ooh, let me take a candle to a cellar tonight  and I'd like to take some matches [there/then] and set it alight  I can't, 'cause I've seen those kind of places before  ooh, I'd like to have a party in a cellar tonight  and I'd love to have a party but it wouldn't be right  I shan't, 'cause I've seen those kind of people before  I won the war in the sitting room  I won the war but it cost me  I won the war and I feel proud  but I don't know why it's hard to get to sleep in my house  ooh, I have to pull the blankets up to cover my head  and I have to pull the blankets right up  but I don't know why it's hard to get to sleep in my house  well you keep following the funeral pyre  and it's not difficult to see that you're  young and selfish, and liberty and money, don't go  don't go...  let me take a candle to a cellar tonight  yeah, you should see the parties we've had before  gimme the time, gimme the time  gimme the watchword, gimme whatever you like  ([soon we'll be free])  I won the war in the sitting room  I won the war but it cost me  I won the war and I feel proud  but God only knows why it's hard to get to sleep in my house  ooh [your scheme is in your smile]  ooh [you sleep and sin in your Soho hole]  well you keep following the funeral pyre  it's not difficult to see that you're  beautiful and young, and [critical of] nothing  and you keep following the funeral pyre  it's not difficult to see that you're  beautiful and young, and liberty and money, don't go