You can shake your hips,you can seal your lips, i can't make that trip

And all lifes fears could invade my ears, i can handle it



I can call on a friend and remember the faces we wore at school

Making the madness and solitary sadness, a friendly fool

I thought of stories they told us long ago

Of how the world was a perfume garden

I haven't yet learned to tame the creature there

And that at least i think is something good



All across the town and across the street, you could feel the heat

Let me tell you friend,they could hardly wait to mark your sheet

It was maximum joy for the men they employed, to hold you down

Well i hope now you know that this isn't the bliss that you thought you'd found

Endless emtpiness, endless ringing bells

I couldn't show you but i'd hoped to one day

A pretty promise to teach the tender child

To welcome madness every Monday



Beck beck beck and call

Didn't seem to matter at all

Beck beck beck and call

Told us how to conquer it all

Beck beck beck and call

Didn't seem to matter at all

Beck beck beck and call

Told us how to conquer it all



You can shake your hips,you can seal your lips, i can't make that trip

And all lifes fears could invade my ears, i can handle it



I can call on a friend, i can laugh with a friend that i know from school

Making the madness and solitary sadness, a friendly fool



Beck beck beck and call

They taught us how to conquer it all

Beck beck beck and call

These children have nothing at all



Listening hard for the voice of the child

I thought i heard an alarm bell ringing

Pulled from my sleep by invisible hands

The gentle sound of a lady singing