SPILT BEANS


      I told you once - don't trust men

      they'll do you down - and they'll do it again

      when all the dead body heavyness splits your spine

      what's your game - what's his line

      late home - no TV

      walk with the zombies - talk to the sea

      sand in your shoes - money in your jeans

      it's no good crying over - spilt beans


        All the fancy dan's at the palais de dance

        offer you assistence in the firm's vans

        with the stupid stories and the bad dream lovers

        clean socks - love their mothers

        and the ghost train trashed the tunnel of love

        fingers bleed - better wear your gloves

        and wave on wave of germoline

        says no good crying over - spilt beans


      In the mindless misfits mohair sweaters

      poison pens and begging letters

      finger bells - ding ding ding

      like they was in some sort of sling

      paidback - with just one look

      a prayer wheel and a big fat book

      tells you not to be clever but clean

      and close to the real meaning of the beans


        The three stooges - the four just men

        the magnificent seven - the terrible ten

        lord rockinghams eleven and the famous five

        three men in a boat - the good lady wives

        twelve apostles and the fiddlers three

        ten green bottles and the three degrees

        and all the oval teenage beauty queens

        crying about everything but - spilt beans


      The ring of fear - that's the key

      to the annorexia housemaid's knee

      who made groovy gravy oh mother of meat

      since we've wed all I do is eat

      to fat to fuck - sorry about that

      i got a scrotum fitted with a thermostat

      switch in the kitchen - giggle and scream

      don't let me hear you - spilt beans



      LYRICS © JOHN COOPER CLARKE