"Babylon Blues" lyrics - IAN HUNTER

Take a look at yourself baby - take a look at yourself -
Take a look at yourself
You ain't exactly a picture of health
In your finest hour - at the height o'your power -
Everything's gone sour
Your ivory tower morphed into a cell

Confidence shattered, mad as a hatter - what's the matter with you?
Don't try pulling me down to your level -
Ain't nothing worse than a phony-assed rebel
You do what you want to but leave me out o'this
You're tangled up in Babylon blues

You a yellowin' book - got a amethyst skin -
You been taken in by the paradise
Feeding off your adrenalin
You gotta fight without - you gotta fight within -
You gotta flat-out swim
That ominious current that's sweeping you in

Meals on wheels? Sympathy? What d'ya want from me?
There's a big black cloud hangin' over your head -
Looks like silver but it's heavy as lead
You do what you want to but leave me out o'this
You're tangled up in Babylon blues

Say you gonna quit - that's the end of it -
But the peaces don't fit - what am I stupid?
I don't buy it
Just another blind beggar on the road to fame -
With a messed up body and a messed up brain
I don't buy it

It's a cynical world - it's a bad old world -
It's a sinister world babe
You get what you want an' your still miserable
At the terminal gate - at the terminal gate -
At the terminal gate
You better back off before it's too late
I remember when you opened your mouth an'
Everything freaked at what come out
When I'm gone - remember that
You can't take the alley outta some o' these cats

You do what you want to but leave me out o'this
You're tangled up in Babylon blues