No Time To Think
(专辑: Street Legal - 1978)
In death you face life with a
child and a
wife Who sleep-walks through your dreams into walls You're soldier of mercy, you're cold and you curse He who cannot be trusted must fall. Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety 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 For secret, for pieces of change The
empress attracts you but oppression distracts you And it makes you feel violent and strange. Memory, ecstasy, tyranny, hypocrisy 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 you, the
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 doll, alcohol, duality, mortality Mercury rules you and destiny fools you Like the
plague, with 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. Paradise, sacrifice, mortality, reality 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 him, but your kindness throws him To survive it you play deaf and dumb. Equality, liberty, humility, simplicity You glance through the
mirror and there's eyes starring clear At the
back of you 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 salvation, you have no expectations Anytime, anyplace, anywhere. Mercury, gravity, nobility, humility You know you can't keep her and the
water gets deeper That is leading your onto the
brink But there's no time to think. You've murdered your vanity, buried your sanity For pleasure you must now resist Lovers obey you but they cannot sway you They're not even sure you exist. Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism 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 With the
rose in her hair Starlight in the
East you're finally released You're stranded but with nothing to share. Loyality, unity, epitome, rigidity You turn around for one real last glimpse of Camille 'Neath the
moon shining bloody and pink And there's no time to think. Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you But no, you 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.