10 - What God Wants, Part III (1992 - Amused to Death)
Don't be afraid, it's only business The alien prophet sighed The vulture and the magpie Took the cash box from its hook The monkey in the corner wrote The figures in his book
Crazed, the checkout lady's fingers
Flash across the till The captain posts The menu for the day And in banks across the world Christian, Moslem, Hindu, Jew, And people of every Race, creed, color, tint, or hue Get down on their knees and pray The raccoon and the groundhog Neatly make up bags of change But the monkey in the corner Well he's slowly drifting out of range
Christ, it's freezing inside The veteran cries The hyenas break cover And stream through the meadow And the fog rolls in To his bottle of gin
So he picks up a stone That looks like a bone And the bullets fly And the rivers run dry And the fat girls sigh And the network anchor persons lie And the soldier's alone In the video zone But the monkey's not watching He's slipped out to the kitchen To pile the dishes And answer the phone
Wait 'til the sun shines Nellie And the clouds are driftin' by We shall be happy Nellie by...