Big Muff - John Martyn

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