Nice house and a wall around your land
Big mall and your pet designer brand
Chance to get your face on some real TV
Some petrol and a car so you can feel free, free, free

We'll make it, oh
A nation fit for heroes,
The evidence is all overdue
Ovation for the Neros
Who fiddle while the world's burning down

One view with a single blaring headline
One man, an agenda and a deadline - looming
But never mind the things that the papers say
The golden eagle sings and they go away, way, way

They call it, oh
A nation fit for heroes
The evidence is all overdue
This zombie land for zeros
From cradle to the grave, and beyond

Oh, a nation fit for heroes
The evidence is all overdue
Ovation for the Neros
Who fiddle while the world's burning

Oh, a nation fit for heroes
The evidence is all overdue
This zombie land for zeros
From cradle to the grave, and beyond

Torn, reckless I'm born
Sent here to fall
Under another spell, blindly
Green, sacrifice me
Float down the stream
Over the waterfall, send me

Smiling faces through the ages, animated, innocently
Ever waiting, turning the pages slow
Desperation ups the stakes onto the table, holding aces
Never pays while ever romancing gold

Under the skin I crawl
But under the wheels I fall

Bleed colours of green
Misguided needs
Down with the dogs I feed
Craving sleep
Hypnotise me
Poison my dreams
You rape my memories, gently

Smiling faces through the ages, animated, innocently
Ever waiting, turning the pages slow
Desperation ups the stakes onto the table, holding aces
Never pays while ever romancing gold

Under the skin I crawl
But under the wheels I fall
Under the wheels I fall
Under the skin I'm crawling

Smiling faces through the ages, animated, innocently
Ever waiting, turning the pages slow
Desperation ups the stakes onto the table, holding aces
Never pays while ever romancing gold

Under the skin I crawl
But under the wheels I fall
Under the skin I'm crawling
Under the wheels I?
Under the wheels I? fall

Wake up, this is not a dream...
Mr. President wake up, this is not a dream...
Mr. President wake up...

Dr. Woofenstein dreams of incredible things in the window
Hatching shadowy schemes, overthrowing us beings, as he can do

Down in his hole he waits
And plans with patience
Nobody knows what he sees
Or devises in silence
It's not a ploy he enjoys
To retreat to the shadows
His satellites have gone blind
But his demons breathe

Dr. Woofenstein dreams of incredible things in the window
Hatching shadowy schemes, overthrowing us beings, as he can do

His promises are empty
But full is his mind
And as the end burneth nigh
Back home he made plenty
Warmed by the fires of his hate
And the ice in his veins
And when the earth stops to breathe
Will he rest in peace?

Dr. Woofenstein dreams of incredible things in the window
Hatching shadowy schemes, overthrowing us beings, as he can do

And will nobody take him for real?
Pull the curtains away to reveal?

La, la, la...

Dr. Woofenstein dreams of incredible things in the window
Hatching shadowy schemes, overthrowing us beings, as he can do

Hatching shadowy schemes, overthrowing us beings, as he can do
Dr. Woofenstein dreams of incredible things in the window

Dr. Woofenstein dreams of incredible things in the window

Diamonds
What's the big idea about diamonds?
People singing songs about shallow diamonds

Diamonds
Wars are being fought over diamonds
Lives are sold and bought for those shallow diamonds

Compressed carbon is what they are
No more use than a candy bar
Won't make you into a superstar

Diamonds
Can you call it love without diamonds?
I don't give a stuff about shallow diamonds

Diamonds
"Just a stone, but tell 'em it's priceless!"
Advertising hyping those shallow diamonds

Got the magic to make you drool
Make a businessman shaggable
How'd the whole of the world get fooled?

Diamonds
You can blow the lot on a diamond
You can lose the plot over shallow diamonds

Compressed carbon is what they are
No more use than a candy bar
Won't make you into a superstar

They say that diamonds are a girl's best friend
They keep on shining 'til the bitter end
Well, come on - yeah baby, come on
They ain't forever, don't go kidding me
I know you ladies like your jewellery
But it's only make believe

Diamonds
What's the big idea about diamonds?
Someone ask De Beers about shallow diamonds

Diamonds
Wars are being fought over diamonds
Lives are sold and bought for shallow diamonds

Compressed carbon is what they are
No more use than a candy bar
Won't make you into a superstar

Diamonds
What's the big idea about diamonds? [x3]
About diamonds
About diamonds
Diamonds [x5]

Since I met you
The lyrics of songs
Mean something new to me
They sound more real
They reflect how I feel
Even the stupid ones

And I want to scream "turn it off!"
Cos I don't want to hear
Cos I'm in a stew
They mean something new
Real and true
Real and true

They won't let me be
They seem to see
Deep inside of me
Since I met you
The world seems to sing
Meanings incessantly

The voice of the sea
Calling to me
Happy insanity
In a Dublin café
I hear what they say
But I say "No way!"

(Is this the love I always wanted?) Cos it just can't be right
(Is this the love I always wanted?) It gives me a fright
It's a load of? (white wash) [x2]
Or is it?

Since I met you
The lyrics of songs
Mean something new to me
And I'm in a stew
Cos they mean something new
Real and true [x5]
Since I met you

Stuck in the artic cos you haven't got a clue
Not short of money, there was nothing else to do
You're posh, you're stupid and you've gotta make your name
But when disaster strikes, there's no one else to blame? cos you're a

A danger to yourself
A danger to yourself and no one else
A danger to yourself
Well, you're a danger to yourself

Cos what's a chap to do when everything's a bore
You're taught that life's a game - you're gonna win for sure
To sail around the world or climb the highest peak?
No, it's the frozen wastes and get lost for a week? cos you're a

A danger to yourself
For you're a danger to yourself and no one else
A danger to yourself
You're a danger to yourself

I may be universally challenged
But I gotta make this climb
Hold the front page, baby
Cos I may be some time

Cos you're a
A danger to yourself
A danger to yourself and no one else
A danger to yourself
Well, you're a danger to yourself
A danger to yourself
You're bad for your health

High heels and a pretty bow get the job done nightly
The apron hides a tortured soul as she cleans the place up nicely
Tonight it's an ironing board and boots to shine up brightly
Hard work and she pays the price to her mistress and quite rightly

And she cleans and she scrubs
And it never does seem to be enough
Watch her on her knees
Begging please, please, please, please

Maid for pleasure
Made for discipline
Maid for pleasure
She don't want to see him anymore
She don't want to be him anymore

Hard pressed with a list of chores - can't go any faster
Slack off and she'll soon be sore, so says her lady-master
High-flyer in a different world, but here's she's known as Martha
Cross-dresser in a uniform and happy ever after

And she cleans and she scrubs
And it never does seem to be enough
Watch her on her knees
Begging please, please, please, please

Maid for pleasure
Made for discipline
Maid for pleasure
She don't want to see him anymore
She don't want to be him anymore

And she cleans, and she scrubs
And it never does seem to be enough
Watch her on her knees
Begging please, please, please, please

Maid for pleasure
Made for discipline
[x4]

Suburbanites are rising
Making music manicuring lawns
Mother's got the roast on
Kids play in the garden with a ball

Perfect Sunday past
Moving on

Valve wireless is blasting
Rebel rousing anthems fill the air
Yeah, Johnny's got his bike out
Going down the Ace to join his friends

Perfect Sunday past
Moving on
A new Sunday scene to work on
I'm moving on

I recall a Sunday; picture postcards at the coast
Reality on Monday, feeling all morose
Ah, but Sunday - rose-tinted day of the week

Sunday paper situation
Another politician's in a jam
But on two-way family favourites
Everybody's happy as a lamb

Perfect Sunday past
Moving on
A new Sunday scene to work on
Yeah, I'm moving on!

Perfect Sunday moving on [x8]
(I'm moving on)

The tighter the rope
The better beauty seems
The harder the fall
The louder beauty screams
The lick of the whip
And the eye of the beast
Oh, the shorter the skirt
Well, the higher the fees

True devotion
False emotion
This will hurt you more than it's gonna hurt me
Cos I aim to please

The bigger the pain
The smaller the shame
Ah, the deeper the wound
All the better to blame
Ah yeah, the sicker the dreams
For the call of the game
The guilt and release
Are the ball and chain

True devotion
False emotion
This will hurt you more than it's gonna hurt me
Cos I aim to please

Yeah, the thrill of the chase
And the burn of the knees
Buckle me down
Cos I aim to please

I'm morally bankrupt, overdrawn [x4]
I'm overdrawn

I've seen a light, haunting and bright
That won't give me any rest day and night
I heard a refrain it echoes your name.
I hear it again, again and again

And I cant let it go
Its madness I know
This feel that's churning and burning and tearing my soul

I'm in a story both funny and cruel
But am I the hero?
Or am I the fool?
A touch of your keys, unlocks and unfree's
But am I a prisoner or am I set free?
Natures dark passion has something to teach
But I let it go now its out of reach

The majestic force of a tidal wave
Washes over my head
Making me a slave
The power of these feelings that you gave me

I lie here awake
Did I make a mistake?
The sky grows dark
A storm musn't break
Life is unkind I'm loosing my mind.
My contract with fate is sealed and its signed

The demon, its poison has taken its toll
Chaos and madness have fractured the whole
But what can i do? This vision of you
Has branded my heart
And sealed my soul

The majestic force of a tidal wave
Washes over my head
Making me a slave
The power of these feelings that you gave me.

See that girl, watch her fall
Another drunken barroom brawl
Oh no, get the sticking plaster

Loves to love, gets abused
Goes for rogues and ends up bruised
Get out, have no lord or master

Oh, Little Miss Disaster
Oh, living so much faster
Oh, Little Miss Disaster

The pressure's on, it's getting tough
Self esteem's not enough
Oh don't, you end up as a martyr

She knows she has the right to choose
Some to win and some to lose
But hey, she is so much smarter

Oh, Little Miss Disaster
Oh, living so much faster
Oh, Little Miss Disaster

Miss just like her hair
Well its all chaos and spikes
Just one thing is certain
She does just what she likes
And she don't care

Just stand clear and you will see
A tantrum speciality
She can, fill the room with laughter

Party-time, social whirl
Could it be this special girl lives on
Happy ever after?

Oh, Little Miss Disaster
Oh, living so much faster
Oh, Little Miss Disaster

Oh, Little Miss Disaster
Oh, living so much faster
Oh, Little Miss Disaster

Nobody wants you now
But who'd have thought that you'd go? so low
Don't give it a second thought
Just think you all better - go, go

Somebody that cannot see the state they're in
Unaware they're heading for the garbage bin
Somebody who's famous for his racist tongue
Strutting his medals is his kinda fun

It's a lousy soap
And they've got no hope
Someone get a rope
Just hangin'

You're stuck in a time warp now
The hunting and shooting's so dated
And don't you feel sorry now
For all the goodwill you've wasted

For your time has passed
And you've got no class
Better walk on by
Your whole life's a lie, your whole life's a lie!

Cos nobody wants you now
We think you all better - go, go!

Somebody whose dangerous dogs are running wild
Take them to the park and watch them maul a child
Somebody who's rather pleased his wife has died
Batting with his servant for the other side

It's a lousy soap
And they've got no hope
Someone get a rope
Just hangin'

Somebody that cannot see the state they're in
Unaware they're heading for the garbage bin
Somebody who's famous for his racist tongue
Strutting his medals is his kinda fun

It's a lousy soap - Somebody whose dangerous dogs are running wild
And they've got no hope - Take them to the park and watch them maul a child
Someone get a rope - Somebody who's rather pleased his wife has died
Just hangin' - Batting with his servant for the other side
Just hangin'
Hangin'!

Lines of blood laughing down the line
Coffee cups with the devil signs
Eyes on bills passing through your hands
Look in my eye for your bio-scans

Nothing - Nothing
Nothing - will ever change it
Nothing - Nothing
The lunatics now run the madhouse

The wise old owl sticks in his claws
Feel the chill of those insanity laws
Tippy toeing through the ID age
Like a monkey in a global cage

Nothing - Nothing
Nothing - will ever change it
Nothing - Nothing
The lunatics now run the madhouse

Keystone cops leave a bitter taste
Isolation from a friendly face
Wheels in wheels only turn one way
It's another whitewash day today

Nothing - Nothing
Nothing - will ever change it
Nothing - Nothing
The lunatics now run the madhouse

Nothing - Nothing
Nothing - will ever change it
Nothing - Nothing
The lunatics now run the madhouse

Lines of blood laughing down the line
Coffee cups with the devil signs
Eyes on bills passing through your hands
Look in my eye for your bio-scans

Half-forgotten memories of a childhood day
Nothing seemed to matter much
Except which games to play
Did I disregard the rule
That says when you grow up
You shouldn't play the fool

Half-forgotten memories of a show somewhere
Devil cursed brilliance
And we just didn't care
And I never can explain
How we did all that
I'll never be the same

And time goes on just the same
It doesn't really mind
It doesn't know your name

Half-forgotten memories of an absent friend
Always was so full of life
It doesn't make much sense
Although he drove us 'round the bend
The good outweighed the bad
I'm glad you were my friend

Half-forgotten memories of a certain kind
Life was full of happiness
When you were really mine
And I never can recall
What I did or said
It had to end, that's all

And time goes on just the same
It doesn't really mind
It doesn't know your name
It goes on just the same
Just the same

Hey ho, ever so ever so
There's a magical place to go
It's a dream reaction set in a catacomb - catacomb
For the Technicolor whimsical gramophone

And I can see you
You took the axe to slice the cake
Didn't you know?
You ruined the show
It's time you should go

Green fields, never seen it this way
High tide, drop out and drift away
Maybe time runs backwards, yesterday is today - today
Change the war divisions into a love parade

And I can hear you
Don't recognise what you have become
A corporate brand
Boring and bland
Throw in your hand

Fuzz tone, echoing through the hall
Screaming and spiralling through the wall
Did the games for May end up in a free for all - for all
Turn your favourite madman into the King of Cool

But I can't touch you
That bargepole there is just out of reach
Filling a void
Dark Asteroid
So, who's paranoid
(Turn away)