And if you face life with a child and a wife who sleepwalks through your dreams into wallsYou're a soldier of mercy, you're cold and you curseYou cannot be trusted, must fallLoneliness, tendernessHigh society, notorietyYou fight for the throne and you travel aloneUnknownAs you slowly sinkAnd there's no time to thinkIn the federal city you've been blown and shown pityIn secret for pieces of changeThe empress attracts you when oppression distracts youIt makes you feel violent and strainedMemoryMemoryMemoryIt makes you seeTyrannyHypocrisyBetrayed by a kiss on a cool night of blissIn the valley of a missing linkAnd there's no time to thinkIn the valley of a missing linkIn the valley of a missing linkIn the valley of a missing linkChurches will haunt youThe country priestess will haunt youHer worst is better than theirsI've seen all these decoysThrough a set of deep turquoise eyesAnd I feel so depressedChina dogAlcoholAlcoholDuality, mortalityMercury rules you and destiny fools youLike the plague with the dangerous wingAnd there's no time to thinkYour conscience betrayed youWhen some tyrant waylaid youWhen the lion lies down with the lambI've paid off the traitor and killed it much laterBut that's just the way that I amParadise, sacrificeMortality, realityBut the magicians, quickersAnd his game is much thicker than bloodAnd blacker than inkAnd there's no time to thinkAnger and jealousy is all that he saysBut he's content when you're undoneUnder his thumbMad men oppose himAnd your kindness throws himTo survive it, you play deaf and dumbEquality, libertyHumility, simplicityYou glance through the mirrorAnd there's eyes staring clearAt the back of your head as you drinkAnd there's no time to thinkWarlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrowWill offer their hands for a prayerYou can't find no salvationHaving no expectationsAny time, any place, any wayMercuryGravityNobilityHumilityYou know you can't keep herAnd the water gets deeperThat is leading you onto the brinkAnd there's no time to thinkYou've murdered your vanityYou've buried your sanityFor pleasure you must now resentAll lovers obey youBut they cannot sway youThey're not even sure you existSocialismHypnotismPatriotismMaterialismFools making laws for the breaking of jawsAnd the sound of the keys as they clingAnd there's no time to thinkThe bridge that you travel onGoes to the BabylonGirl with the rose in her hairStarlight in theseYou're finally releasedYou're stranded with nothing to shareLoyaltyUnityEpitomeRigidityYou turn around for a real ass glimpse of CamilleMake the moon shine bloody and greenAnd there's no time to thinkAnd there's no time to thinkBullets can harm youAnd death can disarm youBut no you will not be deceivedStripped of all virtueAs you crawlThrough the dirtYou can giveBut you cannot receiveNo time to chooseWhen the truth must dieNo time to loseOr say goodbyeNo time to prepareFor the victim that's thereNo time to sufferOr blameAnd there's no time to thinkAnd there's no time to think