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The Veronica Bell

I was the same age as Jesus when he died
He’d done so much and I’d barely tried
I was stuck in some fluorescent hell
My time machine stalled, it didn’t go H G Well
But then one day she came to work
She stood out like ore on the earth
She was smart, sharp, bubbling and bright
I’d been like that once, but something had died

And the sun hung low in the sky
And the clouds went scuddering by
And the cups in the kitchen grew ears just to listen
As if it was all part of some grand design

So one night, when I was alone
I sat down and composed you a note
I’d forgotten all the power and the beauty of words
Because I’d spent my life killing them, now ain’t that absurd?

Then one night straight after work
We drank so much, the boundaries they blurred
In some dark room where everything went out focus
Little Miss Perfect took all her clothes off

And the moon hung low in the sky
And the clouds went scuddering by
My time machine spluttered and burst into flames
So we just lay there smoking in the charred remains

When she came back from the snows in Japan
I could tell that she was a changed man
In a menacing voice with gaps to convince me
She took all my words and turned them to mincemeat

So we drove to the Veronica Bell
It saved Napier once, now it saved me as well
Oh we stood on the foreshore where the Norfolks are lined
and the smell of fresh phosphate waters your eyes

You could have left me for dead
But we made love for three days instead
All the bed ash and bum nuts will be there forever
It’s a wonder the Cobb and Co doesn’t charge extra

And the sun hung low in the sky
And the clouds went scuddering by
All the beauty and truth that exists in this world
is wasted on youth and old Marsden girls

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from Songs From The Bottom of a Hilltop - Downhill Side, track released November 13, 2010

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