Magnets (BBC In Concert 07/03/81) - The Vapors

The motorcade is never-ending

The marshalls wave their wheel appeal

Only some of them are breathing

Only some know what to feel

The generals grit their teeth and smile

Just for a little while

Until they think they can’t be seen

Then pour contempt through eyes that seem like magnets

Small and hard

Magnets

They rolled away down through the arches

The wet streets shined confetti-lined

The sun burns everything it touches

The motorcade dissolves the mind

The madman grits his teeth and smiles

Just for a little while

As though he knows he can’t be seen

Then pours contempt through eyes that seem like magnets

Small and hard

Just like magnets

Out of the crowd

Just like magnets

Kennedy’s children all magnets

Waste of time at the Alamo

All the kids singing «Go Johnny, go Johnny, go!»

All the cars parked out of view

And someone on a roof with a job to do

But the hotdogs sell and the cameras roll

It’s a star situation, but it’s out of control

There’s a man with a message and it’s written on lead

There’s a man who is god, but god is dead

Still we grit out teeth and smile

Just for a little while

As though we think we can be seen

We pour contempt through eyes that seem like magnets

Small and hard

Just like magnets

Out of a crowd

Just like magnets

Kennedy’s children all magnets

Magnets staring up

Just like magnets

Burning the sky

Just like magnets

Kennedy’s children all magnets

Magnetized boys, boys, boys