When the lights go out And it’s as black as ink Does your imagination wonder? Does it make you think? Of ghosts an ghouls

Someone has given us strength Someone has given us character Someone has given us fearlessness Someone has given us faith Otherwise why don’t we scream?

With a friend like you I need no enemies You were arrogant and selfish And very hard to please You never gave an inch

Everyone knows Our government is cruel Just look at the prices We pay for our fuel How is it other countries?

You’re a friend A companion, a confident too You’re my mistress, my lover And I’ve grown to need you You are everything I had expected

Alan was very good at it Everyone knew how good he was At ‘it’ Better than most actually Better than anyone around here

Give me a bottle of booze And a pen And I’ll write about you Again I’ll say whatever you want me to s…

Pick up your cigarettes Sit back relax You’re never alone With a packet of fags Cough, cough louder

My ambition in life Was always to be A successful man With plenty of money A big detached house

I say I didn’t They think that I did Or I would have If I could have But I probably did

Under the guise Of religion or politics I carry out my task Whist hiding behind An anonymous mask

The man said to his wife You loathe me why? She was startled, she denied it She cried Her love for her husband

He never writes about the flowers Or the field or the trees, or the… He wants more than rhyming or desc… To emerge from his written words So he writes about ordinary people

When the kids are fighting an scre… And you’ve just about had enough Then you step on the cat’s tail And you head is feeling rough When the dog is bark, bark, barkin…