[00:06.53]History repeats the old conceits
[00:08.66]The glib replies the same defeats
[00:11.35]Keep your finger on important issues
[00:14.05]With crocodile tears and a pocketful of tissues
[00:17.49]Im just the oily slick
[00:19.38]On the windup world of the nervous tick
[00:22.14]In a very fashionable hovel
[00:25.38]I hang around dying to be tortured
[00:30.07]Youll never be alone in the bone orchard
[00:32.81]This battle with the bottle is nothing so novel
[00:38.14]So in this almost empty gin palace
[00:42.97]Through a two-way looking glass
[00:45.52]You see your alice
[00:48.96]You know she has no sense
[00:51.45]For all your jealousy
[00:54.58]In a sense she still smiles very sweetly
[00:58.52]Charged with insults and flattery
[01:01.91]Her body moves with malice
[01:04.73]Do you have to be so cruel to be callous
[01:09.88]And now you find you fit this identikit completely
[01:14.76]You say you have no secrets
[01:18.39]And then leave discreetly
[01:20.47]I might make it californias fault
[01:22.28]Be locked in genevas deepest vault
[01:24.65]Just like the canals of mars and the great barrier reef
[01:27.90]I come to you beyond belief
[01:31.27]
[01:34.90]My hands were clammy and cunning
[01:37.35]Shes been suitably stunning
[01:40.82]But I know theres not a hope in hades
[01:46.07]All the laddies cat call and wolf whistle
[01:50.52]So-called gentlemen and ladies
[01:52.96]Dog fight like rose and thistle
[01:56.04]Ive got a feeling
[01:58.29]Im going to get a lot of grief
[02:00.66]Once this seemed so appealing
[02:03.22]Now I am beyond belief