Hysteria

in this after school special
the children never make it home

hysteria
red skies and mushroom clouds
hysteria
no way to go from here

21st century armageddon is near
21st century armageddon is here

panic! panic! panic!
relentless black mass hysteria
panic! panic! panic!
armageddon till the break of dawn

godspeed you tortured soul
broken, bruised and beaten
riding a headless horse into a non-stop suicide

go write your eulogy in blood
on all of the bathroom walls

constantly cursed and denied
please have mercy on me master
you're my only friend
and the walls are closing in
sinking deeper into
hopeless oblivion
shy away the snake
your virtue's far more poisonous
and deadlier
than he ever was

manic! manic! manic!
maniacal megalomaniac
manic! manic! manic!
sadistic, thoughtless amnesiac

godspeed you tortured soul
broken, bruised and beaten
riding a headless horse into a non-stop suicide

do you remember what you said
when you were speaking to the dead?

constantly cursed and denied
please have mercy on me master
you're my only friend
and the walls are closing in
sinking deeper into
hopeless oblivion
shy away the snake
your virtue's far more poisonous
and deadlier
than he ever was

bombs away
I love the smell of napalm in the morning
(yeah, floating in limbo)

hysteria
red skies and mushroom clouds
hysteria
no way to go from here

do you remember what you said
when you were speaking to the dead?

please have mercy on me master
your my only friend
and the walls are closing in
sinking deeper into
hopeless oblivion
shy away the snake
your virtue's far more poisonous
and deadlier
than he ever was

dead valley, summer swelter
desert sun and helter skelter
good night, sleep well my love
there's nothing left to die for

in death I am eternal
and one day will arrive
and shine the homeward beacon
to be reborn into the light!