It was midnight, midnight at noon   Everyone talked in rhyme   Everyone saw the big clock ticking   Nobody knew, nobody knew the time      Elegant debutantes smiled   Everyone fought for dimes   Newspapers screamed for blood   It was the best of times      Every place around the world it seemed the same   Can't hear the rhythm for the drums   Everybody wants to look the other way   When something wicked this way comes      Sometimes they tie a thief to the tree   Sometimes I stare   Sometimes it's me      Everyone told the truth   All that we heard were lies   A pope claimed that he'd been wrong in the past   This was a big surprise      Everyone fell in love   A cardinal's wife was jailed   The government saved a dying planet   When popular icons failed      Every place around the world it seemed the same   Can't hear the rhythm for the drums   Everybody wants to look the other way   When something wicked this way comes      Sometimes they tie a thief to the tree   Sometimes I stare   Sometimes it's me   Sometimes I stare   Sometimes it's me