Toyah - Restless lyrics

rate me

(Willcox/sidelnyc)

Well you know

I've been floating here for hours

Just like this

Suspended

Gently swaying like a pendulum

Look, no strings attached

There's the odd insect

It don't worry traffic control

But I just don't seem to wake up

I've been all the way to Budapest

Seen riots, yes riots in Tibet

Seen the burning monks

Crackling in pain

Saw bombs in Gibraltar

Fear in Christ's eyes

Frozen in concrete

As all of Europe fries

Wake up a mother's son

Lynched in a graveyard

Bullets in MacDonald's

Mottos born to kill

Tattoed on children's skin

And when I saw the hole in the sky

At the north pole

I really wanted to wake up

I heard the last breath of the dolphin

Behind the doors on the fourth floor

Of a Manchester morgue

Little fingers on the durex machine

God bless them,

Yes God bless them

And God bless Milton Keynes

Now I've been floating here

For thirty years

From the mid west to the North Sea

Seen nothing but soot covered misery

Witnessed crossbreeding giving birth to bad dreams

But now I want to wake up

Really want to wake up

Now I'm floating here on the outer atmosphere

And I've brushed aside the waste paper

There's a sign,

It says

"Self destruct in 99"

Evacuate.