This song just puts me into a trace and just gets down into my soul !

New Religion 27th August '80


(A dialogue between the ego and the alter ego)


I've been now sauntering out and down a path sometime.

Come on, it takes me nowhere which I knew

Faces everywhere pulling grins and signs and things

Telling me not there man it's no go


(Don't go there boy)


I need a reason

I can't think without one now

Too much learning got to show

Call it treason

Maybe catch her don't know how

Too many things too much to know


Bring my timing in, seagulls gather on the wind.

Lady screaming, lady leave me out

'cause sometimes people stare

Coming down, electric chair

And steaming crowds they gather and they shout


Don't know why this evil bothers me Take another chance boy carry the fight

You can take him if you're fast

So why is he trying to follow me? Didn't I say if you're holdin' on

You'd be laughing at the last

How many reasons do they need? I get along fine with them friends of mine

But you have to make a choice

I might just believe this time You're singing out of tune, but the beat's in time

And it's us who make the noise


I'm talking for free, I can't stop myself, it's a new religion

I've something to see, I can't help myself, it's a new religion


Okay my reasoning might be clouded by the sun

But someone sees the departmental lie

You know this peacetime jabbing fist in stabbing knife

Only get one look before you die


Don't know why this evil follows me Gotta take pay for the saints 'n' sinners

In regulation hats 'n' scarves 'n' things

So why does he try to bother me? Walking in formation down the lane

> They carry their cross make a church bell ring

How many reasons do they need? Army majors pull a mean cool truth

There lying in a swimming pool

I might just be right this time Searching for the undeniable truth

That a man is just a fool


I'm talking for free, I can't stop myself, it's a new religion

I've something to see, I can't help myself, it's a new religion