Mr. Damage (Live)

You asked for this

Now take it

Holding council with the king and queen

Trying hard to decide the fate of their regime

There's only one thing needed to complete the harmonisin'

That's a man with a voice like a screaming violin

Waiting for Mr. Damage

Toothless jaws gumming melancholy stuff

A burst of rapid-fire Spanish from a window up above

Students out to pose in their studied disarray

Books of Sartre, Marcuse openly displayed

Waiting for Mr. Damage

Mr. Damage walks through the door of his sacrificial church

Mr. Damage, meet you in the lobby, and he'll leave you in the lurch

Mr. Damage stands at the altar, sermon of the search

All the faithful follow

Resident winos stumbling and lurching

Walking cadavers, smiling and searching

Man with the DT's looking at the feeble, glossy

Portraits of long-dead, celebrated people

Waiting for Mr. Damage

Trying hard just to keep a candle lit

A leather flyer leaves the subway anxious to admit

That the marvelled one so recently deposed

Was seen three days later in a brand-new suit of clothes

A brand-new suit of clothes for a very special day

A brand-new suit of clothes for a very special day

A brand-new suit of clothes for a very special day

A very special day, a very special day, a very, very, very special day

Mr. Damage holds a curse

Mr. Damage drives a hearse

Don't you know who did it first, Mr. Damage

Holding council with the king and queen

Trying hard to decide the fate of their regime

There's only one thing needed to complete the harmonisin'

That's a man with a voice like a screaming violin

Waiting for Mr. Damage

Mr. Damage walks through the door of his sacrificial church

Mr. Damage, meet you in the lobby, and he'll leave you in the lurch

Mr. Damage stands at the altar, sermon of the search

All the faithful follow

Holding frozen hands as Mr

Holding frozen hands as Mr

Holding frozen hands as Mr

Damage holds the curse

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