Ritz Lyrics - Steve Harley

Hark to rouall's white insanity 

Clowns in drag concealing vanity 

This is hardly paradise 

We're still in search of petty scorn 

Images so dead, in mourning 

Clap and cheer the man performing 

This is hardly paradise 

We're still in search of petty scorn 

Couch my disease in chintz-covered kisses 

Glazed calico cloth, my costume this is 

Come to pablo fanque's in indigo 

We'll show you pastel shades of rhyme 

It's okay to laugh in harmony 

See the white-faced auguste's army 

Come to pablo's-fanque's in indigo 

We'll show you pastel shades of rhyme 

Take a letter ophelia, write 

"sorry desdemona." bright 

Peeking through the nimbus covers 

We see the twisted tale of man 

Catch us in the cornfield hiding 

Me, maryse and moonbeams gliding 

Peeking through the nimbue covers 

We see the twisted tale of man 

Careless, caress, curt up beside me 

Visit, sleep and smile and drown me 

March together, slay like nero 

Now we have something you understand 

Oh! the clown, his stare is eyeless 

Shall he make you laugh or cry.yes 

March together, slay like nero 

Now we have sometning you understand 

It is time to hide my body 

Shall we start to speak of holly 

I don't wanna be that superhero 

'til you have something we anderstand 

Heard they're moving pisces into june 

Shall we put together a platoon 

I don't wanna be that superhero 

'til you have something we understand