Fear In The Western World Lyrics - The Island Years - Ultravox

Your picture of yourself is a media myth 

Underneath this floor we're on the edge of a cliff 

Someone told me Jesus was the Devil's lover 

While we masturbated on a magazine cover 

[Chorus:] 

Dead in the streets 

Who's that girl? 

Ireland screams 

Africa burns 

Suburbia stumbles 

The tides are turned 

I can feel the fear in the Western world 

I can feel the fear in the Western world 

I can feel the fear in the Western world 

I can feel the fear in the Western 

The Western world 

Mama's still on valium, Daddy puts the news on 

TV orphans laugh at the confusion 

The audience finds itself on the stage 

Fifty million people in a state of decay 

(Chorus) 

The party goes on behind elevator doors 

While the elevator plummets from the 69th floor 

All the cars lost in the scrapyards of paradise 

The newspaper photographs have all come alive 

(Chorus) 

I can feel the fear in the Western world 

I can feel the fear in the Western world 

I can feel the fear in the Western world 

I can feel the fear in the Western 

The Western world