Gut feels for all the old foolish gets with their aged gregarious fuels, the frail transitioners, the failed transgressors, the foul-mouthed beauties still, the eternally restless fashionistas and the once doomed stylists, the feral poets with two good lines left in their pockets, the fucked up geeks, all money no charm, and all those other strivers and chancers who make up this city of ours, like the mouthy scaffolders, savaged dog walkers, fatberg deconstructionists, lonely librarians, battered care workers, ariel installers, pavement riders, harassed couriers, burned out nurses, sweat shop slaves, supermarket warehousemen, working early hours strip light shift, invisible chauffeurs watching pricks abuse privilege in rear view mirror, inviolable hi vis midnight street sweepers, watchers of CCTV, art galleristas, tired baristas, tireless graffiti artists, the eternal homeless, hostel reception staff, the hostile and harassed, resting actors, abandoned cats, slinking foxes, the old vanishing sparrows, the new flourishing parakeets all the strugglers and stragglers, the lost the lonely the losers, the lovers, foolish gets, gregarious fuels, I have only mad love and gut feels for you all.
lyrics
I’D LOVE TO BE A CHARACTER IN ONE OF YOUR BAD TATTOOS
Brutal attraction
Barbaric kisses
The bleach you brushed on your arm
Hoping to remove those old bad tattoos
That you suddenly decided
Were not for you
But I’d love to be a character
In one of your bad tattoos
Before you have them erased
From an indifferent public gaze
Who is to say
What is right
And what we get wrong?
You know who you are
Life is cheap
And love so precarious
We have one moment
And then it is gone
But I’d love to be a character
In one of your bad tattoos
These figures are heroic to me
Inky skinny symbols of moments more free
Queens and kings and jacks and spades
Twelve dirty bullets on your chest will never fade
We should go and rob the last high street bank that remains
Inject 24 billion channels of television trash in our veins
Do anything that the characters in bad tattoos do
And I’d like to do these bad things badly with you
But I’d love to be a character
In one of your bad tattoos
I need a feckless adventure today
Something stupid that I can claim
I love the blotted scars
On my body so crude
Fading badges old
Of a wayward attitude
You be you still please
And let me be me
In age let’s hold on to our adverse singularity, Singularity
credits
from Gut Feels,
track released February 14, 2023
Johny Brown
Katy Carr
David Coulter
Lee Stapleford
Jon Clayton
Recorded and Produced by Jon Clayton at One Cat
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