Perfume Garden - The Chameleons

You can shake your hips, you can seal your lips

I can make that trip

And all life’s fears could invade my ears

I can handle it

I can call on a friend and remember the faces

We wore at school

Making the madness and solitary sadness

A friendly fool

I thought of stories they told us long ago

Of how the world was a perfume garden

I haven’t yet learned to tame the creature there

And that at least I think is something good

All across the town and across the street

You could feel the heat

Let me tell you, friend, they could hardly wait

To mark your sheet

It was maximum joy for the men they employed

To hold you down

Well, I hope now you know that this isn’t the bliss

That you thought you’d found

Endless emptiness, endless ringing bells

I couldn’t show you but I’d hoped to one day

A pretty promise to teach the tender child

To welcome madness every Monday

Beck-beck-beckon the call

Didn’t seem to matter at all

Beck-beck-beckon the call

Told us how to conquer it all

Beck-beck-beckon the call

Didn’t seem to matter at all

Beck-beck-beckon the call

Told us how to conquer it all

You can shake your hips, you can seal your lips

I can make that trip

And all life’s fears could invade my ears

I can handle it

I can call on a friend, I can laugh with friends

That I’ve known since school

Making the madness and solitary sadness

A friendly fool

Beck-beck-beckon the call

They taught us how to conquer it all

Beck-beck-beckon the call

These children have nothing at all

Listening hard for the voice of the child

I thought I heard an alarm bell ringing

Pulled from my sleep by invisible hands

The gentle sound of a lady singing

Listening hard for the voice of the child

I thought I heard an alarm bell ringing

Pulled from my sleep by invisible hands

The gentle sound of a lady singing