A woman shrieks
From the apartment below
Is it noisy love
Or a bruise-laying blow

Domestic bliss
Dirty needle hiss
Cheap broken street life

Just another fight
On a social housing row
The synthesizer swells
On my radio

Gimme some emotion
Something I can chew on
Some honesty and hatred
Some lustful embraces

Oh what a lovely
Sounding world
Hey what a lovely
Sounding world

Incoming news
From a foreign battleground
No choir of angels
Sings a soothing sound

Kids die in a crossfire
Of politics gone mad
Ideologues
Dogs shitting led

Mom and dad wait at home
For a knock on the door
The synthesizer swells
On my radio

Gimme some emotion
Something I can chew on
Some honesty and hatred
Some lustful embraces

Oh what a lovely
Sounding world
Hey what a lovely
Sounding world…

Down in the street
Who’s getting beat
For something to eat

Why it’s an ugly old man
Brown bagging it again
Digging out his lunch
From a garbage can

His broken bones don’t register
In his broken mind
He don’t need no doctor
To see his heart
Beats way out of time

Gimme some emotion
Something I can chew on
Some honesty and hatred
Some lustful embraces

Hey what a lovely
Sounding world
Hey what a lovely
Sounding world…