It was midnight, midnight at noon
Everyone talked in rhyme

Everyone saw the big clock ticking
Nobody knew, nobody knew the time


Elegant debutantes smiled
Everyone fought for dimes
Newspapers screamed for blood

It was the best of times

Every place around the world it seemed the same

Can't hear the rhythm for the drums
Everybody wants to look the other way
When something wicked this way comes


Sometimes they tie a thief to the tree
Sometimes I stare

Sometimes it's me

Everyone told the truth

All that we heard were lies
A pope claimed that he'd been wrong in the past
This was a big surprise


Everyone fell in love
A cardinal's wife was jailed

The government saved a dying planet
When popular icons failed


Every place around the world it seemed the same
Can't hear the rhythm for the drums
Everybody wants to look the other way

When something wicked this way comes

Sometimes they tie a thief to the tree

Sometimes I stare
Sometimes it's me
Sometimes I stare

Sometimes it's me