Lyrics
Greenish elixir
Doctor in stained gown
Syringe with panacea
Hopeless blistered wretch
Needle deceitful stings
More than seems
Skinny and mangy mouse
Cheese in ragged sack
Runs agile 'round her traps
Bit by bit builds a fragile house
Lingering by the milk trade house
Where lack lacks
We don't want the egg
We want the chicken and the nest
Rotten toothed mermaid
Whisper of lost charm
Singing forgotten tunes
Voice that entices the outcasts
Underneath the waves
Youth drips mud
Jester with a mute lute
His tunes moot, vibes don't suit
Painter blind and maligned
Paints no light, hiss not polite
Beggar's plea a hoarse cry
A harsh lie, a dream dies,
Empty hands no coins to buy
Hopes fading fast on frayed rope
Like a cheated trader, they seek and seek
In the shadowed back of their shop so bleak
It's not the rats that spread infection
But pewter faces, their true affliction
They lick crumbs from guilty sated fat hands
Yet they've never seen the Shangri-La
We don't need the egg, we don't want the egg, we don't want your egg, we don't need, we don't want
We don't need that egg, we don't want just egg, we don't need that, we don't want that
We don't need just that, we don't need that, we don't want that, we don't care that, we don't seek that
We don't have enough, we can't feel enough safe
We need comfort, we need houses warm, we're the broken hearts
We are the legions of the lost, we are army weary, masses damned, throngs forsaken
We're the crowds of the forgotten, we're the thousands of the hopeless