Matamala - City Night Life

To the city beat on a treacherous curve
Up upon the high wire you're observed –
You live as you live, you'll get what you deserve:
High life, dig those highlights
Sun City nightlife:
You'll be like a moth consumed by a flame

It's a rich man's world, kick those beggars and fools;
Conspicuous consumption the only rule
But the law of retribution will be terribly cruel

Oh, but you mustn't stop to think about your place upon the planet;
If you did, you might steal yourself away
And it doesn't really matter if the show goes up tomorrow
After all, this petty place is day to day
Highlights of the highlife
Dancing at midnight
Dancing all moral existence away

Nightlife, highlights, highlife, twilight...
Oh, you mustn't ever think about your place upon the planet
Don't look further than the bottom of a drink
Don't ever think about the way you'll feel tomorrow
Don't stop dancing or the boat will sink...
All in all it's gone before you blink

Highlights of the high life
Sun City nightlife
You'll be like a moth consumed by flame...
Twilight of the high life
Chimes at midnight...
You're still dancing all moral existence away

(A motor-bike in Afrika
He's riding the white line
Oblivious of snakes stretched out across the way like trip-wire...
He's dancing
Biko, Biko Biko, Biko...)