JCC - Things are Gonna get Worse

[Fertile]

What me worry? I should care,
Shit for brains, wire for hair,
I’ve seen the future and I ain’t there,
Things are gonna get worse.

Velcro slippers and a spandex wasteband,
Washed up on Planet Wasteland,
Zipped up like a nylon spaceman,
Things are gonna get worse.

Things are gonna get worse, nurse,
Things are gonna get rotten.
Make that hearse reverse, nurse,
I’m trying to remember everything that I’ve forgotten.

Things are gonna get worse nurse,
things are gonna get crappy,
colour me perverse nurse,
bad news always makes me happy.

Things are gonna get worse nurse,
things are gonna get dismal,
smite me with a curse nurse,
make it something real abysmal

Things are gonna get worse nurse
I ain’t optimistic
I’ve got a mouth like a purse nurse
and a bungalow smelling of piss and biscuits

things are gonna get worse nurse,
murder by statistics,
take me back to the first verse,
the last ones just too pessimistic

Euthanasia – that sounds good,
An Alpine neutral neighbourhood,
Then back to Britain, all dressed in wood,
Things are gonna get worse.

-John Cooper Clarke

 

[Jerry Atrick]

What me worry? I should care,
Shit for brains, wire for hair,
I’ve seen the future and I ain’t there,
Things are gonna get worse.

Velcro slippers and a spandex wasteband,
Washed up on Planet Wasteland,
Zipped up like a nylon spaceman,
Things are gonna get worse.

Things are gonna get worse, nurse,
Things are gonna get rotten.
Make that hearse reverse, nurse,
I’m trying to remember everything that I’ve forgotten.

Things are gonna get worse nurse,
things are gonna get crappy,
colour me perverse nurse,
bad news always makes me happy.

Things are gonna get worse nurse,
things are gonna get dismal,
smite me with a curse nurse,
make it something real abysmal

Things are gonna get worse nurse
I ain’t optimistic
I’ve got a mouth like a purse nurse
and a bungalow smelling of piss and biscuits

things are gonna get worse nurse,
murder by statistics,
take me back to the first verse,
the last ones just too pessimistic

Euthanasia – that sounds good,
An Alpine neutral neighbourhood,
Then back to Britain, all dressed in wood,
Things are gonna get worse.

-John Cooper Clarke

Is this a song? Needs chords so I can play it.

 

[Fertile]

No, it's a poem by John Cooper Clarke, a great man. If you aren't already familiar with his ouvre then I suggest you Google his work. He's 73 so IF he ever tours near you, I would recommend seeing him - it could be your only chance.



I love this interview because Donnie Sutherland is such a good host, even when he's a bit lost (as he is here). He did play a lot of really edgy new music so in some ways he's the Aussie John Peel. So that's 2 people whose work you can browse.

 

[0.o_LaCuNa_o.0]

A tad bit pessimistic, but nice flow nonetheless

 

[Brendan12]

Terse copper purse
Purist pursuits
Potent pentagram
Pentagon of information..
Peerless class, a wonder of artful instrumentation.
Pencil in the correct letter in the box.
Causing taxi.. taxes the state for a more but sober perspective on will and persistence.
Perlious parrying..

Partying in Paris.
Honeymoon dazzle spoon.
Karma consideration of the honest atonement of cremation.
A loose wanderlust crucifixion!
Ardent costs
Petty curse