Brains - Jam Baxter

He just lay there, staring up at us

The doctors told us that the chemicals might affect certain glands and nerves

And if they did his features would never be normal again…

Deep aquatic excavator, dishevelled entertainer

One thousand breeds of weasel wrestle on this escalator

Tree dwellers leaping out the boughs shouting «Get the paper»

Trunk hugging rebels chucking petals at a detonator

Man this shit’s second nature

My colossal monster, fed a rich mix of tar, truth and bottled vodka

Off to clock the shrunken brains that punctuate the squalor yonder

Shotters on the underpasses passing rocks in rotten Poplar

Doctor doctor, your people never needed you

It’s deep when human evolution

Seems it’s superseded you

My super seeds will germinate and turn the greys to greens and blues

They’ll never find a pesticide to burn away the weeds that grew nah

Divine vines twists around a muddy aura

Gully author guilty is the hand that grips the bloody borer

Bloody nora shit the bed the kid’s back, bell your Mum

It seems a barrer’s work is never done — tell ‘em son

Can you replace a man’s brain?

It seems a bit derranged

I was still a foetus when the smug salesman came

Calling out my name a stranger in the rain

Banging at the doors of all perception screaming cuz pick a

Brain frazzled brains, pickled brains, putrid brains, fickle brains

Giant brains, shrivelled brains, vile brains, crippled brains

Runny brains, yummy brains, mushy brains, get your brains

Lovely brains, steaming brains, eat your brains, buy my brains

Nice crematorium, I simply love the décor

The burning brains add a lovely sparkle to this stage floor

I guess it’s all to play for, I’ll smash it in the second leg

The jaded killer dragging seven dead sins to resurrect

And entertain for brunch inside my mind I awake again

Like, come on my trusty little sidekicks, let’s make amends

Please, I’ve got a plan for us

Hapless clammy hands erupt in every shade of perfect

Turning vermin into trampled slugs

Turning serpents into snapped elastic bands that once held a mind together

Find the bits and bind them better

Goodbye forever, wait

I think I left my keys somewhere in that reprobate’s brains

I guess I better see, hold still

Operation rummage fails at phase one

The blade swung, the kid fell, I watched it all and stayed numb

The day comes where Mister Guts McGruff needs to clock the truth

Belling up an ever eager salesman in a soggy suit

Replace that brain, it seems a bit deranged

See he was still a foetus when the smug salesman came

And now it ain’t the same, a stranger in the rain

Banging at the doors of all perception screaming pick a brain

Giant brains, shrivelled brains, vile brains, crippled brains

Runny brains, yummy brains, mushy brains, get your brains

Lovely brains, steaming brains, eat your brains, buy my brains