Cheers and Applause

You walked out over a fresh grave to cheers and applause
 And so all over creation the culture of
 death became the celebrated rule of law
 You said, "Now go get drunk, I know you lot are depressed
 We've got our very best tailors getting me dressed
 Yeah, there's a spotlight and a megaphone, that'll do the rest
 You'll forget everything you ever saw"
 I went out, yeah, and I found
 The first place as desperate as me
 There was a bottle to prop up my chin so I checked in
 But the world never did stop its spin
 So one rainy Sunday I called in
 And I said, "Honey, pull me back in again"
 Honey, pull me back in again
 Pull me back in again
 Now I had visions of violence and an age where
 some wise doctor would have cut out your heart
 You said, "Thank you for your silence, well,
 there's already a hole there but thanks for doing your part"
 So as we turned back to the river and the things that we loved
 But I couldn't help feeling I should hold you with gloves
 'Cause the pollen was poison, we'll be the dinosaurs of the future
 Preserved in tar
 We went out, yeah, and we found
 Someplace as desperate as we were
 There wwas a blanket to wrap us all in so we checked in
 But the world never did stop its spinning, spinning, yeah, spinning
 And no one's as desperate as me
 To set these anxious butterflies free
 There are some small things you can't defend
 So now every rainy Sunday I'll call in
 And I'll say, "Honey, pull me back in again"
 Honey, pull me back in again
 Pull me back in again