Mahalia - Shriekback

All the bloodbank boys they know her name

With her heatwave eye and her fusebox brain

See how the primal laws obtain

And how my limp leaves wait for rain

How my limp leaves wait for rain

Mahalia!

Mahalia!

Look at the human wreckage she entrains

And it’s all out of her hands she claims

It was the monster daddy who forged her chains

But none of that stuff quite explains

None of that stuff quite explains

Mahalia!

Mahalia!

Ah the bile comes up as the drink goes down

But it’s all aboard for nutbar-town

Her name is sonorous and brown

It’s a deeply satisfying sound

A deeply satisfying sound

Mahalia!

Mahalia!

Mahalia!

Mahalia!

Go steady in the dark

Go steady in the dark

Go steady in the dark

Go steady in the dark

Her china heart’s exciting too

But nothing that you should pursue

She’s a chemical lynx in the human zoo

Her steely moods will run you through

Steely moods will run you through

Mahalia!

Mahalia!