Lay me place and bake me Pie
I'm starving for me Gravy
Leave my shoes, and door unlocked
I might just slip away
Something I grew up with; far better than the more recent work as so often, alas. I wouldn't know how to interpret the lyric of this song other than suggesting that there are layers of ghosts within it.
Refs
* Fat Bottomed Girls: "I've been singing with my band / Across the water, across the land / I've seen every blue eyed floozy on the way / But their beauty and their style / Went kind of smooth after a while / Take me to them naughty ladies every time"
* Torygraph: 100 greatest songs of all time By Neil McCormick. Oh man, look at those cavemen go.
* Should I kiss the vipers fang / Or herald loud the death of man?
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