Babylon Blues Songtext / Lyric

Take a look at yourself baby – take a look at yourself –

Take a look at yourself

You ain't exactly a picture of health

In your finest hour – at the height o'your power –

Everything's gone sour

Your ivory tower morphed into a cell



Confidence shattered, mad as a hatter – what's the matter with you?

Don't try pulling me down to your level –

Ain't nothing worse than a phony-assed rebel

You do what you want to but leave me out o'this

You're tangled up in Babylon blues



You a yellowin' book – got a amethyst skin –

You been taken in by the paradise

Feeding off your adrenalin

You gotta fight without – you gotta fight within –

You gotta flat-out swim

That ominious current that's sweeping you in






Meals on wheels? Sympathy? What d'ya want from me?

There's a big black cloud hangin' over your head –

Looks like silver but it's heavy as lead

You do what you want to but leave me out o'this

You're tangled up in Babylon blues



Say you gonna quit – that's the end of it –

But the peaces don't fit – what am I stupid?

I don't buy it

Just another blind beggar on the road to fame –

With a messed up body and a messed up brain

I don't buy it



It's a cynical world – it's a bad old world –

It's a sinister world babe

You get what you want an' your still miserable

At the terminal gate – at the terminal gate –

At the terminal gate

You better back off before it's too late

I remember when you opened your mouth an'

Everything freaked at what come out

When I'm gone – remember that

You can't take the alley outta some o' these cats



You do what you want to but leave me out o'this

You're tangled up in Babylon blues