No Time to Think

In death, you face life with a child and a wife Who sleepwalks through your dreams into walls You're a soldier of mercy, and you're cold and you curse He who cannot be trusted must fall Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety You fight for the throne and you travel alone Unknown as you slowly sink (slowly sink) And there's no time to think In the federal city you been blown and shown pity In secret, for pieces of change The empress attracts you but oppression distracts you It makes you feel violent and strange Memory, ecstasy, tyranny, hypocrisy Betrayed by a kiss on a cool night of bliss In the valley of the missing link (of missing link) And there's no time to think Judges will haunt you, the country priestess will want you Her worst is better than best I've seen all these decoys through a set of deep turquoise eyes And I feel so depressed China doll, alcohol, duality, mortality Mercury rules you and destiny fools you Like the plague, with a dangerous wink (dangerous wink) And there's no time to think Your conscience betrayed you when some tyrant waylaid you Where the lion lies down with the lamb I'd have paid the traitor and killed him much later But that's just the way that I am Paradise, sacrifice, mortality, reality But the magician is quicker and his game Is much thicker than blood and blacker than ink (and blacker than ink) And there's no time to think Vomit and jealousy's all that he sells us He's contented when you're under his thumb Madmen oppose him, your kindness throws him To survive it you play deaf and dumb Equality, liberty, humility, simplicity You glance through the mirror and there's eyes staring clear At the back of your head as you drink (as you drink) And there's no time to think Warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrow Will offer their heads for a prayer You can't find no salvation, have no expectations Anytime, anyplace, anywhere Mercury, gravity, nobility, humility You know you can't keep her and the water gets deeper That is leading you onto the brink (onto the brink) And there's no time to think You've murdered your vanity, burned your sanity For pleasure you must now resist Lovers obey you but they cannot sway you They're not even sure you exist Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism Fools making laws for the breaking of jaws And the sound of the keys as they clink (as they clink) And there's no time to think The bridge that you travel on goes to the Babylon girl With the rose in her hair Starlight in the East you finally released You're stranded with nothing to share Loyalty, unity, epitome, rigidity You turn around for one real last glimpse of camille Neath the moon shining bloody and pink (bloody and pink) And there's no time to think Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you But no, you will not be deceived Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt You can give but you cannot receive No time to choose when the truth must die No time to lose or say goodbye No time to prepare for the victim that's there No time to suffer or blink (suffer or blink) And there's no time to think