God In An Alcove

Album: In the Flat Field (1980)
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  • Go and look for the dejected
    Once proud idol remembered in stone aloud
    Then on coins his face was mirrored
    Take a look, it soon hath slithered

    To a fractured marble slab
    Renunciation clad
    His nourishment extract from his subjects
    That mass production profile

    He's a God in an alcove

    Once he spread the rain
    So they dreamt in vain
    Once he spread the wheat
    Had made some garlands for his feet
    Until the lily poet of our times

    Horizoned on the line
    Love became the in theme then
    Opposing fakers thrice by ten
    Don't perceive his empty plea
    That redundant effigy

    He's a God in an alcove

    Take in view his empty stool
    What's left is satin cool
    Clawing adornment for his crimes
    They saw they had to draw the line

    So they sent him far away
    So they sent him far away
    To a little alcove
    To a little alcove all alone

    He's a God, a God

    Now I am silly
    Now I am silly
    So silly, silly
    Silly, silly, silly, silly
    Silly, silly Writer/s: DANIEL GASTON ASH, DAVID JAY, DAVID JOHN HASKINS, PETER JOHN MURPHY
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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