LYRICS


TURNTABLE
(written 1993/recorded 2006)

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hey - get ready
for the time that comes
seize waking hours
it's the time that runs
you miss the point
in your invocation
change your point of view
'cause now it's up to you

there was an iron fist
in a velvet glove
a right to exist
but i believe it's
never been that obvious
now or ever
now or ever
believe it's just a scheme
it's just a scheme

russian roulette among the chic set
counting out on a school's playground
casting lots with a broken match
a turntable
and a happy dispatch

dreaming of the world outside
i yielded to the silence
sitting on the border
between wrong and little right
staring down at my own feet
with glassy absent eyes
all the livelong days
and all the livelong nights

the impression conjured up a word
from childhood's innocence
i swore to never grow up
like Peter Pan in life
did i succumb to temptation
or fail to use my mind
so i have been wrong
faults all of a kind
but there's still more behind
more behind

there's nothing you can do
when your world collapses
nowhere you can go
when your home is burning down
you may be hardened against
mundane absurdities
but there's no way out
no way out of the scheme

you're nothing but the shadow
of your former self
you lost you laughter and your
light-heartedness
so you cut off your nose
to spite your own face
but there's no way out
no way out of the scheme

russian roulette among the chic set
counting out on a school's playground
casting lots with a broken match
a turntable
and a happy dispatch

hey - "follow the leader"
near the fairground booth
"call the doll doctor"
well, that's the child's truth
now you have come of age
and you've got to walk on
the prim edge of the knife
the serious side of life

there were hell and heaven
like black and white
wide eyes they redden
but i believe it's
never been that obvious
now or ever
now or ever
believe it's just a scheme
it's just a scheme

russian roulette among the chic set
counting out on a school's playground
casting lots with a broken match
a turntable
and a happy dispatch

may things take a turn yet?
they won't turn any more
may things take a turn yet?
they won't turn, won't turn, won't turn any more

wait your turn, wait your turn
it's up to you now
wait your turn, wait your turn
it's up to you now

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