Momus - Dylanology lyrics

Well they keep on digging up the
Tombs to desecrate the dead
But every skull they ever find has got
The same holes in it's head
And everyone was laughing at the
Trial of Josef K
The judge was quoting Wilde but I
Had other things to say
And Erika's precarian
She lives by candlelight
And me I'm merely guilty but
We haven't got all night

I saw an act of blindness
In a lemon limousine and I had hit the limit
Of my Paracelsus gleam
Well I reached across to Sheila
For her Veneuzuelan snort
But she was miles away so it
Took longer than I thought
And up ahead a dusty moon
With carbon on it's face
Grinning down like Lucifer on
Josef K's disgrace

The beastlier beatitudes of
Balthazar the King
I've got Bella rolling on her back
When the bellhop staggers in
I tried to buy his silence with
Some pages I had ripped
From the ancient dictionary
I conveniently gripped
And I still had the prescription for
The ginger drink with cloves
Ten minutes before Judy started
Taking off her clothes

And everybody's laughing at the
Trial of Josef K
The judge keeps quoting Wilde but I've
Got better things to say
So I jumped out of the witness box
And ran down to the phone
But, I can't get through to Judy
Cos she doesn't have a home

Well the prosecutor came along and
Asked me for a light
He said say that K is guilty
Cos we haven't got all night
But K is a precarian with
Nothing else to give
And you cannot give him life because
He has no life to live
And even Jesus sold his father's house
To pay his lawyer's fees
Why anyone believes in him is a mystery to me

Well back in my compartment
Of the starfuckers express
I was laying low trying to
Squeeze toothpaste off my dress
I crashed my winnebago so I
Now I take the train
I stare out of the window and
I take God's name in vain
The world has got so ugly even
Seed has run to seed
But in 1967 it was very good indeed

And everybody's laughing at the
Trial of Josef K
The judge keeps quoting Wilde but I've
Got better things to say
So I jumped out of the witness box
And ran down to the phone
But, I can't get through to Judy
Cos she doesn't have a home