The Fatima Mansions - Perfumes of Paradise lyrics
[The Fatima Mansions - Perfumes of Paradise lyrics]
Somebody's threatened you, well, you know why
Time now to pay for misdeeds you deny
Life can be cheerless in intensive care
Keep a cool head and you
Won't know you're there
You won't need a shot when
You sniff just a drop
Of the perfumes of paradise!
Bulldoze the street where they
Said you were born
Take a new name and before it put "Lord"
Tranquil and slow
Nostrils aglow with the perfumes of paradise
From my bed to the street it is 30 paces
(and getting nearer)
And I sniff and repent in
All the right places
And a speeding truck crashes
Into the front door
And the telephone rings and says
"Have you no conscience?"
When planning a genocide, starting a war
Say that it's gentler than others before
It sells lots of tv's and ribbons and flags
And makes all the doubters
Look spineless and bad
Even big heads of state should
Spray in their wake the perfumes of paradise
Time now to pay for misdeeds you deny
Life can be cheerless in intensive care
Keep a cool head and you
Won't know you're there
You won't need a shot when
You sniff just a drop
Of the perfumes of paradise!
Bulldoze the street where they
Said you were born
Take a new name and before it put "Lord"
Tranquil and slow
Nostrils aglow with the perfumes of paradise
From my bed to the street it is 30 paces
(and getting nearer)
And I sniff and repent in
All the right places
And a speeding truck crashes
Into the front door
And the telephone rings and says
"Have you no conscience?"
When planning a genocide, starting a war
Say that it's gentler than others before
It sells lots of tv's and ribbons and flags
And makes all the doubters
Look spineless and bad
Even big heads of state should
Spray in their wake the perfumes of paradise