Lyrics Patti Smith

Patti Smith

Glitter in Their Eyes

It's been a while since I've seen your face

Been a while since I've walked this place

I see the monkeys riding on their bikes

Racing through the impossible night

You say you're feeling like a new tree

Oh, man they'll cut you from limb to limb

Pick your pockets with delight

Shake it to the right, shake it in the light

Oh, can't you see the glitter

The glitter in their eyes

Oh, can't you see the glitter

The glitter in their eyes

Genius stalking in new shoes

Have you got WTO blues

Dust of diamonds

Making you sneeze

Kids on rollers ready for running

Through the junkyards

Breezing through the halls

Racing through the malls

And walking through the walls

They'll strip your mind

Just for fun

Quoth the raven

Yum, yum, yum

Oh, can't you see the glitter

The glitter in their eyes

Oh, can't you see the glitter

The glitter in their eyes

Children, children everywhere

Selling souls for souvenirs

They've sold them out like as not

Just for chunks of Ankgor Vat

Oh, can't you see the glitter

The glitter in their eyes

Oh, can't you see the glitter

The glitter in their eyes

Oh, can't you see the glitter

The glitter in their eyes

Oh, can't you see the glitter

The glitter in their eyes

They'll trade you up, trade you down

Your body a commodity

Our sacred stage has been defaced

Replaced to grace the marketplace

Dow is jonesing at the bit

42nd Disney Street

Ragged hearts unraveling

Look out kids the gleam the gleam

Is not, is not