Jam Baxter - Wings Cost Extra lyrics

I've been staring off this roof for
As long as I can remember
In an unspent hour I buried in late December
Where the icy winds tug and
Unravel your raison d'être
And the scene beyond swells in
It's dirty decadent splendour
A mere blemish in a scene seldom relished
Dogs howl and withering addicts
Hang at the chemist
I shrugged off the lingering
Grip of the psychedelics
And grabbed one by his neck
To examine his drab aesthetics
His skin hung like patchwork
Hammocks from his limbs
Gaping mouth like an ink stain
Splattered on his chin
The sweat cascaded from his palms
With a stance reminiscent of a circus
Bear balanced on a pin
I travelled on a whim aboard
The final train to central
To where the world's weirdest
Freaks and invalids assemble
The torrential rain flooded our
Minds with squirming invertebrates
That dictate our movements through
Pockets of heavy turbulence
Pigs prod at a child, losers become cheaters
Strange wild beasts eat buckets
Of lesser creatures
All the dealers either shrunk
To single cell amoebas, burnt their
Features off
Robbed their connections or found Jesus
Disembodied heads in dusty corners
Headless bodies inject liquor directly
Into their organs the never ending crux of
A very strange performance
The beauty's in the gutters
This entire world is flawless

Scramble for a seat at the
Centre, fangs on discount, wings cost extra
Still freefalling on a seven day bender
Leap from the cliff tops, wings cost extra

Still in awe of it all, tear
A hole in the head, cram it full of debris
Bag of souls to injest primal spasm for one
Peel an inch from the brain
Whisk the earth to a pulp
Sit and drink the remains
Air heavy with sin, name written in lights
Wouldn't swap it for shit
Eyes teaming with life
Keep hold of your face, days mimic a dream
Still chewing the sky, reboot the machine

The smell of crack wafts from the
Brothel beside the chicken shop
Above a sewer teeming with giant
Beetles and killer wasps
Opposite the corner where kids
Gorge on forbidden slop
And when their stomachs burst
Wipe their innards off
And go about your business
Blind eyes in a barrel
A tycoon launches grenades at
A herd of cattle
Slimy little boutiques buried beneath the
Gravel sell portable weapons
For the killer that likes to travel
The modern mammal
A delicate balance of blood and flesh
I spat the phlegm from my
Mouth and swung a left
Past a crowd of braying patriots
Dying a dozen deaths
And a crazed woman drilling a
Hole in her lover's chest
I saw them all smeared across my vision
You were always taught to
Fear the competition
The gin took a hold of the
Scene and pulled it apart
Revealing manic pigs slithering adders
And rabid gibbons
All tearing through the hours
Fiends feed addictions
Inpatients rattle off an endless
List of symptoms the earth yawns and wipes
A city from existence
In a mouthful of crumbling
Buildings and little infants
I leaned forward and ordered another double
And tunnelled out of my mind through
A forest of fat and muscle
Fucked on every such substance you
Could fit atop a shovel
I text my bredrin and tell her
I've been staying out of trouble yeah right

Shuffle off the edge