1492

I'm a Russian Jew American Impersonating African Jamaican What I want to be is an Indian I'm gonna be a cowboy in the end I guess I bought a gun 'Cause it impresses all the little girls I see And then they all wanna sleep with me Oh where did we disappear? Into the silence that surrounds us And then drowns us in the end Where are these people who impersonate our friends? Say come again, come again, come again Into the dark Italian underground With disco lights and disco sounds And skinny girls who drink champagne Then they take me on their knees again And pull me up and out the door To railway cars and tranny-whores And mornings spreading out across The feathered thighs of angels Oh were did we disappear To the silence that surrounds us And then drowns us in the end Will they try to push you out to keep you in? I say come again, come again, come again In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue In 1493, he came home across the deep blue sea In 1494, he did it with the girl next door In 1495, he barely made it out alive In 1964, these sailors left me at the door In 1970, some people got their hands on me And I'm the king of everything And I'm the king of nothing, nothing And I am the king of everything I am the king of nothing Oh where did we disappear To the silence that surrounds us And then drowns us in the end Where are these people who impersonate our friends? I say come again, come again, come again Oh where did we disappear To the silence that surrounds us And then drowns us in the end Where they try to get you out to get you in And all these people who impersonate our friends Say come again, come again, come again Come again, come again