《Beasley Street》歌词

[00:00:00] Beasley Street - John Cooper Clarke

[00:00:19] Far from crazy pavements

[00:00:23] The taste of silver spoons

[00:00:27] A clinical arrangement

[00:00:30] On a dirty afternoon

[00:00:33] Where the fecal germs of Mr Freud

[00:00:38] Are rendered obsolete

[00:00:41] The legal term is null and void

[00:00:44] In the case of Beasley Street

[00:00:48] In the cheap seats where murder breeds

[00:00:51] Somebody is out of breath

[00:00:55] Sleep is a luxury they don't need

[00:00:58] A sneak preview of death

[00:01:03] Belladonna is your flower

[00:01:06] Manslaughter your meat

[00:01:10] Spend a year in a couple of hours

[00:01:12] On the edge of Beasley Street

[00:01:17] Where the action isn't

[00:01:21] That's where it is

[00:01:24] State your position

[00:01:28] Vacancies exist

[00:01:30] In an X-certificate exercise

[00:01:34] Ex-servicemen excrete

[00:01:38] Keith Joseph smiles and a baby dies

[00:01:41] In a box on Beasley Street

[00:01:45] From the boarding houses and the bedsits

[00:01:48] Full of accidents and fleas

[00:01:53] Somebody gets it

[00:01:55] Where the missing persons freeze

[00:02:00] Wearing dead men's overcoats

[00:02:03] You can't see their feet

[00:02:06] A riff joint shuts opens up

[00:02:09] Right down on Beasley Street

[00:02:14] Cars collide colours clash

[00:02:18] Disaster movie stuff

[00:02:21] For a man with a Fu Manchu moustache

[00:02:25] Revenge is not enough

[00:02:27] There's a dead canary on a swivel seat

[00:02:31] There's a rainbow in the road

[00:02:35] Meanwhile on Beasley Street

[00:02:38] Silence is the code

[00:02:50] Hot beneath the collar

[00:02:53] An inspector calls

[00:02:56] Where the perishing stink of squalor

[00:03:00] Impregnates the walls

[00:03:03] The rats have all got rickets

[00:03:07] They spit through broken teeth

[00:03:11] The name of the game is not cricket

[00:03:14] Caught out on Beasley Street

[00:03:18] The hipster and his hired hat

[00:03:22] Drive a borrowed car

[00:03:25] Yellow socks and a pink cravat

[00:03:29] Nothing La-di-dah

[00:03:32] OAP mother to be

[00:03:36] Watch the three-piece suite

[00:03:39] When shit-stoppered drains

[00:03:41] And crocodile skis

[00:03:42] Are seen on Beasley Street

[00:03:47] The kingdom of the blind

[00:03:50] A one-eyed man is king

[00:03:54] Beauty problems are redefined

[00:03:57] The doorbells do not ring

[00:04:01] A lightbulb bursts like a blister

[00:04:05] The only form of heat

[00:04:07] Here a fellow sells his sister

[00:04:11] Down the river on Beasley Street

[00:04:15] The boys are on the wagon

[00:04:19] The girls are on the shelf

[00:04:23] Their common problem is

[00:04:25] That they're not someone else

[00:04:29] The dirt blows out

[00:04:31] The dust blows in

[00:04:33] You can't keep it neat

[00:04:36] It's a fully furnished dustbin

[00:04:40] Sixteen Beasley Street

[00:04:44] Vince the ageing savage

[00:04:47] Betrays no kind of life

[00:04:50] But the smell of yesterday's cabbage

[00:04:53] And the ghost of last year's wife

[00:04:57] Through a constant haze

[00:04:59] Of deodorant sprays

[00:05:02] He says retreat

[00:05:04] Alsations dog the dirty days

[00:05:08] Down the middle of Beasley Street

[00:05:12] People turn to poison

[00:05:15] Quick as lager turns to piss

[00:05:20] Sweethearts are physically sick

[00:05:23] Every time they kiss

[00:05:26] It's a sociologist's paradise

[00:05:30] Each day repeats

[00:05:33] On easy cheesy greasy queasy

[00:05:37] Beastly Beasley Street

[00:05:41] Eyes dead as vicious fish

[00:05:45] Look around for laughs

[00:05:48] If I could have just one wish

[00:05:51] I would be a photograph

[00:05:54] On a permanent Monday morning

[00:05:58] Get lost or fall asleep

[00:06:02] When the yellow cats are yawning

[00:06:05] Around the back of Beasley Street