It's opening night,
  let's give them their money's worth.
 May this show run and run,
 till it falls off the edge of the earth!
Put on your make-up
powder puff adder of mine,
dusk is upon us,
switch on that shining sign!

I am a major prophet,
I'm heaven and hell bent strong.
(Heaven and hell bent, heaven and hell bent strong!)
I am the height of a sign,
wide of the mark.
(Deep as the Amazon, deep as the Amazon!)

I must impress on them.
This opportunity!
It'll be too late,
by the time they put me on TV.
I feel sharp,
I feel blunt,
a precision instrument,
I really gleam.
Watch me bite on a bullet
and spit out a limousine.

I am a major prophet,
I'm heaven and hell bent strong.
(Heaven and hell bent, heaven and hell bent strong!)
I am the height of a sign,
wide of the mark.
(Deep as the Amazon, deep as the Amazon!)

Feel my wild sadness blowing down.
Feel my wild sadness blowing all the way down.

I stand before you,
in full possession of the facts.
I make no use of effects,
no use for clever counterbalancing acts.
I've broken every bone
of meaning in this body and this soul.
I've bought knowledge at the cost
of a complete loss of self-control.

All the truth you can bear,
is yours to take away tonight.
(The longer you leave it,
the more there's to leave.)
Like you, I once saw
those pretty colours in black and white.
(You've got to get it over with,
stop being naive!)
Strangers to truth and to fiction
you will remain.
(If I meet you at the fountainhead,
I'll win you downstream.)
Walk away if you like,
you've only yourself to blame.
(I'm not talking eyewash,
I'm talking strychnine.)

I am a major prophet,
I'm heaven and hell bent strong.
(Heaven and hell bent, heaven and hell bent strong!)
I am the height of a sign,
wide of the mark.
(Deep as the Amazon, deep as the Amazon!)

I am a major prophet,
I'm heaven and hell bent strong.
(Heaven and hell bent, heaven and hell bent strong!)
I am the height of a sign,
wide of the mark.
(Deep as the Amazon, deep as the Amazon!)

And I simply may be evil,
I simply may be evil.