DAEAEADE 2x
DAEA
In death, you face life with a child and a wife,
EADE
who sleep-walks through your dreams into walls.
DAEA
You're a soldier of mercy, you're cold and you curse,
EADE
"he who cannot be trusted must fall."
DAEDAE
Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety.
DAEA
You fight for the throne and you travel alone
DE
Unknown as you slowly sink;
AAsus4A
and there's no time to think.
DAEAEADEDAEA
In the Federal City you been blown and shown pity,
EADE
in secret, for pieces of change.
DAEA
The empress attracts you but oppression distracts you,
EADE
and it makes you feel violent and strange.
DAEDAE
Memory, ecstasy, tyranny, hypocrisy
DAEA
Betrayed by a kiss on a cool night of bliss
DE
In the valley of the missing link,
AAsus4A
and you have no time to think.
DAEAEADEDAEA
Judges will haunt you, the country priestess will want you,
EADE
her worst is better than best.
DAEAE
I've seen all these decoys through a set of deep turquoise eyes,
ADE
and I feel so depressed.
DAEDAE
China doll, alcohol, duality, mortality.
DAEA
Mercury rules you and destiny fools you
DE
Like the plague, with a dangerous wink,
AAsus4A
and there's no time to think.
DAEAEADE
Your conscience betrayed you when some tyrant waylaid you
Where the lion lies down with the lamb.
I'd have paid off the traitor and killed him much later
But that's just the way that I am.
Paradise, sacrifice, mortality, reality.
But the magician is quicker and his game
Is much thicker than blood and blacker than ink
And there's no time to think.
Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us,
He's content when you're under his thumb.
Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him
To survive it you play deaf and dumb.
Equality, liberty, humility, simplicity.
You glance through the mirror and there's eyes staring clear
At the back of your head as you drink
And there's no time to think.
Warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrow
Will offer their heads for a prayer.
You can't find no salvation, you have no expectations
Anytime, anyplace, anywhere.
Mercury, gravity, nobility, humility.
You know you can't keep her and the water gets deeper
That is leading you onto the brink
But there's no time to think.
You've murdered your vanity, buried your sanity
For pleasure you must now resist.
Lovers obey you but they cannot sway you
They're not even sure you exist.
Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism.
Fools making laws for the breaking of jaws
And the sound of the keys as they clink
But there's no time to think.
The bridge that you travel on goes to the Babylon girl
With the rose in her hair.
Starlight in the East and you're finally released
You're stranded but with nothing to share.
Loyalty, unity, epitome, rigidity.
You turn around for one real last glimpse of Camille
'Neath the moon shinin' bloody and pink
And there's no time to think.
DAEAEADE
Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you
But no, you will not be deceived.
Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt,
You can give but you cannot receive.
DAEA
No time to choose when the truth must die,
DAEA
No time to lose or say goodbye,
DAEA
No time to prepare for the victim that's there,
DE
No time to suffer or blink,
AAsus4A
and no time to think.
DAEAEADE 3x