Black sky over a city of hype Boiler-room belly with a steel-tooth pipe Smokestack cathedral, the gospel is grind Everyone a gear of a curious kind Steam in the alley, blood in the drain City made of pipes braided into a chain There's a pipe in the church, there's a pipe in the bed Whole city is a pipe coming down on your head! Lead pipe lullaby, swingin' it down Iron in the artery, soot in the crown Black on the boardwalk, red in the sky This is how kings kiss a body goodbye Pipes in the bedsheets, pipes in the bone Livin' in a foundry at the foot of a throne Heavy in the hand is a hammer of might LEAD PIPE LULLABYE TO KISS YOU GOODNIGHT Work the line, work the lies Hammer hits you the same Don't look up into their eyes Head on a swivel AND IN THE GAME Behind the smokestacks, men with no faces Counting the coins from a hundred odd places Hot iron rain on a rust-colored street Sound of the hammer keeping time with my feet Don't break a sweat 'cause you break it you buy it Thinkin' 'bout quittin, buddy don't even try it There's a pipe at the podium, a pipe in the press There's a pipe on a pulpit WITH A PIPE IN A DRESS! Lead pipe lullaby, swingin' it down Iron in the artery, soot in the crown Black on the boardwalk, red in the sky This is how kings kiss a body goodbye Pipes in the bedsheets, pipes in the bone Livin' in a foundry at the foot of a throne Heavy in the hand is a hammer of might LEAD PIPE LULLABYE TO KISS YOU GOODNIGHT What if I climbed to the top of the stack Cut the broadcast and then never went back The hand on my collar is a hand made of brass The voice is a devil in church AT CRITICAL MASS! Lead pipe lullaby, swingin' it down Iron in the artery, soot in the crown Black on the boardwalk, red in the sky This is how kings kiss a body goodbye Pipes in the bedsheets, pipes in the bone Livin' in a foundry at the foot of a throne Heavy in the hand is a hammer of might LEAD PIPE LULLABYE TO KISS YOU GOODNIGHT
