Sender of Sorrys
My bark is the same as my bite
I have less than nothing to lose
All my worldly goods
Sender of Sorrys
Send a couple my way
And I'll send you a message
My dog doesn't mind what it licks
Keep it in place with glue
Burn it at both ends
Plan my revenge in my lair
If I can remember where it is
I'll send you a message in code
Deciphering it will take you years
Just another of those chores
For when you're safely behind locked doors
One last toss of the stick
Across the brown faded lawn
My Dog eats its own sick
My dog tried to run and died
Aaaagh
Lyrics Copyright © Oliver Lovley 2021 from Livin' Life
My bark is the same as my bite
I have less than nothing to lose
All my worldly goods
Sender of Sorrys
Send a couple my way
And I'll send you a message
My dog doesn't mind what it licks
Keep it in place with glue
Burn it at both ends
Plan my revenge in my lair
If I can remember where it is
I'll send you a message in code
Deciphering it will take you years
Just another of those chores
For when you're safely behind locked doors
One last toss of the stick
Across the brown faded lawn
My Dog eats its own sick
My dog tried to run and died
Aaaagh
Lyrics Copyright © Oliver Lovley 2021 from Livin' Life
Call of the Wild
Can you hear the money bleeding off the edge of the earth?
Forming spires of the nameless church
Can you hear the shifting bricks of gold?
Push through soil under city walls
“It's the call of the wild!”
Can y'hear the flowers feeding, getting strong and high?
Between the golden pillars of paradise
Can y'hear holes in the network open and close?
Eating through fuel in the exclusive zone
“It's the call of the wild!”
Join in and feed in the wild lands
Work by the light of many hands
Synthesize food in the meat-machine
Mixed with the ashes of the greatest of dreams
“It's the call of the wild!”
Burn all ghosts on the endless road
Edit the message, forget the code
Join with the beasts of the desert sand
Feed on the kindness of the golden hand
“It's the call of the wild!”
Lyrics Copyright © Oliver Lovley 2021 from Livin' Life
The End of the Line
I could smell the beauty of their filthy schemes
And the guilty treasures of their secret dreams
With cash in hand paid the ultimate price
No more credit at the end of the line
I saw tired old players proposing toasts
To the mob, the masses, and their swinging votes
To the ruddy-faced rough-handed man
With his elbows on the table and his tongue hanging down
I saw life weighing heavy on the head of the crowd
Drunk on pearls from the belly of the sow
Thirsty tongues round ancient guns
Bleeding money from a thousand wounds
I beat the losers to the bottom rung
Followed the smell to the Kingdom of the Sun
Swam the river to the city of gold
Guided by the sparkle of the idol's hoard
Follow the money to the underworld
Follow the money, follow the money
Follow the money to the underworld
It's the race to the bottom of the underworld
I had three wishes and I wished for more
More roads to explore and more bridges to burn
Vomited the taste of the market place
When I tried to swallow what was on my plate
I was cramming more words into the noise
My head flopped down facing into the void
Saw my two faces in the sacred well
In a brand new version of the same old hell
I was burning pages from the book of life
Chewing on remains of the blood and bile
Slurping down tears of yesteryear
Through a silver straw and laughing through the fear
Follow the money to the underworld
Follow the money, follow the money
Follow the money to the underworld
It's the race to the bottom of the underworld
When the well runs dry and the final flower dies
Follow the easiest path down, down to the underworld
Lyrics Copyright © Oliver Lovley 2021 from Livin' Life
Hair of the Dog
Jokers chase their tails in the night
Mouths of forbidden naughty delights
Scrumped from sacred orchard walls
Grown in sunshine pleasure halls
Grown in beautiful sun
They rage through the city hungry for a bite
Of the slippery tail of paradise
Like hungry jackals sniffing for bones
Like greedy dragons stretching jewel-crusted wings
The blood-moon dries their juicy smiles
Sealed by wind from the Emporer's bowels
Guts formed into a twisted sign
Bums weighed down with regal piles
They scream, they cry
They drink the tears from the animal's eye
They moan, they weep
They cling on by the skin of their teeth
Raw and fibrous commodities
Humours aligned with the galaxies
Straining through that lonely night
From inside the belly it's one hell of a fight
Fear the days of the death of gold
Fear the unstoppable sword of force
Fear the writhing, burping, unwashed hoards
Fear the day the Capital falls
The day the city falls
Plunge to the centre of the hyper-course
Born in the guts of digestive force
Where pain and pleasure are just things to be bought
In the sacred underground reactor core
They scream, they cry
They drink the tears from the animal's eye
They moan, they weep
They cling on by the skin of their teeth
Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh
Lyrics Copyright © Oliver Lovley 2021 from Livin' Life
Jokers chase their tails in the night
Mouths of forbidden naughty delights
Scrumped from sacred orchard walls
Grown in sunshine pleasure halls
Grown in beautiful sun
They rage through the city hungry for a bite
Of the slippery tail of paradise
Like hungry jackals sniffing for bones
Like greedy dragons stretching jewel-crusted wings
The blood-moon dries their juicy smiles
Sealed by wind from the Emporer's bowels
Guts formed into a twisted sign
Bums weighed down with regal piles
They scream, they cry
They drink the tears from the animal's eye
They moan, they weep
They cling on by the skin of their teeth
Raw and fibrous commodities
Humours aligned with the galaxies
Straining through that lonely night
From inside the belly it's one hell of a fight
Fear the days of the death of gold
Fear the unstoppable sword of force
Fear the writhing, burping, unwashed hoards
Fear the day the Capital falls
The day the city falls
Plunge to the centre of the hyper-course
Born in the guts of digestive force
Where pain and pleasure are just things to be bought
In the sacred underground reactor core
They scream, they cry
They drink the tears from the animal's eye
They moan, they weep
They cling on by the skin of their teeth
Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh
Lyrics Copyright © Oliver Lovley 2021 from Livin' Life
Dead Silence
Let the voices rip through the space between the lips
Let the slaves of gold cash in their souls
Let the seed be thrown onto the fertile fields of home
Let the healing wind blow on the wound
The dead would be proud
Let the ocean of gold rise above the whole
Let the oceans of bile clean the dirty words
Let the silent flower push through frozen snow
Let the branches stretch and the sap flow
The dead would be proud
The dead would smile
At the final breath
At the moment of death
In the fight for life
At the twist of the knife
Give blood and flesh
At the foot of the monolith
Then the covers will lift
And the dead will forgive
The dead will forgive
Lyrics Copyright © Oliver Lovley 2021 from Livin' Life
Let the voices rip through the space between the lips
Let the slaves of gold cash in their souls
Let the seed be thrown onto the fertile fields of home
Let the healing wind blow on the wound
The dead would be proud
Let the ocean of gold rise above the whole
Let the oceans of bile clean the dirty words
Let the silent flower push through frozen snow
Let the branches stretch and the sap flow
The dead would be proud
The dead would smile
At the final breath
At the moment of death
In the fight for life
At the twist of the knife
Give blood and flesh
At the foot of the monolith
Then the covers will lift
And the dead will forgive
The dead will forgive
Lyrics Copyright © Oliver Lovley 2021 from Livin' Life
