Mephistopheles

"So what do we do here now?" said the prophet to the priest

"I see so much confusion, now we bind them with belief

We take a little bit of honey, and put it out of reach

Grow fat upon their money as we promise them release"

Well, Adam shoulda never took that apple from the tree

The knowledge bound and tightened chains of doubt and misery

Bet he wishes that he'd stayed at home and spent more time with Eve

Colors started bleedin' from the palette of his dreams

So music Mephistopheles, I summon you to sing for me

Call you cross the endless sea through deserts of eternity

Said, oh, would the weaver be and spin in sound this tapestry?

My mood become a melody, the music mirrors shades in me

Then fire splits the night, I glimpsed chance dancin' into shadow

Spirit, tell me where this boat goes, I don't know

Wastin' all my time

The shadow broke the circle, and a stranger took my hand

And he placed one palm in the ocean and the other in the sand

A cold, dead planet raised between a dancin' moon and sun

Kaleidoscopes of consciousness, they flicker then they're gone

You pretty little people, just the wood the fire burns

As ashes are to ashes, so to dust you shall return

A businessman awakens and puts on his suit and tie

Leaves the house in darkness for the 7:25

And then he glimpses in the windows rows of tired, hollow eyes

Rubs his own and wonders, "What has happened to my life?"

The director's in the counting house, counting what he's got

Beside a single plastic flower in a plastic flower pot

And his fat fingers stack his coins in little towers on his desk

"Gonna burn them all like cattle and put our logos in their chests"

And what do you think I see now when I'm lookin' at our lives?

Little fuckin' money puppets dancin' in a line

I hear a newborn baby screaming and then a lonely widow sigh

See people needin' people like the spider needs the fly

A silent moonbeam passin' through a broken windowpane

Desire sends you dancin' like a moth into the flame

And that sweet mistress marijuana just ain't treatin' me the same

I used to meet the gaze of strangers once, now I look away

Round me runs the traffic, and above me thunder trains

Sun don't shine in London town, it only seems to rain, rain, rain

And lightning struck the tower, and the stars begin to fall

Wrote my name in fire with my finger on the wall

Call you by celebrity, by magazines, and MTV

Bind you in their company, summon you to sing for me