Hong Kong Garden

Harmful elements in the air
symbols clashing everywhere
Reaps the fields of rice and reeds
while the population feeds

Junk floats on polluted water
an old custom to sell your daughter
Would you like number 23?
Leave your yens on the counter please
Hong Kong Garden

Tourists swarm to see your face
Confuscius has a puzzling grace
Disoriented you enter in
unleashing scent of wild jasmine

Slanted eyes meet a new sunrise
a race of bodies small in size
Chicken Chow Mein and Chop Suey
Hong Kong Garden takeaway
Hong Kong Garden

(Lyrics/Music not accredited)

Pure

Music: McKay/Severin/Morris/Sioux

Jigsaw Feeling

Chorus:
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 cerebral non-event

Chorus

Five fingers do my walking
ten toes unravel 'Knots'
Amorphous jigsaw pieces
falling into slots

Chorus

So I just sit in reverie
getting on my nerves
The intangible bonds that keep me
sitting on the verge...
of a breakdown
of a reaction
of a result
(defeat me...)..Complete me...maybe...defeat me
(Jigsaw feeling)

Lyric: Severin Music: Severin/McKay

Overground

Got to give up life in this netherworld
got to (gonna) 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-on identity

This limbo is no place
to be a digit (in)-Another space
in another crowd
I'm nameless bound

Overground-from abnormality
Overboard-for identity
Overground-for normality
Overboard-on (for) identity

Overground-I'll be worse than me
Overground-it's clear to me
(Repeat)
I'll be worse than me

Lyric: Severin Music: McKay

Carcass

Someones 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 1st in his book
for an impaled affair
By hook or by crook
you'll be last in his book
of flesh oh so rare

Chorus:
Be a carcass-Be a dead pork
be limblessly in love
Be a carcrash(carcass)-Be a dead pork
be limblessly in love

Someones left in cold storage
thawed in heinz main-courses
carving 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
mother had her son for tea

Chorus

In love with your stumps (the pain)
In love with the bleeding
In love with the pain
that you once felt (now feel)
as you became a carcass (,we became a carcass)
(Carcass-you became a carcass)
carcass...carcass...carcrash

(In love with the stumps
In love with the bleeding
In love with the pain
that you now feel
as you became a carcass
-we became a carcass-
carcass
you became a carcass
Carcass
Get him in... ...but don't whine you swine)

Lyric: Severin/Sioux Music: Sioux/Fenton

Helter Skelter

Lennon / McCartney

Metal Postcard (Mittageisen)

Dedicated to John Heartfield

Reunion begins 
with a glass of mercury 
whilst television flickers 
for (with) another news bulletin 
flints light up the eyes 
of the seated family 

Chorus: 
"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 masterscheme" 

With a clockwork jerk 
pluck cogs from fob watches 
for dinner on Friday 
then recoiling say excuse me 
"Must go recycle 
my precious machinery" 

Chorus 

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:- 

Chorus 
(Metal is tough, metal is clean) 

Lyric: Sioux Music:McKay

Nicotine Stain

It's 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 

Chorus: 
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 

Chorus 

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 

Lyric: Sioux Music: Severin

Suburban Relapse

I'm sorry that I hit you 
but my string snapped 
I sorry 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 

I was washing up the dishes 
minding my own business 
when my string snapped 
I had a relapse...A Suburban relapse 

[Should I] 
Throw things at the neighbours 
expose myself to strangers? 
kill myself or...you? 
now memory gets hazy? 
I think I must be crazy 
but my string snapped 
I had a relapse...A Suburban relapse 
(repeat last four lines) 

Lyric: Sioux Music: McKay

Switch

Different Lives Shuffle(d) Lives 
in different places into wrong categories 
familiar problems cross the wires 
same old faces and fuse humanities 

Watch the muscles twitch 
for a brand new switch... 

Scientist G.P.'s 
with patient guinea-pigs 
cureing their head-aches 
with drastic side-effects 
switch 

Doctor rectorates 
condescending from on high 
for all hallucinaters 
see druggist in the sky 
switch 

Vicar experiments 
but 'tis blasphemy 
dismissing thought of progess 
as the mark of devilry
(Watch the muscles twitch
for a brand new switch...)
switch 

People walk Something blows up 
and even talk won't come down 
people listen scattered muscles twitch 
then they halt too late to switch. 
(They're dying to switch) 

Lyric: Sioux Music: McKay

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