Childhood heroes

 Captain Scarlet's doing time for grand larceny

Probably he's down for espionage

Or trying to hijack the BBC

Aqua marina was caught exposing herself on Clevedon pier

Now she's doing community service

cleaning up the marine mere

Oh Sting Ray, lovely Sting Ray

I can't say this no more than a quip

It was caught speeding while trying

To rescue the earth on a highway

And now it's locked up in a skip

And now I know my childhood isn't near

It's off on another plain

I have no need for anything to fear

And anyway here comes the rain

The Thunderbirds were very cool

Just like the phoenix from the fire

They tried to stop the terrorists

In their pursuit all across the world with righteous ire

They were hired by the British intelligence

To track down Osama, of course they got caught

up

in all kinds of stuff

And now they're serving time in Guantanamo

Oh Thunderbirds, where did they go?

Oh where did my childhood heroes go?

I see them all behind bars

Even the Gingerbread man has gone AWOL 

I think he was caught stealing cars

The gingerbread gang are terrorising us 

What a sight it is to behold

Perhaps I'd have liked it better

If they had never showed us

That at the end of the rainbow

Would be waiting a pot of gold

Perhaps it would best if the illusion was crushed

Perhaps it would be better I'm told

Than over protect the young minds

With the world's half truths

When they tell us that not everything

 that glitters is gold

See the apple orchards and the starlings

they're flocking from tree to tree

like a long lost friend, 

like a long lost memory

Somewhere down long winding lanes

I wish they'd come back to me before the end

Strangers

 I used to hold you in high regard

I laid my heart on the table

Like I did my cards

But you blew me off

With a woman's facade

Oh but we're strangers now

I looked for you in the glass arcade

In the hall of mirrors I was your charade

I danced in the rain but on your parade

And that's why we're strangers now

Did you think I was something you could scoff at

No I'm not like a squash ball you can swat at

I may give in, I may bend and change

But I'll bounce back for I've rearranged

And we're strangers now

Cold caller

 Cold caller,

cold caller

Why are you so hot

Always trying to get

into where your'e not

Wanted nor desired

Like a fly in the pot

Cold caller cold caller

Get out of my spot

Can you sing a Symphony

Full of all I desire

Oh can you sing in sympathy

Like an angel choir

Oh Romeo loved Juliet

But they both got burnt by fire

Now if you call that synergy

I think you should blame the Friar

Earth Quacks and Doctor Ducks

 Friends in high places

And a song to believe

Wiping their faces, with the heart on your sleeve

Can you draw aces, with a sleight of hand

I didn't know the places where they gamble their land

A friend indeed is a friend in need

And too many ducks to breed

Give me a false friend, show me the decoy

There is an Earth quake to a avoid 

When your boots shake to destroy

Those towers of Babel in a foreign land

The songs that stand taller than anyone can

Yes it was murphy's law I knew it had to be his

As I walked in the bar and asked for a fizz

We don't serve women here, you have to bring your own

Not necessary to own your own home

Get what's coming to you

If you survive the ordeal

Maybe God will punish you

For ordering that meal

Maybe Christ will have mery

And on bended knee

You'll know the value of certainy

In life's inconstancy

a chance hand

 Bitter tears fall in a bitter lake

Full of all of my mistakes

Rain drops from a grey sky

Where rainbows snap

And birds don't fly

But I call to mind the dream

I once had of a forest stream

Where we walked you and me

Hand in hand for an eternity

Of time, of time

That precious thing

We sell by the pound, the ounce and bean

We sell each plot like we hadn't a lot

And use it up, all we've got

But if you can buy my time

Can I buy yours?

Or do your give it freely

Like the sea lapped shores

Where we skim pebbles

Over time's waves

The ripples echo out

The drowning man saves

himself

Or someone lends him a hand

It could be a second, a minute

Or in an hour, he understands

This may be the last chance

In a sea of blue

Where I skim pebbles

That skip so lightly to you

You got every colour Blue

 

You cheer cheers

Mine is close

You got ropes

I got nooses

You got hopes

Mine are mooses

You got soaps

I got sluices

What we need

is two-way fuses

You got boss

I got shriven

You been a loss

I broke even

Every thing I'd given

You need coal

I need water

You got fire

I got spit

You got sand

I got shit

You got one

I got two

We got every colour blue

Money comes, money goes

Funny how, some are sold

Some get rich, some die old

Every colour blue

Crazy gate, for crazy horse

Crazy jump, crazy course

What came first?, but what worse?

what went out, came back curse

Sitting pretty, sitting gold

Streets of heaven all are sold

None for rent have to buy

See estate agent in the sky

When I go

You go too

I and us

Me and you

Like yo yo

You two, too

We are lust

Trust like glue

how you know?

I know you

We go, go

But I go too

Fire, fire burning

Inside the zoo

Ark now go

Two by two

Kiss queen toe

toe times two

Two times toe

Toe times you

You be queen

Queen bee you

You throw, throw

To you, you,you

We must go

Now every colour blue

One is two,

Two is four

One is every colour poor

Give me trailer

Give me skint

Give me fifty dollar splint

I've grown old, but

she's still young

In the car room, salesman

husband, wife, city strife

I am her,

You be nice,

I be handsome,

You be cold

I want ransom

but kidnap sold

Kill a love

Don't love a kill

Love got no license

Love need no skill

Better be brave, better be will

love goes ice

When iceman still

Hill is cold, some mother crying

Tears fall twice

longing ever growing

Love not come, pay any respect

Now she is old, crooked neck

love stand still

Sun on hill

No mother crying

For love now kill

You are grainy

I am sand

You talk crazy

I no understand

I have time

Time kill you

We have every colour blue

If you see me

Where the elder droops

And the swallow in the sky just swoops

See my head bowed down

Don't look at my frown

because I'm still free

Autumn love

The salt came up like a wave in the mouth
The river of tears always did flow south
And the bitterness of years
Bit the lip of what I couched
In kind words in soft skin of the apologist's pouch

And the time for regrets has come to pass
Nothing more to forget than the what's in the looking glass
The sound of nothing, the rush of air
From a vacuum to the vacuum of an utter despair

I wish I had held autumn and kept the fire kindled
I wish I had stood near the fire as the daylight dwindled
But I was fool enough to be self swindled
I stole the time I killed the calf who had been saved and brindled


All the sales of hearts came washing in the rivers warmth
Like an assault of the senses via the folk of

I held autumn like an air
Of a cloak of understanding
Putting it on as one does a glove
To feel the warmth
Or touch of the velvet
And sinking into that
Autumn of love
In which leaves fall from
Winter wind chilled trees
And she like an autumn
Garden I have visited
Whose secret is safely hidden
Though I must search to find the key
Lies in wait at her gate
In the comfort of the dying
Of the year to greet me
Like a changing season