Not black and red boys frightened by the night By the catholic monochrome The catholic girls now stark in their dark and white Dread in monochrome The Sisters Of Mercy
Through the cables and the underground now The faceless breathless calls This is babel, Sensurround now This place is death with walls Too much contact
Burn me a fire in the reptile house In the colour and the carnage fall me down My face in the fire in the reptile house And the kissing and the colour
, go, go Well, this is the floorshow, the last ideal Its populist got mass appeal The old religion redefined For the facile, futile, totally blind, volatile kind Mundane by
, my heart, my road My heartland fade across the line Heartland sing the faces shining In the failing, failing, failing Heartland make the places mine Clearly now the past mistakes
Well alright Well it's 1969 okay We got a war across the USA There's nothing here for me and you We're just sitting here with nothing to do Well, there
The sun shines on the aluminium I guess this must be the home of the hitmen
Baby, buy an anaconda, baby, buy a thing to wear She go walking, she go crawling, she go sliding through the air She go talking warm and fashion, she
Love for the party, love for the nation And love for the fix, for the fabrication And love for the corpse, for the corporation Love for the death and
Well, she got red eyes But she wear dust I went over, over, over, over I went bust I kissed, I kissed the carpet I'm climbing the curtain I was stoned
Somebody tell me about the rhythm of the 4th floor Somebody tell me about the rhythm of the dance floor Somebody tell me about the I need to know about
The razor bites and the shrieks subsides He arches clutching at his sides Across the floor, across the tiles The man is dead and the razor smiles A shiny
Here's the story No time to lose (like the present) Now I've lost my friends Now I've lost friends It's not my party, Never will be Feeling out-of-place
The lights shine clear through the sodium haze The night draws near and daylight fades Ignore the voices, discard the day For the brand new darkness,