Roger Waters - Amused To Death
Amused To Death    7th September 1992

“Three Wishes”    (Waters)
Reached back for the bottle,
And rubbed against the lamp,
Genie came out smiling
Like some Eastern tramp.

He said ‘hey boy what's happening
What is going on?
You can have three wishes
If you don't take too long.
If you don't take too long’.
I said, ‘well
I wish they were all happy, in the Lebanon.
Wish somebody'd help me write this song.
I wish when I was young,
My old man had not been gone.
Genie said, ‘consider it done’.

Oh, oh there's something in the air,
And you don't know what it is.
You see someone through the window,
Who you've just learned to miss.
And the road leads on to glory, but
You've used up your last wish,
Your last wish.
And you want her to come home ho home.
Bring her home.

Genie said ‘I'm sorry,
But that's the way it goes.
Where the hell's the lamp, sucker,
It's time for me to go.
Bye’.

There's something in the air,
And you don't know what it is.
You see someone through the window,
Who you've just learned to miss.
And the road leads on to glory, but
You've used up your last wish,
Your last wish,
And you want her to come home ho home.