Take a look at yourself babe, take a look at yourself

Take a look at yourself babe

You ain't exactly a picture of health

In your finest hour at the height of your power

Everything's gone sour

Your ivory tower morphed into a cell

Confidence shattered, mad as a hatter,

What's the matter, what's the matter, what's the matter, what's the matter with you?

Don't try pulling me down to your level

Ain't nothing worst than a phony-assed rebel

You do what you want to but leave me out o' this

You're tangled up in the Babylon blues

You a yellowin' book, got an amethyst skin, you been taken in by the parasites

Feeding off your adrenalin

You gotta fight without, you gotta fight within, you gotta flat-out swim

That ominous current that's sweeping you in

Meals on wheels? Sympathy?

What d'ya want, What d'ya want, What d'ya want, What d'ya want from me?

There's a big black cloud hangin' over your head

Looks like silver but it's heavy as lead

You do what you want to but leave me out o' this

You're tangled up in the Babylon blues

Say you gonna quit, that's the end of it, but the pieces don't fit, what am I stupid?

I don't buy it, I don't buy it

Just another blind beggar on the road to fame

With a messed up body and a messed up brain, I don't buy it

I don't buy it

I don't buy it

I don't buy it

I don't buy it

It's a cynical world, babe, it's a bad old world, it's a sinister world babe

You get what you want an' you're still miserable

At the terminal gate, at the terminal gate, at the terminal gate

You better back off before it's too late

An' I remember when you opened your mouth an'

Everybody freeaked at what came out

When I'm gone, remember that

You can't take the alley outta none o' those cats

You do what you want to but leave me out o' this

You're tangled up in the Babylon blues