The Great Deceiver

Health-food faggot with a bartered bride

Likes to comb his hair with a dipper ride

Once had a friend with a cloven foot

Once he called the tune in a chequered quit

 

Great Deceiver

 

In the door on the floor in a paper bag

There's a shoe-shine boy with a gin-shop slag

She raised him up and she called him son

And she canonised the ground that he walked upon

 

Great Deceiver

 

Cigarettes

ice cream

figurines of the Virgin Mary

Cigarettes

ice cream

figurines of the Virgin Mary

 

Cigarettes

ice cream

cadillacs blue jeans

 

In the night he's a star in the Milky Way

He's a man of the world by the light of day

A golden smile and a proposition

And the breath of God smells of sweet sedition

 

Great Deceiver

 

Sing hymns make love get high fall dead

He'll bring his perfume to your bed

He'll charm your life 'til the cold winds blow

Then he'll sell your dreams to a picture show

 

Cigarettes

ice cream

figurines of the Virgin Mary

Cigarettes

ice cream

figurines of the Virgin Mary

 

Cadillacs

blue jeans

dixieland playing on the ferry

Cadillacs

blues jeans

drop a glass full of antique sherry

Songtext: Palmer-James, Richard W.