Cuckoo Madame - Robert Wyatt

Cuckoo Madame

With your teddy bear eye

Yellow fingers clinging to the chain link fence

Bombers above you

Bombers behind you

Disapproval hounds you

Ugly rumour surrounds you

Solitary madam

We never understood, you

Never told us of your battle

With the cuckoo baby blues

Cuckoo Madame

It’s no wonder you’re shy

You’re Greta Garbo

You’re the witch of Salem

You’re anti-social, and

You are too bloody lonely

For the likes of us

We never knew of your battle

With the cuckoo baby blues

When you saw that egg crack

It froze your blood

You knew you had to fly then

Had to say goodbye

Had to fly before you saw another mother

Feed your chick

You knew it would break your heart

You knew it would break your heart