Chainsaw Versus The Pampas Grass Lyrics

You have picked me out. Through a distant shot of a building burning you have noticed now that a white cotton shirt is twirling, turning. In fact I am waving, waving. Small ...Read Full Lyrics

Started, textiles, night shift, no wheels, bussed it, bus missed, thumbed it, in my office sunbeam, fluffed it. Shoe-shine, gofer, caddie, bellboy, three bags full sir, bus...Read Full Lyrics

The future was a beautiful place, once. Remember the full-blown balsa-wood town on public display in the Civic Hall. The ring-bound sketches, artists’ impressions, blueprin...Read Full Lyrics

Of all the public places, dear to make a scene, I’ve chosen here. Of all the doorways in the world to choose to sleep, I’ve chosen yours. I’m on the street, under the s...Read Full Lyrics

The Farrand Chapelette was gathering dust in the shadowy porch of Marsden Church. And was due to be bundled off to the skip. Or was mine, for a song, if I wanted it. Sunlight...Read Full Lyrics

I am very bothered when I think of the bad things I have done in my life. Not least that time in the chemistry lab when I held a pair of scissors by the blades and played the h...Read Full Lyrics

I've made out a will; I'm leaving myself to the National Health. I'm sure they can use the jellies and tubes and syrups and glues, the web of nerves and veins, the loaf of brain...Read Full Lyrics

I'd been tired, under the weather, but the ansaphone kept screaming: One more sick-note, mister, and you're finished. Fired. I thumbed a lift to where the car was parked. A Vau...Read Full Lyrics

Think, two things on their own and both at once The first, that exercise in trust, where those in front stand with their arms spread wide and free-fall backwards, blind, and tho...Read Full Lyrics

Batman, big shot, when you gave the order to grow up, then let me loose to wander leeward, freely through the wild blue yonder as you liked to say, or ditched me, rather, in th...Read Full Lyrics