Smoke & Mirrors

The Datsuns Smoke & Mirrors Lyrics
1.Who Are You Stamping Your Foot For?

It's time we got this whole thing straight
A message loud and clear.
Overheat in misbelief
I have to be sincere.

They wanna put you in a celluloid
You look much better as a cartoon...boy
You're a fool for the easy romance
Head over heels given half the chance but

Who are you stamping your foot for?
Can't you see your just dragging us down
Who are you stamping your foot for?
You better get in line cause we're running out of time again.

With shaking hands you twist your fist
Your throat is screaming raw
So simmer down
Your scowl your frown
Who are you stamping your foot for?

Your hip quick scheme

Hit parade of dreams

You'll do anything to get your foot in the door
Who are you stamping your foot for?

They wanna put you in a celluloid
You look much better as a cartoon...boy
You're a fool for the easy romance
Head over heels given half the chance but

Who are you stamping your foot for?
Can't you see your just dragging us down
Who are you stamping your foot for?
You better get in line cause we're running out of time again.

Who are you stamping your foot for?
Can't you see your just dragging us down
Who are you stamping your foot for?
You better get in line cause we're running out of time again.

Who are you stamping your foot for?
Can't you see your just dragging us down
Who are you stamping your foot for?
You better get in line cause we're running out of time again.

Who are you stamping your foot for?
Can't you see your just dragging us down
Who are you stamping your foot for?
You better get in line cause we're running out of time Again.
Again.

Again.

Who are you stamping your foot for?

Who are you stamping your foot for?

Who are you stamping your foot for?


2.System Overload

Well things are mounting up
It's counting down set to blow.
It's no use pretending
See the blue sparks the final mode. Oh.

Countdown to explode
System overload.

Countdown to explode
System overload.

Atomic schemes in the bloodstreams they bankroll
Apologies to the dreams that have all been undersold.
There's silicone, silver chrome
Panic stations to the X-ray bones.
Bar codes grinning so the cogs spin
What a powder keg for the poor post everything

Countdown to explode
System overload. (Overload).
Countdown to explode
System overload. (Ooooohhh).

Hey, Hey.

Sparks spitting, this toy can sting
Well it's a powder keg for the poor post everything.

Countdown to explode
System overload. (Overload).
Countdown to explode
System overload. (Overload).
Countdown to explode
System overload. (Overload).

Countdown to system Ooh.

(Overload, overload, overload,
overload, overload, overload).


3.Waiting For Your Time To Come

You got your war on science and your dusty roads
Reverse logic tricks and shadows.
Morbid fascination with the other people's souls
Like watching cars crash, your false bravado.

You try to rewrite history.
Add a little mystery.
You're still waiting for your time to come.
You're still waiting for your time to come.

Pick up pieces of velvet till you feel so sated.
Beats and treats on the concrete streets.
Well I guess I've been baited oh so.

You Try,

Try to rewrite history.
And add your own little mystery.
You're still waiting for your time to come.
You're still waiting for your time to come.


You're still waiting here.
But I won't come around my dear.

My Dear.

You're still waiting.
Oh the moment's gone.
Yeah, it's gone.

Yeah, it's gone.

Yeah, it's gone.

You try, try to rewrite history
And add your own little mystery
You try, try to bring it down on me
And add your own little mystery
You're still waiting for your time to come.

You're still waiting for your time to come.

Still waiting for your time to come.

You're still waiting for your time to come.

(Still waiting) Waiting for your time to come.

(Still waiting) Waiting for your time to come.

(Still waiting) Waiting for your time to come.


4.Stuck Here For Days

Hours of small talk, blackboards and chalk
Till the dust it settles down.
Miles upon miles of red tape to walk upon
To walk home, I'll be back soon.

But not a second too soon
I'll be back soon
There's not a second to lose
Oh no, No.

Hey.


I've been stuck here for days
Well it's all business
Regarding money problems, wealth and fame
Its been said before please don't get the wrong idea
I ain't complaining

I'll be back soon

But not a second too soon
I'll be back soon
There's not a second to lose
Oh no, No.

Hey.

Not a second too soon

And not a second to lose

But not a second to lose

But not a second too soon.

Oh no, No.

Hey.

(Oh yeah)

(Not a second too soon, not a second to lose).

(No, no, oh no, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah)

(Oww. Not a second too soon, oh yeah oh yeah).

(Not a second to lose)

(Not a, not a, not a second to lose).

(Not a second to lose).


5.Maximum Heartbreak

Well I know there's no master plan
So I'm gonna talk it up while I can.
In a mirror, in the mirror,
Smoke and mirrors.
Artful deception or call it deceit
I got a bark like a kick in the teeth.
In a mirror, in the mirror,
Smoke and mirrors.
Yeah.

Girl it seems you got your sight set on
Heartbreak, Heartbreak honey yeah.

Girl it seems you got your sight set on
Heartbreak, Heartbreak honey yeah.
Ooh it hurts cause you all fell for it
You're set right on.
Maximum heartbreak, heartbreak, heartbreak, heartbreak.

All reflection to get a reaction
All part of the main distraction and
Mirrors, mirrors
Smoke and mirrors.
What image do you want to receive?

What is easier to believe?
In the mirror, in the mirror
Smoke and mirrors.

Yeah

Girl it seems you got your sight set on
Heartbreak, Heartbreak honey yeah.

Girl it seems you got your sight set on
Heartbreak, Heartbreak honey yeah.
Ooh it hurts cause you all fell for it
You're set right on.
Maximum heartbreak, heartbreak, heartbreak, heartbreak.

Well I know there's no master plan, oh
So I'm gonna talk it up while I can.
In the mirror, in a mirror,
Smoke and mirrors.
Artful deception but I call it deceit
I got a bark like a kick in the teeth.
In the mirror, in a mirror,
Smoke and mirrors.
Yeah.

Girl it seems you got your sight set on
Heartbreak, Heartbreak honey yeah.

Girl it seems you got your sight set on
Heartbreak, Heartbreak honey yeah.
Oh it hurts cause you all fell for it
You're set right on.
Maximum heartbreak, heartbreak, heartbreak, heartbreak.

Heartbreak.

Oh heartbreak, Oh heartbreak.

Your set to maximum Heartbreak.

Oh heartbreak, Oh heartbreak.

Your set to maximum Heartbreak.

Oh heartbreak, Oh heartbreak.

Your set to maximum Heartbreak.

Oh heartbreak, Oh heartbreak.

Your set to maximum Heartbreak.

Yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, ooh.


6.All Aboard

All, All, All aboard row heavy water
To go home.

Welcome a dawn
Sun shining down.
But it's 3am
ICBM.
It's getting so much hotter
The mercury sings.
'Green bricks, dirty sounds
It's time to make for safer ground.'

All, All, All aboard row heavy water
To go home.

All, All, All aboard row heavy water
To go home.

Clouds of white, they settle to dust
Flowers spreading seeds.
Oh and sick disease
If I could bury deep enough.
Straight and arrow through the core
It's time to leave for pearly shores.

All, All, All aboard row heavy water
To go home.

All, All, All aboard row heavy water
To go home.

It's time to make for safer ground, Oh.

It's time to make for safer ground, Oh, oh, oh, oh.

It's time to make for safer ground, Oh.

It's time to make for safer ground, Oh, oh, oh, oh.

All, All, All aboard row heavy water
To go home.

All, All, All aboard row heavy water
To go home.
To go home.

To go home.


7.Such A Pretty Curse

They used to call it
Evil possession.
An exorcism to cleanse your soul
Silver bullets,
Nasty cures
For the boy to regain control.

Voices in my head
Oh how they curse me girl
Voices in my head,
Oh no!
I may be the victim of popular fiction
My official position is ya,
Cursed me girl.

Such a, A Pretty Curse.

Such a, A Pretty Curse.

The moon is up
The mood is black
Oh how it hit me like a heart attack.
Poison prison
Such a bore
Feel the terror flowing out my pores.

Voices in my head
Oh how they curse me girl
Voices in my head,
Oh no!
I may be the victim of popular fiction
My official position is ya,
Cursed me girl.

Such a, A Pretty Curse.

Such a, A Pretty Curse.


Hiss through lips
Sewn up tight
Cough it up through the black light.
Hallucination Stations call
Whispers louder
Taking hold.

Voices in my head
Oh how they curse me girl
Voices in my head,
Oh no!
I may be the victim of popular fiction
My official position is ya,
Cur, Cursed me girl.

Such a, A Pretty Curse.

Such a, A Pretty Curse.

A pretty curse, A pretty curse.

A pretty curse. A pretty curse.

A pretty curse. A pretty curse.

A pretty curse.


8.Blood Red

Take, take me to market
Come on take me down.
To traditions and life's hand me downs
It's a sin, sir, when you half realise
You gave in sir, become what you despise.

So let's paint the town blood red, red tonight

Paint it red, it's a scarlet delight.
Paint the town blood red, red tonight
Paint it red, it's a scarlet, scarlet delight.


Grind the meat, sir, time to taste the sublime
It is sweet, sir but will turn to grime in time.
Roll the dice, if you please
It's the right of every man.
To compete, with sleaze
For someone to bear his brand so.

So let's paint the town blood red, red tonight

Paint it red, it's a scarlet delight.
Paint the town blood red, red tonight
Paint it red, it's a scarlet, scarlet delight.

Whatever happened you said
To all the things they promised you?
Whatever happened you said
To all the things they should have done?
Whatever happened you said
Whatever happened was beared?
So I'm leaving now, I'm leaving now
Let's go.

Go.

It's a sin, sir
When you half realise
You gave in sir
Become what you despise.

So let's paint the town blood red, red tonight

Paint it red, it's a scarlet delight.
Paint the town blood red, red tonight
Paint it red, it's a scarlet delight.

Whatever happened to digital communication?
All those empty promises.
They're still leaving me frustrated
Leaving me frustrated, why?
So I say goodbye.


9.Emperor's New Clothes

I'm never running low
On confrontation.
Well is it criminal?
Saying it is tainted.
So go figure
Figure it out.
Go figure
What it's about.

It's alright honey, it's alright
They must be blind.
Alright honey, it's alright
There's no disguise.
Now they're feeling so cold
Oh not feeling so bold
In the emperor's, emperor's new clothes.

I'm never running low
On expectation
It's so obvious
And oh so blatant

So go figure
Figure it out.
Go figure
What it's about.

It's alright honey, it's alright
They must be blind.
Alright honey, it's alright
There's no disguise.
Now they're feeling so cold
Oh not feeling so bold
In the emperor's, emperor's new clothes.

Alright honey, it's alright
They must be blind.
Alright honey, it's alright
There's no disguise.
Now they're feeling so cold
Oh not feeling so bold
In the emperor's, emperor's new clothes.


10.Too Little Fire

Too much smoke, too little fire.
Too much smoke, too little fire.


Well over head the signals call
To spoon-fed, air head, eyeball's.
It seems the joke's on you this time, hey
This time.

Too much smoke, too little fire.
Too much smoke, too little fire.

Now you're preaching to the choir
Now you're preaching has misfired
Who'll buy the lie, the crime, the time.
The atom's smashed oh so fine
Seems the joke's on you this time, hey
This time.

This time.

This time.

This time.

Too much smoke, too little fire.
Too much smoke, too little fire.

Love you and hate you
Got it all wrong.
Love you and hate you
Oh not for long.
Love you and hate you
Got it all wrong.
Too late I found now
The words to the song.

Too much smoke, too little fire.
Too much smoke, too little fire.

Well, either way you're gonna lose.

Yeah, either way you lose.

Too much smoke, too little fire.
Too much smoke, too little fire

Too much smoke, too little fire.
Too much smoke, too little fire

Too much smoke, too little fire.
Too much smoke, too little fire

Too much smoke, too little fire.
Too much smoke, too little fire

Too much smoke, too little fire.
Too much smoke, too little fire

Fire. (Repeat till end).