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