Fish - Perfume River Lyrics
There were no sirens, I heard no alarms,This situation has somehow got completely out of hand.It’s no illusion; it’s not a dream,My eyes are open and all is as appears,It’s a perfect nightmare; it’s a perfect nightmare,In an imperfect worldI missed the wake up, slept through the dawn,The world’s a stage but I’ve declared these curtains drawnBehind the fourth wall, behind the scenesA discarded fading flower on the soporific, sensual perfume riverThe perfect nightmare; escape the perfect nightmare, dream the perfect world,I close my mind in soft surrender, in quiet resignation take the lies, I lock the door, I lock the doorI junk the mail, I never open letters, programme numbers that I know I’ll never callCollect addresses of friends who’ll soon be strangers,Message pending, I know just what it says, should I accept another lie? I swallow all the liesI live the lie.There are places that I know that I will never see, some I wish I’d never seen beforeThe horror stalks my vision and the cries ring in my ears, I am helpless, I am not brave, I am alone.I wander the dark alleys of the citadel, deserted shops and empty houses mark my way,Bullet holes in stuccoed walls are testimony to the voices disappeared within the fearTake me away to the Perfume River; carry me down to the perfume riverSet me adrift on a well-stocked open boatShow me the way down to the Perfume River, send me away down the perfume riverPour that sweet, sweet liquor down my throatFire breathing dragons swarm in sweltering skies, spewing flame on innocents belowCharred and brittle corpses, blackened evidence, I am enraged, I am afraid, I am forlornThe ashes from wise pages fly from libraries, tumble in the clouds of smoke and fliesTo lie as dust in corners of dark palaces, the fetid smell of revolution haunts the air.Take me away to the Perfume River; carry me down to the perfume riverSet me adrift on a well-stocked open boatShow me the way to the Perfume River, send me away down the perfume riverPour that sweet, sweet liquor down my throat; pour it down my throatCarry me down to the Perfume River; hold me down in the Perfume RiverWhere I’ll drown my sorrows, and I’ll die in hopePush me away down the Perfume River to the swirls and eddies of the Perfume RiverIn these dark and muddied waters just let me floatThe truth I don’t want to know
