Deep Purple Time for Bedlam song lyrics

Descending the cold steps of the institution for the politically insane

Never to be seen again

Saying farewell to daylight

From henceforth I shall rot in stinking bed of wet straw

Right from the ashes of life...

I learned to behave

What to believe

What not to say

From cradle to grave

Ah...

Like a good little slave!

Sucking my milk

From the venomous tit of the state!

Clearly designed to suppress every thought of escape

Ah...

I surrunder to fate!

No pity... No pity!

Don't want no pity for me in this filthy cell

I'll see you in hell... see you in hell!

Frozen in time, I'm a specimen pinned to my throne

With an army of butterflies pilloried placid and prone

Ah...

We were never alone!

No pity! No pity! Don't want no pity for me in this filthy cell

I'll see you in hell...

After centuries of living with nothing but my convictions

Broken fingers clawing through the walls of my incarceration

Escaping the clutches of eternal damnation

I was justified...