Over the Edge
The Kinks

Everybody is a victim of society
Comedy, tragedy, vaudeville and variety
Pantomime players in the grand tradition
Winners and losers till the intermission

Girl, I know the world's a stage
That's what the poet said
But I think our weird relationship
Is way above my head

I'll be your Casanova whipping by
If that's what you desire
But once I start performing
I can't easily retire

I'll swing on a trapeze
I'll jump through hoops
And I'll eat fire
Be a human cannon ball

And walk on the high wire
Put on make-up, wear a wig
I'll be your tragic clown
But once you've got me up there

I can't easily come down
Don't drive me over the edge of it
Can't you see I've got mixed-up emotions
Joined the crowd just to be part of it

That was the start of it
Oh, now I'm over the edge
(Don't drive me over the edge of it)
Oh, over the edge

The world is turning upside-down
Civilization's dead, over the edge
Economic turmoil, now the world is in the red
Democracy's a shadow of its former glory

Law and orders broken-down
End of story
My next door neighbour's totally snapped
He's gone over the edge

He's putting up barbed wire barricades
Around the garden hedge
And planting land mines on the lawn
He's gone barmy

According to his wife, he's formed a secret army
Ever since he got laid off
Something inside snapped
His wife says he's gone 'round the twist

Now there's no turning back
All night he waits in the garden shed
For the enemy to attack
A suburban vigilante

Dressed up in a union jack
He's over the edge, oh, over the edge
Don't drive me over the edge of it
Woman, you are gonna drive me

Totally over the edge
Is it yes or is it no
Are you gonna take the pledge
The pressures of society are getting to your brain

And forced you to act weird
And put me under all this strain
But don't drive me over the edge of it
Stop while I've still got emotions

Joined the crowd, just to be part of it
That was the start of it
Oh, over the edge
Don't drive me over the edge of it

Everybody is a victim of society
Comedy, tragedy
Vaudeville, variety
Pantomime players in the grand tradition

Forced into roles that leave them totally driven
Right over the edge


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  (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman [Live]   A Face In The Crowd   A Face In The Crowd   A Face In The Crowd   A Gallon Of Gas   A Gallon of Gas [US Single Extended Edit][#][*]   A House in the Country   A Little Bit of Sunlight   Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues [Live]   Alcohol [Live]   All Day and All of the Night [DVD]   All Day and All of the Night [Live]   All Night Stand   All Of My Friends Were There   Animal   Animal Farm   Animals In The Zoo   Apeman [Live]   Artificial Light   Artificial Man   Attitude   Attitude [DVD]   Attitude [Live]   Autumn Almanac [Mono Version][*]   Babies   Baby Face   Baby Face [Live]   Bald Headed Woman   Banana Boat Song   Bernadette   Big Black Smoke [LA Gran Humoreda]   Black Messiah   Black Messiah [Single Remix][*]   Brainwashed [Live]   Bright Lights   Bright Lights [*]   Cadillac   Celluloid Heroes [DVD]   Celluloid Heroes [Live]   Cliches of the World (B Movie)   Cliches of the World (B Movie)   Close To The Wire   Come on Now   Come on Now [*]   Completely   Dancing in the Street   David Watts [Live]   Daylight   Dead End Street   Dead End Street [Callejón Sin Salida]   Dear Margaret   Death of a Clown [Mono Version]   Definite Maybe   Demolition   Dias (Days)   Did Ya   Did You See His Name?   Do It Again   Do It Again [Acoustic]   Do You Remember Walter?   Do You Wish to Be a Man?   Don't You Fret   Down All The Days (Till 1992)   Dreams   Drift Away   Ducks On The Wall   Easy Come, There You Went   Education   Entertainment   Everybody's A Star (Starmaker)   Father Christmas   Father Christmas [*]   Finale   Full Moon   Get Back In Line   Get Up   Give the People What They Want [Live]   Going Solo   Good Day   Good Day [Extended Edit][#][*]   Good Luck Charm   Got My Feet On The Ground   Gotta Get The First Plane Home   Groovy Movies   Guilty   Hatred (A Duet)   Have Another Drink   Hay Fever   Headmaster   Helga   Here Comes Flash   Here Comes Yet Another Day   Hold My Hand   Holiday [Live]   Holiday In Waikiki   Holiday Romance   How Are You?   How Do I Get Close?   I Don't Need You Anymore   I Go To Sleep   I Gotta Go Now   I Gotta Move   I Need You   I Took My Baby Home   I Took My Baby Home [*]   I'm A Lover Not A Fighter   I've Been Driving On Bald Mountain   I've Got That Feeling   In A Foreign Land   In A Space   In Disgrace   Introduction to Solution   It's Alright   Johnny Thunder   Johnny Thunder   Juke Box Music   Just Friends   Kentucky Moon   Kentucky Moon [#][*][Demo Version]   Killing Time   Labour of Love   Last Of The Steam-Powered Trains   Lavender Hill   Life Goes On   Life On The Road   Lincoln County   Little Women   Live Life   Live Life [UK Album Version]   Live Life [US Single Mix][*]   Living on a Thin Line [Live]   Lola (Live) [Live]   Lola [DVD]   Lola [Instrumental]   Lola [Live]   Long Distance [#][*]   Long Tall Sally   Long Tall Shorty   Look A Little On The Sunny Side   Look for Me Baby   Look Through Any Doorway   Loony Balloon   Lost And Found   Love Me Till the Sun Shines [Mono Version]   Low Budget   Low Budget [DVD]   Low Budget [Live]   Massive Reductions   Maximum Consumption   Mirror of Love   Mirror of Love [Alternate mix][#][*][Version]   Misery   Misfits [Live]   Missing Persons   Missing Persons   Misty Water   Moments   Money Talks   Monica   Morning Song   Motorway   Mountain Woman   Mountain Woman [#][*]   Moving Pictures   Moving Pictures   Mr. Big Man   Mr. Reporter   Mr. Songbird   Mr. Wonderful [Live]   My Diary   National Health [Live]   Natural Gift   Nine to Five   No More Looking Back   Nobody Gives   Noise   Nothing Lasts Forever   Now and Then   Oh Where Oh Where Is Love?   On The Outside   On the Outside [Demo 1976]   Once a Thief   One of the Survivors [Single Edit][*]   Only a Dream   Opening   Opening [Live]   Ordinary People   People Take Pictures of Each Other   Perfect Strangers   Perfect Strangers [*]   Permanent Waves   Phenomenal Cat   Phobia   Pictures in the Sand [Instrumental]   Polly   Preservation (Single) [*][Mix]   Pressure   Pressure [DVD]   Pressure [Live]   Prince of the Punks   Prince of the Punks [Live]   Property   Repetition   Revenge   Revenge [*]   Rosemary Rose   Running Round Town   Rush Hour Blues   Salvation Road   Scattered   Schooldays   Scrapheap City   Scum of the Earth   Second-Hand Car Spiv   See My Friends   See My Friends   She Bought A Hat Like Princess Marina   She's Got Everything   Shepherds of the Nation   Sitting By the Riverside   Sitting In My Hotel   Sitting in the Midday Sun   Situation Vacant   Skin & Bone [Live]   Sleepless Nights   Sleepwalker   Slum Kids   Slum Kids [Take 1][Live][#][*]   So Long   So Mystifying   Sold Me Out   Somebody, Stole My Car   Something Better Beginning   Spotty Grotty Anna   Starstruck   State of Confusion   Still Searching   Stop Your Sobbing   Stop Your Sobbing   Stop Your Sobbing [Live]   Stormy Sky   Superman   Superman [DVD]   Supersonic Rocket Ship   Surviving   Sweet Lady Genevieve   Tell Me Now So I'll Know   The Contenders   The First Time We Fall In Love   The Hard Way   The Hard Way [DVD]   The Hard Way [Live]   The Informer   The Last Assembly   The Million-Pound-Semi-Detached   The Poseur   The Road   The Video Shop   The Village Green Preservation Society   The Way Love Used To Be   Think Visual   This Strange Effect   Til Death Do Us Part   Till the End of the Day [Live]   Till the End of the Day [Live][#][*]   Time Will Tell   To the Bone   Too Hot   Top of the Pops [Live]   Trust Your Heart   UK Jive   Underneath the Neon Sign   Unreal Reality   Victoria [DVD]   Victoria [Live]   Voices in the Dark   Wait Till the Summer Comes Along   Wall of Fire   War Is Over   Waterloo Sunset [Mono Version]   Welcome to Sleazy Town   What Are We Doing?   When a Solution Comes   When I See That Girl of Mine [Unreleased Demo Reco...   When I Turn Off The Living Room Light   When Work Is Over   When You Were a Child   Where Are They Now?   Where Did My Spring Go?   Where Did My Spring Go?   Where Have All the Good Times Gone [Live]   Whip Lady   Wicked Annabella   Willesden Green   Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight   Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight   Wonderboy   Wonderboy [*]   Wonderboy [Mono Version][*]   Word of Mouth   Working at the Factory   You Do Something to Me   You Really Got Me   You Really Got Me (Live) [Live]   You Really Got Me [DVD]   You Really Got Me [Live]   You Really Got Me [Live][#]   You Shouldn't be Sad   You Still Want Me   Young Conservatives

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