Hypertext, Colours, and Social!
Volume 23 4th Quarter 2010
1-Burner Frenzy- Attach the image to your file Project it out your style Project it out on video Burner Frenzy Project the Show Bigger than just one more gig A moveable feast it goes Microcosm into Macrocosm We know Lit up like that No-one can ignore you I bet they pick up on your sound advice Wherever they go
2- Sometimes- Sometimes We don’t see him for days And then he’s back for weeks And then back again for a few days And then away again for ever!
3- Gabriel- Have a baby by somebody else And get your cuckolded husband To pay for it Like Gabriel- poor Joseph! Especially if you think It is a Stork That brings the child!
4- Silver Discs- If nothing else Use it as a Crowscarer If nothing else Use it as an Icescraper Hang it from your rear view mirror Like a Muslim taxi driver With his Koran Not serious Just a pain in the arse One venturing forth with a shout The other a little more practical Right now though still not songwriting weather Maybe now like Alice Cooper
5- Suspicious Circumstances- And then I got smacked Up the arse On the way to Venetia’s And written off again And then I got a puncture From a screw Maliciously placed I don’t take my car to London Anyway But if it had been totalled It could have been A very bad day A shot across my boughs And I’m not even Public Enemy Number One complaining about a rail link But the money came through Before the next mortgage was due Let’s hope it will buy the right car A secret hiding place for it Near the Police Station In Banbury Political Activist? Persecution Complex? Devil’s Advocate? Because of what the Magazine will print Wary of a contract I’ve just done this but still need support One more campaign under my belt Or sitting in on the Gardening Club
6-Orange Tree- Four families Where the Orange Tree grows Go Orange like eyes wide open Multiplied a hundredfold Grafted on lemons and grapefruit and clementines Higher Rate Mobility Train Car Horse by Foot We’ve survived the Curse of Axletree Many more than ten gigs For you and me Like the Arnolfini Wedding Like the Black Rose Green Man like smoking by the wall Surrounded by the ivy Resurrected Christ like Liz Frink too that she did not live to see With my hair tied back A set in Albany like Notting Hell Or just King Lear again Or become a Fruitarian as an Astrologer Predicted he to me When he did my birthchart At Glastonbury in ’89 Heavy laden with ripened fruit Something tells me They are not going to get there that way At least not any more Orange Tree That we have been growing For a year or two At least most of them are friends to me Squeeze out another Volume definitely Hope to pick up on the horses when the dust has settled Four balls rotating in Cyberspace seem to have the Yes and No
7- He will fly a Bird I will ride a Horse- Ice Blue for both of us Then Liche Purple for the Red Knight then Blood Red in Time Out then Liche Purple again Rothschilds redesign your flyer and we find ourselves in Henry VI part I Then Pink for three reasons Saloon Whore, Farmers, and Colonialists, and now Dark Angels Green Dark Angels weren’t from the Empress Scale Dark Angels were from the Kingdom Sheer Detemination Just to ride Seven Days Sheer Determination To put it on Stage Where to put these new frames Feudal Lord holds his hawk Firmly to the Gauntlet Sneering at his bird Like the Oranges on backgrounds Blue and Green and Magenta and Purple Decked out in all these frames Power in the colours of the Dynastic Scale Power in four strong families You Purple me Cyan You Hawk me Scorpion Bang at the front of the Mag He loves his rogues, Jeremy Four more colours two each side From the Dark Angels Green In the Order I have chosen We do what we can get away with until it has been stopped Lead guitarist of a Metal band Stands to reason says Kate Puts some weight behind us Biggest audience two thousand strong Feudal Lord down the pub Sitting with a Samurai on the vodka Keep quiet about it for the sake of your job I write for three thousand the lowest common denominator I fly my vultures all the time Two hawk family You need to fly your bird at least two times a week Just to keep her occupied A hawk for two thousand men A horse for three thousand cavalry strong You two thousand strong on the phone
8- Selling Tickets- Sixteen venues where we’ve been Sixteen venues and counting London and Edinburgh seen Through the eyes of Samantha’s Hotline Swishing a tail between my legs Like a raffle with dodgy prizes Be a jam doughnut monster for 60p Continental Shifts
9- Fox- I saw a fox Chasing a cat And I walked that fox Right back The cat she curled About my legs And said “I’m very grateful, thanks”
10- Checklist Two- Carrots and Houmos in a bowl Two wine bottles and a glass Blackcurrant squash Clutch bag and mobile phone Nail varnish and lip gloss Watch to wear for the show Red dress scarf and jacket when out you go Whistle cane and glasses Cowboy hat and scissors Magazines cushions and drapes Companies and Markets pages And Bible Cable ties extension lead lights And charge the camera Cameraman he goes “Blam!” Remember to film just the face From a Genie three wishes A girl Horses A cottage Never film the audience Don’t talk about tales of horses It puts her off her stride Especially when it’s the ex-husband’s ride Pimp my ride again
11- Circulate the House- Last year’s stories went right down the hall And ended up in Bedroom One Ice Blue Orange Yellow Gold This year’s stories Went right down the hall And ended up in Bedroom Two And gone from Red to Pink to Green Last year Came out of Bedroom Two Where I went into Black frames And changed colour Again and Again From Kilimanjaro to a Hollybush story Now I’v found an Astral Doorway About Falconry- Nature Red in tooth and claw Countryside Alliance and Falconry Sky Burial and Axletree Snag the high speed rail link with the help our MP Samantha’s Hotline Benefits System Another issue that the Govt has been involved in Big numbers Small numbers Still campaigning A positive impact on our surroundings Maybe we can change the Govt’s mind on something
12- Lying- The man in the mirror says With the expression on his face Your eyes are backed with the false mirror Of lying Even if you say You didn’t mean it You still did it deliberately The horse is a mare And even my cat is a female
13- Go Inside- Ends with “Chimera” Or ends with “Fist at the Sky” Where does “The Spread” lie? Devil Skull and falcons fly Recapture our Countryside Different Cities Zozi Zoogi Zoom Out Zoom In Zoom Out Out Go Inside
14- Upset-Nothing too silly Need to know where the brakes are So we can pull up if need be Chris has decked someone in the Hollybush And someone tried to get me to take the rap And sell me some points off his driving licence Very nasty... Feel the morning come Like a ceiling above my head Even before we go to bed Draw the reins in But there’s still time Before the next few hurdles
15- Cally- Cally on the stage in Pat Pong Alongside all the prostitutes With their numbers Parading up and down the catwalk Cally’s two children now Thomas and Sophie Tom the one that took over from me And Sophie after Cally
16- One More Person- And Judas hanged himself For only thirty pieces of silver Sometimes difficult Even getting one more person Into the equation Emerge through the clouds Into a bright sunny day Flying out of the smog of the City
17- Perseus- Maybe Samantha should go head to head With that Chimera The secretary Whose father Hercules Slew the Hydra in a previous life But like Medusa Samantha Is Perseus’ wife With his many heads like the demon Ravana To lose the wife But gain the mistress What a dilemma! Andromeda chained to the rock 387 songs to shuffle Ending on “Chimera” back in ’09 I realised that Andromeda had something missing
18- Absorbed by the Show- Any London interest features yet And for whom? Hampton Court Maze... Parallel Diaries Composition the rule of thirds Absorbed by the Show Watch you come and go Absorbed by your beauty A mohican called James has come to see the Show three times Like John Read the Australian asylum seeker Those who have ventured Farther afield- pick up on some groupies!
19- Working- Remember Rooky Bellow Australia’s top polo player Who said “There’s no pussy in Cowdrey” Don’t give up hope To be left alone 98% tax bracket Only see 2p in the pound They get old And then get young again Some people Catch them in the middle somewhere When we meet again We’ve found some things to keep us employed so We just need some help with the cashflow
20- Not One but Another- Get your heels out Put your dress on I’ll put on my Monkey Suit Let’s Go! But I did not get to The Warwickshire Hunt Ball Because Warwickshire Life Did not get back till too late For me to wangle a Press Pass I wanted to take our team to a new magazine again But ended up learning to play polo In the Snow The horses they love to follow the ball Three days later near Ascot Scaly Green for the Railway protest Hawk Turquoise for the Polo January and February Snot and Scorpion for Gardening and Fishing
21- They Move As One- Broke the Cane Broke a Lightbulb Adam, Cain, and Abel Wanted Dead or Alive But no-one came But it wasn’t their audience It was a Social Event that they wanted No sooner are you married Than you can’t get it together Fighting forever to reach each other again Some people would probably never listen to it anyway But if it makes you happy...
22- Will we wake up together on Christmas Morning?- Christmas washout You’ll only come up if there’s a turkey With some other family Well I haven’t found That delicacy We could do it here We could do it there You don’t want it anywhere Where’s our fucking Christmas! I don’t like to try Gatecrashing all my friends For all the embarassment it causes But I did it for you Looks like we’ll both be alone because of you... Carols on the Green Christmas Eve But then Chris and Amanda took pity on us with their turkey And we were eight around the table And it was Venetia on Boxing Day but she won’t see you Like many things A lot better than sitting on your arse Trot round the Sacred Playground For a couple of days or so If she can hold five horses God knows what she can do to men And then I drove down On Christmas Eve And brought her straight back up! Ten years later! Our Happy Ending... A bit of a milestone Complete the Circle somehow Complete the Circle of my double life Chris has already met Orlando- here finally is Sophie...
23- Han Solo- Three Yoda’s in a row Seven monkeys it used to go Darth Vader lights a fag off his light sabre And eventually Getting out of bed in the morning Is the only obstacle you will face Star Wars is what happened 2000 years later for all The Age of Aquarius Grafton Hunt Ball Have invited me over Still on their mailing lists Guardians of the Future Hand over the Story There’s no time to go around all of you Visit the Website to see what we have been up to Yoda on the decks in his Aviator shades
24- Social- Maybe the Shuffle on my iPod Reacts to my brainwaves Maybe my Appeal Tribunal Will be held in a Hotel Not before the Court Meet those who have some influence On my life The Govt pays our Lancaster rents The Lancaster rents pay my mortgage The Govt pays me We’re all on the Social it seems Social wasn’t Black Tie The Four Shires Are not currently interested Yellow won’t see Orange Life in published frames Life in private images
25- Venture Forth- Fear Nothing Don’t be afraid of Anything Fear Nothing Fear Nothingness Minas Tirith Minas Morgul Lady Macbeth cast a spell “Business” just means It goes wrong all the time Touring back again quite soon Unanswered questions At The House of The Moon the Narcotics Anonymous stories are the more juicy Robert Dudley and the court of Elizabeth I John Dee the Queen’s Magician...
