Boomtown Rats - Banana Republic Lyrics

Boomtown Rats
Mondo Bongo
Banana Republic
Geldof/Briquette

banana republic
septic isle
screaming in the suffering sea
it sound like crying
everywhere I go
everywhere I see
the black and blue uniforms
police and priests

and I wonder do you wonder
while you're sleeping with your whore
that sharing beds with history
is like a-licking running sores
forty shades of green yeah
sixty shades of red
heroes going cheap these days
price; a bullet in the head

chorus;

take your hand and lead you
up a garden path
let me stand aside here
and watch you pass
striking up a soldier's song
I know that tune
it begs too many questions
and answers too

chorus;

the purple and the pinstripe
mutely shake their heads
a silence shrieking volumes
a violence worse than they condemn
stab you in the back yeah
laughing in your face
glad to see the place again
it's a pity nothing's changed

chorus and fade on chorus repeated