German Overalls

German Overalls （2006 Digital Remaster） - Peter Hammill

Mannheim: rainy Saturday with no money nor friend

only Tequila can end the boredom.

Try to reach London for a pocket of hope;

we're children, and we grope in the dark.

Hugh spends his last Mark on coffee and cheese

I feel just like a refugee

Rathaus-keepers and traffic police,

middle-aged maids with rotting teeth,

industrial magazines and old Sunday Times:

reading material bleeding lines.

What are we doing here?

Memorial menace, eager for revenge,

has begun to bend our minds.

Shower-curtain imperative in the presence of acid;

now, feeling placid is death.

I try to hold my breath as the P.A. comes down

here we all are in Ktown!

The Big Wheel never fails to grind around

it drags me up it drugs me down.

Seven senses wonder Can this be real,

Or am I become a performing seal

Why are we dying here?

I walk the streets alone, try to find a sign of love.

I've crushed the plaster-bone in the freaky clubs.

I have bit the fruit

but all I live for is to play

and I'm tired of the nights and the days

of airports, taxis and motorway showers,

groping for a key in the afterhours.

David takes to travelling in the van,

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