Red 'n' Yella

RED 'N' YELLA

Down, take it down, down, down n' head for the swamp

Swa-swa-swa-amp

And there's no hay-bails in the city, there's no bonfires neither

Instead you got those cold marble statues, with the night-time

Their poe-faces starin' back at yah

I'm not interested in seein' how boring you're life was (and I wanted to go in, for a swim)

In the streets of the foggy air,

(But my fear of sea-creatures stopped me)

With the gulls squawkin'

Then I saw that girl, met her on the southside, after paddlin' the boat... to the southside of the lay-e-ake

She was wearin' black silk clothing, with padding on each shoulder

Oh God!... and crimson detail, the water was warm

She put her arm around me, so I paddled

And we read the notes (in the boat, of course)

About this actual stuff

I'd been havin' dreams about her

White walls billowin' smoke, when we should have been jammin'

I saw this rare delight & give it a choke

You could have been, more honest

Blug-lug-a-dug, all this time... change the bulb

On the streets of the foggy air

The gulls squawkin', like hungry dogs

Fill the decanter, woof-woof woof-woof-woof

Your lace glove and your velvet cloak

Go on... shinin' like the twilight, on your ivory dagger

Turn the heatin' up, turn it up

And the 'haunted tenements of the rain'

Turn the lights down

Billowin' sounds,(take your shoes off) echoein' from street to... street

Gimme a smoke...

And you can build your own (smoke-moke-moke-moke)

Constructed out of your Garden of Eden

Guard the birds and bears

Rain the colours of stars, in red 'n' yella

While behind that stands a Guardian angel

Beneath the God's all-seein' eye

And thus inspiring others to build there own

And there's a path that links them, to the place where we first met

And the pillars and stations at the cross

Swimmin' down, down down down