The Human Menagerie

Steve Harley The Human Menagerie Album

10.Death Trip

(copyright steve harley)

So now we're on a death trip
Listen to the blood drip
Oozing from a curled lip
Ever thought of dying slowly
Ever thought of dying totally unholy

Someone's trying to fool us
Maybe it's your daughters
Can you hear the walros
Offering a sad solution
He's calling out for teenage revolution
And 'can you think of one good reason to
Remain?'

To you afficianados
Fooling with bravado
To keep me on my guard-o
And cause a consciousness explosion
(it's getting difficult to keepmy mind in
Motion)

Images of sunshine
Please, to make the words rhyme
Let me die in eight-time
Let me write a tale to no-one
Let me write a tale to make you think you're
Someone
And 'can you think of one good reason to
Remain?'

Interval
We'll grow sweet ipomoea
To make us feel much freer
Then take a pinch of schemeland
And turn into dreamland
'softly, lautrec,' she whispered in awe
'build me a picture of children at war'