Provided this letter can reach you on time It gives me a chance to redress the crime Because things aren't as clear as I thought they would be And I suppose that I blew out my chances to be free So wipe off your make-up and screw up the myth Let's walk hand in hand to the edge of the cliff Have you got a gas mask to face the crowd with To try and suss out a brand new way to live Now I am not very tall and my hands they are sore My body is thin and my head's in a roar But I think that the violence begins to make sense Because we're bored with the feel of the weight of the fence If I conduct myself with precision and grace Do I stand half a chance of losing this place Pretend to be jelly, forget about hate How far is the goal, how long must we wait Because I scream in the night at the slightest excuse My mind ain't unhinged, but it's pretty damned loose Shaking hands as I wake to the muddle again But there's some who are worse off so why complain And my secretary's phoning me three times a week In a curious mixture of Latin and Greek There's a shop on the corner in which we all pose There's a life which we live in in which we all doze Don't talk very loud there's a maniac inside Hits out of self-defence, hits out of pride In the room when the conversation gets tense Shall we drift to the ceiling to try and make sense In the street when the feeling is never at ease We can touch passers-by, give them the disease So send me your wire, please drop me a line I need something concrete through which to unwind If I sit here much longer I think I'll implode I wonder if screams will be heard down the road But I am just insecure, nervous, scared Need someone to help us, need people to care Isolations ain't fun, but it gets pretty real How to put across all the things that I feel Shall I take a few drugs, as I feel like a kick Can I smash up t he wall, can I make myself sick It's a laugh, got to grin, what a nutter they say It's all part of the act though he's really OK And my secretary's phoning me three times a week And she always is speaking in Latin and Greek