Eurythmics

Diamond Avenue

Eurythmics


I saw a hundred men laughing only two understanding 
A wheel that was spinning for good and for evil 
There was a church bell ringing but nobody listening 
Except the beggars in the doorways of designer perfection 

There was a thin man collecting for a government problem 
He spent a long time waiting with that look of disapproval 
There was icicles forming in the agency windows but nothing for sale there 
Only dreamtime oblivion 
Ah - the mysteries that are discussed in the beds of the kings and queens 
Ah - The mysery well it brings you down like a recurring dream 
Ah - here on the diamond avenue (on the diamond avenue) 
And there's a tightrop marriage between the doctor and the junkie 
In daylight it's perfect but at night time it's frightening 
The hospital was moved so the hotel could profit 
But nobody stayed up there to curse it or to mock it 
As hi-fi condition arranged for my transport 
But there's nothing to hear except the sound of bloody progress 
The buildings are blushing from the interest they're earning 
But the tables and the chairs on the bombsites are burning 
Ah - the mysteries that are discussed in the beds of the kings and queens 
Ah - The mysery well it brings you down like a recurring dream 
Ah - here on the diamond avenue (on the diamond avenue) 
Let's have a look, what do you see 
I saw Thatcher and Murdoch those twins of confusing 
Pay Saatchi and Saatchi to keep up their little illusion 
I saw pepsi and my hero both digging a goldmine 
It's funny how money can make you deaf as well as blind 
Ah - the mysteries that are discussed in the beds of the kings and queens 
Ah. The misery well it brings you down in a recurring dream 
Here on the diamond avenue 
Here on the diamond avenue 
Here on the diamond avenue