Ray Of Hope, Hoe Of Rape Lyrics - Fatima Mansions

A glass ravine 

The low clouds which wink 

The boughs burnt diesel and burning pig 

Wide rutted streets 

"666 Park Avenue", yells a big red sign 

as if some Anglo-Saxon in love with his doom 

left such a cheeky shrine 

Then all at once the daylight came 

The river lay ahead 

In it stood a wooden horse so tall 

the water reached but half its leg 

A sign nearby read "Damn your law--this horse's hollow core 

contains the means for your destruction!" 

This all passersby ignored 

"Save us, save us...." 

When the great explorers, fortune hunters 

Slave men, conmen set their sails 

They dreamed of monsters without brains 

Great hulks to block their treasure trail 

Well, they got by with homicide 

but here's the end to the magic spell: 

Now the monsters lie in mouths, in veins 

In genitals, in empty bellies 

Baby, baby, won't you treat me kind? 

I'm only a white man who longs to die 

To end I need the power that you must give me 

Send the children outside! Don't resist! Don't cry!" 

The ray of hope as hoe of rape 

reflecting light from tractor headlamps into the victim's face 

We bleat about our pain and how we lost and feel defiled 

and we cry all night for Santa Claus to make our blizzard mild 

The poor kind European white man never hurt a fly 

We were friends to all the races, every woman, every child 

"Save us, save us...." 

So back in the dirty hotel I lay in my clothes and I slept. I dreamed that I was face-to-face with an amorous dragon who wanted to kill me and beckoned. I approached, unsheathed, and said, "Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!" 

Let me be at one with my destruction 

Won't you please acquaint me with your beautiful loss? 

Let's go!