The Fatima Mansions - The Loyaliser lyrics

The model volcano by the giant gas tank The street corner gun-market next to the robbed bank The poorhouse next to the uniroyal palace A tower of riches, beside it the abyss Sit in the gridlock under the stopped clock Long for a new taste? s** on a breeze-block Your brain is a doughnut, your spirit's a dry cup This place has the poison to fill them all right up Lockdown london-- Headbu*t the pebble-dash The girl with the bit nails and fondness for blackmail You made her a secret, now she knows she can't fail Your weakness was known well, she earned her a bombshell Her life's worth of grievance now hangs from your coat-tails The little drummer-boy sadly (though eloquent) b**hes Too old for the bluff game or overnight riches He meets with your pen friend, they speak of your badness And compose a duet--sounds like tarzan and callas I've been a victimiser and i've been victimised I've been a sly betrayer who has been demonised I've been an instrument of all i hate So here's to all you absent leeches--safe I'm not around to hear your pious speeches while you're... Chorus: Waiting for a date from the loyaliser Waiting for a date from the loyaliser Crying for a sign from the loyaliser Time always on the side of the loyaliser Into thinner air with the loyaliser You get older, you get scared but you get no wiser Now you must adjust your ears to the sound of trouble Getting louder and louder and louder and louder Forget the "like-with-like," now there is only other As the walls begin to buckle and turn into powder Cowed figures under railway arches Wait for the coming storm They've already seen your great provider In his true bloodthirsty human form Time to get criminal-minded Take any way out when you find it And those who stay around do so because they're blinded No light at all when you're...chorus Lockdown london... Just a prison...