
Date of issue: 25.07.1999
Song language: English
A Better Home In The Phantom Zone |
Your homes are all-electric and your dreams are built to last |
I walk the streets at night and see your image in each pane of glass |
Passing by your houses, through your windows I can watch you all |
The TV in the corner and the green and Chinese ladies on your wall |
Build a better home in the phantom zone |
Read the papers, light the tapers, worship with the news at ten |
Film your own atrocities, it’s time to crack the whip again |
You clothe your body in synthetics |
To celebrate some strange aesthetic |
Your tongue is locked and your lips are hermetically sealed |
Your relatives are white and all your children have record players |
They listen to Tom Robinson, the Beatles and the Byrds and Leo Sayer |
You take them to the zoo to watch the animals walk circles in their cages |
Your politics are fashionable, you got them from the yellow pages |
Build a better home in the phantom zone |
It’s funtime in the factories where they make the little batteries for your |
thrill machine |
You say it’s only therapy and doesn’t mean a thing but it looks good to me |
I caught you in the kitchen you were curing something itching or so you said |
Then you turned off all the motors put away your toys and photos and crawled |
back to bed |
Build a better home in the phantom zone |
Go to parties, mix with artists, burn the candle at both ends |
Be a winner, dress for dinner, kiss your food and eat your friends |
Turn on the sound, tune in the static, set all controls to automatic |
Your crash will be the more dramatic if you come as you go to the phantom zone |
A better home in the phantom zone |
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