Shriekback - The Bastard Sons of Enoch lyrics

Cain decked the angel said "f** you screw" Shook the garden's dust from off his shoe Then he walked in the desert a mile or two He came to the plain where the medlars grew And he sat down on the burning sand Looked at the red on his brown right hand And he spoke to the devil about his plans Out to the east of Eden Oh, the devil said "Cain, I think this will fly I want this ba*tard deep and high From the guts of the earth to the clean blue sky Time to rape, scald, scar up and petrify" So with shovel and pick they worked side by side Till they ripped out a hole in the grandmother's side And the city rose out of it bad and wide Out to the east of Eden ENOCH BEGAT URUK BEGAT NINEVEH BEGAT BABYLON BEGAT SODOM BEGAT JERICHO BEGAT CAIRO BEGAT PORT SAID BEGAT [_________?] BEGAT BANGKOK BEGAT SAIGON BEGAT VEGAS BEGAT HAMBURG BEGAT NEW YORK CITY BEGAT MEGA CITY ONE BEGAT NEO TOKYO That was all now so long ago And down these mean streets now we all must go All our fears have come true and no help to know That only our thoughts have made them so All the people are scared as they can be Crying "don't try and come to close to me" Now we all prefer and don't you agree A mechanical kind of ecstacy And the masters preen and their wives impress And the witches burn and the slaves undress And they all get f**ed and paid and blessed On the altars of their own success And the numb and stupid and dumb and vain Have their fatuous theories to explain Why nobody any longer feels the pain Down to the east of Eden Wanna see the infernal city Wanna see the ruined city Wanna see the poisoned city Wanna see the big bad city Wanna see the lost city Wanna see the dead city Wanna see the ghost city Wanna see the forbidden city Wanna see the infernal city Wanna see the ruined city Wanna see the poisoned city Wanna see the big bad city Wanna see the lost city Wanna see the dead city Wanna see the ghost city Wanna see the forbidden city