READING
MACHINE
To pass the time the weight of wich my hand holds
Horseshoe fit to mend your ways
But soon the paddle start to row the paddler
Postman do you know the day
A stick both strong and stout
I long to test it out
On wednesday there's a cross, but not important
I'll be here will do nicely trimmed
My certain light for this please leave the jar so
Anything for fortuning In days gone by they say
We threw those bits away
Stay with me I'm fortunate in time save's
Nine o'clock and all is well
Isn't it surprise them with the horror
Bull and push and moss and nell
A trap to catch the cook
Machine to read your looks
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FETCH
& CARRY
I need to be hushed, need to be stroked
Stratch me behind my horns like a goat
The thrill of the thrush opens the pit
I'm off to lie again down for a bit
Wedding's red rings
The eyes with hatred glint
Wished she had tarried
Longer than she done
The bewies you sink
Will soon have you jinxed
For fortune frowns
Demand we all fetch and carry
Caught on the hop, frog went to court
With his hand in the merry he sought
Shock of the mob, sniffing the smoke
No thanks I once gave it up for a joke
Wedding's red rings the eyes with hatred glint
Wished she had tarried
Longer than she done
The bewies you sink
Will soon have you jinxed
For fortune frowns
Demand we all fetch and
Things should be done do death out this time
I'm going in with my shoes on the line
Shot of things missed, can't work this box
Can't work at all, no this life has me foxed
Wedding's red rings
The eyes with hatred glint
Wished she had tarried
Longer than she done
The bewies you sink
Will soon have you jinxed
For fortune frowns
Demand we all fetch and carry
Wedding's red rings
The eyes with hatred glint
Wished she had tarried
Longer than she done
The bewies you sink
Will soon have you jinxed
For fortune frowns
Demand we all fetch and carry
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THE BIRDS
Sunset in, another foolish evening
Don't reflect on what's gone on today
There's no way to break that awful feeling
Just do your best to chase it far away
Birds that sing, the one's you tell your tales to
Sure that they'll be locked as in a tomb
But sad to tell, there was no button on it
Those words just up and walked right out the room
Inna nextdoorgarden came across a can
But I can't throw it away
The spider makes his home while I am waiting
Waiting for your proffered cup to cool
It's not a crime to love the laws you're breaking
Across the back of my dividing tool
Call me back, insist I make ammendments
Call me anything you wish at all
Call me one last final, lost ungrateful
From the other side of the wall
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WARNING
TO THE CURIOUS
Early evening gloom
Packed a torch the proper thing to do
Broken with the batteries gone
One remaining clue
Two legs brought upon himself a crew
Ready-baked mistakes, serials
About you, that clout you
Ceilings never scraped, anyone
Can do that at home
Give the glass a shake, serious
Then doubtfull chews a mouthfull
We forgot to make medicine
To keep us unlow
Jealous as the uninformed only ever are
Who could put a price on it?
Only an idiot's idiot child
Carried on the backs of ants
Bottle to the sea
Is there such a thing as bravery?
Watch the faithfull dog who jumps
Landing in the fire
Hear the happy tidings of the choir
Ready-baked mistakes, serials
About you, that clout you
Ceilings never scraped, anyone
Can do that at home
Give the glass a shake, serious
Then doubtfull chews a mouthfull
We forgot to make medicine
To keep us unlow
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GO BACK
Go back to what you once were
Go back and don't complain
Go back and forgive you again
Go back just as you wanted
Go back and I'll remain
Go back someday I'll see you again
No need to offer wrapped up and tied
Excuse to be hanging out your pretty eyes to dry
Go back just as you once were
Go back and don't complain Go back someday I'll see you again
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THING
You make me blue, with the things you do
Why d'ya have to do them at all?
This just came true, guess it means we're through
Why'd we have to lose after all
That mysterious thing I've been told
Means nothing at all
I'm always true, why can't you be too?
Why'd I find a pool in your stall
The picture I drew of gosey saying boo
There just ain't no room in your drawers
That mysterious light in the sky
Is just a plane passing by
Contentment you slew, you ran me through and through
Made just like a moo, I'm appalled
Why peoples so cruel, I can't believe it's true
Why'd they have to do things at all
That mysterious light in the sky
Is just a plane passing by
Imagine we too, absolutely nude
Making something rude in the corn
It ain't what you do, It's just the way you
That's so completely you overall
That mysterious thing I've been told
Means nothing at all
Nothing
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COME
OVER SEE
Grow a moustache, take a disguise
Hurry jump into a thicket and hide
Wait for the heel's clicks to desist
In haste take an axe to the cuffs on your wrists
Come over see, behind this door
The spoils of your life laid out here on the floor
Come over see, come over see
Fall under bus, fall out of tree
Fall out of trust eternally
Fall understairs, fallen for peace
Fall underwear pleasure me please
Fall over me, tell me I'm true
Say you admire all the things that I do
Fall over me, fall over me
Baby take a shower
I'm popping out a while
I've got major things to do
But I'll be straight back for you
The memory of your smile
Will keep me gone awhile
And of course these words are true
Just like one and one is two
Many a true word
Was said in jest
His name is "Dirt" unlucky bloke
Eyes on the sky as he talks up a smoke
Blow me a kiss 'cos that's lucky too
You'd be surprised at the strenght of his brew
Wide as the sea, wider than shore
Shakes out the dust like a knock at the door
Wide is the sea, wide is the 'c'
Baby take a shower
I'm popping out a while
I've got major things to do
But I'll be straight back for you
The memory of your smile
Will keep me gone awhile
And of course these words are true
Just like one and one is two
Many a true word
Was said in jest
Tamed and trained wind, straight as she blows
Scaring the dogs with her doodlesack tones
Ugly as sin, paper pretty
One hundred ten thousand more colours than she
Come over see sport at weekends
An endless supply of the very best trends
Come over see, come over see
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RUSTY
Missed a tray, paraglyde, hard hat and legs
Out red-bit trumpet, see how he begs
Tired of this waiting, I'll stop the suspense
Down the road with you, your shillings and pence
Heaven's helping no one here, in the pocket insincere
Wave to me as I depart, don't you find the trifle tart?
Hackamore dead thing talk, I'm so surprised
Thought that we'd flogged this thing 'till it died
Once I awoke at night, what did I see?
A jinx sitting there on the bed next to me
Heaven's helping you I see, what is wrong with you is me
Rusty is a dog a day, cheese the water fowl away
The eyes that merrify me
Patiently wait from the back seat
I'll die there beneath the trees
Waiting for their tickelers ticklefers
Disinter
Berry tree, berry tree out on the plains
Under the stars that never complain
Open me, open me, just like a tin
I can look out but you can't look in
Heaven's helping no one there, a hundred thousand thickos stare
Cant' believe their stupid luck, eat the pies and puddings up
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THE SHACKLES
OF LIFE
Charity becomes a stone that hangeth round your neck
The early sir becomes a worm, for the hen to peck
And peck, peck, peck she will my friend
'Till there's none left to peck
You'll end up upon your knees just a scrubbing up the deck
Hear the wind blow
Cross the mountains
'oer the valley below
There our names be
Carved upon it
Proves that it's all so
Certainly
As a man once said
You can take them to water
But making them think
That's another matter
Making them care
Of what becomes them
There's no gallantry in this world of
Certainties
Chase the cat-'o' nine-tails there
That strip the layers away
It'll pussy-willow-whip your hide
'Till you awake one day
And turn no more them ruby cheeks
That smart with salted pain
Prepare the spotted hankerchief
And start the trials again
Hear the wind blow
Cross the mountains 'oer the valley below
There our names be
Carved upon it
Proves that it's all so
Certainly
As a man once said
You can take them to water
But making them think
That's another matter
Making them care
Of what becomes them
There's no gallantry in this world of
Certainties
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ENGINEERS
Two guys with tweed caps on and guns, crouching in the reeds
If Donald shows himself we'll see him bleed
The criminal completes his crime
A shadow hoovering the beach, along John Silver stream
Awaiting patiently to find dreams
Then mountaineers come down to climb
Seen you pinch a sack of old spuds
A baby's lastblub rob the hook of its grub
And still you're
Pushing your scuzz, the wheels of his truck are stuck in your muck
A sparrow nailed unto the wall, wishes for the best
The girlfriend gets him off on her chest
Then engineers come 'round to grind
Seen you pinch a sack of old spuds
A baby's lastblub rob the hook of its grub
And still you're
Pushing your scuzz, the wheels of his truck are stuck in your muck
A shadow hoovering the beach, along John Silver stream
Awaiting patiently to find dreams
Then mountaineers come down to climb
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TRICKSWITCH
A trickswitch primed to darkness bring
To lives a-filled with summer things
A tide of woe comes tumbling down
The old man brings his gun to town
The days become just things to bear
Hello toenails hello hair
The weeks limp past them nerves harrassed
Hold jelly in a plaster cast
Heart beats wrong, heart beats bad
Heart beats senseless, heart beats sad
Confess, come clean, come copiously
Wake with a start from used to be
Regard yon'clocks unhappy face
It chimes "we're sunk without a trace"
Consider this and then, dismiss
Sun don't shine where shadow is
Put on cold cloak's familiar feel
Go looking for some teeth to steal
Heart beats wrong, heart beats bad
Heart beats senseless, heart beats sad
Sometimes I smell their hair at night
See fingerprints in the sunlight
I met them once upon the stair
Goodnight noises everywhere
Heart beats wrong, heart beats bad
Heart beats senseless, heart beats sad
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