Swing for the Crime

Lyrics

Locked in a room full of words I'm the one-eyed midget with the curse The simpleton who sweetly smiles at his young lover now beguiled The sycophantic morons snide at Romeo who is the bride, let's ride Stoned as I walk down the hall The adman waits to hear the curtain call The angels scream in discontent as to the river they are lent The actors bow and pay the rent, we cover them in cold cement Let's swing for the crime everyone in double time And we hope that you had a good time Yeah smile as you sign on the line Because life on your knees can be fun Surprised now you're not the only one Led like a lamb into this gloom While Freud is in the back room with his goons Now they've got new experiments, the metal groans, the limbs are wrenched The anti-heros' mock dissent, we market now by mass consent We swing for the crime everyone in double time Scream like your first infant cry Is changed by the words that you learn But Jack the Ripper is inside And Moriarty hasn't died They live to marry all the wise We laugh and have them circumcised They swing for the crime everyone in double time And we hope that you had a good time Yeah smile as you sign on the line Because life on your knees can be fun Are you glad that you're not the only one?