Roll Call

By Peter Murphy

On Deep

Released on 1989

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[Verse 1]

On a long and winding grey paved street

Your breath the only friend

Chattering others surrounding you

You're going out again

"It's a laugh and a gas new crowd"

You tell yourself

While buttoning up your new red shirt

It's been a-twenty years of doing this

Just the same night into night

Day into day

Oh, with your preset mind


[Verse 2]

Wake up with a preset mind

With no self control

And you decide to call the Roll Call of the socialites

Who mortified, can't see as far as their next surprise

Yeah, happy with nothing but the sweet F.A. of the night

Believing that they're alive and well

But if asked, they have nothing to tell

Except the words of a clashing line

Ill kempt and out of sync

Even real sounds like the zero

To a brain in lip sync


[Chorus]

Roll

Roll

Roll

Roll


[Instrumental]


[Verse 1]

On a long and winding grey paved street

Your breath the only friend

Chattering others surrounding you

You're going out again

"It's a laugh and a gas new crowd"

You tell yourself

While buttoning up your new red shirt

It's been a-twenty years of doing this

Just the same night into night

Day into day

Forget your preset mind


[Chorus]

Roll

Roll

Roll

Roll