The Stranglers 15 Steps lyrics

There's a house on a hill you can hear it still, contemplation
There's a table a chair and a room that is spare, isolation
The topics discussed include dust, to the state of the nation
And the people in there trade in joy or disrepair, satisfaction

And there are 15 steps to heaven
Eddie Cochran got it wrong, and if you sow lend me your soul you feel the shake rattle and roll
Before to long

There's a time and a place and the thrill of the chase, deconstruction
You could let your guard down but it won't bring around, supplication
And it seems days on end till the sight of friend in conversation
But if things get you down its a short ride to town for libation

Nothing ever seems to hurry
There is no Greenwich mean time there

And with the setting of the sun strange if anything gets done, but we don't care

May the night be my ear voices whisper in your ear, apparition
but when the wind blows and the old timbers glow, superstition
But there's no finer place to zone in and embrace, the seclusion
it's as sharp as a knife and the rest of your life is an illusion

And nothing ever seems to hurry, there is no Greenwich mean time there
and with the setting of the sun its strange if anything gets done
But we don't care
Cos there are 15 steps to heaven
Old Eddie Cochran got it wrong, and if you sow lend me your soul you feel the shake rattle and roll
Before to long