Death Is a Star

And I was gripped by that deadly phantom I followed him through hard jungles As he stalked through the back lots Strangling through the night shades Oh, the thief of life Moved onwards and outwards to love In a one stop only motel A storm bangs on the cheapest room The phantom slips in to spill blood Even on the sweetest honeymoon Oh, the killer of love Caught the last late Niagara bus By chance or escaping from misery By suddenness or in answer to pain Smoking in the dark cinema See the bad go down again And the clouds up high in Spanish mountains And a Ford roars through the night full of rain The killer's blood flows But he loads his guns again Make a grown man cry like a girl To see the guns dying at sunset Oh, in vain lovers claimed That they never had met Smoking in the dark cinema See the bad go down again