Calling All Demons

A reptile thinking
Its first thoughts
Sets no limits on what it
Will excuse itself to do
The head of John the Baptist
Sitting on a tea tray
There's a fan club meeting
Down the steps on Briggate

Ice cream, eggs and bread

Raising an eyebrow
Then the curtain falls
Down in Reading Gaol
With writings on the wall
Ooh, so lonely
Everybody knows me

News travels slow
Wipes its beak and comes inside

Coming home from India
To the East Side Irish slums
A filthy city river
A father in sedition
A new imagination
Challenging the right to rule

News travels slow
Wipes its beak and comes inside
It speaks when it's spoken to
Leaving its own time

Philistine Christians
Focus on a target
The elegant gesture
A glimpse of flesh
Calling all the angels
Calling all the demons
Calling all the angels
Calling all the demons