Always Ascending

Put your ladder down…

Don’t be concerned
It’s just the way that gravity works round here
All slowly rising, falling patiently
Feel no
Feel no fear
Cirrus caress you
Cumulus kiss you
Raindrops of crystal
Whisper we’ll miss you
But go… Let go

Always and always and always ascending
The opening line leaves an uncertain ending
Always and always and always ascending
The chords seem to pause, but ah…
Never going to resolve
Talk to me
Wake me up

Waking up dry
Waking up dusty
Feeling remorse
Feeling thirsty
Bring me a cup
Bring me water

We can ascend
From this arrangement
We can see fate
As entertainment
Bring me a cup
Bring me water

Always and always and always ascending
The Shepard misleads so you think you’re transcending
Always and always and always ascending
Pause the progression, but ah…
Never going to resolve

Lazy Boy

I’m a lazy boy
I’m a lazy boy
Never getting up in time
I enjoy
Being a lazy boy
Lying in your bed
Thinking of
How a lazy boy
Loves you

Am I gonna get up?
Am I gonna get up?
Never!

I’m a lazy boy
I’m a lazy boy
Always be a lazy boy

I’m a lazy boy
Yes a lazy boy
Lazy in the evening boy

Ah, and a lazy boy loves you

Am I gonna get up?
Never!

I’m a lazy boy
I’m a lazy boy
Always be a lazy boy

I’m a lazy boy
Yes a lazy boy
Lazy in the morning boy

I’m a lazy boy
I’m a lazy boy
Such a lazy lazy boy

I’m a lazy boy
Yes a lazy boy
Lazy in the evening boy

I’m a lazy boy
What a lazy boy
Yes he is a lazy boy
Ah, and a lazy boy loves you

Paper Cages

Step out – step out of our cages…
We’re living our lives in Paper Cages

I like the look of your place
I love your construction
Did you carve a wee key
From the soap in your kitchen
To turn in a lock
Of your own penal fiction
You’re so vivid and free in your imagination

Well we’ll never be free
If our incarceration
Is a story we tell
A tale of invention
Is it personal choice
Personal conviction
Or are you living like me
In paper cages?

Step out – step out of our cages…
We’re living our lives in Paper Cages

When you took on your bid
Did you make up your number?
Did you walk like a punk
To the screws at your counter?
Did you say you can’t win
When you are the system
that contains
In paper cages?

Step out – step out of our cages…
We’re living our lives in Paper Cages

Finally

I feel it
I’m fine
I feel it in the spring sunshine
So fine
I feel it in the springtime shine

Oh, then suddenly I’m home

Finally I found my people
I found the people
who were meant to be
found by me
finally
finally
finally
I’m here
In my place
I’m here
God how it heals you to feel
God how it feels good to be
With the people like me

The Academy Award

Show me the body
These pictures will shock you
Love is the drag
We don’t need any more
We don’t need to score
Show me the body
404 – gateway not found
my wife is such a fan
Show me the body now

We’re starring in the movies of our lives

And the Academy Award For Good Times goes to… you
There’s a camera held in every hand
The clamour of applause in every mind
But the Academy Award For Good Times goes to you

Show me the body
Hikikomori
Through liquid crystal
We look at the world
From our parents’ homes
Show me the body
The secret of longevity
Is to stay away from men
Show me the body now

We’re starring in the movies of our lives

And the Academy Award For Good Times goes to…

Show me the body
You never realise
How much eight pints are
Until you see them on the ground
They cover so much ground
Laptop-Predator
Hunter-Gatherer
Once-rare commodity
Now easily found
Salt sugar and fat
There’s heavy traffic
Show me the body now

We’re starring in the movies of our lives

And the Academy Award For Good Times goes to…

Lois Lane

Lois Lane seemed
A pretty strong woman
The kind of woman
That a girl could be
So you got an HND
In journalism
Because journalism
Could change the world
And if you changed the world
Then you could be happy

Choices
You made good choices
To change our world
So you could be happy

The motivation
Of altruism
Is selfishness
The desire for
The pleasure of the reward
Ah, the fine young cynic!
You cried
Would you rather not have a go
And change the world?
So you could be happy
You could be happy

Choices…

Oh, he changed you
I mean I did not like him
No, I never liked him
Which made me not like you
Not like I used to do
No we were never
We were never friends
So you could be happy

Choices…

At the over 30s Singles Nite
It’s bleak
It’s bleak
It’s bleak
It’s bleak
See you next week

Huck and Jim

Sitting by the window she’s
Sitting by the door her
Nose upon the window is cold
Nails upon the window
Breaking nails upon the door
Looking at the window no more

no more..

something fun
look dumb
put a stone in the musical window
she don’t buy high time
disco won’t you leave me alone
down – she won’t go
she can’t fit through a typical door
no way

we’re going to America
gonna tell them about the NHS
when we get there then we’ll all hang out
sipping forties with Huck and Jim

everywhere sham bohemians
hello! Magazine bohemians
terminal chancers who loathe
the privilege to loathe their privilege
the skin upon the custard is hard
yes it’s hard

flash some – you got some
hanging from a toe on a tenth floor win(dow)
no pass-out – no bar – there’s no theoretical look
down. There is no down
something’s gone and your missing it none
no way

we’re going to America
gonna tell them about the DSS
when we get there then we’ll all hang out
sipping forties with Huck and Jim

we’re going to America
gonna tell them about the NHS
when we get there then we’ll all hang out
Yeah, sipping Buckie with the boys

Glimpse of Love

Won’t someone
Bring me just a glimpse of love

Love love
Love is going to come as a photographer
I need love
Someone better bring me a photographer

A flash
A glimpse of perfect abs
In flimsy floral dress
Shows off her slender frame
Enjoys a private stroll

So provocative
On romantic getaway
Getaway getaway
Ah, she’s got to getaway
Oh so mortified
Talking of another child
Getaway getaway
Ah, she’s got to get away

Love love

Off duty beauty
Keeing it real
She’s got
Flawless features
Breakup rumours
Off duty beauty
Keeps her appeal
Shows off
All her features
Grabs a bite to eat

Stepping out
Sports a bruise on her neck
As she’s heading to
To the studio
Decadent
No, she’s never been shy
No she’s never, never
Never been shy

Love love

Body observation snap
Body transformation trap
Bring it on bring it on
Let’s makeover
Body transformation snap
Body observation trap
Cut – makeover scene

Won’t someone
Bring me just a glimpse of love
etc

Feel the Love Go

Hey – What’s that thing that you’re doing
Hey – What’s that thing that you do
No -You’re not that thing that you’re doing
You’re not that thing that you do
For the things that you do are not who you are

So why don’t you come over here

Think of a friend and wish them love
Think of an enemy and wish them more

See – See the things that you’re doing
See – See the things that you do
See the things that you do are not who you are

So why don’t you come over here

Think of a friend and wish them love
Think of an enemy and wish them more
Think of every life and wish them all your love

Then feel that love return
Feel the love infinity
Feel the love infinity
Then let it go

Then feel that love return
Feel the love infinity
Feel the love infinity
Then let it go
Let the love go
Feel the love go
Feel the love go
Feel the love then go

Slow Don’t Kill Me Slow

Slow

Don’t take it slow when you put
On that hat
That black velvet cap
This is that
Long due occasion you can wear it at
Don’t send this invite back

Slow! don’t kill me
Slow don’t kill me
Slow no never never
No don’t kill me
Slow no never never
Kill me quick
Kill me quicker if you
Can I cannot take it slow
Don’t kill me slow

When you showed your
Executioner’s cap to me
You put it on for me
Said that I would see
You’d kill whatever sapped your
Love from me
So put it on for me
Put it on again, oh

Slow! don’t kill me
Slow no never never
No don’t kill me
Slow no never never
Kill me quick
Kill me quicker if you
Can I cannot take it slow
Don’t kill me slow

Jump cut back to
high-res time lapse
seasons shift or pass
maybe leaves that snow into
still-life ripen
stop-motion perishing
feast of larvae explode
blue dust shadow of mould