Strictly Inc.

You think you're safe from all that's gone before
No one can touch you now for evermore
It's out of sight but not out of your mind
You cannot lose it you can only pretend
This is the end my friend this is the end

You're a great example to us all
A pillar of society, that's for sure
But i hear those bones shake behind the cupboard door
And i know the combination to free them once more
This is the end my friend this is the end.

I don't need no one to spy
Telescope or private eye
Cos i know, yes i've know it all the while

You go to goodwill functions, charity balls
You walk with royalty in presidential halls
But in your soul a voice is screaming to be heard
No matter how you try it cannot be deterred
This is the end my friend this is the end

I don't need no one to spy
Telescope or private eye
Cos i know, yes i've know it all the while

I hear your modest tones upon the radio
And i see you public face an all-convincing show
You know who you are and where you're coming from
You know what the future hold you cannot always run
This is the end my friend this is the end

I don't need no one to spy
Telescope or private eye
Cos i know, yes i've know it all the while

You think you're safe from all that's gone before
No one can touch you now for evermore
It may be hid but in spite of it all
It's there in neon letters ten feet tall
This is the end my friend this is the end

She was an only child
With her body and mind she had to much attention
Too much of everything
She was an angel child
But the devil within her would test her on the way

Into the dark filled places underground
She entered in forbidden rooms
Only seventeen

All alone so alone
All alone so alone

Into the tunnel and back toward the light
That shines between the fingers of dark
The light that shines showing the way to the start

She was an only child
She had so far to fall then so far to climb
To get to the light again
She was a special child
She know what was coming but she know she could not turn

Back in the dark filled rooms
One of a crowd but more than on her own

All alone so alone
All alone so alone

Into the tunnel and back toward the light
That shines between the fingers of dark
The light that shines showing the way to the start

Only seventeen somewhere in between

The race is almost over now
The dance is almost done
Remember how it was when it was fun?

All alone so alone
All alone so alone

Into the tunnel and back toward the light
That shines between the fingers of dark
The light that shines showing the way to the start

A street in paris in the rain
I shoot in black and white a hundred frames
I watch your make-up
Begin to run

You show a strange unease
But you're my subject and it's me you please
I feel your spirit freeze
As the shutter clicks down

We are in heaven now
As if we broke the bonds of earth somehow
Here for eternity
A piece of you is part of me

I know you'll never leave
Cos like a primitive i do believe
I have you spirit seized
As the shutter clicks down

We are in heaven now
As if we broke the bonds of earth somehow
Here for eternity
A piece of you is part of me

We are in heaven now
As if we broke the bonds of earth somehow
You're under my control
Because i've captured your immortal soul
Don't look for signs
Your spirit shines
Here till the end of our days

And now in paris in the rain
I put the camera in its case again
And in those hundred frames
Another moth to the candle flame

We are in heaven now
As if we broke the bonds of earth somehow
Here for eternity
A piece of you is part of me

I want to tell you all about a young man
He'll be known as dan
Then he was living down in san diego
Drove an ice-cream van
One night he met a girl in club alamo
But she was strictly incognito

They had a drink and when he asked her name
She told him jennifer
But what he didn't realize as he was
Dancing close to her
He held the body of a waitress called kaye
Who used to live in sacramento
They danced right through the night and into the day
Remaining strictly incognito

He drove her home in the sunlight of morning
He held her close in the car
But fourteen year old sara lee was watching
She knew he'd gone much too far

Poor dan a simple man he just failed to see
It wasn't jennifer who kissed him
Cos when dan took her hand he held sara lee
She knew that she could convict him

So dan got ten years to dream in state detention
And lost the use of his car
And all because his waitress kaye forgot to mention
It's not always clear who we are

Now she's waiting tables in paloma
Near the four-o-five
And there's another twenty-eight personas
Keeping her alive
Next time your waitress looks you right in the eye
You'd better exercise your veto
And keep your mind right on that blueberry pie
Remaining strictly incognito

In the silence of the night, a serpent shape
Moves its way across the stony floor
In the comfort of your life, the serpent said,
You know that you could have still more,
Picture where you want to be
The door is open wide
Don't you really want to know?

Don't you want to know how it feels
To see if it's all worth trying?
You want to know how it feels

Don't you want to rule the world a little bit,
Who to help and who to leave to swim?
You could better everything, the serpent said,
In your own peculiar way,
History would honour you
No matter what you did
Don't you really want to try?

You want to know how it feels
And see if it's all worth trying
You want to know how it could feel,

In the silence of the night, you lie awake,
Turning over in your mind the words:
If at first you lack the nerve, the serpent said,
You could always try again.
And now left upon your own
Has nothing changed at all
Do you really want to know?

You want to know how it feels
And see if it's all worth trying
You want to know how it could feel,
To be the one.