Personal Liberty from Beauty by Patrick Dineen

Personal Liberty

The panda and the antelope
Were as polite as they could be
They said
Would care to join us for a cup of earl grey tea
for when discussing notions of personal liberty
We always find it helpful to have a cup of earl tea

Take a look at my skin
Original sin
I’m as clear-sighted as a bottle of gin
The doggy go woof woof
bark bark bark
And on the mirror there’s question mark

Take a look at these lips
All the things they have said
they used to be deep deep poppy red
but now I’m hanging out with the living dead
and on my pillow there’s a question mark

little monkey go swing
such a fabulous thing
from tree to tree
personal liberty
so he steals my face in the dark
I wake up looking like a question mark

Every little boy girl girl boy sees
We’re running out of strawberries for our teas
I’m the penalty and I’m the goalie
When the big fat shark wants
Roly poly

Put on your dancing shoes and feel the beat
Everybody round here likes their chocolate bitter sweet
(repeat)

Put on your dancing shoes and feel the beat
Put on your dancing shoes and feel the beat
Everybody round here likes their chocolate bitter sweet
Bitter sweet
Everybody round here likes their chocolate bitter sweet
bitter sweet

• Soundtrack
• dark cabaret
• electronic
• theatrical
• Liverpool