It's dreamy weather we're on
You waved your crooked wand
Along an icy pond with a frozen moon
A murder of silhouette crows
I saw in the tears on my face
In the skates on the pond
They spelled Alice
I disappear in your name
But you must wait for me
Somewhere beneath the sea
There's a wreck of a ship
Your hair is like meadow grass on the tide
And the raindrops on my window
And the ice in my drink
Baby all I can think of is Alice
Arithmetic arithmetock
Turn the hands back on the clock
How does the ocean rock the boat?
How did the razor find my throat?
The only strings that hold me here
Are tangled up around the pier
And so secret kiss
Brings madness with the bliss
And I will think of this
When I'm dead in my grave
Set me adrift and I'm lost in your hair
And I must be insane
To go skating on your name
And by tracing it twice
I fell though the ice of Alice
There's only Alice
Hell above and heaven below
All the trees are gone
The rain has a such a lovely sound
To those who are six feet underground
The leaves will bury every year
And no one knows I'm gone
Live me golden tell me dark
Hide from Graveyard John
The moon is full here every night
And I can bathe here in his light
The leaves will bury every year
And no one knows I'm gone
Tabletop Joe, Tabletop Joe
Everyone knows Tabletop Joe
Well his mama didn't want him
On the day he was born
Born without a body
He got nothing but scorn
But he always loved music
All he had was his hands
And he dreamed he'd be famous
And he'd work at the Sands
Tabletop Joe, Tabletop Joe
Everyone knows Tabletop Joe
He had trouble with the pedals
But he had a strong left hand
And he could play Stravinsky
On a baby grand
Tabletop Joe, Tabletop Joe
Everyone knows Tabletop Joe
He said "I'm gonna join the circus
Cause that's I where I belong"
And he went to Coney Island
Singing this song
And they gave him top billing
In the Dreamland show
He had his own orchestra
Starring Tabletop Joe
And the man without a body
Proved everyone wrong
He was rich and he was famous
And he was where he belonged
Singing Tabletop Joe (Tabletop Joe), Tabletop Joe (Tabletop Joe)
Now everyone knows (everybody knows), Tabletop Joe (Tabletop Joe)
Now everyone knows (everybody knows), Tabletop Joe (singing Tabletop Joe)
Tabletop Joe (Tabletop Joe)
Tabletop Joe (Tabletop Joe)
Well you can hang me in a bottle like a cat
Let the crows pick me clean but for my hat
Where the wailing of a baby
Meets the footsteps of the dead
We're all mad here
And the devil sticks his flag into the mud
Mrs Carol has run off with Reverend Judd
Hell is such a lonely place
And your big expensive face will never last
Have I told you all about the eyeball kid?
He was born alone inside a petri dish
He was born without a body or a brow
And you'll die with the rose still on your lips
And in time the heart-shaped bone that was your hips
And all the worms they will climb the rugged ladder of your spine
We're all mad here
And my eyeballs roll this terrible terrain
And we're all inside a decomposing train
And your eyes will die like fish
And the shore of your face will turn to bone
Hang me in a bottle like a cat
Let the crows pick me clean but for my hat
Where the wailing of a baby
Meets the footsteps of the dead
We're all mad here
Around the curve of a parrot bar
A broken down old movie star
Hustling an Easterner
Bringing out the beast in him
A high dive on a swimming pool
Filled with needles and with fools
The memories are short but the tales are long
Down there in the Reeperbahn
They called her Rosie when she was a girl
For her bright red cheeks and strawberry curls
When she would sing the river would run
She said she'd be a comedian
Oh what a pity, oh what a shame
When she said "come calling" nobody came
Now her bright red cheeks are painted on
And she's laughing her head off in the Reeperbahn
Now little Hans was always strange
Wearing women's underthings
His father beat him but he wouldn't change
He ran off with a man one day
Now his lingerie is all the rage
In the black on every page
His father proudly calls his name
Down there in the Reeperbahn
Now if you've lost your inheritance
And all you're left is common sense
And you're not too picky about the crowd you keep
Or the mattress where you sleep
Behind every window, behind every door
The apple's gone but there's always the core
The seeds will sprout up right through the floor
Down there in the Reeperbahn
Down there in the Reeperbahn
Everything you can think of is true
Before the ocean was blue
We were lost in a flood
Run red with your bloods
Nigerian skeleton crew
Everything you can think of is true
The dish ran away with the spoon
Dig deep in your heart for that little red glow
We're decomposing as we go
Everything you can think of is true
And fishes make wishes on you
We're fighting our way up dreamlands spine
With black flamingos, expensive wine
Everything you can think of is true
The baby's asleep in your shoe
Your teeth are buildings with yellow doors
Your eyes are fish on a creamy shore
Ha ha ha ha ha
Over here the ladies all waltz with perfume
But there's never a rose
And over there the roses are frightened to bloom
So they never can grow
And over here they need wool
For weaving their baby's new clothes
But nobody has any wool
And the sheep are all lost in the harbour
Lost in the harbour
And over here they want diamonds to wear
But there aren't any here
And over there everyone's hiding their tears
But they're crying inside
And the wall won't come down
Till they're no longer afraid of themselves
And if you don't believe me ask the elves
And then I can come down to the harbour
Down to the harbour
And then I will fill the ocean back up with my tears
I still have a couple more years
And then I can come back to the harbour
Down to the harbour
Now he's an altar boy bound up in leather and chains
What became of old Father Craft
I'll never forget the Sunday he laughed
And gave me something special in the rectory
He's a altar boy
Corrected me in the rectory
And thats why I'm feeling so blue
Cause I'm an altar boy, what about you?
Like an order in latin make them howl Gratin Joe
Cause I'm an old altar boy
Thats why I'm so depressed
I never got the rest of the dream
Just the ritual now I'm habitual
Majoring in crimes that are unspeakable
I'm an altar boy thats what happened to me, yeah
He's just an old altar boy
Playing out there in the street
He's an altar boy
Hoping he can meet a woman dressed like a nun
He's knows there's got to be some around here
Drinking across from the church
Just a little Father ? wine
On a Sunday morning time
Remembering when he was busier
Now he's getting dizzier
Fill it up Joe, you know the routine, yeah
I'm an altar boy, oh yeah, yeah
Out there in the bar, the old altar boy
Making a scene with an ?
Why is he winking at this time in his life
He never took a wife, cause he's an old altar boy
Drinking ? wine, an altar boy
Down here in his prime
What became of him
Well he's looking up the dress of sister Marie
He's rather depressed as you can see
He hasn't been to mass since 1943
Cause he's an old altar boy
He figures he got enough religion already in him
Now he's leafing through the dirty magazines
He's an altar boy, what became of him
He's an altar boy, yeah
Did you hear the news about Edward
On the back of his head he had another face
Was it a womans face or a young girl
They said to remove him would kill him
So poor Edward was doomed
The face could laugh and cry
It was his Devil twin
And at night she spoke to him things heard only in hell
They were impossible to separate
Chained together for life
Finally the bell tolled his doom
He took a suite of rooms
And hung himself and her from the balcony aisle
Some still believe he was free from her
But I knew her too well
I say she drove him to suicide
And took poor Edward to hell