Give me back my broken night
my mirrored room, my secret life
it's lonely here,

there's no one left to torture
Give me absolute control
over every living soul

And lie beside me, baby,
that's an order!
Give me crack and !@#^ sex

Take the only tree that's left
and stuff it up the hole
in your culture

Give me back the Berlin wall
give me Stalin and St Paul
I've seen the future, brother:

it is murder.

Things are going to slide, slide in all directions

Won't be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world

has crossed the threshold
and it has overturned
the order of the soul

When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT

I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant


You don't know me from the wind
you never will, you never did

I'm the little jew
who wrote the Bible
I've seen the nations rise and fall

I've heard their stories, heard them all
but love's the only engine of survival
Your servant here, he has been told

to say it clear, to say it cold:
It's over, it ain't going
any further

And now the wheels of heaven stop
you feel the devil's riding crop
Get ready for the future:

it is murder

Things are going to slide ...


There'll be the breaking of the ancient
western code

Your private life will suddenly explode
There'll be phantoms
There'll be fires on the road

and the white man dancing
You'll see a woman
hanging upside down

her features covered by her fallen gown
and all the lousy little poets
coming round

tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson
and the white man dancin'


Give me back the Berlin wall
Give me Stalin and St Paul
Give me Christ

or give me Hiroshima
Destroy another fetus now
We don't like children anyhow

I've seen the future, baby:
it is murder


Things are going to slide ...

When they said REPENT REPENT ...