Beyond Belief

History repeats the old conceits
 The glib replies, the same defeats
 Keep your finger on important issues
 With crocodile tears and a pocketful of tissues
 I'm just the oily slick
 On the windup world of the nervous tick
 In a very fashionable hovel
 I hang around dying to be tortured
 You'll never be alone in the bone orchard
 This battle with the bottle is nothing so novel
 So in this almost empty gin palace
 Through a two-way looking glass
 You see your Alice
 You know she has no sense
 For all your jealousy
 In a sense she still smiles very sweetly
 Charged with insults and flattery
 Her body moves with malice
 Do you have to be so cruel to be callous?
 And now you find you fit this identikit completely
 You say you have no secrets
 And then leave discreetly
 I might make it California's fault
 Be locked in Geneva's deepest vault
 Just like the canals of Mars and the Great Barrier Reef
 I come to you beyond belief
 My hands were clammy and cunning
 She's been suitably stunning
 But I know there's not a hope in Hades
 All the ladies cat call and wolf whistle
 So-called gentlemen and ladies
 Dog fight like rose and thistle
 I've got a feeling
 I'm going to get a lot of grief
 Once this seemed so appealing
 Now I am beyond belief
 I've got a feeling
 I'm going to get a lot of grief
 Once this seemed so appealing
 Now I am beyond belief