Tragic Vaudeville Lyrics - Seven Days In Sammystown - Wall Of Voodoo

This slab of stone 

Stares at me 

So seriously and yet I'm Laughing 

The grass was soft 

And so I sat and painted what I'd been looking at 

Now starring in the tragedy 

Playing twice a day since its opening 

If movements we made fascinating 

Hide our hearts incinerating 

The final days 

Whose book of lust? 

Who found sin when they were looking for fun 

The visions of 

Your violet eyes 

So haunted and yet I'm not afraid 

Though I feel so weak I must remain 

On the stage of my tragic vaudeville 

Love come quickly don't fade away 

On the stage of my tragic vaudeville 

Maddness is the cure as we fade to gray 

This slab of stone 

Stares at me 

So seriously and yet I'm Laughing 

A face whose name I can't replace 

Steps I can't retrace 

Now starring in the tragedy 

Playing every night since its opening 

And on stage the violence, greed 

My obsessive roots drink deep 

On the stage of my tragic vaudeville 

Love come quickly don't fade away 

On the stage of my tragic vaudeville 

Maddness is the cure as we fade to gray