Let's spend time awhile and see if I can tell what all the words are in, "I've Smoked Too Much".
"More than twice I've enjoyed the delight of a wrapper
Rolled it up and blocked out the clatter
Vibrating up from the bowels of the planet below
I'll smoke the world's problems in a cloud of illusion
Then clarity comes from confusion
I don't need much but the sound of a steel guitar
The sound of my own voice
And the bell of a saxophone
Once again I find my toenails need clipping
My tongue is numb, my nose has been dripping
I've been sniffing for about a week now
My hair is looking duller and lanker
It's longer, I've never looked much like a gangster
But now I look like a gangster and all
There's a sudden lack of excitement in my day
For my exhibitionist neighbours have moved away
I've smoked too much, I've smoked too much
And my mind is losing the memories of your sweet touch
My lungs have never felt worse
Their self a blessing then a curse
I'm looking through an empty purse
And I've seen the cleanness of my dreams all turned to dust
Take the time of your life and times it by three
That's what we get when we leave the city
You're a pretty girl but you'll look better in the country
We could sense each other's thoughts all night
And stare into pupils under the moonlight
We won't be apart until one of us is dead
But which one of us will that be?
There's panic running through my head."
Yay!
Not like We Live Like Kings by Edmund Cake. That's the sort of annoying thing where I can't tell what the words are in two places.
"When you come around, I've got the first three pages of my tax return
If you do some accounting for me in return
I've got a lovely bowl of soup.
Later on, later on, when the figures are completed and the soup is too
Me and you can
Speculate about a business plan
Keep our receipts and buy a ???
Can you remember any income we've received?
No.
Close your eyes
And we can find that proposal we could advertise
When we've seen some results a small increase in size
We'll buy a lovely new mobile
And drive away
In our brand new ???
No, you can choose it
A car's to get from A to B
I wouldn't care if it's on CMG
Oh yeah, I'd like a diesel they're so cheap and clean...
No."
And Thistle Tends to Stingle
"Students are thinking, beer is for drinking
My heart is thumping, wallabies jumping
Procrastinate sorrow, leave it 'til tomorrow
Buy a new colander, DeLonghi blender spleandour
Sing annoying jingle, thistle tends to stingle
I'd like to be a desk lamp, an age ?? clarinet camp
An Indonesian jungle, my name is Barry Mungle
I'll take your dreamy silence, then turn it into violence
The Japanese eat whale meat, slugs look like snails' feet
Sing annoying jingle, thistle tends to stingle
Pythagoras' theorem, came to him in serum
An intravenous user, a right angle obtuser
I'd like to write a sonnet, then set the dogs upon it
I like your wife's posterior, it suits your home's interior
Sing annoying jingle, thistle tends to stingle"
Arghh question marks
It's like when you're playing music by ear and then there's one note that you just can't get
Or you suddenly realise you might be completely wrong
Like when Joe said there were sixteen notes in Piazza, New York Catcher and I had over a hundred
But that's because he was talking about chords
Which I don't understand in the slightest
Or when Megan said I had the whole These Things Take Time off by one because it starts on F not E.
What is this, a message from Facebook?
I like Facebook. You can mindlessly add people and you actually know who they are.
Not like those other things where you think someone is someone but they may be someone else.
I don't think people believe me when I say I have James Blunt on my iPod because I can do a riotously good impersonation of him.
I thought in Little Too Loose There he was saying, "I would love to ride on a bear tonight."
Those damned Nudie Suits.
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