You don't care about nothing So you don't care about love If you want me to come back You'd better change You'd better give up talking 'bout money Begin thinking of love If you want me to come back You'd better change You'd better change for the better It costs more than dollars and cents Take it from me There's got to be An end to this decadence This decadence You don't care about people So you don't care about pain If you want me to come back You'd better change You'd better change for the better Start using some common sense Take it from me There's got to be An end to this decadence For decadence is fatal It's the beginning of the end In self-defence I cannot recommend This decadence You don't care about real life You're too distant and strange If you want me to come back You'd better change for the better It may be rather intense Stop this caprice You've got to cease This fin-de-si'cle pretence For decadence is fatal It's the beginning of the end In consequence I cannot recommend This decadence

Say, yes, they know that you fought yourself another time Don't they know that you're full of pain already? Yes, they know that you've hurt yourself another time Decadence isn't easy, is it? Yes, they know that you've hurt yourself another time Don't they know that you're full of pain already? Yes they know that you've hurt yourself another time Decadence isn't easy Then you slowly recall all your mind Why your soul's gone cold and all hope has run dry? Dead inside Never enough to forget that you're one of the lonely Slowly recall all your mind Say, yes, they know that you've hurt yourself another time Don't they know that you're full of pain already? Yes, they know that you've hurt yourself another time Decadence isn't easy, is it? Yes, they know that you've hurt yourself another time Don't they know that you're full of pain already? Yes, they know that you've hurt yourself another time Decadence isn't easy Then you slowly recall all your mind Why your soul's gone cold and all hope has run dry? Dead inside Never enough to forget that you're one of the lonely Slowly recall all your mind If I scare you now Don't run from me I've been hiding my pain, you see Said if I scare you now Don't run from me I've been hiding my pain, you see Slowly recall all your mind Why your soul's gone cold and all hope has run dry? Dead inside Never enough to forget that you're one of the lonely Slowly recall all your mind Slowly recall all your mind Say, yes, they know that you've hurt yourself another time Don't they know that you're full of pain already? Yes, they know that you've hurt yourself another time Decadence isn't easy, is it?

Flowers, I sent Were found dead on their arrival The words, I said Inserted foot in my mouthful So when, we dance My lead it ain't so graceful (Isn't so, not ain't so) I'm a hapless romantic St-t-tuttering p-poet Just call me a tragic comic 'Cause i'm, in, in love with you Ah ha Ah ha Seconds And when, we dine I forget to push in your seat I wear, the wine Spilling hearts all over my sleeve A stitch, in time Proposing down on my knees (Splitting between the seams) I'm a hapless romantic St-t-tuttering p-poet Just call me a tragic comic 'Cause i'm, in, in love with you Ah ha Ah ha ha ha ha ha Nobody, can know the Trouble I've, seen Nobody, can know the Trouble I've, seen Nobody, can know the Trouble I've, get into When always tragic comedy I'm a hapless romantic St-t-tuttering p-poet Just call me a tragic comic 'Cause i'm, in, in love with you I'm a hapless romantic St-t-tuttering p-poet Just call me a tragic comic 'Cause I'm (tragic comic), in, in love with you Ah ha Ah ha ha ha ha ha