Reality Attack

lyrics by the Poison Girls

Reaching out my hand I slipped it over
A most expensive fruit
of some yellow colour
Reaching out my hand I softly stroked
The boy's face in memory of darkness
Reaching out my hand
at the bossman's door
I turned the handle - I touched the money
Reaching out my hand I took the money
Reaching out my hand I felt the cold zip
And the rough cloth of his trousers
The pigskin leather wallet
was fat in my fingers
Stuffed with his papers
stuffed with his money
It slipped from my fingers
fell down to the floor
Fell out round my feet
it was out of control
Reaching out my hand
I saw the handcuffs.

it's all right lady it's only a reality attack
Its all right lady you'll soon get your sanity back

Reaching out my hand
I pressed my fingers round
A soft and scented fruit
of some dull red colour
Reaching out my hand the red juice
squeezed through my fingers
Like blood into the white bowl
Reaching out my hand to the cup of wine
That stained my teeth
I threw the cup at the window
And the red juice - red streaks falling
falling like rain
Like rain down the windows
like blood on my eyes
The steel wheels rumbling
on the tiled floor
As they carried me away
carried me away
Reaching out my hand I saw the needle.
Reaching out my hand I slipped it over
A strange and pulsing fruit of some
rare blue colour
Reaching out my hand
the baby sprang from my grasp
And leaped into the night sky...
Reaching out my hand
in the supermarket
Nightmare of ugliness
I AM ALONE
Reaching out my hand I cry for mercy
In the impossible dream
of the merchants of knives
Purveyors of furniture, dealers in dust,
displayers of lies, polluter's of flesh,
takers of tickets, packagers of packets,
fillers of shelves,
From the brightest shelf I choose
Reaching out my hand
I take the poison...

it's all right lady it's only a reality attack
Its all right lady you'll soon get your sanity back

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