Nicky my child he stands there with the wind in his hair
Wondering whether the water the wind or the where
I fear that someday he might ask me if mine is to blame
And I've got no reply save to tell him it's all just a game
And Heather and I lay together and I was in love
She weighed up the gains and the losses and gave me the shove
The fear of mankind's untogetherness pounds in my heart
The deceit of my friends the betrayals of which I am part
And oh how the sea she roars with laughter
And howls with the dancing winds
To see my two feet standing here questioning
And I'm just a social experiment tailored to size
I've tried out the national machine and the welfare surprise
I'm the rich man, the poor man, the peace man, the war man, the beast
The festive consumer who ends up consumed in the feast
And my five eye'd promoter is clutching two birds in the bush
He's a theif, he's as bad as the joker, they're both in the rush
He's telling me Gandhi was handy and Jeez sold his ring (dunno who to - God maybe?)
And everyone knows that this dough's gonna make me the king
And how the sea she roars with laughter
And howls with the dancing winds
To see my two feet standing there questioning
Meanwhile the ticket collectors are punching their holes
Into your memories, your journeys and into your souls
Your life sentence starts and the judge hands you down a spare wig
Saying, "Get out of that," and, "Goodbye, old boy, have a good gig."
And the town label makers stare down with their gallery eyes
And point with computer stained fingers each time you arise
To the rules and the codes and the system that keeps them in chains
Which is where they belong with no poems, no love and no brains
And how the sea she roars with laughter
And howls with the dancing winds
To see my two feet standing there questioning
Meanwhile the TV commercials are sweeping the day
Brainwashing innocent kids into thinking their way
The white politicians and clergymen have much to say
Defending desires of the sheep they are leading astray
And ma's favourite pop star is forcing a grin, he's a smash!
Obliging the soft-headed viewers to act just as flash
The village TV hooks its victims on give-away cash
The addicts are numbers who serve to perpetuate trash
And how the sea she roars with laughter
And howls with the dancing winds
To see my stupid poetry shuffling
And the bankers and tycoons and hoarders of money and art
Full up with baubles and bibles and full of no heart
Who traveled first class on a pleasure excursion to fame
Are the eyes that are guiding society's ludicrous aim
And the village is making its Sunday collection in church
The church wobbles 'twixt hell and heaven's crumbling perch
Unnoticed the money box loudly endorses the shame
As a world that Christ fought is supported by using his name
And how the sea she roars with laughter
And howls with the dancing winds
To see my stupid poetry burbling
And the pin striped sardine - come - magician has packed in his train
Censoring all of the censorship filling his brain
He glares through his armor-plate vision and says, "Hmm, insane."
The prisoner is taking his shoes off to walk in the rain
And the luminous green primadonna is sniffing the sky
She daren't tread the earth that she's smelling, her birth was too high
Her bank balance castle is built on opinion and fear
Which is all she allows within three hundred miles of her ear
And how the sea she roars with laughter
And howls with the dancing winds
To see my stupid poetry burbling
And I've seen all your pedestal values, your good and your bad
If you really believe them your passing is gonna be hard
And I've thought through our thoughts and I know that it's blind silly season
Occurs when our reasoning is trying to fathom a reason
And if you really know it's all a joke but you're just putting me on
Well it's sure a good act that youve got 'cause you've never let on
But if all of that super-sale overkill world is for real
Well there's nowhere to go kid so you might as well start to free wheel
And how the sea she roars with laughter
And howls with the dancing winds
To see my two feet standing there burbling
And I had this dream in here same time as standing awake
These various visions rushed through as I giggled and quaked
The distant guns thunder my end and I duck for a while
Aunty Lilly is handing me candy, she chuckles, I smile
And our village is where I was born and it's where I will die
And I'll never be able to leave it whatever I try
And the ebb and the flow of the forces of life pass me by
Which is all that I'll know from my birth to my last gasping sigh
And how the sea she roars with laughter
And howls with the dancing winds
To see the dying lying there obeying
My age and my time, the blood-fire wine and rhyme
That fills my dream, reminds me of an atom
In a bubble on a wave
That held it's breath for one sweet second
Then was popped and disappeared
Into fruitful futilities, meaningless meaning
Meaningless meaning, meaningless meaning
Under the toadstool lover down by the dream
Everything flowing over rainbows downstream
Silver the turning water flying away
I'll come to see you sooner, I'm on my way
And there's a mirror that I'm lookin' straight through
And I get it
And there's a doorway that I'm ducking into
To forget it
But flashin' just beyond the sky
The shattering midnight gathers
And reminding me behind my mind
The earth quakes, the sun flakes flutter
Over the mountain fairground candy flies stay
Under the moonshine fountain I'm on my way
Lemon tree blossom ladies pouring my tea
Afternoon blue sky breezes following me
And there's a river that I'm making it with
And I know it
And I'm floating to I don't care where
I'll just go it
But flashin' just beyond the sky
The shattering midnight gathers
And reminding me behind my mind
The earth quakes, the sun flakes flutter
Daffodil April petal hiding the game
Forests of restless chessmen life is the same
Tides in the sand sun lover watching us dream
Covered in stars and clover rainbows downstream
And the question in the great big underneath
Is forever
And the fanfare that I'm forcing through my teeth
Answers, "Never."
But flashin' just beyond the sky
The shattering midnight gathers
And reminding me behind my mind
The earth quakes, the sun flakes flutter
The broken coach and the rags approach
And the wind is devouring the ashes