Vanity Lyrics - New Model Army

I'll teach you everything that I know now, Eddie 

If you really want to take the time 

But don't expect to get answers to anything, Eddie 

There is just one thing I've learned 

Through everything that I've done and tried 

Everything I have justified 

It's all vanity, all vanity we try to have control 

It's all vanity, all vanity 'cause chaos rules it all 

I always drive like a madman, Eddie 

But you'll soon get used to that 

I believe if you're moving fast enough, Eddie 

You don't ever have to watch your back 

I choose solid ground to make my stands 

I stay off the streets at closing time 

It's all vanity, all vanity - we try to have control 

It's all vanity, all vanity 'cause Chaos rules it all 

Remember how it was out at Bunglass 

We climbed up to the peak and stood against the rocks 

The photographs came you couldn't see us 

We were lost against the mountains like specks of dust 

And the mirror never lies, it's just these foolish eyes 

And we all see what we want to see 

What we need to see, what we have to see 

And so will you do just the same one day, Eddie 

I've been to that place a thousand times 

Looked over the edge so many times 

Wanted to jump a thousand times 

Well we talk about saving the world now, Eddie 

It's our vanity gone mad 

She'll survive us all perfectly well 

When we're all long buried and dead 

Clever monkeys with technology 

Barely out of the caves and the trees 

It's all vanity, all vanity we try to have control 

It's all vanity, all vanity 'cause chaos rules it all 

Eddie now let it go 

I turn my head away from here 

Down towards the rolling seas again 

I kneel and worship where I can 

The ground comes swirling up and through these veins