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I Am the Fly

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Crawling
Over your window you think I'm confused
I'm waiting for the divergent wasp
To complete my current ruse
You use a plate-glass screen
To protect my chosen target
But there's an air-pellet hole
I can crawl through to you
I am the fly in the ointment
I can spread more disease than the fleas
Which nibble away at your window display
Yes I am the fly in the ointment
I shake you down to say please as you
Accept the next dose of disease

I am the fly, I am the fly, I am the fly, I am the fly
Fly in the, fly in the, fly in ointment
I am the fly, I am the fly, I am the fly, I am the fly
Fly in the, fly in the, fly in ointment

I am the fly

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by windmills20

18y ago

‘I am the Fly’, which became a signature tune of sorts, is another rehearsal of the 'outsider' theme, a supposedly defiant overturning of mainstream culture’s dismissing of the strange as the less-than-human.

-http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/da/52900

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by iluvpunkrock

19y ago

omg! no posts! im disappointed in the world. awesome song though. i thinks its about a fly...it might be in some ointment, but im not to sure.

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by Djfleming

14y ago

This concerns the death of the initial uk punk rock movement and is suitably frazzled and deranged enough to act as a stepping stone from punk to post or progressive punk.

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by matthewsheffield

14y ago

I don't suppose it is about it, but it always reminds me of the story Metamorphosis, by Kafka.

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by Coltz

6y ago

It's about a narcissist waiting and watching, getting ready to take their next victim.

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by distantfingers

18y ago

oh really? why do you think that?

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