Enlightenment - Momus

In the 1970s

When everyone could do just what they wanted to

Sex was like a handshake between friends

But now that life and death and destiny

Are in you when you’re next to me

Tell me that you’ll love me till the end

And tell me you’ll be there

If I ever find

I’ve only got one kidney left

And tell me you’ll be there

When I’ve only got one eye

And say that you’ll be there to care for me

When a wheelchair is my chair

You’ll be there upon the day I die

Enlightenment in the nowness of now

All we have is the nowness of now

Enlighten me to the nowness of now

All we have is the nowness of now

In the doctor’s surgery I keep my fingers crossed

Because I know the cost

This test for positivity implies

Still I do this willingly

Because I want to know what I don’t want to know

Unthinkable thoughts are thoughts we have to try

So tell me you’ll be there

When my head’s on backwards

And my skin is turning green

And tell me you’ll be there

When my brain has turned to glue

And tell me you’ll still be my baby

When my guts are on the floor

And when I’m paralytic will you still be true?

In the eighteenth century they said

'We'll shortly know all there is to know

All things will be clear to us one day'

Well I’m sick to death of optimism

Sick to death of the shit it drops us in

Will they find a cure for hope?

No-one can say

But tell me you’ll be there

When I’m knocked out flat

With a drip feed in my arm

And tell me you’ll be there

When the swansong starts to fade

And when a life support machine

Supports me in a coma you’ll be there

And when I’m just a cabbage

Save me from the spade

So tell me you’ll be there

When my head’s on backwards

And my skin is turning green

And tell me you’ll be there

When my brain has gone to sand

And tell me you’ll still be my baby

When my guts are on the floor

And when I’m catatonic

I’ll still be your man