When things never happen like you wanted Dark nights always keep you in the shade Some words would be better left unspoken No joke there's a price that must be paid Oh will you never realise Rich or poor you can still be left behind And if you wanna stay alive Keep your head don't you ever be unkind Gold rings and your faith in the Madonna These things you believe them to be true Maybe if the world should end tomorrow Just cry with a teardrop-look tattoo Oh it gets harder to decide Who are you saying maybe it's our fate? And when you said you've never lied Fingers crossed there's no time to celebrate I gave no thought to wisdom It all but vanished in the haze This fragile hand of fortune Had changed and turned it all to grey In secret rooms where we conspired The very streets we walked along The desert heat became a fire And no idea where we belonged Now every day I fall apart The sky is full of emptiness I'll take the blame, the burning heart It brings me down, I must confess Hard game and the music's going nowhere This room's getting smaller by the day Some dog on the street he just keeps howling Welcome to the cosmic cabaret And when you've got nowhere to go Speechless, blind, you won't find your way back home And when you're sinking far below Stand your ground like you always have been shown