Fascist Faces Songtext / Lyric

Fascist Faces

music by Elton John . lyrics by Bernie Taupin
album The Fox 1981


I read about how you're slow with the truth
like any old Aesop's Fable
but when you're turtlesque, I'm a hare's breath
into payment under the table

but some journalist got his mug shot kit
and his briefcase on his lap
but I'm tired of being linked with the K.G.B.
and all that political crap

'cause I've seen your fascist faces
on the cover of the national papers
staring out in black and white
from the tall grey walls on the other side

when I see your fascist faces
then I know I've had enough
trying to trace it or erase it
is it foolproof or a bluff?

if the boy'd been blessed he'd have been arrested
on a charge of wearin' red shoes
but if yer pants are blue you got nothing to lose
it'll make you a patriot through and through

'cause I've seen your fascist faces
on the cover of the national papers
staring out in black and white
from the tall grey walls on the other side

when I see your fascist faces
then I know I've had enough
trying to trace it or erase it
is it foolproof or a bluff?