A little death around the eyes Take your medicine in your hotel room That's your medicine Better rest on all fours That's your medicine In a nut shell
You talk, you talk a good game I wish I could talk the same And a song is just a game I'm getting good at cheating That's how you talk Ah yes, you talk
He is stronger than the walls That you tried to build around him To dumb and dumbfound him For 2000 years I have waited for this call Screaming from the
By, oh by, the way of an explanation Cast adrift of the shores of shorty's nation I had a lick, it caved my skull in like a brick Call now, what use
I model lackluster panicky in vain search for the remedy No words only melody come so I take my day off my love My love she sits with me, I love, I love
I'm half dead, I'm the third alive A quarter ticking over on the middle by the side of the road Don't get surrounded by people you hate They'll choke
Baddie's bound by ancient codes of decency and secrecy He understands 'bout stabbing backs and shaking hands So if or when you're behind bars or in front
You seem the types who follow the line Went from cheery vagabondage To cold blooded luxury in four years No lick spittle or pick thack From sycophant
Roll a four, roll a nine Find yourself washed up in paradise Like before you didn't mind Someone else washed up in paradise, everyday What a nice day
You smoke your cigarettes down to the bone And since you vowed to back it and you're too proud to sack it You have to carry on your own You think you
I, I do declare, I was surprised to see you stay Only to be betrayed By the one you gave all your love and trust to And tell me how could I let go? Since
Come and see the blinding, it's so blinding It's the last thing that you'll ever see But you might be happy oh, happier Than you've ever been So let
I was a troubled teen Who put an advert in a magazine To the annoyance of my imaginary lover She doubted my philosophy and this is what she said to me
Why should I wait until tomorrow It's already been, I've already seen all the sorrow that's in store I will beg or steal or borrow Hold on tighter to
I sit alone almost every night I watch those trains roll on by, out of sight No, it's not the same old story, it's news to me I'd say so it's the not
Don't talk about it Don't want to know about it Arguing with you's no good You'll be nobody's fool but you'll almost speak Don't let me know about it
Sit right down if you're a friend You know there ain't too many left of them You said, ?I want love, I want it all? You look better now than last time
A' Rebours, A' Rebours You sent for me I was knock, knock knocking on death's door You ignore, adore, A' Rebours me You leave me washed up begging for
