Hurry Down Doomsday (The Bugs Are Taking Over)

Album: Mighty Like A Rose (1991)
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  • The man in the corner of this picture has a sinister purpose
    In the teeming Temple of the Railroad Kings
    He's planting a trashy paperback book for accidental purchase
    Containing all the secrets of life and other useless things
    But I can't bring myself to look
    Wake up, zombie, write yourself another book
    You want to scream and shout, my little flaxen lout
    Hurry down Doomsday, the bugs are taking over

    She sleeps with the shirt of a late, great country singer
    Stretched out on her poor jealous husband's pillow
    In time you can turn these obsessions into careers
    While the parents of those kidnapped children start the bidding for their tears
    But I can't bring myself to look
    Wake up, zombie, get yourself off the hook
    You want to scream and shout, my little waxen lout
    Hurry down Doomsday, the bugs are taking over

    Forget about Beethoven, Rembrandt and rock and roll
    Forget about Mickey Mouse, Marlboro and Coca Cola
    Forget about Cadillac, Mercedes and Toyota
    Forget about Buddha, Allah, Jesus and Jehovah
    Hurry down Doomsday, the bugs are taking over

    Any day now a giant insect mutation
    Will swoop down and devour the white man's burden
    Starting out with all of the sensitive ones
    Better make like a fly if you don't want to die
    Look out, there goes Gordon!
    But I can't bring myself to think
    Wake up zombie, kick up a big stink
    You want to scream and shout, my little Saxon lout
    Hurry down Doomsday, the bugs are taking over

    You want to scream and shout, my little Saxon lout
    Hurry down Doomsday, the bugs are taking over Writer/s: ELVIS COSTELLO, JIM KELTNER
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Wixen Music Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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