Recorded during lockdown, Bauhaus used the Surrealists’ “exquisite corpse” method to create the song, with each member coming up with a section without seeing what the other’s had done. The band set up some additional rules: Each member was given only one minute to fill, and only eight tracks to lay...
[Verse 1]
Bell bottom blues
No pain, no pain
I'll never see the boys again
'Cause I'm off to the funny farm
Drown out the blues with booze
Now it's off to the funny farm
[Verse 2]
I got news for you
Now I'm off to the funny farm
Casket of crisis
Too much tension and tears
I'll never see the boys again
'Cause I'm off to the funny farm
I'll never see the boys again
'Cause I'm off to the funny farm
[Refrain]
Dreaming of a perfect world
Dreaming of a perfect world
Dreaming of a perfect world
Dreaming of a perfect world
[Bridge]
The roulettista rolls the dice
The roulettista rolls
The roulettista rolls the dice
The roulettista rolls
The roulettista rolls the dice
The roulettista rolls
[Verse 3]
Off the map, off the mess
Grease the page but the book's intact
Every word, a verse, ten acts
Drop the ball and I'll bounce it back
We talk in dreams
And need not note
[Outro]
You're the cooling shadow of my cloud
I'll never see the boys again
'Cause I'm off to the funny farm
And fly the loom that the other made
We jog in dreams
(Not building a wall)
You're the cooling shadow of my cloud
'Cause I'm off to the funny farm
(Not building a wall)
Dreaming of a perfect world
(Not building a wall)
I'll never see the boys again
'Cause I'm off to the funny farm
(Not building a wall)
Dreaming of a perfect world
(Not building a wall
But making a brick)
Drink The New Wine was written by Bauhaus.
Drink The New Wine was produced by Bauhaus.
Bauhaus released Drink The New Wine on Wed Mar 23 2022.