Elton John - Madness lyrics

[Verse 1] The fuse is set and checked once more Then left beside a back street door And in the cold gray light, someone sees a shadow Run through the night and out of sight They hide inside a smoke filled room To hear at last the blast of doom And so the deed is done, they listen To the final countdown begun, three, two, one Madness, it's a kind of madness That turns good men bad And we're helpless, caught up In the madness of a world gone mad The roar of fire rings out on high And flames light up the black night sky A child screams out in fear, a hopeless cry for help But no one is near enough to hear As walls collapse and timbers flare The smell of d**h hangs in the air When help at last arrives they try to fight the flame But nothing survives of all those lives [Chorus] And it's madness, every time a victim dies There is madness, burning in a blind man's eyes And it's madness, hidden in the hate and pain There is madness, burning in a wild man's brain [Chorus] And it's madness, every time the bullets start There is madness, burning in a poor man's heart And it's madness, something that we can't control There is madness, burning in a madman's soul, madness