Instead...I Became Anenome

He's living in a loney tenement

[Floor carpeting by excrement]

Drinking from a glass of sediment

Trying to live down a speech impediment

Wallowing in second-hand misery

An anti-social history...

I learnt all the worst things in life are free

Found the key to the land of the not-so-free

Another stitch in life's rich tapestry


Instead...I became anenome


An urgent sea urchin who's searching for his own reward

Doesn't know the value of someone else's values

[Or he can't afford to]

A poke in the eye of the right
A knee in the social groin

Faux pas and two-headed monsters springing from his loins



Who cares about the thoughts of a drunken sailor?

Who cares about the thoughts of a sunken failure?



He's bleached, washed up, hung out to dry

What'll we do with him?
[Stick him up the chimney!]

I used all of the money they lent to me

I was beginning to drown in an endless sea

But I learnt not to sit under the apple tree



Instead...I became anenome



Learnt all the worst things in life are free

Found the key to the land of the not-so-free

Another stitch in life's rich tapestry



Instead...I became anenome



I'm just trying to make my whims meet up with my ideology

When is an indulgence not an indulgence?
When it's a necessity

There's no patent on the obvious
Only on the seven deadly sins

One man's cynicism is another man's philosophy



Who cares about the thoughts of a drunken sailor?

Who cares about the thoughts of a sunken failure?



[Another stitch in life's rich tapestry]


One man's fish is another man's poisson

My seventh sin is to choose to be...
[He chose to be anenome]

I'm just trying to make my whims meet up with my ideology

I used all of the money they lent to me

I was beginning to drown in the empty sea

But i learnt not to sit under the apple tree