[ti:Over The Edge] [ar:The Kinks] [al:Phobia] [by:biangzi] [00:00.00]Over The Edge [00:01.95]============================= [00:03.02]The Kinks - Phobia [00:05.22]Written by: Ray Davies (The Kinks) [00:07.22]Published by: Davray Music Ltd., 1991 [00:09.36] [00:17.12]Everybody is a victim of society [00:21.17]Comedy, tragedy, vaudeville and variety [00:25.31]Pantomime players in the grand tradition [00:29.97]Winners and losers till the intermission [00:34.37] [00:36.00]Girl, I know the world's a stage [00:40.81]That's what the poet said [00:42.90]But I think our weird relationship [00:45.33]Is way above my head [00:47.13]I'll be your Casanova whipping by [00:49.45]If that's what you desire [00:51.33]But once I start performing [00:53.58]I can't easily retire [00:55.82]I'll swing on a trapeze [00:56.76]I'll jump through hoops, and I'll eat fire [00:59.55]Be a human cannon ball [01:01.77]And walk on the high wire [01:03.64]Put on make-up, wear a wig [01:06.17]I'll be your tragic clown [01:08.09]But once you've got me up there [01:11.10]I can't easily come down [01:13.40] [01:14.15]Don't drive me over the edge of it [01:17.26]Can't you see I've got mixed-up emotions [01:21.21]Joined the crowd just to be part of it [01:25.98]That was the start of it [01:28.16]Oh, now I'm over the edge [01:33.25](Don't drive me over the edge of it [01:36.90]Oh, over the edge [01:42.64] [01:44.19]The world is turning upside-down [01:46.75]Civilization's dead, over the edge [01:49.40]Economic turmoil, now the world is in the red [01:52.59]Democracy's a shadow of its former glory [01:57.22]Law and orders broken-down [01:59.45]End of story [02:00.88] [02:10.19]My next door neighbour's totally snapped [02:12.43]He's gone over the edge [02:14.13]He's putting up barbed wire barricades [02:16.24]Around the garden hedge [02:18.11]And planting land mines on the lawn [02:21.84]He's gone barmy [02:24.00]According to his wife, he's formed a secret