1. OVER THE TOP

- intro - stage chat: This is a very heavy microphone stand. No queen could manage this - I tell you that.
This is a real man's microphone stand here Dave... Where d'you got these stands from? They're really heavy - So are you.
Well we're gonna do something really heavy in a minute. Like - fall off the stage on top of you, With about two hundred weight of iron in my hand.
You're a very tiny person, aren't you? You're all very tiny down there. You know, when I'm up here, I feel so big and mighty,
I feel like I'm the Master - Of the - Universe. You made me feel like that, And now, it's almost true.
Just wait and see what we do.

All in a day's work, all in, all in.
All in a day's work, all in, all in.
All in a day's work, all in all.

I would rather the fire storms of atmospheres
Than this cruel descent from a thousand years
of dreams, into the starkness of the capsule.

Where two of our crew still lay suspended cool
in their tombs of sleep.
Those nagging choirs of memory
the tubes and wires
worming from their flesh to machinery
I would have to cut

Such midwifery is but one function of the leader here
Floating in a sac of fluid dark
A clear century of space
Away from Earth
While one man stares from the trauma of his birth
Attending to the hypno-tapes
Assuring him
that this was reality
however grim
Our journey's end

Landing itself was nothing
We touched upon a shelf of rock
selected by the automind
And left a galaxy of dreams behind.....

And it's all a fable for fountains now.
It's all a fable for fountains now.
It's all a fable for fountains now.
All your childhood dreams, are available
For fountains now,
For fountains now,
Now now,
Now now now,
Fountains, fountains,
All going up in fountains, fountains.

And just a minute now.
When you look into my eyes,
You're looking at your own reflection.
And all you see is your disguise
You wear for your own protection.
So don't go telling me that you know just when to stop,
When to stop.
You know you`re going over the top.
Over the top.
It's over the top. Over the top.
Hey he's going, over the top.
Over the top, alright here it goes...

In 1916,
They dug the trenches.
We don't need them;
We have our own defences.
We don't need no officers to blow no whistle and scream
"Come on you guys wake up out of your dream
And follow me
Cos I'm going - Over the top.
Over the top. Follow me over the top.
Here he goes now,
Your country needs you."
Hey Kitchener, don't you know that moustaches went out with the Beatles?
Give me white feather! Give me white feather!
Give me white feather! Hung upon the wire. (2x)
Hung upon the wire.
Strung on barbed wire. Strung on barbed wire.

Goodbye genocide.


2. FREE FALL

Before you jump
You wear the frown
Of someone who is stalling
There's no up there's only down
In the void of falling

All you need to do is take
One step into the sky
Give yourself to gravity
Give death another try
In free fall, free fall

The wind will take your frightened face
And force your mouth to smile
While destiny is on your case
The gods look up your file

Like a host of angels wings
For thirty seconds of freedom squared
You've cut the puppet strings
In free fall
Free fall


3. DEATH TRAP

In the back of my neck I can feel a strange sensation
Feels like I'm heading for the crisis of all creation
Only those with death wish understand my situation
Feels like Jesus Christ heading for the stations of the cross,
In my death trap, death trap
Running in my death trap, death trap
Chicken running in my death trap, death trap

Heading for the crossroads of fiery crucifixion
Lighting up the night sky with bitterness distinction
While I hold the wheel of fate, smell of burning friction
I feel like a hero heading for extinction

It's the shell of steel or plastic
Monkey on elastic, going up and down
Crank shaft cracking up
Oil pressure going down
Brake drums blowing out
Tyres on fire now
Differential seize up, unbalanced camshaft
Worn out pistons rings,
Brake fade, brake fade
Hydraulic leak out, radiator overheat
Monkey on elastic, going up and down
Shell of steel or plastic, turning round
Shell of steel or plastic
Monkey on elastic, going up and down