You can shake your hips,you can seal your lips, i can't make that trip   And all lifes fears could invade my ears, i can handle it      I can call on a friend and remember the faces we wore at school   Making the madness and solitary sadness, a friendly fool   I thought of stories they told us long ago   Of how the world was a perfume garden   I haven't yet learned to tame the creature there   And that at least i think is something good      All across the town and across the street, you could feel the heat   Let me tell you friend,they could hardly wait to mark your sheet   It was maximum joy for the men they employed, to hold you down   Well i hope now you know that this isn't the bliss that you thought you'd found   Endless emtpiness, endless ringing bells   I couldn't show you but i'd hoped to one day   A pretty promise to teach the tender child   To welcome madness every Monday      Beck beck beck and call   Didn't seem to matter at all   Beck beck beck and call   Told us how to conquer it all   Beck beck beck and call   Didn't seem to matter at all   Beck beck beck and call   Told us how to conquer it all      You can shake your hips,you can seal your lips, i can't make that trip   And all lifes fears could invade my ears, i can handle it      I can call on a friend, i can laugh with a friend that i know from school   Making the madness and solitary sadness, a friendly fool      Beck beck beck and call   They taught us how to conquer it all   Beck beck beck and call   These children have nothing at all      Listening hard for the voice of the child    I thought i heard an alarm bell ringing   Pulled from my sleep by invisible hands   The gentle sound of a lady singing