Fellini days

The character actor plays romantic leads and the kitten curls in wet anticipation,

The opportunity is here.

It's not the first time, it's not a dream, she cowers in the corner, she pretends

It's just a scene.



The Maitre D' has seen it all before, the actor, the actress, the gigolo, the whore,

Between the lines, between the sheets, there's no rehearsal, they make a deal, he'll soon be home.



Living in Wonderland, the grass is so green,

Tongue-tied, a dry mouth swallows a scream,

Yours to pretend, it's yours to pretend, this trip never ends, it's coming at you

In 3D.



The freeway's jammed, the lights bleed red, and the anger gathers in the fog,

I meditate in green.

A wall of horns, blasts away, and the exit road to Jericho stands steady,

held in amber beams that play on misty screens and smoky cars

whose occupants mouth curses at a world that doesn't hear



Living in Wonderland, the grass is so green,

Tongue-tied, a dry mouth swallows a scream,

Yours to pretend, it's yours to pretend, this trip never ends, it's coming at you in 3D.

Dance, dance, dance milady

Weave your spell

Take the floor milady

Catch a tiger by it's tail

Catch this tiger by it's tail



I caught your breath milady

Fell into your smile

Watched my own reflection

Swimming in your eyes

Swimming in your eyes



So Fellini! So Fellini! So Fellini!

Milady dance your dance

Dance your dance



I slide inside your body

You steal into my heart,

Used the key that I provided

Milady dance your dance, milady dance your dance

Milady dance your dance



So Fellini! So Fellini! So Fellini!

Milady dance your dance

Oh, dance your dance



Dance, dance, dance milady,

Weave your spell

Take the floor milady

Caught a tiger by it's tail,

You have this tiger by it's tail



So Fellini! So Fellini! So Fellini!

Dance your dance,

So Fellini! So Fellini! So Fellini!

Milady dance your dance,

Milady dance your dance

She holds court, queen of all the mountains

Snow leopards hide amongst her hills,

The bong billows clouds up to the ceiling

Fresh stars day-glo in the night.

Mai-Tais at the bar, she only sees charlie at weekends,

The cocktail monkeys are climbing, a tower is chiming, faraway.

Micha is smiling back in Tiki 4

Back in Tiki 4.



One eye is all that is needed to be king of all he surveys,

Grandmaster, apprentice of architects

Design curves where others leave trails

It's freaking you out as you search for the lock on the door

Pillars of smoke are guiding you back to the floor

Back to Tiki 4

Tiki 4

Tiki 4



And the darkness zips up the city like a body bag

The good citizens are lying asleep in their beds dreaming of the day ahead

Meanwhile we're back in Tiki 4.

Tiki 4

Tiki 4

Back in Tiki 4



Renee is curled up on the sofa

Judy scratches away at her scars

Loud lines that were only a whisper

Too weak for the angels to hear

But she's proud, she got the respect of her mother

She didn't waver, straight down the lines and out of sight

Judy woke up in Tiki 4

Back in Tiki 4



And the darkness zips up the city just like a body bag

The good citizens are lying asleep in their beds dreaming of the day ahead

Meanwhile we're back in Tiki 4.

Tiki 4

Back in Tiki 4

Writing graffiti on the moon

Graffiti on the moon

Writing graffiti on the moon

So sorry, I never meant to fall in love with you,

Don't worry, I know you think I have to let go,

Believe, I would stay but we know that we'll wake up alone,

Pretend,

That there's nothing there between us



They don't know the full story,

The one we never can tell,

And I hide a smile, I hide a smile for you.



It's so funny,

I never thought I'd feel like this again,

I'm so scared,

But we know that we can't run away,

So easy to deny the attraction, the call of Fate,

And wake up and declare that it's only a dream.



They don't know the full story,

The one we never can tell,

The affair we declare to be over,

We lie to ourselves,

They don't know the full story,

The one we never can tell

And I hide a smile, I hide a smile for you

I hide a smile for you

Our smile, our smile, our smile.



I'm so drunk,

I'm so high, I'm not sure that I'm still making sense,

Can't explain,

For the first time these feelings inside,

And I'd thought

I'd control of my heart that this chapter was over

And you rewrote my life and showed me a happy end



They don't know the full story,

The one we never can tell,

The affair we declare to be over,

We lie to ourselves,

They don't know the full story,

The one we never can tell

And I hide a smile, I hide a smile for you,

I hide a smile for you.

It's so funny, you don't call at night, always missing in action,

I'm left out in the cold and you'd never have thought I was thinking,

Turning it over

Putting the pieces in place and building a case for my anger

I'm taking it in, I'm taking my time in taking you out, 'cause it'll be a long cold day in Hell before I take you back,



So tired of your lying, I can't sleep at night,

I'll accept what I'm told, take what I'm sold,

There's no question to ask,

To sort out the answers,

To prove who is wrong or who is right,

But I know in my heart that we're breaking apart.

If we admit to the truth,

Pretend it's all been an act,

As a matter of fact

It'll be a long cold day in Hell before I take you back.



Sometimes I feel like I'm sailing on a dreamboat on wild and heavy seas,

I was cast adrift or fallen overboard, I catch my breath and head for shore,

I turn around, the ship sails on

This ship sails on.



Funny, you don't call at night, always missing in action

I'm left out in the cold and you'd never have thought I was thinking

I was thinking

Still thinking

Still thinking

Said I was, said I was



So tired of your lying, I can't sleep at night,

I'll accept what I'm told, take what I'm sold,

There's no question to ask,

To sort out the answers,

To prove who is wrong or who is right,

But I know in my heart that we're breaking apart.

If we admit to the truth,

Pretend it's all been an act,

As a matter of fact

It'll be a long cold day in Hell before I take you back.



And I still remember sailing on that dreamboat on starlit mirrored seas.

I hold my breath and I gaze from shore from this empty beach and this pile of clothes

I hit the water, the ship sails on

I hit the water, the ship sails on

I hit the water, the ship sails on

I hit the water, the ship sails on

All that you left behind in this empty room was a question for which an answer was due,

If I admit to the truth, I admit to the lie



One bottle, one glass, a crisp Chardonnay, outside in the park the maples ablaze,

The ghosts from the hill whisper your name



Where no one can see and no one can hear

And no one's aware of the passion we feel

They all disappear when we're fog-dancing



I heard you laugh, I turned around

To face someone else I once knew I once found

Someone I've loved

Someone I've lost in fog



The message was lost, the picture was clear

I followed your call till no-one was near

Now I'm left in the dark while you're fog-dancing.



I drift through the days that fade into grey

The picture dissolves when you enter the frame

I follow your trail, I follow desire



The cry of the dog, the howl of the world

And somewhere above there's a crow in the clouds

Laughing away while we're fog-dancing.



I drift through the days that fade into grey

The picture dissolves when you enter the frame

I followed your trail I followed you fog-dancing



Where no one can see and no one can hear

And no one's aware of the passion we feel

They all disappear when we're fog-dancing



I heard your laugh I turned around

To face someone else I once knew I once found

Someone I'd loved

Someone I'd lost in fog

Lost in fog

Lost in fog

Lost in fog

I'm lost in fog.

Time was when I called you before we went to sleep

No matter where we were,

No matter the moment, no matter the time

Time was when the words we spoke were always true,

There was no need to lie or hide at that time the answers we knew,

There were no questions, there was no need, our love was there to be believed

But in time the passion seemed to appear so obligatory.



Time was when the moments seemed to last forever,

Time was when we never thought we would be anything but together,

Lonely people in separate rooms, lonely people with nothing to do,

Lonely people just like me and you, so predictable, so sadly true,

So sadly true, so obligatory,

Just like me and you, so obligatory, so obligatory.



If time will be a healer then time will be my friend

And in time the shadows lift and I can begin to live again,

But in the hollows of this aching heart remains a soul that was torn apart

And in time I will make a new start, oh so obligatory,

Learn to love again, oh so obligatory, so obligatory.

I will love again, so obligatory.



Once upon a time it was easy to say I love you, I love you,

I still love you, so obligatory,

It all became so obligatory.

Mr President, you don't know my name,

But you could find it if you really cared,

Because I pay my taxes and I pay my dues,

All I ask for in return is the truth.

Can we just be honest, I've heard that speech is free

So please believe me that this address is sincere

I'm no-one special, just a regular guy

But I just can't keep on wondering why

That the shells we fired they now kill our own

And we waste away like shadows in our homes.



I fell from blue skies, fought through desert storms

I froze in firefights, I killed someone,

That had a father who loved him just like mine

Who believed the sacrifice was justified

In the name of freedom and in the name of God

While shifting sands hid all our sins and all the blood

In the wake of glory, I flew back home

I watch videos at night in my uniform

Of those towns and cities being blown apart

By those bombs that fool the people by being smart

As they flew down chimneys, flew along corridors

And explode on film and everyone goes 'awe!'



And you read the stories about how no-one's killed

And I think about the photos that I kept

To remind me that it was all for real

And the ghost that I've become will be released

To the sands still shifting that cover all the lies

About what really happened and who really died.

Was it really worth it?

Was it worth the cost?

Did we really take the high ground or have we lost all the moral battles, did we lose the war?

Mr President I need to know for sure

That with all this knowledge, all this control

That we were on the right side after all

That we weren't lied to, that we weren't used

And the country that we fought for still upholds the truth.



Mr President you don't know my name

But you can find it if you really cared

It's on a black wall, it's on a cross of stone

In the Balkan States, the Gulf and close to home

On not so foreign islands out on city streets

Mr President, just tell me why I'm here

This is my question, this is my life, this is my address

Mr President

Mr President, Mr President

This is my address, this is my address, this is my address,

Mr President

Mr President

This is my address.

Wheels within wheels, turning wheels, tumbling towards a conclusion.

A crimson cascade, the blood in the bowl,

And the mind that you're in is walking the world but you feel like you're walking on water,

Face up to the facts, face up to the truth, face up to reality, you're just being used

There's a spark in your eyes, when she calls you'll explode and she's blaming it all on crossed wires.



When the clocks move sideways, when the clocks move sideways, Fellini days



Fix a stare at the wall, avoiding the accusations that lurk in the mirror, trying to catch my attention,

Reflect on the fact that your life is such a mess.

Whose fault is that anyway?

The shutters are closed, did you lock all the doors?

Arm the alarms? Sheath all the knives?

Unload all the guns? Throw out all the pills?

Did you remember to switch off the TV?

Don't answer the phone,

Provide the impression there's nobody home,

As if there was anyway.

As if there was anyway.



When the clock moves sideways, the clock moves sideways.



Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock

Tock, tock, tock, tock...



When the clock moves sideways, when the clock moves sideways

Fellini days

Fugazi

Don't answer the phone

Fugazi



Wheels within wheels within wheels,

Tumbling towards a conclusion,

Wheels within wheels within wheels,

Tumbling towards a conclusion,

Tumbling towards a conclusion,

Tumbling towards a conclusion



Should auld acquaintance be forgot

And never brought to mind

Should auld acquaintance be forgot

For auld lang syne

For auld lang syne

Fellini days

Fellini days

Fellini days