Make It Mauve - Shriekback

When the waves are rising and the thunder roars

When all us little fish are flapping on the shore

When you got bad credit, feeling like a freak

When you are so demented that you cannot speak

Everybody bite the tadpole, everybody grip the pole

Let’s just surrender to this splendor in our droves

Everybody light a candle to the life below the stones

Come join the gang, bring around the van

Let’s make it mauve, don’t make a fuss

Get on the bus and make it mauve

So you gotta get drastic, gotta make a plan

(As everyone would, if they could, but no one can)

Get your ass stochastic in the falling snow

You’ll be the wizard in the blizzard when you go

Everybody micromanage, everybody seed the clouds

They never ate half of the fishes and the loaves

Everyone above the tree line for the stimulation hour

Let’s get deranged till things have changed

Let’s make it mauve, yeah, it’s the law

Get on the floor and make it mauve

You know all that profit and loss

Won’t be the thing that you remember in your last gasp

A purple mist’s descending which I know is gonna be a gas

That’ll be our history written on the air

And if we made it all up then really who would care?

Now we’re aniline purple with a febrile glow

And I just think that it’s the only way to go

Everybody grab a handful, everybody hit the road

Everything’s cake, we make it on this stove

Everybody overjoyed to make this lurid shit their own

We’re not to blame, you’d have done the same

We made it mauve, so as they say

A brand new day and make it mauve

Gotta make a crust though, it’s a must to make it mauve