Tonic for the Troops lyrics

Hand me down a strong panacea,

One that's guaranteed to make me feel like Hercules,

There's flies everywhere, buzzing in the air,

Filling my body with filth and disease....and I think,

He thinks he should develop a complex,

He thinks that he really owes it to himself,

His friends'll all say he's looking sick and unhealthy

An' then he can wallow in sweet self-neglect

I gotta listen to you

I gotta hear about the things

I should or shouldn't do

all about the deals I blew

how do you do

I shook a thousand hands

I met a man with master plans

and sweaty hands

Do you wanna be a rich man

How do you do

But then it's alright

the band was good and it was Saturday night

It was alright

and that's what matters

Here they go, lying again

beating everybody at their favourite game

but in the end nobody wins no

Here they go let's pretend the rules have changed but the

names the same

and in the end nobody wins no

Do you think they don't know what they're doing

Do you think they don't know who they're fooling

When I was a boy and I was told that heaven was hot and hell was cold

Night fell fast, like it did in the past when the phone rang

Twice and a voice said "I think I'm alone"

I gave my advice and the voice said "Nice, but suicide

leaves such a bad
aftertaste on the soul."

Chorus:

Oh ain't you glad that we live on an island,

You can choose your own way of being killed,

You can jump off a cliff and get drowned in the sea,

On blind dates

You meet in corners,

You take a jump into the unknown

They're classified, they're top secret,
An antidote to being on your own.

You're standing waiting,

You're hesitating,

You're thinking maybe...well

I don't know

Your nerve is breaking,

You've started praying

But still you're staying...

And you don't know for what

But I still say

She keeps her lover on ice,

She keeps a fire in the grate,

He's got a movement in his cellar,

He's a danger to the state.
Watch out for the normal people

There's more of us than there's of you.

Well you're a really lucky bugger,

That you haven't been discovered

Ain't that true.

She has a genuine fridge, (ooh ooh ooh)

He has a night on the town (ooh ooh ooh)

I was bleeding before I saw the blood

I was screaming but I soon woke up

on that night on that night with you

I realized it was gonna be me or you

Ooh and it made me feel strange

so strange, strange

So I knelt down and said my prayers that night

the fog was closing in on what remained of the light

on that night on that night with you