Um & Aargh Lyrics - Phillips Anthony

You couldn't run, you couldn't hide, they had their spies out on your track 

You had some fun, you took a ride, you tried to fit into the pack 

But all the time they knew you lied, they knew that you'd be bound to crack 

Hospital Carolina 

You dreamed of stars, of open cars and surfing out on Malibu 

You drank in bars and Miromars, you shot the dice and skimmed the pool 

You thought of saving your integrity before it came up for renewal 

Hospital Carolina - so who needs Rudolf Steiner? 

Let me hear you now 

"Um and aargh, um and aargh, um", was all he told me 

I'm catching beriberi and I'm feeling so low 

"This is much too good for the people" he said 

I said "don't people have minds of their own?" 

And it's better that you agree 

In this best of best industries 

I was in the midst of a dream 

I felt like shouting something obscene 

A man appeared, he had a beard, he had a dog right at his feet 

I said, "My song?", he said "it's long, it's got no balls", I said 

"that's neat, but it took me thirty years to write", 

He said, "your image is incomplete". 

Hospital Carolina 

The curtains up, the spotlight's on, they've got you spitting at the crowd 

A needle match, a little scratch and you're above the busy cloud 

Going out and getting in a fight, it makes the news, so you'll be proud 

Hospital Carolina - so who needs Rudolf Steiner? 

They've washed you up, they've squashed you up 

You find your brain is going bad 

You played the game, it's all the same, the wisest fools are really mad 

You take a gun, to save our sons and, God, his brain is bullet-proof 

And so it's welcome to the ministry of everlasting truth 

Let me hear you now 

"Um and aargh, um and aargh, um", was all he told me 

I'm catching beriberi and I'm feeling so low 

"This is much too good for the people" he said 

I said "don't people have minds of their own?" 

Shooting to the top, be a great tin god 

Then plummet to obscurity well, 

And it's better that you agree 

In this best of best industries 

And it's better not to presume 

Or it's you that we will consume