Men Like Wire

[00:23.85] If it's a hand-me-down Jacques Brel, be gentle with me
[00:29.71] I want less of the same, I'm not born on a spike
[00:36.32] A man amongst worlds, a man in real life
[00:42.30] I wasn't content being just another man in my dreams
[00:48.32] I watched my body soften
[00:53.62] In front of men built like wire, thrilling as sick leave
[01:00.40] Vainglorious men fulfilling as a dry heave
[01:06.63] I've seen their question marks, let's hear their full stops
[01:12.55] For all of my life they've played me for jokes
[01:18.90] Someone called King took us disco dancing
[01:24.63] He was a dressmaker's son, he was different that one
[01:30.63] He did an uncanny Frankie Valli as he cracked a can open
[01:36.75] We'd get drunk in the North, he said music meant war
[01:42.92] I watched my body soften
[01:48.36] In front of men built like wire, thrilling as sick leave
[01:55.00] Vainglorious men fulfilling as a dry heave
[02:01.29] I've seen their question marks, let's hear their full stops
[02:07.35] For all of my life they've played me for jokes
[02:13.48] My shame flashed back in Protestant glass
[02:19.30] Heard skips in the track in All Things Must Pass
[02:25.46] I paid my respects to the snakes in the grass
[02:31.05] And I never tire
[02:34.44] Will I never tire of fronting?
[02:38.04] Men built like wire, thrilling as sick leave
[02:43.75] Vainglorious men fulfilling as a dry heave
[02:49.98] I've seen their question marks, let's hear their full stops
[02:55.85] For all of my life
[02:58.81] For all of my life
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