Holloway Prison Blues

The leg bone is connected to the foot bone

Is connected to the Export Processing Zones

And it's nothing we condone

But everybody owns a pair of those shoes

I looked a little closer at the walls of my house

And to my surprise they were made out of glass

So I made my way softly towards my front door

But to my surprise it was bolted shut and barred

The bloodstream gets its sugar from the intestine

Gets its sugar from the supermarket chain

That left the village drained

Every high street the same soulless refrain

I looked a little closer at the walls of my house

And to my surprise they were made out of glass

So I made my way softly towards my front door

But to my surprise it was bolted shut and barred

The newspaper reads like a list of charges brought against me

So I'm changing my plea to an open address to the jury

I confess that I was there on that grassy knoll

And I confess I helped fake the moon landings as well

But I confess I've yet to let slip my lowest low:

There've been times when I've pretended I didn't know about my skeleton

Your honour I swear that I can explain;

There are mitigating factors to consider in this case

I was looking out of a window to the west

Francis Fukuyama took me by the arm

Won me over with his famous intellectual charm

Swore this beauty wouldn't do any harm

We didn't look east because the sun was setting

It's easy to lose yourself in the faintest reflection in the pane of a window

I suspect that I've lost myself in the guilty reflection of the pain that it lets through

I must confess I've started throwing stones around the house

I don't mean to moan but I never even signed the lease

The newspaper reads like a list of charges brought against me

So I'm changing my plea to an open address to the jury

I confess that I was there on that grassy knoll

And I confess I helped fake the moon landings as well

But I confess I've yet to let slip my lowest low:

There've been times when I've pretended I didn't know about my skeleton