Elvis Costello - 20% Amnesia Lyrics
What is your destiny? the police woman said....(20% amnesia)The word that she wanted was destination i'm afraid (20% amnesia)This is your future boy, this is your fate (20% amnesia)And you're obsolete and they can't afford to educate you (20% amnesia)In his bedtime boot boy jerseyRinging up some fantasy tartGive me strength or give me mercyLife intimidates artChorus:Give me strength or give me mercyDon't let me lose heartFrom rage to anaesthesiaTwenty percent amnesiaWere you passed out on the sofa (20% amnesia)While justice was bartered by a drunken oaf? (20% amnesia)This is all your glorious country thinks of your life (20% amnesia)Stripped jack ***** with a stanley knife (20% amnesia)So the german queen went home againBut she couldn't find forgivenessThey made a fist of her hand of friendshipBut it's only businessChorusThe wine you drink has never seen a grapeAnd now your sci-fi suit has lost its shapeBut its a dangerous game that comedy playsSometimes it tells you the truth, sometimes it delays itThink back, think back if you still canWhen the trumpet sounded and the world beganSomebody said "we must have won"So they started burying the boogeymanMister gorbachov came cap in hand (20% amnesia)From a bankrupt land to a bankrupt land (20% amnesia)Mister gorbachov and some other fella (20% amnesia)Were taken to a show called "cinderella" (20% amnesia)It wasn't an accident, it wasn't a mystery (20% amnesia)It was calculated and the rest is history (20% amnesia)You don't have to listen to meThat's the triumph of free willWhen there are promises to breakAnd dreams to killChorus