Last Year in Marienbad

Last year at Marienbad
Next year in Jerusalem
She can dance but she cannot walk
He earns in currency he cannot spend

There's something on the horizon
It's another horizon
Another horizon arising

Watch out!
Post-modernism's in the streets

Don't look!
There's pornography in the sheets!

Would you like to be
A freak in danger
Or did it catch your eye
To be a perfect stranger?

When you can buy yourself a new milieu
You can get what you got coming to you
You can make yourself
A total institution
Grand illusion
Witness to your prosecution

But

It'll never be nothing like
No it can't ever be nothing like
It won't ever be nothing like

Last year at Marienbad
Or next year in Jerusalem
You can dance but you cannot walk
You earn in currency you cannot spend

Then you see something on the horizon
Must be another horizon
Another horizon arising...

Hold on!
The sign is tryin' to realize.

Think fast!
For something new under the sky.

Would you's like to
Send it out for review
Or have you found the
Missing shade of blue?

And with draw yourself a bottom line
If it could only serve to stiff a spine
You would make yourself
A total institution
Grand illusion

Witness for your prosecution

But

It'll never be nothing like
No it can't ever be nothing like
It won't ever be nothing like

Next up,
Another one to socialize.

Get lost
Too beautiful innumerable eyes.

Did you twist and turn for Mr. Bentham
Did you make the moves, or were you only lent 'em?

Another dance macabre will set you free
So funny how it comes so naturally

And as you make yourself
A total institution
Grand illusion

Witness for your prosecution

Know

It'll never be nothing like
No it can't ever be nothing like
It won't ever be nothing like

Last year at Marienbad
Or next year in Jerusalem
You can dance but you cannot walk
You earn in currency you cannot spend

Then you see something on the horizon
Must be another horizon
Another horizon arising...