Sea Theory - Shriekback

Did you ever get an invitation?

A little window to another life?

Got so many tales

A lot of ales and rotten rails

Terrible discussions with the wife

Clawing at the arse-end of the evening

Watch me as I play their rotten game

I get my cods out by the dustbin of the gods

Stand there till the sun comes out again

I got a sea theory, gonna bore my friends

Sea theory, still pushing it

Sea theory, gonna act it out

Sea theory, haven’t tested it

Spend a long time frowning at the sandwich

Wearily I bring it into play

Mona’s bright, makes that shit looks so every night

Everything’s enormous once again

Washed up with the seaweed and syringes

Tide comes in and then goes out again

It’s so very foul and unbelievable banal

Underneath the boardwalk in the rain

I got a sea theory, gonna blow your mind

Sea theory, can’t defend it

Sea theory, it’s a piece of work

Sea theory, gonna make your teeth ache

Sea theory in the disco

One of many theories of the sea

Everybody’s songs are never ending till they’re gone

Carve a little pleasure out of me

Gonna get my dinner from the chip shop

Now I have to eat it on the hoof

Everybody sighs and everybody multiplies

No one cares too much about the truth

Got a sea theory, it’s a pack of lies