ELTON JOHN - Madness lyrics

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Music by elton john<br>Lyrics by gary osborne<br>Available on the album a single man<br><br>The fuse is set and checked once more<br>Then left beside a back street door<br>And in the cold grey light<br>Someone sees a shadow run through the night and out of sight<br>They hide inside a smoke filled room<br>To hear at last the blast of doom<br>And so the deed is done<br>They listen to the final countdown begun, three, two, one<br><br>Madness, it's a kind of madness<br>Tat turns good men bad<br>And we're helpless caught up in the madness<br>Of a world gone mad<br><br>The roar of fire rings out on high<br>And flames light up the black night sky<br>A child screams out in fear<br>A hopeless cry for help but no one is near enough to hear<br><br>As walls collapse and timbers flare<br>The smell of death hangs in the air<br>When help at last arrives<br>They try to fight the flame but nothing survives of all those lives<br><br>And it's madness, every time a victim dies<br>There is madness, burning in a blind man's eyes<br>And it's madness, hidden in the hate and pain<br>There is madness, burning in a wild man's brain<br>And it's madness, every time the bullets start<br>There is madness, burning in a poor man's heart<br><br>And it's madness, something that we can't control<br>There is madness, burning in a madman's soul<br>Madness