These Visions – 19th February 1988

You’re sitting at home
These visions in your head
You’re all alone
With your mind just full of dread
You start to wonder
Why it’s like it was before
You’re going under
In your own personal war

All you’ve got are these memories
Repeated visions of what you’ve done
I can’t help you if you’re not telling me
You start to wonder where it’s all gone

Depressing your ego
With visions of the past
You won’t let me go
And that’s all I ask
Your time’s been wasted
Trying to repeat all the good times
It’s me that you hated
But you kept ignoring all the signs

All you’ve got are these twisted visions
Repetition, repetition of what you’ve done
I can’t help you make your decision
Strange to be nostalgic when you’re only 21*

*lifted word for word from the Partisans ‘Only 21’ – because it’s a great line!

Easy Prey – 18th January 1988

See them drinking at the bar
Standing there and acting hard
Muscles bulging under leather
Smashing glasses and heads together

Sitting quietly at a corner table
Tied to my drink like a dog to a kennel
Watching all the people walking by
Looking from the corner of my eye

A brawl ensues over who owns the girl
Just take her away and leave me alone
I’m not man enough for your brutal world
Just an easy prey when I’m on my own

Fucking up my drunken night
See a shrimp and start a fight
Your girls laughing at me
Only came for the booze
Nothing else to do
No one else to go and see