for something else
so, All the saints can come & find me
I got friends up there I can tell.....
Aren't you a mess
you shouldn't act like this
you stand right there
& laugh in my face
you ask me why I haven't left
Are you feeling fine
have you really got the time
to bother to write one line
don't lay you on the line
it's easy to be the missing link
You're living your life in a chain gang
you're so well guarded
You're living your life in a chain gang
you're so retarded
Are you feeling fine
have you really got the time
to bother to write one line
don't lay you on the line
it's easy when you're the missing link
Are you feeling brave
you might dig your own grave
use the money that you save
lose the money that you save
You shout out
they're all the wrong answers
You're waiting for someone who will never come
You're waiting to hear someone who won't even call
Like stars up in a darkened sky
I stand obscured from view
With shining eyes that did not lie
I turn the page for you
The silent shadow in the night
I smile before I steal
Behind locked doors in emptiness
I am the things you do
Now I am your only friend
You must love the chameleon
Now child my man why not live and think
You have no time for rest
No thoughts, no words to comfort you
No smile or soft caress
I am the ride, the wishing well
The secrets to your fear
I light the candle burning bright
The call from distant years
Now I am your only friend
You must love the chameleon
Now I am your only friend
You must love the chameleon
I said now I am your only friend
Yeah, you must love the chameleon
Groovy little people that come around
Everybody look to the brand new sound
We gotta get down
I got a new trick, better than the old trick
Baby come with me we'll find a new kick, now
Cause I've seen the joke and it ain't funny
I think I might trade it in for some money
Tried so hard all these years
Tried so hard to live with my fears
I've just got to get out
I will do the John Travolta
I feel revolted
I will dance with anyone
I will get mine
Because I'm a chameleon I do what I can
I think that is nice, if I earnt some money
Being funny for a record company
They get me lots of wonderful things
They give me a house, a car, a nice place to entertain
my friends
And I've got lots of friends who come around
Because I am a chameleon
They tell me that they love me true
Sometimes I get frightened
I go out of my head
no one comes to my mountain
& no one hears a word that's said
Sometimes I look for a reason
& sometimes I fail
then again just like the seasons
I come around again
So please forgive this fascination
but is this love or imagination?
Sometimes I worry about the things that are near to me
about the things that I hold close
sometimes I worry about the 3rd world
& I ain't even seen the first
So please forgive this fascination
but is this love or imagination?
Now they got TV out in the jungle
& everybody is going up to outer space
why don't you come & visit in my tenement
before they blow us all off this place
You are so sublime
Just take one look at your face now
You didn't have an alibi
You heard it all and it's all lies
And you know that theres nothing I can do
You can do what you wanted to
You can try to be somebody else now
If you don't like what you see
Trade it in and leave it all for me
Take a chance now, you ain't got nothing to lose
So take this heart of mine
Be so kind
So take this heart of mine
Some time
All you needed was an alibi
An excuse to be the lonesome stranger
You're good and you learnt your lines
All you need now is someone in danger
Take a chance now, you ain't got nothing to lose
So take this heart of mine
Be so kind
Take this heart of mine
Some time
So take this heart of mine
Be so kind
Take this heart of mine
Some time
So take this heart of mine
Be so kind
Take this heart of mine
Ain't nobody tells me what to do now
I've heard all the lies & been promised the world
no business man is going to use or confuse me
'cause I ain't no puppet for his capital gain
What do get but exploitation
from creeps who are going to ignore your situation
Too many people getting pushed around
going to end up in the lost & found
They say I got to respect the system
but there ain't no respect in that system for me
you got to be satisfied & show no resistance
if you want to get to the top of that tree
What do you get etc etc...
They give you media minds to keep you satisfied
I'm pawning my blues
I've got my walking shoes
no looking over my shoulder
I'm heading off in a motor
I'm dammed if I do
& I'm dammed if I don't
I'll get my head out of moth balls
I'll clean out the closet
I've been looking for a clue
now I know what to do
I've been waiting for sometime
you can have yours I want to.....
Savour my time without reason or ryhme
I'm going down to the basement
I left something down there
It is not in my mind
it is following me around
like a faithful old bloodhound
might come & undo me
I've been looking for a clue
now I know what to do
I've been waiting for sometime
you can have yours I want a.....
Revolution in my life
Me I'm not waiting for the next world
Don't want an answer now I can bide my time
I'm not in line for divine consent
No chorus of angels is going to pay my rent
Don't want to shave my head or bang a drum
I'm sitting by the river I can see it run
I'm at one with my predicament
Don't need a guru to say which way is best
Chorus
No fire and brimstone is going to turn me
I don't want to live with guilt
No simple solution can satisfy me
I can't waste my time
I've seen the forest now I want to see the trees
I've existentialized till the death of me
How I resolve this will pass the time
Until I meet my maker at the end of time
REPEAT CHORUS
This world is bent I know it's true
Sometimes it's hard to know what to do
You can feel like a disposable part
You can even get a second hand heart
Me I'm not waiting for the next world
Doff t want an answer now I can bide my time
I'm not in line for divine consent
I got the blues on my mind
they are stuck there this time
frozen & ugly like glue
I've been bettered at the crime
it's shaken me this time
frozen like eyes in the zoo
& sadly this message is true
Now you & your kind
so right all the time
blinded by fear & regret
Now nothing is so right
that makes you so wise
to believe that you could know it all
I got the blues on my mind
they are stuck there this time
With a bit of luck everything's falling in place
The maybe things will feel it's been such a race
Now everything's fine, carry on
If times are hard it's just too bad, just go on your way
Some people will do anything, well that's what they say
But everything's fine, carry on
When you look at life all you see is a dull reality
Wait until some clown on stage explains to you life's
mysteries
If somebody tells you put your hands on your head
Think you look just like a snake when you crawl like a
worm
But everything's fine, carry on
When you look at life all you see is a dull reality
Wait until some clown on stage explains to you life's
mysteries
Ah bop bop bop bop bop Everything's fine, carry on
Everything's fine, carry on
Yeah, everything's fine, carry on
When the world is cold & dark
& the rain comes
don't let it fall on me
in a world as cold as ice
I keep a fire burning
just to keep out the dark
no soldier of fortune I
but I feel the tension rise
there'll be no call to arms tonight
& there ain't no holy fight
I'll see you in paradise
When the change that's soon to come
has taken you
you know where I'll be
Someone must pay the price
I ask the lord
don't let it be you or me
no soldier of fortune I
but I feel the tension rise
there'll be no call to arms tonight
& there ain't no holy fight
