Lyric Rambling On

(Brooker / Reid)

Our local picture house was showing a Batman movie
You see this guy fly up in the sky, thought to myself, Why shouldn t I?
So I bought a pair of wings, went up upon a wall
I was about to jump into the air when a guy from the street called
He said, Hey wait a minute! Don t you realize the danger?
What do you think you are, some kind of angel?

I considered for a minute, realized he spoke the truth.
For the barbells on my eyelids only emphasised my youth
and the sawdust in my plimsolls means the same to him as me
But that s neither here nor further, so I spoke considerately
Now if you understand just what I m trying to say,
whatever you do, don t grin, you ll give the game away!

By now a crowd had gathered and it seemed that all was lost
In the anger of the moment I had diced with death and lost
It seemed to me the time was right so I burst into song
In the anger of the moment the crowd began to sing along
I could not see a way out of this predicament
Just then a breeze came through the trees and up in the air I went

I must have flown a mile, or maybe it was eight
Thought to myself pretty soon I d hit the Golden Gates
Just then a passing bird for no reason I could see
took a peck at my wings and that was the end of me
I went down, hit the ground faster than the speed of sound
Luckily I broke no bones only tore my underclothes