Jam Baxter - Leash lyrics

Forty four flies swarm around his
Head as if attached
By leashes, rendering him with
An easily accessible face
And them with an inescapable landing bay this
Is clearly a mutually destructive situation
And ultimately when the cold claws of
Raw mash and excess screech down every wall
The last thing a man needs
Is forty four flies
Leashed and bound to his scalp he is no
Mister Miyage snapping at the air
With takeway chopsticks it is
Often said there is a certain
Joy in wilful self-destruction
A joy only interrupted by
The uncomfortable tickle of
Insects dancing across the nape of the neck)

Forty four flies on leashes and you
Wonder why they act this way


With a collar wrapped tight round
Their necks pulling down
Left one sole choice for a landing bay
The flies on your face ain't leaving
Have an outstanding day with forty
Four knots in your hair
Fly swatting with the retarded
Fat cats catching prey
Forty four flies on leashes
You wonder why they chat this way
When the leather's wrapped tight round
Their necks chained down
Trying to use your face as a landing bay
The flies in your mouth ain't moving
Have an outstanding stay with forty
Four pests in the air
Fly swatting like a tangled
Arachnid catching prey

I am no Mister Miyage on a chopstick
Hype with a bowl full of insects
I am not a part of your hotbed of
Rulebooks burn to a mountain
Of smouldering incest
I'm not equipped to pick wings off you lot
And smear your remains on the wall
Like blood red warnings staining
The halls of the
Paper mache cage made for you all
Nah, are you buzzing? Dumb question
Rhetorical in part yet relevant
To your six bruk legs and your saucepan of
Gurned-up nights stewed down to the sediment
Scraped up sculpted and sold as a human
Second hand skin still delicate
Bought from an alleyway salesman
The layers peeled
Off to reveal a disgusting development
Damn who laid these eggs in my eyes again?
If I boil them alive would you die for them?
Your machinery can't turn flies to men
Best kill them on arrival then
I'll be a drugged out mess
When the cycle ends
Let these eyeballs wrinkle and crack
Till I wake one morn shrunk
Down on the ceiling
To find four cellophane wings on my back
Like rah!

The skies kept flies on leashes
And they wonder why we act this way
With a collar wrapped tight round
Our necks pulling down
Left one dead town for a landing bay
The flies at the gates ain't leaving
Have an outstanding day with the beggars
And the drunks in a dump
Fly swatting like a retarded
Fat cat catching prey
The skies kept flies on leashes
And they wonder why we chat this way
When the leather's wrapped tight round
Our necks chained down
Trying to use this city as a landing bay
The flies on the ground ain't moving
Have an outstanding day with the
Mentally marred in a yard
Fly swatting with the drunken
Arachnids catching prey

I will not move when the sky pukes
Dark clouds billowing across false borders
I will not morph to a tin man sobbing on a
Hand me down sket when the gods get nauseous
I will not feed this obese gang of
Pigs with a singular slice of myself
When my face thaws out and the icicles melt
And the pavements finally
Felt the uncomfortable
Tickle of an insect dancing
Across a dark street
With the inbreds marching
SLAP! That's another one
Pin him to the frame with the other ones
Ain't that charming
Wahgwan starlets, gas fueled bastards
Picket sign punch bags, hand made martyrs
How's that revolution of yours moving?
Limp fish swing for the steel piñatas
'Fly my pretties!' setting up camp
In the rolls of fat
In the belly of the city with a bowl of smack
Like a sundried prune with a soul attached
Fall prey to an infants thumb
Brain swelling in elastic skin
Till I wake one morn fully formed eyes golden
And let them all buzz till
The fat bitch sings

I can sort of sense it
All sweetening in hind sight
Regurgitated sugar faded pictures of
The high life
I told 'em peace peace slipped the
Razor out and sliced twice
Slash the leash leash I told them
Live fast and fly right
Yeah, I told 'em live fast and fly right
Yeah, I told 'em live fast and fly right
I told 'em live fast and fly right
Slash the leash leash I told them
Live fast and fly right