Backlash Love Affair - Richard Thompson

An iron maiden stole my heart away-o black day

Her siren songs seemed to call to me-o destiny

She spat her thrash metal lyrics right into my mind

The stage thundered and the

Smoke bombs made me blind

She sang, Hello, Liebchen, wollen Sie ein Jig-a-jig, nein?

She says, left, right, right, left

Come on Joe, don’t be slow

Up, down, down, up

Come on Joe, time to go

In, out, out, in

Do it if you love me Joe

I know it’s art for art’s sake

But how much more can I take

What’s my share of this backlash love affair

Her hair extensions down to her knees-what a tease

She got tattoos everywhere you look-she's a comic book

Why she goes for my type I’ll never understand

She’s so demure when we promenade hand in hand

And when we get back home she

Let’s me know she’s in command

Those iron maidens, cool as a marble slab

They wrap aroound you and the cold knives cut and stab

I can’t live my life as someone else’s shishkebab