Undrowned

First, boy, I think you should know

If you try hard then you might get a part

As a doe-eyed impressionist mime

Bare as the lives of the footballers' wives that surround you,

Their diamonds aloft,

A system of pistons,

Arachnid and blistered

A billboard, a murder of crows

While princes fly drones that can see through your bones

And the wind stops, the temperature drops

And harpies melt through you like horses to glue

I believe you, but not what you say

To close it around til you're scorched and undrowned,

They devour you and totter in heels

And who wants the Falklands and who wants the Balkans

I love you, just like a bank

There's so much to talk about that we don't talk about, boy

Trust in me

I fell

She said it fills me with dread

The people in Parliament don't know the half of it

Please, son, it's only a sport

The fate of a ball don't enthral me at all

So relax here go through it again

Who have you seen knows what all of it means?

I fell down, down

And I saw a billionaire

With all of his innards nailed

To the walls, to the walls, to the west

Don't fear it now

But don't stop asking!

Hey, man, you're probably right

It's not a galaxy made for a guy like me

Badness, the edge of the world

The edge of my memory, some kind of energy

Burned up and frittered away

Bile in the gutters and gout for a God

But I'm lawful, I kept my head down

I turned a blind eye and I played my cards right

I'm in debt, man, I've waited too long

Bought all the right things I've bought all the right things

I'm lonely, I don't know myself

I thought there was something I waited for something

Oh down, down, down!

Don't let

Don't let

Don't let

(To the walls, to the walls, to the west)

Don't let

Don't let me down