My eyes are stuck on sleepless dreams   This world is never what it seems   We've sold it short, it's what we're taught   Lost it in the living      Allegiance is the strangest thing   It's grown too fast, grown some wings   It's flown away, flown away      The back door to heaven is open wide to me   So when I'm wrapped up tight in the hell of the night   Can I still decide to be where the, the mad road goes   'Neath the shapeless glow?      Or will we swop ourselves like children   For the value of our innocence?   A gentleman's a golden card and a red, red rose      Transformed by some strange alchemy   You stand apart and point to me   Then point to something I can't see   It's a lousy rainbow anyway      Allegiance is the strangest thing   It's grown too fast, grown some wings   It's flown away, flown away      The back door to heaven is open wide to me   So when I'm wrapped up tight in the hell of the night   Can I still decide to be where the, the mad road goes   'Neath the shapeless glow?      Or will we swop ourselves like children   For the value of our innocence?   A gentleman's a golden card and a red, red rose      Your cheating heart will choose a way   To borrow, burn and throw away   Tomorrow's same as yesterday   It's a lousy rainbow anyway      The back door to heaven is open wide to me   So when I'm wrapped up tight in the hell of the night   Can I still decide to be where the, the mad road goes   'Neath the shapeless glow?      Or will we swop ourselves like children   For the value of our innocence?   A gentleman's a golden card and a red, red rose