- 23 Years too late
20-day perch selected, we snail through streets of smoke
Tilo and Hardcore, Massive Attack and transfer prints
Fresh from The States with extra fear
Each suit tailored for silhouette promise
Copyists target the sun-stung pier
An unengaged jack demolishes walls
Of careful construction
23 years late…
- 6. Bad Worn Thing
Jam sandwich filled with Uzied peelers
Frisking pimps and dawn car dealers
The Fat Controller's transport inches
When stealing lives, he never flinches
Observe the poker party aces
In champagne bars, unlikely spaces
Unnerving, swerving shifty places
- A Touching Display
With all the front
And more besides
Bitch, thrust, and parry
And a few asides
With considerable charm
You chose not to decide
I really like you
- Advantage In Height
A brief Bombay, Colosseus encounter
A holy rolling, rhino blessing
Two men in white, an advantage in height
In appearance unique, in action delivers
The light fades, the sun never never sets
A: a double blow, B: an immortal being
- Another The Letter
Passed to hand, behind the curtain
Letter brings change, now things are uncertain
Hand to hand, letter moves on
Like a series of shocks, like a series of shocks
Like a series of shocks, like a series of shocks
Like a series of shocks, but the contents are known
Oh, faint heart, when the letter arrives
You suddenly find things looking lifesize
- Bad Worn Thing
Jam sandwich filled with Uzied peelers,
Frisking pimps and dawn car dealers,
The Fat Controller's transport inches—
When stealing lives, he never flinches.
Observe the poker party aces
In champagne bars, unlikely spaces,
Unnerving, swerving shifty places
- Champs
The race of champions, the pace the pace
The speed the need, the need to seed
The chance to die
Another dead don't cry, another dead don't cry
You've still got speed, you'll maybe bleed
But that's next time
- Desert Diving
Robotic surfers in water-park oasis
Half-piping plummets in footprints of comets
The tumbling twins ride for miles on fixed ages
Greeting the winner of after the dinner
East of the cloudburst will Orson's well get full
Between light showers, the rubbery dress hose
Cruising the cubist, horseplay at each show
- Ex Lion Tamer
There's great danger
For the loneliest ranger of all
No silver bullets
Tonto's split the scene
Next week will solve your problems
But now, fish fingers all in a line
The milk bottles stand empty
- Fragile
Tears fall in slivers, you broke my shades
The light's too bright, let me bury my heart
Filter emotions of green, cowardice gives blue
A restricted view, let me open my heart
I have a fleeting love, scorching when it lands
Fragile
- German Shepherds
I saw three dogs flying, there was a man on the end
Squaring a circle and studying its end
I saw a drunk old lady pissing in a bin
It was far too high, she couldn't stop
The man with the photograph failed to appear
In that kind of rain where an umbrella's no use
The bird lay bleeding, I couldn't break its neck
I get anonymous footbells from a pope I never met
- Heartbeat
I feel old, I feel cold
I feel old, I feel cold
I'm sublime, I'm sublime
And is there something there behind me
Like a movie, like a movie
I am mesmerized by my own beat
Like a heartbeat, like a heartbeat, like a heartbeat
I feel old, I feel cold
- I Should Have Known Better
In an act of contrition
I lay down by your side
It's not your place to comment
On my state of distress
For this is for real
I've tears in my eyes
Am I laughing or crying?
I suggest I'm not lying
- Kidney Bingos
Natural splits sunburn jets price marks smart bets
Strikers luck pitch backs heap tips pit slacks
Dressed pints demon shrinks bread drunk dead drinks
Stretch clubs models box draw skin black shocks
Money spines paper lung kidney bingos organ fun
Flag stunt rock stone dole axe crash dive
Breathe thrift take speed double take weekends
Skull row drugs hall colour bars s** calls
- Lowdown
The time is too short
but never too long
to reach ahead,
to project the image,
which will in time become a concrete dream.
Another cigarette,
another day,
- Marooned
An unwilling sailor adrift from Artic waters
As the water gets warmer, my iceburg gets smaller
As he pours more petrol on, he feels no fear
As the flames get nearer, its thought gets clearer
A blue-white polar bear arrives at the end
Diverting his attention, his feelings froze over
I'm only a runaway AWOL at the logical start
Not present in the present, overboard with limited future
- Men 2nd
Sailing under a false flag
We're crossing the IDL
Becalmed where no creature lives
Lost, forsaken, cursed
Holed below the water line
A shift in the plimsoll line
Pumps in the engine room
Women and children first
- Moreover
Persuading analysts
Engaging catalysts
Exploding empathy
Avoiding chemistry
Pushing out envelopes
Enhancing isotopes
Refining registration
Avoiding isolation
- Outdoor Miner
No blind spots in the leopard's eyes
Can only help to jeopardize
The lives of lambs, the shepherd cries
An outdoor life for a silverfish
Eternal dust less ticklish
Than the clean room, a house guest's wish
- Pink Flag
I was sold up the river to the red slave trade
The stores were gathered, the plans were laid
Synchronised watches at 18:05
How many dead or alive
In ninteen fifty-five?
The pink flags was screaming
Bugle boys sucked and blew
No time for expression, orders given
- Please Take
Please take your knife
Out of my back
And, when you do
Please don't twist it
I felt the stab in my blind side
A poisoned blade to paralyze
A cosh of cash, a net of drink
To anodise, no longer think, so
- Practice Makes Perfect
Practice makes perfect, yes I can prove it
Business or pleasure, the more that you do it
Please dress in your best things, this course was unplanned
'Cause you see up in my bedroom I've got Sarah Bernhardt's hand
Practice makes perfect, I've done this before
Never for money, always for love
Please dress in your best things, and don't make a fuss
'Cause you see up in my bedroom Sarah's waiting for us
- Reuters
Our own correspondent is sorry to tell
Of an uneasy time that all is not well
On the borders there's movement
In the hills there is trouble
Food is short, crime is double
Prices have risen since the government fell
- Silk Skin Paws
You have nothing to fear
I'm just making enquiries
Dog bone hunting
Gives you back to yourself
Standing before me
The gargoyle turns
Jutting jaws and
The stubble burns
- Single K.O.
An unwilling sailor adrift from Artic waters, oh
As the water gets warmer, my iceberg gets smaller, oh
As he pours more petrol on, he feels no fear, oh
As the flames get nearer, his thought gets clearer, oh
A blue-white polar bear arrives at the end, oh
Diverting his attention, his feelings froze over, oh
I'm only a runaway A-W-O-L at the logical start
Not present in the present
- So And Slow It Grows
Slow so slow and so it grows
Slow and slow and so it grows
Slow so slow and so it grows
Slow and slow and so it grows
It's just for now, it's just for now
Even if you're captivating
It's just for now, it's just for now
- Start to Move
Start to move
Time at hand
Bird in hand
No bush but trees thicken
Which now, rooster or chicken?
Leave the past
Feel the wrench
Smell the stench
- Straight Line
Mind's unwilling and your flesh is so weak
Do my movements betray the secrets I think?
I always stand by walls and try to humour fools
Am I moving in a straight line, am I moving in a straight line?
Am I moving in a straight line, am I moving in a straight line?
Oh, it's unlust and the one-dimensional boy
Oh, it's unlust and the one-dimensional boy
Oh, it's unlust and the one-dimensional boy
- The 15th
Reviewed, it seemed
As if someone were watching over it
Before it was
As if response were based on fact
Providing, deciding, it was soon there
Squared to it, faced to it, it was not there
- The Other Window
He took his seat on the foreign train
He thought it pleasant to travel again
Mindful of the journey's end
He read again the letter from his friend
Time passed as it often does
The seat was hard, the carriage fetid
He was dressed for summer, but still he sweat ed
It was better than being home
- Three Girl Rhumba
Think of a number, divide it by two
Something is nothing, nothing is nothing
Open a box, tear off the lid
Then think of a number, don't think of an answer
Open your eyes, think of a number
Don't get swept under, a number's a number
- Two People In A Room
I don't understand your plea to live
Or the guy's wish to take or give
However, as backing away
He fell and lay dead amongst the firework display
It's not quite the way to say your goodbyes
It's not quite the way to behave
Secured you a concrete grave
Beneath the motorway
- Used To
Does the pain remain when the head is turned
And the body walks away?
You used to know
Does nausea ensue when you chance upon a memory of someone
You used to know?
Does warmth increase when the pulse is strong?
But the response is weak?
You used to know