Lyrics

Well they keep on digging up the tombs to desecrate the dead But every skull they ever find has got the same holes in its head And everyone was laughing at the trial of Josef K The judge was quoting Wilde but I had other things to say And Erika's precarian, she lives by candlelight And me I'm merely guilty but we haven't got all night I saw an act of blindness in a lemon limousine And I had hit the limit of my Paracelsus gleam Well I reached across to Sheila for her Veneuzuelan snort But she was miles away so it took longer than I thought And up ahead a dusty moon with carbon on its face Grinning down like Lucifer on Josef K's disgrace The beastlier beatitudes of Balthazar the King I've got Bella rolling on her back when the bellhop staggers in I tried to buy his silence with some pages I had ripped From the ancient dictionary I conveniently gripped And I still had the prescription for the ginger drink with cloves Ten minutes before Judy started taking off her clothes And everybody's laughing at the trial of Josef K The judge keeps quoting Wilde but I've got better things to say So I jumped out of the witness box and ran down to the phone But I can't get through to Judy cos she doesn't have a home Well the prosecutor came along and asked me for a light He said say that K is guilty cos we haven't got all night But K is a precarian with nothing else to give And you cannot give him life because he has no life to live And even Jesus sold his father's house to pay his lawyer's fees Why anyone believes in him is a mystery to me Well back in my compartment of the starfuckers express I was laying low trying to squeeze toothpaste off my dress I crashed my winnebago so I now I take the train I stare out of the window and I take God's name in vain The world has got so ugly even seed has run to seed But in 1967 it was very good indeed And everybody's laughing at the trial of Josef K The judge keeps quoting Wilde but I've got better things to say So I jumped out of the witness box and ran down to the phone But I can't get through to Judy cos she doesn't have a home