Eleven Executioners

Eleven top hats
 In the club vestibule
 Eleven gentlemen's cloaks
 Hanging up by the black swimming pool
 Eleven gentlemen dancing
 Each in a style of his own
 One is discreetly conversing
 On a cordless telephone
 And the first he kills only the wicked
 And the second kills only the good
 And the third he kills people more handsome than him
 And the fourth kills the misunderstood
 And the fifth kills the women who've loved him
 And the sixth kills the couldn't-care-less
 The seventh kills people who fill questionnaires in
 The eighth kills the deeply depressed
 And the ninth kills the twentieth century
 And the tenth waits to kill you and me
 The eleventh kills only our fear of the tenth
 The best executioner he
 At some ungodly hour in the morning
 The predictable quarrels begin
 The first gentleman without warning
 Slugs the second one square on the chin
 And the third says the fourth is too ugly
 And the fifth warns the sixth not to start
 And the seventh stops dead in his telephone call
 A stiletto has punctured his heart
 And the eighth is sick in the cistern
 And the floodwaters fuse all the lights
 And the ninth drops his copy of 'Jane's Defence Systems' on the floor
 In an act of sheer spite
 And the tenth drums his fingers and swings his feet
 Because somebody's stolen his scythe
 'Til an expert in brinksmanship brings him complete
 A medium range nuclear device
 And now chairs will be placed on the dance floor
 And now lights will be trained on the bar
 And a puppet will sing a morality
 As an idiot strums a guitar
 While the gentlemen sit with erections
 You perform in a transparent skirt
 A climax without satisfaction
 And a murder in which you're not hurt
 And me, I sit where the gentlemen sit
 And we love you
 And we love you
 Yes we love you
 I assure you we do
 La la-la-la la la-la-la ... Plainy!
 La la-la-la la la-la-la ... Clappy!
 La la-la-la la la-la-la ... Rolly!
 La la-la-la la la-la-la ... Backy!
 Rattle tum a gypsum gypsum ... Left Hand!
 Rattle tum a gypsum gypsum ... Right!
 Rattle tum a gypsum gypsum ... Touch your heel!
 Rattle tum a gypsum gypsum ... Touch your toe!
 Rattle tum a gypsum gypsum ... Touch the ground!
 Rattle tum a gypsum gypsum ... Big Burlio!
 Rattle tum a gypsum gypsum ... Plainy!
 Rattle tum a gypsum gypsum ... Clappy!
 Rattle tum a gypsum gypsum ... Rolly!
 Rattle tum a gypsum gypsum ... Backy!
 Rattle tum a gypsum gypsum ...
 by the no-no's.