Well the pillars they tower Lions cower Behind maidens without any clothes The people they flourish Souls are nourished Seeing life through the gardening hose Caesar's just a salad The poets sing their ballads The sun sets The cock it crows And you ask anybody where this happiness lies They'll tell you Somewhere west of Rome The people worship their idols Cadillacs and rifles Fight their battles on talk TV shows All the answers are there if you happen to care In the Bible and the lawn you mow So let's run to them hills it'll cure all our ills Leave this mess before it explodes Ah they tell me there's a place where happiness lies I know it's somewhere west of Rome We can leave this world behind Turn our heads away I hear life out there's divine These ain't our problems anyway We'll build us a wall ten feet tall So high that the wind won't blow And we won't have to see all them peasants bleed We might love it babe ya just never know And if we can't find it there we'll find it somewhere We'll just follow that yellow brick road That leads our eyes from the things we despise And rolls out Somewhere west of Rome