(Wetton/Fripp/Palmer-James)
Health-food !@$)got with a bartered bride
Likes to comb his hair with a dipper ride

Once had a friend with a cloven foot
Once he called the tune in a chequered quit


Great Deceiver

In the door on the floor in a paper bag

There's a shoe-shine boy with a gin-shop slag
She raised him up and she called him son
And she canonised the ground that he walked upon


Great Deceiver


Cigarettes, ice cream, figurines of the Virgin Mary
Cigarettes, ice cream, figurines of the Virgin Mary


Cigarettes, ice cream, cadillacs blue jeans

In the night he's a star in the Milky Way

He's a man of the world by the light of day
A golden smile and a proposition
And the breath of God smells of sweet sedition


Great Deceiver


Sing hymns make love get high fall dead
He'll bring his perfume to your bed
He'll charm your life 'til the cold winds blow

Then he'll sell your dreams to a picture show

Cigarettes, ice cream, figurines of the Virgin Mary

Cigarettes, ice cream, figurines of the Virgin Mary

Cadillacs, blue jeans, dixieland playing on the ferry

Cadillacs, blues jeans, drop a glass full of antique sherry