I remember a girl so very well
  The carnival drums all mad in the air
  Grim reapers and skeletons and a missionary bell
  O where do we go now but nowhere
    In a colonial hotel we fucked up the sun
  And then we fucked it down again
  Well the sun comes up and the sun goes down
  Going round and round to nowhere
    The kitten that padded and purred on my lap
  Now swipes at my face with the paw of a bear
  I turn the other cheek and you lay into that
  O where do we go now but nowhere
    O wake up, my love, my lover wake up
  O wake up, my love, my lover wake up
    Across clinical benches with nothing to talk
  Breathing tea and biscuits and the Serenity Prayer
  While the bones of our child crumble like chalk
  O where do we go now but nowhere
    I remember a girl so bold and so bright
  Loose-limbed and laughing and brazen and bare
  Sits gnawing her knuckles in the chemical light
  O where do we go now but nowhere
    You come for me now with a cake that you've made
  Ravaged avenger with a clip in your hair
  Full of glass and bleach and my old razorblades
  O where do we go now but nowhere
    O wake up, my love, my lover wake up
  O wake up, my love, my lover wake up
    If they'd give me my clothes back then I could go home
  From this fresh, this clean, antiseptic air
  Behind the locked gates an old donkey moans
  O where do we go now but nowhere
    Around the duck pond we grimly mope
  Gloomily and mournfully we go rounds again
  And one more doomed time and without much hope
  Going round and around to nowhere
    From the balcony we watched the carnival band
  The crack of the drum a little child did scare
  I can still feel his tiny fingers pressed in my hand
  O where do we go now but nowhere
    If I could relive one day of my life
  If I could relive just a single one
  You on the balcony, my future wife
  O who could have known, but no one
    O wake up, my love, my lover make up
  O wake up, my love, my lover make up