Jeremiah Blues (Part I)

It was midnight

Midnight at noon

Everyone talked in rhyme

Everyone saw the big clock ticking

Nobody knew

Nobody knew the time

Elegant debutantes smiled

Everyone fought for dimes

Newspapers screamed for blood

It was the best of times

Every place around the world it seemed the same

Can't hear the rhythm for the drums

Everybody wants to look the other way

When something wicked this way comes

Sometimes they tie a thief to the tree

Sometimes I stare

Sometimes it's me

Everyone told the truth

All that we heard were lies

A pope claimed he'd been wrong in the past

This was a big surprise

Everyone fell in love

A cardinal's wife was jailed

The government saved a dying planet

When popular icons failed

Every place around the world it seemed the same

Can't hear the rhythm for the drums

Everybody wants to look the other way

When something wicked this way comes

Sometimes they tie a thief to the tree

Sometimes I stare

Sometimes it's me

Sometimes I stare

Sometimes it's me'