Mercury Poisoning - Graham Parker

No more pretending now, the albatross is dying in its nest

The company is crippling me

The worst trying to ruin the best, the best

Their promotion’s so lame

They could never ever take it to the real ball game

Maybe they think I’m a pet

Well I’ve got all the diseases

I’m breaking out in sweat, you bet, because

I got, Mercury poisoning

It’s fatal and it don’t get better

I got, Mercury poisoning

The best kept secret in the west

The boys and me are getting real well known around town

But every time we try to spread the action

Someone always brings it down, down

I ate the orange and I don’t feel well

For them it’s inconvenience for me it’s hell

The geriatric staff think we’re freaks

They couldn’t sell kebabs to the Greeks, the geeks

Inaction speaks, and

I got, Mercury poisoning

It’s fatal and it don’t get better

I got, Mercury poisoning

The best kept secret in the west

Is this a Russian conspiracy, no it’s just idiocy

Is this a Chinese burn

I gotta a dinosaur for a representative

It’s got a small brain and refuses to learn

Their promotion’s so lame

They could never ever take it to the real ball game

Listen I ain’t a pet

I ain’t a token hipster, in your monopoly set

You bet because

I got, Mercury poisoning

It’s fatal and it don’t get better

I got, Mercury poisoning

The best kept secret in the west

He’s got, Mercury poisoning

It’s fatal and it don’t get better

He’s got, Mercury poisoning

The best kept secret in the west

Yeah the best kept secret in the west The best kept secret in the west