Acid Bird (Live)

Sucking on a tap that never dries

Could you take it right between your eyes?

Bending blood, bending blood

The father stood, the fathers hood

Like shadows of an acid bird

That etched her way across the field

So long ago

Walking through the field in the summer weeks

Look at all the creatures round your feet

Pumping blood, pumping blood

The mother gave, the mother gave

White ointment of an acid kiss

That burned upon the lips she gave you

So long ago

So long ago

Fun in the sun, locked in the blood stream

Shallow bodies writhing on the grass

Fun in the sun, hair in the slip stream

Tadpoles shooting through a hollow glass

Cutting out a silhouette between

Everything is older than it seems

Son of blood, son of blood

The baby shakes, the baby snakes

Who crawled across the acid ring

And flicker from your corpuscles

One sunny day

One sunny day

Fun in the sun, everyone knows it

We could be as mellow as the hay

Fun in the sun, everyone blows it

They grow up and instantly decay

Like shadows of an acid bird

That etched her way across the field

So long ago

Thanks, that was about life in the west country before most of you were born

And a long time after the rest of you are dead

This is called "I suddenly found myself underneath a bucket

But there was nobody else there