The Icing on the World Surbiton by Cardiacs Lyrics
{Video intro, the Watch With Mother and Cardiacs titles play followed by pictures of the band as in Seaside Treats set to the backdrop of an instrumental live introduction}
[Extended Intro]
[Verse 1]
When is it good or not good
To p-ret-ieve a petrifying life
Or to solving a problem
That's here tomorrow, gone today
"I am a worthy subject"
Says one person catching somebody out
"And I'm tired of all that I am doing now"
Says somebody else
[Verse 2]
Not to reason why
Ours is but to do and die
Says you, says I
Yes, it's starting to show
But it's already pie in the sky
No reason is adapted for ordinary use
In evеryday lives
There's a clausе that's not written down
We assume it's just a disguise
[Chorus]
Look, I know everything
Knowledge forms the best of me
After all I've done, don't blame me
No, not all the time
I put the icing on the world
[Verse 3]
Something is wrong, so how is it now?
Is there something on your mind?
Or are your problems deleting the course
That was set in your mind?
Now we are calm
Don't tell me you are living now
What you lived before
There's an- oh...
...to exude an air of some kind
[Verse 4]
Think back some years, the age of ten
That's not you, that was someone else
Different thoughts and surroundings
Just memories exist today
Now we are calm
But I don't think that we used to be
Is living but a farce?
There must be truth in what I say
Seeing as how the sun shines from my arse
[Chorus]
Dull seems the evergreen style of all our unity
Over the fence
An old mother's sympathy makes a spectacle of life
For the sake of love
Look, I know everything
Knowledge forms the best of me
After all I've done, don't blame me
No, not all the time
I put the icing on the world
Look, I know everything
Knowledge forms the best of me
After all I've done, don't blame me
No, not all the time
I put the icing on the world
World
[Extended Intro]
[Verse 1]
When is it good or not good
To p-ret-ieve a petrifying life
Or to solving a problem
That's here tomorrow, gone today
"I am a worthy subject"
Says one person catching somebody out
"And I'm tired of all that I am doing now"
Says somebody else
[Verse 2]
Not to reason why
Ours is but to do and die
Says you, says I
Yes, it's starting to show
But it's already pie in the sky
No reason is adapted for ordinary use
In evеryday lives
There's a clausе that's not written down
We assume it's just a disguise
[Chorus]
Look, I know everything
Knowledge forms the best of me
After all I've done, don't blame me
No, not all the time
I put the icing on the world
[Verse 3]
Something is wrong, so how is it now?
Is there something on your mind?
Or are your problems deleting the course
That was set in your mind?
Now we are calm
Don't tell me you are living now
What you lived before
There's an- oh...
...to exude an air of some kind
[Verse 4]
Think back some years, the age of ten
That's not you, that was someone else
Different thoughts and surroundings
Just memories exist today
Now we are calm
But I don't think that we used to be
Is living but a farce?
There must be truth in what I say
Seeing as how the sun shines from my arse
[Chorus]
Dull seems the evergreen style of all our unity
Over the fence
An old mother's sympathy makes a spectacle of life
For the sake of love
Look, I know everything
Knowledge forms the best of me
After all I've done, don't blame me
No, not all the time
I put the icing on the world
Look, I know everything
Knowledge forms the best of me
After all I've done, don't blame me
No, not all the time
I put the icing on the world
World