There are buried worlds within us

Rainy nights as black as guinness

Apparitions lodged like splinters.

So with thoughts all smudged and beery

Make my way down to dún laoghaire

Peek through windows fogged and teary

From the warmth inside.

And if you can't learn to love it

'fraid you're gonna have to shove it

Stacked too high to rise above it.

So we're kicking o'er the traces

With two fingers to their faces

And proceeding on the basis

Of inalienable right.

And ain't it obvious

By now

There ain't no me and you

Never was

Don't have to be a genius

To work it out

We're all effect without a cause.

Watching oz the great magician

Eyes shut in the brace position

Changed beyond all recognition.

And the radius of our footsteps

Spans a world of shattered concepts

Abandoned buildings loom like shipwrecks

In the ebbing tide.

And ain't it obvious

By now

There ain't no me and you

Never was

Don't have to be a genius

To work it out

We're all effect without a cause

Is it some ridiculous misplaced

Sense of pride

That keeps me hauling

On the line

Gonna step right out of this

I just can't abide...

If I had a pound for

Every time.