
Date of issue: 22.09.2003
Record label: Geffen
Song language: English
The Three Great Stimulants |
I picked the morning paper off the floor |
It was full of other people’s little wars |
Wouldn’t they like their peace |
Don’t we get bored |
And we call for the three great stimulants |
Of the exhausted ones |
Artifice, brutality and innocence |
Artifice and innocence |
No tanks have ever rumbled through these streets |
And the drone of planes at night has never frightened me |
I keep the hours and the company that I please |
And we call for the three great stimulants |
Of the exhausted ones |
Artifice, brutality and innocence |
Artifice and innocence |
Oh and deep in the night |
Our appetites find us |
Release us and bind us |
Deep in the night |
While madmen sit up building bombs |
And making laws and bars |
They’d like to slam free choice behind us |
I saw a little lawyer on the tube |
He said, «it's so easy now, anyone can sue» |
«Let me show you how your petty aggravations can profit you!» |
Call for the three great stimulants |
Of the exhausted ones |
Artifice, brutality and innocence |
Artifice and innocence |
Oh and deep in the night |
Appetites find us |
Release us and blind us |
Deep in the night |
While madmen sit up building bombs |
And making laws and bars |
They’re gonna slam free choice behind us |
Last night I dreamed I saw the planet flicker |
Great forests fell like buffalo |
Everything got sicker |
And to the bitter end |
Big business bickered |
And they call for the three great stimulants |
Of the exhausted ones |
Artifice, brutality and innocence |
Artifice and innocence |
Oh these times, these times |
Oh these changing times |
Change in the heart of all mankind |
Oh these troubled times |
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