Cathal Coughlan – Amused as Hell Lyrics

Get wet, get hard, it's Tuesday
show the world you care
trivial solutions
in trivial affairs

Tonight there is a party
for a perfume called 'Despair'
there's been a revolution
in women's underwear

Now there's a purchase to smooth every frown
trucks packed with catalogues yawn into town
Billboards and flat screens announce all is well
the peak of our history, united, assured, amused as hell
amused as hell

The torsos keep gyrating
all tattoo'd oiled and waxed
there's been a revolution
paradise is fact

Do they fuck as well as fake it?
Well, you only need to ask
Ah, such a lot of fucking
more than ever in the past

Cut to a famine, a drought or a war
need a break in the fun so the wine can be poured
The ghost of last Christmas now plays William Tell
on the head of your firstborn, but you should still be
amused as hell
amused as hell

Novelty is endless
& nothing's ever new
but this is no 'forever'
just a thing that planes fly through

Here on the bypass, the loose bottom rung
where flopsongs are written, where dayjobs are done
the non-sovereign nations, in thousands, in ones
no land and no laws, from their black-spotted lungs
they roar out to curse you and spit in your face
They are not being ironic; I think we should make
a benefit concert, a swell carousel
where the stars dry-hump livestock
and you can all be amused as hell

amused as hell
amused as hell

Grand Necropolitan
Grand Necropolitan
desire outstrips demand
don't bomb Viagrastan
Grand Necropolitan
Grand Necropolitan
desire outstrips demand
don't bomb Viagrastan

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