Scritti Politti - Lions After Slumber (12", lyrics listed)

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from the 1982 Rough Trade records album
"Songs to Remember"

Green Gartside - vocals, guitar
Mike MacEvoy - keyboards
Robert Wyatt - keyboards
Tom Morley - drums
Nial Jinks - bass
Joe Cang - bass
Lorenza Johnson, Jackie Challenor, Mae McKenna - backing vocals
Steve Sidwell - trumpet
Jamie Talbot - saxophone

(ooo, hmmm ooo oh oh ooo, arh arh darh, da mm hrm mmm ah )

My diplomacy, my security, my hope and my ice-cream,
My tomorrow and my temperature, my lips and my selfishness,
My cigarette, my uncertainty, my penetration,
My notebook and my limit, my importance and my glycerine,
My customer, my function, my lawlessness, my charm,
My hunger, my refusal, my tissue and my vodka,
My omission, my ability, my telephone and my parlour,
My relaxing, my distress, my bedroom, my cassette,
My diction and my pulse, my fortune and my (dick),
My flake and my restlessness, my headache and my dhurri,
My paper and my charity, my rose and my pallor,
My guess and my closet, my light 'n' my time,
My worry, my perversity, my transgression,
My temptation and my polythene, my gunshot [click],
My jealousy and my water,
My demands 'n' my angels 'n' my waiting and my distance,
My dick, my clitoris, my insulin, my memory,
My partner 'n' my sadness, my story, my wantonness,
My wish, my despair, my erasure, my plantation,
My white chocolate, my thoughtlessness, my gracelessness,
My courage and my crying, my pockets 'n' my mistakes,
My body and my sex, and my gaze and and my helplessness,
My letter, my sugar, my homework, my walk,
My records, my smile and my struggle,
My reflection, my eyelid, my fragility, my discretion,
My hair, my austerity, my tattoo, my demise,
My fooling and my terror, my problem and my judgement,
Oh my disguise, my tongue,
My ownership, my formula, my property, my thought, my razor,
My blessing and my silence, my lust and my practice,
My sincerity, my penicillin, my window and my androgyny,
My mother, my recorder, my pity and my posing,
My light, my carelessness, and my drumming,
My drummin, my drummin, my drummin,
My tenderness 'n' my car, my undoing and my history,
My bottle and my drugs, my drugs, my drugs,
Tomorrow, my temperature, my lips and my selfishness,
My cigarette, my uncertainty, my penetration, my notebook.

My limit, my importance, my glycerine, my customer, my function,
My lawlessness, my charm and my hunger,
My refusal, my tissue, my vodka, my admission,

[totally lushest kick-assist sax break c/o Jamie Talbot, aka "instrumental break"] ...

My ability and my telephone, my hollow, my relaxing,
My distress and my bedroom, my restlessness and my headache,
My dirt, my paper, charity, my rose,
My pallor, my kisser and my closet,
my light 'n' my time, my worry, my perversity,
My transgression honey, my temptation honey,
My polythene, my jealousy,
My water, my demands, my angels,
My waiting, my distance, my dick, my clitoris, my insulin,
My memory, my partner, my refrigerator
My sadness, my story, my wantonness, my skipping,
My wish and my despair, my erasure, my plantation, my chocolate,
My thoughtlessness, and my gracelessness, my courage and my crying,
My pockets, my homework,

Like lions after slumber, unvanquishiful number
Oh yeah.