If You Take Away the Make-Up (Then the Vampires They Will Die)

We sent cassette tapes to the oil rigs and the Arctic outpost camps
 Applied the basic rules of disco, attached harmonics to our amps
 Upstaged the werewolves of Wisconsin with applause we couldn't buy
 Cause if you take away the make-up, then the vampires they will die
 We heard them sing in their fake
 accents where the storefront placard hangs
 They kept alive the Brave Casino Sound
 For Leslie Conway Bangs
 But when the lights came up,
 the truth set in and record sales declined
 Cause if you take away the make-up, then the vampires they will die
 With any luck we'd see Chicago by the morning but we were late
 We missed The Cocktails at the Lounge Ax
 We'd been playing clubs from town to town
 And chasing bats from state to state
 We took the first bus out of Memphis, stood in line like we were dead
 And with a boarding pass in one hand you looked up at me and said:
 "Without the Revlon girls at Macy's Peter Murphy won't survive"
 Cause if you take away the make-up, then the vampires they will die
 And if you take away the make-up, then the vampires they will die
 And if you take away the make-up, then the vampires they will die