Madame Helga
This is the first single from You Gotta Go There To Come Back. The CD features High As The Ceiling and Royal Flush which was later re-recorded as Deadhead as B-sides, and the DVD features the video and live recordings from Glastonbury 2002 and V2002.
CD1
1. Madame Helga2. High as the Ceiling
3. Royal Flush (Mono Demo)
CD2
1. Madame Helga2. High as the Ceiling
3. Royal Flush (Mono Demo)
DVD
1. Madame Helga (Video)2. Madame Helga (Glastonbury)
3. Madame Helga (V2002)
Lyrics
Mary Mary where you been
You’ve been out all night
You ain’t got no sleep
I’ve been dancing in the hills
At a place I know
She said ‘and that’s the place
Where the fire flies glow’
Had to slap my white face
Pull my head from the clouds
And I kept
Buying and, lying and flying, relying and dying
To know what spins her world around
Good morning I missed ya
But ya bring me down
I saw an Indian roller
Today on the line
It was the forty eighth hour
We fought our forty eighth fight
Madame Helga’s folly
Is where I spent last night
She’s been married not once
Not twice, but three
And that’s the livin’ lovin’ woman
I want me to be
There were pictures and paintings
Of freaks like me
So I drank with my devil
For my company
Had to slap my white face
Pull my head from my clouds
And I kept
Buying and, lying and flying, relying and dying
To know what spins her world around
Good morning I missed ya
But ya bringing me down
I saw an Indian roller
Today on the line
It was the forty eighth hour
We fought our forty eighth fight
Madame Helga’s folly
Is where I spent last night
Good morning I missed ya
But ya bringing me down
I saw an Indian roller
Today on the line
It was the forty eighth hour
We fought our forty eighth fight
Madame Helga’s folly
Is where I spent last night


