Momus - Smudge lyrics
[Momus - Smudge lyrics]
Like a battered and blue Pushmi-Pullyu
I once had a bloke refuse
Point blank to budge
When he parked his red bus up my studio
The things I could tell
You about that brigade
They were gruntfuttocks all to a man
I said "Get thee to a nunnery!"
They came back with Italy
Cheap at just seventeen grand
Well the boot made of meat
Is on my other feet
As I remarked to Napoleon on Elba
That dwarf was so bored that
His statue was sore
From abseiling up the walls of his Zelda
One evening he said as he lay on her bed
"If I don't capture Capri by Monday
You can rip me in two, take both to the zoo
And feed me hind legs to a donkey"
Oh the snorkel is soapy, my ankles are ropey
My aunt has no hope of a spleen
I'll lend her a fiver if she and her driver
Come back with the head of the queen
It is worse than I thought
They have used her to snort up
The ashes of lady Godiva
Those blithering fools! It's not
Britannia who rules
These days more likely it's China
Oh the snorkel is soapy, my ankles are ropey
My aunt has no hope of a spleen
I'll lend her a fiver if she and her driver
Come back with the head of the queen
Well a simpleton's face is an utter disgrace
Or so I was taught the varsity
Then again, in the main
These were men made of rain
With the skimpiest mental capacity
And my poor old todger is rogered to smudge
Like a battered and blue Pushmi-Pullyu
One evening he said as he lay on her bed
"If I don't capture Capri by Monday
You can rip me in two, take both to the zoo
And feed me hind legs to a donkey"