23 Years Too Late

20-day perch selected, we snail through streets of smoke Tilo and Hardcore, Massive Attack and transfer prints Fresh from The States with extra fear Each suit tailored for silhouette promise Copyists target the sun-stung pier An unengaged jack demolishes walls Of careful construction 23 years late… 23 years too late Chisel jumping, laid-back pastry Naked punks and stone-hard pagans Sonic paramedics weep Harness short delays Fuelled by Finnish rude familiars Lead the screw-top revolutionaries In the land of hats Smith & Wright shoot in from ballistic Berlin Fuelled by the Finnish Rude-boy Engineering Front In plum-black knit love, they officiate Open-plan tendencies, engulf the room Enthusiastically embracing, the ziggurat beat Head locked in gridlock, oozing through Flanders White kicker magic plants poppies of remembrance Popeye remembers a cycloptic monster 23 years late, 23 years late… 23 years too late Chisel jumping, laid-back pastry Naked punks and stone-hard pagans Sonic paramedics weep Harness short delays Fuelled by Finnish rude familiars Lead the screw-top revolutionaries In the land of hats Airbrush camouflage Cloaked by night, we slip the border Collaborative pacts, the ferry spurned, we hit the ramps Chaos junctions crash Upon a crowd of lost construction Russian hotel check-in kitchen Expectations, black-knit love Reinventing the schedule Fun-filled firemen visit the Museum of Backward Hats Totally Oscared, the Netherlands are un-tethered Rhizomic gastropods interweave slender tails Grey hairs genuflect as perforated anarchists Lead the Screw-top Revolution 23 years late… 23 years too late Chisel jumping, laid-back pastry Naked punks and stone-hard pagans Sonic paramedics weep Harness short delays Fuelled by Finnish rude familiars Lead the screw-top revolutionaries In the land of hats Airbrush camouflage Cloaked by night, we slip the border Collaborative pacts, the ferry spurned, we hit the ramps Chaos junctions crash Upon a crowd of lost construction Russian hotel check-in kitchen Expectations, black-knit love 23 years late… We enter the hashish Kasbah With millimetres to spare Citizens of Christiania, the Cannabis Castaways Victims of the cookie-cutter crucifixion 23 years late… 23 years too late Chisel jumping, laid-back pastry Naked punks and stone-hard pagans Sonic paramedics weep Harness short delays Fuelled by Finnish rude familiars Lead the screw-top revolutionaries In the land of hats Airbrush camouflage Cloaked by night, we slip the border Collaborative pacts, the ferry spurned, we hit the ramps Chaos junctions crash Upon a crowd of lost construction Russian hotel check-in kitchen Expectations, black-knit love Becalmed in green fog banks Over baked pastries Goodbye… Goodbye… Goodbye… Goodbye!