These are danger days (What sort of days are these?). These are troubled times (Dy'aknow what time it is?). There it goes again (Another gear being slipped).
Put your head between your knees and breathe real deep. Let it in. Let it out. Until it's over.. . I might scribble, I might scrawl. I might claw at the wall.
Drag me down in colors pink and gold. (Like a ship that's going under... Bring me home in rain and thunder). Bless the night before the day grows old.
You don't have to be afraid. You just have to make the leap of fate. I'm not thinking in quantum jumps. No I think in lines but I speak in lumps. When you say those things it seems so crude.
As soon as I wake up every day,. I look at the papers to see what they say,. I know most what I read will be a lot of lies,. But then you learn really fast to read between the lines,.
He rodent into town. Fangs were getting himdown. He whiskered around thejuke joint. Where the coolcats hang around. Down at the mouse trap. Fangs were getting hot.
"Traffic's wild tonight". Diamond smiles her cocktail smile.. Tonight she's in heavy disquise.. She looks at her wrist to clock the passing time.. . "Weather's mild tonight".
Dave'd called me up yesterday. Everything he loved had moved away. I felt despair come crawling through that phone. I know the feeling but don't get me wrong.
(I said). Down at the street around half past nine. I heard someone scream. I found someone dying. His throat was slit from ear to ear. He mumbled so low I could hardly hear.
I've been standing here five minutes. And you haven't said a word. . Maybe you did. Maybe I haven't heard. . Well you better hurry up and say something.
Charmed lives. Nothing much to do tonight. Charmed lives. Oh no, oh no. Charmed lives. I think I'll do my hair tonight. Charmed lives. Cos it's so, it's so.
Can't stop. And face the facts. I'm high strung and I can't relax.. Tune me down cause I'm feeling sharp.. My blood's too weak and it strains my heart..
On blind dates. You meet in corners,. You take a jump into the unknown. They're classified, they're top secret,. An antidote to being on your own.. . You're standing waiting,.
It was cold that night from across the west and the days had lost their spark. And the yellow lights split the rain so bright and the dogs had lost their bark.
Banana Republic, Septic Isle. Screamin' in the sufferin' sea, sounds like cryin'. Everywhere I go, yeah everywhere I see. The black and blue uniforms, Police and Priests.
Another Piece of Red. . I was reading in New Zealand about Ian Smith. I was thinking they were lucky to be rid of that shit.. The people here can still believe in stiff lips and stiff collars.
A storm breaks over our head. We take shelter. We do as we're told. . A storm breaks over our head. We take shelter. Come in from the cold. . Life's OK.
She keeps her lover on ice,. She keeps a fire in the grate,. He's got a movement in his cellar,. He's a danger to the state.. Watch out for the normal people.
Watch out for your lady, watch out for her now. She ain't no lady, she's a stupid cow. She wears the trousers, she's got a tongue that stings. I know that woman.
Are you really going out with Adolf?. I never loved Eva Braun (oh no?). No, a thousand people say I did (oh yeah?). Yeah, she was just some girl who was on the make (Yes, we see).