Enlighten Me

The Queen of Iquitos waters her Devils Tongue
And reminds me that anything too stupid to be said is sung
It was named after you y'know she
said the things that you do and you say
And you can't come round playing like that when you've thrown me away

Now Maria from Cocaine Street believes she can fly like a bird
With her hand on her hip and sweat on
her lip she invites me into her world
But the streets in the long run and the 0s
and the 1s are more searing than ever before
When you return in the morning from Gods golden shore

Old Shakey was right you know Maria's like the setting sun
Pink red and orange over the banks of the Rio Maranon
Where my Sovannah and I were screaming lines heard a thousand times
She says I'm frustrated and cynical and hard inside

'Cos I've followed in footsteps
where I thought I'd laid trails of my own
Seen a thousand Volkswagon vans just
like mine parked through the streets of Rome
And the afflicted leave the
infirmary in search of their own faith cure
Where the longhaired kids hunt in packs praying on the obscure

Well it's long then it's short to be different is always the same
Any spark in your mind will be chewed up and spat out again
Oh can Max and Theodore come and enlighten me please
For these neon lit idols have brought me to my knees

And I've travelled around and I've
settled down where the rivers collide
But the grass always seems so much
greener on the banks of the other side
And the sun burns my skin here but something inside makes me stay
Oh stay to recover the heart of the one thrown away