The Fatima Mansions - Popemobile to Paraguay lyrics

The postmark read "Asuncion"...

By the foul Adriatic there can be some dramatic

variations in the temperature

so you can't recall which S.S. dress to wear

but the king of the Papists is a friend of the rapists

and the upside-down crucifixion squad

so escape from sure defeat is thus arranged

A man with your knowledge of electrical goods

should not be condemned because he's misunderstood

Trip from Zagreb to Rome, and on to Asuncion

in the clothes of a bishop, the new beard being your own

CHORUS:

You may think we look stupid, but we're paying the rent

and we won't trade our fortunes for a hippy tent

We've been all colours of angels with both wings on the right

and we've supped and we've coupled through our mystic life

Eternal City, firm and true, no naked crimson lights

Constant like an anthrax bomb, honest like a knife...

All of this must never die

Popemobile to Paraguay

It's been a while since you said "heil"

You CIA-bred necrophile

No Russkies left to rail at, not for now

but the Slavs in their millions

with their scrapheaps of children

must replace your South Americans

More skulls to keep your Mafia in the Mafia Top Ten

They'll mass when commanded, they'll hate when they're told

They'll murder their neighbours for the good of their soul

They'll punish your enemies if you'll read out their names

They'll be adorning the bridges from the Don to the Thames--CHORUS

Cleansing faces of their smiles

Butchers sheltered and praised

Meeting pain with fairytales

Dead bank-balances raised

All of this must never die

Popemobile to Paraguay

You may think we look stupid, but we're behind with the rent

How much am I bid for this real piece of Jesus' polyester tent?

Polyester tent which my dad just sent

and it's lock up the women, burn this book for me, man

Send sweeties and flowers to Teh-huh-ran

Lock up the women, burn this book for me, man

Send sweeties and flowers to my pal in Tehran

In Eye-ran