Someone should have listened to what everybody said If only just to ease the contradictions in my head Mesmerised No sooner born than died Things get bleaker by the hour Innocence recoils at the mess that we have made Frightful in the sunlight, you should see us in the shade Magnified One hundred thousand times Things are turning rather sour With our shadows cut loose Pray we don't reproduce As we sit and watch everything going wrong Tell me how I'm meant to feel With your neck in the noose You'll be quick to seduce And you'll never understand what's going on Never even know what's real Dusty books have told me what's satanic, what's divine There's no way of knowing what's malignant or benign Way up high Our king lives in the sky In a tacky golden tower With our shadows cut loose Pray we don't reproduce As we sit and watch everything going wrong Tell me how I'm meant to feel Blind ambition in the land of the cruel I am rotten to my last molecule And I'll never understand what's going on Never even know what's real