The Taking of Peckham 123 - Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine

It’s like Saint Valentine’s Day

at the sugar candy store

where the barman lays

on the bloodstained floor

with all the wines

and the cocktails

he won’t be serving anymore

to the swingers

and the roustabouts

and the carnivore queen

who’s looking for the 3 scrooges

who are nowhere to be seen

and life’s just a bowl of cherries

for the fruit machine

THE TAKING OF PECKHAM

Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest

they robbed him blind,

then dumb.

and then deaf

and they left him there bleeding

on the pavement to die

and he went to that

great high-rise block in the sky

And the hands that do the dishes

feel as soft as your face

then they rob you of your pension

and they ransack your place

still, you try to forgive

like the baby Jesus did

though it’s so hard to be a saint

in the flats where you live

And you’ll live there forever

and the day that you die

when you’ll go to that

great high-rise block in the sky

and you’ll meet the baby Jesus

so you ll know you’re in Heaven

and you’ll get back the years

that you gave

in the taking of Peckham