Paolo Rumi - Momus

I am a theme park

Paolo Rumi

Here are my gates

Come into me

I’m a dream park

Here in the rain

Filling the waves

Troubling space

With my SOS

Down the parade

Over the sea

Come follow me

I’m a theme park

I’m a DJ

All through the night

Trying to be dumb

Asserting the right to be different

From everyone else

Seeking someone

To join me so we can be

Different

In the same way

Paolo Rumi

The minotaur guy

The labyrinth guide

On the mother of rides

I’m a theme park

Come step inside

Come be my bride

Frankenstein’s just a working class guy

In the kitsch world of pop

His salvation

I am a dream park

I ride a white swan

On a black pond

On and on

Through the hot nights

Towards cities of papier mache

I’m a theme park

The bride was a man

The family planned

The three of us there in the ghost house

We’re the deviant ones

The long way we’ve come

The burdens we’ve borne

Will one day be etched on our face

But not yet -- we’re still young

Too young to be crushed by the weight

Of your difference from us

I’m a poem

J. Alfred Prufrock

Sinking my teeth in the peach

I am a theme park

Advertising

Learning to love the consumer society

I am a DJ

Filling the waves

Troubling space

With my SOS

I’m a DJ

From the revolution

Advertising

Emotional states

Trying to discover intelligent life upon earth someplace

(Trying to be dumb, trying to be bright)

I’m a DJ

All through the night

Trying to be dumb

Trying to be different from everyone else

Seeking someone to join me

So we can be different the same way

A theme park

You have no choice

Here are my gates

Discover my voice…