A question of judgement decided in haste A case of malfunction an error of taste A moment of madness occasioned by stress A classic misjudgment a god-awful mess The moment of panic preceding the crash The sickening terror the defeating smash A loud wail of sirens descend on the scene The camera dissolves a crescendo […]
You were the player And you played it cool I was the stranger And i played the fool You were the teacher And you were the best I was the seeker And i failed the test We were always skating on thin ice Shaking the wrong dice Swimming against the tide Playing on the wrong […]
In the centre of the storm Something magic being born When the world is torn apart By the beating of a heart Like a dam about to burst Like a drunkard’s crazy thirst In the centre of the storm Something magic being born It’s the dark hours of the soul When the nightmares take their […]
I know if i’d been wiser this would never have occurred But i wallowed in my blindness so it’s plain that i deserve For the sin of self-indulgence when the truth was writ quite clear I must spend my life amongst the dead who spend their lives in fear Of a death that they’re not […]
In the autumn of my madness when my hair is turning grey For the milk has finally curdled and i’ve nothing left to say When all my thoughts are spoken (save my last departing birds) Bring all my friends unto me and i’ll strangle them with words In the autumn of my madness which in […]
’twas tea-time at the circus: king jimi, he was there Through hoops he skipped, high wires he tripped, and all the while the glare Of the aching, baking spotlight beat down upon his cloak And though the crowd clapped furiously they could not see the joke ’twas tea-time at the circus, though some might not […]
(brooker / fisher / reid) Glimpses of nirvana In the darkness of the night, only occasionally relieved by glimpses of nirvana as seen through other people’s windows, wallowing in a morass of self-despair made only more painful by the knowle Hat all i am is of my own making … When everything around me, even […]
(brooker / reid) Though i know the night has fallen and the sun’s sailed out to sea I will wait here for the band to play the trumpet voluntary And with one foot on the seashore and the other in the sand I will stand here plaiting daisies whilst you play the piano-grand Caprice, your […]
(brooker / reid) Our local picture house was showing a batman movie You see this guy fly up in the sky, thought to myself, ‘why shouldn’t i?’ So i bought a pair of wings, went up upon a wall I was about to jump into the air when a guy from the street called He […]
(brooker / reid) You know i caught a glimpse, thought i understood But i left it all far behind Now if i’d known then what i know now Do you think i would’ve been so blind? Gonna take myself to the wishing well I’m gonna make myself one last wish And if you follow me […]
