Slip from the trees to the dirt to the menace
To the wild to the car under snow, cut to ribbons
Like a coral to your shin like a manacle to swing

Fresh from the breast now a river running fat
To the manor born a rat to the manor born a flea
To a flood to a drain now a rubber, now a chain

I was in the war
You were in the war

Plump from the sugar-water pump with the city at your back
To the cannon with a match from a milk into a mass grave
Never mind that, I can take that

Bones in a bowl like a toad-in-the-hole
Take the shape of the mould like a mummy on a pole
And a merry little head Bob around when you're dead

I was on my knees
You were on your knees

And no reptiles
Just soft boiled eggs in shirts and ties
Waiting for the flashing green man
Quivering and wobbling just like all the eggs you know

I'm going to kill a stranger
So don't you be a stranger

Oh baby, it's alright
It's alright to feel like a fat child in a pushchair
Old enough to run
Old enough to fire a gun

Oh baby, it's alright
It's alright to feel like a fat child in a pushchair
Old enough to run
Old enough to fire a gun

Oh baby, it's alright
It's alright to feel like a fat child in a pushchair
Old enough to run
Old enough to fire a gun

Oh baby, it's alright
It's alright to feel like a fat child in a pushchair
Old enough to run
Old enough to fire a gun

Just give me this one night
Just one night to feel
Like I might be on the right path
The path that takes me home
Wise enough to know myself

Just give me this one night
Just one night to feel
Like I might be on the right path
Old enough to fire a gun

Just give me this one night
Just one night to feel
Like I might be on the right path
The path that takes me home
Wise enough to know myself

Just give me this one night
Just one night to feel


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No Reptiles Lyrics as written by Pritchard Jeremy Joseph Higgs Jonathan Joseph

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    'fresh from the breast now a river running fat to the manor born a rat to the manor born a flea to flood to a drain now a rubber now a chain' all of society is passive and doing nothing like a flood of fat sliding down the street. it ends up in the drain doing nothing. 'no reptiles just soft boiled eggs in shirts and ties, waiting for the flashing green man quivering and wobbling just like all the eggs you know'. the earth isn't controlled by evil reptile people it is controlled by soft blobs of fat who wobble about terrified that they are going to be overthrown or all the evil things they are doing might be found out. 'it's alright to feel like a fat child in a push chair old enough to run old enough to fire a gun' society thinks it's okay to feel like we are being controlled and pushed around in 'a push chair' even though we can defeat these controlling blobs.

    jonjonwinnyon April 24, 2016   Link
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    My Interpretation

    No idea what this is about. Ask Duncan. For me it conjured images of frail unprepared people going to war. Used to going to work in offices. Just fat boiled eggs in shirts and ties. The outro goes to another place we don't yet know. What a band.

    mickylaneon June 22, 2017   Link
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    General Comment

    This song is a masterpiece.\n\nWe all spend the majority of our lives just going through the motions. We all know we could do better, could make more of ourselves, but we accept it and continue to live unfullfilled lives.\n\nBut then there are moments, fleeting moments when we\'re optimistic, the world just makes sense and we feel invincible.\n\nThis song basically says were all in it together, its fine to feel directionless, thats how everyone feels the majority of the time. We\'re all striving for that one moment where it all clicks and all makes sense.

    Barrysbabyon April 16, 2022   Link
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    General Comment

    This song is a masterpiece.\n\nWe all spend the majority of our lives just going through the motions. We all know we could do better, could make more of ourselves, but we accept it and continue to live unfullfilled lives.\n\nBut then there are moments, fleeting moments when we\'re optimistic, the world just makes sense and we feel invincible.\n\nThis song basically says were all in it together, its fine to feel directionless, thats how everyone feels the majority of the time. We\'re all striving for that one moment where it all clicks and all makes sense.

    Barrysbabyon April 16, 2022   Link

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