by Gary Brooker, Keith Reid
Copyright 1971 Bluebeard Music Ltd, controlled in the USA
and Canada by Chrysalis Music Corp/ASCAP
recorded by Leo Kottke on:
1975 "Chewing Pine" (Capitol)
1978 "Leo Kottke The Best" (Capitol)
Climbing out of open windows,
Crashing down from broken stairs,
Keeping watch on smoking cinders,
Falling over burning chairs
Tossed and crossed, and screwed in transit
Broken, splintered, bruised and thrown
Badly shattered, gale forced frighty,
Rushed across and shown alone
Speech reduced by poor relations
strung from weeks of self-abused,
chopped up, churned out, weeks of greazy
Spark plugs burnt up power's fused