The Fall - The Coliseum Song Lyrics

Coliseum. the coliseum.Look out,
burnYou ought to know this by now.
You with the empty crane over.
...They're the gatekeepers and the sentinels.
Their jokes are hum-drum.The coliseum.
[x4]Brown brass leading up to ionic columns.
Trust them.Sometimes that is not enoughIn the vast
cavernous emptinessThat is the world of the callow.
But they stood outside at bottomThe coliseum.
[x3]Trust them.But sometimes that's not enoughIn the
vast cavernous....The coliseum.
[x2]And you have to have a good conditionTo get into
the coliseum.And the jingle jangle of this cityMakes
you hunger and down.You have to have a good conditionTo
get into the coliseum.The coliseum.
[x4Brown brass leading up to ionic columns,
But sometimes that's not enough.
...Their jokes are hum-drum.
About 7:30 to 8:00,Tiredness sets in.
You want to take a little breakAnd get out of home.
The coliseum.[x4]Brown brass.
...You've got to have a good conditionTo get into.
...These people, they will never ever learn.
They are not fit to walk throughThe ionic columns ofThe
coliseum.The coliseum.You've got to have a good conditionTo
get into the coliseum.