From the recording Come Back, Dr. Caligari

Lyrics

We had no chance of living for tomorrow
Of turning back our sorrow
Of getting through today
We get decked out in all our fine apparel
While the night is draped in peril
And our instincts fade away

Dance with no illusions
Our sweetest dissolutions
Come up and we’ll stay
Ahead of the hangman

Bodies piled up like a tessellation
Hungering for sensation
We drift into the night
Vodka tells us just what we were missing
The friends we were dismissing
And telling wrong from right

Dance without illusion
Give up hope of a solution
Come up and you’ll stay
Ahead of the hangman

We got no chance of living past tomorrow
Of getting past our sorrow
Of finding a better way
So get decked out in all your best apparel
Let your instincts turn to feral
Take my hand and stay

Dance with no illusions
Embrace your dissolution
Give up and we’ll stay
Ahead of the hangman