Somebody's threatened you, well, you know why

Time now to pay for misdeeds you deny

Life can be cheerless in intensive care

Keep a cool head and you won't know you're there

You won't need a shot when you sniff just a drop

Of the perfumes of paradise!

("then we're dead!")



Bulldoze the street where they said you were born

Take a new name and before it put "lord"

Tranquil and slow, nostrils aglow with the perfumes of paradise



From my bed to the street it is 30 paces (and getting nearer)

And i sniff and repent in all the right places

And a speeding truck crashes into the front door

And the telephone rings and says, "have you no conscience?"



When planning a genocide, starting a war

Say that it's gentler than others before

It sells lots of tv's and ribbons and flags

And makes all the doubters look spineless and bad



Even big heads of state should spray in their wake

The perfumes of paradise


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