Morality Is Vanity - Momus

Nobody is evil, nobody is good

All the guilty people have misunderstood

It’s really nothing personal

You shouldn’t blame yourself

The crimes are irreversible

The life sentence is death

So here we are again in cabaret

At the cave of the Golden Calf

Sensitive flowers stay at home tonight

We are playing for the others

The ones given to pleasures

The ones who still remember how to laugh

A problem is no problem after all

In the noise and smoke of the music hall

And if you get no joy from music hall

Remember there is always alcohol

And if you get no joy from gin

Here is the abyss: jump in!

Seven million people died in the great war

A bout of influenza quadrupled that score

Why pimp to posterity?

Why should they admire us?

All the heroes of Valhalla

Weigh less than a virus

Standing on the courthouse dome

Justice puts her blindfold on

Down below the innocent are strutting

On a catwalk of shame

This year’s fashion in crime will be

Less child abuse, more blasphemy

Morality is vanity

The ugly given flattery grow vain

So here we are again in cabaret

At the cave of the Golden Calf

Laughing in the face of desperation

As we spin towards the future

At one second per second

Like records on the pin of a phonograph

The future is no problem after all

In the noise and smoke of the music hall

And if you get no joy from music hall

Remember there is always alcohol

And if you get no joy from gin

Give this world a miss

Everybody sing

Here is the abyss: jump in!