When the clock strikes, dead on midnight Books fly through the hall All the lampshades, turn and rotate She walks through the wall With hands in pockets
I wish you all the more success More than I could ever have I wish you most happiness Good friends are hard to find Don't make the mistakes I've made
When you're on your own You walk in the rain You walk around the house Then walk around it again You pretend, you're happy That you've got it all But
Making an appearance at the club tonight Playing some songs that I think are alright I'm not post-modern just a man who can bark And bite with teeth that
For days I've searched for the words So I don't make a mess of this I'll trade my eyes for a fleeting wish I woke at 7 a.m. The cold air was not becoming
Kids, you're our only hope Save us now, we need an antidote Kids, get out on the streets Through the smoke rise through the city heat You loved me like
Be my late night partner Oh, pull me from the crowd With all of your old records We'll drink 'til we pass out Where are the moments that I feel so alive
Well, I hope God protects your soul I don't know if you should leave home alone Maybe you've been drinking from the Devil's bowl I can't express myself
Once I was a shadow of a man Most dark nights my head was in it's hands I begged God to cure my aching limbs But He did nothing, He gave me no advice
In an empty cinema Loneliness When your old friends drift apart Loneliness Wandering 'round the house in the dark Loneliness Faded glory you're a broken
It's clear to us this love affair Has self combusted everywhere And I don't feel so debonair My piano collects dust A funeral with no mourners I wish
Oh baby can't you see when you get mad at me Your eyes light up your face? Oh baby, just admit if both my wrists were slit You'd bandage them with style
Scatterbraine, they smoked you out of the foxhole Scatterbraine, you act like a priest in a brothel Naive charm, the idiot boy from the farm Father tried
To the Marxists and the police To the junkies in the streets To the gangsters in our towns And the others underground To the prostitutes and whores To
Let love not weigh me down Let the cursed air be clean When you've lost faith in the human race Let love not weigh you down Let love not 'cause me pain
I'm the hunter who's killed by his dog I'm the statue burnt down into lead I'm the problem you don't want to solve I'm the lover who dies in his bed
Well, I burnt all my travelers checks Just to show you my respect Then I hung myself out to dry And you looked at me and asked me why So I said, "I don
Let's move away together, go interplanetary Maybe in Chinese weather, where it's sanitary I'll go out trawler fishing, yeah, we'll have tuna steak I'm