Jungle Ride Songtext
von Fish

The car finally burned out around three
The blue beacon of a silent patrol
Car threw new shadows into the street
Turning my window into a flickering monitor screen
I′d seen the kids torch the vehicle before I left on
A nightly surfing run to a cybersex site in Chile
It wasn't as if they were getting rid of prints
Everyone knew it was them
They didn′t give a shit
They just wanted to see the flames, to
Throw a bit of light on the situation
I looked up the hill at the spread of the estate
The streetlights glowed like campfires of an army on the eve of battle
Or fireflies trapped in the canopy of an immense jungle
Jungle, young, mental, jungle
Here in the jungle
In the jungle


Where men don't cry and husbands lie
And you never have to justify a kick-in
When mates jump in to save your skin
If a chib is ever pulled out in a square go

Jungle ride, jungle ride
Tell me when it's over
Jungle ride, jungle ride
Tell me when it ends
Oh, here she comes ′round again
Here she comes ′round again
Here she comes 'round again
Here she comes, here she comes

The glazed eyes of porcelain clowns
Stare skywards at clouds of goldfish
Madly circling their own silent plastic worlds high above the children
Who stuff ping pong balls like pills
In the mouths of slow-rotating heads
Intentions true as an arrow′s flight
Winds a cuddly toy to while away an evening
Outside this ring of lies he'll claim his prize
She′ll sport love bites just to prove to all he's been there


Jungle ride, jungle ride
Tell me when it′s over
Jungle ride, jungle ride
Tell me when it ends
Jungle ride, jungle ride
Tell me when it's over
Jungle ride, jungle ride
Tell me when it ends
Oh, here she comes 'round again
Here she comes ′round again
Here she comes ′round again
Here she comes, here she comes

Jungle
Jungle
Jungle
Jungle

I crept along the edges of the parade
Staying glued to the shadows where the dogs
Slept uneasily on their chains under the caravans
I followed the drums and the pulsing light
'Til I came across a clearing in the centre of which was an attraction
And then I saw her
An angel in a chariot
Her hair blowing behind her like the tail of a comet
And I knew that she was mine
I knew that we were destined to leave this place together
We didn′t belong to this carnage
And the knowledge of escape was the
Only thing that was keeping me sane
But for now I could only watch and wait
As this was an arena I dared not enter

On the rim of the machine the animals have gathered
The big cats at a water hole
Waiting on the weak and wounded to stagger into their territory
So they could exercise some violence
And feed their starving reputations
No climb-down in this stand-off with the world
And they already know that they can never win the war
But in this battle they're gonna do some damage
The pack will follow the stragglers into the dawn
The young, mental jungle

Jungle ride, jungle ride
Tell me when it′s over
Jungle ride, jungle ride
Tell me when it ends
Jungle ride, jungle ride
Tell me when it's over
Jungle ride, jungle ride
Tell me when it ends
Jungle ride, jungle ride
Tell me when it′s over
Jungle ride, jungle ride
Tell me when it ends
Oh, here she comes 'round again
Here she comes 'round again
Here she comes ′round again
Here she comes, here she comes