Whilst other couples look for love
In a love so obviously dead
Ours still takes us by surprise
Like a bar-stool over the head

Whilst she cowers away in a cupboard
And he cowers away in the shed
Ours still takes us from behind
Like a bar-stool over the head

We

This deck chair collapsed
this maybe or perhaps
the route that sadness maps
through those long and awkward gaps

those broken fairy wings
those tangled puppet strings
those roundabout soft swings
the heartache indecision brings

life my girl will take away that

When Hip-Hops selling perfume (and) Boy bands selling grief
The Bluesmen market life insurance Just one foot underneath
Jazz has come to nothing But transparent handkerchief
Everything is Anything to Anyone

The Butcher sells you pantihose The Supermarket sells you land
The

Good old Texas
Lazy old days in the Amarillo haze in my work vest
Sat out on the porch
Wonderin' which country to torch next
God Bless Texas
Where the only real trace of a brown or black face is in a bird's nest
Where bears are for shootin', the world's fit for lootin' on

In the 60s and the 70s
Before we'd even met
I took those pin-ups to my heart
Cause i hadn't found you yet

In back of cab in the streets of rome
I drunkly called a name
On 13th floor in paris hotel
I looked north west in vain

In bus shelter and phone box
Wh

If god comes down, which he won't
Half the do-gooders, will find they don't.
If jesus christ is alive, which he's not,
He'd get rid of every follower that he's got.

Don't do what you can just say that you would
As long as it makes you feel so good
Cleverly should
As

We were dreaming of houses we'd built
With the money we'd make
Dreams so real our muscles had forgotten to ache
Just listening to a radio
Whilst treading on grapes
Ain't my usual choice of keeping in shape

And thats the reason we get ourselves sun-burnt
Is we're oh-

Every man in this world thinks he's got a big nose
Or a slightly under average size knob
Shout big nose or maggot in a crowded bar
And just wait for the seething mob

But the truth be known those smaller nose guys
Ain't no better, no longer on the job
They've got the sam

For year after year we've stomached these views
Starvation can't compare with the royalty's cruise
The world's not dying it's just singing the blues
It might be our turn to read the news

When it's our turn on the News at Ten
Lives'll be back above inflation again
Give a

Baby lets drink and drive
Baby lets drink and drive,
Drink till the conversation turns pink
and drive to the other side

Baby lets look and learn
Baby lets look and learn
Look till a certain feeling takes hold
and learn when the ready(?) is burned

Let's fool an

How can I turn this red cross, back into a tick?
Like how come I turned good looks into frail and sick?
Not only did I blind the blind
But I also took their stick
Crippled myself with a baseball bat and a brick

Most other men like to whine about the seven year itch
They

Poems
Don't sit by river
Aren't there to be picked up by poets who pass
To find them on bank
And I'm
Not built to deliver
When stepping stone love in need
Of a bridge or a plank

Youth
The stream so much wider
Thought you could slow down the flow
If y

Don't be scared
Of conversations that you've overheard
Yes it's true
The first nights just a cryptic clue
Don't deny
Your first tastes worth a second try
Kisses sweet
Us underfed need occasional treat

Proceed with care
If you met him when his mates were ther

As he taxes a draw on the 15th floor
He can't help cursing his luck
Life could have dealt him such a different hand
Maybe 2 across and 23 up

But there ain't door on the 38th floor
No shortcut out of this dump
The nearer high rise comes closer to the skies
The tempta

The perfect couple with arms entwined
Was no position that we could find

The perfect meal they wined and dined
Background music so refined
Their perfect house and household pets
Mine just howled, whilst yours just slept

When they sang "Walk on with hope in your heart"