I remember your eyes from the twelfth of July
The sirens were screaming and the flames lit the sky
And you held me so tight,
thought you'd never let go
Till the bullets exploded from the pavement below
Then I laid you down next to a burnt out car
Screamed out for help,
you were gone too far
Still got that picture of you locked away
from the start Developing inside my fanatic heart
I went around in a daze for a couple of years
With the blood in my veins frozen over with tears
And I did anything that they asked me to do
Cause all I could see was that picture of you
And the young ones passing by said,
how's about your real hard man?
You died inside,
I was just a castle of sand Still got that picture of you locked away
from the start Developing inside my fanatic heart
Then they took me inside,
threw me up against the wall
They put electric rods on my chest and my balls
And they told me sad things that I knew weren't true
And in the end, after what they told me to do
Then they locked me up and threw away the key
Left me there with just your memory
Now I walk through New York like a grey silhouette
Try hard to remember what I'm supposed to forget
Then look in your eyes on the twelfth of July
When the sirens were screaming and the flames lit the sky
I sleep with other women and I hold them through the night
Cause all I wanted to do was just get on with my life
But that picture of you won't let me make a new start
It's frozen inside my fanatic heart
If the
foundations be destroyed,
what can the righteous do?
If the
foundations be destroyed,
what
can the righteous do?