cast:
Narrator
Murderess
Victim
Friend to murderess
The plaintiff
Judge
So Ya thought ya might like to go to the show
to feel the warm thrill of confusion
Day after day, love turns gray
like the skin of a dying man
Night after night, we pretend it's all right
But I have grown older
and you have grown colder and
nothing is very much fun anymore
Tell me is something eluding you sunshine?
Is this not what you expected to see?
When we grew up and went to school
there were certain teachers who would
hurt the children any way they could
by pouring their derision
upon anything we did
and exposing any weakness
however carefully hidden by the kids
But in town it was well known
when they got home at night
their fat and psychopathic wives would thrash them
within inches of their lives
And I can feel one of my turns coming on
I feel cold as a razor blade tight as a tourniquet
dry as a funeral drum
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left
you'll find my favorite axe
Don't look so frightened
this is just a passing phase
Just one of my bad days
If you'd like to find out what's behind these cold eyes
you'll just have to claw your way through the disguise
Ooooooooooooooooh
Did you see the frightened ones
Did you hear the falling bombs
Did you ever wonder
why we had to run for shelter
when the promise of brave new world
unfurled beneath a clear blue sky
Mother do you think she's good enough for me
Mother do you think she's dangerous to me
Mother will she tear your little boy apart
Ooh ah Mother will she break my heart
Crazy, toys in the attic, I am crazy
(Surely gone fishing)
They must have taken my marbles away
(Do I have to stand up
wild eyed in the spotlight
What a night mare
Why don't I turn and run)
Ooooh babe
Don't leave me now
Don't say it's the end of the road
Remember the flowers I sent
I need you babe
to put through the shredder
in front of my friends
Ooooh babe
Don't leave me now
How could you go?
When you know how I need you
to beat to a pulp on a Saturday night
Ooooh babe
Don't leave me now
How can you treat me this way?
Running away
I need you babe
Why are you running away?
Ooooooh babe
Mother should I build a wall
Hush now baby, baby don't you cry
Mama's gonna make all of your nightmares come true
Mama's gonna put all of her fears into you
Mama's gonna keep you right here
under her wing
She won't let you fly but she might let you sing
Mama's gonna keep baby cosy and warm
Ooooh babe, ooooh babe, ooooh babe
Of course mama's gonna help build the wall
Oooooooooooooooooh
Did you see the frightened ones
Did you hear the fallings bombs
The flames are all long gone
but the pain lingers on
Goodbye all you people
There's nothing you can say
To make me change my mind
Goodbye
I Have seen the writing on the wall
Don't think I need anything at all
No don't think I need anything at all
All in all it was all just bricks in the wall
All in all you were all just bricks in the wall
OK
Just a little pinprick
There'll be no more (aaaaaaaaaah!)
but you may feel a little sick
Goodbye cruel world
I'm leaving you today
Goodbye
Goodbye blue sky
Goodbye Blue sky
Goodbye
I have always said he'd come to no good
in the end, your honor
If they'd let me have my way
I could have flayed him into shape
But my hands were tied
Let me hammer him today
If I had my way
I'd have all of you shot
Waiting to cut out the dead wood
Crazy, toys in the attic, I am crazy
(Surely gone fishing)
They must have taken my marbles away
Babe!
Come to mother baby let me hold you in my arms
M'lud I never wanted him to get in any trouble
Why'd he ever have to leave me
Hey You !
Out there in the cold
getting lonely, getting old, can you feel me
Hey you ! Out there on the road
doing what you're told, can you help me
Hey you ! Out there beyond the wall
breaking bottles in the hall, can you help me
Hey you ! Don't tell me there's no hope at all
Together we stand, divided we fall
Hey You ! Don't help them to bury the light
Don't give in without a fight
But it was only fantasy
The wall was to high, as you can see
No matter how he tried he could not break free
And the worms ate into his brain
Would you like to call the cops?
Do you think it's time I stopped?
Why are you running away?
You better make your face up in your favourite disguise
With your button down lips and your roller blind eyes
With your empty smile and your hungry heart
Feel the bile rising from your guilty past
With your nerves in tatters
when the cockle shell shatters
and the hammers batter down your door
You better run like hell
There must be some mistake
I didn't mean to let them
take away my soul
You better run all day
and run all night
And keep your dirty feelings deep inside
And if you take your girlfriend out tonight
You better park the car well out of sight
'Cos if they catch you in the backseat
trying to pick her locks
They're gonna send you back to mother
in a cardboard box
You better run
Goodbye cruel world
I'm leaving you today
Goodbye
Goodbye blue sky
Goodbye Blue sky
Goodbye
Good morning worm your honour
The crown will plainly show
The Prisoner who now stand before you
was caught red handed showing feelings
Showing feelings of an almost human nature
This will not do
The evidence before the court is incontrovertible
There's no need for the jury to retire
In all my years of judging
I have never heard before
of someone more deserving
the full penalty of law
The way you made them suffer
The bleeding hearts and artists
let him get away with murder
Let me hammer him today
Since, my friend you have revealed
your deepest fear
I sentence you to be exposed
before you peers
Tear down the wall
Call the defendant's wife:
You little s**t, you're in it now
I hope they throw away the key
You should have talked to me more often than you did
but no! You had to go your own way
Have you broken any homes up lately?
Crazy, over the rainbow, I am crazy
Bars in the window
There must have been a door there in the wall
when I came in
Crazy, over the rainbow, he is crazy
I don't need no arms around me
I don't need no drugs to calm me
I've got the feeling once again
I can't explain, you would not understand
This is not how I am
I have become comfortably numb
Hey you !
Out there on your own
sitting naked by the phone, would you touch me
Hey you ! With your ear against the wall
waiting for someone to call out, would you touch me
Hey you ! Would you help me to carry the stone
Ooooh you cannot reach me now
Ooooh now matter how you try
Goodbye cruel world it's over
Walk on by
Sitting in a bunker here behind my wall
Waiting for the worms to come
In Perfect isolation here behind my wall
Waiting for the worms to come
Waiting to clean up the city
Waiting to follow the worms
Waiting to weed out the weaklings
Waiting to smash in their windows and kick in their doors
Waiting for the final solution to strengthen the strain
Waiting to follow the worms
Stop!
I wanna go home
Take off this uniform and leave the show
And I'm waiting in this cell
Because I have to know
have I been guilty all this time?
Open your heart, I'm coming home
Tear down the wall
All alone, or in twos
The ones who really love you
walk up and down outside the wall
Some hand in hand
Some gathered together in bands
The bleeding hearts and the artists
make their stand
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and falls
after all it's not easy banging your heart against
some mad buggers wall
If you should go skating
on The Thin Ice of modern life
dragging behind you the silent reproach
of a million tear stained eyes
don't be surprised when a crack in the ice
appears under your feet
You slip out of your depth and out of your mind
with your fear flowing out behind you
as you claw The Thin Ice