When we realize we've only to die, then we're out of here We're just skirting on the surface We have only to click our fingers, and we'll disappear We're just skirting on the surface Dull eyes trying to pull you through the ice Being drawn to the ledge When we realize that we are broke and nothing mends We can drop under the surface Ah When we realize we are merely held in suspension 'Til someone comes along and shakes us As the pattern lines cross their fingers like a web Do we die upon the surface? Dull eyes trying to pull you through the ice Being drawn to the ledge When we realize that we are broke and nothing mends We can drop under the surface Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah

Call me up again, this time I didn't answer That night, it was a threat I wish I didn't remember Play it back to when I was just getting by Picturing a friend that I don't even like You just scratch the surface Shut out all that's worth it You just scratch the surface Should we figure out What's really taking place? Or maybe you could talk me down Before I lose all faith No, I don't wanna reach behind, been forever Have a piece of mind, nothing's better You've been taking time, send a letter I know you remember, I know you remember You just scratch the surface Shut out all that's worth it You just scratch the surface You just scratch the surface I think you might deserve this Left alone, no purpose You just scratch the surface Shut out all that's worth it You just scratch the surface You just scratch the surface (don't wanna reach behind, been forever) I think you might deserve this (have a piece of mind, nothing's better) Left alone, no purpose (you've been taking time, send a letter) (I know you remember, I know you remember)

My baby says We can live in the empty spaces of this life My baby says Far away the stars are coming all undone My baby says My baby says, But that's far away And we're young My baby says And if the devil comes we'll shoot him with a gun My baby says We can live in the empty spaces of this life My baby says In the desert sands Our hearts are brighter than the sun My baby says When the devil comes we'll shoot him with a gun My baby says My baby says, And if he shows his face We'll laugh

Life stinks I'm seeing pink I can't wink I can't blink I like the Kinks I need a drink I can't think I like the Kinks Life stinks

I ride a street wave right by her side And I can hear the city city comin round The things I say hit the air and seem to fall apart And I can see the faces faces fallin down And then I'm Gone Gone Gone by her heart I get a picture of what it'll be like I turn the channel round to Channel 43 I see electricity jump and spark I see electricity uh real and stark And then I'm Gone Gone Gone by her heart I ride a street wave right by her side And I can hear the city city comin round The things I say hit the air and seem to fall apart And I can see the faces faces fallin down And then I'm Gone Gone Gone by her heart And then I'm Gone Gone Gone by her heart

I flew off early in the haze of dawn In a metal dragon locked in time Skimming waves of an underground sea In some kind of a dream world fantasy Sun a hot circle on a canopy '25 a racing blot on a bright green sea Ahead the dim blur of an alien land Time to give ourselves to strange gods' hands A dark flak spiders bursting in the sky Reaching twisted claws on every side No place to run No place to hide No turning back on a suicide ride The toy city streets crawling through my sights Sprouting clumps of mushrooms like a world surreal And this dream won't ever have to end Time seems like it'll never begin 30 seconds and a one way ride 30 seconds and no place to hide 30 seconds and a one way ride 30 seconds and no place to hide 30 seconds over Tokyo 30 seconds over Tokyo 30 seconds over Tokyo 30 seconds over Tokyo 30 seconds over Tokyo 30 seconds over Tokyo 30 seconds over Tokyo 30 seconds over Tokyo 30 seconds over Tokyo 30 seconds over Tokyo 30 seconds over Tokyo 30 seconds over Tokyo 30 seconds over Tokyo 30 seconds over Tokyo

Maybe you'll see further than I can see Maybe things all just look differently Maybe I'm nothing but a shadow on the wall Maybe love's a tomb where you dance at night Maybe sanctuary is an electric light And I get so tired, it's like I'm another man And everything I see seems so underhanded And I don't see anything that I want And I don't see anything that I want Image, object and illusion go down to the corner Where none of the faces fit a human form But nothing I see there isn't deformed Where in a secret lab works a Doctor Moreau And no private eye's gotta tell me it's a long goodbye I get so tired, it's like I'm another man And everything I see seems so underhanded And I don't see anything that I want And I don't see anything that I want I'm looking into I'm looking into I'm looking into I'm looking into the I'm looking into the heart I'm looking into the heart of darkness I'm looking into the heart of darkness I'm looking into the heart of darkness I'm looking into the heart of darkness I'm looking into the heart of darkness I'm looking into the heart of darkness I'm looking into the heart of darkness I'm looking into the heart of darkness, i'm looking into I'm looking into I'm looking into I'm looking into the heart of darkness I'm looking into the heart of darkness I'm looking into the heart of darkness I'm looking into the heart of dark I'm looking into the heart of darkness I'm looking into the heart of darkness Into the heart of darkness