Текст песни: How Dare Anyone Anything Ever + перевод

I am the singularity at the centre of the black joke

I am the long neck at the end of the short rope

That morning was the lover’s parade

Dead faces turned to my window as they shuffled past

Every swan neck knotting to a rouged fist

I laid low

When the last heel had turned into London Road I lit a cigarette

And stepped out into the street

From over the way the neighbours' houses screamed at me

Over moats of bifidus digestivum and come

The hybrid cars winked at me as I stepped closer

Breasts crushed together

Labial grilles moistened: willing, waiting

And hell that day was asymmetrical balding;

Happiness a de-scaled kettle

Dead children in another country were to blame

For the riots at the petrol station

Another three pence on super-unleaded

They spared the Costa machine

I laid down in the rotting cardboard by the recycling tub

And slid feet first up the side of the tree

Looking up, I watched the commuters filing past — eyes buffering —

Sipping foam from the vacuum-formed nipples of their mammary brands:

Men with no mothers

Mothers with no sons

And out past the emaciated magpies lying dead at the bottom of their Rolex nests

I saw her turn into the street

Floating seven feet off the ground

Haloed by a glittering concentricity of wedding rings

And whipping umbilical cords

And as she brought her lips to my ear

The tears broke and streamed into my fresh-dyed hairline

Because she was right

She was so right

How dare anyone anything ever?

How dare you «how dare» me like I don’t know better?

How dare anyone anything ever?

How dare you «how dare» me like I don’t know better?

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