Bones

As cavemen shake in awe
At fires and shadow
Come in from the cold
Peel off their animal skins
Dance in the night by firelight
The Ice Age melts
The hunter sweats
The paintings on the wall
Speak of an eloquent heart
Who was the first, the first to say
Let's monetise this, let's make it pay?
For only a man with a reindeer jaw 
Can look at these things
Only a man with a reindeer jaw 
Can look at these things

It's as old as the bones in the cave
As old as the bones in the cave
As old as the bones in the cave
As old as the song in our heart

A counting horse in a circus
End of career
Two plus two plus two
Is just a tap on the ear
A magic hack with a hat full of birds
A nervous tick, butterfingers
Trembles in the audience's animal stare
Who was the first to stamp her feet
Show off for coins, be indiscreet
Play the piano on the street
Say "I can do this!"
Play the piano on the street
Say "I can do this!"

It's as old as the bones in the cave
As old as the bones in the cave
As old as the bones in the cave
As old as the song in our heart
As old as the bones
Old as the bones 
As old as the bones in the cave

Bones

A Feeling You Can't Swat

Words buzz around you
Like flies in the air
A feeling that you can’t swat
Floating just out of reach
Words stick to the roof of your mouth
A wafer you can’t shift
Communion wine
Binds tight like glue
The shrivelled tongue

It floats just out of reach
Brushes against your fingertips
But floats just out of reach
The poetry is flown
The mystique of the moment
Crumbles in prose
The mystique of the moment
Crumbles in prose

Perfect words float in the air
Motes in the sun somewhere
Their sequencing and summoning
As yet unknown
Perfect notes ring in the ears
Like a secret you can’t keep
A song in your sleep
Tantalising, but long since gone


It floats just out of reach
Brushes against your fingertips
But floats just out of reach
The poetry is blown
The mystique of the moment
Crumbles in prose
The mystique of the moment
Crumbles in prose

It floats just out of reach
Like a song in your sleep
It floats just out of reach
Like a song in your sleep
It floats just out of reach
Like a song in your sleep
It floats just out of reach
Like a song in your sleep

A Feeling You Can't Swat

Money Making Machines

Catch a MacBrayne ferry
To the Isle of Mull
Grow mussels on ropes
Make artisan cheese
A tidal powered
Diamond making machine
We’ll feed ourselves 
With sliced ambrosia

I’ve got schemes
So many many money making machines
I’ve got schemes
So many many money making machines

Charm school
For all the fucks that should have gone to it
Knitwear for cats
A rocket to Dunoon

I’ve got schemes…
So many many money making machines
I’ve got schemes
So many many money making machines


Living off our
Diamond making machine
Time plus question mark
Equals money

Start a business 
Sewing seaweed into spy disguises
Carving driftwood
And living off prizes
Open an animal sex museum
Keeping peacocks
And charging to see ‘em

I’ve got schemes…
I’ll grow my magic beans
I’ll build my rocket to Dunoon
I’ve got schemes…

Living off our
Diamond making machine
Time plus question mark
Equals money

Money Making Machines

Geiger Counter

There is no underground machine can
Calculate away collision
It's just a leap you've got to
It's just a leap you've got to take

There's no device no Geiger counter
Will keep you from invisible harm
It's just a price you've got to
It's just a price you've got to pay

It's just a calibration
Return to factory and fix
It's just a calibration 
A little rearrange and fix 

The line goes round the block they're 
Queuing up to tell you how you're wanting
They're just a voice you've got to
They're just a voice you've got to kill

It's just a leap you've got to
It's just a leap you've got to take

Geiger Counter

Splendid Isolation

Look out look out
There be rocks upon these shores
There be monsters in our waters 
A pox upon our daughters

Keep out keep out
There's poison in our wells
A healthy fear of strangers
A panic hobbled lameness

Clinging on our rock in
This splendid isolation 
Looking out our telescope
At the perfect flat horizon 
The other world
It comes in leaky vessels
Only half afloat
Not picking up our warning signs
The row of skulls upon the beach

Come out come out
Wherever you may hide
In the bushes, in the high caves
On the edges of our lakesides

Keep out keep out
Of the clearings in the jungle
The statues of our leaders
Sacrificial pleaders

Clinging on our rock in
This splendid isolation 
Looking out our telescope
At the perfect flat horizon 
The other world
It comes in leaky vessels
Only half afloat
Not picking up our warning signs
The row of skulls upon the beach

Keep out
Keep out
Keep out
Keep out

Gluehorse

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