Stick Out Your Tongue

[Verse 1]

They talked to the sister

The father and the mother

With a microphone in one hand

And a checkbook in the other

And the camera noses in to the tears on her face

The tears on her face, the tears on her face

You can put them back together

With your paper and paste

[Chorus]

Stick out your tongue (Stick out your tongue)

Drink down the venom

[Verse 2]

She sleeps with the shirt of a late, great country singer

Stretched out upon her poor jealous husband's pillow

In time you can turn these obsessions into careers

While the parents of those kidnapped children

Start the bidding for their tears

[Chorus]

What would you say? What would you do?

Children and animals two by two

Give me the needle, give me the rope

We're gonna melt them down for pills and soap

[Verse 3]

Four and twenty crowbars, jemmy your desire

Out of the frying pan, into the fire

The king is in the counting house, some folk have all the might

And majesty will run on Bombay gin and German spite

They come from lovely people (They come from lovely people)

They come from lovely people (They come from lovely people)

With a hard line in hypocrisy

There are tears of mediocrity

For the fag ends of the aristocracy

[Chorus]

What would you say? What would you do?

Children and animals two by two

Give me the needle, give me the rope

We're gonna melt them down for pills and soap

Stick out your tongue, stick out your tongue

Stick out your tongue, stick out your tongue, drink down the venom

[Verse 3]

The sugar-coated pill is getting bitterer still (Stick out your tongue)

You think your country needs you but you know it never will (Stick out your tongue)

So pack up your troubles in a stolen handbag (Stick out your tongue)

Don't dilly dally boys, rally 'round the flag

Give us our daily bread, give us our daily bread

In individual slices, in individual slices

And something in the daily rag to cancel any crisis

[Chorus]

What would you say? What would you do? (Did you find out how to lie?)

Children and animals two by two (Did you find out how to cheat?)

Give me the needle (The elite bleat, they're obsolete)

We're gonna melt them down for (Stick out your tongue)

Stick out your tongue

[Outro]

Now if you'd only genuflect

Now if you'd only genuflect

Stick out your tongue (Stick out your tongue)

Now if you'd only genuflect (Stick out your tongue)

Stick out your tongue (Stick out your tongue)

Stick out your tongue (Stick out your tongue)