In deathyou face life with a child and a wife
Who sleep-walks through your dreams into walls.
You re a soldier of mercyyou re cold and you curse
"He who cannot be trusted must fall."
Lonelinesstendernesshigh societynotoriety.
You fight for the throne and you travel alone
Unknown as you slowly sink
And there s no time to think.
In the Federal City you been blown and shown pity
In secretfor pieces of change.
The empress attracts you but oppression distracts you
And it makes you feel violent and strange.
Memoryecstasytyrannyhypocrisy
Betrayed by a kiss on a cool night of bliss
In the valley of the missing link
And you have no time to think.
Judges will haunt youthe country priestess will want you
Her worst is better than best.
I ve seen all these decoys through a set of deep turquoise eyes
And I feel so depressed.
China dollalcoholdualitymortality.
Mercury rules you and destiny fools you
Like the plaguewith a dangerous wink
And there s no time to think.
Your conscience betrayed you when some tyrant waylaid you
Where the lion lies down with the lamb.
I d have paid off the traitor and killed him much later
But that s just the way that I am.
Paradisesacrificemortalityreality.
But the magician is quicker and his game
Is much thicker than blood and blacker than ink
And there s no time to think.
Anger and jealousy s all that he sells us
He s content when you re under his thumb.
Madmen oppose himbut your kindness throws him
To survive it you play deaf and dumb.
Equalitylibertyhumilitysimplicity.
You glance through the mirror and there s eyes staring clear
At the back of your head as you drink
And there s no time to think.
Warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrow
Will offer their heads for a prayer.
You can t find no salvationyou have no expectations
Anytimeanyplaceanywhere.
Mercurygravitynobilityhumility.
You know you can t keep her and the water gets deeper
That is leading you onto the brink
But there s no time to think.
You ve murdered your vanityburied your sanity
For pleasure you must now resist.
Lovers obey you but they cannot sway you
They re not even sure you exist.
Socialismhypnotismpatriotismmaterialism.
Fools making laws for the breaking of jaws
And the sound of the keys as they clink
But there s no time to think.
The bridge that you travel on goes to the Babylon girl
With the rose in her hair.
Starlight in the East and you re finally released
You re stranded but with nothing to share.
Loyaltyunityepitomerigidity.
You turn around for one real last glimpse of Camille
Neath the moon shinin bloody and pink
And there s no time to think.
Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you
But noyou will not be deceived.
Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt
You can give but you cannot receive.
No time to choose when the truth must die
No time to lose or say goodbye
No time to prepare for the victim that s there
No time to suffer or blink
And no time to think.

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