Give me back my broken night, my mirrored room, my secret life is lonely here, there's no one left to torture Give me absolute control over every other living soul and lie beside me baby, that's an order Give me crack and anal sex, take the only tree that's left and stuff it up the hole in your culture Give me back the Berlin Wall, give me Stalin, give me St. Paul, I've seen the future brother, it is murder Things are gonna slide in all directions, won't be nothing, nothing you can measure anymore And the blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul When they said, repent, repent, I wonder what they meant When they said, repent, repent, I wonder what they meant When they said, repent, repent, I wonder what they meant You don't know me from the wind, you never did, you never will, I'm a little Jew who wrote the Bible Early nations rise and fall, I've heard the stories, I've heard them all, but love's the only engine of survival Your servant here, he has been told, this ain't clear and say it cold, it's over, it ain't going any further And now the wheels of heaven stop, you feel the devil's riding crop, get ready for the future, it is murder Things are gonna slide in all directions, won't be nothing, nothing you can measure anymore And the blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul When they said, repent, repent, I wonder what they meant When they said, repent, repent, I wonder what they meant When they said, repent, repent, I wonder what they meant There'll be a breaking of the ancient western code, and your private life will suddenly explode There'll be phantoms, there'll be fires in the road, and a white man dancing You'll see a woman hanging upside down, her features covered by a fallen gown And all the lousy little poets coming around, trying to sound like Charlie Manson And the white man dancing They give me back the Berlin Wall, give me Stalin and Saint Paul, give me Christ or give me Hiroshima Destroy another fetus and now we don't like children anyhow, we've seen the future baby, it is murder Things are gonna slide in all directions, won't be nothing, nothing you can measure anymore And the blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul When they said, repent, repent, I wonder what they meant When they said, repent, repent, I wonder what they meant When they said, repent, repent, I wonder what they meant I wonder what they meant When they said, repent, repent, I wonder what they meant