An Elegant Chaos

[Verse 1]

Busy at home

I was happy for a while but the joke is over

Looking down

At the carefully laid out infamy

Take a scythe, take a scythe

To the rotting core of man-vegetation

Now I sigh

At the cool, cool attitude to ignorance

[Chorus]

The look in your eye when you gave this to me

Just put me on my guard

In this elegant chaos I stand to one side

[Verse 2]

Shouting, "Ha!"

Was I forced into this or was it given to me?

It's a nice idea

As a gift or as something to try for a while

70 years

It's neither one thing or the other

My big fear

Is to dig it at last and have it taken away

[Chorus]

The look in your eyes when you gave this to me

Just put me on my guard

In this elegant chaos I stand to one side

In this elegant chaos I stand to one side

[Bridge]

It's not a problem of secrecy, I take it in my stride

Did I learn to breathe to be killed like this?

Faces to the glass, I see them televise my death

Oh, and here comes the part where I break down and cry

[Verse 3]

People I see

Just remind me of mooing like a cow on the grass

And that's not to say

That there's anything wrong with being a cow anyway

But people are people

With the added advantage of the spoken word

We're getting on fine

But I feel more of a man when I get with the herd

[Chorus]

The look in your eyes when you gave this to me

Just put me on my guard

In this elegant chaos I stand to one side

In this elegant chaos I stand to one side

[Outro]

In this elegant chaos I stand to one side

In this elegant chaos I stand to one side

In this elegant chaos I stand to one side

Yeah yeah yeah yeah