Paradise Garden Lyrics

Well my woman blows the whistle

For the ten-fifteen to Euston

And if she once had some principles

Well now she's loosed 'em go

So's she could know how it feels

Pulling strokes and making deals

Setting spokes inside the wheels of

The Utopian Express

And then my lover she's the mother

Of my hopes and aspirations

She's the keeper of my morals

And my expectations

She's a virgin in forgiveness

And a whore in self-destruction

And a master of that moment

When you're hanging on her word

And at night I dream I'm falling

From her thirty storey window

As she pushes me and cries out

God have mercy on my soul

Then she flies into the darkness

With her make-up man beside her

And I stand helplessly watching

As the gulf gets wider

Crying please

Take your greed and leave me lone

I've enough of my own

And when Paradise's Garden

Isn't where you would be

Listen to me

For the devil is alive and well

And living on Manhattan

He's committed to a scientific

Course of action

And his legions they are many

And they answer unto no one

And their promise is as heavy

As the fog upon LA

Oh but the treadmill is for losers

Better leave your pride behind you

And go hide beneath your shadow

Lest the good Lord find you

And say Mind you, now what you doing

Have you spent all that I gave you

Are you broken now in spirit

As your minutes are in years

Or are you waiting for the scientist

To come up with an answer

And to cut away the cancer of your

Discontented mind

Well Frankenstein's in town

And I can lead you to his window

Where Cinderella dances in eternal limbo

Crying help, save yourself if you can

And your fairy tale land

And now Paradise has started

Slipping back to the sea

Listen to me