Men Like Wire

If it's a hand-me-down Jacques Brel, be gentle with me I want less of the same, I'm not born on a spike A man amongst worlds, a man in real life I wasn't content being just another man in my dreams I watched my body soften In front of men built like wire, thrilling as sick leave Vainglorious men fulfilling as a dry heave I've seen their question marks, let's hear their full stops For all of my life they've played me for jokes Someone called King took us disco dancing He was a dressmaker's son, he was different that one He did an uncanny Frankie Valli as he cracked a can open We'd get drunk in the North, he said music meant war I watched my body soften In front of men built like wire, thrilling as sick leave Vainglorious men fulfilling as a dry heave I've seen their question marks, let's hear their full stops For all of my life they've played me for jokes My shame flashed back in Protestant glass Heard skips in the track in All Things Must Pass I paid my respects to the snakes in the grass And I never tire Will I never tire of fronting? Men built like wire, thrilling as sick leave Vainglorious men fulfilling as a dry heave I've seen their question marks, let's hear their full stops For all of my life For all of my life