Devils' Onions - Shriekback

I’ll get the clown’s pie, with the Devil’s onions

It’s a feast indeed

We ride hard, we fear the Lord — we gonna live forever

That night we all got drunk a lot of things were said

We put that all behind us — it’s behind us now

In the scheme of things it is a grand scheme

We got it all to play for

It’s a Golden Age

It’s a Golden Age

It’s running late, all so goddamn late

We got our feet in the furnace

Feel like a thunder lizard with my might jaws

And this walnut brain

In the arch of the heavens there’s a tired little star

At the end of its run

There’s been a thousand years and the headsman’s axe

But the walls endure

It’s a Golden Age

It’s a Golden Age

I like the way she looks at me, I like her motor skills

I like the way she shimmies

Through the liquor and the pills

I like the way the walls press in, I like the teeming sky

I know I am, I’m sure I am

I’m H.A.P.P — H.A.P.P.Y

It’s Best Value, it’s Fit for Purpose, it’s a Box in a Field

We got Prole Dazzle and Mall Glut

Out here in the Boomburb

Got a Snout House near the Pork Chop Lot

It’s a Growth Machine

There’s a retail chain that arcs across the world

Like a Bridge of Rainbows

It’s a Golden Age

It’s a Golden Age

It’s a land grab from the long Firm

They’re going on the pavement

They got the wrong guy

(Though his crimes are many — justice will be done)

Ah the words are clunky, and the lines don’t rhyme

But the truth’s revealed

And for a flat fee which is all-inclusive

I don’t think you can complain

It’s a Golden Age

It’s a Golden Age

It’s a Golden Age

It’s a Golden Age

It’s a Golden Age

It’s a Golden Age…