Perfume Garden Lyrics - Singles - Chameleons

You can shake your hips 

You can seal your lips 

I can't make that trip 

And all life's fears 

Can invade my ears 

I can handle it 

I can laugh with a friend 

And remember the faces 

We wore at school 

Making the madness 

And solitary sadness 

A friendly fool 

I thought of stories 

They told us long ago 

Of how the world was a perfume garden 

I haven't yet learned to tame the creature there 

And that at least I think is something good 

All across the town 

And across the street 

You could feel the heat 

Let me tell you friend 

They could hardly wait 

To mark your sheet 

It was maximum joy 

For the men they employed 

To hold you down 

Well I hope now you know 

That this isn't the bliss 

That you thought you found 

Endless emptiness 

An endless ringing bell 

I couldn't show you 

But I hope to one day 

Pretty promises to teach the tender child 

To welcome madness every Monday 

Beck and call 

It didn't seem to matter at all 

Beck and call 

You told us how to conquer it all 

Beck and call 

These children have nothing at all 

Listening hard 

For the voice of the child 

I thought I heard 

An alarm bell ringing 

Pulled from my sleep 

By invisible hands 

The distant sound of a lady singing