Seditious Serenade
You framed your missing piece
She gives you a stale kiss
Don’t expect anything else
Improvise, make a promise
You can take a shortcut
Make sure you tell the coroner
To take a peek over the curb
Don’t let the sun catch her
Give the bait another look
No lifeline from the mainland
Swap a needle for a hook
Dive down
Dive down
Sail a boat in the barn
Don’t take advice, steady your hand
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Take a look at the cardiogram
You’re too late I’m sorry to say
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Dig my thumbs in your eyes
As deep as they go
Catch your breath
Roll the dice
Pick a side
Pick a slice
Don’t remain calm, break the glass
Do you get it ?
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Somewhere in Missouri
All the sawdust in the well
A little rough around the edges
Look for a little free will
Take a day off, honey
You look like an oil spill
You know the drill
A buck for a squeal
It’s all easy money
So do yourself a favour
Make a prayer, swirl the numbers
Do you get it ?
Get it get it get it get it
It’s been displayed
It’s been misplaced
Disengage, return to base
Muddling through the forest
Salmon Man and butter scone
Undermined and overblown
Strip down to the bone
Smells like a stroke
Is a stroke is a stroke
All the drones strike at sunset
The shrike just left its nest
Would you like to confess?
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Get it get it get it get it
Bordermind, Murderland
You brushed it from your brain
It’s a ruin, it’s a remnant
Carry out the sentence
The winner takes it all
The motive and the lament
Scarce resources
How many dead horses
Salute the flag
Stabs and scalps
Rob yourself blind
Go to bed in a ski mask
Do you get it ?
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Fresh summer graves
Mechanical ravens
Rootless daffodils
And marble dreams
The linoleum’s melting
Toss a cripple in the sea
Carve a smile through the foliage
Flip a button for good luck
Leave a rock over the key
Hush now
Hush now
See you on the way down
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Get it get it get it get it
It’s so easy to see skulls in the clouds
Turn around
Flick your eyes like glass
The wind sweeps up the streets
A heavy breath of thunder
A fleeting high for murder
Fair warning
Fair warning
Autumn for an evening
A cane for a limp
Just a kiss, just a sip
You could say I’m new to this
Do you get it ?
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Follow the rogue trombone
By the prophecy foretold
Spark a whistle through the fog
Leave your mark in the mould
Do try to keep up
Do get a move on
Brother John is gone
And Poor Tom’s-a-cold
Last call
Last call
Quarantine the cubicle
Did you make a backup?
Do you get it ?
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Betrothed to betrayal
Take your hand off the rail
Don’t give in to the scheme
With Mr Compromise
And Mr Middleground
It’s about as cosy
As a slug in the sand
There’s a man outside with a sign in his hands and it says
Free Bugs
Free Bugs
Clench the rope across the haze
What’s that under your nails?
Do you get it ?
Get it get it get it get it
You can ask for directions
It’s okay to be shy
It’s not that kind of lonely
I made myself very clear
She sowed her freckles in the sky
And fertilized the stratosphere
I think I’ll have that drink now
Make it a double
Make it radical
Make it sound like a rose
Raise your glass to the rain
Dance me to the gallows
When the hangman calls my name
Who’s on trumpet tonight?
Do you get it ?
Get it get it get it get it
She died in the ambulance
Died in the ambulance
Died in the ambulance
Died in the ambulance
Do you get it? Get it? Get it? Get it? Get it?
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