Song Lyric Sunday – Toys

This weeks is about songs about toys.

.Punishment of Luxury were a post punk band formed in Gateshead in 1976. The band’s members were Red Helmet, Neville Luxury, Liquid Les, Brian Bond and Jimmy Giro.

This track was released in 1978

Wires stick through my soul, my actions are controlled
Turning me from free man to puppet life suspended,
in puppet life

Your demands are my role, lost in space and time
I crawl for you
Once I had my own mind but in your sewer I was blinded
Wallowing around like an albino crocodile, in puppet life

I used to laugh an make the sun shine
But then you come and made me freeze
I haven’t had a friend for such a long time

Once my world was wild but clear
No-one over me to watch an overhear
Now I have only dreams to sell
I’m going cheap at the gates of hell, at the gates Of
hell, hell

Our bodies can take no more
The fascist always ends up on the floor
Our day will come we pray, I’ll be OK when I’ve
Been mended, mended
But until then I will be swinging on your rope, with no
hope
All I have, all I know are puppets.

Writers– Luxury/Bond