Woke Up Wrong - Shriekback

Bleary Android in his gummy sack

Don’t let him get to you

Or let him start interesting you

Count the moments till the

Beast comes back

(Cock and Sock Town all on lockdown)

Morning rictus on the blighted stair:

Seize the moment with hilarious despair

Night time was pretty now it’s such a pity

He’s just a huggy bear that nearly lost it back there

Where the lights shine, it’s not a good time:

It could go anyway

Mining for meaning in the House of Song

Tried to be so strong but just Woke Up Wrong today

Barney Manglue

With his running gags

(You wouldn’t want to do the kind of things he wants from you)

Butcher’s sawdust in a hundred bags

(Needs that soak-up since he woke up)

Stretch the moment with his steely claw

Spread this second to infinity and more

World-matter rattle.

it’s a losing battle

(We always knew it had a tendency to get bad)

With the fire-hose under the bed-clothes

Whiling the time away

Lamprey Da Sousa found the nights too long

In his silver thong

He just Woke Up Wrong today

Beery Hand-Jew

Where the great bird flies

He hasn’t given in

You haven’t heard the last of him

Stridulation -half a million cries-

Butched-out-come-down

Top-down-shunt-round

Swept to power on a wave of joy

All the balloons up

For a special little boy

See how he rises to his glittering prizes!

(Something sublime behind this vacuous design)

You wait a lifetime, and it’s a hard climb

Just to get by ok

Fuel up the feeling 'cause you don’t get long

'Ding dong!'

I just Woke Up Wrong today