Big Muff

Album: One World (1977)
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  • Well the man upstairs always lends an ear
    To the man downstairs
    Even though he doesn't care
    The man up the spiral staircase
    Would love to sympathise
    With the man downstairs and
    The same old phrase

    Big Muff, can't you see I've had enough?
    God knows you're trying to kill me
    Big Muff, get away with your powder puff
    Lord knows you're killing me

    It's like an allergy with no apology
    It saps my energy and denies my integrity
    Big Muff, get away with your powder puff
    Lord knows you're killing me
    Good Lord knows you're stifling me
    Good Lord knows you're trying to kill me

    Well the man upstairs has learned
    It from the wife
    But the man downstairs has got
    Trouble in his life
    The man upstairs don't notice what is wrong
    Every time he sees his neighbour
    Singing that same old song

    Big Muff, get away with your powder puff
    Lord knows you're trying to kill me
    Big Muff, get away with your terrible stuff
    God knows you're killing me

    This thing is dangerous
    I tell you it's serious
    No need to be envious
    It's bigger than both of us

    Big Muff, can't you see I had enough
    Lord knows you're trying to kill me

    Well, the man downstairs has
    Moved away for good
    Like the man upstairs always knew he would
    The man downstairs has moved and gone away
    And a girl upstairs every night
    Can hear him say

    Big Muff, get away with your powder puff
    Lord knows you're killing me
    Big Muff, can't you see I had enough
    God knows you're stifling me

    It's like an allergy with no apology
    It saps my energy most contemporaneously

    Big Muff, can't you see that I've had enough
    God knows you're stifling me
    God knows you're stifling me
    Oh Lord knows you're trying to kill me Writer/s: JOHN MARTYN, LEE SCRATCH PERRY
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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