Crippled Life

Hardly noticed the pain of it all

Where is it now?

Memory's dormant on the factory floor

Where is it now?

Grease stains mark me purple tired

Where am I now?

Endless fear eternally fired

Creeping sin without an end

Loving warmth in search of friends.

Platform shoes inspired the Bauhaus

Where are they now?

Once had a thought but gave it away

Where is it now?

All the Better Babies become Anarchists

Where are they now?

Offhand slogans pollute our ecotourists

Grand papists procure weird alter bibles

Our lawyers sup on the soup of libels.

 

It wasn't like this Before the Chronicles

Where is it now?

Perhaps this illness is a sleight of fate

Where is it now?

Glam rockers sing of heretical love

Where are they now?

Chromosomes forbid test-tube deforming

Limpid arguments create little blood

The drowning happened before the flood.

 

It's always good to be policed

Watched, surveyed, constantly briefed

And to go through life so unblinded

To be seduced by those unkinded

Doesn't this make it a nasty place?

Living beneath the human race.

Just as cities back streets team

With the pulse of a crippled life

Primal man has gone all-sentimental

A head butting out of strife

There's no time like the present

For exhuming the past

Holy chaos overrules wise talk.

 

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