The red light surface world gets hot
The heat comes from below
It rises smoking through the grates,
but why? None of them know.
The cold fish keep the cash on ice.
They like to serve it chilled,
and with a twisting of the knife,
They toast the ones they killed
Oh! what have we here?
What have we here indeed?
Can we live without our shadows?
Something’s burning in the seed.
It’s uptown life above the park,
The demons feed when souls are dark.
Some dream on the satin.
And some dream in the shit,
but all of them are dreaming
while the karmic meters tick.
All of them are dreaming
while the karmic meters tick
Oh! what have we here?
What have we here indeed?
Can we live without our shadows?
Something’s burning in the seed.
How the wheels are spinning...
wheels inside of wheels
They turn behind the curtain,
but no one’s really certain what they see,
and their confusion is a mystery to me
It’s hard to keep the engines greased.
Here comes the secret life police
Everyone’s on fire now with
getting... what... they... want,
Sometimes they might get it right,
but mostly... no...... they don’t.
The winds came up
when the sun went down
and the children of darkness
came to town
and nowhere was it safe
and no one could escape
until the angels came
and set the world on fire
with their love
until the angels came
and set the world on fire
with their love
Oh! what have we here?
What have we here indeed?
Can we live without our shadows?
Something’s burning in the seed.
Buddha-buddha-buddha
The machine gun’s children scream
the vacuous banalities
the usual redundancies
the be-at-ta-tatta... tat-tat-tatta-tudes
of scripture tricked out like a whore
The people want a little more
God bless the cannon fodder meek
in a Disneyland of war.
Unknown and forgotten
They bloom at night alone
until the flowing streaks of dawn
Then... everyone was gone
Oh! what have we here?
What have we here indeed?
Can we live without our shadows?
Something’s burning in the seed.
really... I don’t know
and really... I can’t say,
and it really doesn’t matter anyway
No... it really doesn’t matter anyway.
really... I don’t know
and really... I can’t say,
and it really doesn’t matter anyway
No... it really doesn’t matter anyway.
