Nothing Is Sacred Lyrics - Steve Harley

As the sun was coming up on the danube, the hotel room was alive 

It's heart was beating hard as thunder, there were three of us 

There for the night 

And we were talking about the magnificent river of strauss 

We were saying that nothing is sacred, it's everything else 

We put a match to a candle and watched it flicker and spark 

We just stared at ourselves until we couldn't keep our tired 

Eyelids apart 

Then someone (I think it was me) said: "somehow this is rich, 

"we're sitting here on thr danube and nobody noticed the 

Blue water bitch" 

Ohh la la, it's fun to be so kitsch 

We went out to the balcony, the danube a glorius flame 

We tookpolaroid pictures and swore that we're never again going 

To be the same 

It was a moment when nothing was stirring save these two and me 

And the clouds were beginning to gather and crash overhead from 

The glorius sea 

We swayed to and fro and talked of michaelangelo 

And of how there was too much beauty here to take it in one go 

Then from a corner a tap on the door put the room in a flood 

There was God in my mind but the problem was water - not blood ! 

Ohh la la , it's fun to drink of blood 

They ran around me, demented, white lightning flashed in their heads 

I was getting bewildered, put on my armour, I was scared of 

Attack from the reds 

And with a pound lodged in mu nose I felt kind of rich and serene 

I yelled: " lenny, come quick, get the other boy, take him out 

Of this scene !" 

When he disappeared, there was only lenny and me 

And we hit on a thousand subjects at once in spite of the dusky 

Beat 

Then lenny opened his eye for a second and pulled down the blind 

Saying: "go if you must but you know you'll always be easy 

To find" 

Ohh la la, it's fun to make it blind 

We heard phaedre speak of the philistines of paris 

But she talked to herself like a parasite so we both struggled 

Free 

I said: "zizi jeanmaire wouldn't take this and neither will we 

"if they call me napoleon again I'll be forced to let the lion 

Free 

"I'll tear down all the paper walls they hide behind 

"I'll be damned if I'll take much more of this, I'm beginning 

To see the signs" 

Then I glanced at lenny and saw that my confidante was beginning 

To jest 

Well, he came out of my subconscious and that's where I put him 

Away to rest 

Ohh la la, it's so fun to be depressed 

I can't get over my beginnings, I can't imagine my end 

I want to escape this wilderness I'm living in, I want to be 

Somebody's friend 

I could do with a little peace, o lord, and my heart cries out 

For love 

But to realise all of one's fantasies hasgot to be too much