This is Toytown where Noddy lives
And Big Ears is a Jehovah’s Witness
People wear hats with bells
Land of lobotomy brain cells
Tag: poem
Sane – 6th October 1983
Feeling really mad
But you’re not insane
You drive yourself madder
Til you lose your brain
Think again about going mad
The end result could be bad
You don’t intend to lose your brain
But in the end, you go insane
Outside The Door – 2nd October 1983
Outside the door, inside my mind
Feeding the poor, curing the blind
No more starvation, only elation
No more whores, no more wars
Outside the door, inside my head
Killing no more, there’s no dead
No more stealing, sounds appealing
No more beating, now everyone’s eating
But it’s outside the door, on the other side
So we’re still poor, and the people have died
We must unlock the door and open it wide
To recognise the truth from the lies
Outside the door, inside my mind
Sporting Life – 29th September 1983
It’s a sporting life supporting life
For the pregnant mums on the ward
All the hard work that has to follow
I think debut mums should be warned
5th May 2023 – Not sure what prompted this empathetic little ode. I definitely wasn’t speaking from any experience.
In And Out – 18th September 1983
In and out lifestyle, it becomes a bore
It’s boring doing the same things, I won’t anymore
In and out, repeat, repeat, clock the card
In and out, clocked in, trying too hard
5th May 2023 – Despite never having worked a day in my life I already was aware of the realities of the rat race. I’ve spent many years clocking in and out since then and admittedly, I do still hate that.
Brains – 17th September 1983
You gotta have brains to make the exam
If you don’t you’re not a man
I decided I didn’t want to try
But you can’t tell the teachers
They just ask why
5th May 2023 – At this time I would’ve been preparing to do trial exams before the real ones next year. I seem to be equating intelligence with manliness.
Spit In Your Face – 14th September 1983
It was your fault all along
I laughed when you got it wrong
You were caught in the wrong place
So don’t blame me cos I’ll spit in your face
2nd May 2023 – Hello, contrarian. Psychologists – analyse!
Untrendy – 11th September 1983
I wanna be nice, I wanna be a friend
Instead of driving someone round the bend
I don’t care if people don’t defend me
I don’t care, I don’t wanna be trendy
2nd May 2023 – Teenage statement of intent.
New York – 10th September 1983
Let’s all go to the big, big city
With dust and scum, all things pretty
We’ll get a jet and pollute the air
Cos in New York they just don’t care
1st May 2023 – Not sure what I had against New York at the time. I think it was just an example of a city to use and had been used by the Sex Pistols as a song too.
Still living in the countryside I knew that cities were where things were happening and I felt desperately that I wanted to experience it. At the same time, I also knew that the countryside had very few eyes to discover the shenanigans of us bored teenagers.
In the next couple of years, I started to go to London infrequently for gigs and record shopping and always returned home blowing out chunks of black snot.
When I finally did end up in a big city, Sydney, it was the perfect balance between urban and rural. I still feel very lucky to have had that opportunity.
White Socks – 5th September 1983
I’m in a gang, gang of the white socks
We fight the gangs who wear pink frocks
We hate the red socks, the green and blue
So join the whites and we won’t mess with you
30th Apr 2023 – In our first week back at school, my final year, the whole school was told that boys were not allowed to wear white socks, they were not part of the uniform. Of course, most of us preferred white socks and when we questioned teachers further about it they insisted that it was because they believed that those wearing white socks were part of a gang. We had no idea where this was coming from and were pretty incredulous about it.
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