Siggy

Siggy's being written off again
By neuroscientists
Evangelists
Post-modernists
Cultural constructivists
Neo-Marxists
Crypto-Trotskyists
Gloria Fucking Steinem
And the guy at the Kwik Shop

For we all know
Do we not?
That all that clap-trap about sex
Oedipus
Pipes
And dreams
Was a load of rot

Dripping with 80s zeitgeist
The one thing
That will really put the fear of
God?
(Hardly)
Into some devout activist
With impeccable credentials
Is that if they ever put
Their Sierra Club head on the couch
They might find out why
They give a fuck
And that their desire to save the planet
Has a cause that came before their Cause

These children of the Prozac Age
With their all-encompassing
Diminishing
I'm okay
You're okay
Yay yay yay ethos
Are easily frightened
And particularly scared
Of Dr. Freud

The fear is fundamentally
A question of scale
He could see the infinite within
And they can not

You And Your Dress

You and your dress left me broken hearted
Not even sure if we ever started to love
But it was close

Stuck on a plane on a snowbound runway
Not gonna fly in a month of Sundays
Girl, you're the most

I'm not going to lose my mind
With questions as I try to find
The reasons that we're not together
Blame the Russians, blame the weather


Falling for you left me tired and torn like
Climbing the North face of the Matterhorn
But oh! What a view

You and your dress and a tawdry Tuesday
Yves St. Laurent and a crumpled duvet
Girl, you're crazy glue

I'm not going to stick around
And wonder if you ever found
A lover who's as good as me
At lying through his shattered teeth

I'm not going to lose my mind
With questions as I try to find
The reasons that we're not together
Blame the Russians, blame the weather

Jessica

Driving at night, no lights, no hope
The lake, the Moon, the girl
She doesn’t know me, I don’t know her
How else could we have been so close?

You look ill now so I’m told
All that shivers is not cold

Living at night, notorious ghosts
She kisses my hair as I stroke hers
Movie lights turn both our faces blue
Used to think the color suited you

But things change
Your old life pulled you away
And dragged you down
Crushed your smile to a frown
I didn’t recognize you

You look ill now so I’m told
All that shivers is not cold
Neon blue your empty eyes
All you are now fear and lies

But I remember Jessica
The way she used to be
When she believed in everything
When she believed in me
Yeah I remember Jessica
When summer turned to fall
And she’d breathe in and laugh aloud
And talk about the things she loved
With a passion and a lust for life
Monet and cats
Umberto Eco
Jimi Hendrix
Jack and coke
Thunderstorms and snow in April
And the future that she wanted that was full of hope
But that she lost the will to take
And drowned it in a lake
What a fucking stupid waste

I remember Jessica
I remember Jessica
Farewell to absent friends

Her Name Is Sunday

Fly down into the big town
Shy stare, she's gonna be my friend
She's wearing my number

She says her name is Sunday
I say “I don't have anything planned”
She's wearing number 9

It's not a chase, just a question of time
And her face is my future


My name written in rainbows
Her game, the rules are anything goes
She's making me wonder

I say “let's fly with the weather”
Skies grey, so we smash holes in the clouds
Sunday says she's fine

As her eyes flash number 9
And her face is my future

The Reptile Who Fell Out Of Time

Stephanie was stupefied
She couldn't suss the rules of the game
Somewhere outside Chesterfield
The Romanies were asking her name
None of them got married
It was really kind of tragic
There was something in the water
That had taken all the magic away

Genevieve was justified
In doubting every word that I said
I really couldn't help myself
How else d'you think I'd get her in bed?
“Lying” sounds so loaded
“Verbal art” is more the mode
There was something in the fiction
That encoded every thought in my head

Caroline was serpentine
She slithered in and out of my world
Laughing like a lizard
With a tongue for all the boys and the girls
She would only meet me
When my mind was half asleep
Then she showed me round her dungeon
As we listened to The Cure and The Furs

Subterranean sister of mine
Kaleidoscope girl Caroline
The reptile who fell out of time
The reptile who fell out of time

Dream Life

Dream life not enough?
Sometimes it's way too much
To keep in mind
The people I find

A witch and a wizard out buying a van
Copper piping in the mouth of a man
Britas flying but the kite's in the sand

And the sump pump does what it can
And the wishing well goes down down down down down

In the darkest night
The visions are bright
When the shadows glare
The beauty is there

If you're the dreamer then who's in the dream
You know deep down that it's just what it seems
A world that's waiting for your waking esteem

And the director's part of the scene
Blink if you know what I mean

Not Quite Human

You’re not quite human
You walk through my nightmare
With steps slightly feline
There’s blood on your claws
You’re my lost companion
In dangerous driveways
You slink in the shadows
Then scratch at my door

No you’re not quite human
There’s something inside you
That shines if I’m near you
When you can’t hide your love
Then fear descends darkly
And you tramp on my feelings
After all this time... I still love you

You’re not quite human

You’re not quite human
You fly like an angel
That’s dressed as a banshee
There’s blood on your wings
You’re my lost companion
In splashes of moonlight
You color these memories
My soul mate my twin

No you’re not quite human
Your teeth are too perfect
In a Cheshire cat smile
That glows with your love
Then fear descends darkly
And you tramp on my feelings
After all this time... I still love you

You’re not quite human