The Lyrics to the Sixth Album
Soup Kitchen
1- A JOURNEY OF THE HARLEQUINS- The road to Northampton King Billy’s bar Is found by clubbing In Leamington Spa We’ve played at Blakesley And at the Carps Just now the White Elephant/ After the show Backstage we go To be offered up Bowls of lamb stew Better than Z-list celebs we do All along I’ve kept you close to me Elsewhere I cannot find The mileage we seek/ Your body is my neck out there Your holy wars You a precious jewel I’m yours Just to feel that we’re alive Just for protection I survive Raising heights of consciousness A book to take us from this mess Spread and snarled up Sprawled and trawled This planet that we claim as ours/ The cults of all the billionnaires Send a shiver to back neck hairs We’ve got those two cards bold as brass And still continue not out to grass We’re like so many millions waiting there To make a stamp and say I dare But not many like you I’m well aware Ravaged the Earth in her bounty/ Caged beheaded flogged disgraced How brutal it has been this place Towers chariots mark out our space The envy of the human race Alien intelligence wash your face We are the double-pillared one Like rape and pillage They twist their knives And try to cut us down to size But we inhabit the planet too We get on well me and you And back to back defences prove In someone’s recent memory Gain momentum stealthily Aztec Inca situation evidently Where I give in hope of plenty Rationale in Chaos Theory
2- SOMETHING FOR YOUR MEN TO LEARN- Lady Lancaster Let’s keep us together Fish on Friday’s Doctrine’s turn Something for your men to learn As the years revolve and the candles burn Abundance spreads But disintegration yearns As rotting fruit to ashes turn And the cast of our Bible once more rearm To spread forth light and cast a charm Name the animals and admire the haze That spreads on blissful summer days Fly through the skies above your bed And plot the Earth from end to end Two thousand miles an hour we go Revolving on this little globe The nature of the planets we can define By how they affect our several signs Dominion to Wealth we make some sense Or Virtue back to Indolence Exist on scams and handouts too Very pretty this little Fool Like “Hall of the Mountain Grill” Surround our lives with a Sumerian haze Famous from your very first days A legend in your own lunchtime babes! We did the Stars in Edition II And still get processed through and through Summoned to another table To present that of which we think we are able We arrange ourselves apparently That however remains to be seen Nothing less than Chaos Theory More complex than a chessboard, eh Moves political for us today Failure into Power push on through Expose the bones that shine out true Broken-down Jesus teaches it the Tarot Wheels within wheels Diplomacy steals Trader trades Gain reveals The most likely situations where we go You are my Valour and my Dominion too Where would we be without you
3-PUSHING IT- Celebrity idolatry hero worship cult of notoriety Mapped out we are in several parts This is where the Empire starts The grid is like a birth chart of your stars Showing where your affinities are Where minds meet to make a whole Shows to you your fortuitous role Beaming down on all of us we find our conquests laid to rest Bleary-eyed hunting on New Year’s Day The New Millennium has come our way A direct path from sphere to sphere Not much in the middle here A dairy herd- out in the fields again Or gigging in Northampton Armed as Three or armed as Four Seek exposure door to door When I give to you you give to me Whatever in a mystery The men they gather in unity, unity in diversity Direction Scarecrow is the key Beware the Priestess behind me Charmed I am Eat me Drink Me Scan me Wands and Cups and Swords and Disks It’s getting slow let’s take a risk Going now from street to street Something we can do together Flats Hotels and Houses in all sorts of weather Your meter-men can be utter bastards sweet girl of mine O Queen I smell you perfume once again Go Go, Go Go, Go Go Go! Got those teeshirts 3 and 4 Better watch She don’t show you the door 3 and 4 make 6 14 Like the Lovers on the scene Panther and Wyvern quite serene Nefertiti shoots she’ll draw We’re only here once let’s hope it’s fine Forever when I make you mine Punch a hole through to the next daytime A new branch of the tree A new branch to work for free A new location for us to be
4-SOUP KITCHEN- Away at sea I’m on a mission Come back soon for definition But for now I’m on commission Fresh and wild from the butcher’s van Crispy lettuce watering can Feel the grass beneath my feet Staying in a house so sweet No contest there for city street Or hamster wheel in defeat Like a night crawler I am Get you fed up love a long way Bind it and let it free Is this how it’s supposed to be A totem pole of heads I see Archetypes burn for heresy Into the machine we scream Shackled to the mainframe Standing there at ten to two Entire worlds collide when I meet you She says it is a shop But I myself want some food Trying not to be too rude Let loose on Reality Nephythys Temples lo and behold Where strange delights are bought and sold/ Now we all are free again Now we all are one Armies of the Sun Dice our diaries up to attention The band will turn it on Spray it up against the wall But distant moons we do uncover Precious jewels when we gather
5- CLOUD CITY- Meet the Mad Hatter when Alice falls free Down inside the Axletree On a floating island she waits for me Tunisian Rules above the sea Twenty years later and back are we On a different level it seems to be When I beam up to the Cloud City/ Far above the land Bounty hunter and mercenary For sure I’ll see you It’s Destiny At the top of a Tower we’re laid to rest Returned to where the vultures nest The whole thing is ours From street to street Snarled up in its infancy/ Smoking den paper and pen Write my bestseller while I practice Zen Lush green grass out in the fields See the lambs gambolling free In shadows spare a thought for me Surfers passing easily Hilltop to hilltop until the sea Cattle browse beneath our feet Pigs wait for take-off On the landing strip All the birds fly in from Mars Chickens roost behind gold bars A box of frogs in opening hours/ Very loathe to give her up Both planets when we share a cup In negotiation we meet our match And in compromise a plan we hatch Like base elements we are involved In the dance that captures all the world Maybe in compromise I’ll curb my tongue And bang our rhythms on the drum Expanded into five we go From the marriage bed we grow Some channel there for to follow A higher grace than Hell we know
6- TWIST THE KNIFE- For all the time that I’ve spent with you Our ins and outs through and through Spit it back into my face Shopping show to another place Twist the knife O by mistake More on the clock for you and I Than just a quick fling to passers-by Our children I would like to know Where they are in the come and go Fall for you fall for me In the end we just might see/ It’s all in a basement flat In Portobello by day midweek That’s that Some sort of committment somewhere I’ll pack All the prisms common knowledge Stealth fighter pilot to encourage Number crunch the planet Head on the ceiling again Wear it for me always It is yours my ring/ Squad car bust got us to watch Only if you need to I can try to make ends meet Success to temperance I’m on my feet Unwrap you from the towel To feel the heat I love you and I’ve said as much Lady Master just to feel your touch I go everywhere just to find your thing Cancel a few just to let me in
7- PULSE THROUGH METAL- Greasy truckers trawl Through the urban sprawl Like a signpost she smiles at you Depending on your point of view Our story in my face Banging at the rooftops About the place Fall to cardboard in disgrace But pulse through metal to give chase/ Farmers plough throughout the land And to the bar they lend a hand In an instance see the whole And celebrate this rock with roll Driving through a valley low And to bridges goes the road Tomtom Bongo beats we know Like it or not we take control/ Hope to understand the places as one Not as some great big mincing machine Hell bent on Astrology From a tiny village to a SuperBowl I bowl out all over the place No text please we’re British! Brought at gun point back to town Heavy scenes they will come down Goths play here but further afield Sharpest wit will be revealed By strange coincidence I’ve fathomed out Our story’s end in several parts Not warmongering but Empirical A good look on the whole Not yet a broken doll Taking on the whole world Scarlet hair in bunches girl As above so below Destination is part of the road It could be black but it’s orange though All reversed my colours glow Chance unawares on a strip show
8-BOUNTY HUNTER- Broken egg come out of its shell A bit fried or scrambled I can’t yet tell Pluto the gateway to the galaxy Are you set for this journey Observable reality We’ve got the hang of it now Hoping for some Diaspora tricks To distance us from the gallows They’re all in a play already Is it one we know Whatever flavour catfood Specially for today/ Safely hidden away in office blocks Gentle serenity has its cost We chance upon those who are out And frighten them without a doubt Gogo galaxy a price upon its head I see/ Cast my catch before the highest bidder Before the throne I lay my treasure For her to choose from as takes her pleasure From the spoils She’ll pick and choose as is her dotage In the future now are we Freed-up time in the clouds she’ll see Armour borne across her breasts Point the finger she does best/ I travel far from place to place Dreaming when I’ll see your face Lay the spoils beneath her feet A delicacy for her a treat Just think of all the things I do Princess thrown to the floor for you Settle an old score for you Back from our several distant moons to you A quiet confession and I know you’re mine Alpha Centauri system’s fine Pisces I read in the Stars all the time In our Court in the United K She’s too strong but that’s Ok Mad bitch from Hell but I don’t mind We both displeased her anyway
9-ETERNITY- Got
you back to its all-time best At 7pm luck will text Got you married to number
Three Multiplying rapidly Got the ring of eternity Got it fired in clay for all
to see Not the only one who will put up with it Got my orders evidently Yet
bound together we are free Take a tour of this our city At your doorstep I’m
getting itchy Climb aboard big strong girl To drink your blood I often yearn
Love writes in a red notebook for us both Recounting how I met my ghost I don’t
always have the words to say But I love you happens every day Paired off with
you is the best way No matter what the neighbours say! Quick like Cheetah or
Leopard too Not stripey like a Zebra, eh Giraffes romancing by the day Gorillas
fax banana orders after
10-FOUR COUNTIES HOG ROAST- Share in the view No meaning yes You know she’s good to me I follow her endlessly Skulls and death Have no meaning you see Some process comment passing me Stages to infinity Engaged in combat locked on are we Ten incarnations he can see At the time of the Census where I’ll be Drongo dragons me and you Pillar statues two by two We apologise for any delay Normal service will resume As soon as possible, eh! Like deep trance we groove and chill Exhaust possibilities on arrival still Next back to Oxford on continuous rolls we will This has been our story- the Music of the Spheres Two half acres of rainforest preserved for you and me Land on the Moon with a nightclub and a factory Mars and Venus in their adulteries Fire signs we are you and me We know how to Party Change the script as we please Albino Rat rules the Galaxy Vile and mean and hideous
11-CLOSE TO HEAVEN- Try my best to do for
her What she can do for me Until we’re not interested anymore Down upon the
See/ The bridge from the Four Shires Into London Is by St Peter’s Gates Where
higher up amonst the clouds A mermaid she awaits Welcome to the United Kingdom
you They say She directs and we lead state/ When the Moon blocks the Sun’s rays
Then the Sun is eclipsed by its way And sometimes the Earth she blocks the Moon
And that too is eclipsed quite soon But we are all eclipsed by the Sun For he
outshines us every one/ Last remaining survivors We tour the empty streets But
when the day dawns The city finds its feet Skulls and daybreak in sympathy The
hill it is littered with heads and books That Death has carved out with his
scythe The Sirens they will try to dash us upon the rocks It doesn’t matter
where it is going as long as it is going somewhere Skulls and shrunken heads
hanging by the hair The World it will not end tomorrow Got you covered across
four counties Across four shires we will be Not all lost on the battlefield In
the garden she speaks with me
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