The Drunk and the Disorderly

Down in the gutter of my life story

I'm lying in a bed with a dream playing in my head

Spitting blood into a test tube

I used to be half a man, I used to be useful

I walk with the demons and the devils

Shadowboxing the ghost of my reflection in windows

All the paintings and the statues are staring down at me

At the drunk and the disorderly

At the drunk and the disorderly

Paperback bottles in the wardrobe

Stealing from the shops that I once called my home

I'm all wrapped up in a plastic bag

Lying still while the human race step over the rags

I'll name the names in my diatribe

Posthumously posted on my website

Milkmen and taxi drivers

The last men on the street

And the drunk and the disorderly

Who am I? Who are you?

Who is the God that we bow down to?

Who are we? Who are they?

Who is the master? Who is the slave?

I stepped out of the present tense

And cut the umbilical cord of reality

And I don't know where this really is

Or where all this illusion really begins

I keep an old business card inside my shoes

An anonymous connection to the life I once used

Curtains moving in the council houses

Of the grey estates of the drunk and the disorderly

Who am I? Who are you?

Who is the God that we bow down to?

Who are we? Who are they?

Who is the master? Who is the slave?

I am powerless, there is a greater power

As I understand it within myself

I'm ready for changing, I'm ready to be changed

Hear my voice, colour me gold

I know where the bodies have been buried

I know things only the dead should know

All above me, all around me, within and without

Are the drunk and the disorderly

Are the drunk and the disorderly

The drunk and disorderly

The drunk and disorderly

Colour me gold

The drunk and disorderly

Hear my voice

The drunk and disorderly

Let's hear you say it now

The drunk and disorderly

Out there in King's Cross tonight

The drunk and disorderly

In the doorways of Oxford Street now

The drunk and disorderly

All down Marrowbone Road

The drunk and disorderly

The drunk and disorderly

Colour me gold

The drunk and disorderly

Hear my voice

The drunk and disorderly

Hear my voice

The drunk and disorderly

Colour me gold