Metropolis Lyrics

Downtown lights are a lurid sight to see

The airwaves crackle all through the arteries

Twisted bowels strain and spiral down and it's all depravity

The old maids swim n' drown in sawdust bars

As daughters saunter lamp lit boulevards

Tights n' tail in a summer night's gale making hoary gristle throb

The hob-gobs hoot n' howl and hunt in packs

As winos nestle 'neath the railway tracks

Horns a-blow as the fog lamps glow painting trails within the black

The ink clouds gather high of chimney tops

The acid trickles down in drips and drops

Red and raw top of ol' John Q Law and his band-a-jackboot thugs

The rivers undulate the remnants rise

Discarded memory and cast-off guise

All a-bloat do a dead-man's float as the maelstroms gluttonise

While 'hind the curtain, far from the eyes that pry

The deadlocks rattle as the milk runs dry

Newlyweds copulate in their beds as the bastard babies cry