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Iâm gonna grab myself an industry insider mask and blag my way
Into the after show
I wanna get in amongst the baying hordes of resting actors
Whoâve just got back from visiting Nairobi slums for Comic Relief
And now theyâre going to spend the next six weeks sitting in the vestibule
Waiting for the Farm Foods phone call
The Farm Foods phone call
Iâm going to be apprehended by some mandatory galoot with a handheld camera
Who will point it in my face and say: âWho are you, and what do you do?â
And Iâll say âIâm a counterblast to Agnosticism, how do you doâ
And heâll go away immediately
I wanna meet Howard Marks if I can but they say that I canât
I need four different wrist bands
Follow me oh follow
Down to the hollow
And there we will wallow
Thereâs a BritPop refugee
Walking up to me
And his face is hollow from seasons of disappointment
And he starts blathering on about his latest project
Already being dismissed by the most unlikeliest of cable stations
Itâs a dot com sitcom
About a hip hop chip shop
Chatto and Windus sitting in a tree
D-I-S-S-I-N-G
Keith Allenâs autobiography
Iâm just trying to break the drudgery of the downstairs maid
Iâm just trying to write the sort of tune you can maybe hum while waiting for your lover on a railway platform
I wanna meet Howard Marks if I can but they say that I canât
Follow me oh follow
Down to the hollow
And there we will wallow
I want to perch myself halfway up a metal staircase with the Polydor girls
And talk about meerkats
And come out with statements like:
âWell of course music these days is the slave of mammon and as a result
It has become corrupt and shallow
Its real essence is industry
Its moral purpose is the acquisition of money
Its aesthetic pretext is the entertainment of those who are bored
And yes weâre really excited about going back in to the studio
Hotly tipped, highly anticipated and slated for releaseâ
I wanna meet Howard Marks if I can but they say that I canât
Heâs talking to Ian Broudie
And come four oâclock
If Iâm still on my feet
Thereâs a bloke over there
Who said I could meetâ¦
Ken Livingstone
Well Iâm just a primitive creature of the heath so excuse my savage ignorance
But if Iâm still on my feet at four oâclock
Iâll be stealing the lead off the roof
Follow me oh follow
Down to the hollow
And there we will wallow
Stealing the lead off the roof
Stealing the lead off the roof
Stealing the lead off the roof
Stealing the lead off the roof
Come saddle my milk white steed
Iâve seen much more than I need
And I know that you wonât heed the call
So I sprayed it on to the wall
Thy damnation, slumbereth not
Thy damnation, slumbereth not
Thy damnation, slumbereth not
Thy damnation, slumbereth not
- Album:
- New Perspective
- Urge for Offal
- 90 Bisodol (Crimond)
- Cammell Laird Social Club
- Achtung Bono
- Trouble Over Bridgwater
- Back In The D.H.S.S.
- CSI:Ambleside
- McIntyre, Treadmore And Davitt
- Some Call It Godcore
- Four Lads Who Shook The Wirral
- Voyage To The Bottom Of The Road
- This Leaden Pall
- CSI: AMBLESIDE
- Acd
- Back In The D.H.S.S. / The Trumpton Riots E.P
- Back Again in the D.H.S.S. (Extra Tracks)
- Eno Collaboration E.P.
- The Peel Sessions: 1995-08-05
- The Peel Sessions: 1997-02-02