The Fatima Mansions
The Fatima Mansions - Sleep of The Just lyrics
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Lift up your headlift up your head Your room in this decade of eathquake and bile Awaits you like a stewardess's mortuary smile You'll miss all the funyou'll miss all the fun A rich man turned pauperhis death marked [a sham] I can't get back to see it'til you lift up your head Me and mine are foolsme and mine are fools Say our elders who despise usthough we're no longer young They're tired of our sneeringand we've blocked out their main street's sun They're sleeping as we riseone punch is drunk with pride Resides in [brutal face]sick from petrol smoke and [steak] The few bohemianswith their too-white shopping wrists Confide in some crimson [page] And pray to look cute in their squalor-dyed hair Old age Rolled out of hereis sun bright and clear And we hold the fortunein our cumulous There's nothing else on earth that I will be part of Why waste a lifetime on soil which won't bear fruit? And why argue with gangsters who only smile and act mute? If he pulls that triggeras he says he must Then to themgoes the last word [and then] The sleep of the justthe sleep of the justthe sleep of the just But that's never enough But that's nevernever enough