I apologize, seem to have arrived
Home with items in my bag from your house
There's cutlery, a tablecloth, some Hennessy
And a book on Presidents deceased
I'll have them fed-exed to you
It was a strange thing to do
I hope we can still be friends
Ah, it was not me
But someone else, you see
Twisting the steering reins
Put a penny in the slot and make an artificial light shine
Leave go, my golden arm
I don't give advise
But be wise and think twice
Before getting involved in a game
Where the minority face the majority
Who are faceless and born without names
Was it not sick when we came across three men
They had church candles wrapped in newspaper
I bought two from them and I lit one for you
I hope the message made it's way down the wire
Put a penny in the slot and make an artificial light shine
Leave go, my golden arm
The soul of a dog, he's alive and not gone
To the farm like the others said
A Rhodesian Ridgeback, off the beaten track
In a furniture shop down on the quays
For the loneliness you foster I suggest Paul Auster
A book called Timbuktu
Put a penny in the slot and watch the Drunken sailor boy dance
She will not let you be
Her lover
She goes out looking for
The taxi
Her phone is ringing straight to
Message-minder
Send out a battalion
To find her
Put a penny in the slot and count the swans through a telescope
I can't help from cryin', I wish you were mine
When I was seventeen, I followed my dream
Up into a high-rise block
The adventures of Augie March, by Saul Bel-low
Was all I had for company
At night time I'd lie in Beckenham Park
With tears like flashbulbs
And recall my treasure-searching days
In the rock pools as a kid
To the remains of the Chair-o-Planes
Or around the bonfire in Nailors' cove
Good company and grief, sit like a dock leaf
Sits beside a stinging nettle
Put a penny in the slot and make an artificial light shine
Leave go, my golden arm
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