Deceit
Album - 1981 - Debaser id 98140

well, what do we expect
paper hats?
or maybe even roses?
the sound of explosions?
oh no, is this any easier?
comfy? climax? ego?
decorations up or down?
the sound of explosions
what does this tune signify?
what is its meaning?
is it really that straight forward?
or are our ears beyond words?

through dirty net curtains you look at me
why is it i can't see through to you?

the mesh it is in your favour
(under my steady gaze)
how will you move
(frozen mid-step)
when the angles are reversed?
(you cannot move)

triumph of the will
triumph of the will

Amo amas amat amamis amatis amant
We are all romans, unconscious collective
We are all romans, we live to regret it
We are all romans and we know all
About straight roads
Every straight road leads home,
Home to rome
2 + 2 = 4
4 + 4 = 8
We organise via property as power
Slavehood and freedom imperial purple
Pax romana!
Suckled by a she wolf,
We turn against our brother
Bella bella bella bellorum bellis bellis
Veni vidi vici i came i saw i conquered
We are all romans, unconscious collective
We are all romans, we live to regret it
We are all romans and we know all
About straight roads
Every straight road leads home,
Home to rome
2 + 2 = 4
4 + 4 = 8
We organise via property as power
Slavehood and freedom imperial purple
Pax romana!
Suckled by a she wolf,
We turn against our brother
Bella bella bella bellorum bellis bellis
Veni vidi vici i came i saw i conquered
We are all romans

history repeats itself

remembrance sunday,
a war to end all wars.
and the war that came after that,
to keep freedom's flag flying

lest we forget
the glorious dead,
poppy day, remember poppies are red
and the fields are full of poppies

history repeats itself

and when the lights go on again
all over the world,
and when the boys come home again,
all over the world
rain and snow will be all that fall,
from out of the sky
a kiss won't mean goodbye,
when johnny comes marching home

shrinkwrap, you lie, you lie, you lie

wolf in sheep's clothing
enshrine our latest product
define the hollow spaces
mobilised cellophane
untouched by human hand

don't look a gift horse in the mouth
don't bite the hand that feeds you
you can have your cake and eat it

it's an expanding universe

Instrumental

makeshift she sings in her native german,
you try to understand what she's trying to say
she says "you're only as good as the word you understand"
and you, you don't understand a word

tower of babel, swahili, it's all greek to me
bilingual, double dutch, gift of the gab

we give you firewater you give us your land.
"white man speak with forked tongue",
but it's too late now to start complaining,
too late

monosyllabic, hieroglyphic, et cetera, et cetera

new lamps for old
new lamps for old
rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb
rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb

eat, drink and be merry
for tomorrow we did
eat electricity
drink five of the seven seas
here is a paralyzed sleet
here is a bubble bath rain
acrid stench and festering tongue
new york, moscow, nairobi in flames

i don't know either, what is the answer?
we were told to expect more
and now that we've got more
we want more, we want more

we have moved from a to x
this welfare state is our progress
the size of it all carries us all along
more equals better, it's what we want
our energy is endless it seems
it's there when we need it
we've got men on the job

we finance clinics to research
a cure for cancer, our least vague fear
a new kind of water
a new way of breathing
always somehow a wonder cure all
turns up when we need it
we've got men on the job

you know from experience
the creature comforts, a house that's warm
your body would choose all this
of course! it's innate we're selfish
but what if there's not enough to go round?
defence is needed
we've got some odd men in odd jobs

we have moved from a to z
this nuclear state is our demise
fly away peter, hide away paul
who can watch as the earth burns, shatters and dies?
failsafe, foolproof, we've heard that before
good sense is needed
let's hope we've got men on the job