One man caught on a barbed wire fence
One man he resist
One man washed up on an empty beach
One man betrayed with a kiss
So now I’ll go the minstrel road without you
I know there will be times when I need you there
And each night as I sing those songs about you
I’ll think back to the time when you used to care
Take it easy on me
I love to see a minstrel show,
More than any show I know.
Baby, I wish you’d help me escape
Help me get away
Leave me outside my address
Far away from this masquerade
'Cause I’ve been blind, oh, so blind
I wasted time, wasted, wasted all too much time
Walking on a wire, high wire
But I must let the show go
I must let the show go
The silver plated hero
Meets the golden hearted whore
The odds’ll give you zero
She’ll be leaving in a few days more
Movin’ on forever, maybe she don’t care
Holding on together, maybe it just ain’t there
You’re dancing on a high wire
You need to be so sure
There used to be a lifeline
There isn’t anymore
I’m up on the tight wire
Flanked by life and the funeral pyre
Putting on a show
For you to see
Ooh, yeah, you’re amazing!
We think you are really cool.
We’d give you a part, my love,
But you’d have to play the fool.
Well on the way, head in a cloud
The man of a thousand voices talking perfectly loud
But nobody ever hears him
Or the sound he appears to make
And he never seems to notice
But the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning around
The lunatic is in the hall
The lunatics are in my hall
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day the paper boy brings more
And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too
I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon
When walking between the lines and the squares,
Be careful that you don’t step on the bears.
Let’s talk dirty to the animals!
Well I am just a monkey man
I’m glad you are a monkey, monkey woman too, babe
Fox the fox
Rat on the rat
You can ape the ape
I know about that
There is one thing you must be sure of
I can’t take any more
Darling, don’t you monkey with the monkey
Hey hey hey, monkey, monkey, monkey
Don’t you know you’re going to shock the monkey, hey hey
Shock the monkey, hey hey hey hey hey
Tweeter and the monkey man were hard up for cash
They stayed up all night selling cocaine and hash
To an undercover cop who had a sister named Jan
For reasons unexplained she loved the monkey man
If you wanna hang out
You’ve got to take her out, cocaine
If you wanna get down
Down on the ground, cocaine
She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie
Cocaine
I’ve seen the needle
and the damage done
A little part of it in everyone
But every junkie’s
like a settin’ sun.
I saw the best minds of my generation
Destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical
I should be allowed to glue my poster
I should be allowed to think
To me you’re like the setting sun
You shine then you’re gone
To me you’re like the setting sun
You shine then you’re gone
Go down on your light
So bright it burns my eyes
Sounds like a perfect way
To end my life
The strangest thought has hit me after all:
I think I will not hang myself today.
Oh, I’ve got something inside me
To drive a princess blind
There’s a wild man, wizard
He’s hiding in me, illuminating my mind