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the changeling - shoes for industry lyrics

[intro (narrator)]
“gold’s sight you’ll worship,” coughed the watchman in a bronchial staccato
raising his feeble hand to chase the shadows from my face
as i brushed past him in the dim alleyway and penetrated deeper
into the heart of london’s deserted dockland in pursuit of my sinister query

[verse (narrator)]
the changeling
that very word reverberates through the myths and nightmares of ancestral memory
and conjures up a figure, personifying fear and evil
which with its bony digit lays an eldritch grip on the tender surface of the naked soul itself

[verse (narrator)]
the changeling * a puny, twisted thing
a moon*struck fairy progeny which goblins leave in grim substitute for a human child
stolen in the dead of night and spirited away by what unthinkable device god only knows
the changeling * walks among us

[bridge (choir)]
this fine night
this fine night
every night and all
i find and feed
and handle […]
christ protect my soul
[verse (narrator)]
let me tell you
about a scary thing
that’s the fear and dread
of the changeling

[verse (narrator)]
every mother’s bad dream in the middle of the night
the bogeymen come and steal her baby outright
they remove it out of sight and when you wake you find
they’ve left behind a parody of humankind

[verse (narrator)]
it’s four in the morning, the household slumbers
the moon * a cloud
upstairs: the mother lays disturbed
uneasy sleep in a scarlet shroud

[verse (mother)]
please don’t steal my baby, no, please don’t steal my baby!
please don’t steal my baby away, no, please don’t steal it away!
he’s about to be a boy, he’s got his arms and legs around my body
a bundle of joy, he’s got hair on his head

[verse (narrator)]
another scudding cloud
obscures the fullness of the moon
the rolling glow slips soundlessly through sp*ce
the open window creeks
enter the goblins:
[verse (goblins)]
we are the devils and we wander about * don’t go out of the house
we are the devils and we wander about * don’t go out of the house
we are the lepers who’ve gone insane * don’t […] or we’ll fight
we are the […] who are mad with pain * running through the night!
we’re no doggies but we look like you * we have a perfect disguise!
[…] * don’t look in our eyes!

[hook (goblins)]
give the dog a bone
give the dog a bone
give the dog a bone
give the dog a bone

[chorus (goblins)]
looked in the cupboard, there was nothing there
looked in the cupboard and the cupboard was bare
looked in the cupboard, there was nothing there
looked in the cupboard and the cupboard was bare

[instrumental bridge]

[verse (goblins)]
we are the devils and we wander about * don’t go out of the house
we are the devils and we wander about * don’t go out of the house
we are the lepers who’ve gone insane * don’t […] or we’ll fight
we are the […] who are mad with pain * running through the night!
we’re no doggies but we look like you * we have a perfect disguise!
[…] * don’t look in our eyes!
[hook (goblins)]
give the dog a bone
give the dog a bone
give the dog a bone
give the dog a bone

[verse (narrator)]
the goblins are found among men, obscenely clad in their own skin
they chew on goldfish, they don’t know their real names
they look like jimmy cl*theroe

[bridge (goblins)]
let’s steal this lady’s baby and leave her with a freak
let’s steal this lady’s baby and leave a skinny little geek

[verse (goblins)]
oh, he’s a bouncing little boy, he’s got his arms and legs
around a bundle of joy, he’s got hair on his head

[hook (goblins)]
i said hair on his head
i said hair on his head
i said, i said, i said, i said, i said, i said, i said, i said
i said hair on his head
i said hair on his head
he’s not bald! he’s got it all!

[verse (narrator)]
they remove the cr*p happy nappy chappy
and leave a squinting*eyed squawky skinny little geek

[chorus]
that’s right * a freak, a little geek
he’s warm, he’s got wrinkled skin
he’s small, he needs his insulin
he can’t walk, he just stumbles around
he can’t talk, he’s just a make*some sump
a little geek * that’s right, a freak
a little geek * that’s right, a freak
the geek is not loved
he’s a geek!

[instrumental bridge]

[verse (changeling)]
treat me like the furniture, i don’t care
use my passionate sighs to dry your hair
i’ll kiss your feet, i’ll wash your clothes
you can use my poems to blow your nose
and if you wanna make love to someone else
i’ll be your bed

[chorus (changeling)]
i don’t care, just let me be there * i’m a slave of love
i am a good little boy, i am your squeezy toy * a slave of love

[verse (changeling)]
i’ll stay at home, just in case you drop in
my world revolves around your […]
be lucky, leave me, throw me away
when you walk out the door, my world turns grey
if you wanna make love to someone else
i’ll be your bed

[chorus (changeling)]
i don’t care, just let me be there * i’m a slave of love
i am a good little boy, i am your squeezy toy * a slave of love!

[bridge (changeling)]
come back, joyce, i miss your leather voice
your mormon devices, to keep my clean
your obedient servant is not fit
to be crushed by the heel of one so perfect
mistress, accept this gift of vain
subdue my body in your sweet name

[instrumental bridge]

[chorus (changeling)]
i don’t care, just let me be there * i’m a slave of love
i am a good little boy, i am your squeezy toy * a slave of love!

[instrumental bridge]

[verse (goblins)]
but it happens every night
when you’re in your bed
you die in your sleep
and someone wakes up instead
it looks like you and even feels the same
but he’s a different person who’s stolen your name

[chorus (goblins)]
he stole your name and your number
they’ve got your face and your number
you are the geek! you are the geek!
you are the geek! you are the geek!

[verse (goblins)]
and what happened to that person you were yesterday?
we murdered them in the pettiest hours between three and five

[outro]
assassino
assassino!
assassino!
as * sas * si * no!
assassino!
assassino!

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