Hail To the Thief

The mongrel cat came home

Holding half a head
Proceeded to show it off
To all his new found friends
He said,
'I been where I liked
I slept with who I liked
she ate me up for breakfast
she screwed me in a vice
And now
I don't know why I feel so tongue tied'
I sat in the cupboard
And wrote it down in neat
They were cheering & waving
cheering & waving
twitching & salivating
like with myxomatosis
But it got edited, fucked up
Strangled, beaten up
Used as a photo in Time magazine
Buried in a burning black hole in Devon
'I don't know why I feel so tongue tied
don't know why I feel so skinned alive'
My thoughts are misguided & a little naive
I twitch & salivate
like with myxomatosis
You should put me in a home or you
should put me down
I got myxomatosis
I got myxomatosis
'Now no one likes a smart arse'
'But we all like stars'
That wasn't my intention
I did it for a reason
He shook hands with the cripples &
He gave them all milk
He did a few card tricks
For his mafia geeks
But now
'I don't know why I feel so
tongue tied'

Sit down.

Stand up.
Walk into
The jaws of hell
Anytime. Anytime.
We can wipe you out
Anytime. Anytime.
THE RAINDROPS

We're rotten fruit

We're damaged goods
What the hell
We got nothing more to lose
One gust & we
Will probably crumble
We're backdrifters.
This far but no further
I'm hanging off a branch
I'm teetering on the brink
Oh Honeysweet
So full of sleep
I'm backsliding.
You fell into our arms
We tried
But there was nothing
We could do
All evidence has been buried.
All tapes have been erased.
But your footprints
Give you away so
You're backtracking.

Drag him out the window

Dragging out your dead
Singing I miss you
Snakes & ladders filp the lif out pops
the cracker smacks you in the head knifes
you in the neck kicks you in the teeth steel
toe caps takes all your credit cards step up
get the gunge
Get the eggs get the flan in the face the
flan in the face the flan in the face
Dance you fucker dance you fucker don't
you dare
Don't you dare don't you
Flan in the face
Take it with the love its given take it with
a pinch of salt take it to the the taximan
Let me back let me back I promise to be
good don't look in the mirror at the face
you don't recognize
Help me, call the doctor, put me inside
put me inside put me inside put me inside
put me inside
I keep the wolf from the door but he
calls me up calls me on the phone tells me
all the ways that he's gonna mess me up
Steal all my children if I don't pay the
ransom & I'll never see them again if I
squeal to the cops...
Walking like a giant cranes & with my X
ray eyes I strip you naked in a
Tight little world & are you on the list?
Stepford wives who are we to complain?
Investments & dealers. Investments &
dealers
Cold wives & mistresses
Cold wives & Sunday papers city boys
in First Class don't know we're born just
know
Someone else is gonna come & clean it up
Born & raised for the job
Someone always does I wish you'd get up
go over get up go over & turn this tape off

I will

Lay me down
In a bunker
Underground.
I won't let this happen to my children.
Meet the real world coming out of my
shell
With white elephants
Sitting ducks.
I will
Rise up.
Little babies' eyes

There's a gap in between

There's a gap where we emet
Where I end & you begin
And I'm sorry for us
The dinosaurs roam the earth
The sky turns green
Where I end & you begin
I am up in the clouds
I am up in the clouds
And I can't
& I can't come down
I can watch but
Not take part
Where I end & where you start
Where you you left me alone
You left me alone.
X will mark the place
Like parting the waves
Like a house falling into the sea
I will eat you all alive
And there'll be no more lies