HONG KONG GARDEN Harmful elements in the air Symbols crashing everywhere Reap the fields of rice and reeds While the population feeds Junk floats on poluted water An old custom to sell your daughter Would you like number 23? Leave your yen on the counter please Hong Kong garden Tourist swarm to see your face Confuscius has a puzzling grace Disoriented you enter in Unleashing scent of wild jasmine Slanted eyes meeting a new sunrise A race of bodies small in size Chicken Chow Mein and Chop Suey Hong Kong garden take away Hong Kong garden JIGSAW FEELING Send me forwards - say my feelings, But all the signals - send me reeling Jigsaw feeling One day I'm feeling total The next I'm split in two My eyes are doing somersaults Staring at my shoe My brain is out of my hand There's nothing to prevent The impulse is quite meaningless In a cerebal non-event Send me forwards - say my feelings, But all the signals - send me reeling Jigsaw feeling Five fingers do my walking Ten toes unravel 'Knots' Amorphous jigsaw pieces, Falling into slots Send me forwards - say my feelings, But all the signals - send me reeling Jigsaw feeling So I just sit in reverie Getting on my nerves The intangible bonds that keep me Sitting on the verge... Of a break down Of a reaction Of a result Complete me...maybe...defeat me OVERGROUND Got to give up life in this netherworld Got to go up to where the air is stale And live a life of pleasantries And mingle in the modern families Overground - from abnormality Overboard - for identity Overground - for normality Overboard - an identity This limbo is no place To be a digit - another space In another crowd I'm nameless bound Overground - from abnormality Overboard - for identity Overground - for normality Overboard - an identity Overground - I'll be worse than me Overground - it's clear to me I'll be worse than me CARCASS Someone in cold storage Seeking heinz main-courses Craving for a raw love He'll hide you from the cleaver He'll hang with you forever Longing for a fresh meat By hook or by crook You'll be first in his book For an impaled affair By hook or by crook You'll be last in his book Of flesh oh so rare Be a carcass, be a dead pork Be limblessly in love Be a carcrash, be a dead pork Be limblessly in love Someones left in cold storage Thawed in heinz main-courses Craving for a new tin He got you with the cleaver He hung you up forever Anticipating new skin Out of the frying pan And into the fire 58th variety Out of the frying pan And into the fire Mothewr had her son for tea In love with your stumps In love with the bleeding In love with the pain That you once felt As you became a carcass Carcass...carcass...carcrash METAL POSTCARD Reunion begins With a glass of mercury Whilst television flickers For another news bulletin Flints light up the eyes Of the seated family Metal is tough, metal will sheen Metal won't rust when oiled and cleaned Metal is tough, metal will sheen Metal will rule in my master scheme With a clockwork jerk Pluck cogs from fob watches For dinner on Friday Then recoil and say excuse me Must go recycle My precious machinery Metal is tough, metal will sheen Metal won't rust when oiled and cleaned Metal is tough, metal will sheen Metal will rule in my master scheme It's ruling our lives There is no hope Thought I'd drop a line The weather here is fine But day and night it blares Commanding through loudspeakers Metal is tough, metal will sheen Metal won't rust when oiled and cleaned Metal is tough, metal will sheen Metal will rule in my master scheme NICOTINE STAIN Is just a habit When I reach to the packet For my last cigarette Until the day breaks And then my hand shakes But it it's just driving me insane When the smoke gets in my brain I can't resist it Wallow in that ash bath Soaking up the fumes And see the nicotine stain Start to spread I'm so congested Cos north, south, east and west Catarrh rests on my chest Congealed and twisted Cough up and shift it But I can feel my lungs collapse Sinking deep into my lap I'm so useless Wallow in that ash bath Soaking up the fumes And see the nicotine stain Start to spread I'm so useful If you don't want to fight Just give your foe a fright Say you'll drop me On every country See all will be stone dead When the nicotine stain spreads Just light me SUBURBAN RELAPSE I'm sorry that I hit you But my string snapped I'm sorry that I disturbed your cat-nap But whilst finishing a chore I asked myself what for Then something snapped I had a relapse...a suburban relapse Should I? Throw things at the neighbours Expose myself to strangers? Kill myselfor...you? Now memory gets hazy I think I must be crazy But my string snapped I had a relapse...A suburban relapse SWITCH Different lives In different places Familiar problems Same old faces Shuffle lives Into wrong categories Cross the wires And fuse humanities Watch the muscles twitch For a brand new switch... Scientist GP's With patient guinea pigs Cureing their head-aches With drastic side effects Switch Doctor rectorates Condescending from on high For all halucinaters See druggist in the sky Switch Vicar experiments But 'tis blasphemy Dismissing thought of progress As the mark of devilry Switch People walk And even talk People listen Then they halt Something blows up Won't come down Scattered muscles twitch Too late to switch Their dieing to switch Switch