Andy Partridge

"Now I lay me down to sleep Knowing that your lenses peep Now I eat my daily bread And into the tape spool Ill be fed"

"People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with welcome written on it."

"I leaned right over to kiss your stoney book A little jealous of the ships with whom you flirt A billion lovers with their cameras Snap to look and in my fantasy I sail beneath your skirt"

"Everybody eats something But you wont eat me You wont get me on your plate Or have me over for tea Everybody lives somewhere Mud hut or igloo But what I got is the hottest spot And its away from you"

"Its in the order of their hedgerows Its in the way their curtains open and close Its in the look they give you down their nose All part of decencys jigsaw I suppose Sunday church and they look fetching Saturday night saw him retching over our fence Bang the wall for me to turn down I can see them with their stern frown As they dispense the kind of look that says theyre Perfect."

"And all the world is football shaped Its just for me to kick in space And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste And Ive got one, two, three, four, five senses working overtime trying to take this all in Ive got one, two, three, four, five senses working overtime trying to taste the difference tween a lemon and a lime pain and pleasure And the church bells softly chime."

"Other lands became a larder full of all the good things All we had to do was go and take Blood the colour of the rain that grew our wicked harvest Black the colour icing on our cake"

"For a heart without love is a song with no words And a tune to which no one is listening So your heart must give love and youll find that You shine like rain on the leaves youll be glistening."

"We stole their babes and mothers, chiefs and braves Although we held the whip, you knew we were The real slaves To alchemy, human alchemy."

"Now that Im out and Im shouting in doorways Freed from a love more like murder I should be singing but in liberation Feel like a ship with no rudder."

"Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a slow descending grey"

"I wonder wonder why the wonder falls I wonder why the wonder falls on me I wonder wonder why the wonder falls With everything I touch and hear and see"