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yr softhearts a hard boiled riff
                 & yrs is a livid glass
an all lemon suit walkin the monument
                 headturn all
                 & yr life is mine
this great world ov air & angels
                 & yu somewhere
between punk & southern
                 gentbastard
time pleased twixt tom wolfe & lou reed
abbey blues ov rabelais
villon spires raisin pints
honeylips this debatable land
ov wylams wild whore angels
   swingin    yr fuck up
              my fuck up
yr rain    my rain
again & again
yr green cabaret rantin
yr fog eyed black torch
             scarlet boulevard
             plastic poppied
           chaos conductin
from alston to alnwick
carlisle to hexham to tynemouth
nentheads allenheads
bentheads romanwall cowslips all
seattle to thessaloniki
zurich to dublin
& back again
yr cabaret green
rantpearls before
chairman pig
a split thunder
yr bead    ma headache
a rare lapse rare axed lapseblood
the burr ov whiskeys on tongue
blurred hedgerows
the elder & alder
the ragged robin borrowed raintrack
oh all tyne valleys flowin down to the floodstill sea
   as yu set out ... to breathe the air around tom paine
down to the wire to the 2 am 3 am the 4 am singin
down phone lines & as we set out to breathe
the air around barry mac hellhound trails
as to yr early mornin phone calls
                 aa ‘m alive
aa ‘m still alive
& onto that wednesday mornin     no call
                 piss artist
                 voltaire extraordinaire
                 to the post apocalypso survivors
& findin yu there     boots on
@ the ready     to walk north
those pennine ways