Moribund The Burgermeister - Peter Gabriel

Caught the chaos in the market square

I don’t know what, I don’t know why

But something’s wrong down there

Their bodies twisting and turning in a thousand ways

The eyes all rolling round and round to a distant gaze

I look at that crowd

Some are jumping up in the air

Say, «We're drowning in a torrent of blood!»

Others going down on their knees

Seen a savior come out of the mud

Oh, Mother!

It’s eating out my soul

Destroying law and order

I’m going to lose control

What can I do to stop this plague

Spread by sight alone?

Just a glimpse and then a quiver

Then they shiver to the bone

I look at them go

Bunderschaft, are you going daft?

Better seal off the castle grounds

«This is Moribund, the Burgermeister

Gonna keep the monster down

Somebody sent the subversive element

Gonna chase it out of town»

No-one will tell what all this is about

But I will find out

I will find out

I will find out

This thing’s outrageous, I tell you on the level

It’s really so contagious, must be the work of the devil

You better go now, pick up the pipers

And tell them to play

Seems the music keeps them quiet

There is no other way

I close the doors

«We've tried potions and waxen dolls

But none of us could find any cures»

Mother please, is it just a disease

That has them breaking all my laws?

Check if you can disconnect the effect

And I’ll go after the cause

No-one will tell what all this is about

But I will find out

I will find out

I will find out

Mother, you know your son

When I say I will, I will