Shriekback - Nemesis (The Dancing Years) lyrics

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Nemesis<br />

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In a jungle of the senses<br />

Tinkerbell and Jack the ripper<br />

Love has no meaning, not where they come from<br />

But we know pleasure is not that simple<br />

Very little fruit is forbidden<br />

Sometimes we wobble, sometimes we're strong<br />

But you know evil is an exact science<br />

Being carefully correctly wrong<br />

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Chorus<br />

Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals<br />

Everybody happy as the dead come home<br />

Big Black Nemesis, parthenogenesis<br />

No one move a muscle as the dead come home<br />

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We feel like Greeks, we feel like Romans<br />

Centaurs and monkeys just cluster round us<br />

We drink elixirs that we refine<br />

from the juices of the dying<br />

We are no monsters, we're moral people<br />

and yet we have the strength to do this<br />

This is the splendour of our achievement<br />

Call in the airstrike with a poison kiss<br />

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Chorus<br />

Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals<br />

Everybody happy as the dead come home<br />

Big black nemesis, parthenogenesis<br />

No-one move a muscle as the dead come home<br />

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How bad it gets, you can't imagine<br />

the burning wax, the breath of reptiles<br />

god is not mocked, he knows our business<br />

Karma could take us at any moment<br />

Cover him up.....I think we're finished<br />

You know it's never been so exotic<br />

but I don't know, my dreams are vicious<br />

We could still end up with the great big fishes<br />

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Chorus<br />

Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals<br />

Everybody happy as the dead come home<br />

Big black nemesis, parthenogenesis<br />

No-one move a muscle as the dead come home