Flashback

I never go by
labels
I never sure
See a bottle of
good things baby
And want for more
I always listen in
HEY YEH, YEH, YEH,
YEH, YEH
Keep a tally on all
the choices
honey
If they should
show

Chorus:
Flashback-wipe
that frown
Flashback-when
they put you
down
Flashback-never
show
Flashback-what
you really know

You pay your money
to hold me baby
I'm not to blame
For any otherswho
used you badly
Oh such a shame
I always want
what's easy
HEY YEH, YEH, YEH,
YEH, YEH
So intent on
a living
heaven honey
You'll never know

(chorus)

Next minute you're
in there fighting
The stakes
are high
Never won any
major battles
But I always try
I maybe will
someday
HEY YEH, YEH, YEH,
YEH, YEH
All nickels and
moonlight-
dreaming honey
Oh what a game

(chorus)

Inky Bloaters

Look and they
can't be found
Playing their
presence down
Listen they make
no sound
Look and they go
to ground

You may wake
to find
Your coffee cup
is empity
And the tray
you left
Is not bedside
the door
You are sure you
had another
hidden carton
When you look
for it It's not there
anymore

Inky bloaters!

They're a
consequence of
never being sure

Look and they
can't be found
Playing their
presence down
Listen they make
no sound
Look and they go
to ground

And the pencil
that you had
Has now gone
missing
You could swear
you had it
Just the other day
All the things
that make your
little life
Run smoothly
When you search
They've all just
gone away

Inky bloaters!

They're a
consequence of
never being sure

Sleep Has No Property

Night came uninvited
Pierced through with stars
Its dream where
separate things
Hanging Above
Inside things hum
and whir
No calm at all
Sleep has no property
I heard him call
Night came uninvited
Brutal unloved

The moon crept uninvited
Over my sill.
To mock me with
Its learning
Unsavoury grin.
Inside I'd sweat
and  strain.
No calm at all
Sleep has no property
As I recall
The moon came uninvited
Sallow and grin.

Bad Miss "M"

I was a-gone
when you came
sneaking' around
In a holocaust-
haze your lunacy
seems calm
Everyday you're
A-snitching'
Every night I'm
a-bitching':
All that's good for
a nation
Handed out in
bitter lessons-
OOH!

Bad miss "M"
Bad miss "M"
Woooh...

Workin'
Workin'
Workin'
the whole day
through
Workin'
Workin'
Workin'
the whole day
through

Workin'
Workin'
Workin'
the whole day
through

We'll all have a
party when you
are gone
Desecrate your
grave and sing
this song
Everyday you're
demeaning
Every night I'm
a-scheming
All that fits
a sick story
Handed out with
willfull glory-
OOH!

Bad miss "M"
Bad miss "M"
Woooh...

Big Hollow Man

Chorus
Hey yeah, walking in the valley of decision
Hey yeah, reap all the wages of sin

A big hollow man
With a fistful of sham
Came a-walking across the sea
All leathery charms
As he pinwheeled his arms
And directed his gaze at me
(He said)
God will provide the way
You read about it every day
(I'm telling ya)
All you gotta do is pray
And furnish his house with silver

(chorus)

Liberty's daughter
Well primed for the slaughter
A space where her brains had been
All ribbons and curls
She's a good hearted girl
Broken by what she had seen
(She says)
Daddy don't you go away
Stay with me and we can play
(I'm begging ya)
Do it just like yesterday
And I can go home to Jesus

(chorus)

(chorus)

A regular Joe
Who had nowhere to go
A space where his home had been
A bombing religion
A blight on the region
To fuel a pious dream
(And they said)
God will provide the way
You read about it every day
(I'm telling ya)
All you gotta do is pray
And furnish his house with silver

(chorus)

Brimstone in a Barren Land

Ghost-woman with
ashes on her
breath
Reveal the fly-
blown faces
of the gone
The Brimingstone in
a barren land
The pliant meat
done to a turn
With all the dead
of a decade
wading in
Led Throgh this
pale hygienic
glow
With hands held
stiffly behind
backs
The Brimingstone in
a barren land
The pliant meat
done to a turn
In this house that
had once been
Human

Yummer Yummer Man

Waiting at the
corner
Or underneath
the stair
Best turn your
thoughts away
Pretend that he's
not there
Lurking in the
front room
And always at
the rear
Tell you lots of
crazy things
It's better not
to hear

Oh no yummer
yummer man
Don't you mess
with me
Oh no yummer
yummer man
I Don't want to see

La La La...

Standing at your
bedside
As you are born
To clasp you to him
When the angels
have all flown
And when he comes
to get you
You'd better
go along
He's there to
take you
To the place where
you belong

Oh no yummer
yummer man
Don't you mess
with me
Oh no yummer
yummer man
I Don't want to see

Fizzing Human Bomb

I'm so fed up
For me no let up-
A fizzing-human-
bomb!
I'm standing at
the edge-
Of the precipice
Eyes pinned open-
half gone

Sore words of the
impotent man
I love you till you
put me out
In insanity
He's no sanctuary
Bricks and mortar
heart
I'm mouthing
silently
How it ought to be
curses made
in dark

Sore words of the
impotent man
I love you till you
put me out

I'm so fed up
For me no let up-
A fizzing-human-
bomb!
I'm standing at
the edge-
Of the precipice
Eyes pinned open-
half gone

Sore words of the
impotent man
I love you till you
put me out

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